Author's Note
* This is a bit of a mess, mostly a canvas to let me put down my ideas in the format of a short story that I hope to have the ability to expand on in the future.
** I am using my own history here so it may not line up with recent mlp episodes.
::1:: The Client Unknown
"I drew a small sketch of her this morning," I said to Lady Green. She has been my "Client" as we call them to not make them feel unwelcome, for the greater part of two years. She is wearing her normal green flower dress, a short and old dress, frayed around the sides, that her late husband got for her before his passing. I was able to convince my boss to let me wear a cheap suit and not my normal white coat for our informal dinner date, it is one of the few times I have been able to take her out from that dreaded Hospital and into the streets of Canterlot, a bustling city at the heart of a rising empire. "She had on some sort of armor, something like the old Lunar Queen had on in those old fillies’ tails. It was smaller and very worn out draped on her small frame. Her mane and tail were a bit of a mess, and she seemed tired and almost worn out. She had a look of loneliness in her eyes, something I have only seen in myself after the loss of my mother. But I digress, I'm sure you don't want to talk about my nightmares over our lovely dinner," I said, hoping she would change the subject.
"No no dear, you know as well as I do there is not that much to speak on about the hospital these days, the Princess is to worried about next year’s Summer Sun Celebration to give us much thought. I may be old and dying," I wince, which she senses and chuckles at, "o yes, I am and both of us know it, it’s not a secret, now I still enjoy some poring of emotions, I was a therapist at one point. Now not many people are willing to talk about the Lunar Queen with the two hundred and fiftieth Summer Sun Celebration going on next year. Why don't you tell me about when you first noticed her and when your dreams became nightmares when we get back to my room tonight," she seemed almost too excited about having a new patient even when I'm supposed to be the doctor here.
The walk back to the hospital was short and quiet, I thought over my dreams and Lady Green walked besides me, her leg and hoof over my shoulder so she can walk with me. Canterlot is a dangerous place at night so we always walk with a guard, but it still seems like there are eyes everywhere looking at us. This night was strange though, it was cold but not too cold, rainy but not to rainy, breezy but no to breezy, then it hit me, there was no moon out tonight. Not many people know why it is like this, I am included in the unknowers, but every year it has always been like this and I must of forgotten it was today, something I normally don't do, I guess this mystery mare has made my mind a mess.
As we reenter the Hospital and a nurse comes by to help escort Lady Green to her room, a commotion from the director’s office gets my attention. "((You can't just)) ... let her be allowed in here, we have no extra doctors besides DB and he is working with Lady Green and you know how she gets cranky if she is forced to have more than one doctor."
"Director, I know you concerns but all we have to do is a single weekly session with the transfer and do regular checks on her to see if she awakes, we can have DB do checks on her every few hours and brief him on the counseling sessions," a harsh female tone said. "Lady Green can stay with DB as her doctor and DB can get some extra pay for a quick walk to the back of the Hospital every few hours so it is a win win for everyone, no higher up will even know she is here."
"I hope your right about this, she is on bad terms with the Council, so if this gets back to me than they sure as hell will be told the Princess had something to do with this and you know how much it will devastate her, so close to the celebration," the director stated pissed.
"Director, Director, please calm down, you know very well what the Council does to war criminals such as her, she wouldn't be around to see the next day's moon if they get a hold of her," the voice spat tensely. War criminal, not sure what war they were talking about but there hasn't been any major crimes in Equestria since the fall of the Gryphon Empire a hundred years ago. It seems strange for the Director and that Mare to keep anything away from the Council, they have keep Equestria together and filled in where the Princess cant.
"Lieutenant, you should be leaving soon, you are already under watch from the lunar guard and I don't want them to get on my back for something you brought me into," the Director stated annoyingly.
"Yes well you will want me there when you explain all of this to DB," this so called Lieutenant said.
"Well yes but with the guards on you we better hold the transfer back a week so they don't get suspicious, we can call it our "Friendly" weekly get together like old times "Friend"," he said.
