“Scootaloo.” My eyes opened a bit, to the dim lighting of Master’s bedroom. I was laying on my back on the bed. A needle was in each of my forelegs. Two blood pouches were on a stand feeding into me at the same time. “How are you feeling?”

Pain shot through me when I tried to move, but I still turned my head to the voice, seeing Sethi to my left, sitting on a chair next to the bed. “Where’s Master?” I asked raspy, my mouth dry.

“Right here.” My head snapped to Master laying to my right, his side was brushed up against me. I then noticed that I was heavily wrapped in bandages. “I’m sorry about leaving you in there.”

“But I was bad, I love you Master.” Moving a bit, I was able to nuzzle his side, softly brushing the tip of my nose against his coat.

“Yes you were, but you nearly bled out in that box because I freaked out a bit too much and dealt with my own personal emotions.”

“I’m confused, but you’re back.” I hugged him tightly, not caring for a single second that it felt like my whole body was drowning in fire. “And that’s all that matters. Please don’t leave me again.”

“I won’t promise that, because sometimes I’m going to have to leave you for days at a time for future trips.” My grip loosened and I buried my face into his side taking in his scent once again. “Plus you have your pet to keep you company.”

Diamond cleared her throat, and I opened my eyes, turning a bit to see her laying below me on the bed. “She’s not even a blanket when you leave, Master. Just uncomfortably cold ice.” She looked away.

“Then put her in a pot and throw some fire under it until she becomes a warm soup, make her something that will warm you when I’m gone.”

“Yes, Master.”

“Now, I was trying to teach you an important lesson, emotion control.” He made me readjust to look at him completely. “You probably read it in one of the books, but you basically control what emotions you show. Such as if you’re mad you smile. Sad, you exclude yourself and other things like that. You never show any strong emotion in public, it shows only weakness when you do that.”

“Right, never in public.”

“Like if I was killed in front of you, then you’d act calculated and controlled like it didn’t even faze you. Like with Discord, you acted perfectly, you composed yourself perfectly and didn’t freak out.”

“I figured it wasn’t real.”

“Always think that when you see me die, and never let me dying slow you down. Know I’m always with you even if I’m not around you.” He tapped my collar. “So long as you have this, I’ll always be with you forever.”

“Thank you.”

“So, if I ever leave you trapped in a box like that again, don’t start crying and begging down to your last breathe for me to come back.” He looked away a tiny bit. “Because then I might not.”

Did I do that? I didn’t remember doing that, but if I had been losing blood I probably wouldn’t remember it from blacking out. But the feeling I got from how Master was acting made me shiver.

“I’m sorry, Master. You can punish me even more if you like to.”

“Oh no you don’t,” Sethi interjected, and we looked at her. “You’re not allowed to brutally punish her like this for at least a day or two. I’m sure you understand that she nearly died because of you.”

“Yes I know that,” Master said, frowning.

“This isn’t the first time you’ve nearly killed her. If I wasn’t as good of a doctor as I am, she’d be dead. You’re lucky she clotted on her own, or she’d still be bleeding out. So, no more, please, she’s already almost dead as is.”

Master sighed. “I’m not going to torture her for a good bit, not like it has much of an effect on her anyway.”

“You do realize that she’s in a massive amount of pain right now, and she shows no signs of being even the slightest bit bothered by it, right?” Master looked at me. “Her skin should be on fire from the meds pumping through her veins. I’ve seen even royal guards scream their lungs out from it, moving only increases the pain as well.”

“Are you sure your meds are working then?”

“They’re working,” I said, smiling at Master. “But this bit of pain is not going to stop me from loving you.” I hugged him even tighter than before, and his eyes went wide. Turning, he hugged me back rather warmly. “I love you, Master.”

Master kissed my head and snuggled lightly with me. “We should go eat some lunch. You haven’t eaten yet have you?”

“Not yet.”

“Sethi, if you would.”

“The bags of blood are done anyway.” Master moved me to the side, and Sethi started undoing the needles before wrapping my legs up a bit more to cover them. “Alright, all good to go, just be careful, nothing too exciting or she’ll start to bleed, give it at least a few hours before she even walks.”

