The Ward
Chapter 1
Load Full StoryNext Chapter"Good morning Ms. Sparkle" a bright voice chimed. Twilight groggily opened her eyes and let out a large yawn. She slowly rose from her thin mattress and took in the room. The same white walls looked back at her. The sterile smell of the air only seemed to increase from yesterday. Oh well, Twilight thought, it could be worse. She decided to distribute one of her own greetings.
"Hello Nurse Cassidy" Twilight said brightly smiling at the pretty blond unicorn. Her bright blue eyes were shining as she looked at Twilight but upon close inspection one would realize the pain behind the nurses eyes. The nurse let out a tentative smile that didn't seem to quite reach her eyes.
"Did you sleep well?" the mare asked "I know you have been having nightmares recently and i just wanted to check up on you." Twilight's smile dropped, how the buck did she know about those? those were supposed to be a secret. Twilight's mind was soon alight with scenarios of the nurses spying on her as she slept, taking notes and poking her. Twilight began breathing heavily. All of the memories of her recent nightmares flooded into her mind, the fear and the things she saw within them grasped her. She began shaking and lost sight of the plain white walls around her. A scream filled her lungs draining what little air she had left in them. Twilight let out the scream and began thrashing around wildly before a pair of hooves wrapped around her and prevented her struggling. Soft soothing words entered her ear as comforting hooves hugged her tightly. Twilight, unable to take the emotional overflow simply fell into darkness and accepted her panic attack.
Twilight abruptly woke up sweat drenching her coat and mane. She had just experienced another of her horrid nightmares. She gently opened up her eyes but before she could analyze anything, harsh white light filled her eyes and she squinted against it. Lifting her head she acknowledged her throbbing headache and opened her eyes to more accurately look around the room. It was the same lifeless grey and white as the rest of the hospital. She was simply in her room. Lifting her body up from the bed she noticed it was disheveled from her sleeping on it. Leaping up she began fixing it much to the nurse's protest from behind her.
"No please Ms. Sparkle lay down I'll fix it later." she said hoping to get the unicorn to relax. Twilight promptly ignored the nurse as she fixed the sheets on the cot and the pillows so they lined up perfectly. Turning around she noticed that the nurse had somehow gotten just behind her. Twilight was about to panic again pulling memories of her most recent nightmare to her mind but before she did she realized it was just Nurse Cassidy. Calming down a good bit Twilight asked a question
"Did i miss morning inspection?" She asked, hoping to have missed the dreadful inspection of the hospital patrons.
"No" Nurse Cassidy responded, "Remember you wake up 3 hours before everypony else." the nurse stated. Twilight regarded this statement with distaste realizing that it unfortunately was true. Due to Twilight's intense OCD she keeps a schedule and wakes up at exactly 4 A.M. every morning. Twilight pulled herself from her bed grumbling about joining the assorted ponies outside.
"Yes but, i think you should-" the nurse was quickly cut-off as Twilight zipped passed her and through the door. "should stay" the nurse finished in disbelief at the speed of the unicorn
Twilight's door was last to open on the corridor. Nurses walked down the hall giving small cups filled with medication and water to the waiting patients. Twilight scanned the faces of all the ponies in the hall and noticed that a few were missing. Good, Twilight thought every day more ponies leave the ward. She did another scan this time looking for new faces. Not finding any she relaxed back and waited for the nurse to give her her medication. Suddenly a loud yell filled the hall.
"YOU ARE NOT PUTTING THAT ON ME!" a voice roared from a room. Everyponies eyes shifted to the direction the yell and then another voice was heard this one however was calm and pleading
"Please Mr. Dawn please we can't allow you to-"
"THE HELL YOU WON'T ALLOW ME I. WILL. NOT. PERIOD. The voice roared again. A door burst open as large unicorn stpped out into the hall. Than Twilight noticed what he was talking about, on his teeth rested the ring put on every unicorn's horn to stop their use of magic. Twilight hoof ran up and felt hers and quickly understood why this stallion didn't want one.
"Please we don't want to restrain you, if you could just-" before the statement was finished another voice yelled their disapproval of the object at hand then another, then another and suddenly the entire hall was filled with yells as ponies began howling and screeching. Several large guard ponies emerged from the corridor entrance and attempted to grasp the stallion who stated the ruckus. However, he ducked away and sped up into run. Not paying attention to where he was going the pony collided into Twilight knocking them both back into her room. Nurse Cassidy saw an opportunity to restrain the massive pony and slammed the door shut. A click was heard soon after.
The two ponies stared at each other. Nopony knew what to do or what to say. The stallion at hand look extremely upset about being caught and that was made clear by his aggressive body language. Twilight looked at the stallion. His light brown coat seemed warm and her eyes wandered up to his mane and face. His mane was a stark white and finally, she looked at his eyes. She let out an audible gasp as she looked at them. They were different colors, one was a bright hazel while the other was a azure blue. She took in this stallion and felt a blush tinge her cheeks. He was quite attractive. All remained silent until Twilight finally broke it.
"So what's your name?" Twilight questioned generally curious about this unicorn. Looking down at her the large pony observed her for a moment then answered,
"Dawn Seeker" was his simple but, to the point response. Twilight took note of how is voice was extremely deep and soothing, the sound sent a pleasurable shiver down Twilight's spine.
"So um... what was um that thing out there about?" Twilight asked again eager to hear his voice again but having a difficulty wording her questions. Dawn Seeker simply look at her and then pointed to his horn. Twilight thought that was the answer in the first place but, it was never bad to make sure.
