It was quite cool on this particular morning, despite it being the middle of summer. Derpy Hooves, a mare with a peculiar set of gold eyes, and a peculiar cutie mark of bubbles, was flying through the air over her soon to be home of Ponyville. Carrying a box packed with items from her old home. In the box contained a pillow, a bag of bits, and a letter of recommendation. Nobody knew how hard she had to work in order to get that letter. Nobody would ever know. She approached the Town hall where Mayor Mare presided. She flew down low to the ground, underestimating her speed however, she smashed into an apple cart being pulled by a blue stallion.

CRASH

Derpy looked up to see an angry stallion glaring at her. He stepped towards her. "What the hell are you doing? Do you know how much damage you've done!?" Derpy said nothing, she rubbed her head, a tear flowing down her face. The blue stallion stomped the ground. "WELL? DO YOU?" Derpy still said nothing, she was still trying to figure out how she had miscalculated her speed, she just didn't know what went wrong. "YOU BETTER BE ABLE TO PAY FOR THIS YOU RETARD!" He was yelling at her when an Orange mare wearing a stetson trotted over and interjected.

"Rusty, What seems to be the problem over here?" Said the orange mare to the blue stallion.

"She just destroyed a weeks worth of apples!" He pointed his hoof at Derpy, who was trying to wipe crushed apples out of her mane.

"Did Ah just hear you say the 'R' word?" said the orange mare with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah so? She is a retard, look at her eyes." The blue stallion looked at Derpy, who froze. The orange pony put a hoof to her face.

"Ah thought Ah told you that we don't talk that way about other ponies, that isn't the kind of reputation Sweet Apple Acres represents." She looked up at him. "Rusty Pioneer, Ah'm afraid Ah'm gonna have to fire you."

Anger shot through the blue stallions face. "Really, your just gonna fire me because of what cross eyes over there did? Fine, fuck you!" He looked at Derpy, who was now getting up, and shot her an angry look before turning around, and stomping his hooves as he trotted away.

While the orange mare was looking at the blue stallion, Derpy decided she had had enough and quietly grabbed her belongings before sneaking off and over to the town hall.

The orange mare sighed before turning around to face Derpy"Ah'm sorry you had to see tha-" Derpy was gone and nowhere to be seen. The orange mare sighed before cleaning up all the crushed apples that lay on the ground.

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"Well then Miss...Hooves," said Mayor Mare who happened to have a scroll tied with blue ribbon as a cutie mark. She handed Derpy the keys to her new apartment. "Here is your new home, welcome to Ponyville." Mayor Mare gave Derpy a big grin before leaving.

Derpy walked into her new home to see it was not very spacious. The ceiling had a creaky single fan accompanied by a couple of cracks. The walls were gray and peeling off. The furniture was old and falling apart. The carpet was stained and looked as if it used to be white. She walked over to the bedroom, and grabbed for a door knob to close the bedroom door but noticed that the door was missing. In fact, it looked like it had been ripped off of it's hinges. The bed was bare, but thankfully, fairly new. Derpy laid her belongings on the bed before walking over to the window. She opened it to just to stare at a brick wall that was apart of the building next to hers. Derpy tried not to show her disappointment, but after what had happened earlier, she collapsed onto the bed. Burying her face into it and sobbing. What happened? Why was she like this? She looked up and grabbing the pillow out of the box, laid her head on it and cried herself to sleep.

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1 year before in Cloudsdale.

Celestia's sun had gone down to reveal Luna's full moon. It was a cold night, one that was about to get a lot colder. Derpy had been at the Hospital for eight hours, eight hours of pain and hope. Hope that she would finally get to meet her daughter. The doctors warned her months before that the baby might not survive, that she would either miscarry or have a still birth. Derpy prayed to Celestia that that would not happen, that she would get to raise her daughter and see her grow up. But unfortunately, Celestia's light was not upon Derpy that night. Dinky Doo was her name, she was a beautiful little gray filly with a blonde mane. The Doctor handed her to Derpy who was now crying tears of joy. Derpy gently held dinky in her fore hoofs. Dinky opened her eyes, looking at her mothers.

"I love you, my sweet little baby." said Derpy, a tear falling down her face. Dinky smiled and then closed her eyes, never to reopen. Derpy held her closer to her, and began sobbing. Nopony could feel what she was feeling. She felt that it was her fault, her fault that her body didn't allow her to have a living child. The doctors took Dinky away from Derpy, never to be seen again.

After the birth, Derpy stayed in her home for weeks, only coming out to buy food, not that she ate it, the circumstances didn't allow her to eat. The only pony who came to visit Derpy was Rainbow Dash, Derpy's only true friend. She knew that when she needed help, she could always count on Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash slowly approached the house and knocked on Derpy's front door. knock knock... "Derpy, are you there?" No answer. Rainbow Dash could only hear muffled sobbing through the door and decided to knock again. knock knock "Derpy, It's me, Rainbow Dash. Listen I just wanted to talk to y-" Rainbow began, before being cutoff.

"Go away." Derpy said in muffled, somber tone. "I don't want to talk right now." Rainbow Dash wouldn't have it.

"Derpy, please." Rainbow dash laid her head on the wall beside the door. "Open the door." No answer. "I know it's hard, but you can't stay in here forever, you need your friends." Rainbow Dash heard a rustling inside the home, before the door slowly opened. Derpy stood there, her eyes red and puffy, mane in disarray, her gray coat was shaggy and unkempt. Rainbow Dash didn't hesitate. She hugged the gray mare, causing Derpy to gasp. Derpy returned the hug and began sobbing into Rainbow Dash's shoulder. "I know Derpy, I'm sorry all of this happened." Rainbow Dash pulled away from Derpy and looked her in the eyes. "Where is he?"

"I haven't seen him since I told him about the pregnancy." Derpy told Rainbow Dash this, raw anger surged into Rainbow Dash's eyes. "I don't get it Dash," Derpy looked up at Rainbow Dash. "He told me he loved me and would always be there for me." Derpy's eyes began watering again as she placed her face in Rainbow Dash's shoulder.

"I'm so sorry Derpy..."

Author's Note

Here is my second story, I hope you will enjoy.