“Got it.” Master floated me into the air and onto his back. He got off the bed and started walking. “So, do you want to rename your pet?”

“She’s already my Diamond, I’m going to just stick with that. Diamond, we’re going,” I ordered, and she speedily got up, following Master. “I didn’t break her in very well yesterday though. Maybe you could help me.”

“Sounds good to me, but I do believe we have a date with Sweetie Belle and Silver Tip tonight.”

“Oh.” I looked down.

“Yes, we’re still doing that. So get over it.”

“How about something else instead?”

“Not a chance.”

“How about you have Diamond and me. I want her to feel a real dick tonight, and I want it to be yours.” He stopped and so did Diamond. “I want to hear her scream as you pound her insides to the point of bleeding.”

“Scootaloo,” Master said sighing, floating me up in front of him. “I think you’ve misunderstood a few things.” He started walking again with me still held by his magic. “I don’t get turned on by fillies, Scootaloo. You’re an exception to that rule simply because you’re you. I actually prefer adult mares.”

“I’m confused now, then why Diamond as my pet?”

“I choose Diamond to be your pet because of simple situations, and she perfectly matches many things. You know her, you hate her from school. Least what I gathered. She’s your age, money did affect her family heavily, and several other things. I didn’t choose her because she’s a filly, or because I intended to use her as a sex toy. I intended you to use her to keep yourself company while I’m not with you, so that you don’t kill yourself. You’ve been on that edge a few times, and I cannot allow it.”

My ears folded a bit, that made a lot of sense. “But then why make Silver do that to Sweetie tonight? He doesn’t like fillies.”

“Because this is the only step I need in order to fulfill my objective of giving you a friend which you can be close to for the rest of your life. And that way when you both have foals, they’ll be able to play together and you won't be alone.”

“But does it have to be now?”

“Scootaloo, in a few days the drugs I gave you to not get you pregnant will wear off, and I’m not giving you another dose. You’ll get pregnant very easily from how much sex we have, and for the fact I finish in you quite often.”

“Wait, you’re going to get me pregnant? But, aren’t I too young for that? Can I even live through foal birth?”

“In a year, we can worry about that. Your body will have grown considerably and fillies your age have had foals before with little problem. Also I have the best medical staff in the world on call, so we’ll be more than ready for that.”

“Oh.”

“What did you think I’d do? Just use you as a fuck toy for the rest of your life, beating you and torturing you to my pleasure?”

“Kind of. Actually, I’m a little disappointed that you’re not.” He kissed me as we got into the dining room. “Or I’m really happy.” I smiled a little, he chuckled before setting me down and sitting next to me.

“Sir,” Al said, walking next to Master. “A guest has—” He paused, glancing at Diamond and myself for a second before he went to Master’s ear, whispering something. That was odd, or was it?

“Really? Well send him in right away.”

“Yes sir.” Al left.

“Master?”

“An old business partner, Fancy Pants.”

“Who’s that?”

“He’s one of the few ponies of Canterlot which probably exceed even my influence in Canterlot. He’s quite wealthy and it’s very profitable when I do business with him, but it’s been a long time since we last spoke. In fact he helped me at one point manage my property in Canterlot when I was young.”

“Wait, what?” I asked, looking at him.

“Clarify,” Master stated, rolling his eyes.

“How does he exceed your influence in Canterlot? You’re a prince, you can start wars, and you are extremely rich, so, I’m confused.”

“Wait he’s a prince?!” Diamond asked, her eyes going wide with shock. It was clear she didn’t know Master at all. “But you’re not an Alicorn.”

“You do realize you don’t have to be an alicorn to be a prince or princess correct?” he asked, looking at Diamond. “I guess I will explain a bit. After my mother died, I was left with her land and what little money she had left hidden away from my late father. Fancy Pants was a dear friend of my mother, at one point they cheated on my father, and honestly I wish he was my father instead of that thing which was. He knows business and is extremely influential in the business world.”

