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.