In My Dreams

In My Dreams

Chapter 2

Jonathan woke up on a bed. He knew instantly that it wasn’t his own. He had slept enough nights on his own bed to know the difference. Jonathan’s head felt like it had been wrapped with cotton and his tongue felt at least three times its size. For some reason Jonathan couldn’t open his eyes enough to see where he was. Had he been abducted? Had somebody sneaked into the house last night and now he was being held hostage for a ransom? Somehow he doubted that. The bed was way too comfortable for something you’d put a hostage on. Jonathan could hear some sort of beeping. It sounded like an EKG from those hospital series his mother liked to watch. Was he in a hospital? Had his falling on the backyard cracked his skull and now he was in a coma or something? Different scenarios raced through his head when he suddenly heard a door opening. There were steps coming closer to his bed, four pairs of feet by the sound of it.

“Has there been any change in the patient’s condition, nurse Redheart?” Jonathan could hear a male voice asking a few feet away. Had the voice just said nurse Redheart? Where had Jonathan heard that name before? He couldn’t figure out. His head felt like it started spinning if he thought too much.

“No doctor, he’s been asleep ever since he was brought in. He had a nasty cut on the back of his head and he had suffered a mild concussion but other than that he should be alright”, said a female voice, probably nurse Redheart.

“A concussion? Well at least it was nothing more serious”, Jonathan thought. Then he heard nurse Redheart continue in a lower voice. She actually sounded a bit intimidated. “Um… Doctor? What do you suppose he is exactly?”

What did she mean “what is he”? Jonathan thought. As far as he knew, he was a human. Couldn’t this nurse see it? Was she blind or something?

“I – I have absolutely no idea, nurse Redheart”, the doctor replied. “But as long as he doesn’t show any signs of hostility, we’ll keep on taking care of him.”

Now Jonathan was a little scared. What did they mean with that? Didn’t he look like a human? Why? He wanted to stand up and shout at them: “I’m a human! Can’t you see?!” but all he could manage was a barely audible “hmmmnngh” and a frown.

“Oh dear!” nurse Redheart exclaimed. “He seems to be awake.”

“So it would seem”, the doctor agreed. He stepped a little closer and Jonathan assumed the nurse had followed since he could hear two footsteps coming closer. “Can you hear me? Can you understand what I’m saying?” the doctor asked articulating his words very slowly and clearly as if Jonathan was a foreigner who couldn’t understand English.

“Hmmnnh”, was the only form of an answer Jonathan could muster. The doctor sighed.

“It seems he’s still too weak to give any kind of an understandable answer”, he said to nurse Redheart and then continued towards Jonathan. “You’re in a hospital. You had an accident but you’re going to be okay. We will take care of you.” He said this very slowly again and Jonathan was completely baffled. Why did the doctor think Jonathan couldn’t understand English? What was going on here? The footsteps, all four pairs of them, walked away and Jonathan was left alone in the room.

“Well, as long as I’m here, I guess I should sleep this headache off”, Jonathan thought as the excruciating headache was back again. He calmed his mind and fell asleep.

- - -

He had slept for what felt about a few hours before he heard footsteps again. This time only two people. “Hello again, this is nurse Redheart. I’m here to check on you. Are you able to speak yet?” the familiar voice of the nurse asked. Where had he heard that name before? Jonathan’s tongue actually felt a few sizes smaller this time and he was able to open his mouth and give the nurse an answer.

“Yes, I’m able to speak”, Jonathan said. “Would you mind telling me where I am?”

“Oh, I’m so glad you’re feeling better, mister. We were really worried about you when you were brought in. You had a nasty looking cut on the back of your head but we patched you up so no worries about that. We here in the Ponyville hospital have some of the best doctors of all of Equestria. You should be fine in just a few more days”, the nurse said.

Something in her words seemed to trigger Jonathan’s brains back into working condition. Suddenly the EKG’s beeping got faster as Jonathan’s heart started racing in his chest. Had the nurse just said Ponyville? And Equestria?!

