you'll be in my heart

by Cushionfighter4

Rating: teen
Tags: Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sad, Other, Romance, Drama, Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo, Flash Sentry, Tragedy
Length: 6942

Scootaloo has turned 13. But she would like to know who she realy is, after Scootaloo's mother tells her something which will change her life forever.

Scootaloo turn 13, the age that you discover who you are going to be. But before opening her presents, her mother has to tell her something, something that will change her life forever. Frustrated, angry, sad and confused Scootaloo runs to the park and sits in front of the pond, where a surten rainbow coloured mained mare came to comfurt her and told her everything.

cover by http://studentlaure.deviantart.com/

Published 2016-04-01 12:50:01 UTC
Last updated 2016-09-14 13:36:57 UTC

Who am I?

Scootaloo woke up one beautiful summer morning with a big smile on her face. Because today is her thirteenth birthday. She sat up in her bed and flung off the covers. She hopped out of bed and skipped happily downstairs. Her mother, a Pegasus with a brown coat and a darker brown mane, was sitting in the living room on the sofa. She had laid five presents on the floor. Scootaloo was so excited until she looked at her mother’s face. She seemed sad but was trying to be happy for Scootaloo. She opened her mouth to say something, but she didn’t know how. So she stopped. Then Scootaloo asked “Mom, what’s wrong?”

Her mother sighed and took a deep breath “Scootaloo, there is something I should have told you a long time ago. I’ve never had the courage.”

Then slowly Scootaloo’s ears started drooping down. Scootaloo looked at her mother confused and nervous and said “Mom, your scaring me…”

Then her mom all of a sudden perked up and said plainly "Never mind! I was just kidding, now let’s eat cake!”

Scootaloo was surprised and strait afterwards almost forgot the dreary feeling and ran to the kitchen. Scootaloo’s mom was feeling guilty, she knew she had to tell her but she didn’t have the courage. She couldn’t bear to see this young mare be sad but she had to. She walked over to scootaloo whom was getting the cake out pf the cooler. Scootaloo turned around with a smile on her face, this made her feel even more guilty. She took a big breath.

“Scootaloo,”

Scootaloo looked at her mom again and saw her pained expression.

“Mom! What is wrong? Is it the thing that you wanted to tell me earlier?”

“Scootaloo, you-you’re a-a-adop-ted” She said with a wobbling voice and a tier rolling down her face.

Scootaloo had just taken the cake and dropped it, her pupils went small. She stood there in shock for a minute. Then perked up “Mom, it’s funny that you tried to prank me! That was a good one, he he! You should become an actress,”

Scootaloo’s mom was shocked at Scootaloo’s reaction, is she in denial?

“Hey mom! You should help me pick up this cake that I dropped!” Scootaloo said jokingly and laughed.

“Scootaloo! What I just said isn’t a joke!”

“Mom you have gone far enough! Now you’re overplaying it!” She said angrily.

“Scootaloo! Listen!” Scootaloo’s mom shouted.

“STOP! Mom, this joke has gone too far!” She said frustrated.

Scootaloo’s mom got very frustrated and angry. She grabbed Scootaloo. “Do I look like I’m joking!”

“No! you seem like you are going too far with a bad joke!” Scootaloo took a deep breath but it was not enough to calm her and she slapped Scootaloo.

“You are adopted! Stop being in denial!” And she started crying.

“You should have let me believe it was a joke,”

She started crying. She had so many emotions crossing through her. Anger, frustration, distrust, sadness, curiosity and denial. She didn’t want to stay in this house, with this person she had called “Mom”

“what she going to say next this is not her birthday or something? Or rainbow Dash is… Never mind, I just need to get out of here!”

She turned to the door and ran to it. Scootaloo’s mom sank through her knees. “What have I done?”

Then Rainbow Dash walked into the house.

Meanwhile Scootaloo ran as fast as her little legs could take her. She ran past Apple Bloom whom said “Happy Birthday” but then saw that Scootaloo was crying. So she ran after her.

“Leave me alone!” Scootaloo yelled as she ran full speed ahead. Apple Bloom couldn’t keep up and stopped. She went to get Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo galloped through the crowd, who all were confused.

She galloped to a pond in the park and sat at the bank, looking down at her reflection while one tier dropped into the pond. Her reflection was first clear and then turned into a mixed up image. Her tiers were making small ripples in the water. Rainbow Dash walked past Scootaloo and then saw her sitting at the pond. Rainbow Dash then slowly walked to Scootaloo and sat next to her, she tried to put her wing around her but she shook it off.

“Leave me alone! You don’t know what is wrong with me! She didn’t tell me! Sigh* she didn’t tell me…” Scootaloo looked even more sombre at the water.

