Chapter 2: A Doctor Appointment

Hi.  My name is Nurse Redheart.

So today began the normal way - a couple pony pox, a feather flu.  Thunderlane got the feather flu!  He's in the intensive-care ward.  His case is pretty bad.

An hour after Sunhigh, I began my afternoon shift.  It ends when Luna raises the moon.

Another pony pox from Derpy Hooves (pony pox is one of the most contagious diseases known to ponies, especially because it can target all three kinds of ponies), and then I saw Twilight walk around the corner, just outside my window.  Twilight?  She never will get sick because she's an alicorn.  Oh no, is one her friends hurt?

"My goodness Twilight!  How extraordinary of you to drop by!  Is there anything I need to do?"  I ask her when she opens the door.  She rarely comes here, even more rarely now.  No sight of Pinkie.  Good.  She's the last pony I want to see in my office, because she has thrown 102 surprise parties around the hospital already.  Disturbs my work.

"Yea..."  She looks at the door, when Rarity and then ... wow.  A huge alicorn outranking even Princess Celestia herself in size, stumbles in. She even has the flowing tail and mane.  She has a white coat and a rainbow gradient mane and tail, and a cutie mark very similar to Twilight's.  I wonder if she has the cutie pox ... wait, they're different.  Good.

"That's Rainbowshine.  She fell into my castle today and smashed her face on the crystal floor."

Someone larger than Princess Celestia herself!  She has a bloody face poorly wrapped with bandages.  I must admit Twilight's handiwork was not very good.  She's not the type that is very good at medical work.

She says, "Hi."

The only thing that you would logically say is "hi".  Once, I had done an experiment on that.  It destroyed part of my reputation.  "Hi."  I reply.

"Where does it hurt the most?"

"Muzzle...miss?" She points to her muzzle with a hoof, and then falls over because she has bad balance similar to a toddler-foal.  I help her up.She should be able to balance okay, for a mare of her age.

"Well, I'll have Sharp Ray over at the X-Ray station, room 204, and Twilight, you can show her the way, right?"

"Yep, Nurse.  Rainbowshine...want to go?"

The X-Ray results come back.  Her bone's not broken.  It's probably bruised.  I walk over to my medicine table and fish out a bottle of morphine pills, writing: "TAKE BY MOUTH TWO TIMES A DAY.  NO REFILLS.  REST WELL."  on the prescription sheet.  Then I stick it on the bottle, place it in a paper bag, and call through the intercom,"Will Twilight Sparkle and Rainbowshine come to Room 2.  Will Twilight Sparkle and Rainbowshine come to Room 2."  I plop down on my chair.  It was a chair from my great-great-great-great-grandmother passed down; all the way to me.

Five minutes later, Twilight knocks on the door.

"Come in, Twilight."

Twilight opens the door.  I nod, and she picks up the bag with the bottle with her magic.

"Thanks, Nurse Redheart."

"Your welcome, Twilight."

She leaves. No sight of that extraordinary mare.

"A-achoo!"  From the sounds of it, it's the pony pox sneeze.

I hate the pony pox.