All of a sudden there was no doubt in his mind where he had heard the name nurse Redheart before. His eyes flew open in disbelief and surely enough before him stood in four hooves the white nurse pony of Ponyville hospital. Everything he had heard during the previous visit made suddenly sense.

Of course the nurse hadn’t known what Jonathan was and of course they wouldn’t assume he spoke English. He was a completely different species from them! He was a human and these were ponies! He had thought four people had entered the room previously, because ponies walked on four hooves instead of two legs like humans and this time he had thought there were two people instead of just one pony because he had heard the sound of two pairs of steps!

“What in the name of...?” Jonathan exclaimed and suddenly felt very lightheaded. “I think I’m going to be sick”, he said.

“Oh dear! Still feeling bad?” the nurse said and quickly pulled out a bucket and gave it to Jonathan.

Jonathan took the bucket but suddenly the feeling of nausea was gone and replaced by pure amazement and immeasurable happiness. He was in Equestria! He was inside the very TV-show he had watched and loved for the last couple of years! Jonathan dropped the bucket and just smiled. He had no idea why or how he had gotten there but the simple fact that he had, was enough to fill his heart with unbelievable joy.

“How in the world did I get here?” Jonathan wondered aloud as he looked at nurse Redheart. She was exactly like in the show. White coat, light pink mane and tail, a nurse hat and a cutie mark picturing a red cross with pink hearts in each corner.

“Well. I was actually hoping you could tell me, mister…?” Redheart asked quizzingly.

“Oh! Jonathan! My name is Jonathan.” the boy answered still wearing that silly smile on his face.

“Well nice to meet you, Mister Jonathan”, the white mare said with a smile. “Umm… Not to be offensive or anything but… What species are you exactly, Mister Jonathan?” she asked.

“Um… I’m a human actually. I suppose you don’t have any humans here?” Jonathan replied already guessing the answer.

“No, I don’t think we do. But that can be just me. I’m only a small town nurse. There must be some species I haven’t heard of”, Redheart answered and looked thoughtfully to her patient. “Do you have any information on how you ended up in the fields outside Ponyville with a concussion and a cut in your head, Mister Jonathan?” she asked.

“Honestly, I have no idea, Miss Redheart. I was watching the meteor shower at home in my backyard when this small piece of rock hit the ground. I touched the rock and it hit me with some kind of a lightning. The spark made me fall back and that’s when I hit my head. I wasn’t feeling very well so I just went to sleep and the next thing I knew was waking up here. And by all means please just call me Jonathan. I’m not used to being called Mister”, Jonathan answered. He wasn’t sure if the meteorite had anything to do with his arrival here but it seemed to be the most logical answer.

“Only if you won’t call me Miss Redheart”, she said with a little laugh and a wink. “Just Redheart is fine, or nurse Redheart, whichever pleases you, Jonathan. Now, where exactly is home, if you don’t mind me asking? I still have to fill your files.”

“I live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, if that means anything to you”, Jonathan said assuming the nurse had no idea where Philadelphia was. Instead the nurse’s eyes lit up as if she’d heard the name of someplace familiar.

“Oh, do you mean Fillydelphia? I used to live there for a short while before I came to Ponyville. Where in Fillydelphia do you live, if I may ask? I’ve never heard of any humans in there”, she asked enthusiastically. Of course, nurse Redheart had thought Jonathan meant Fillydelphia instead of Philadelphia since the names were so similar.

“No, I didn’t mean Fillydelphia. I meant Philadelphia which is in the state of Pennsylvania in America on a planet called Earth. I don’t think you’ve ever visited another planet, have you?” Jonathan explained with an amused smile.

“Well… No I haven’t. The names were just so similar I thought I just misheard you saying Fillydelphia… Hold on… Did you say another planet? How in Equestria is that even possible?” the nurse was astonished by this information. “I think you should probably talk to our librarian about this. She’s really clever and all so she might have an idea of what’s happened. I can send somepony to fetch her if you’d like.”

