Author's Note

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A Broken Tiara[Diamond Tiara POV]

If i'm a Diamond then why do I feel so rough?
There's something jagged inside and I feel I could break...

Diamond Tiara was so used to getting things her way that it never once dawned on her that she'd find herself in a hopeless situation. She had always relied on her parents or their personal butlers to do things that she deemed stupid or boring, but today she was going to find out what life was like for the less fortunate, even those that were in horrible situations. She had never considered how close she'd come to dying, or those that survived being mutilated or maimed. Or the fact that she'd never see her friend Silver Spoon ever again. How would she cope with a loss like that?

Diamond Tiara was a room down from where Applejack had been admitted, but couldnt look at any of the ponies that had gathered in her hospital room. Among them of course were her mother and father, Filthy and Spoiled Rich, as well as Princess Celestia, the CMC, and two reporter ponies that had come in from Canterlot. No doubt here to record the reason for her admittance. She couldnt bring herself to look at those three fillies though, something inside her had broken that day. The cold reality that she could of died right then and there if not for Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash's actions sunk in like a rock sinking to the bottom of a pond. She finally turned and asked all but Celestia, the CMC, and those two reporters to leave. Her mother of course scoffed at the notion, but was assured by the Princess that there was nothing to fear.

Even before her parents left, everypony in the room could tell she was having a hard time composing herself, much less trying to put a brave face forward. Diamond Tiara had never had to endure anything like this before. Out of all of this, it had forced her to come to grips with the behavior she had displayed towards the Cutie Mark Crusaders, especially in regards to Scootaloo. Of all the ones to torment, she had found a disturbing pleasure picking on her the most. Now with what had just transpired in the basement of the Library, she scolded herself for how she had treated her. Seeing as she was now crippled herself. There was a strong chance that she would never be able to walk again, and that she would be confined to a wheelchair the rest of her life.

With her parents gone, she gestured for the CMC to come a bit closer. She pulled Sweetie Belle, of all of them, into a close hug and cried into her shoulder. She apologized right in front of them for how she tried them all these years. She had been expected by her parents to behave a certain way towards that were considered a bit lower class then others. It hadnt taken her until now to realize that was not how to act at all.

"I... I'm so sorry for how I treated you all," she had to pause to let her mind focus. She silently realized how horrible she had been to mock Scootaloo for her not being able to fly, since she herself was now crippled. She decided to recount the events that lead to her ending up in that house of horrors that they had found her in.

Earlier that week

"I'm so bored Silver, let's go find out where those blank flanks are and see what stupid things their 'crusading' for today," She could feel that this wasn't the 'right' thing to do, but that day she didnt care. She was bored and teasing the CMC felt like something that could make herself cheer right up. They never even got half way into town before she felt something render her and Silver unconscious. Then again this would also be the day that she would change her out look on life.

Moments later she woke up and found herself in a large dark room, with several others extending several feet in every direction, and a walkway in between them. She looked over to see a few ponies she had seen around town, but never conversed with. She saw Lyra, Colgate, and Lemon Hearts shoved into adjacent cells, and down further she could make out the frame of Applejack on what looked like an examination table. She looked back and saw a lavender unicorn with a dark purple mane, with a streak of crimson running through it, standing in front of her. Silver Spoon was nowhere to be seen, Had she escaped and not told Diamond? She got her answer when she was dragged by magic to the same area that Applejack was being held in.

Her blood ran cold, for next to Applejack was the still body of a small grey earth pony with rimmed glasses on. Silver Spoon's eyes were turned up and her face was contorted into one of fear. The lavender unicorn saw the look on Diamond's face. For some reason this seemed to amuse her to no end.

"Oh Dont worry Little one, You'll be joining her soon," The lavender mare mused,"Then you'll learn why those that bully others belong in Tartarus," She sang. Diamond could only stare at her in horror as a mallet was levitated into the air by the purple and lavender unicorn's magic aura, and brought down full force onto her back legs. She tried to squirm, but was held in place with straps. She had been bound to the exam table just as Applejack was. AJ was too drugged though to full notice who was strapped down next to her. When she was coherant enough, she could only let out on inaudible whimper and a single tear streaked down her right cheek.

Diamond Tiara opened her eyes to see the twisted grin that formed on the lavender mare's face. That was the last thing she recalled before waking up in that dank cell again. Then she heard something else, and looked up to see a cyan pegasus with a Rainbow Mane picking her up and handing her to a yellow pegasus. When she looked back she was stunned to see a handful of Royal Guards accompanying the pegasus back down into the basement of where ever she had been held.

All she could mutter was a soft," Thank.... you...", to the yellow pegasus that was now carrying her up to light. Fluttershy handed her over to the awaiting nurse ponies that had come at behest of the Royal Guard. That was when she turned back to see an angry Twilight about to charge up a spell. And she did something she had only ever done once, she tackled her friend to the ground as she called out to Rainbow Dash. And Diamond Tiara could only watch everything unfold, feeling helpless for the first time forever.

She admitted to herself as they carried her to hospital, 'I'm nothing. Nothing but a broken Tiara,", and she kept thinking that even as she was recounting the events that brought her here. Sweetie Belle told her to think positive though, she told Tiara to at least accept the fact that she survived. As visiting hours ended, she asked if one of them could stay to which the nurse on duty obliged. She wrapped her hooves around Sweetie Belle and silently cried into her shoulder as the two lay there on the hospital bed together.