“Really? Do you hate your dad that much?” Diamond asked, she glanced at me for a moment, before looking at Master.

“Vile stallion if there ever was one. Raped my mother to get her pregnant, just to get married into my family, and brought my mother to ruin in the short few years that they had been married before causing her so much stress that she died from a failing heart.” Master cleared his throat. “So yes, I hated him.”

Diamond’s snout scrunched up. “Sorry.”

Master smirked. “Anyway, Fancy Pants was a great help in setting up my current life and all my business ventures. He never enjoyed the idea of spreading too far out of Equestria with his influence. He is one of the very few ponies I respect.”

“But how does he exceed you in influence?” I asked.

“Right, he owns a lot of Canterlot’s apartment buildings, if the city has a vote he can sway it, while I have a very small percentage of the vote, but I own a large percentage of the business areas. So I make about as much as he does even though I own considerably less land than him. Meaning he has more influence in Canterlot than I do, in fact in most of Equestria actually. However my influence in the world is like the sun to his small asteroid. Plus I am a war veteran to Equestria.”

“So how did you become a prince?” Diamond asked, swallowing a bit nervously while staring at him.

Turning slightly, I looked at her. Either she really didn’t know anything about Master, or she was probing for information on him. Though I didn’t know all that much about Master either to be honest.

I knew about his family, but only by name and what happen to them. Then I knew about some of Master’s business and one nation that he is very close to, but I didn’t actually know any of his past. A terrible feeling went across my chest, I didn’t know Master at all. I’d married a stallion, and I knew zero about him personally other than he likes torturing me.

“After I stabilized my business area in Canterlot, helped the businesses grow. Celestia contacted me and I started as a diplomat for her. I was younger and she knew my mother and was very fond of her. From that, I spread my wealth out and started to become a huge player across dozens of countries, in which after a war and dozens of other heroic feats, Celestia knew making me a prince would help Equestria greatly. My coronation was a very small one. In fact only Equestria’s top were allowed to come.”

“You’ve been in a war?” Diamond asked.

“A few actually, I’ve only been on the ground for one of them. For most, I’m helping one side with money, weapons or a dozen other things. My influence is rarely used for that anymore, it’s not needed thankfully.”

“Master, what is your favorite color?” Everypony in the room was taken back for a moment as they looked at me.

“Um, orange, why do you ask?”

“I don’t know anything about you.”

“Really?” He smiled and kissed my neck, nuzzling me. I giggled as he hugged me softly, swirling his hoof on my side. “Ask anything you like.”

“Favorite gemstone?”

“I enjoy Topaz most, it’s cheap, but fun to look at in a chest.”

“Food?”

“Devil’s cake.”

“Country?”

“Equestria.”

“Even though Equestria doesn’t like you after what you did to Scootaloo?” Diamond asked. I looked a bit shocked at her, and then frowned. “What? It spread around a lot, it’s not like it’s a secret!”

“Yes, Equestria is my most favorite place to live and work in. Celestia is a wonderful ruler, and so are all the princesses of Equestria. So yes, I love Equestria greatly. Though, even as ponies dislike me for what I’ve done with a single pony. I don’t care, Scootaloo is mine to the end of her days.”

“If you love her, you wouldn’t hurt her, take her from her home or do anything you’ve done to her!” Diamond stood up on the chair. “Why don’t you force her to go home with her parents and live in Ponyville? She can’t be happy here.”

Master was passive, I didn’t know how he could stay like, but then it hit me. He saw Diamond as less than a threat. To him, she wasn’t even a pony, it was like he was talking to some pocket of air which could talk. In his eyes, it was like he was looking at nothing, like she didn’t exist.

“Diamond, why don’t you ask Scootaloo. I’m not stopping her from leaving. She chooses to be here.”

“You’re lying.” We all turned to Sweetie as she entered the room. Silver was more or less right behind her, but held his head low.

“Only the truth,” Master retorted.

“Let’s go Ponyville right now,” Diamond and Sweetie Belle said at the same time. Master looked back and forth for a second as they looked at each other.

