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We inched down the path back to the hospital. Rarity, Cloud, and I were at a slower pace than usual, since we got our asses busted up. My leg hurt like fuck now.

Off to the side, Discord was squeezed in a tight, depressing coil. The circular shape he was making with his flexible body was very odd to see, but he continued slowly rolling along like some car tire set free. At first, AJ was poking and prodding at him to get him to stop, but he and Fluttershy explained that it was actually a very comfortable way for him to move around. Strange.

Nurse Redheart trotted to my side after walking with Rarity. She smiled before looking down at my leg.

“You’re walking pretty bad, hun. Does your leg feel alright?”

“Never felt better,” I muttered.

Just a few minutes into our walk, I had really started feeling it. The once-hidden wound that Dash found was causing me problems, and hurt like a bitch.

“Do you want me to check it out for you?”

“Maybe at the hospital. I’ll be okay for now.”

“Okay. I’ll make sure you get the right treatment once we get there,” she said, winking up at me.

Great. Now I had a boner again.

Dios mío

“Thank you, Redheart.”

I continued limping forward as she backtracked to check on Cloud. The hospital wasn’t too far away. Hopefully my legs could survive cracking in half until we got there.

Celestia’s sun wasn’t very high in the sky yet, and I was surprised it didn’t have a big sign on it reading: “Hurry up you fucking inbreds”. We’d been in Ponyville too damn long. I wondered if Twi was planning on hurling us cripples in the hospital and leaving us in order to get a move on.

I hoped she’d make an exception for me. I really wanted to ask Celestia what her problem was. Hopefully I wouldn’t get spanked too hard.

Twi had backtracked a bit to walk on Cloud’s other side while Redheart made sure she was good to continue. I overheard them talking a bit about the boys again, and what happened at the hospital. Apparently, the group of boys that we’d just killed had come out of the blue (shocker) and taken a few ponies in the lobby hostage. Cloud had stood up for the others by sacrificing herself, letting them take her as they left to find us.

I heard Twi tell her, “Thank you for sacrificing yourself for them, Cloud. I’m sure they will be happy to see you’re still alive.”

For some reason, I thought about my bite again. Why the fuck did that thought enter my head? The fuck? I was curious about my bite, but I squinted my eyes, trying to wonder why the fuck I randomly started thinking about it again. How did this come to be? This was very confusing. How-

Fucks sake, D’mitry. It’s not the smoothest transition, but it’s there. Would you like me to lay it out for you?

Yes please. I don’t understand.

