The song of love.

The doctor.

It was a bright and cheerful day in Ponyville. Everypony was cheerful on this day, busy with their regular tasks, such as shopping, chatting, playing, etc. It was certainly a good day... except for a certain white filly with purple and pink mane.

The day before, she broke a leg while trying to get her so-long awaited cutie mark. She and her friends planned on earning her cutie mark for diving, just as Scootaloo saw in the Ponylimpics. However, they never tried something like this before. That caused her to break her hind left leg when she landed in the water in a bad position. Her friends didn't know what to do. Therefore, they took her to her sister’s house. All she could do was to wrap her leg clumsily with some bandages made from an unsuccessful dress.

Sweetie Belle was absolutely BORED in that day. She and her friends were supposed to try to get her cutie marks again, this time with the not very good idea of practicing with a bow and an arrow. However, having her leg broken and almost immobilized by the bandages, she was not able to even walk at a normal rate... or even able to walk.

“Sweetie Belle! You awake?” Rarity said while entering the room.

Rarity had tried to comfort her in this particular day. She even put her work aside to be with her especial little sister.

“Yuuhuu! Sweetie Belle?” Rarity sang while looking in the room.

“Hi, Rarity.” Sweetie Belle said from her bed.

“Hello, little sister. How are you doing?”

Sweetie Belle just turn around to bury her face in her bed.

“BORING!”

“Well, I can’t do anything with that leg. But… how about… if… I bring some paper for you to draw something!?”

“AGAIN? Rarity, I've been drawing a lot since I broke my leg! Just look at that pile over there!”

Rarity turn around to the corner Sweetie had pointed her. Her jaw came down when she saw the three-foot pile of drawn paper made by Sweetie Belle.

“Sweetie Belle! You draw this huge mountain of paper?”

“That’s all I can do with this stupid broken leg!”

Rarity turned again to look at her sister, who was crying quietly in her bed. She felt so sorry for her, but still so useless because she didn't know what to do. She only saw an option.

“Stay in your bed. I will go to get some help for you..”

“Really!? You’re going to do something to get my leg fixed?!”

“Yes, I will. I swear in Celestia's name, for I will not rest until I find a way for you to recover to perfect health!”

With a few hoof steps, she exited the room, leaving Sweetie Belle with the thought of her as a good big sister.

Meanwhile, at the Ponyville Hospital, Rarity was getting in when she saw the counter. Luckily for her, the mare in charge was there. With no time to waste, she ran over to the desk.

“IWANTYOURBESTDOCTORTOHELPMYLITTLESISTERTOGETCUREDOFHERBROKENLEGSOSHECAN-!”

“Wow! Wait, miss Rarity! Please, I beg you to slow down on your speech so I can help you accurately.”

Rarity took some deep breaths before she could even stand in the proper position of a lady, as she usually referred to it.

“Right, sorry for that. I have come for your best doctor to help my little sister to get cured as fast as possible of her broken leg. She is very depressed by this fact, so I'm asking this for her to be happy again.”

The nurse in the counter checked on her list, finding only one doctor available.

“Well… we have one-“

“I WANT HIM!” Rarity shouted in her face before she could even end her speech.

Seeing the frustration in her face, the nurse just headed for the microphone. Once there, she put the file on the table to contact him. Rarity just saw the upper part of the file, where she could read “Soft Heart”. The nurse started to talk to the doctor by the microphone, making a certain allusion to the “desperate mare in front of the counter” asking for help. Done that, she turned again to Rarity

“He’ll be here in a few minutes.”

“I hope so.”

"It'll take a few minutes for him to get here. If you want to wait for him, there are some chairs in the next room."

"Alright. Thank you very much."

Rarity sat in a couch at the other room. She was just tapping the floor with her hoof, waiting impatient for the doctor Soft Heart to show up.

She was so impatient that she even got in her hooves and started to walk around. She walked more deeply in the hospital until she stopped in a corridor, not too far away from the waiting room.

Soft Heart... That name sounded kind of weird. It even sounded like an old pony's name. She even started to picture him: An old pony, using a cane (judging by the time he was taking in getting there).

Suddenly, a young stallion came running around. His fur was light yellow, while his mane was brown with stripes of a slightly lighter brown.

Other fact Rarity noted from this pony was that he was panting heavily.

"Um... Hello there! Are you okay?"

“Hello there! Hey… … do you… know… where the… counter is? ... ”

“Umm… yeah. It’s over there.” She said pointing with her hoof toward the room at the other side of the corridor.

“ Thank you very much!”