"That makes sense" Twilight chimed "I fought them tooth and nail over mine eventually they got it on me though." she finished. Observing his response she noticed how quickly his moods shifted from his rage two minutes ago to his conversational voice currently. An awkward silence filled the air as Twilight's tail began lashing back an forth. Her tic was setting in and she needed something anything to fill this silence. "Why are you here" Twilight bursted out. As soon as the words left her lips she was mentally hitting herself for asking such a stupid question but, the damage was done and she couldn't take it back now. The stallion just stared at her his different eye colors catching Twilight off guard again. Twilight felt herself begin to breathe faster as heat flooded to her cheeks. Her tail began lashing faster an faster until it was making whipping noises through the air.
The silence grew thicker and thicker and Twilight's mind ran wild. He was judging her she thought. He thinks I'm ugly and fat and stupid. Her breath picked up again and she looked down at her stomach. Her ribs were completely visible and it was clear that Twilight wasn't eating enough. However, all she saw was fat and not skinniness. Her breath began getting faster and more erratic. Looking up in the mirror Twilight observed her appearance. She looked awful she decided; despite the fact that the mirror reflected back the image of a pretty mare. She tried to think of something to say to get herself out of this but, she couldn't and she mentally berated herself for being stupid. She began to choke up and felt hot tears forming in her eyes. She waited for the storm of insults she always received and thought about the hidden razor blade in her room. The swarm of emotion over took Twilight and she began to cry. The light brown stallion didn't know how to react to the sudden tears. But it was clear the mare was having emotional problems. He thought of what his parents did when he was angry, they hugged him. He followed their example and he did the only thing he knew how to do in this type of situation, he pulled her into a hug. "Don't touch me!" Twilight screeched jumping back. "I'm disgusting don't touch me!" she yelled. Twilight curled into the fetal position on the floor and began rocking slowly her tail still lashing. The stallion stood very confused before it hit him, Twilight has severe anxiety. Walking over to the pony in question he sat next to her. He heard Twilight mutter dark words and insults at herself. Again the stallion wrapped her in his arms and despite her words and struggles held on.
Nurse Cassidy looked at the cleaned out hall and breathed a sigh of relief. The short but violent riot was over and relinquished in the fact that no pony was seriously hurt. Turning around she heard a sudden scream from a room. Rushing down the lifeless hall she realized where it was coming from, Twilight's room. The mare swiftly opened the door and flung in open and saw a sobbing Twilight laying back on the chest of the unicorn that caused the riot. Now, there are a lot of ways to make Twilight cry. The easiest way to do it was to cause an anxiety attack which seemed to be the case here.
"What happened here?" questioned the nurse. "What did you do?" her voice strained on the last word. The stallion looked up her rage burning in his eyes.
"Leave" was his simple command. Nurse Cassidy stepped back at the ferocity in his voice. Analyzing this pony she remembered him from his file. He was the paranoid, bi-polar, violent, isomaniac, and impulsive pony. Recognizing the danger in this situation the Nurse decided that discretion was the better part of valor and promptly backed up quite a few steps. Damn this bucking hospital she thought. The nurse was trying to piece together what happened but found it to be extremely difficult.
"Can somepony please explain what's happening?" Nopony answered her and she stood there watching Twilight basically snuggle with a unicorn who caused a riot. "Please refrain from physical contact it isn't allowed" The nurse tried hopefully separating the two so she then could get some answers from Twilight. In response to this the stallion looked down at the crying mare and kissed her. To say that the nurse was shocked would be inaccurate, she was in fact shell-shocked. Her mouth dropped open as she witnessed this stallion kiss Twilight, on the lips, in front of her. Dawn Seeker didn't care that the nurse was watching as he started to enjoy the kiss rather than just using it as a tool to spite the nurse. Twilight emotional ride hit it's peak when Dawn Seeker decided to do this. Not knowing how to react she simply layed there.
Nurse Cassidy simply didn't have an idea as to what to do. Never in her career has she ran into a problem quite like this. After roughly 5 minutes the kiss ended and all the ponies in the room simply stared at each other. Twilight at Dawn Seeker, Dawn Seeker at Nurse Cassidy and Nurse Cassidy at Twilight. The grey and white of the room faded as the three ponies gazes locked. Suddenly, the door to the room burst opened as several guards hurried in along with a nurse. Not taking stock of the situation they quickly grabbed the stallion and restrained him again attempting to put the magic supresser on his horn. It slipped gently on. The stallion stayed neutral though one could tell he was dissatisfied. He was put into a straight jacket and lugged out of the room his departure marked by the slam of a door.
Twilight shakily climbed to her feet still recovering from her anxiety attack though still reeling from the sudden kiss. Standing up she simply walked over and collapsed on her bed. The idea of her that stallion finding her attractive amazed Twilight how could anyone? For a first time in awhile Twilight was having normal, everyday, mare problems and she thanked Celestia for it. Nurse Cassidy was about to question what happened but, decided against it and instead simply sat on the plastic chair that rested in the square room. She decided the best course of action was a letter to Celestia and she began writing in earnest.
"What the hell were you thinking?" A nurse berated Dawn Seeker."Why did you do that?" The nurse questioned again. The lifeless grey room that was his room seemed alive as the nurse raged. The unicorn refused an answer prefering just to glare at the nurse. "Well?" the grey nurse continued condescendingly. The nurse's green eyes flash and her grey mane all flashed in anger. The nurse berated him over his and about this being his first day here. After awhile with no response she simply gave up and turned away and left the room. Dawn Seeker's satisfied that the straight jacket was removed after he was placed in his room. Dawn Seeker mind wandered back to the crying mare he met early today. Thinking about his actions a smile crossed his lips.
Author's Note
If there are any mistakes let me know and I'll fix it. I don't have a good eye for errors and I don't have a proofreader.
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