Twi’s words echoed in my head again.

~~~ “I’m sure they will be happy to see … you’re still alive. still alive … alive … alive …” ~~~

Really?

Yeah, yeah, I know. That logic looked dumb as hell to me too. But it works anyway … you are an overthinker.

Okay…

I rolled up my sleeve to check my arm. However, I was met with just the bruise again. No teeth marks were visible. I glanced up and down, twisting and turning my arm to see if they were just hiding themselves.

Hiding themselves? Lmao

Hey, you never know.

I kept looking over every part of the skin on my arm, but there was nothing but the bruise. I took a big sniff of the bruised area, carefully inspecting the aroma.

“D?”

It took my brain a second to realize that I had stopped walking while I was inspecting. I had fallen toward the back of the group, and everybody’s eyes stared back at me from up ahead. Twi, still by Cloud’s side, eyed me confusingly.

“What the fuck are you doing?” she asked.

My arm still hovering beneath my nose, I quickly dropped it to my side.

“Mmmm… nothing?”

Redheart left Cloud’s other side and started walking back to meet me. I saw her eyes attached to my arm, so I quickly rolled my jacket’s sleeve back down.

“D’mitry…” she said, stopping in front of me. “What was that bruise? How long have you had that for?”

“Uh … I don’t know.”

She squinted her eyes suspiciously before exchanging a glance with Twi, who stepped up to me as well.

“D’mitry,” Twi said, “where did the bruise come from?”

“I fell down when I was collecting the boy’s gear. Lyra saw it, she can tell you.”

Redheart continued, “I don’t know what you’re trying to hide, hun, but that bruise did not just happen.”

“It did!” I exclaimed.

“No, it didn’t. That bruise is purple. For humans, it’s the same story as ponies. Bruises are red initially, and take 1-2 days to turn purple. Don’t fight me on this one, hun. I’ve studied the human anatomy books the princesses brought us.”

Twi glared up at me, throwing her hoof up and grabbing my hand before I could back away. “What are you hiding, D’mitry? Where did the bruise come from?”

I sighed defeatedly and closed my eyes.

“I was bitten.”

A moment of silence filled the air as I kept my eyes closed, half expecting to be knocked over or suddenly whipped. But it didn’t happen. I felt Twi slowly release my hand, hearing her hoof tap the ground as she set it back down. I opened my eyes, noticing everybody’s surprised expressions.

“You…” Twi started, “You were bit?”

“I was.”

Dash trotted forward, her expression morphing to anger.

“AND YOU DIDN’T TELL US?! What the fuck, D?”

“Hey, hey! I have my reasons!” I exclaimed, throwing my hands up in surrender.

“What are the reasons?” Twi asked.

“Uh … um … okay, there aren’t any. I just … I don’t know. I thought it didn’t matter.”

“When did this happen?”

“Day 1. I couldn’t get away from Pinkie when she turned.”

Twi took a deep breath, rubbing her forehead in frustration.

“Gah … okay. Look. We’ll talk more about this when we get to the hospital. For now, let’s keep walking.”

We all warily continued down the path. Twi slowed to walk by my side. After a minute of walking, she looked up at me again and spoke through gritted teeth.

“Why didn’t you tell us?”

“Bruh, you literally just said we’d talk more at the hospital.”

“I just … I guess I’m a bit surprised, to say the least. Yesterday, the day before … hell, today. You held it from us for a loooong time.” Her eyes suddenly widened. “Wait! It makes sense now! That’s why you wanted to keep the jacket on when we fucked! Sweet Celestia, are you serious?”

“Jesus, Twi. I know. I just … I didn’t want to tell y’all, okay?”

“What, did you think we were going to throw you out or something?”

“I have no idea what y’all would have done. It didn’t really matter to me anyway.”

“Damn it, D’mitry.” She sighed. “It’s fine. It looks like you’re immune, thankfully. Regardless, I'd like to look at it when we get to the hospital... if you don't mind.”

“Sure, sure.”

It took us a little while, but we finally made it to the hospital. We were welcomed in by worried ponies and both of the returned nurses. I noticed, as I entered, that the front doors were broken once again—slanted and hanging from their hinges from where the boys must have broken in. I sighed, knowing that I’d probably have to listen to those morons hammer it back in place again.

As the other nurse led Cloud to her room, Nurse Snowheart directed me to a seat in the lobby. As usual, her speech was slightly slurred.

“Hey, hun, you alright?”

“Hey, Stoner Snow! Long time no see. I’m doing okay. My leg hurts pretty bad though.”

She huffed. “I told ya not to call me that. Bastard. Anyway, I’ll try to get Doc Hooves to look at ya’.”

“Thanks, Sno- … wait, what? Doc Hooves?”

“Yeah, him.”

“He’s not a damn doctor! Where’d the actual doctor go?”

“Mmmm, hell if I know,” she replied, shrugging her shoulders as she started walking off. She stopped herself and eyed the others occupying the lobby before walking up to me again. She set her front hooves up on the seat beside me and leaned her snout next to my ear. “Hey, I got some herbs if ya need. Just let me know, k?”

“Hmm … okay. I’ll keep that in mind next time I see her.”