Then Rainbow said softly “Squirt, I knew her, your mother, your biological mother.”

Scootaloo turned her head with her ears up “You knew my mom?”

“Yes, I did” Then Rainbows ears went down and a tier rolled down her face. Scootaloo could see in her eyes what she meant. Then Scootaloo came closer to her and they cuddled each other, with Scootaloo’s head under Rainbow Dashes. They hugged for a few minutes and then Scootaloo broke hug.

She sniffled and wiped her tiers away and asked “who was she? How did she look like? Who was my father?”

“Squirt, It’s easier if I tell you everything, instead of question by question.” Rainbow said with a faint grin on her face. She slid Scootaloo closer to her with her wing and kept it around her. “Her name was Firefly, we were very close friends. She had the exact same mane style as me, except it was completely blue, it was a plain blue. Her coat was pink, almost flashy pink, her eyes were just a plain purple.” Rainbow Dash smiled while looking at the ground, then she looked at Scootaloo “I’m not going to tell her life story, but the whole year before you were born, I’ll you tell that.”

Scootaloo looked at Dash and then nodded. “At the first day of high school, i was with Gilda. Laughing at others, thinking we were cool, while the senior years rolled their eyes sarcastically. We were the Freshman, we walked about the school grounds and chatted until the bell went. All the other years had to go to class except us. We, the 9TH grade had to stand outside and wait.

Then a teacher with a bundle of paper came to the middle of the grounds, right in front of the horde of pupils. She was a completely white Pegasus, in my opinion she looked a bit creepy.

Then she screamed loudly in a deep voice “My name is Miss Flake. When I say your name, you’ll also her the classroom you have to go to. So you say “Yes, miss” and then go to the classroom I tell you to. Got it?”

Then everyone said in a depressing and bored way “Yes Miss Flake.”

“Good. Miss Hooves.”

“Yes Miss Flake”

“Class E106”

A grey Pegasus then started walking to the door, while doing so she tripped and everyone was laughing except the nerds and the shy ponies, whom felt sorry for her. She started blushing and got back up and walked to the door, then walked into the building with her head down.

“Gilda the griffon.”

“Yes Miss Flake” she answered in a sarcastic tone.

“The same as Miss Hooves.”

Then Gilda said to me “Hope you’re not stuck with the wall-eyed freak.”

I laughed “Good luck” then we high-fived each other.

“Miss shy”

“Y-Y-yes Miss Flake” Fluttershy whispered and sunk in between the crowd.

“Are you there?”

“Yes Miss Flake” She said two decibels louder

“Stick your hand up please.” Then a little yellow hoof stood out of the crowd. “Miss Shy, newt time speak up!”

“Okay Miss Flake”

“Same as the others”

When she walked through, you could hear everyone softly giggling. She was walking near to the ground with her ears down, trying not to be seen.

“Miss Fly”

“Yes Miss Flake” said Firefly"

Then Scootaloo interupted “Wait, so my family name is Loo?”

“No, your name would be “Miss Scootaloo”” said Rainbow Dash in a posh accent. “Continued, uuum, aah yes,

“Miss Fly, same as the others E106”

“Thanks Miss Flake.” Then She flew to the doors, she was really fast. She left a pink and blue trail after her, it was so awesome!

“Miss D-CR-ash?!”

Then a stupid stallion said “Haha! Rainbow Crash!”

Then I said annoyed “It’s Dash, Miss Flake.”

“Sorry Miss Dash, same as the others.”

Then I turned around and headed for the doors. At the back of the crowd was the stupid stallion, I recognised him. He was the idiot whom got me my cutiemark!

“Even the teachers think you are Crashing! Haha!”

I ignored him and walked further with an angry face, I’ll get him one day! More names where getting called while I walked through the door. It led to a long hallway with big windows on the left side and 7 doors on the right. The first door was E101, the principal’s office. In the next few years I’m going to spend a lot of time there. The rest were all classrooms, E102 E103, ext., until I got to E106.

Derpy and Firefly were already talking to each other and Gilda was laughing at Fluttershy. She was almost crying. Until Firefly intervened.

“What do you think you’re doing!?”

“Telling this dweeb how useless she is.”

“Why? Because you need to feel better about yourself? By getting power in the sadness in others? Is that really how you want Fluttershy remembering her high school years?”

Gilda broke into a sweat, while firefly looked at her angrily. Gilda looked around the room to find a way out of it.

“Look! My friend Rainbow Dash is here!” She did an arm movement for me to come in.

I walked in nervously and said hi.

