She sat there, in that chair, waiting for the inevitable knock at the door. It happened every day, sometimes more than once, but she dared not answer it. Not since that fateful tragedy ruined her mental state of mind. The memory played again and again in her head.
Then, like clockwork, a sound echoed through the home. A simple knock, sounding three times. She placed her back against the door, as if she could convince the pony outside to go away. She peaked through the peephole and watched them as they turned to leave.
She slid down the door until she was sitting on the floor, she sighed, looking around the room. It seemed empty, though it was full of her things. She went back over to her chair and sat in it, placing her face in her hooves and sobbed quietly. Then another knock sounded. This one took her by surprise, being so soon after the last one. It was louder, slower, more demanding of her attention. She quietly made her way back over, and, blinking the tears from her eyes she looked through the peephole again.
Her friends were there, all of them. She moved away from the door and back to the chair. They knocked again.
"Hey, are you there?" One of them called. "We haven't seen you for weeks. We want to make sure you're okay."
Go away. She thought. Leave me alone. I want to be alone.
They waited for a long time. The clock on the wall counted the seconds. Then they shrugged, turned around and left.
She breathed a sigh of relief, then went back into her self-loathing depression.
A few hours later, another knock at the door. She started to get up, then was stopped short.
"Fluttershy? It's Spike. I brought you some groceries since I figured you'd be running low by now. I'm not expecting you to come out, but remember that Harry wouldn't want to see you like this. Harry would want the old Fluttershy back. Applejack has been taking care of the animals, but it's just not the same. We want you back, Fluttershy."
...
"Alright. I guess you don't want to talk. I'll just leave the bags by the door, okay? You come get them when you feel like it."
It would be a few hours until Fluttershy got the bags. The milk was spoiled from being left out, and the cheese was starting to smell, but it was a huge step in her recovery.
Poor Butterflybutt. Being forced to torture Harry to death really did a number on her.
Also:
"While I hid there, never napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door!"
Oh, Poe. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
4668263 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more."
4668288 Goddammit, Giggles! I know the poem! I have the entire thing memonevermoreized! It's rattling arravenound in this brain of mine, constantly forLenorecing me to hear Poe's eternal poetry.
Also, I now greet people at the door by saying, "Sir or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore -- but the fact is I was napping and so gently you came tapping, and so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, that I scarce was sure I heard you," and then I throw open the door to see darkness there and nothing more.
4668326 True! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
4668347 These thousand injuries of yours I have borne as I best could, but now you venture upon insult, so I vow revenge.
Seriously. Shut up, or I'll bury you alive, and in half a century I won't feel regrets.
4668392 :(
4668400 And, in finishing this shit,
This much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
It was all pointless. And but a dream within a dream.
At first I thought it was an alternate ending to "Putting your hoof down " where Pinkie and Rarity couldn't convince her to come out and Iron Will never came, until I read the Harry part.
I don't know if you correct things, but I have a few suggestions.
Not since that fateful tragedy ruined her metal
*mental
She placed her back against the door, as if she could convince the pony outside to leave. She peaked through the peephole and watched them as they turned to leave.
You just used leave twice in the end of two sentences, it would just read better if you changed one of them.
My memory of the show is faint. Who is (or was) Harry?
I think it was the bear.
4668578 I'll fix them. No problem.
*EDIT* Done! Errors fixed!
4668644 Yup. Harry is a bear.
4669144
Thank you. I remember watching that episode, but I have a tendency to watch/read something and forget parts soon after.
4669144
Harry Beary
4669237 it happens to everyone. I just remember him because of a LittleShy video on youtube.
4669250 Hairy Harry Beary
4669308
Yeah.
4669307
Which one?
Whatcha doing, Psycho?
Nothing, go back to your webcomic.
4669357 Well dang. Now I can't find it. I'll let you know if I do.
BTW Pinkie, what comic are you reading/creating?
4669586
We`re reading something called Twokinds. Ever heard of it?
Psycho started reading it cuz it`s by Tom Fischbach, and Tom Fischbach is the brother of Mark Fischbach, who has a famous Youtube channel!
It`s actually better than I thought it would be.
4669663 Never heard of it. I'll give it a shot.
4669723
I`ll send you a link where you can find it.
BEWARE! IT HAS OVER 800 PAGES!
... I`m not even going to question that.
4669781 hey, Housepets has 985 pages as of this morning. I can read long comics.
4669865
Try Irregular Webcomic. When I last checked, it had over 3330 pages!
Dang, poor Flutters ... if she's that far gone over Harry, what'll happen when Angel passes? Can certainly understand her losing it, though ...
Finished reading this anthology and the last one, wonderful stuff!
4678070 Thanks! I'll have more coming soon, so keep an eye open if you like it!