Sitting in the waiting room, Trixie absent mindedly turned the page of a magazine that must have been of considerable archeological importance at this point.
The Ponyville hospital. Trixie had a quiet chuckle as she recalled how fearful she was initially of the idea that she had ended up there, yet now it marked a safe haven. In hindsight, it really had made no sense to even suspect any hospital would be decorated the way Fluttershy’s bedroom was.
As soon as they had arrived, Fluttersy had to turn back to take care of the animals. Rainbow Dash stayed a while longer, and Trixie suspected it was to ensure the hospital was really safe, but then she made some obvious excuse and left. As much as Rainbow Dash was a horrible brat, she had been at Trixie’s side approximately half a second after her collision with the door, and helped her up. Trixie just wished she could have done so without laughing the entire time.
Surprisingly, neither Manners nor Redheart were involved with Trixie’s appointment. Possibly this had to do with them wanting to avoid any chance of running into Rainbow Dash. Instead, an elderly unicorn introduced himself as ‘Doctor Shot’, and announced he would help her through the magical portion of the test first. With a name like that, Trixie could only imagine he was awfully popular with the foals, fortunately she was not required to get any shots herself.
The tests themselves were boring, drawn-out repetitions of the simplest forms of magic, with wires attached to her horn. Apparently all they really wanted to examine was the flow of her magic, as Trixie was not even asked to cast a spell, merely to prepare to do so.
Such simple tasks felt like an insult. What insolence to make the most powerful unicorn in Equestria go through such menial trials! Trixie was tempted to simply begin casting spells for the sake of getting an answer quicker. Either she was fine and the tests could stop, or she was not fine; in which case she was at a hospital already.
Trixie had loudly complained about it of course, and fortunately nopony had tried to call her bluff, but the quiet smile and nod she got from Doctor Shot might actually have been worse.
The only thing that gave her the patience to carry through with it, was the thought that once she was done, she would get to finally get to spend some time alone with Dash. If possible, she preferred to do so without putting herself in a magic induced coma.
Even thinking of herself as the most magical felt more hollow than it usually did, because she knew full well that everypony knew Twilight Sparkle was her better, in terms of raw magical power. Most ponies wouldn’t even make that distinction…
Once the magic tests had concluded, Trixie was brought to the physical examination waiting room, apparently this was Nurse Redheart’s department.
To Trixie’s annoyance, she was unable to go straight in. Apparently, Nurse Redheart had neglected to clear her entire schedule for Trixie, thus she was with another patient for the time being.
The waiting room itself only housed Trixie, and a young, gray-coated unicorn filly who had already been there when Trixie arrived. It struck Trixie as odd. Why was there a lone filly in the hospital? Perhaps she was waiting on somepony? All she had with her was a brown paper bag.
With a sigh, Trixie put down the magazine. It was impossible to even pretend she had any interest in it. She felt like she’d be less bored if she just stared at the wall for ten minutes. However, it seemed somepony else had beaten her to the punch. The filly was staring at the wall with a zoned out look of boredom on her face.
This just will not do. A bored filly in the same room as the greatest entertainer Equestria would ever know? Unthinkable!
From that moment on, Trixie had made up her mind. Though without any actual magic she would have to be creative. For a moment, Trixie observed her surroundings. Since it was just a waiting room there was not much of anything, but there were one or two tricks she could do quite easily.
A short setup session later, Trixie was ready.
It had been a while since this was part of her routine, but Trixie was fairly sure she remembered how to juggle. The only trick to it was to account for the time limit on her motor skills. Starting with a stapler, Trixie gave it a few practice rounds before she added a matchbox, and finally, an empty paper cup to the mix.
For a few seconds, Trixie gave an admirable performance, but her lack of practice quickly made her fumble each item in turn. It took a desperate scramble to catch the stapler before it hit the floor, while the rest bounced off it.
A soft giggling from the otherside of the room caused Trixie to perk up her ears. She looked over to the little filly, holding her hooves over her mouth in an attempt not to let on she was laughing at her.
Trixie felt a smile form on her lips as she leaned down to gather the items back up, and gave the filly a glance as she did. “Oh, you like that, huh? Trixie is not very good at juggling anymore, but she bets she can read your mind. Want to find out?”
The little unicorn gasped as she was ‘spotted’ and looked to her left and right quickly to check if she was being addressed, then looked back to Trixie. “I’m not supposed to listen to strangers. My mom says.”
“Oh, well that’s very respo—wait, did you say listen? Wouldn’t it normally be talk?” Trixie blinked puzzled. She was fairly sure the expression was the same all over Equestria.