Firefly raised her eyebrow and looked up and down at me, then she just said “hm” and helped Fluttershy up and walked back to Derpy.

Author's Note

:yay: i hope you like it! if you want to co-wright this story, pm me. :pinkiehappy:
If there are any gramatical mistakes, tell me in the comments. :twilightsmile:
Thankyou for reading :twilightsheepish:
Edit: i added a few detailes!

new school, new rules

Author's Note

:rainbowhuh::fluttercry: There is one not very polite word in this chapter, it will get worse. Sorry :raritydespair:

If you have any advise, pm me. If you want to edit unedited chapters, pm me. if their are any plot senarios you would find interesting in this story, pm me. if you want your oc to maybe come in this story, pm me. any critics, pm me. any spelling mistakes, pm me? :trollestia: no comment. have a comment, comment :facehoof:

this story is going to be very long. muhahahahaha! and i know rainbow dash is not acting like rainbow dash (so complicated) :rainbowhuh: so bear with ,bear with.... :raritywink:

new school, new rules

Then I turned around to Gilda. “What was that all about?”

“I was just saying stuff to the dweeb, then that brat came and tried to seem cool or somethin’”

I raised my eyebrow and glared at her annoyed. “That “Dweeb” you where insulting just there, was my friend, NO, IS my friend!”

“If you are such good friends which her, why don’t you join her. Dweeb number Two!” Gilda said angrily

“Good idea! Bye” I said in an annoyed tone and waved to her, then I turned around and started walking to Fluttershy.

“Fine then! I’ll get my own friends.”

“You sound like a kindergartener, so please stop talking to me.” I said.

I walked through the classroom until I got to fluttershy. Her ears where down and her eyes where a bit puffy and red. Then she saw me and started sinking through her knees and looking at me scared. I could tell that she thought I was going to beat her up. So I breathed in and tried to say in my gentlest voice “Sorry, about Gilda. She can be a real filly about stuff.” When I said that my voice was all crocky.

“I-I-It’s alright” fluttershy said surprised and relieved.

Then Firefly walked up to me and said “Are you just pretending to be fluttershy’s friend? So she will intrust you with one of her secrets and then tell everyone and let her be the laughing stock for the whole school?”

then she pushed me backwards against the wall

“Of course not!”

“That’s what you said to Derpy, she trusted you! and you made her laughing stock!"

Then my eye’s got small and a light sweet broke out, i was ashamed of myself. She was looking at me furiously and started putting her arm tighter against my throat. All the others in the class started gathering around and Gilda started giggling. Then miss Flake and a brown Pegasus stallion walked in. and saw Firefly pinning me against the wall. She first lightly spat in my face then let me go and I stumbled to the ground. I coughed a bit and rubbed my throat. While the stallion brought Firefly out of the classroom, he looked very angry. Miss Flake came over to me to check if I was alright.

“I’m fine, I deserved it.” I said.”

Then Scootaloo interrupted Rainbow Dash.

“Rainbow Dash, What did you do to Derpy?” Scootaloo asked.

Rainbow Dash sighed “Well, you know Doctor Whooves?”

“Yes, the stalion with that big blue thing!”

“Yes, the stallion with the blue thing. We were in middle-school. I got close to Derpy to find out one of her secrets and was planning to hang posters of it everywhere. So one day she invited me to her house and we did truth or dare. Of course I did dare the whole time and Derpy did half and half. My plan was to ask her who she had a crush on.

So I asked her “So Derpy who do you have a crush on?”

She answered me thinking that I wouldn’t tell anyone.

“Doctor Whooves.” and then she blushed nervously.

I was surprised and laughed. Like everyone does. She was okay with that, but what I did on the next day, if I where her I would have killed myself.

So I made posters saying Derpy had a crush on the doctor, at that time he was one of the teachers at the school, he gave chemistry, physics and was studying dark matter. I made about 30 posters and hung them around the whole academy. Derpy was so shocked that she ran out of school. Everyone was laughing at her while she ran down the corridor to the exit, until she bumped into the doctor.

She was lying at the doctor legs, since she had fallen down. Then she started blushing like crazy and cried. She ran out of the school building, while everyone shouted “Teachers slut ha-ha!”

He asked what was happening and everyone showed him the posters. He was flustered at first when he saw the posters but then he got mad at everyone for laughing. After that incident she never returned to that school. And of course I was bragging about it in my clique. And Firefly was in that group. Everyone laughed about it except Firefly, she left the group after that and went to Derpy her house every day… I don’t even know if she forgave me.” Then Rainbow Dash thought to herself.

“Rainbow Dash, how old are Derpy and The Doctor actually?”

“Derpy is now 20 and the Doctor is 28, I think,”

“How old where they when you did that?”

