After Death

Pinkie Pie had just unboarded the train from Canterlot to Ponyville. She was now walking back to SugarCube Corner. Surely her bedroom was still there... right? She really hoped the Cakes hadn't taken away her bedroom. If they had, she would either have to move in somewhere else... or go back to the rock farm she worked on as a filly. Which also meant going back to the place her schizophrenia had started, the place where her favorite sister Ariel had died, and the place where her abusive father lives. She came to tears just at the thought of going back to that wretched place, the place where all her problems started. She blinked away tears as she walked along the border of the Everfree Forest, humming the tune she had used to help aid in the defeat of Nightmare Moon, Giggle at the Ghosties. That hum turned into a full out song as she hopped her way to Ponyville.

As she was about to turn onto the dirt path that led straight to Ponyville, she heard giggling. Very familliar giggling. She stopped bouncing and singing and followed the rather shrill, high-pitched voices. Those voices led her straight to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, or the CMC for short. She smiled and approached them.

"Hi!" She said in her own high pitched voice.

The CMC froze when they heard her voice. They all turned slowly around, in almost perfect unison.

Applebloom gasped upon seeing Pinkie Pie. "Ya... ya're out of that asylum?" She said, dumbfounded.

Pinkie nodded cheerfully.

Before Applebloom could respond to this, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle exchanged looks of anguish and screamed extremely loudly as they looked back at Pinkie Pie. They both bolted for Ponyville, still screaming.

Pinkie Pie tilted her head. "What's that all about?" she asked Applebloom as she stared after the other two CMC members as they ran towards town screaming their heads off.

Applebloom fidgited uncomfortably a bit. "Well, ya kinda killed Rainbow and nearly killed Rarity. Can ya really blame 'em for reactin' like that?"

Pinkie hung her head in quiet sorrow. "No, I guess I can't. I feel terrible about it all, espicially after realizing how much pain I put everypony through. Espicially Dashie..."

Applebloom nodded knowingly. "Ah know, ah feel terrible too. But we both still deserve all the hate we receive."

"Yea, I know." Pinkie said. "Well I better be off, then. Bye, Applebloom, nice seeing you! Stop by sometime and we can bake cupca-" She stopped realizing what she was saying. She clutched her mane. "UGGGGGGGGGH!" She yelled and rain off towards SugarCube Corner, trying desperately to escape the dark voices in her head.

As she rain through the streets of Ponyville, she tried her best to ignore the other ponies. Ponies everywhere were staring at her, pointing and whispering, yelling mean things to her like death threats and somepony even said they wanted to do to her what she had done to others.

"YOU KILLED MY SISTER, YOU MONSTER!!" a filly on the side of the street shouted at her, every word uttered dripping with scornful venom.

The sun was just starting to dip below the mountains.

She rushed through the front door of SugerCube Corner.

"Hello, welcome to SugarCube Corner." Mrs. Cakes said, facing away from the door. "How may I help yo-" she stopped and froze when she turned around and saw the pink mare. "P-Pinkie! I-I-I..." she stopped and started again. "W-what are you d-doing here?" she just couldn't seem to break free of her terrible stutter.

"Sweetie, is something wrong?" Mr. Cakes said walking in. He froze in the doorway to the kitchen as his eyes landed on Pinkie Pie.

She hung her head. "I'm guessing that you to hate me too, don't you..." she said sadly.

They both stared at her in silence.

This went on for a few moments, an occasional tear falling onto the floor here and their.

Until Mrs. Cake broke the silence.

"Ahem. Pinkie Pie? What exactly are you h-here for?" She asked, dreading the worst.

"I... I wanted to see if I still have a home..." Pinkie Pie said, also dreading the worst.

The Cakes exchanged glances. Then Mr. Cake pointed to the stairs. " As much as you have done in the past, we just couldn't bring ourselves to take away your room. As much torture and pain that you have caused, we know that it wasn't all your fault, and that if we kicked you out, you would have to go back to the place that started it all."

Pinkie Pie looked up at them, surprised. "You really mean it?! You mean you didn't kick me out!?"

"No, we didn't. " Mrs. Cake replied.

Pinkie Pie rushed up to them and pulled them both into a tight hug, making them both tense up immediately. Noticing this, she let them go. "Well, I better be off to bed. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! " Pinkie said,excitedly.

They both said your welcome and whispered to each other as she trotted up the stairs. She noticed this and sighed a little as she walked into her room. She looked around, happy to be back. She walked around her room, feeling everything, reliving past memories as she did so.

She stopped at her mirror. Most of the lights on it were burnt out, but a couple remained lit. She frowned at the mirror. She had talked to herself while gazing into at after she had sewn Rainbow Dash's corpse back together. At the thought at this, something snapped inside her. She screamed and smashed the mirror with her two front hooves.

Both Cakes ran into the room to find Pinkie Pie on the ground, surrounded in broken glass. She was lying down on the ground, gently brushing her tail. She was muttering to herself, seemingly insane, as she cried and sobbed quietly on the floor. Every now and again, the Cakes could make out some of the words she was mumbling as they stood there in quiet shock. She was muttering her favorite song.

Giggle at the Ghosties.