Hospital Bed

by MorbidTheBrony

I'm booored!

Sunset Shimmer's eyes fluttered open. Man, did she have the craziest dream last night. What happened was that she accidentally left her schoolbag at the very top of her stairs and, because of her looking at her phone, she tripped over it and fell down the entire flight of stairs, breaking her leg in the process-

Oh wait, nevermind. Apparently that wasn't a dream, it was real.

Sunset found herself laying in a hospital bed with her right leg raised in the air within a fat cast. She moaned quietly and put her head back against her pillow. She looked around the room by twisting her head on the pillow and she noticed a letter on the adjustable table sitting beside her. She picked it up and read it.

Dear Sunset,
Sorry I couldn't be there when you woke up. Visiting hours were ending and it was a school night after all. I promise I'll visit again as soon as I can.

You somehow fell down your stairs and got knocked unconscious so I had to call the hospital to come and get you and, unfortunately, you broke your leg in the process. They said it would take about a few days before you can leave.

Hope you get well soon.
Your friend,
Twilight.

Well, that's just fantastic, she's going to be stuck in a hospital bed for days. At least Twilight, and probably everyone else, will come to visit her likely after school. What time was it right now? Sunset looked around for a clock. Nine o'clock?! She has to wait for about seven hours?!

Well, whatever. Time will fly by if there was something for her to do. She looked around again for a source of entertainment.

Hey, there was a TV! Sunset looked around for the remote. She found it upon the tables where the card sat. And with the press of a button... Nothing. And with the press of a button...! Again? Sunset looked at the back of the remote. It definitely had batteries in it. Was the TV broken? Sunset sadly moaned as she sank into the bed.

So it turns out there was nothing. Nothing at all. Sunset was shocked to find out that there was no form of entertainment at all in this whole room. Not a book, not a game, not a working TV, nothing! She cold now tell that this will be a very very very very slow day for her.

Right at that moment, Nurse Redheart appeared holding a tray with a bowl and a spoon sitting on it. She placed the tray on Sunset’s table. Sunset looked inside the bowl and saw a big splatter of porridge inside. Sunset liked porridge, so that's one good thing to come out of today so far.

Sunset asked her if there was anything wrong with the TV. Nurse Redheart looked at the grey hung up box and told her that it was currently broken and they were looking to get a new one. That didn't make Sunset happy at all. She then asked her if there were any books somewhere but to her dismay, Nurse Redheart shook her head. Apparently the hospital got rid of all their books due to people damaging them or stealing them. Sunset couldn't believe the hospital would do such a thing. She then asked if there were any brochures anywhere. Nurse Redheart then left the room leaving Sunset with her hot breakfast.

Upon finishing her breakfast, Redheart returned with three hospital brochures in her hand. She took the bowl and handed Sunset the three pieces of paper. The brochures were very short but they should at least keep Sunset occupied for a moment.

Only minutes later, Sunset laid back in her bed very bored. The brochures, again, didn't offer much and most of it were things Sunset didn't understand. Not a total waste of time, but it definitely didn't fill her soul with very much joy and excitement and whatnot.

She slowly blinked, occasionally glancing from left to right to see if there was a new detail somewhere in the room. All there really was were just specs of dust floating in the air. Freakin' dust. I hate dust. Sunset then began slamming her head back into her pillow repeatedly.

The seconds took hours to pass by. Sunset felt as though she would go insane if nothing particularly interesting happened right now at this very moment.

Suddenly, her pillow sank down behind the bed and she hit her head off the hard plastic bed railing. She rubbed the back of the head with one hand as she used the other to reach for her pillow. She fluffed it once more and laid back down.

She even tried taking a nap, but with her leg being raised making her feel not the most comfortable, she couldn't see that being a thing until she actually had to go to sleep. She looked back up to the clock again. Only two hours had gone by, leaving five more to go.

She thought she could try talking to herself. Maybe she could create a scene with her own characters and story. So this means there has to be actual dialogue.

"Hello, Penny my dear!" Sunset said in what was supposed to be a man's voice.

"Oh, Nigel, it is great to see you!" Sunset tried her best impression of Rarity for Penny.

"I've seen that little Johnny is sitting in the corner, why is that?" Nigel asked.

"Oh, that little rascal had found his way into the sugar jar again. That silly boy," Penny scolded (?).

"We seriously need to put a lock on these things!" said Nigel.

"But what if we lose the key?" Penny asked.

"Then no more sugar for this family!" Nigel announced loudly.

Sunset now tried to do an impression of a little boy shouting but in a quiet voice.

"Yessiree! If that key were to get lost, then we would have no choice but to be a sugar free family!"

"But what if we just by a new jar?" Penny suggested.

Nigel huffed. "Darnit, woman! Do you think I'm made of money?!"

"A sugar jar really isn't that much money-"

"We're living on a tight budget here, Penny! We can't just spend money all willy-nilly!"

Sunset was pulled back into reality by a knock at the door. Nurse Redheart stood there carrying a plastic box with a sandwich inside and a juice bottle.

Sunset blushed as Redheart walked over to her and handed her her lunch. Once she left Sunset deeply sighed. She wondered how much Redheart heard. All of it? Only the end? How was she supposed to know? As far as she knew, Nurse Redheart appeared out of thin air.