“Derpy was 14 and The Doctor was 22,”

“What you did was worse than what Diamond Tiara and silver spoon did to the CMC. You were a horrible person”

“I know now; I regret doing it still.”

Rainbow looked at her watch that she had on and then said “It’s 12 o’clock, you should be getting back to your mom!”

“She isn’t my mom.” Scootaloo said angrily

“Well not technically or biologically, but she has taken care of you like a mother, since you were 8 days old.”

“But still…and why didn’t my dad take care of me?” she asked in an annoyed tone

“Because he was and still is a cowardly good for nothing”

“Who was he?”

“That I will tell you in the story.”

“Seriously!”

“Yep, you’ll have to suffer.”

“Why don’t you continue the story then?”

“Because it’s long and you need to go back to your mother.”

“I would like to hear the rest of it.”

“Okay squirt, I’ll come every day after your school for an hour and tell you a part of the story.” Rainbow Dash said patiently.

“Yessssss!”

“Okay Scoots, I’ll walk you home and tell YOUR mother our deal, okay?”

“Yup! Can I go on your back?” Scootaloo begged

“Fine! It’s only because it’s your birthday and I’m awesome that I’m allowing it.”

With that said Scootaloo jumped onto Rainbow Dashes back. Rainbow Dash then spread her wings to get ready to fly “Hold on scoots!”

Rainbow Slowly but full of power raised her wings and then pushed really hard on her wings. When she pushed down a half Rainboom appeared. When they got high enough Rainbow Dash started flying forwards to scootaloo her house.

Then Rainbow dash popped a random question “So what is Whooftons Third law?”

“Ugh! Why are you asking me this?”

“I want to see if you have studied”

“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Scootaloo said in a baby voice.

“Well done! So your moms Sparta studying course works! Look, we are almost there.”

Rainbow Dash slowly started descending. When they got there, Scootaloos mom ran outside and gave her a big hug. Her eyes where red and swollen. She then stood in front of Scootaloo and smiled.

Then she said in a whimpering voice “Thank you Rainbow Dash.”

“No problem, ah and also, from now on I’m coming an hour every day after school to tell Firefly’s high-school life and also mine, hehe. So she knows where she came from.”

“That’s fine Rainbow Dash, thank you again and see you tomorrow.”

“Bye, see ya squirt!”

“See you Dash.”

Then Scootaloo closesd the door.

“Bye” Rainbow Dash said softly, she started thinking of her high-school life and smiled. “I miss you fly.” and a small tier rolled slowly down her face.

cinnamon rolls

The next morning Scootaloo woke up almost ready for a meeting of the cmc, but she still had to crawl out of bed. Because She was still a bit tired, so she rubbed her eyes and yawned.

Then she thought to herself “five more days until school starts again, I wonder if Dash is also coming today? Because she said after every school day. Ugh* I’ll just have to wait and see,”

Then she slowly crawled out of her bed. And landed on the floor with a bash. Then Scootaloo’s mother said mockingly “I know you are a teenager officially, but wasn’t that a little over the top?”

“Ha-ha, very funny mom!” shouted Scootaloo sarcastically.

Then Scootaloo got off the floor and went downstairs sluggishly. She went slowly to the kitchen, but she was keeping an eye on the time because she was meeting the cmc in half an hour. When she got to the kitchen her mom was washing the dishes. She started coughing and she put on a pained face.

Scootaloo asked concerned “Are you okay, mom?”

She answered with a lightly hoarse voice “Yes I’m fine, I just have a cold, that’s all *cough*…So where you meeting up with your friends today?”

“Umm, the clubhouse normally,” she said while thinking. “And we are meeting up with Fluttershy… Hey, mom! Do you think it would be okay to ask Fluttershy about my biological mother?”

“I don’t know, but make sure she isn’t doing anything when you are asking her and be polite about it!”

“Of course I will be!”

“So sweetie, what are you having for breakfast? Bear in mind that you only have twenty minutes,”

“no twenty-five,”

“It take five minutes to get there,”

“…. You’re right, Hay sandwich will be fine,” she said defeated

Scootaloo then walked to the table and sat down waiting for the sandwich, which her mum was preparing.

When she was finished making it, she came over to the table slowly with the hay sandwich on one wing and a cup of coffee on the other, her wings where shaking. Normally her mom was strong enough to carry it. She brought them to the table and sat down, then she pasted the sandwich to Scootaloo.

Scootaloo then looked at her mum’s face, she looked tired. She kind of felt guilty of leaving her alone. But her mum said she was okay, so she’s okay, right?