She looked at me confusingly until I winked. She then rolled her eyes and made her way to the others needing help in the lobby. After some time, Doc Hooves appeared in the lobby with a doctor’s coat on. He spent a few minutes talking with Redheart before making his way to me.

“You look ridiculous,” I stated.

“Shut up, human. I am the new doctor here.”

“Why? I thought you were a damn scientist. What the fuck is this?”

“I am perfectly qualified to be a medical doctor, for your information,” he scoffed.

“Why is that?”

“I have Doctor in my name.”

“Wow.”

“Anyway... it looks pretty bad, but I’m sure we can get you patched up and ready to go.”

“You haven’t even looked at my leg…”

“Oh, it was your leg? Well, that looks fine too,” he said, turning his head to look around the lobby. “Snowheart! Some assistance, please.”

Snow came back to stand beside him as he pulled out a pen and clipboard from his coat.

“Status report, please,” he requested, somehow clicking the pen to write with his teeth.

“Huh?”

“Fucks wrong with him?”

“Ah … soooooo … he’s got two bullet skims on his left leg … aaaaaand … that’s all. They’re wrapped up already.”

“The fuck? Why do you need a doctor for that? Sounds like it’s already settled.”

“They’re bleeding a lot,” I mentioned, “and my leg is in a lot of pain.”

“Ugh. Sounds like you’re just a pussy.”

“Fuck you, Doc!”

“Yeah, whatever…” he said, continuing to write on the clipboard.

“What are you even writing down?”

He smiled, flipping the clipboard around to show a sketch of what looked like an explosion.

“Big Bang.”

“Uh… okay…”

He flipped it around again and took a few more seconds to admire his sketch before putting it back in his pocket.

“Snowheart, could you check our supply of Ambevexion please?”

Snow hurried off as Doc Hooves observed the lobby again.

“The fuck is Ambidextrious?” I asked.

“Sweet Celestia. Ambevexion. It’s a drug we use to put patients to sleep.”

“You’re putting me to sleep?!”

“Not you, bonehead. We’re going to need it for Cloudchaser. As for you…” he said, eying me up and down. “I don’t know. Go get some water and quit being a little bitch.”

“Motherfucker!” I exclaimed as he walked off.

I stood up a bit too quickly to follow him, causing my leg to buckle under my weight and sending me to the floor. I groaned as I froze on the floor, my leg in too much pain to move. I heard the clicks of hoofsteps and slowly rolled to my back to see who it was. Redheart stood above me.

“Are you alright, hun?”

“No. Doc’s an asshole.”

“Yeah, we kinda gathered that. Did he look at your leg?”

“No. He just told me to get a water and quit being a little bitch.”

She frowned disapprovingly, gazing around the lobby before looking back down at me and smiling.

“Ah, fuck him. We don’t need him anyway. Let me help you to your room, hun.”

Redheart hurriedly helped me to a stand, almost causing me to splat back down again.

“Jesus, Redheart.”

“C’mon,” she whispered, hooking my hand and leading me to the staircase.

I realized what she was doing and looked back at the others. Somehow, all of them had been too distracted with the chaos of the lobby to see Redheart hauling me back upstairs. My heart started racing as we made our way to my room. When we made it inside, she disconnected from me to grab a chair from the bedside. I watched as she dragged it across and jammed it underneath the door handle.

“Redheart…”

“What?”

“What are you doing?”

“What's it look like? Get in bed.”

I started making my way to the bed. Apparently, I wasn't going fast enough, so she set her head against my lower back and pushed me. Once I was at my bedside, she helped lay me down. She then threw herself on top of me and smiled.

Author, are you really gonna let this happen?

I don’t fucking care anymore. After Twi, I realized your horny ass ain’t gonna stop. Just remember to beg me for forgiveness later.

“Yeah yeah,” Redheart said, “We’ll make sure to do that. But for now…”

She smiled, pushing her snout against my lips. For the next few seconds, we made out. However, as we squirmed, she suddenly stopped and disconnected. She raised her head and turned to look back at the foot of the bed.

“What is it?” I asked.

She raised her hind leg. I noticed a spot of red had formed on it. As we looked at it, a pain shot through my leg, causing me to cry out.

“Shit! Are you alright?” Redheart asked, shifting her weight off of me and sliding off the bed. I was in too much pain to respond, so she carefully rolled up my pant leg to reveal even more blood than before. “Sweet Celestia! How the fuck...”

The nurse carefully observed my leg for another minute.

“I’m gonna pull off your bandage, hun. It’s already soaked through. I gotta see why it’s bleeding so much.”

“Hmmmfmffgfggg OK!”

I grunted as she undid the gauze bandage. I awaited 'patiently' for a response, but it wasn’t the one I wanted to hear.

“Shit.”

“What?! What is it?”

She raised her head to look at me.

“D’mitry, this one wasn’t a skim. I see at least one fragment still dug inside. I don’t think there’s an... exit wound…”

“Awe shit. W- what do we do?”

“I’m sorry, hun. We’ll have to save this for another time. Let me grab Doc Hooves.”

She made her way to the door and removed the chair blocking it before leaving.

Fucking blue balls!!!

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