Won't Let it bring Me Down (Alternate end and "sequel")

Years passed...

Great and perfect years...

Who I'm kidding?  Those have been the worst years ever!

Where do we start? Ahem, let's start with Rainbow side of the story. After the wedding her life was a nigthmare. Sure, a wedding, lots of fun and happiness. But no when you're the one who get married with somepony you don't love. And better we skip the honey moon part.

That's the thing, after that day, Hopps and her moved to Rainbow's cloud mansion. Obviously, that wasn't a problem at all. The problem comes after that: Hoops was a controller . He put a lot of rules for her:

-She can't hang out alone with her friends or other pony that wasn't him.

-She can't be out of the house without his consent.

-When he goes to home at lunch time, It has to be ready.

-She just can go to Ponyville's market to buy the food.

And a lot more of them. If she wanted to go to other place, she has to ask with days of anticipation. Even the doctor for a routine check. But she tried her best to be a good wife, no matter if her husband was the worst one that a mare could have.

The first weeks goes pacefully. She and Hoops don't talk at all. Maybe a few words here and there, but nothing more. Each day was a routine: She wake's up early and make breakfast. Both eat and Hoops goes to work. Rainbow clean the dishes and then the house. She make's lunch and give it to him when he arrive. Then he goes again and she continue with the housework. When she ends that, she take a Daring Do book and read it till four o'clock. Then she makes the dinner and at the end goes to sleep.

A mechanic and boring routine. It didn't gives any problem, but a few months then, things change. Hoops didn't get back at the accorded hour. Rainbow waited for him, he was her husband, she like it or not. He came back around 2 o'clock. And it wasn't just that: He came back drunk.

The first nigth Rainbow gasped. The last time she saw a drunk pony was his father in a Hearth's Warming Eve a few years ago (funny story, there's no time to it) and she didn't knew what to do. He started to shout and she thought 'So good Fluttershy isn't here'. Then she noticed something under his wing: A bottle. A glass bottle of Whisky, and damm, it was a big one. His steps were unestable and staggering. His wings were open and some feathers were really bend. She tried to help him a first time and he groaned, a second one and he groaned, at the third time he puched her in the check. The punch was so strong that she fell down at the cloud soil. She gasped there, without get up of the soil. He grumbled and started to walk to the stairs. When he disappeared upstairs, she sighed and stayed there, sitting on the cloud soil. She wasn't going to sleep with that monster, so she goed upstairs to the guest room. The next morning she called Hopps work and told his boss that he was sick and he wasn't going to go to the work.

That's how things goes. That didn't happened just a time, it happened a lot of times and sometimes, he never came back. No till the next morning. She didn't ask were he have been, because she can imagine it. So she just served the breakfast and continued with her duties.

No matter what, there's no time in the day she didn't think about one thing, well, one pony: Soarin. She just couldn't get him out of her head. She asked to herself if he was thinking about her. She wanted cry on his shoulder, but she couldn't. She couldn't see her friends, worst Soarin.

Meanwhile, Soarin life was, um, well, how we can put It... Mopping?

The depression took him over and every single day you could see him with the head low. He did not get to the point were he get drunk and someone had to get him to his aparment, but he didn't talked with a single pony, no more than a few words and just when it was really necessary. In the Wonderbolts were worried, not only about his state, but too about his health. He wasn't sleeping well, neither eating. He barely touched his lunch in the headquarters.

There was not a day that passed that Dash was not in his head. He haven't heard of her since the wedding, And that was a whole year ago!

Well, he didn't have the courage to go to Ponyville on a search for her. He didn't knew what happened to her, much less if she still remembered him. He still had the promise he did to her: To forget her and to be happy with another mare. But, How he will be happy with a mare he didn't love!? That's just impossible!

He still tried, but each time he talked with a mare, he felt guilty. He just couldn't just forget Dash like if she didn't exist and simulate that he never loved her. 'Cause he did. He loved her. He still love her. Nopony will change that.

His performance at shows was the same, but, to be honest, it wasn't the same.

Maybe he could just go to Ponyville and look for her. But he knew that if he did that, he will never be abble to let her go again. The first time was a torture. A second sure will be worst.

But he will try.

Just for her.

Just for the mare he loves.

Just for Rainbow Dash.