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Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Derpy couldn't help but feel guilty. She'd been living with Lyra and Bon-Bon for a week at this point, and she still couldn't find a job. She needed to find work; she needed to get off Lyra and Bon-Bon's back. It just wasn't fair for her to be mooching of them like this.

Lyra and Bon-Bon's home wasn't large enough for three ponies to be living here for long periods of time. Derpy wasn't even sure that it was enough for one. Lyra and Bon-Bon were close, so maybe they didn't mind sharing a small space. Two was company. Derpy was a crowd.

Of course, neither of the mares said anything about it. Bon-Bon had made it perfectly clear to her that she was happy to have Derpy living with them, and that she could stay as long as she needed, and while Derpy was extremely thankful for Bon-Bon's generosity, she didn't want to make her new, and really only friends sick of her.

Derpy did her best to take up as little space as possible. Somewhat easy her only possessions were what she'd had on her when the Post Office exploded. All her other possessions had been locked away in her flat.

When I do get back, my fridge is going to be disgusting.

Derpy entered Lyra and Bon-Bon's flat after a long day of Job searching, still no luck.

Lyra was sitting on the couch in the main room; she looked over at Derpy and smiled. "How did it go?"

Derpy sighed and crossed the room and sat next to Lyra on the couch. "I'm never going to find a job at this point. Nopony wants to hire me because of my STUPID EYES!"

Derpy tossed her empty saddlebag on the floor in frustration, she felt tears coming on. Her eyes were betraying her again. She brought her legs into her chest and sank her muzzle into them. She was tired, she was frustrated and worst of all, and she felt useless.

"I should have expected this. I was lucky to even get my job at the Post Office," Derpy said defeat ringing in her voice.

"There has to be something you can do?" Lyra said trying to comfort her friend.

Derpy shrugged. "The jobs that pegasi are known for are all sight intensive, and everything else needs depth perception."

"I know how you feel," Lyra said. "I'm a musician, regular work is impossible to find. There are a lot of times where I feel like I'm mooching off Bon-Bon. She makes enough money to cover both of us... But it still feels wrong."

Derpy frowned upon hearing this. That settles it; I HAVE to get off their backs. It's not fair. They're just too nice for their own good.

"Derpy, you don't have to leave!" Bon-Bon called out to her friend. It was the following morning, and Derpy was packing her things.

"Yes I do Bon-Bon," Derpy said. "I can't do this; it's not fair for you to have to support me."

Bon-Bon frowned. "Derpy... We like having you live here! You don't have to go."

Derpy smiled at her friend. "I like living with you and Lyra too, and who knows, maybe when I do find a job, or they rebuild the post office, whichever comes first. We can get a bigger flat and live together... But until then, I don't feel right mooching off you. Now I've made up my mind. I have to go."

Derpy threw her saddlebag over her flank and walked up to Bon-Bon and gave her a tight hug. "Thank you for everything. Thank you so much."

Bon-Bon had started to cry. Derpy was too. She didn't want to leave her only friends in Ponyville, but she had to. She couldn't be a burden.

She waved goodbye to Bon-Bon and trotted out the door. Lyra was sitting at the bottom of the steps waiting for her.

"You don't have..." she began, but Derpy was quick to interrupt her.

"Yes I do."

Lyra smirked at her friend. "You're a stubborn little filly aren't you?"

Derpy smiled back, nodding in affirmation. She gave Lyra a hug goodbye. She was going to miss her.

"Where are you going to live?" Lyra asked.

"I don't know yet," Derpy said with a shrug. "Probably going to sleep outside, I'm a pegasus so at least I can keep it from raining on me."

Lyra frowned; a tear was forming in her eye. She really did not want her friend to leave. Derpy didn't want to either, but she had to.

"Be safe," Lyra said. "And always know you are welcome here."

Derpy started to cry too, she waved Lyra goodbye, and trotted off down the road, turning onto the High Street, and straight out of Ponyville.

She walked for a while; she needed to clear her head. The road was long and empty; it didn't matter where she was going. The road would take her some place. Derpy spent much of her walk lost in thought, her head down looking at the ground. So her surprise was easy to imagine when she ran head first into something.

Derpy fell onto the ground in surprise, there wasn't supposed to be anything on the road! She looked up at what she had run into, and it was something of the likes of which she had ever seen before.

It was a box, perhaps two metres tall, by a metre wide by another metre in length. Derpy was familiar with boxes thanks to her job as a postal worker, but she had never seen anything like this before. The box was a deep blue that had "Police" printed on it.

A Police... Box? Derpy thought to herself.

At that moment, a door on the adjacent side of the box opened and someone poked their head out from it. It was an earth pony with a spiky brown mane and a lighter brown coat.

"Sorry... did you knock?" the earth pony asked her.

Derpy looked up at the earth pony the best she could. "Umm... no," she answered truthfully.

"Ah, my mistake then." the other pony said, he took his head back inside the box and closed the door behind him.

Derpy examined the box again. It occurred to her that there was no way a full grown earth pony could fit in it. That was assuming she had gotten the dimensions right by looking at it. Judging the size of things had never worked well for her.

She went around to the front of the box, and decided to knock on the door.

The earth pony popped his head out again. "Did you knock?" he asked.

Derpy nodded in affirmation, and the earth pony stepped out of the box, closing the door behind him.

"Well hello!" the pony said cheerfully. "Is there something I can do for you?"

Derpy looked at the pony, he looked familiar, but she couldn't place where from.

"Well... Your box is kind of in the middle of the road," Derpy said.

The earth pony turned around and looked at the box. "Hmm, I suppose it is. How rude of me, I'll have to move it."

Derpy couldn't help but notice that the earth pony had an hourglass cutie mark. Now he looked very familiar.

"Do I know you from somewhere?" Derpy asked.

The earth pony looked at her, cocking his head slightly and humming a little as he thought. "... Maybe, have you ever been to Raxacoricofallapatorius?"

"Where?" Derpy asked, looking horribly confused, meaning she looked twice as confused as she normally did with her eyes being the way they were.

"Then no, probably not," the earth pony said.

Then, Derpy remembered. "Yes! We do, you visited me when I was in the hospital in Canterlot last week! You said I was going to be fine, and that I should trust you, because you're a Doctor!"

The earth pony wracked his brain. "Hmm, I don't remember doing that... maybe I haven't yet?"

Derpy was lost. "But... that was last week, what do you mean?"

"If I'm going to be visiting you in the hospital... that must mean you're important... and if you're important, and I'm important, and my blue box is important... Say, are you doing anything right now?" the earth pony asked.

"Um... no," Derpy said.

"Fantastic! Oh there's a phrase I haven't used in a while... I miss doing that. Oh and bananas! I miss bananas," The earth pony said. "Do you want to see the inside of my blue box?"

Derpy had to admit, she was a little curious as to how this box had come here, and how it seemed to hold somepony too big for it. "Okay."

The earth pony opened the door, and Derpy stepped inside. What she saw astounded her. "It... it's..."

"Bigger on the inside, yes, everyone else has said that too," the earth pony said.

Derpy looked at the earth pony in amazement. "Who are you?"

The pony just smiled. "I'm the Doctor."

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