Scootaloo had finally finished her sandwich. It was twenty-five past! So Scootaloo gave her mum a kiss on the cheek and ran outside to her scooter and popped her helmet on.

She then hopped on her scooter and rode as fast as she could to the club-house. When she got there Apple Bloom and Sweetybell were waiting for her.

“Scootaloo! Why were you so upset yesterday? I was gonna wish you a happy b’day!?” Apple Bloom asked interrogatively.

Scootaloo sighed and answered calmly “Yesterday, I got told I was adopted,”

“Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!” Sweetybell and Apple Bloom exclaimed at the same time open mouthed.

“You understand now why I was upset yesterday?”

“I’m so sorry Scootaloo, may I ask, do you know who your biological mother is?” Apple Bloom asked surprised and on a low tone.

“No need to be sorry, my mother was called Firefly,” Scootaloo answered.

“Wait! Wasn’t firefly one of the elite students of the wonder blot academy? She died young for reason not open to the public or

something,” Sweetybell asked.

“I have no idea, but how would you know that?” Scootaloo asked confused.

Sweetybell answered proudly “When my sister designed prom dress design for the wonder bolt academy, she searched for inspiration. I helped her and we found that article! That means your mother was a legend!”

“That’s cool I guess,” she said sombre.

Apple Bloom said loudly “Okay, let’s change this mood shall we! First to the farm for some freshly baked cinnamon rolls and then to Flutter’s house!”

“Okay, I guess,” Scootaloo said again.

Then Apple Bloom exclaimed “And stop guessing!”

“Fine, fine… I guess, haha!” Scootaloo said mockingly and then ran away from Apple bloom whom was chasing her. While Sweetybell started walking to the farm.

The chasing game continued until they got to the farm.

When they got to the farm Apple Bloom and Scootaloo were out of breath, but were giggling hysterically. They walked inside to the oven, where the cinnamon rolls were being kept warm. Sweetybell and Scootaloo went and sat at the table. While Apple Bloom took her oven glove and carefully took four cinnamon rolls out.

Then Scootaloo asked “Why are there four cinnamon rolls?’

“Because someone surprising is coming over since she couldn’t say anything to you yesterday,” Apple Bloom said hintingly.

Then all of a sudden Pinkie popped out of nowhere with a big grimace on her happy face.

“Happy on-day-late-thirteenth-birthday *happy smile squeak*I heard your mom told you about your parental situation,” she said.

“Pinkie, you knew?” Scootaloo asked surprised.

“All of the elements of harmony know, especially RD and Flutter’s. They were really close friends of Firefly, but you already knew. But don’t ask Fluttershy anything about Firefly. She gets really, I mean really upset about it :fluttercry:. I think you will know why when RD tells you the story.” Pinkie said quickly and she took a cinnamon roll and stuffed it in her mouth whole.

The CMC’s eyes were big and staring at Pinkie, while she stuffed the cinnamon roll down her throat. A chill of disgust went down their spine, but they couldn’t stop watching.

When Pinkie had swallowed it, a sigh of relief went through the room. It was over, but now they had no appetite for the rolls.

Then Scootaloo asked “Can I keep two of the rolls for my mom, she has a cold and I heard from Twilight that it has some anti-Infl-fli-amm-i-no-atory (Anti-Inflammatory) properties or something, ‘cause she’s hoarse, so it will help with the swelling,”

“Of course you can, because we lost are appetite ‘cause of Pinkie,” Apple Bloom while looking annoyed at Pinkie Pie.

“Wha-a-a-at? I was just enjoying the roll,” Pinkie said on a high tone

“Of course Pinkie,” Sweetybell said annoyed and the rolled her eyes.

“Very Lady like, Rarity JR” Pinkie said mockingly.

Sweetybell clenched her teeth and put on an angry face “What did you call me, stoner?”

“oooooooh, snap,” Scootaloo and Apple Bloom said in the background.

“It doesn’t mean you are a teenager, that you can go and act like a teenaged brat,”

“Who started with the insults?”

“Mine was a playful joke, yours was too far,”

“Oh really?”

Apple Bloom and Scootaloo started chanting “B-fight, b-fight, b-fight,”

Then Pinkie said “Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, please leave and go to Fluttershy’s house, Rarity Jr and I are going to settle this like woman,”

The girls then walked out of the farm and headed to Fluttershy’s.

“Pinkie was really out of character, but she still was hilarious! Haha!” Scootaloo spouted out.

“I wonder how they are settlin’ things?” Apple Bloom said concerned.

Once they were half way up the hill they saw Rainbow Dash flying low to the ground.

She was flying to them. Scootaloo and Apple Bloom stopped and waved. Then they looked closely and saw Rainbow Dash had a very worried expression.