“Umm… This might sound a little bit weird but is your librarian’s name by any chance Twilight Sparkle?” Jonathan asked. He didn’t think it would actually be possible to wake up in a place exactly like the show but everything else had matched up so far so why not this?

“Actually yes! It is her name. Do you know her? Oh wouldn’t it be just great if there was somepony here you actually knew from before?” nurse Redheart answered happily.

“Yeah, well. I don’t actually know her. I just kind of know of her”, Jonathan said with a smile. Twilight Sparkle was actually here? This would be so awesome!

“Well, I guess she is a bit of a celebrity, being the element of magic and the princess’ personal protégé”, nurse Redheart laughed. “Would you like to see her? I could go ask her myself if she could come over.”

“Yeah. I think she might have some kind of an idea about all this”, Jonathan answered with a joyful grin. This was the most perfect day of his life!

- - -

The nurse had left Jonathan about an hour ago and said she’d go straight to the library to see when Twilight would have time for a visit. Assuming that Twilight would run straight to the hospital if she’d hear there was someone of a different species, not to mention a sentient species, there, he figured nurse Redheart hadn’t told twilight exactly what she had waiting for him. Jonathan was barely able to finish his last thought before the door was flung open and a very excited Twilight Sparkle rushed in.

“Ohmygosgohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!” Twilight shouted in amazement as she saw Jonathan lying on the bed staring into her eyes.

“I don't believe it! She wasn’t kidding! It really IS another species! And it really DOES look like a monkey! This is SO COOL!!!” Twilight rushed to the bed and immediately started poking Jonathan everywhere over his body, lifting his arms and legs and even blowing in his ear to see his reaction.

The action mentioned last made Jonathan laugh.

“Hey! Hahaha! Stop it! That tickles!” Jonathan laughed, or once again giggled, but let’s not go to that.

“AND IT SPEAKS TOO!” Twilight seemed to fall in some kind of scientifical ecstasy after this discovery.

“Um… Hello? Miss Sparkle?” Jonathan asked and waved a hand at Twilight. She too was exactly like in the show. Light purple coat and the triple colored mane and tail. She was every bit like in MLP down to the pink-ish star on her flank surrounded by five smaller white stars.

Jonathan waving his hand seemed to break the haze the purple mare was in. She took a deep breath and just stared at Jonathan for a moment with a look of disbelief on her face. Suddenly her face turned beetroot red and she looked down as if she was ashamed of herself.

“Please tell me I didn’t just blow in your ear…” she said in a barely audible voice.

“You sure did”, Jonathan replied with a small laugh.

“Oh no. I’m so terribly, terribly sorry! I don’t know what came over me! When nurse Redheart said that you weren’t a pony but something completely different I just lost it. Can you ever forgive me? I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t”, she explained with actual tears in her eyes.

“Oh, don’t worry about it miss Sparkle”, Jonathan said with a wave of a hand. “In fact the only thing keeping me from screaming out of joy for actually meeting you is this cursed headache I’m still having from the concussion.

“Meeting me? Joy? Why would you want to meet… me?” Twilight asked astonished. Now it was Jonathan’s turn to go red. He had no idea how to explain to Twilight how he knew her so he decided not to, at least not yet.

“Well, you know. You are a big celebrity being one of the elements of harmony and all. Everybody would be honored to actually meet you in person”, Jonathan tried to escape further questions.

“Oh please, I’m not that big of a celebrity”, Twilight said drawing circles on the floor with her hoof. Then she suddenly looked straight at Jonathan’s eyes. “Hold on… Nurse Redheart said you told her you were from another planet. I know I might be… well… known in Equestria but somehow I don’t believe somepony on another planet could have any information about me. I am a clever pony mister and I know when somepony is not telling me the truth. What are you hiding exactly?”

“Oh boy… This will be trouble…” Jonathan thought as he smiled sheepishly to Twilight and wondered how she would take what he was about to tell her.

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Author's note:

Once again please comment to give me any kind of criticism or tell me about any mistakes you might have found. I'm really liking the writing so far, I just hope I can keep this one in some kind of frames. Please rate! :)