“Scootaloo, do you want to go to Ponyville?” Master asked, and my heart sped up, just the idea of going to Ponyville scared me. It was home to all of my friends, save one and half of one friend. Some part of me wanted to go right now, but doing that would be—wrong for me to do now. Ponies wouldn’t like seeing me next to him, walking those roads. Even my parents wouldn’t be happy to see him. Of course with Master next to me, the urge to leave just wasn’t there. “If you want to go, we can.”

“I do want to go to Ponyville, but.” I stopped and looked down. His hoof rubbed my shoulder lightly. “But they won’t treat you nicely.” My lungs felt like they weren’t taking in the oxygen, causing me to breathe faster for more. “So I don’t want to go until they’ve accepted you as my life.”

“That’s not what you said yesterday!” Sweetie shouted, moving forward. “You want to go home.” Her bottom lip trembled as tears went down her face. “He doesn’t own you! He’s controlling you! He even said you could leave.”

Shock riddled me. Did everypony take their, spew-everything-they-think, pills today? I really hate when ponies take those pills. They always make me feel bad that I can’t—make them, feel better, I guess?

“I wasn’t thinking clearly yesterday.”

“You were thinking clearer than you ever have!” Sweetie countered.

“But.” They all stared at me, and I moved back, feeling Master as he wrapped his forelegs around me in a hug.

“That’s enough, you’re making Scootaloo uncomfortable,” Master said. “Sit down. I’m waiting for a guest which should have been here a few minutes ago, and is probably too polite to want to interrupt to enter.”

Al opened the doors and Fancy Pants walked into the room. “Quite.” He went to the other end of the table. “Jerard.”

“Fancy, it’s good to see you.”

“I see the news wasn’t wrong, how regrettable.”

“Hardly, my wife and I are quite happy with our relationship, even as the outside parties hate it so.” Sweetie and Silver sat down to my left next to Diamond. “But, would you like to have lunch with us?”

“I’m sure that wouldn’t be a pleasant lunch considering I’m looking at three, not one filly in this room, and for the news I have.”

“Sweetie Belle, the white filly, is engaged to Silver Tip. Which may take some time before they actually get married. Diamond Tiara is a maid and friend of Scootaloo. They play together while I’m away. I assure you that I’m not some kind of molester of fillies. I’d never touch another mare in that way other than my wife. Plus the last time I looked, it was not illegal to have a relationship with a filly so long as both parties consented. Frowned upon greatly, but not illegal.”

“It is now.”

“Excuse me?”

“Princess Celestia was convinced to pass several laws last night in haste because of you. It was a quiet motion of laws.” Fancy floated over a few pieces of paper. “I was urged by my dear to bring you a list of them. It would seem she was extremely distraught from what you’ve done and begged me to.”

Master looked at them and groaned. “Wow, you all went crazy,” he said flatly, he was not amused.

“Yes, well Equestria and Princess Celestia realized quickly that there were a few loopholes in the law.”

“What’s it say, Master?” I inquired.

“First one sets up age of consent, meaning before this age a foal cannot have sex with a pony above that age unless they’ve been in a relationship while one moves out of that age with only a cushion of two years. Next it basically goes through the motion that if when we first met, that if these laws had been in place I’d have been arrested and gotten life in prison. And oh, some of these actually say you can still send me to jail Scootaloo. When I was weaving the snake through your skin just a short bit ago, that’s foal and partner abuse. Oh my.”

Fancy swallowed as if he was a bit sickened. “Yes, you can.”

“Scootaloo, do you want to press charges against me?”

“Never!” I paused, I had said that without any kind of thought. That was just my natural reaction.

“Then these laws don’t affect me, and since half of these don’t cover so many other areas, they still don’t affect me. I also know it is normal for six months of time for the laws to be known before taking effect.”

“Yes, but they take effect in all of Canterlot today. The princesses said it was important for it to be done quickly.”

“Well, I suppose that’s why you’re bringing it to me personally. You want me to know that the law now affects me.”

“Yes.”

