Apples and Cinnamon

The sound of a rooster cawing wakes up Cinno as he finds himself back in the guest bedroom at Sweet Apple acres. He slowly sits himself up and removes the covers his entire bottom half is covered in blood soaked bandages as well as his right shoulder. A faint knock at the door alarms Cinno. "En...enter." The door slowly opens up to Applejack with a tray of fresh baked apple goods. Behind her comes Twilight with some fresh bandages and her assistant Spike with various medicines. " Awe well this is a good way to start one's day if ya ask me. Hehehe"

"Well ya deserve it after what ya did to save my litta sister and her friends." replies Applejack as she starts to feed Cinno piping hot apple fritters. Twilight Sparkle immediately starts to change Cinno's bandages. What he saw was horrifying his left hindleg was a sickly blue green and in rough cut stitches whoever did it clearly doesn't know how to sow a leg back together. He didn't get to look for long though as Spike started to clean the wounds with rubbing alcohol forcing him to close his eyes from the pain.

"Sorry but we have to keep it clean before the infection takes claim of the leg. At least until we can get nurse Redheart out here to redue the stitches." says Spike as he notices Cinno wince.

"What are you talking about Spike? They look good to me." answers Twilight as she applies the fresh bandages.

"Ah Twi I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the only thing uglier then your stitch job is a female diamond dog."

"What?! Its not that bad is it?"

"Yes yes it is but don't worry about it. It is fine for an emergency patch job I'll be just fine until we can get more practiced hooves." answers Cinno.

"I still don't know why we didn't have Rarity do the stitching in the first place. After all there is no pony that knows their way around a thread and needle then that fastionistia." asks Applejack as she stuffs another apple fritter into Cinno's mouth.

"Don't you remember Aj? Rarity fainted the moment she saw the state of his legs; there is no way she could of sowed him back up. Not to mention I was able to reconnect the muscle to the bone and pushed the bone back into it's proper place in the other leg. I was in too much of a frenzied state to do a proper stitch job on his leg." retorts Twilight Sparkle as finishes up tieing up the bandages with a delicate bow.

"So you not only had to carry me back but also Rarity? What about the girls?" asks Cinno as he fully sits up and reties the bandages.

"They are just fine a bit rattled but fine. It seems that Sugarcane convinced them to go and look for a miracle cure flower in the Everfree that is where they ran into the rockidile nest." answers Twilight Sparkle ignoring the death stare from Applejack.

Cinno lets out a long sigh" So my niece endangered the lives of your sister and her friends." Cinno gets out of bed and bows deeply to the mares his forehead resting on the ground. " Please forgive her?" This course of action stuns the mares as he lays there motionless at their hooves.

"Of course we forgive her. From what Applebloom and the others told us she did to save you from your injuries." answers Twilight. Hearing this Cinno starts to cry profusely his body shakes with tremors. This happened for over five minutes the mare leave him be. Spike however places a claw on Cinno and gives him a small smile before he to leaves.

"That foolish little filly." Cinno finally raises from his position he grits his teeth as his legs spasm. "Well I guess I have to take care of you first huh." Cinno staggers his way through the halls every pony was busy with chores so he was able to move around without causing a fuss. He eventually finds a needle and thread and the other essentials that he needed and heads back to the guest room. He places the needle in a bowl of rubbing alcohol as he goes about boiling some water. He then removes the already bloody bandages and takes a pair of scissors to cut and remove the crude stitching.With the now open gash on his once good leg Cinno takes a swig of moonshine and sprays it into the wound to sterilize it. It takes all of his will power not to scream from the pain. Pressing the now open flesh together he starts to pierce his tender flesh with the sterilized needle and thread. A small cry escapes his mouth as his starts to stitch up his leg. When he finishes the last stitch he ties and cuts the thread a little bit longer then it is supposed to be so that it could be redone by a doctor when they eventually arrived. Weakly he then starts to apply a salve he had stored in his napsack just in the unlikely case something happened. The warm tingly sensation embraces his leg immediately helping him calm down. All that was left was to apply the bandages once they were dried from being boiled. A long content sigh leaves him as he looks at his handy work. " Well that is much better. Princess Twilight might be good with magic but she should leave the medical practices to the professionals." The stitching looked a lot better; not quite as good as a doctor's ability but still good enough to work. With his legs now properly tended to he could easily stand. So he gets to the task of cleaning up the room making sure that not so much as a spec of dust was left. The moment he finishes there comes a knock on the door. "Come in."

It was Applejack with more hot food." I brought ya dinner."

"Thank ya kindly Aj. Say why don't ya join me? This is a lot of food fur one stallion to eat by his lonesome. Plus the company would be nice."

A blush graces Aj's cheeks " I um don't see why not." Aj sits next to Cinno on the bed resting the food on the desk. They eat the food in relative silence sneaking glances at eachother between bites. Applebloom and the cutie mark crusaders walk into the open doorframe a big sparkling thank you card in hoof.

"Mister Cinno we would just like to say thank you for saving us from that rockidile last night." They say in unison as they present the blinding bright card

"Awe you're most welcome cutie mark crusaders. I am just sorry that my niece put you in that situation in the first place. Do you know where Sugarcane is? I need to talk to her."

The three fillies look at each other " Well um she's been sulking in our clubhouse since this morning. We've been trying all day to get her to come to see ya but yeah." answers Applebloom.

"I see. Well thanks for the card it is real nice, but leave Sugarcane to me." Cinno says as he gets off of the bed.

"Hey! You need your rest mister stay in bed. I'll go and talk some sense into her." demands Applejack. Cinno stares at Applejack but relents and sits back down