"I will be," the Lieutenant said, fallowed by a small sound of magic and a quick flash of light let me know that the mysterious mare had left. With her leaving and the Director on his way out the door, it was now time for me to also make my leave, wondering who my new sleeping "client" would be. With that, I start to prepare for my long session with Lady Green and my fall back into the world of nightmares this old mystery mare has put me through during my quick walk to the staff room.
::2:: To Remember a Nightmare
Author's Note
* Really sorry this took so long, been stuck on a part and busy doing college, hopefully the updates should get close to about a chapter a month, even more if I can spare the time. I have been working on several other stories at the moment so if any of them see the light than you may get a few complete stories out in a short time.
** This is a bit of a mess, mostly a canvas to let me put down my ideas in the format of a short story that I hope to have the ability to expand on in the future.
*** I am using my own history here so it may not line up with recent mlp episodes. I have seen the movie but the last episode I watched was Season 5 Episode 13.
::2:: To Remember a Nightmare
I spent some time in the small staff room getting myself cleaned up and changed back into my specially tailored lab coat, something gifted to me by the Director during my first week here as all the others were to small and unsuited for my large griffon wings. I sat there staring at a mirror set up in a small communal kitchen area, dreading my talk with Mrs. Green over the next few hours and excited about this new mistery patient I will receive next week.
"Yo Dark, you moping around now, did your date go that bad," Lightning Spark said, startling me. She is a smallish, moldy yellow mare that does all the magic repair work around the hospital. She is young and full of energy but unwilling to grow up, still acting in a very childish manner with no respect for personal space or conversations. She is one of the few here that gave me a chance when I started working here two years back, tho she still sometime sees me as the outsider, someone to be weary of.
I quickly got up and tried to compose myself back into a semi-professional manner, a bit of a annoying look in my eye. "You know as well as anyone it was not a date, it was one of our few dinners out that we are allowed to have Spark." I spouted back. "Don't you have some work you should be doing tonight, isn't there a broken light in the cafeteria you need to replace or something?"
"Nah, just got done fixing up one of the old holding cell in the back of the building, don't really know why though, the Directer was all hush hush and talked a lot about how it had to be done sooner than later. O, he also wants me to put one of the large sleep-crawler machines put in there too and for that I need the help of a few of my crew, who are all off for the night, so I can't do that yet."
"Well you have fun with that, I never understood why someone would ever need to be able to interact with the dreams of a pony but I guess it had an use somewhere or they wouldn't of been made. Well with that, I must be on my way back to Lady Green. Who knows what she has in store for me tonight, always a bit of a guessing game what she knocked under her bed this time." I softly laughed and coughed for a few seconds before I started to to pull myself together and head for the door.
"Dark, be careful, you don't look or sound that good, maybe you should take a day off for once and rest," she said concerned as I started to step out, stopping me for a few seconds before I continued on my way to Lady Green and my nightmare. A small click later from the door and a sigh from myself let me know I was finally alone for the few minutes it would take me to walk the length of the hospital to Lady Greens room. In these few minutes I tried to remember the first dream I ever saw this mare in.
With a sigh, some hesitation, a small pray to Celestia hoping she forgot, and a quick knock, I let my self into Lady Green's room, one of the larger rooms with several plants and small trinkets and items from her life. "My Lady, I am here to help you get yourself ready for the night and help with anything else you need," I said in my normal dry manner, I know she doesn't care about protocol but the Director would get on my ass if I ever deviated from the book.
"No no, your fine, just help me over to my bed and we can talk about your problems for once," she said in a almost creepy way, though if your stuck in a hospital for the rest of your life I guess being able to talk about someone else problems would seem like a nice change of pace. And with that I led her over to the bed and helped her situate herself siting up so we could talk without her laying on her back or side. "So you keep seeing a old lunar guard in you dreams and it is keeping you awake, is that a good way to put it, well if it is or not I want you to start at the beginning and tell me exactly what you saw."
"Well it started with a dream about my mother..." I began.
