A little Sparkling Blaze

Aria's POV

Paper has been in a coma for three days. Sunset has assured that because of her siren magic there's still a chance of her waking up. But you can't tell that by looking at her. Making things worse is Sparkling being worried she's going to lose another sister and while Tree doesn't understand everything going on she knows enough to know her sister is doing really bad. So me and Dash have been splitting out time with one of us being here with Paper and the other being with the others at Adagio's.

Right now I was with Paper,I didn't think I would ever see something more depressing than Sparkling after being kidnapped,but this definitely topped that,Paper was just a baby after all.

Every single day Sunset passed to check if she was reactive.Every single day my hope died more of seeing my daughter awake again.

Sunset soon got there to check Paper for today.She checked and that's when I noticed something Paper's hand moved.That got a smile out of Sunset definetly a good sign.

Sunset turned to me."Her mind is more reactive,she's in the process of waking up,right now she can move her foot and hand and hear all we're saying,talking to her will help."

I was so relieved she's finally waking up.

"I'll tell Dash." I took out my phone and called her.

"Hello?" I heard Dashie in the other end of the phone.

"Dashie she's starting to wake up." That's when I heard what sounded like an explosion from the other side of the phone. "What was that?!" I didn't get an answer. "Dash?" I was really getting worried.

"Yeah?" I heard Dash say but not from the phone.

I turned around and there standing before me was Rainbow Dash. Looks like I had caught her getting ready because she was half naked having on only a pair of shorts.

"What the hell?" I asked.

"I don't want to miss her waking up."She told me matter of factly.

I can't be mad at her. I should have known what she was going to do. "Don't you think her sisters would want to be here too?"

"Oh you're right."

"And don't you think you should finish getting dressed?"

Dash looked at herself and realized that in all the excitement she had forgot a shirt.That's when I see that cheeky smile of hers.

"Nah I'm good like this." That's when she put her hands on her hips and stuck out her chest. "Besides don't you like the view?"

I felt myself blush. I can't believe her sometimes.

"You know I do. But what did I tell you when we first got together? I'm the only one who gets to see you like this." I walked closer to her. "But I'll let that slide this time."

I grabbed both sides of her face and I kissed her deep as I ran my hands through hair and down her back and rested both of my hands on backside, but then broke the kiss before things could go farther.

"If you're good we can continue this tonight." I turned her around. "Now go."

She took off with her super speed and in a few minutes I see a blur holding something,and a smaller blur with a glowing gem behind.Was Sparkling using her siren powers for the first time?

Dash was now dressed,but both girls were on their pajamas and Sparkling had her hair like she just woke up.Excited looks on both their faces.

"Twinie up?"Tree ask.

"Not yet but soon Tree."I told her."You didn't change Tree Dash?"I then take a look at Sparkling."I know you're excited Sparkling,but you are on your pajamas,bareshoe,and didn't even bother to put your hair up."

"I don't wanna miss her waking up mom."

I giggle."You're really like your mom Dash."

Paper then started opening her eyes.

We all went over to her. Paper looked around "Why am I..."

"Twinie!" Tree shouted as she jumped out of Dash's arms and landed on the bed, she then crawled up and hugged Paper.

Paper hugged her twin sister. "You can talk? That's awesome!" Then she looked around the room. "Moms Sparkling why am I at the hospital?"

"You had a seizure." I told her. "What's the last thing you remember?"

"We were leaving the other house, I started feeling bad...and now this."

"You really scared us sweetie." Dash tells her.

"Do they know what's wrong with me?" Paper asked us.

I nodded."Epilepsy worser than Sparkling's,you were in coma for 4 days,didn't woke up till now.We were all really worried about you."

"I'm so glad you're ok lil sis."Sparkling said as she went closer to Paper and also hugged her but unlike Tree she quickly let go of her aware that her sister's body must still not fully recovered.

Paper then did a pain face she then looked at Tree."Tree I know you love me and are glad to see me ok but can you let me go?"

Tree shook her head no.

Dash went close and got Tree back into her lap.

"Tree your sister is still not fully ok."She told her.

"Twinie hurt?"

"No.Paper is sick,she's getting better but she's still sick."

"Oh when twinie better?"

Me and Dash knew very well the answer,not ever,epilepsy is chronic and the curse aggravated anything the girls had.Sparkling still had seizures sometimes.

That's when Sparkling did something that Adagio would do,she sighed took a deep breath and went up to Tree.

"You know how you're sick and need to go checked with aunt Sunset and other doctors every week?And how big sis has to take her meds everyday,and sometimes get checked by aunt Sunset too?"

Tree nodded,she would remember going on some appointments with Sunset where we took Sparkling too,Sunset was now specifying herself in every area possible to an point we were worried all she did for her health was eating,she always was tired,and you could tell she was barely taking care of herself...And probably losing her relationship with her son,making Blame more rebel.