Shaking her head, the filly replied enthusiastically. “It’s listen. Mom says talking never hurt anypony, but listening can. She’s really smart!”
Trixie chuckled as she thought it over. It was a bit odd, but she supposed it did made sense in a weird way. “So you can talk, but you don’t have to listen when Trixie tells you to do something?”
“Yep!” the little filly squeaked.
“Trixie understands. Well, then Trixie won’t ask you to do anything. Do you still want to see the trick?” she asked, before writing a quick note, and folding it up.
The filly thought about it for a split second, then quickly nodded. “You are gonna say what I think? I wanna see!”
Smiling, Trixie lined up a row of six items on the floor in front of her: a stapler, matchbox, paper cup, magazine, coffee mug, and finally a pencil. “Well there is no limit to what Trixie can do, but how about we start easy. Can you think of a number between one and six?”
“I can think of lots of numbers!” the filly proclaimed proudly. “I can count all the way to a hundred! Sometimes. This one time, Miss Cheerilee asked if I could do math on the board, and she said did I good!”
Trixie giggled with the filly’s enthusiasm, noting how quick she was to get sidetracked. “That’s really impressive at your age. When Trixie was that old she only got to ten! So, if Trixie asked you for just one number, what would you say?”
With her options limited, the filly’s brow furrowed for a moment before she came to a decision. “Two, cause lots of good things come in two’s, or lots of two’s.”
“Two, is it? Trixie agrees that’s a good number. How many letters are in two?”
“T, W, O… Three!”
While the filly spelled out the numbers, Trixie motioned at the line of items and counted with the filly. “That’s right! Now what item do you get if you take the third one?” She let her hoof hover over the paper cup.
The filly pointed at the cup. “That one!”
Smiling, Trixie held out the note she’d written at the start. “Trixie bets you can read really good too. What does this say?”
Unfolding the note, the filly looked at the piece of paper with deep concentration. Though whether that was because the filly was not a good reader, or because Trixie’s mouthwriting was atrocious, she couldn’t say. “Mhm… You will choose the paper cup is what it says… Wait! I do have the paper cup!” She held up the cup with both hooves, her eyes wide in amazement as she gasped.
If only all of Trixie’s audiences were so easily impressed. Trixie smiled warmly while she nodded. “The Great and Omniscient Trixie, knows all!” She made sure to put some theatrics in her voice, it wasn’t as if she had much to fear if it was just her and the filly.
“What’s Oh-my-scent mean?” the filly asked.
Chuckling, Trixie briefly debated if she should correct her. “Heh, Omniscient, means all knowing,” she said, while cleaning up the floor and getting the items back on the small table at her side.
“Oh, but that’s redundant.” She stated matter-of-factly.
Taken off-guard by the comment, Trixie nearly dropped the stapler again. “Trixie begs your pardon?”
“You said the same thing twice. Mom says that’s called redundant.”
“Uhm, yes, Trixie supposes it is. She’ll watch out for that in the future, thank you.” Trixie was still not entirely sure what just transpired. Did Trixie just get corrected by a foal? She shook the thought out of her head. The last thing she needed was to get upstaged by her whole, tiny audience. “So, what’s your name?”
“Dinky, what’s yours?” Dinky said, and set the paper cup down, exchanging it for the brown paper bag, and sticking her muzzle inside.
Smirking a little, Trixie considered calling herself something else entirely just to see the reaction, but it seemed best not to confuse Dinky too much. “Trixie. What do you have there, Dinky?”
“Lunch! My mom made them for me.” She pulled out a blueberry muffin. “Good things in two, see?”
“That’s just one.”
“Oh, uhm, it was two before, but I ate one already.” Dinky blushed.
“You still have two halves.” Trixie laughed, switching seats so she was sitting next to Dinky, and looked down at the muffin. “Say, Dinky, want to see another trick? Trixie knows a good one.” She motioned to the muffin. “Can Trixie use that?”
Dinky looked from Trixie to the muffin and back, clearly weighing her options between having herself a lovely meal, and seeing another one of Trixie’s tricks. Finally, she put the muffin back in the bag and held it out for Trixie with an expectant look in her eyes. “Okay, Miss Trixie.”
A warm feeling swept through Trixie, one that she hadn’t felt in far too long, as Dinky chose her act over the meal. Of course she would give the muffin back right after the trick, but it was a clear sign that her audience of one was really enjoying her performance. Trixie’s missed this so much.
Trixie took the bag and briefly inspected it, turning it over and back, then set it down between them. “Alright, now prepare to be amazed at the power of—”
“Trixie?!” Derpy called out in shock, standing in the door opening of the examination room with Nurse Redheart beside her. Her wide eyes locked squarely on Trixie, then quickly to Dinky and back.