“Alright.” Master held out the papers and Al took them. “I will make sure to attempt to follow these laws.”

Attempt. Upon hearing that word I saw something in Fancy Pant’s eyes. It was something I didn’t quite understand, but it was pure rage at the least. This meeting had probably confirmed something for him.

“Very well, I shall take my—”

“You’ll sit down because you know what will happen and how unhappy it’ll make you to leave,” Master said with a bit of weakness to his voice.

“I will—” Fancy grit his teeth and Master stared at him. “I have to leave, if I stay, I’d do something bad.”

“You are a great friend, don’t do what we know you will.”

“You signed your own death warrant!” Fancy shouted, slamming his hooves onto the table by his end. “I’d rather burn you to the ground than stay and eat with you! And to see the daughter of a friend of mine sitting as a lowly maid! Not only that, but to see the sister, of a dear to my heart friend, sitting in this room.” His body tensed. “If I didn’t have a world of respect for you, I’d almost want to see you dead.”

“Please go ahead. I have no issue with you killing me, my friend,” Master said, his words becoming light at the end. It was almost like Master had been hit and it knocked the air out of his lungs.

“The second I saw what I saw in this room. You’re finished.”

“But taking me on alone, that’s—”

“Alone?” Fancy asked, putting on a serious face. “You really don’t know about it yet, do you?” Master eyed him. “You don’t know.” Fancy went over to the door. “Out of my own personal feeling toward you as an old business partner, I will say this. Escape Equestria before the fire comes down upon you, because I’m not the most powerful pony in Equestria wanting your head, not even close to the top.” Fancy chuckled smirking. “You should make ready those final words.” Turning he left without another word.

“Master?” I asked, and Master just looked down for a few minutes thinking. “Are you alright? You look a little pale.”

“I do believe I was just given a warning by my old partner.”

“Sir?” Al asked.

“Think nothing of it. Al there’s a few folders in my study, please look over them and have it at the ready. Just in case.”

“But sir, are you sure?”

“Yes, this has been a short while coming. Sig, bring our meals please, also you’re going to be in charge of making sure Diamond is well trained.” Sig went over and grabbed Diamond’s shirt’s collar and pulled her into the kitchen.

“So, Silver, how was your morning?”

“It was, fine.”

“Sweetie Belle, how do you feel about having sex tonight?” Sweetie froze, and looked at Master for a moment. “I know you and Scootaloo talked about it. You talked about a lot of things yesterday. Kila told me plenty.”

“And what will you do if I say I want to go home and not have sex?”

“I was looking forward to you losing your cherry tonight with Silver Tip, and if I’m deprived of that. Then well, I don’t rightly know what I’ll do, I just know Scootaloo will still be here with me alone.”

“I’m fine with sex tonight.”

“Great. Silver, you should ready yourself mentally just as well. I’d hate for you to be the one crying during sex.”

Turning, I stared up at Master, what I was about to say was going to end up painfully for me. “Master, I want them to leave,” I said, and they looked at me as Master’s and my eyes connected. “I want her to lose it when she wants to, not because of you wanting it.” I made sure to stare directly into his eyes.

Master’s expression was flat for a moment, then soft. “Scootaloo, that’s.” He sighed. “I don’t think you realize what you just said, though you’re too intelligent to not understand what you mean.” Master padded my back lightly and the feeling of a knife cutting deep inside me made me choke.

“Stop!” Sweetie shouted. “I’ll stay!”

The pain stopped letting me breathe, shaking lightly. “You see Scootaloo, she doesn’t want to leave.” Tears went down my face.

“Please! Let them leave!” He frowned. “I don’t care, hurt me all you like. But I don’t want her HERE!!!”

Boiling, my blood felt like it was boiling, not on fire, not like acid, but like it was literally boiling. I didn’t even understand how something could feel like that, even my organs felt like they were in a pot of soup, but each piece watching the other boil. I started to cough and fell forward, bracing against the table as Master rubbed my back.

“Now, Scootaloo, I don’t think you’re thinking straight.”

