Taken

Convincing doctor Gerste that group therapy may be beneficial for all ponies might have been easy, but it still took until the next day for the doctor to finally join you and Orchid again.

You'd just finished your breakfast and were still licking around your muzzle to get the sauce out of your fur when the door opened and doctor Gerste walked back into the room again. She was still limping a little, the area where she was bitten looking as thick as the day before due to the bandages.

"Ok, ich have the good news and the bad news," she started. "The bad news is there is no big room there. It is only single pony room."

You nod at the explanation, sitting down next to Orchid so the doctor doesn't have to spread her attention across the room.

"The good news is that you can come and meet with the other pony," the doctor continues, but then immediately backs away towards the door as Orchid's excitement has her jump up and across the room.

You sigh at your little sister's actions and get up as well, if only to create a calm buffer between doctor Gerste and Orchid, and shrug up helplessly at the human. "Don't be afraid. She always reacts to good news like this. It won't take long."

Doctor Gerste nods at your words with a forced smile, her hands still held up a little as if to ward off the bouncing pony moving through the room.

"Orchid?" you try, but it takes a repeat of her name to get her to react. "Orchid?"

Orchid skips to a stop and prances over with a happy grin and swish of her tail, giving you a soft nuzzle as she gets close enough. "Yes big sis?"

"Try and calm down a little, ok? What did we discuss yesterday?"

Orchid's face goes blank and you roll your eyes at her. "The doctor is afraid of ponies because she was bitten, remember? If you start to bounce around, she won't know what to do with you and it may only get worse. We don't want the other doctor to come back, do we?"

Orchid dutifully shakes her head, but then tilts it at you. "Why not?"

"Because he was an oaf," you sigh.

Orchid's ears turn a bit on her head, but it doesn't look like she gets it. "Oh," she simply replies, but then smiles up at doctor Gerste. "I like you though!"

"Ja, ich had noticed," the doctor smirks, inching sideways until she can open the door and look out behind it. "Everything ready?" she asks to someone in the hallway beyond, and then nods. "Gut. Ich will take the pferde and to the observation room first."

You flick an ear at that. To the observation room first? That should be interesting.

Doctor Gerste turns back to you both and then points down beside her. "You two can heel, ja? Stay close to mich. There ist guards with tranquilizer darts if you not behave."

Oh, fun.

"Yes, doctor Gerste," you and Orchid offer, with you quickly taking to the doctor's left side before Orchid can do so. You can feel the doctor is more comfortable around you than around your sister, and putting her weak leg near Orchid could increase her fear.

The doctor opens up the door and you stare out into a hallway that first has two doors opposite one another. Both leading into the observation rooms adjacent to the room you're currently in.

Doctor Gerste starts off down the hallway, leaving the door open behind her, and you trot off beside her with Orchid needing another moment before hurrying after you two.

The hallway looks like one could find in a hospital, but the walls are painted a two-tone orange/brown color instead of the usual beige, green or blue tones found in hospitals.

It doesn't take long before you pass by a short hallway on the left leading to two doors separated by a smaller hallway. The two observation rooms on either side are far enough apart that sound would not travel from one into the other, and there's a stretcher in the center of the small space between them.

There's also a guard standing in front of the small passageway in-between the rooms, holding a tranquilizer gun and wearing a strap across his chest on which several darts are found. He's looking as suspiciously at you as you would imagine yourself to be looking at him, but visibly relaxes as doctor Gerste continues to lead you on without stopping.

Doctor Gerste leads you to a larger hallway crossing the one you were walking through and turns a right, and you take a moment to look in all directions.

To the left you see what looks like a lobby in the distance, some elevators placed along the far wall, but also find two guards on this end of a set of double doors, and two more on the other side of them. Or is that just a reflection? You squint your eyes, but the distance makes it difficult to be sure of it.

If you would have continued going straight from where you had come from, you would have passed by another set of single rooms, and a double room like the one you and Orchid had occupied set against the back wall. It makes it look like the building was set up to be symmetrical in its layout.

To the right however, following doctor Gerste, you find yourselves suddenly bathing in light pouring in from windows on both sides of an elevated walkway. There's grass growing in the patio just one floor underneath you, and if you look up you see another walkway crossing yours two floors higher up in the building, and the blue sky mottled with white clouds drifting by past that.

It's enough to make Orchid stop and press her face against the glass, and you need to track back to start nudging her forward again while doctor Gerste shakes her head in mild amusement.

"Sorry. We haven't seen the sky since we were taken here," you explain, and your ears tilt down as you realize the sad tone in your voice.

"It ist ok," the doctor consoles, but then leads you on into the next part of the building and takes a right turn again at as the hallway gets crossed by another.

You stop at the crossroads to verify the building is mirrored on this side, and let out a soft sigh as you follow the doctor towards the single rooms on the left side.

The guard standing there looks far from happy as he watches you and Orchid being led into the observation area of the room on the right, and you let out a small sigh of relief as you hear doctor Gerste close the door behind you - effectively shutting him out. Those tranquilizer darts looked like they would hurt on impact. The less you see them, the better you feel.

The room you're led into is small, and made even smaller by the large table occupying the space in front of the window on the left. A pair of chairs is set up in front of it, and a lot of equipment that you only half recognize as sound and video recording equipment is set up along every wall. It looks a lot more high-tech than most observation rooms used by police in television series.

