Teaching Fluttershy

Chapter 3: This isn’t Equestria

I was done washing the dishes, I looked over to see where Fluttershy was sitting, she was looking around but I noticed she turned to look at the TV a lot. “I’m done with the dishes; I’m going upstairs to get something that’ll show you this cartoon you and your friends appear in.” I said drying my hands with some paper towels.

“Okay” She replied, with that I headed upstairs to get my laptop and usb that had all the episodes in it.

Fluttershy moved over a bit from where she was. She sat down on the remote control for the TV which caused it to turn on. “Oh dear, what did I do?” She said in a low voice fearing Peter would hear her. The channel happened to be CNN and they were doing a special report on terrorism while showing images that were a little disturbing causing Fluttershy to let out low yelp of fear, she quickly grabbed the remote control and pressed the many buttons, to make things worse the channel landed on the food network

“Hello home viewers today we’re going to be preparing a delicious steamed rabbit.” Announced the host, Fluttershy nearly blackout at the single thought of eating a defenseless rabbit or any animal to that matter. She covered her head in horror; she didn’t even change the channel this time. She heard Peter coming down the stairs.

“Okay I got the stuff right here.” I said walking in to where Fluttershy was, but as I looked closer I noticed that she was covering her face while shaking intensely. “What’s wrong?” I asked, being cut off by the noise coming from the TV.

“Alright, now that we have seasoned the rabbit, we’re ready to put him in the oven.” Instructed the TV host putting the rabbit in the oven

“Oh dear.” I thought quickly running to turn off the TV before anything else showed up. “Okay it’s off” I said sitting down next to her, she quickly flinched away from me.

“How can you do that to poor defenseless animals?” She asked on the verge of tears.

“Fluttershy I told you, we are very different from Equestria, we eat animals, and yes I know it’s wrong but we need it to survive.” I explained getting closer but she got further every time.

“Get away from me!” She yelled scaring me, but I knew I had to calm her down.

“Please calm down I told you this is a whole different planet with so many things wrong but not everybody is the same.” I said trying to hold her down with no use, after a few moments she started to levitate.

“Let go of me you monster!” she said fly in circles trying to make me let go.

“Please get down and I promise I’ll stop eating meat.” I begged.

“How do I know that’s true?” She replied still flying around violently.

“Because I promised I wouldn’t do anything that could hurt you.” I said trying to grasp on as hard as I could but with no luck, I slipped of Fluttershy and landed with all my body weight on my left arm.

“OW, MY ARM!” I screamed in intense pain, I prayed it wasn’t broken finally Fluttershy landed next to me. I sat up grabbing my arm I turned over to see where Fluttershy, her face was that of regret.

“Oh gosh I’m so sorry.” She said leaning in grabbing my arm to inspect the damage, I quickly moved my arm away due to the intense pain but Fluttershy thought otherwise.

“Could… y-you forgive me?” She asked once again on the verge of tears once again. I got up and ran into the bathroom to inspection the damage, I made the error of not saying anything to Fluttershy, I went in and closed the door behind me.

“God damn this hurts a lot.” I said taking my shirt off with the most caution trying to feel the less pain I could. After a feeling around a bit I concluded that it wasn’t fractured but just really hurt, I grabbed some bandages from the first aid kit that was there. I heard the front door open
“Fluttershy!” I thought I quickly ran out the bathroom while putting on my shirt, Fluttershy wasn’t in the room anymore. “Oh crap.” I thought running to the front door. I saw her running down the driveway.

“Wait!” I screamed running after her.

“No, I’m leaving I don’t want to cause any more trouble.” She replied.

“But you’re not causing any.” I said grabbing her before she took of flying, this hurt my arm a bit but I didn’t want her flying away and getting caught by the government or something like that.
“Listen to me.” I said making her look at me.
“Don’t worry it was an accident, yeah I understand if you got scared of me but you have to understand that I’m different to all those bad people. I forgive you, no matter what you do I forgive you but please just get inside before anybody sees you.” I begged pinning her down against the grass, she didn’t struggle as much as I would’ve expected.

“Do…Do y-you mean it?” She asked opening her eyes and looking up at me.

“Yes I do.” I said letting go of her, I stood up and extended my arm to help her up. “See this? This is all I need to help me, I’ll only need it for about a day or two.” I said showing her my bandage
“Are you sure?” She asked getting closer to inspection the bandage.

“Yup, now come let’s get inside before anybody sees you.” I said looking around to see if there was anybody looking.

“Okay… But you aren’t mad right?” She Asked heading towards the front door of the house.

“Of course not, there is nothing you can do that’ll make me mad, I trust you that much.” I said walking up behind her.

“Do you mean it?” She said standing inside the house waiting for me to come in.

“I mean it and I promise it as long as you trust me as well.” I said coming in through the door and closing it behind me

“Oh yes I can do that.” She responded.

“Well in that case let go watch the cartoon.” I said heading back towards the living room, if I wouldn’t have had to pick up my laptop I would’ve forgotten about my arm, it hurt like hell but I couldn’t show it off due to Fluttershy being there.