“STOP IT!” Sweetie Belle shouted, but her body froze to the chair, she couldn’t breathe, just blink her eyes, watching me writhe in pain.

“You promised that—” I let out a small scream as the feeling of my organs exploding filled me.

“I promised to not hurt her, and I haven’t, I haven’t hurt any of your friends or family yet, but I’m starting to think I should.” The pain stopped as Master moved his hoof, and I started to breathe hard. “So tell me, do you still want her to leave?”

“I want.” I stopped and stared at the table in front of me. Master was going to get his way, it didn’t matter what I did. My body slumped down, what could I say, the book didn’t help when I’m the one without power or control.

“Yes?”

This feeling of powerlessness, it was horrid. Not only had I put Diamond through it, but I did it painfully, what was I doing? Tears ran down my face anew. Crying wasn’t going to help me, and I can’t run away even if I tried. “I want her to.” The words clogged my throat, I couldn’t say it.

If I put Sweetie Belle through that, I-I can’t do it, I just can’t. I rolled into a tight defensive ball covering my head, on my chair. Hide, that’s what I’m going to do, hide from Master, he can’t find me like this, I’m safe, everypony is safe. Master won't hurt anypony when I’m like this, he can’t.

“Scootaloo,” Master growled and my ears folded flat. If I can’t hear him, then I can’t disobey him. The air around me felt like it was moving toward me, Master was, Master was going to make me, he was going to hurt Sweetie, that’s not right, he wasn’t, I was going to hurt her, I wasn’t going to have a choice.

Run, I needed to get out! Unfurling as fast as I could, I jumped off the chair, and as I landed my legs nearly gave out, blood instantly soaked my bandages. The door. I need to escape, I needed to protect Sweetie from myself.

Inches from the door, wind rushed over my body as I was sent flying through the air slamming into the wall, making a wet slapping sound as I fell to the ground. The recoil made my head shake, I couldn’t, I was going to. Panic like nothing else filled me as I tried hiding in the corner of the room, crying and covering my head.

Yelling filled the air, but I couldn’t understand it, my ears were as flat against my head as physically possible. Please don’t, please don’t, please don’t, please don’t. I can’t do this, please don’t make me!

Magic wrapped around me and lifted me into the air. Please don’t, please don’t, please don’t. Slowly, my limbs started to move away from my body, tears going down my face even faster than before. The feeling of blood dripping from my side made me start to shiver from the warm feeling on the outside.

Each of my limbs spread out with me floating in the air, I had no defense with my front being completely on display. As if doing it with a feathered touch, my ears were forced up and so were my eyes.

Light crept into my vision allowing me to see him sitting in front of me, a very serious expression was painted on his face. Small cries escaped me as he moved forward at what appeared to be a snail’s speed.

“Please don’t,” I whimpered.

His nose pressed against my belly, and he took in a deep sniff, forcing me to watch him intently. Several feelings filled me, but most of all, my body went limp. “You really don’t want her to have sex.” His voice was sad, hollow almost. Master sat up and looked down at me, floating in the air.

“I really don’t,” I cried. His magic loosened enough for me to hug his chest, burying my face into it. He gave me back control, and I just sobbed into him. There was nothing else I could do.

“Fine, we’ll have to do other things then, won’t we?” His tone was threatening, he really wanted this tonight. Master lifted me up with his hooves this time. “So, what is it that you suggest we do then?” Looking down at my side his eyes drifted to see my bloodied bandages dripping to the floor.

“Anything but that Master, I’ll do anything but hurt the ponies I care about. I will do it the best I can, whatever you want.”

“Send Diamond in here please,” Master said, I shivered lightly, but Master set me down letting me sit. She came back inside the room after a minute, she was clearly nervous, looking around for an escape.

“You called?” she asked, but stopped half step seeing blood on the wall and floor around me.

“Come here.” Hesitantly, she walked over to him and swallowed. His magic pulled her close and she tensed up as he licked her cheek. “Tasty, I bet you’ll love pony meat just as much as the rabbit last night.” Diamond froze solid unable to move.