Rainbow landed in front of them and cute strait to the case.

“I found your mother on the floor unconscious. She’s now in the hospital,”

Scootaloo pupils shrank “What?!”

Author's Note

what is wrong with Scootaloo's mum? you'll have to wait and find out in the next chapter :trollestia:
If you want to co-write the story or give plot suggestions, please pm me!
i update the first chapter, i made it more dramatical. ~~And for plot convenience all of the mane six know about the parental situation of Scootaloo.~~ :facehoof:

the wind blows in the wrong direction

Scootaloo didn’t know what was happening, she was just following Rainbow Dash. The beautiful and colourful landscapes she admired were all just plain and bland. No beauty, nor colour.

Apple Bloom went back to the farm. She went in a slow pace with her ears drooped down to tell Pinkie Pie and Sweetie Bell what had happened.

When Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash went inside the hospital, a nurse was already waiting for them.

“Miss Rainbow Dash, Miss Scootaloo, follow me please,” The nurse said monotone.

She started walking to the stairs, Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash followed her. When they got there, the nurse opened the door. The door slowly creaked open. Scootaloo slowly walked in and Rainbow Dash followed her. Scootaloo first walked past the small corridor with a toilet next to it and then looked around the corner where her mother was.

There was only one drip connected to her. She looked extremely tired, she had big black bags under her eyes and her hair was in a mess. When she saw her, she was relieved.

But all the worry and anxiety that was building up, overflew. Scootaloo started crying, she ran straight to her mother and cuddled her tightly.

Scootaloo said “I thought something horrible had happened, *sniffle* I thought I would lose you, Mom,” while trying to sniffle her tears away.

Scootaloo’s mother put a touched smile on her face, then she wiped Scootaloo’s tears away and patted her on the head “Scootaloo, look I’m fine, the doctor just said I overexerted myself, because work and the situation yesterday gave me a bundle of stress and anxiety. That’s all sweetie, so no need to worry!” she smiled again. “I’m aloud to leave the hospital tomorrow, they are just going to check me for one night! Okay sweetie?” and then she giggled.

Scootaloo then wiped the rest of her tears away with her hoof and sniffled a few times, then she nodded her head. Scootaloo then cuddled her mother again.

While Scootaloo was hugging, she felt something warm drop onto her head and then heard her mom sniffling. She looked up and saw her mom crying, she was trying to cover her face and stop, but she couldn’t. Scootaloo got confused, wasn’t her mother okay 10 seconds ago?

Then she heard her mom saying faintly “Scootaloo, could you please leave the room and wait outside and let Rainbow Dash and I have a private conversation?”

Scootaloo nodded and walked outside and closed the door. She sat herself down at the door watching the nurses and doctors walking and rushing past. Staring into space and trying to forget everything calmed Scootaloo down. Until one of the nurses came over, she was a white unicorn with a pink mane and purple eye’s. She tried to bring Scootaloo’s consciousness on earth. The nurse noticed that a tear was running down her already red cheek. She clapped with her two hooves next to Scootaloo’s left ear. She finally snapped out of it. Then the nurse asked concerned “Are you okay sweetie?”

Scootaloo shook her head to wake up a bit and quickly wiped the single tear off of her face and answered “Yeah, my mom and Rainbow Dash are having a conversation that I’m not allowed to hear, so I need to wait here,” and then her ears drooped down.

“Well, I’ll bring a chair over and sit with you, okay? Until I get paged, okay?” she said with a reassuring smile and gently patted Scootaloo on the back.

Then she went to the waiting room and took two chairs with her magic and placed them by the door. Then she sat down and Scootaloo came and sat next to her.

“So sweetie, what is your name?”

“umm, my name is Scootaloo,” She said shyly “And yours?”

The nurse replied cheerfully “My name is nurse Pink Calendula, just call me Pink or Calendula!”

“So are you a burn specialist?” Scootaloo asked, then her mane formed into the shape of Twilight's Mane. “‘cause, whether you prefer your calendulas orange, yellow or somewhere in between, all are easy to grow in cool weather and bloom for weeks or months if you remove seed heads before they mature. Calendulas make great cut flowers, but their greatest use may be as topical oils or creams for burned or injured skin,” Scootaloo blurted out and then took a deep breath.

Calendula giggled cheerfully “Yes, you are correct. But between my friends I’m more known for being the ‘heartburn’ specialist. That’s why my cutiemark is a flame with two calendulas diagonally across it. What does your cutiemark represent Scootaloo?” she asked while looking at her cutiemark.