He turned around and walked clumsily, still panting heavily. That was until he fell on the floor. Rarity saw this and ran toward him.

“Oh, by Celestia! Are you okay?”

“ Sort of… "

Rarity helped him to get in his hooves again. After a few falls, he was able to stand by himself again.

"…thank you. I’m better know.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah… much better. Thank you, miss…?”

“Rarity. Miss Rarity.”

“Thank you, Miss Rarity. Well, if you excuse me, I have to go to the counter.”

“Mind if I go with you? I’m waiting for somepony to come.”

“Umm… yeah, sure. I mean, no… no problem at all. You’re welcome.”

“Thank you.”

The waiting room didn't was too far away, but it took them a while to walk. The stallion asked Rarity why she was in there.

She started to tell him about Sweetie Belle’s problem with her broken leg. How she looked so depressed in her bed, and how she was so bored in her bed, not able to even stand in her hooves.

“Gosh… that’s a serious one. Hope I could do something for her. It is so devastating to hear about it. A filly that cannot run, play, or do something fun.”

“Yes. That’s really depressing. That’s the why I came here. I asked for a doctor to come to help me, but he hasn't appeared.”

“Well, just be patient. I’m sure he’ll show up.”

“I’m sure. Otherwise I’m going to—“

“Um, Miss Rarity? We’re here.”

Noticing he was right, she just look to the mare in the counter, who seemed to recognize her as well.

“Well, ladies first.” The stallion told her, pointing her to go first.

“Thank you.”

She went to the counter, still with her lady posture.

“Has the doctor I requested arrived yet?”

“No, he hasn't come yet.”

“Urgh. Well, thank you very much.”

“You’re welcome. Next one.”

She started to walk again to the waiting room when she heard the mare speaking.

“Doctor Soft Heart, welcome.”

Hearing that, she rushed again to the counter, knocking out somepony who was already in front of the counter.

“He’s here? Where? Where?” She asked, frantically looking around.

The nurse stood up and went to the other side of the counter. She turned to the floor to see something..

“I think you just knock him out.”

Rarity ran to the other side of the counter, only to find the same colt she met earlier.

“YOU are the doctor Soft Heart?”

“Glad to see you again, miss Rarity.”

Rarity began to feel dizzy. The same colt she thought to be a generous and good looking colt was the same doctor she thought to be a good-for-nothing old stallion.

“You… you… Why did you take so long on coming?!”

“My most sincerely apologies, but I don’t know this hospital. I was just assigned here.”

“What?”

The mare in the counter started to talk right away.

“Reason is that he is a just-graduated colt from Doctor’s school in Canterlot. He was just transferred here. That’s the why he’s the only one available. I tried to tell you.”

Rarity froze at the thought of her little sister being treated by a colt who had just graduated, maybe without any experience at all in this sort of thing. However, the image of her little sister crying came around.

“Listen, I don’t know what I’m going to do with you when all of this finishes. However, my sister needs your help and I don’t plan on doing nothing for her. Therefore, you’re coming with me.”

Not knowing what this mare was capable of, he only saw one logical answer.

“Umm, sure. Let’s go.” Soft said while his heart started to race up.

Walking toward the boutique of Rarity, he was wondering what she would do with him once the treatment was done. However, the image of a little filly in her home, sad and alone was more powerful than his own fears. That was his weakness: the pain of others.

Once in the boutique, when they got into Sweetie Belle's room, he only saw a depressed little filly, drawing something in her bed.

“Sweetie Belle! I brought a friend who claims to be a doctor!”

Sweetie Belle barely lift her sad look to see upon Soft Heart. After seeing him, she went again in her drawings. Soft Heart was the first one on talk.

“Sweetie Belle, uh? That’s a cute name. Mine is Soft Heart. I have come to help you.”

Once said this, Soft Heart headed for Sweetie’s bed, only to see something that crashed him even more: she was drawing herself, running along with other two fillies in a camp full of apple trees. She was looking happy, heavily in contrast with the real her, who was crying silently.

“Don’t worry, Sweetie Belle. I’ll do whatever I can for you to run again, just like in your drawing.”

Sweetie Belle looked at him, still with some tears in her face. The only thing that made her to react was a tear going down his Soft Heart’s face. It was only then, when she saw the hope.

“Do you really say so? You can?”

“I’ll try my best.”

Sweetie Belle’s face changed suddenly from extreme sadness to an overwhelming joy.

“Thank you, doctor Soft Heart! And thank you too, big sister!”

“You’re welcome, sweetie.”