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// Chapter Five: Something Nopony Should Say 
// Story: Portals: Beyond The Pail (Book 5 In The Portals Series) 
// by The Derpy Doctor 
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	Fluttershy’s hoof was in a cast, lying on a hospital bed, in the Ponyville General Hospital. Or at least, it was partially in a cast in the Ponyville 	General Hospital. The doctors were still putting it in. The bone, fractured, stuck out, putting a lump in the fabric of the young mare’s yellow coat. 	The white stallion, with a fiery mane, and distressed, hot eyes was gone.
A vase of flowers sat on her bedside table. A stallion stood at the side of Fluttershy’s bed. Not the one that previously visited her, but a 	different one. He held his hoof by hers as the doctor prepared to move the leg back into place.
“Are you too set up?” The doctor asked, his hoof barely touching Fluttershy’s leg.
Fluttershy nodded.
With that, the doctor grabbed Fluttershy’s leg, lifting it so that the fractured leg connected with her own. Fluttershy grabbed ahold of Kevin’s arm as he did so. Jolts of pain shot through her leg, hitting her head with pain. Fluttershy was so hurt by the moving that she didn’t even hear her own cries of pain.

The doctor finally finished putting the leg into a cast and the tears finally cleared from Fluttershy’s eyes just in time for everypony in the room to notice the great arrival of a welcome nopony wanted to hear.
“Hey!” yelled the angry male voice, “Where’s my daughter?!”
Kevin’s eyes widened at the sight of a pegasus guard with very angry eyes glaring into his own. There was no way to tell the guard off though - he was Fluttershy’s father. He had a right to be there.
Fluttershy cringed at the sight of her father. She hadn’t seen him since before flight camp and was more than glad with that. No matter what she did, it was never good enough for him. He wanted a colt. Now, Fluttershy was off healing animals and ending up in the emergency room for getting her leg broken. He was disappointed and angry.
“Who are you?!” he yelled directly at Kevin.
“Kev-”
“What are you to my daughter?!” the stallion interrupted.
“I’m just her friend,” Kevin said, shyly.
“Yeah?! Ya sure ya are? You’re kind of a little close to her bed and a little too close to a comforter to be a friend!”
Kevin nodded.
“Aw! I see! My weak child is of course partnered with this wimp. Brilliant! Two wimps one courtship! Kindred spirits!”
“She’s not weak,” managed Kevin, swallowing his fear.
“Oh, and I suppose you’re not, either then huh? Well prove it! Show us that neither you nor her are the cowardice backstabbing children that ignored me for a decade. Only now can I see her again. How ‘bout you show me your guts. Give me reason to believe you’re both strong. You hit her! Hit her, right here!”
Kevin’s face lost all of its color. There was nothing he could do to cure the embarrassment. His eyes met Fluttershy’s. Her own eyes swelled up as her own dad insulted both her and her closest friend. And then Kevin lay still. He ignored to hit Fluttershy and ignored to make any response to the angry father. Kevin was being attacked now. Fluttershy’s father lashed out at Kevin out of anger. So many years had he not seen his daughter all because that one stallion had not brought her back after flight camp. Every year he kept bottled up was let out now and Fluttershy’s father finally sent a swing at Kevin, hitting him directly in the face. Kevin’s cheek turned red as the pegasus guard turned to leave with a scoff.
“Kevin?” Fluttershy asked.
“It’s okay,” Kevin acknowledged, trying not to rub his burning face.
“When will she be out?” Kevin asked the doctor.
“Sir, you did just get hit in the-”
“Yeah, I know.”
“Well then… she’ll be out in a couple more days,” responded the hopeful doctor.

Fluttershy walked on her crutches down the dirt road to her house. The gravel planted itself in the dirt below her crutches. The white of her cast caught her eye every step that she took and the sidewalk seemed to go on forever. After walking for what seemed like forever, Fluttershy still found that she wasn’t even half-way to her house. Frustrated, she looked sideways at Kevin with a begging face.
“Will you please help me?” asked Fluttershy.
“Sure.”
Kevin flew over Fluttershy and reached his arms over her forehooves to lift her off of the ground and carry her to her cottage. Fluttershy’s hooves came inches off of the ground and she spread her wings out as she was dragged through the air at a much faster speed than she was walking. Kevin’s wings ached as he attempted to carry her home. It was almost painful for both of them, Kevin as physically exerting himself and 	Fluttershy was being held in an uncomfortable way, but as the two of them started picking up speed and each of them looked into each others eyes, feeling the others gentle touch for the first time since they were separated, they were both flying. Each of them had wings.

Twilight laid on her side in bed and stared at the alarm clock. Nothing could bring back her friend in the other world. The portal had shattered. It was a completely invisible cluster of a bunch of shards of glass. That’s how Blast described it at least. And now her other friends will never see her again, thought the mare, intensely.
“But the portal used to run on emotions didn’t it? It used to run on thoughts of Friendship and love. Ponies would only travel through the portal if they thought of their friends on the other end, but what happens now that the portal has been exposed to such hate?” the mare thought about her way back to her other home and suddenly it hit her, but not before the shard pierced her back and Twilight was gone.

Acknowledgments:
The Rainbow factory: Song by: WoodenToaster. Fanfiction by Aurora Dawn
The Blizzard Chronicles: by: PL4SMOD1UM.
5th book in the Portals series, By: The Derpy Doctor.