"Paper is like that too.She'll need meds everyday and to go to aunt Sunset sometimes maybe from week to week like you do.Right now she was very sick,and still needs to stay here but she should be going back home with us soon and you two can play like you always do,alright.So until she's better enough to get out here soon but until she's totally better very long like is taking with you and me."Sparkling told Tree.

"'Right.Twinie better long."She said apparently satisfied with Sparkling's answer.

Sunset entered the room in middle of that."Good job explaining it Sparkling,you got a way with kids."She went over to Paper and checked her if she could sing."The damage seems to be minimum.Sparkling pretty much resumed what her recovery plan looks like meds everyday and I want to see her week to week,maybe bring her on the same day I check Tree weekly,it makes my job easier,and you not having to come here twice in the same week.And talking about that I see Tree is speaking...Maybe bring her earlier this week if by the end of it that speech impediment of hers doesn't go away,for now I think it's because she recently learned how to talk...but keep an eye on it.Other than that I'll only keep Paper for one more day to observe,and then you probably could take her home."

Sunset was talking fast and seemed energized,too energized,even tho her eyes showed she didn't get a blink of sleep.Me and Dash exchanged a look,Sunset wasn't as close with me as she was with Dash or Dagi.So I didn't want to say anything.

"Ook.Want to hang out at our house tomorrow if Paper goes home?"Dash asks her.

"But I need to work."She lets an yawn escape."I need more coffe."She said really low.

"We'll talk about that tomorrow,and think of it this way you can keep an eye on if anything happens with the three of them."Dash said clearly wanting to discuss the situation Sunset was in when Paper was home and out of Sunset's ambient of work.

"Oh alright, sure.I'll come by tomorrow and we can...do what.."

"You sure you're alright?" Dash asked her.

"Yeah Dash don't worry. I got to go I'll be by to check on Paper later." Sunset left before we could say anymore.

"Oook..." Dash said after Sunset left "I knew she was working to much but now I'm worried."

"We'll talk about it later." I told her. We don't want to worry the girls. "I'll call Dagi later and invite her over too." We're gonna need her too if Sunset is as stubborn as I think she is.

"Yeah that's a great idea."

We spent the rest of the day with Paper. I was so happy having her awake again. I was really scared I'd lose her. When I called Adagio to ask her to come over to talk to Sunset tomorrow she agreed and even offered to come and stay with Paper that night. I could tell she was more worried about Sunset then Paper. So we agreed Adagio would stay here and give me and Dash a chance to spend the night alone. Of course I took her up on the offer.

The next morning me and Dash went to the hospital to get Paper. Sunset looked even worse then she did the day before.

"How is she?" I asked Adagio when Sunset wasn't in the room.

"Paper will be going home as soon as they get the paperwork done."

"You know that's not who I meant."

"I know, Sunset we'll talk about when we get to your place.Sunset agreed to get out of the shift earlier so she'll be going with us."

"Agreed or was convinced up on the possibility of you telling Winter about her?"

"You know it's the second one."

We soon got home,Sunset went in the car with us,Dagi was driving and I in the back bank with Paper who was asleep in her baby chair,I guess the meds wore her out.
I put Paper down.Sparkling,Blame and Dagi's kids were at school and Tree was down for a nap.

It was the perfect moment so me,Dagi and Dash could ask Sunset what the hell was going on.Just in the morning when she got out Dagi told me she had 13 cups of coffee between night,dawn and morning she wasn't sleeping.

"So..." Sunset said clearly trying to put this off. "What do you all..."

"Cut the crap Sunset." Adagio tells her."What the hell do you think you've been doing?"

"I don't know what you're talking about."She tells Adagio.

"Ok we can play this your way.When was the last time you had a day off?"

"I...um...I don't remember, I can't just take off whenever I want."

"That long huh?"

"Well here's something easier. When was the last time you slept?"

Sunset looked away from Adagio. "I don't need it."

Adagio sighed:

"Here's something even easier,why does your son haven't seem you in 3 weeks?"

Sunset sighed."I have to stay there it's the only way I can make up for the people I couldn't save."

"You know none of that was your fault,not Flower,not Moon,not Sky.None of them."

"Ok for Flower I'll give it to you I didn't have medical training yet,or know how to use healing powers,I-I couldn't help her.But I was there medically for both my husband and my daughter,how would you act if it was Winter or any of the girls."She turned to me and Dashie."How would you act if it was each other,or if it was one of your girls.And you had healing magic and medical training.I failed them."

Adagio kept the tough face:

"Then don't fail Blame too."

"I"m not going to."

"Really?" I ask her. "Do you know how your son is acting?" I stood up and walked closer to Sunset. "How he treats Sparkling?"

"What do you mean?" She asked me as I stood over her.