Scootaloo’s eyes became big from excitement “Well, two my friends and I formed a group together to look for our cutiemarks, we were called the ‘Cutiemark Crusaders’! After 5 years of searching, we got our cutiemarks! We help other fillies get their cutiemark!” she said proudly.

Then Calendulas horn started flashing. It was a pink flash, I flashed on and off. Calendula then looked at her horn and then tapped it. “Oh, sorry Scootaloo! I’ll have to leave you, I just got paged,” she said.

“It’s okay! It’s your job right? Thank you for sitting with me,” Scootaloo said thankfully.

Calendula smiled and waved goodbye “My pleasure and see you next time!” Then she walked down the hall through the big doors to go to another ward.

Scootaloo breathed in slowly. She felt happier and more relaxed.

Then Rainbow Dash came outside with red lines under her eyes and her cheeks looked wet and ruffled. Her ears were drooped down. She sat on the chair next to Scootaloo. “Hey Scoots,” She said in a trembling voice “Your mom would like to talk to you,”

Scootaloo started getting nervous, Rainbow Dash looked like she had cried. She got up and walked slowly through the door and the hall. She stopped and breathed in, she repeated in her head ‘Mommy is fine, mommy is fine, mommy IS fine!’

She started walking to the bed, in a slow and steady pace, until she got to the bed. She breathed in again “Mom, Rainbow Dash said you wanted to talk to me?” she said nervously.

Scootaloo’s mum patted next to her “Scootaloo could you sit up here please,” her voice started to wobble.

Scootaloo climbed on to the bed and sat next to her mum.

Scootaloo’s mum started to talk “Scootaloo, what I said earlier…” She paused, her voice was trembling more and more, like she was about to cry. “Was a lie, I have Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, I might not be able to take care of you anymore… If I can’t then Rainbow Dash will” She closed her eyes and started to cry, and muttered and her crying. “take care of you…”

Scootaloo was shocked, ‘What? No, this isn’t true’ were the thoughts that were running through her head. Her head was spinning, she just wanted to go somewhere where no one else was. She remembered that there was a bathroom in the hall, so she jumped off of the bed and ran to the toilet shut the door and sat on the toilet.

She started crying. ‘it’s all my fault, if yesterday I would of reacted differently and not had pushed her and not have ran away, then she would have been okay!’ she thought to herself.

Then she heard someone knocking on the door. “Scoots open the door please,” it was Rainbow Dash!

“No, Dash, if you take care of me then you’ll get sick too, I’m cursed… It’s all my fault,”

Author's Note

author's ramble: Sorry that it took so long! if it isn't emotional enough, tell me. My writing is quite bland . any questions? ask me!

the one candle in the dark

Rainbow dash put her hoof and her forehead against the door. She didn’t know what Scootaloo felt, but tried to understand “Scootaloo, how can you say that about yourself?” she said worried.

“My biological mom died, because I was born, my real mom might die from stress which I caused. Because it must have taken a lot of energy to tell me that I’m adopted. And my reaction caused her to hit me. So I guess that is the reason why I can say that about myself! ...,” Scootaloo shouted, then she stopped and realised and more tears ran down her face. Then she muttered “Then something bad will happen to you too…,”

Rainbow Dash heard sniffling from out the outside of the bathroom. Then Rainbow sat with her back against the door and rested her head against the door. Scootaloo was giving herself the blame for everything, Rainbow Dash understood how she felt. Because when Firefly died, her reaction was almost the same, because she was the one who was at the hospital by her side every second she could, she supported her all the way… But it wasn’t enough, the feeling that she was at fault, that she could have done more, if things were different… that everything around you is crumbling, that it’s just easier to blame yourself for everything that goes wrong… that was the feeling that Rainbow Dash had when Firefly died. But Rainbow also put the blame on someone else, which was even worse. ‘The best thing to do now is to reassure that it’s not her fault and to support her,’ Rainbow Dash thought.

“Hey squirt, if I take you home and tell you more about your mother and… your father, would that be okay?” Rainbow Dash said convincingly “I promise if I take care of you, I won’t get sick, okay?” she said reassuringly.

Scootaloo then wiped the tears off of her face, then she walked to the door and held the doorknob. She breathed in and sniffled again.

“You promise right?” So said with a trembling voice.

Rainbow breathed in “I promise… Scootaloo,”

Scootaloo then unlocked the door.

When Scootaloo opened the door Rainbow Dash was surprised at the state that Scootaloo was in. She had big red bags under her eye’s and her cheeks were still wet and red. Rainbow Dash then pulled Scootaloo towards her with her wing and gave her a cuddle. Scootaloo was at first surprised but then cuddled back with her two forelegs. Rainbow then pulled Scootaloo a bit back and wiped her damp cheeks and smile kindly.

