Dangershy

After about a week of waiting for Fluttershy to wake up, we were pretty much all asleep in the waiting room. All except for Rainbow Dash. Ever since that night, she has been spending every minute she could with Fluttershy, talking to her, sleeping beside her, and even eating her meals in her hospital room. Nopony could talk her out of it—not even Applejack, who was the most convincing one of all of us. We all thought that she was still convinced that this whole thing was her fault. I guess it makes sense, seeing that she represents the spirit of loyalty and all.

We were all sleeping peacefully—or at least trying to sleep when an excited Rainbow burst through the light wooden door into the plain white waiting room, waving her hooves around. She ran over to each and every one of us, shaking us awake.

“Guys! Guys, come one you gotta get up! I was in there with Fluttershy, and she moved a little! I think…” I single tear rolled down her happy face, “I think she’s finally waking up!” she shouted, voice cracking. The first one to stand up was Pinkie Pie.

“Ohmygosh! We gotta go see Flutters! Ooh, ooh I know! Let’s throw her a ‘You-Finally-Woke-Up’ Party~!!” she cheered. Rarity let out a giggle, as if she were thinking that that was such a typical Pinkie Pie move. But Rainbow just stood there, tapping her hoof, waiting for the rest of us to get up.

“Whoah now, sugarcube, let’s calm down and get somewhat quieter, Ah’m sure that Fluttershy would ‘ppreciate waking up to that.” Applejack said in a hushed tone. Rainbow let out a ‘humph’ and stopped tapping her hoof, then turned to me.

“Well? Are we gonna go see her or what?” she said, trying to be as quiet as she possibly could be. I stood up and nodded.

“The sooner we get in there the better,” I began. “I don’t know about anypony else, but I want to be there when Fluttershy wakes up, and plus I have some questions to ask her…” I continued. The reply I got from my friends was a nod, and then a murmur from Rainbow. “I sure do hope we’re there when she wakes up.”

We all walked through the door pretty much together, except or Rainbow who darted in there first and returned to her seat beside Fluttershy. “See Fluttershy, I brought our friends, just like I promised…” she cooed to her. This act earned a smile from all of us. This just proved how much Rainbow really does care about us. We all moved closer to Fluttershy and stood around her bedside, watching her closely. Rainbow was right. She did move a few times, but they were subtle. I looked around one last time at the others before I drifted off to sleep, head on Fluttershy’s arm.

I guess we all fell asleep, because when I finally woke up and looked around, everypony was laying down either on the floor, or on their knees with their heads on Shy’s bed. Then I turned to Shy. Her face was tightening and she was making whimpering noises. I looked around at everypony and called out their names. The first one who was awake was Dash, followed by AJ, then Pinkie, and last was Rarity, who let out a whine.

“Twiii-liiiighttt…. You interrupted up my beauty sleeep!” she whined, stomping her hooves on the ground, acting like a little filly that had just gotten grounded. I rolled my eyes and pointed at Fluttershy with my hoof. Her face was still tight and she looked like she was upset or in pain… or both. We all gathered around her, Dash stroking her baby pink poufy mane.
“It’ll be alright, Shy... Calm down… We’re here; your friends are here…” she cooed, as if Fluttershy was her baby sister or something. Fluttershy grunted and her eyelashes fluttered a little bit. Rainbow looked up at all of us, her magenta eyes beginning to fill with tears.

“I...I think she’s…she’s…” Rainbow began, her voice then drifting off, leaving the sentence unfinished. So I finished for her.

“Waking up?” I murmured, a smile creeping onto my face. AJ stood at the foot of her bed, hat in her hooves, playing with the brim nervously, Pinkie stood behind me, bouncing around, and Rarity just stood there across from me, watching Fluttershy carefully.

“Oooh this is gonna be so fun!” whisper-screamed Pinkie, “We’re so gonna throw an awesome party for her and it’s gonna be so awesome!” she continued. I shushed her and looked back at Fluttershy. Her eyes finally fluttered open and she looked around with a yawn. Rainbow Dash stared at her for a few seconds before she flung forward and wrapped her fore-hooves around Shy’s neck. Tears fell down her cheeks as she hugged her. Fluttershy’s eyes opened a little bit, and Dash spoke.