“I’d rather eat her than do that to Sweetie, Master. Diamond isn’t my friend, she’s my pet and maid.”

“Sounds good to me.” A knife went to her neck and she began to shake as it lightly started to cut into her neck sending a tiny bit of blood rolling down. “If you want her as your lunch, that’s fine.”

“Yes, Master.”

Fury flamed in his eyes for a moment, but he let go of Diamond. She fell to the floor shaking too hard to even stand as the knife dinned against the floor in front of her. “You’re not allowed to act like that!” He pinned me down on my back, making me cringe as I felt several wounds reopen.

“I’m sorry!” I squeaked out. Hid hoof went down my belly as he grit his teeth. “I’m sorry, Master.”

“Sorry doesn’t cut it. Sweetie Belle will have sex sooner or later. There’s no reason for her not to right now.”

There wasn’t a defense I could use, there wasn’t a reason other than I didn’t want this to happen. Even if I went completely limp Master could control my body and make it appear like I was doing it. What could I say to make Master not want this, to say fine we’ll do something else I want to do?

“Master—I-I can’t, I don’t know how to change your mind. I need to change your mind, tell me how. I don’t know what to do in this situation.”

“You give up and give in, that’s what.”

“I won’t give in Master.” I looked to the side. “I can’t give Sweetie Belle up, she’s worth more than my worthless life.”

His hoof smacked across my cheek with a loud pop, sending my head snapping to the side. “Don’t you ever say that again. You are worth more than Equestria, especially to me. It will be a cold day in hell before you’re worth nothing. If you ever think that you’re worth nothing again, I’ll show you plenty of screams that say you’re worth plenty. Do you understand me, Scootaloo?”

Cracking my jaw, I nodded as my head spun. As I got at least some sense, I turned to him, blood went down my cheek from the ripped and dripping blood soaked bandage. “Yes Master, I understand.”

“Good.”

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” Sethi screamed and everypony turned to her as she stood by the door.

“What does it—” Master couldn’t finish his sentence before Sethi threw him to the side surprising everypony once again as she grabbed me swiftly with her magic and booked it out of the room.

“Sethi, what are you doing?” I mumbled.

“Damn that stallion, I told him not to torture you for at least a few hours, and he goes off and beats you bloody less than ten minutes later.” She rounded the corner to her medical room setting me carefully onto the bed before pulling out new bandages as well as needles and other such things.

“SETHI!” Master’s voice echoed making the room shake. The door to the medical room seemed to get ripped off forming something of a tissue as it was removed from the hinges completely. He came into the room as Sethi injected me with something making all the pain go numb quickly.

“Oh stick a rag in it, and stop bitching all over the place.”

Master’s eye twitched as knives floated into the air. Panic shot through me making me jump as Master launched several scalpels at Sethi’s side while she was turning around. Of the ten five stabbed me in the side and the other five weaved just barely in time to slash through my belly and back.

The force of the knives were still enough to send me toppling over the side and slamming to the floor. A cold feeling filled my insides as a warm feeling covered my outsides. Yelling soon filled the room.

Things started to kind of cut in and out, because I was suddenly on the bed, Master and Sethi were also seeming to appear around the room. There was a small pain in my side but it went numb as my eyes blinked, staying closed for a few seconds.

“Scootaloo,” Sethi said, and I opened my eyes looking at her. Warmth seemed to be wrapped around me snuggly. “Can you understand me?”

“Yes, what’s wrong?”

“Good, you don’t seem to have brain damage, but you lost a lot of blood for the second time in a day. I patched you up, you’re on bed rest only until further notice.” She sneered at Master which my brain was finally understanding. He stood on my other side, he didn’t look happy at all.

“That’s good,” I said.

“Is she patched up enough to be moved?” Master asked.

“Moved?” Sethi laughed. “She’s, you, if you want to kill her, yes. Go right on ahead and move her to your pleasure. Do you have any idea what her body has gone through? You have put it through shock, after shock, after shock. I’m not even sure how she’s breathing. In fact I’m pretty sure she’d dead and you somehow brought her back to life for the twentieth time. So yeah, you can move her and bring her back to life later.”