“Hey, Mom!” Dinky waved excitedly.
This was just too good. Apparently Trixie was going to get her chance to explain herself much faster than she anticipated. She even had the good fortune of running into, and getting along with, Derpy’s daughter, so this was going to be much easier than she thought it would. But first, the show had to go on, Trixie wouldn’t want to disappoint Dinky.
“Oh, hey, Derpy! You are just in time.” Trixie smiled at Derpy, then added, “Trixie is just about to make your muffin disappear.” She turned her attention back to Dinky, noting the shocked expression on her face at the idea of losing her treat. “Aw, don—Umpf!” Trixie got cutoff as Derpy bumped into her, snatching Dinky up in her hooves.
“N-no!” Derpy cried out. She looked incredibly panicked for a simple magic trick. She held Dinky close, and immediately flew off.
Trixie had not thought it was possible, but Derpy was actually even faster this time, even though she was holding the filly. The entire thing was over within less than two seconds, leaving Trixie shaken as she started to realize Derpy was not coming back. She looked down at the blueberry muffin she was left with. “I-it was just a trick. W-what did Trixie do wrong?”
Ignore this, I'm just trying to make the comment clock tick over illegally.
1000th comment! Yaaaaayyyy!!!
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Heh, shot
The second that filly was mentioned I was like 'it's Dinky' it's Dinky!'
I remember you telling me Trixie would be entertaining foals in the hospital, didn't know it would be Dinky
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Cheeky one of these days I will get first comment *shakes fist* one of these days!
4951390 wow 1000 comments
That moment when I realize at least 300 are mine
Nice chapter. Dinky was a nice touch. Sometimes it seems like trixie wants brain damage
why is derpy being so mean?
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Are you sure she is being mean?
Trixie can read minds?! Witchcraft I tell you!
Thanks crows feeling better from waking up to this.
4952290 yep name 5 things trixie did to her
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Thanks, she was fun to write. I don't normally get to write a kid, so it was a nice experiment.
I dont think Trixie could have known this one.
At least Trixie only got knocked into because Derpy was hasty
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Mentalism is great for this stuff.
Good to hear.
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Dang you caught on quick.
Im glad i finally got to that scene.
It did evolve a bit between its conception and execution, but thats part of the fun.
4952321 but now the more important question is what will happen to the muffin?
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From Derpy's perspective, Trixie lured her into an alley and tried to attack her, then followed her to the hospital, got close to Dinky, and threatened to make her daughter dissapear.
She is pretty scared, and trying to protect her family.
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Hah congrats on stealing the 1000th comment, you sneak!
I will be sure to give all my employees a raise, in fact, i will double what i pay them!
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I was referring to the I'm going to stay using magic, if something happens, I'm at a hospital. That's pretty dangerous thinking. In additional news, I just did my last salt water rinse after getting my wisdom teeth pulled. Man that stuff tastes awful.
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Ahh i see what you mean now. My bad
To Trixie's credit, she realized that was a bad idea.
But yeah she should be more patient with her recovery.
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Also, i just woke up, so im scatterbrained.
Hurrah the aweful stuff is over.
Im pretty sure they say not to drink salt water bt they mde you rinse with it?
Nomore nasty side effects from getting your teeth pulled?
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man our timezones are different. It's about 2:40 in the morning where I am. Yeah, you're supposed to rise with saltwater, it promotes healing and helps prevent infection. It kind of pulls on the gums when I move my jaw weird (I can't smile or laugh), I also have flush out the holes so it doesn't heal over with gunk in there. The bad stuff is over though.
4952349 I'm sharp as a tac mate
It was a good scene. Yeah, it is fun developing things as ya go. Like I said in my 'behind the scenes with 6 Shades' blog, ya never know how things will change
Hey I just thought of something, Trixie hasn't met Scootaloo yet, with Trixie's relationship with Dash that should make things quite interesting maybe throw in a reference to my Trixaloo story which will happen... someday
Oh Derpy, you need to calm yourself!
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we're about nine hours apart. ^^
How interesting, it's the first I've heard of that, but then again I don't know any people who had their tooth pulled. I didn't know salt water worked better for disinfecting than regular water, (err is it called sweet water? I've no idea.)
Glad to hear the worst is over. I guess I apologize if any of the jokes make you laugh. #^^#
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As much as I love that idea, I don't think RD is even aware of Scoot's existance yet in season 1&2. QQ
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I know right?
Fortunately she will probably have a few months to calm down from now on. >.>
4952717 Haha, I realized what that whole scene was about like a minute after I posted. It's supposed to play on how Derpy calls Dinky 'Muffin' in a lot of fan stuff huh? Huehuehue, I can only imagine what she must feel.