"You don't even see it do you?"

"What?"

"He blames her from what happened to Sky."

"He knows what happened to her."

"Yeah that she was shot and Sparkling wasn't. That his twin sister died and Sparkling didn't."

"I..."

"You really need to talk to him."

Adagio then walked over to Sunset again:

"And that's just the beginning,Aria doesn't sees him often but he is pratically living in my house now with you working nonstop.He won't listen to me or Winter.And he also knows for what Sky was really meeting Sparkling that day,to tell her Blame liked her.And now all he knows is in his head his best friend and crush betrayed him,his twin is dead,his dad is gone and now you just disappear from his life too."

"You two don't get it."Sunset didn't say anything for awhile. "I know it's wrong but I have to do something."

"Sunset sometimes there's things no one could have helped. But we blame ourself because we would rather think we have control then admit we couldn't have done anything."

"How do you know?"

"How do you think I feel about all the visions I have? Knowing i can't do anything about it. This you can still do something about."

The room stayed in silence.An shattering silence that make we be certain Sunset was basically listening to our advice to chuck it later.Adagio's eyes were fixed on her to the point I knew this was what led to her vision with Sunset.

Then I noticed Sunset was growing paler throught the talk....

"Sunset you taking your meds?"Dash broke the silence.

Sunset didn't answer,and Adagio started acting scared oh no,something bad was about to happen.

All of sudden Sunset just fell,luckily Adagio was ready and caught her and put her in the couch,then sighed."Maybe she'll listen to her brother or to Blame."

"I doubt it."Dash said."She's never been one to let it go easily when she thinks she failed someone."

I turned to Dagi:

"Are you guys staying over,cause I'd rather not have Blame and Sparkling fighting again not only for Sparkling's sake but Sunset today really shouldn't have to see her son acting off if the talk was too much for her."

"It wasn't the talk,she hasn't been sleeping,hasn't taken her meds and was awake until now due to having coffe it was bound to happen.And I think we'll stay up into Sunset waking up if she doesn't listens at least I want her to rest for a bit today,unfortunately the kids arrive from school fairly soon."

Then my phone rung and so did Sunset's...And when Sunset's line fell Adagio's.

I turn to Adagio:

"You don't think Blame would..."

"Fight Sparkling at school?I wouldn't put it past him."She turned to Dash."Sunset before reforming was violent to you guys at school?"

"Yeah,she was."

Both me and Adagio immediately picked up our phones.

Blame was found yelling at Sparkling about his sister in the hallway,and was met with instead of Sparkling an alter called Green Flame who if I remember well made Sparkling a bit vicious,it all began with Blame pushing Sparkling but escalated to a full on fight,and Blame had got one of his cousins knives and threatned Sparkling...Right when she switched back,now they were both on Scoots office but Sparkling seemed disoriented and had no idea what happened just remembered yelling and Blame threatening her.

So they asked both of us to come there,me cause Sparkling had a headache and was too disoriented to participate in the rest of the classes and Adagio cause Blame was suspended.We both hang up.

"What we do now,Dagi?Sunset has to know if he's doing this."

Adagio held her hand to her head and sighed:

"He's unpredictable like this and seeing his older cousins really isn't a good example.I saw him talking to Tifany in the morning but I didn't know it was for this.I really think me and Winter can't get through him anymore,it's gotta be her that talks to him.But I still want her to rest at least for a little while."

"How about we ask Scoots if she can keep them there till the normal time school would get out?"

"Do you think she can handle them?"

"Of course she can." Dash told her. "I'll call her and ask her." Dash took out her phone and went into another room to make the phone call.

"Even if she'll keep them. We still need Sunset to talk to Blame." Adagio says to me.

"She will." I tell her. "But with Sparkling changing like this she might be getting worse."

Dash came back a few minutes later.

"Scoots said we can keep them till normal."

"Well that's one less thing we have to worry about.Even tho with Sparkling having a switch I'm a bit cautious if she won't get worse."

"She won't Ari,plus she has her meds on her and Scoots can give them to her if she does.She also said she sent Blame back to class so they won't fight meanwhile she keeps them she said Sparkling probably wouldn't be able to take much more fighting and that she is crying right now so she was gonna everything she could to help.She sounded pretty concerned about what Blame too,she said it's like he just changed over night from that boy running around with Sky to someone who could be actually really dangerous if not stopped."

A few good 20 minutes later Sunset woke up,seemed to be doing better.

Right about now there was only more 20 minutes so the kids got home.

"Ummm Sunset..."Adagio started."You might wanna stay in the couch for what I am about to tell you."

"What happened?"She asked immediately picking up something wrong,and by my worried face she could see it involved Blame and Sparkling.

"Blame and Sparkling had a fight at school."

"How bad, are they both alright?"