Lunch finished. Now what? She looked down at the small plastic bottle in her hand. Then she started bouncing it off her head while she made bobbing noises with her mouth. She may have looked like a mental patient but she didn't care anymore. She still had four and a half hours left to wait. The continued to play with the bottle until Nurse Redheart appeared again only ten minutes later to collect her rubbish.

Now she had nothing. Again. Sunset stared blankly at the roof as she laid back down. There wasn't even any bumps on the roof for her to count. Seeing that there was really nothing left, she began to sing to herself. She sang many of the songs that she and the Rainbooms performed, even some songs she sang herself. She managed to kill an hour when she finally managed to sing all of their songs and she must admit, she didn't feel so bored anymore. She began to think of other songs she knew...

Well, she knew the Dazzlings' songs and even she thought they were good, so why not. As she sang more songs, she was surprised at how good their songs were. She would consider herself lucky that they were all able to defeat the sirens. But she didn't stop there. Sunset continued to sing more and more songs and eventually by the time she finished every song she knew off by heart, she noticed that there was only an hour and a half left to wait. Jeez, she knew a lot of songs. But by the end of it, she actually began to feel quite drowsy. She tried to keep herself awake so that she could see her friends when they eventually came, but she just couldn't do it. She fell asleep.

Sunset woke up again. Yep, still in the hospital bed. But her friends weren't there by her side. She looked around and saw another letter on the table. She picked it up and read it.

Dear Sunset,
We all came to visit you, but you were sound asleep, so we couldn't stay for very long. Nurse Redheart told us you were really pouring your heart out singing all of our songs. We all signed your cast before we left. We'll come back to visit after school. Hope you're awake then.

Get well soon.
From,
The Rainbooms

Sunset placed the card down and looked at the time. A quarter past eight.

"OH, COME ON!!" Sunset fumed.

At least there was a new detail in her room, her cast was now colourful with all of the names signed onto it.

Author's Note:

Some weird one-shot I thought of in, like, a minute. You like?

Comments

[CapNTilfy]

This was cute. =)

[Christopher Jones]

Nice fic

[Yukito]

How is she going to pass the time?

*looks at rating, sees it's not Mature*

... Ahh whatevs, I'll still check it out.

[MorbidTheBrony]

I should probably do these short comedy stories more often. They've all done great in terms of the like to dislike ratio, so obviously loads of you guys really enjoyed them.

[Jphyper]

Dangit, this would be amusing if not for one glaring plot hole distracting me: every hospital room I've ever seen has a TV set in it to alleviate this problem. It's been that way for decades. Perhaps you could edit in something about the TV in her room being broken or something.

[MorbidTheBrony]

9202044
Yikes! I didn't even think of that! I should probably go do that. Thanks, mate.

[pabrony]

Having been in the hospital for shoulder surgery on three separate occasions, I can understand Sunset's misery. Even with a TV it still gets boooooring fast.

[Snowdrifter]

Kinda odd Sunset doesn't have a room mate. Most hospitals I have dealt with have single rooms for VIPs and in the ICU, but recovery rooms are shared.

Also, read this on my way to the hospital to visit my mom. I am bringing her books. I can see Sunset waking up the next day, and seeing a stack of Daring Do books alongside a picture of RD (who would do this because it is awesome and not sappy at all).

[Kikio3000]

Oof poor Sunny. But the ending was cute. 💖

[Kikio3000]

9438601
Ah, maybe she's a VIP sonehow, lol.
And, aw. I hope your Mom and sunset appreciate it. :3

[Veryveryfluttershy]

9202044 Just because there's a tv doesn't mean the available programs are worth watching.

[Jphyper]

9720190
That's a possibility, too. It would've been nice if either had been mentioned.

[Twinkle_Shine]

"OH, COME ON!!" Sunset fumed.

[Luna-my-favorite-pony]

9716960
Oof. Every month? If you don’t mind me asking, what happened?

[Luna-my-favorite-pony]

10436038
Ohh. Yikes. Are you stuck there permanently or just checkups that require observation?

[Luna-my-favorite-pony]

10436241
Dang. How often do those happen?

[TSBrony2014]

I was in the hospital earlier this year for about three days with a kidney stone. It was pretty much like what this story describes.

The TV in my room was not technically broken, but it might as well have been. The picture quality was very fuzzy and the best thing on was Hamster and Gretel (on the Disney Channel) and I actually ended up watching about three or four episodes (give or take). The nurses notice these things and make a note of them in the chart. I also watched an episode or two of Parks and Recreation when Hamster and Gretel wasn’t on but for some reason the nurses didn’t notice this.

I figured this out when I came home from the hospital on day three and I read my records from the hospital online and the chart indicated repetitive activity, intellectual impairment and possible intellectual delay. It would also explain why they had a psychiatrist talking to me on the morning of day two. It may also partly explain why I was there for three days instead of two. After all that the stone finally passed nearly three months later at home. It’s possible that the FloMAX prescription from the hospital stay might have helped the nearly 8mm stone to pass but from what I have read the evidence on this is inconclusive.