“What’s this thing?” She asked pointing with her hoof at the laptop.

“This is called a laptop, it lets you see the moving pictures like on the TV but you can also play games on it and talk with people, it can do a lot of stuff.” I said opening up one of the episodes.

“Oh that’s interesting.” She said leaning in a bit more to see the screen

“Well this is the show.” I said as the episode started, it was the one episode where she had become a model; I must say it was one of my favorite episodes, she of course also recognized it immediately.

“Oh please don’t watch this…” She said blushing and looking away.

“Why? I think you looked great.” I said smiling to make her feel better.

“You’re just saying that.” She said again still not looking at me, this confirms that the episodes well at least this one, did happen.

“Fine I’ll take it off.” I set the laptop aside and took off the video. “So how long ago did this happen? I mean when you were a model.” I asked her, hopefully she look at me.

“About one year ago maybe a bit more.” She answered looking at me, well she moved her head in my direction.

“Oh well you do-” I was cut off by a knocking coming from the front door. “ Oh no, quick um… go upstairs!” I said quickly getting up from the couch.

“Do I go to your room?” She asked also scared of being found by somebody else that could hurt her.

“Doesn’t matter just hide!” I was getting a little hysteric, who could it be?

“Ok.” She said flying up to the second floor of the house.

“Perfect.” I thought as soon as I heard a door close upstairs, finally I could open the door.

“Oh. Hello Mrs.Bonhan, how can I help you? Am I in trouble?” I said giving of a fake smile, it was our neighbor Lieutenant Andrea Bonhan, she’s a police officer which made me a little sacred when I saw her wearing her uniform.

“Hello Peter, don’t worry you’re not in trouble. I came by before going of to work because your mom was lending me some books.” She said smiling back at me.

“Oh yeah, I forgot that.” I said reaching in to grab them from the table that was nearby. “Here you go.” I said handing her the books.

“Thanks Peter, have a nic-” She was cut off by a noise coming from upstairs. “Is there somebody else here?” She asked looking inside.

“Damn” I thought. “NO! I mean no it’s just me, nobody else is here but me. You should be heading off to work; last thing we want is to ruin your perfect attendance so run along now.” I said trying to avoid any unnecessary sightings.

“Hmm. Well if you need anything just call me okay?” She said taking a last look around the inside of the house before leaving.

“Sure will.” I said waving before closing the door. “That was close.” I thought while cleaning of my forehead. “Fluttershy it’s safe!” I called out, there was no response.
“Fluttershy you okay? Where are you?” I called out again while walking up the stairs.
“Oh there you are, it’s okay you can come back downstairs.” I said opening my bedroom door, luckily she was there sitting on my bed but she was looking down at something, I couldn’t tell what since I was facing her back.
“Is everything alright?” I asked getting closer to her.

“Where you get these?” She asked turning around holding the Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie dolls I had.

“Um, well you see… Well those are toy figures of you and Pinkie but I also have the other girls.” I said, I could feel my face getting warmer due to the embarrassment.

“What are they for?” She asked again looking at them rather confused.

“Well I have them for collection and to feel…well… safer.” Damn this pony had ways of making anybody speak, with her adorable face and cute voice, who wouldn’t resist answering her questions?

“Oh…well that’s…kind of you to like me and the rest of the girls that much. Anyways, who was at the door?” She asked putting back the toys where they were.

“Oh it was just my neighbor.” I answered sitting down next to her. “So…What do you want to do now?” I asked her, I didn’t quite know how to entertain people or ponies for that matter.

“Whatever you want to do is fine; oh by the way how is your arm feeling?” She asked looking down at my arm which was covered up.

“It only hurts when I put pressure on it but it coming along fine, I put on my gloves to cover up the bandage so no one sees it.” I said looking down at my arm. “Anyways, you want to watch a movie?” I suggested forgetting about whether or not if she knew what it was.

“Sure…” She responded

“Okay come on lets go back downstairs.”

“Okay we are going to watch a movie called Rio.” I said sitting down with a bowel of popcorn, I put it where me and Fluttershy could both grab them with ease, I also put two glasses of soda on the center table.

“Um what’s it about?” she asked, I explained to her what a movie was before putting it on.

“It’s about two birds, one of them can’t fly but the other one can, the first one falls in love with the second while there lost and well… It’s rather hard to explain but I sure you’ll like it.” I said putting on the movie.

“I’m sure I’ll like it if it has animals in it.” She said lying down on the couch.

“Let’s just hope nobody else comes while we’re watching this.” I said while eating some of the popcorn.

“Yeah, I really want to watch this.” She said excited to see the opening scene of the movie. It made me fill with joy seeing her so happy but the time was running out and the first to arrive would without a doubt be my mom, I know I have to tell her but I have to convince her to let Fluttershy live here for at least another year, if Fluttershy is even here for that long.
That way when I turn 18 I can rent an apartment and I can maintain Fluttershy without having to worry about my mom wanting her or not, whatever the reason, I hope I can talk some sense into her.