The asthmatic sports star

Rainbow Dash was laying awake in her bed with her eyes closed, wondering how so much could go wrong.

Was there some kind of Dark Magic involved? It was certainly possible.

The thought send a shudder through her, sending little stabs through her chest.

This sucks.

Just when she wanted to take a pillow and press it on her face, there was a knock on her door. Dash raised an eyebrow. Normally her dad would knock once, peek inside and ask if she needed anything. But this time it was three times, in a completely different manner, and the door didn’t open.

Mentally groaning, Dash finally called „come in“, regretting it the second the words left her mouth. This wasn’t even a ‚sore throat’ anymore. She felt as if her throat was in shreds.

And to her surprise, all her friends came inside her room. Minus Applejack, which she was almost grateful for. Her loyalty cringed at the thought.

“Hey, Rainbow.” Sunset greeted her warmly. Dash only stared at the girls in front of her, not really believing this was real. Must be the meds, making her delusional. But then Sunset spoke again. “I hope we didn’t wake you. We just wanted to see how you were doing.”

“And bring you some muffins!!!!” Pinkie almost yelled but held herself back. This was a sick visit(I don’t know the word for it and hope you know what I mean), after all. Pinkie held out a little box with messy felt tip marker writing of “Get Better Sooooooooon”.

Dash didn’t even bother thinking the question of why there were so many o’s. Instead, she only smiled, forgetting all about the bad things that happened and the pains almost vanishing.

It was now pretty late in the evening and Sunset is the only one who still hadn’t left her side.

Literally.

They were cuddled up in bed, Dash having fallen asleep hours ago in her arms. And Sunset has no idea anymore how they ended up like this.

Her eyes wandered over to the box from Pinkie Pie. She spiked them, I swear to god. I just hope whatever it was isn’t doing anything to Dash, with all of these meds.

Dash started stirring in her arms and Sunset first realized then that Dash probably didn’t know how she got in her arms either.

And for some reason, that made Sunset blush.

Dash’s eyes fluttered open, first looking around her room as if disoriented, and then they fell on Sunset.

Neither one moved a muscle or said anything for what felt like an eternity.

Then Sunset finally couldn’t take the tension any longer. “Have a nice nap?”

Dash’s eyes flicked back and forth, obviously noticing the position they were in and finding it embarrassing.

“Look, I swear - I don’t have any idea why we are like this right now, and I guess you probably don’t know either, but you’re laying on my arm so I can’t get us out of this position.”

Dash didn’t look at her for almost a minute before finally answering something that made Sunset blush even more. “Good”, she forced out and cuddled into her again, closing her eyes.

And Sunset couldn’t make any sense of it, but somehow, something about this was really nice. And she found herself not wanting to let go of her friend either.

So, without another thought, she wrapped her other arm very carefully around Dash’s chest and closed her eyes as well.

That is how Dash’s parents found them not even an hour later - Dash being lovingly embraced in the arms of her friends, as if to protect her from all evil she’s gone through.

They smiled at each other and as quietly as possible, closed the door to their daughters room.