She then said in a soft voice “Now let’s go and say goodbye to your mother and let her rest. We will visit her tomorrow, okay squirt?” and then put a small smile on.

Scootaloo then nodded her head. She felt relieved and breathed in and answered “Okay, but am I staying at your house or at my house?”

Rainbow Dash was silent with an open mouth that wanted to say something but didn’t know what. “Ummm, that you need to ask your mother, hehe,”

Scootaloo then laughed at Rainbow Dashes reaction, “Pffft, the face that you just pulled dash, haha,”

Then Rainbow Dash look shocked and went in a daze… Scootaloo just reacted the same way Firefly did? The big smile with red under her eye’s because she just cried and almost the exact same laugh. Rainbow could see Firefly her face on Scootaloo… the same expression, like when they were in school, at home and in… hospital.

Then Scootaloo was confused and started to be a little creeped out at the fact that rainbow dash was staring at her without even blinking. She then clapped with her two hooves in front of Rainbow Dashes face, and then said a little worried “Umm, Dash? What’s wrong?”

Rainbow Dash then shook her head and dropped back down to earth. “No, it’s nothing!” Rainbow Dash said “Let’s go to your mother now,”

“Oh-Okay…” Scootaloo said confused, then she started walking down the small hall, towards the hospital bed. Rainbow Dash followed.

When Scootaloo went around the corner of the hall, she then saw her mother’s worried expression. She quickly said reassuringly “Mom, it’s okay now, Rainbow and I made a deal, and I have a question… Am I staying at dashes or at our house?” she asked.

A small sigh of relief came from Scootaloo’s mom and she lightly giggled “You can choose honey, if dash is okay with it?” Then she looked at Rainbow Dash with half innocent and half pressuring eye’s.

Rainbow Laughed and said “Of course, Squirt can crash at my house!” Then Rainbow Dash thought for a second and asked awkwardly “uuum squirt, can you fly yet?”

“Ummm, hehe,” Scootaloo answered and her ears went down of embarrassment “Not really… hehe,” she said nervously.

Rainbow Dash then raised an eyebrow “Not really, that’s a ‘no’ then, you’ll just have to sleep at your house,”

Scootaloo then looked up at Rainbow Dash with big sad eyes “Pwease Rwainbow dwash, you can carry me… with the delivery cart… that Fluttershy has,”

Rainbow tried to keep a strong face on, the intense staring held up for a few minutes, but then gave into the cuteness. Then Rainbow said defeated “oh-oh-okay, just for this week...,”

Scootaloo then stared at her even more, with even bigger eyes. Rainbow Dash knew what she wanted “Fine, until your mom gets better,” she said with a sigh.

Scootaloo cheered and Scootaloo’s mother smiled at Rainbow Dash and mouthed to her ‘Thank you Dash’. Rainbow Dash then smiled lightly back then they both looked at Scootaloo with a light smile with a small gleam of sorrow. Scootaloo’s cheerful reaction reminded them of Firefly.

Then Rainbow said “Come Scoots, we better get going. Your mother needs rest and we need to get that cart!”

“Okay!” Scootaloo said cheerfully and climbed onto the bed and lightly cuddled her mother “See you tomorrow! I’m going to visit you every day, okay! So don’t worry,” Then she gave her mother a kiss on the cheek and whispered in her mother’s ear giggling “And I’ll make sure that Dash doesn’t do anything stupid,”

Scootaloo’s mom said then out loud “But first dashy needs to make sure you don’t do anything stupid!”

Dash looked confused and just said “Come Scoots, you’ve troubled your mom enough today…” and started walking down the hall.

“Bye mom, see ya tomorrow,” Scootaloo gave her mom a last kiss and hopped off of the bed and galloped around the corner to catch up with Rainbow Dash.

Then her mom quickly shouted “Listen to what Dashie says, okay honey!”

From the bed, Scootaloo’s mom heard “yeh, yeh!” and that made her smile.

Then she said to herself “Now it’s up to dashie,”

Author's Note

get ready for the over worried author rambles:
please tell me if this is not good, or if it's too depressing or it's not depressing enough or it needs to be lighter or something, aaaaaaaah ... if it needs anything extra or something :applejackconfused:
sorry, that i haven't updated in awhile...
when i read this over it seem forced, but c'est la vie :derpytongue2:
And i think this fic needs a new title!!!

Now straight to business: if there are any faults, please comment or pm me about it, if you have any suggestions pm or comment (pm is better) if you have a suggestion for a new title pm or comment!
thanks for reading this chapter! and fic! :pinkiehappy::raritystarry: