READER'S WARNING: This fic is very dark and contains disturbing themes that may disturb certain readers, due to events that have happened in the past. Reader discretion advised strongly.
"RED ROSE REVENGE"
Red Rose was asleep. She dreamt beautiful dreams. It had been a good day at school and she had fallen asleep happily and so she slept happily.
Suddenly, she sat up in bed, awakened by something. It had sounded like a crash, like a plate breaking downstairs in the kitchen. She heard the sounds of shouting. Her father was drunk, then. Again. Red Rose, who was just a little filly at the time, always got scared when her father got drunk.
Red Rose's father was a pegasus who worked in Cloudsdale, and a lot of nights, he would down a bottle of whiskey when he got home. It sounded as if the same thing was happening tonight. He was always violent when he got drunk.
More shouting. Her mother was shouting back at her father, telling him to calm down. Red Rose's mother sounded pissed. She always got mad at her husband when he got drunk like this. Red Rose started shivering in fear as the shouting grew louder. She put her pillow over her head and just wished for it to stop. She was just hiding under her blanket when suddenly, the sound of her mother shouting changed. She no longer sounded angry, she sounded terrified. From downstairs, Rose heard her mother scream:
"-put down that! Put down that knife right now!"
Rose's eyes flew open wide. Her mother was in danger. Rose jumped out of bed, nearly getting tangled in the blanket, and she fell to the floor. She scrambled back up and ran for the door of her bedroom, out into the hall, and down the stairs.
Red Rose ran into the kitchen in time to see her terrified mother backed up against the wall and her father advancing towards her, drunk, swinging a huge knife. He suddenly turned and saw Rose standing there, shocked.
Switching targets, Rose's father ran at her before she could react, yelling. There was a blinding flash of pain as the knife slashed deep into her face, and the next thing Rose knew, she was lying on the floor of the kitchen in agony. Blood was all over the filly's face and the kitchen floor. Her mother had been screaming, and her father had run out of the kitchen, still holding the knife.
The next time Red Rose had awoken, she had been lying on a bed in Ponyville's hospital, her face bandaged. Her mother had been there, and later told Red Rose that her father was in prison.
When Red Rose was well enough to go back home, she hadn't felt any better. The knife that had slashed through her face left a horrible scar, and Red Rose didn't like it a bit. The doctors had done all that they could, but they could only do so much.
When Red Rose went back to school, she still had the scar. That was when the teasing had started. Every day, it continued, and Red Rose had to deal with getting called names, getting pranked, getting stuff stolen, and even occasionally getting beat up at school. Over the time of everyone constantly making fun of her, she had grown depressed and angry and sad enough to consider just killing herself, just ending it all. She didn't, though.
One time, Red Rose tried using makeup to hide her scar. It didn't help at all, and the other fillies just began teasing her about all the makeup she was wearing, too. She stopped using makeup. She just didn't know what to to, but she desperately just wanted her scar to go away so she could be normal like everyone else, and not be teased anymore. That didn't seem possible, though.
*** TWO YEARS LATER
Red Rose hated her life. She looked ugly. Everypony at school made fun of her. One time, she even heard Miss Cheerilee whispering about her to one of the other teachers.
In addition to that, Red Rose still didn't have her Cutie Mark. Almost every student in her class had their Cutie Mark already, and she was teased for not having one like she was teased for being ugly. Red Rose's grades were not very good and she was always depressed. She had to deal with getting made fun of all day every day at school, and she had been putting up with it for two years now.
Now, Rose was seriously considering killing herself and just ending her miserable life. She was ready to do anything to stop the teasing and pain she was going through. She didn't see the point of living; if this was all her life was going to be, she didn't want to live. She just wanted to be normal or be dead, and it just seemed impossible to be normal like everyone else.
***
Two months into that school year, Red Rose finally decided that she was going to end her life when she got home from school that day.
That day started like any other day. Walking to school, the usual group of fillies gathered around around Red Rose to make fun of her, tell her how ugly she was, and bother her.
"Hey Rose, how's your father doing in prison?" Diamond Tiara called out nastily.
"Rose, you got something on your face!" Silver Spoon added, laughing nastily with Diamond Tiara.
"Hey Red, I saw you in a nightmare I had last night!" another filly called out gleefully.
"Nice Nightmare Night costume, Rose!" Diamond Tiara said. "Oh, wait- that's actually your face!"
Laughter from all the fillies.
Red Rose, unable to take the teasing anymore, put her head down and silently cried the rest of the way to school, the other fillies around her laughing, teasing, and insulting her.
Just like any other day, Red Rose was teased from the beginning of the day to the end of the day. She cried a lot. She didn't eat lunch, because somepony stole it. That did it. Red Rose promised herself that she would take her life when she got back from school that day. She was going to put herself out of misery.
When Red Rose got home that day, her mother wasn't home. Good. That would make things so much easier. She went into the kitchen and took out a large knife from the drawer- it was, in fact, the same knife that her father had slashed her face with two years ago. Now, the same knife would cut her again, but this time, it would be fatal.
With tears in her eyes, Rose went to the bathroom upstairs, making sure to lock the door. She then went and leaned over the sink. She closed her eyes and pressed the blade of the knife into her throat. As Rose prepared to make the slash, she thought about how all she wanted was to be normal. It just wasn't fair how the other fillies made fun of how she looked.
Suddenly, Red Rose's eyes popped open. She dropped the knife into the sink. She began to smile, happy for the first time in years. She could easily fix this without killing herself. Her smile grew wider.
***
The next day, Red Rose began her walk to school as usual. As usual, the other fillies crowded around her to make fun of her.
"Hey Red, I don't think you've ever looked better!" one of the fillies said to her.
"Bloody Rose!" Silver Spoon said, laughing.
"Haha!" Diamond Tiara said, laughing with her friend.
Red Rose lifted her head up and looked at the fillies, and suddenly the chanting and teasing all stopped. The fillies were all surprised to see the strange smile on Red's face. As they watched Red Rose smile at them, they all grew uneasy. Something about the grin on Red Rose's face was disturbing, and it wasn't the ugly scar on her face that made the grin look scary.
"Well... uh... see you all at school then," Diamond Tiara said. The small group around Red Rose began to break up as the fillies continued walking to school.
Red Rose arrived at school right when a lot of other fillies were arriving. This was going to be the best day ever, Rose knew.
As the rest of the fillies ran off to wait for their class to start, Red Rose trotted over to the side of the school building and took off her backpack. She unzipped the large pocket a little, reached inside, felt the wooden handle of the knife inside. She smiled. Maybe this was her special talent. She was about to find out.
Rose's smile grew wider.
This day is going to be great, she thought to herself.
Red Rose took the knife out of her backpack, ready for the day. She knew she could never be or look normal. Because of her scar, it was impossible for that to happen. But there was a solution. Her smile grew even wider than before. Since she could never be like the normal fillies, she would make the normal fillies become a bit more like her.
Author's Note
One-shot that I wrote. I hope y'all enjoyed it!