From the looks of things the machines are still indiscriminately recording everything that happens in the adjacent room, even when nobody's physically around to observe. And, judging from the lack of storage media in the room, these machines most likely send this information up over a network to wherever it's all stored for future review.

You suppress the feeling of nausea that rises up as you realize how a similar setup must have been keeping track of your and Orchid's every movement since you arrived here.

The doctor sighs as she leans a hand on the table, and you follow her gaze into the next room where a green-coated stallion with a yellow mane is pacing around. His eyes look like he hasn't had a decent night's rest in a while now, and his mane and tail are a total mess.

As you look sideways at Orchid however, you realize your own manes haven't been brushed in days either and probably look just as messy. You just didn't notice before now.

"Do you have a brush here, doctor Gerste?" you ask of the doctor, "It helps us calm down a lot when our manes get brushed out. Just look at him. His mane is a complete mess!"

The doctor frowns at your words, then shakes her head slowly. "No, we have kein brush here that ich know of. Maybe ich can bring one with from hause?"

"If you have one you could bring with next time, that would be wonderful!" you exclaim, then turn back to the stallion on the other end of the glass and just watch him pace in the same circle over and over...

"It looks like he's at his wits' end," you realize. "I don't think he knows what he's doing anymore. Maybe I should go in first? Calm him down?"

The doctor glances between you and the other pony, then looks over at Orchid. "She ist more gross like him. Maybe work better if Orchid goes first?"

You both turn to face Orchid, who inches back a bit with a quick shake of her head. "Nono, big sis is better," she comments, in a surprising display of sudden realization of what is asked of her.

You frown and sniff the air a moment. Something about Orchid's scent is off.

Looking at her antsy twitching and occasional glances toward the window and the pony beyond it, you slowly start to put one and two together.

"You're not..." you start, then shake your head and facehoof. "Really? The first stallion you see in a while and you're reacting like a filly during her first heat?"

Orchid casts you a glance that could melt lead and you back away in surprise at her sudden fury - straight into a tower of electronics.

The sound of the tower of machines collapsing around you is loud enough that you know the stallion in the other room must have heard it, even without having his ear to the glass, and his face is up against the glass wall in moments. His bloodshot eyes look around wildly, trying to see through the mirror on his end, and you find Orchid slowly licking around her muzzle at the sight.

"O... Orchid?" you try, but there's no stopping her from turning her tail on the two-way mirror and presenting her rear to it, her tail flicking up to reveal her wet snatch to the stallion.

"Orchid, it's... It's no use. He can't see you," you try to explain, but it doesn't reach your little sister's ears and you give a helpless look up at the human doctor.

Doctor Gerste, in turn, looks on with a raised eyebrow.

"I'm sorry for this, doctor," you start, shuffling closer while trying to ignore the pheromones your little sister spreads through the room.

"You have not seen ein male pferde since you were brought zu here, have you?" she smirks, and you shake your head.

"We've not seen a stallion since I was taken home by our Master, doctor Gerste," you reply with a similar smirk and awkward flick of your tail.

"Und that was ein half year ago, yes?"

You flick an ear and look away. "I'm not sure. Time goes by fast when you're a pony."

Doctor Gerste seems to ponder this for a moment, then motions for you to wait and leaves the room.

You stare at the door a moment, but then hear something behind you and turn to watch Orchid trying to clamber up on the table in front of the observation window, one of her hind legs up on one of the swivel chairs which is sliding away from under her.

You quickly move in to stop the chair from moving, putting your weight in against it, and shake your head as you feel the pressure shift as Orchid manages to get on the table properly.

You really don't want to move away from where you're standing now. The thud you hear is enough indication of what's happening up there. But you have to make sure your sister isn't doing something that may jeopardize the little amount of freedom you've gained since doctor Gerste took over from the first doctor you saw...

With some trepidation you walk away from the chair and move to stand near the center of the room, then turn to face the table again.

Your little sister is up on it, eyes showing the same kind of madness the stallion in the other room was showing before, and she doesn't appear to be consciously observing the room anymore. Her forelegs are bent, her muzzle basically resting on the table, but her rear is up high, with her tail draped over her back. She's pressing her crotch up against the glass, and you lean slightly to the right to look past her to see the stallion on the other side with his muzzle up against the glass on the other side, desperately trying to get a whiff of her scent.

This has quickly gotten out of control, and you rub a hoof up against the side of your head as you try to think of a way to help doctor Gerste get the situation back on track - preferably without using any tranquilizer darts...

It isn't helping any that Orchid's pheromones are causing a burning sensation to rise in your own crotch, and you're fighting to stay in control of your own instinctive need to find some release. You can't afford to give in to the madness that took hold of your little sister! You have to be the strong one, the smart one, the one who may find a way out of this place. Not only for Orchid, but for that stallion, and every other pony they're keeping captive in this place!

You need to be strong for them, and for your Master. Your Master who is kept captive somewhere else. Who is facing charges of slavery. You still need to figure out how to get those charges dropped.

Just as you're starting to lose grasp on yourself, doctor Gerste returns with a folder and pencil. She stops in the opening of the door as she spots Orchid rubbing her rear end up against the window, and that's just the thing Orchid seems to have been waiting for...

There's a sudden blur as Orchid sets in motion, quickly jumping off of the table and speeding past the doctor! Doctor Gerste spins around quickly in response, then shouts out something in German, and promptly closes the door again, leaving you alone with your confusion!

Did Orchid just make a run for it?