Road to recovery

“Here, Twilight, have a drink,” Luna magically handed the unicorn mare a glass of water when she fell back to sleep after waking up and woke up again two hours later. The violet mare gratefully accepted the glass when she realized how dry her throat was and drank from the glass with a contented sigh.

“Nice to see you back among the living, Miss Sparkle,” a unicorn stallion in a doctor's coat called out as he entered the private hospital room where Twilight and Luna were staying and walked over to the two mares, coming to a halt at the left side of the bed. “Good afternoon, I'm Doctor Kristall and I'm your attending physician,” he nodded kindly to the mare, who nodded back in confusion and greeted him, but before she could start to ask a question, she was interrupted by the stallion. “You can ask any questions you have, Miss Sparkle, but first I just want to check you a little... if that's all right, of course?” he looked up briefly from his notebook at the mare, who was still looking at him in confusion and nodded after a little hesitation.

“Excellent, please keep looking at me,” he used his magic to take a small flashlight from his breast pocket and shone it into Twilight's eyes in turn, ”Perfect, her pupils are reacting as they should and now please follow the flashlight with your eyes only. He drew an invisible line from right to left and back again and then up to down and back again, “Excellent, just a few more small questions and then I'm done,” he smiled encouragingly at the mare.

“Your name is Twilight Sparkle, right?” he looked briefly at his notes, to which Twilight replied in the affirmative. “You're a unicorn mare, right?” he asked, to which she answered yes again. ''Just one more question. What date do we have, or what is the last date you can remember?” he looked at the mare expectantly.

“That must have been December 22nd or is it now the 23rd?” the unicorn mare said after a little hesitation, whereupon she was looked at with great concern by the dark blue princess, who turned briefly to the doctor and looked at him with a worried and questioning look,''Doctor?''. Twilight looked confusedly from the alicorn mare to the stallion, “Is that not right?”.

“Miss Sparkle, what is the last thing you can remember?” the stallion opened a blank page in his notebook and waited anxiously for the violet mare's answer. She scratched her head thoughtfully with one hoof for a moment, ''I said goodbye to my assistant because he wanted to spend Hearths Warming with his girlfriend, which was quite late in the evening. After that I made myself dinner and went to sleep and then I woke up here. Why am I in hospital?” she asked, looking anxiously back and forth between the two ponies.

“Doctor, what does that mean?” Luna turned to the stallion with a worried and somewhat threatening aura, which made Twilight flinch briefly, but the stallion remained neutral. “Princess, please calm down a little and follow me outside for a moment,” he pointed with one hoof to the door of the room and left with the alicorn mare behind him.

“First of all, there's no need to worry,” he turned to the dark blue mare as the door to the room closed behind her. “Then why can't she remember what happened?” she asked him, still in a slightly threatening voice, causing nearby personnel to move away from the alicorn mare in fear.

“The magical checks have not detected any damage to Miss Spakle's brain and my little check just now also showed that everything is working,” the stallion tapped his chin thoughtfully,''but why can she only remember back to December 22?'' the Princess of the Night asked again. ''My theory is temporary amnesia. Specifically to December 23 and 24. Miss Sparkle's brain is currently protecting itself by suppressing the memories of her near-suicide. Her brain is in a panic mode right now, but her memories should come back when her brain calms down or someone tells her, which can cause a lot of stress,'' he wrote down his theory.

After the two of them went back into the room, the doctor said goodbye to the two mares and left them alone again.

After a few minutes of silence, Twilight turned to the princess, “L..Luna?” she managed to get out a little hesitantly. “Yes Twilight?” she smiled at the smaller mare ''Can you tell me why I'm in the hospital and from the facility, the one in Canterlot?'' she asked anxiously. “Are you sure, it could be a bit stressful and possibly traumatizing?” the night blue mare asked more than worried, to which the unicorn mare only nodded in the affirmative, ‘please’.

''Today is December 28th'' Luna took a deep breath, at the mention of the date Twilight looked up at the alicorn mare in shock and confusion. ''Four days ago at Hearths Warming, h.... ha...you...'' the princess had to swallow the lump in her throat and a few tears escaped, ''you tried to take your own life...''.