“OH THANK CELESTIA! I’m so glad you’re awake, Flutter—” she was paused by the small shriek of Fluttershy, who looked at Rainbow with extreme fear. It took her a minute before she actually realized it was Rainbow, then she saw Rarity, AJ, Pinkie, and me.

“O…Oh. It’s just you Dashie.. And AJ… oh and Rarity and Pinkie and Twi.. H…how long have you guys been here?” she said in her usual calm, soft voice. Rainbow looked nervously at the four of us and I nodded.

“Well… Y…you see, Fluttershy, about a week ago, the five of us,” she pointed to herself, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, and me, “We realized that you were… uhm… acting pretty strange and so we went to your cottage to see what was wrong. When we got there, Angel came out and wanted us to go inside, so we did and uhm… well…” Rainbow’s voice cracked and she looked at me, her eyes pleading for me to continue for her.

“Well, you see Fluttershy, when we got inside, we saw you in the center of the floor… You were unconscious and you had a large gash in your side and a cut on your head. We realized we had to get you to the hospital. They weren’t sure when you’d wake up, but we stayed here waiting for you. We were all worried, but especially Rainbow. She stayed at your bed side pretty much the whole time” I said, and looked at Rainbow. She turned her head and blushed, and I continued. “And now that you are awake; we have to ask you some things.” I said cautiously. Fluttershy looked at all of us before speaking up.

“S….so I’ve been asleep for about a week? And you guys have been here t…the whole time?" whispered the injured pony. "And Rainbow… You stayed with me?”

The rest of us nodded. Fluttershy began to sob emotionally, tears streaming down her face. “Oh my gosh thank you so much everypony… I… I’m so happy to have you as my friends and…and… Ohhh”

Fluttershy suddenly stopped speaking, her face contorting in pain. She moved a hoof to her wounded side and slowly laid back on the bed. “Ouch...” she whispered quietly.

Rainbow looked at her with worry. “Are you ok, Fluttershy?” she asked, clearly worried for Fluttershy’s well-being.

“Y…yeah I think so, it’s just... it hurts to cry.” She said softly, looking down. This time it was Pinkie who spoke up.

“It’s alright, Flutters! You’ll be better in no time! And I’m gonna throw you a super duper awesome party! It’s gonna be so fun!” she said, jumping up and down. Fluttershy’s eyes grew at the sudden increase of volume, but then she calmed once she remembered that that was just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. She giggled a little bit, and then looked at me.

“Oh, and Twilight, you said you wanted to ask me a question?” she said in a hushed tone, like usual. I looked at Fluttershy, then to all of our friends. I took a deep breath in and looked at Fluttershy carefully.

“Well… you see, Fluttershy, this whole time I’ve been wondering… Who did this to you? Why did they do this to you? It’s barbaric... insane...inpony!! It’s not right! You are one of the sweetest, kindest ponies in Ponyville—hay, maybe even Equestria, so who would do this to you? And even so, how did they know where you lived?” I said, trying not to scream. I had just poured my mind out to Fluttershy – I felt badly, seeing as she was probably going through enough already, having just woken up after a week of sleeping, not aware of her surroundings. But I think the thing that shocked me most was the next thing that Fluttershy said.

“I can’t… I can’t tell you.” She whispered.

“What… Why?” I murmured

“I just… I can’t tell anypony. I won’t tell anypony!” she said, hushed.

“But Fluttershy…Can you not remember or something?” I asked her

“No… it’s not that it’s just that…” she said quietly.

“It’s just that what? What happened, Fluttershy?! You can tell us anything! We’re your friends!” Rainbow said her voice full of worry.

“I can’t tell you because….” Fluttershy murmured

“Because…?” The rest of us cried out

“Well I can’t tell you because if I do then… then…” she let out a cry.

“They’ll find me again! And this time they'll make sure they really do kill me!!” she cried out, fat tears falling down her cheeks.