The song of love.

Chapter four. The experiment.

Soft Heart took Sweetie Belle out of her house. With a little help of Rarity, she was in the so waited green and comfortable grass. It was the first time she put her hooves on it since her accident. What she did enjoy the more was the freedom to run along with the blue skies above her and the green pasture under her hooves. It was absolute freedom.

Rarity was anxious about her sister, so she set out to protect her.

“Doctor Soft Heart. Are you sure this is safe for her?”

“Yeah, I’m trying to see something.”

“See Something…Soft?”

“Yeah, I have been watching her closely the last two days and there’s something I don’t understand. Sometimes, she can walk along like if she was all right. But other times, she can’t even stand for herself. I’m trying to prove a theory.”

“What theory?”

Soft turned to see Sweetie’s leg, working as if she didn't have anything wrong.

“One of mine”

Soft didn't want to tell her his theory, for her to take it wrong. Fact is he didn't want to believe it by himself. However, if Sweetie Belle wanted to get cured, he would have to prove his theory.

“What sort of things does Sweetie Belle likes to do?”

“What do you mean?”

“It’s… part of the test.”

“Well… as a filly, she likes most of things fillies likes.”

“… That means?”

“Well… you know. Things like ice creams, playing around with her toys, play with her friends, and things like those.”

“… hmm… does she have any kind of… distraction?”

“Well… ultimately she has been drawing a lot. Some of her drawings hadn't been showed to me.”

“No, no. Not that kind of stuff. I mean… like, going to a walk or something like that.”

“Well… she likes to go to the lake with me in a walk and feel the water under her hooves.”

Soft remembered the drawing he saw describing a scene like that. Then, an idea came to Soft’s head.

“Well… I must go. The hospital needs my help. Take Sweetie Belle inside and don’t let her out until I’m back. Okay?”

“It will be as you say doctor.”

Soft lifted from the comfortable grass to head to the hospital. He was in charge of a room in urgencies. He never had another urges but ponies with flu. The most peculiar was of a mare with chickenpox. Just imagine at the scene: a light yellow colored mare filled up with dark points.

Once he got to the hospital, he checked up his entrance and went to his room. He thought this was going to be a normal day. His first patient was a colt with flu… another one with flu… and another one… and another one… 34 colts and mares, along with foals and fillies came in with the typical symptoms of flu.

For the rest of the day, it was normal. Five P.M. and he finished his turn. Once again, he was on his way to Rarity’s house. When he got there, he was waiting to see her house with all the lights on. However, when he got there, he only found a note.

I went out for a deeply important matter. If you’re doctor Soft Heart, you may come in. Otherwise, come back in another time.

Rarity

Soft opened the door in order to see her patient. Once he got in the room of Sweetie Belle, she was deeply asleep. Not wanting to wake her up, he closed her door and set out for the living room. He could smell a certain essence of alcohol in the room. Soft saw a bottle of alcohol in the table, used to take out the enamel of the hooves. It smelled just like the hospital.

However, the comfort of the room, even by the essence in the room, was not taken out. He just sat in the couch, relaxing of the heavy duty that he named “job”. After a while, his eyes started to get closed, leaving him to fall once again in the dreamland.

Four hours later, a noise waked him up. It was the noise of a fall.

“Somepony help me!”

Sweetie Belle shouted from her room. Without any time to lose, Soft jumped from the couch and went as fast as he could to Sweetie Belle’s room. Once there, he saw nothing was happening. However, the crash he made while entering her room waked up Sweetie Belle.

“Doctor, Oh, good evening mister. What’s the matter?”

“I came here because I heard you shouting. You Okay?”

“Well… as far as I can remember, I haven’t had another pain.”

“Then... that means...?”Soft started to think it had been a dream. A voice resembling to Sweetie’s called him in his dreams.

“Well… in that case… sorry for awakening you.”

“Hmm… relax. With this leg, I’m already used to that.”

“Oh, speaking of which. Let me have a look on it.”

Sweetie Belle got her blanket away, so Soft could see her leg. In an examination, Soft didn't note anything else but what he already knew.

“Hmm… rupture still not showing any sign of healing; Fur and skin still of normal color; Signs of infection of any kind still not showing out. I think you’re okay… for now.”

“Am I getting better?”

“The bad news is… no, you’re not getting better. The good ones are… you’re not getting worse.”

“So… it’s not working yet?”

“I don’t know. Please, stand up. I’ll help you.”

Sweetie Belle got out from her bed. Like another times, she could walk almost normally.

“Hmm… muscle movement not showing any abnormalities… Broken bone working as a normal one…Interesting.”

“What’s interesting?”

“Well… fact is: I don’t know how your leg is working when it is not supposed to do that. I don’t know what makes it work sometimes and sometimes not. I’ll have to do some more researches.”

Sweetie Belle just gazed him with a serious look of boring. However, Soft was not going to be down by this fact.

“However, not for now. To get you better, we need to work on that leg. How about going in a walk?”

Sweetie Belle’s expression changed drastically from bored to extremely excited. She jumped from her bed only to start jumping around the room in excitation.

“Yay, A walk!”

“I’ll take that as a yes. However, before we go: did Rarity tell you anything before leaving?”

“Yes. She said she would be returning tomorrow.”

“What, tomorrow?”

“Yes. She said you can stay on the visitor’s room.”

Sweetie Belle leaded him to a room with a single bed on it. The room itself was not too big. However, it was very comfortable. Soft wanted to stay here. However, it would seem very suspicious.

“Well… we’ll see that later. But for now, let’s go in a walk. As I said, your leg needs exercise.”

“Okay! I’ll be downstairs.”

As Soft went downstairs, it surprised him the fact he was wishing to stay in that room. He wanted it as bad as anything else. But for the meantime, he forgot about the idea. He had to be extremely focused on Sweetie Belle’s leg.

It was about one hour of walking, until Sweetie Belle could no longer stand for herself. Soft lifted her to his back and went back to Rarity’s house to put her on her bed. During the journey, he could see some weird-looking clouds in the sky.

Once in Rarity’s house, he placed Sweetie under her blankets. He was disposing to get to the exit when he noted something: the phone was ringing. Soft Heart went to answer the phone.

“Hello?”

“Hello? Doctor Soft Heart? Is that you?”

Soft recognized the voice instantly. It was Rarity’s voice.

“Yeah, that’s me.”

“I’m so glad to hear you. Listen, my business will take more of what I expected. Therefore, I need someone to take care of my sister.”

“And by that you’re saying…?”

“You, of course, so tell me: are you up to help with this labor? I suppose Sweetie Belle has already showed you your room.”

“Umm… yeah, I suppose. But, how long will you be out there?”

“Hmm… about three days.”

“Whoa, Whoa… Wait. I think you said THREE days?”

“Yes. I hope it’s not too much time.”

“No, no. I think I can handle her a few days, but…”

“Thank you, Soft Heart. I really appreciate it. Bye!”

“Rarity, umm… Rarity?”

The phone on Rarity’s side has been hanged out. Soft stood in there, thinking on what had just happened. However, Rarity was right: Sweetie couldn't be alone with these incidents of her leg unattended.

“Hmm… they don’t call me Soft Heart by anything.”