"Hey! Looks like she's starting to wake up!" They gathered around her weak form as she came to, like a pack of wolves.

"Welcome back." Gilda smirked.

Sunset let her head drop in exhaustion. Gilda directed her face back towards her.

"Eyes open dazer. Focus on me. You're in an abandoned building 20 miles out of the city. No one's coming for you, and no one can hear you scream... Not that you even could with the condition you're in."

As if on cue, Sunset's breathing hitched, and she went into a violent coughing fit. When it finally passed, she was wheezing.

Gilda chuckled. "My point exactly... Here's what's going to happen... We are going to go back to the city and live our lives as if this night never happened, and youare going to stay here. But don't worry! We'll be back here exactly two weeks from today. If you can survive until then, we'll take you back to the city, how's that sound?" She paused.

"Wait, don't answer that. You really have no say in the matter anyway." She got up.

"Don't worry, Rainbow will keep you company."

"WHAT?!" Rainbow blurted.

"Sorry Dash, but I can't trust you not to go to the police station."

"Traitor...You traitor Gilda!!" Dash continued cursing as they left.

"You two have a merry christmas..." Gilda chuckled.

All was quiet when they left. Dash was still fuming.

Sunset started coughing harshly again, sounding like she was choking on her own blood.

"...Sunset?" Dash spoke when it had finally subsided. She got no answer.

"Ya...You probably don't want to talk to me right now..."

"...Hurts." She whispered weakly.

"Sunset, I don't expect you to ever forgive me... But for whatever it's worth, I'm sorry...I'm so... so sorry." There was no answer from Sunset.

"I'm the one who deserves to be in your position right now. You were my best friend, and look what I did... I should have been there for you, like friends are supposed to...Sunset?..." There was no answer.

"Sunset!" No answer.

"Sunset, talk to me! Say anything!" She said frantically.

"....so tired..." Sunset replied weakly.

"No! Don't go to sleep Sunset! Talk to me!"

"Can't...hurts-" She coughed sharply, and whined pathetically.

"Hurts..." She whined in a broken voice.

"We're gonna get out of here Sunset, and we're gonna get you help."

There was a long pause.

"...Dash?" She whispered weakly.

"Ya?.."

"...I forgive you."

Dash's heart broke.

"Sunset...If you're saying that because...No Sunset, we'll get out of this, and when we do, we're gonna go to Sugarcube Corner, and down so many sweets, Pinkie will be scolding us for the next month, and Rarity will have to sew us new outfits cause we'll be barfing all over ourselves."

Sunset gave a pained laugh and coughed.

"You're...disgusting." She whispered.

Dash let herself have a faint smile. There wasn't anything she'd rather do right now than make Sunsetlaugh. If Sunset was going to-...If Sunset was going...then Rainbow wanted to direct her thoughts as far away from pain and sorrow as possible.

"Hey...The drama club will be performing tonight downtown." She chuckled.

"At least we won't have to go to that..."

Sunset laugh- coughed again.

"They...are pretty...bad."

"You're telling me! I went to their last production "Riddler on the roof", they got the entire name wrong, and knew nothing about the actual story. They turned it into a Ratman crossover!"

Sunset laughed again.

"I hear that there's a Daring Do movie coming out later this next year. I've already got a cosplay costume for when it comes out."

"You're such...a nerd." She laugh- coughed again, before going into another violent coughing fit. She leaned to the side asfar as she could in her binds, and harshly coughed up blood onto the floor.

She moaned when it finally subsided.

"Can't...laugh." She whispered.

That was not good. It was doing such a good job at diverting Sunset's thoughts from how tired she was, and now those thoughts were coming back. Sunset closed her eyes.

"Sunset! Don't sleep!"

"I'll...wake."

"Sunset, open your eyes!"

"Need...sleep." She didn't open her eyes.

"Sunset, you need to open your eyes!"

"Too...heavy."

Make her laugh you fool!! She thought frantically to herself.

"Hey! Remember that time when...uhh, Maud!! When Maud did...uhh, that thing..." Her mind wasn't giving her any more funny thoughts at the moment.

"Night time....sleep." Sunset let her head drop.

"Sunset! Wake up!" No response.

"Open your eyes!" No movement.

"Please say anything Sunset!!" No answer.

"No..." Tears stung Dash's eyes. "Sunset no!!" There was nothing from Sunset.

"HEEEELP!!!" Dash screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Please!!! Anybody if you're out there!! We need help!!" Silence answered back.

"Somebody!!... Anybody...help..."

Rainbow wept all through the night.

Author's Note

I lied....I managed to get out a little more. LOL