“Do not make me replace you.”

“Replace me? You’re kidding, please, kill me and replace the only doctor willing to work on a filly with any kind of real training or know how, that won’t just give up the first or third time her heart stops. Actually yeah, let’s move her, I’d love to lay her down on her death bed, I’ll make sure it’s warm.”

“I get it, but your attitude needs adjusting.”

“Adjusting? I’ll show you adjusting you—”

A thick magic shield went around Sethi as a sword stabbed through it, stopping a mere inch from her eyeball. She froze as Master turned to Al. “Al! How dare you! Is everypony trying to piss me off?!”

“Sir, I’d not suggest not killing the only doctor here while Scootaloo is in serious condition. If you like, I’d suggest having a new doctor come to replace her before you disembowel her. Otherwise you’ll become a widow again by nightfall. Or is that, for some reason, your intent sir?”

The sword fell to the ground, and he sighed sitting down, laying his head next to me, staring at my side. “You’re right, just get her stable quickly.” Sethi nodded and started doing a few things.

“Thank you, Al, Sethi,” I mumbled, and they looked at me.

“Of course,” Al said.

“You’re welcome.”

“Actually, Sethi grab what you need,” Master stated, and Sethi growled. “Either she’s going to my bedroom or I’ll find a replacement for you instead, you pick or I’ll pick for you right now.”

Sethi rubbed her temple. “She’s stable enough to move to another bed, but that’s all. You have no idea what losing so much blood will do to her system. You did it twice as well. I understand that you like hurting her, but she could go into shock. Get a blood infection or get blood rejection. All of which could kill her in a day or an hour. You need to cool down, at least for a while. She’s just a filly, if she was full grown this would be a different story, but you need to realize she has about half the normal amount of blood in her.”

“I’ll note that next time.”

The look in Sethi’s eyes were like the sun. “Let’s go then.” She moved the brakes on the bed and started rolling it. Master went ahead of us leading the way, but as we got into the hallway he stopped himself from running into another pony which made my heart go almost faint.

“Hello sir!” Master smiled lightly as he glanced at me. It felt like terror and pain wrapped themselves around my eyeballs and dug in with newly sharpened razor wire. The silver stallion from Hegi Zebira, which I had saved from being killed, stood in front of Master in a decent suit of some kind.

“Hello Velvet,” Master said. “How goes the first day on the job?”

“Great sir, and thank you so much for hiring me and bringing me here to work for you, I’m very grateful and—” Once his eyes laid upon me they went wide as he went completely speechless seeing me.

“I’m sure you are, and I’m sure you’ll be a very good butler and guard for Scootaloo in the future.” My lip trembled, even if there was some small piece of my mind had thought I had saved this pony, it was gone. I didn’t know when Master had done this, but it had to of been when he was mad.

“I-I will do my best sir, but um is Ms. Scootaloo alright?”

“She is perfectly fine, not that it’s your concern. I believe you have some training to get to. Al!” Al walked up. “Move this butler from my sight.” Al nodded and pulled Velvet along with him down the hallway. “Sethi.” She started going and Master followed as we went to the bedroom. Sethi softly set me down onto the bed.

“You can go now.”

“If—”

“If there is a problem I’ll call you.”

“Please, I’m begging you, Sir. Please don’t make her bleed again. If she bleeds, I won’t be able to stop her from bleeding out. She will die.”

“She won’t lose a single drop.”

“Please let that be true.” She wiped a few tears away and turned leaving, head hanging low.

“Now then.” A gag went into my mouth surprising me as rope went around my forelegs and another one around my hind legs. I was on my back, and if I wasn’t wrapped up so much, my belly would be showing.

“Mmmm?”

“I believe two ponies have a show for us.” My body locked up as I choked on the gag, tears going down my face. “Maids.” A bed was brought into the room and set up nearby ours, just a half meter away. “Silver, Sweetie.” Sadness went through me as they came into the room getting onto the bed. Sig left closing the door behind her.

Author's Note

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