Oh! Fluttershy you've come to visit me
Spike was sleeping in the large underground cavern that the Elements had made for him. He was the official Castle Guardian, of course that had been in his youth, but nowadays he usually stayed inside. He had arthritis, and on some occasions his legs would give out and he'd crush parts of the huge city that had once been Ponyville. To avoid large lawsuits he had been confined to the cave.
Of course his friends still visited him every day, and they all made sure he went for picnics and walks with them. They just had to be there with him so Twilight and Rarity could catch him and make sure no harm came to the town or most importantly him. It was one such day that Fluttershy came to visit him.
Time had definetly not been kind on the old dragon, "Oh, is that you, Rainbow?" Spike asked with a weak smile.
"No, it's me, Spike." Fluttershy sweetly corrected him
"Pinkie? I don't remember you having wings."
"No, Spike. It's me, Fluttershy." She said as she tapped his scales, checking for loose ones.
"Fluttershy?" Spike's slow mind struggled to recall the name. After a small period of time the name clicked in his head, "OH! I'm sorry Fluttershy, how long's it been? A year? Two?"
"I was here last week Spike, " Fluttershy said sweetly, having gotten used to working with Spike's dwindling memory. "How are you today?"
"Oh.....I'm fine, how are you Rainbow?" Spike asked genuinely.
Fluttershy sighed, "That was even faster than last week." She flew up, and using a magic washcloth, went from scale to scale, polishing them one at a time. By the time she was done and had gotten back into Spike's line of sight he said something that caught her completely off guard.
"So how's Starlight doing?" he said in a merry tone.
Fluttershy froze, a tear formed in her eye, but she quickly wiped it out and turned back around to Spike with a smile. "Oh, she's doing fine." She lied, "I'm sure she'll be coming back from the hospital any day now." she turned to finish Spikes cleaning when he continued.
"How's Fluttershy?" he asked causing her to freeze, "It's been awhile since I've seen her, though she does have a lot of animals to care for, but I'm sure she'll come see me sometime." he happily babbled unaware of the tears slowly pouring on his hand. After a few minutes of organizing herself, she flew out of his view and did the back of his neck. A few minutes later she finished and was about to visit the chefs to grab one of Spikes' specially made meals when he saw her and jollily eclaimed.
"Oh! Fluttershy you've come to visit me!"
She froze and turned to him, "You.....you......you recognized me."
"How could I not recognize you?" he said happily "How ha...." he cut off when he saw her crying, "oh are you alright?"
"You recognized me?" she said through tears, "You haven't recognized me in years." she sobbed as she hugged his claw. Spike stared blankly at her for a while, trying to figure out why a pony was crying on him.
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Holy hell my dude, time and time again I've seen theories and stories where Spike outlives the Mane 6, the most recent one where Spike napped for a hundred or so years and woke up to the world being different. But never have I seen the other point of view where the Mane 6 outlive Spike instead, and this is a breath of fresh air. And since Dragons are typically depicted to live for thousands of years, the fact that they lived that long to see him wither away gradually just warms the heart in a bittersweet way. The feels are overwhelming, especially when Spike asked about Starlight, I got a heart attack thinking she kicked the bucket.
Overall, I'm entirely interested to see where this goes.
Shit, taking care of dementia patients must be heart breaking.
I helped take care of my grandma in her final years. It was hard.
I read this once... did you keep the original seperate? I have no idea how this one differs...
Alzheimer's or Dementia? , possibly ALS? Spike's got it now? jesus the world is truly evil.
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Evolutionary shadow, natural selection only really comes into play before reproducing, once you have successfully spread your genes and are too old to reproduce, anything that might have been naturally selected out wouldn't matter. That's what is the prevailing theory for the persistent existence of these "late in life" diseases. We are making progress in shutting these things down, as slow as that prog5might be
It’s only the first chapter and it’s already heartbreaking.
Damn, Spike got dementia and just snapped out of it, Poor Spike.