4952715 ah but Scootaloo was there in the first episode, but I guess it would be best to wait at least until Applebloom meets them and makes the CMC, but that'll take forever :raritydispair: eh screw it
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Hah, yes! Gives quite a different perspective on it from that angle doesn't it? xD
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While true that Scoots exists in season 1, what I'm talking about is her relationship with RD. RD does not appear to care untill much later. So sadly that's out for a couple of years at least. xD
4952755 to be fair, Rainbow never really seems to care, I mean, other than that one episode where Scootaloo was having nightmares when have they done anything together?
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There was the flagbearing thing?
4952742 Yeah, now I feel like that will be bothering Trixie for a while.
4952787 I don't think it really counts when Dash does it will EVERY foal, it was still a decent CMC episode though.
Oh, and a couple years is being generous
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That's a good point. ^^
The camping trip still seem like it signaled the start. Though obviously scoots's interest in RD was much much older, since she runs the RD fanclub if i recall right, in mare-do-well.
4952869 the camping trip was definitely a start, but I'm surprised there's really been nothing since, I mean it's just like 'I promise we'll hang out a lot more Scootaloo' and then they never hang out together again (fades to black)
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Yeah me too.
I'd love to see more RD/Scoot episodes, but on the other hand I guess I understand that they only have so many episodes in a season.
(I suggest we drop every Spike episode to make room.)
4952907 agreed I would love to see more CMC episodes than Spike episodes. You know I was rewatching old mlp episodes, I actually forgot how much they were in late season 1, I swear they were everywhere, not that I'm complaining but the real funny thing is that there was only like one Spike episode back then, now we have too many Spike episodes and too few CMC episodes
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It's funny, originally I didn't like the CMC, but they certainly grew on me. <3
4953117 Yeah, in that first episode they appeared in, I was like but then in their first full episode, I was like then later
4951508 Huh, you are right. looking over this chapter, you are 9 of the current 36 posts *37 now* that is has received, making you 1/4 of the comments. If we look at that throughout this stories lifetime, that would be about 250 of the comments. This brings me to the conclusion that you really need to get skype.
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I concur with this conclusion. You need skype.
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Exactly. <3
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And if ya think about, say I've posted 10 comments out of 40, another 10 of those are people responding to my comments, so directly or indirectly, I'm responsible for half the comments
Oh btw, remember how I was going to enter the August crack shipping contest but couldn't cuase time ran out Well I'm entering the September one! It's time to play 'Guess that ship!' but this time i'll give you clues:
I'm considering two ships, each are only 2 pony couples, and both are F/F. The available FEMALE ponies are: Applejack, Trixie, Derpy amd Fleetfoot (extra hint: neither ship I'm considering is Trixjack, I plan to save that for a BIG story)
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Mhm okay, I don't think I've ever heard you show any interest in Fleetfoot before soo...
Derpy x Trixie
Applejack x Derpy
4953358 To be fair, I've never expressed interest in Soarin or Shining Armor, but they were my planned ship for the last one
Your guesses are wrong btw
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Well I have to base the choices on something.
The only options left, by my count, are:
AJ x Fleetfoot
Trixie x Fleetfoot
Derpy x Fleetfoot
I don't want to ruin the fun for Phaorah, so I'll let him take a guess first.
4953411 Heh, true, but actually I've started to gain a bit of an interest in Fleetfoot. Thanks to this one story I read, I now like shipping her with Roseluck
I guess we'll wait for Phaoray then, the game is on!
4953411 4953448 I'm gonna guess Fleetfoot x Derpy, just because you have alot of Trixie fics you are interested in making, so you may be interested in trying something other then a Trixie pairing. I never cared about Fleetfoot myself, I think she has a speaking part in, like, one episode? So not much there to care about for me.. Derpy x Fleetfoot might be interesting just because you have the klutz and the ace flier.
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Sorry for the late response, for some reason I didn't get a notification that you responded
Anyway, before I was actually considering either Fleetfoot with Trixie or Fleetfoot with Applejack, but NOW you've got me interested in Fleetfoot x Derpy
Which one should I do? All three interest me now!
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yeah, saltwater and bacteria don't mix well (i've seen it under a microscope, it's wierd). Don't apologize for making jokes, I just can't laugh as much as I like.
4952366 thats true
4954870 That sounds pretty cool, can't wait to read it mate I don't really have an OC, unless you count 'Creature/Alpha' from the first two stories I wrote, I did make backstory and future plans for him, but never wrote the sequel and prequel I wanted to