"Physically yeah. But Sparkling switched into Green Flame for awhile."

"But they didn't get hurt did they?"

"No, they're both with Scoots right now and she's keeping an eye on them."

"Then we should go and get them."

"You sure you're able to?"

"Yeah, that sleep really helped."

I could tell Adagio knew better, but she also knew fighting with her now wouldn't help.

So we went to get the kids...Nobody mentioned to Sunset that Blame threatened to stab Sparkling,so there was still tenaion in the car and Sunset could tell something was off but decided to stay quiet.

We all went to Scoots office,she was hugging Sparkling who seemed to have calmed down by now,and Blame was sitting in the chair now playing around with his cousin's knife on his hand and looking at it like what he did was right.
Dash and I went right over to Scoots and Sparkling.

"Thanks for watching them Scoots we owe you one."Dash said.

"It's no problem,they are my family too after all.Just wanted to understand what's happening they got along really well until last year."

"It's still because of Sky."

I went to Sparkling:

"You ok baby?"

She shook her head no,and clinged on to me.I hugged her.

"It's gonna be alright.We're going home and it's gonna be alright."

Scoots then turned to Sunset:

"Sunset as you can see Blame has Tifany's knife,he threatened to stab Sparkling with it,and even tho he's like family for me too I gotta suspend him."

Sunset's face changed as she took a sideways look at Blame:

"Is that so?How many days?"

"A week."

Sunset looked worried for a second then looked at Adagio who nodded no.I think that was her "can he stay with you?" look.

"What do you have to say for yourself Blame?"Sunset asked.

"I should've done it."

"Excuse me?!"

"I should've done it.For her to pay for Sky's death."

The next thing I knew I had slapped Blame for saying that. I know it's wrong and if I was in his place I might feel the same as he does. But I don't care.

"Ari I know how you feel..." Scoots started to say something.

"Shut up Scoots! This is between me and him."

"Aria I'll handle this." Sunset said then turned to Blame. "Now what do you mean? You know it's not her fault."

"Yes it was, he was after Sparkling." Blame says not even trying to hide his anger.

"And Sky did the same thing you would have.In fact I'm glad I didn't send you with them that day...I would've lost both of you."

"I hate her she's just a useless good for nothing bitch who took my sister away from me."

"Is that cause Sky was gonna talk about you with her."

"No it's not I just hate her and want her dead!"

I without control go to slap him again.But feel two arms wrap around me,it was someone significantly smaller than any of the adults in the room.

"Don't hurt him mom.He's right and it was my fault...Plus Sky said she'd never want me and him to not get along.So I don't want him hurt,even if he hates me,he's still my friend."

"It's wasn't your fault." Sunset said to Sparkling.

"But he was after her not Sky." Blame argued.

"He wouldn't have cared who it was. It's the kind of person he is."

"But he's taken everything away from me."

"He did it to all of us."

"No because of him killing Sky you work all the time. I never see you."

"Is that why you act out in school?" Scoots asked.

"He what?" Sunset asked.

"He acts out all the time. Nothing to this extent before. I've been meaning to talk to you about it, but I can't ever get a hold of you."Scoots told Sunset."Whenever I call you,it always end up on me leaving a message on your voicemail."Sunset pulled out her phone.When she did she saw over a 100 calls from Scoots."Eventually I ended up just calling Adagio or Winter."

Sunset sighed.An sigh I understood doing to seeing Adagio sigh like this too many time,it meant she feels like she failed even more.

"C'mon Blame we need to chat about this at home,Dagi can you take us to my apartment?"

Adagio nodded and then left.

Me and Dash went to leave to before Scoots stopped us:

"I wanted to talk to you guys about Sparkling too."She turned to Sparkling."Can you wait out of the room?Your moms are gonna be with you in a moment I promise."

"What's wrong?"Dash asked.

"I'm worried about her,she hasn't been herself since getting out the mental hospital,and she hasn't been paying much attention in class,in her tests her logic is correct up until solving the questions,and that wouldn't be a problem if when she gets anything less than an A or an B she didn't broke down in class.It's not the first time she come here this week too,but every time she does she's accompanied by the nurse.Guys she needs a break,I don't know if Dash noticed it but she's studying instead of eating in lunch break and I wouldn't be surprised if she hasn't wrote her songs at home in a while.I know as a principal I shouldn't do this...But I'm doing it as her aunt Scoots...I'm letting her have an early 15 day break,I made her put all her school things in her locker,make sure to talk to her to assure her she's not a failure because I think that's how she feels."

"Thanks Scoots." Dash told her. "Don't know what we'd do without you."

Scoots hugged Dash. "We're family you need anything let me know."

When Dash got done hugging her I hugged Scoots. "We will, I didn't realize just how bad things were"

"She was probably trying to hide it. But this will help her."

Me and Dash left with Sparkling.