The Origin of Derpy Part 2: Rehabilitation
(Part 1 here also. In case you missed the link in the description)
The Origin of Derpy Part 2: Foalhood
I slowly opened my eye's, letting the brightness from the lights above me shine in. My eye's began to adjust as I saw three shadowed figures linger over me. As my eye's continued to adjust; I was able to begin to make out who was there.
"Da-Daze?"
"Hey kiddo, you hanging in there?" She said as she placed her hoof onto mine.
"Yeah... What happened?"
"You had an accident, you ran at Cobblemane when he was beating San-"
"OH LUNA, IS SANDY OKAY?!" I jerked up from my hospital bed. Daze set her hooves on my chest trying to calm me down. An ere moment of silence befell the room before I heard a chuckle come from my left.
"I'm fine." I jerked my head over to my left and there she was, standing there in front of me, holding her baby. She looked at me with a warm smile. I grabbed onto her shoulders and began scanning all over her body making sure she was indeed alright. I took notice of a large scar that ran across her stomach. I began to speak to her in a hysteria.
"How!? I saw you, you were dead, or I thought I saw you dead."
"Well, I'm here arn't I? I just passed out due to the amount of blood I lost. That's all." I looked down at her child.
"And the baby?"
"Oh, you havn't been properly introduced yet. Her name Is Dinky." She lifted her up to show me her face.
"She's beautiful."
"That she is." A different voice sounded off. I looked away from Sandy to the very end of the bed, where Ms. Redheart stood.
"Ms. Redheart!" I lunged forward from my bed giving her the largest hug I possibly could. She returned the hug ten fold and whispered into my ear.
"You can call me mom from now on Derpy." I looked back at her with tear's in my eye's. After that we began talking and discussing all that had happened. It felt like hour's went by, when in reality only minutes passed. We had just finished one of our topics and were about to move onto the next one, when a candy stripper (Volunteer Nurse) walked in. She had a pink flowing mane that swung all the way to her knee's. Her cutie mark was one of two snakes, intertwining around a pole.
"Okay everyone visiting hour's are over." We looked at each other, and with a heavy heart we all said our goodbye's. I leaned back onto my bed once they had exited, leaving only me and the nurse in the room. I put my hooves behind my head and let out a sigh of relief. "You have a lovely family" She said.
"Yeah... Yeah I do." I said with a proud tone.
"Well it's time for your daily sponge bath hun, why don't you lower the cover's and lay on your belly for me?" She said as she was preparing a tub of water, her back facing me.
"Oh alright" I did as I was asked and rolled over onto my stomach. Almost Instantly I felt a force jump onto my bed and pin their hoof behind my neck. I jerked my eye's back to see the former nurse become Cobblemane.
"I always knew you were a good girl, here's your reward for being so obedient!"
"NO! DAZE, SANDY, REDHEART ANYPONY HELP!" My family bursted into the room, slamming the door against the wall. They began to run towards me, crying my name the whole time. But the more they ran the further they appeared. I looked back at Cobblemane as he thrusted towards me.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH" I jerked up from the covers, my whole body in a cold sweat. I frantically looked over the entire room, feeling myself to make sure I was not harmed. After I was certain Cobblemane had not been in my room, I looked to my right, at my sister Dinky who shared a room with me. Seeing her sound asleep and well within her crib, I curled up into a ball and began to sob into my hooves. A few seconds passed before Daze and Redheart busted into the room, bat's in hoof.
"Derpy! What's going, on what's wrong?!" Redheart yelled out. After seeing how I was she lowered her weapon and walked over to my bed. She sat by my side and wrapped her hooves around me in an embracing hug. Between my sobs I was able to make a sentence.
"I *sniff* I had the dream again."
"Ohh shhHHhhhHhh, hush now. Nothing like that ever happened. Nothing like that will ever happen." She said in a lower whisper as she gently rocked me back and forth. Daze walked over to my opposite side and placed her hoof on mine.
"You okay Derpy?" I looked up at her and nodded as I sniffled a bit.
"Wanna sleep in my bed tonight? Would that make you feel better?" Redheart asked me. I nodded a yes in response. "Okay, Daze can you be a dear and sleep with Dinky tonight?"
"Yeah sure thing mom."
Redheart nudged me and I lifted myself up and we walked into her room. Me, Daze and Dinky had been living in Ms. Redh- Mom's house now for a year now. The carpet and wall's matched her colors. The rug was a bright pink, where as the walls were a vanilla white. There were two bathroom's and three bedroom's. Daze and Redheart slept in their own room's as I shared one with Dinky. I volunteered to sleep with her though so I didn't mind being woken up every so often from Dinky's crying. The house was centered in downtown Ponyville, a prime location; it was only a five minute trot at most to anywhere in town.
We finally reached mom's room and she gently set me on top of her bed and made her way around to the other side. She lifted the cover's up and waited for me to get under them. This had become a habit to her, more or less. This would be the sixth night I had slept in her bed this week. After I was under the covers she climbed under and nestled up beside me. She put her hoof around me to comfort me.
"I told you, nothing bad Is going to happen to you Derpy. So let's just get to some sleep okay?" I let out a yawn in response and closed my eye's, but the thought's of the past still wore heavily on my mind. I felt uneasy still because, even if Redheart claims that nothing bad will befall me from my past... I knew she was lying. There is no way she could protect me from what haunted me. It is true that it has been a while since those faithful event's at the orphanage. That doesn't change the fact however; of what linger's in my mind.
It all started the day after we liberated the orphanage. I was taken to the hospital, along with Daze and Sandy's baby to treat our wounds and to ensure the baby was in good health. I fell asleep on the way there from sheer exhaustion. When I awoke, I was in a room filled with white tiling, and a blue curtain to both my sides; enclosing me off from the other patients. Redheart sat to my right and took notice of my waking up.
"Hey there sleepy head." She said in a calm soothing voice as she brushed my hair out of my eye's.
"Where am I?"
"Manehattan general. You were so tired you fell asleep for a few days."
"A few day's!?" I was surprised by that bit of information.
"Mhm, I was worried until we got you here and the doctor took a look at you. He checked you out and made sure all your vital's were in order. I almost laughed when he said you were just tuckered out and that was the only reason you were asleep."
"Where's Daze? Where's Sandy? Where's the baby!?"
"Easy sweetie, just calm down. Daze and the baby are fine. They're in the other room being taken care of."
"And Sandy?" Redheart lowered her head at me.
"There's nothing I could do, sorry..."
"So that part really did happen..." I looked away from her as a cloud of gloom overtook me. We sat there in silence until we heard hoofsteps making their way towards us. We both looked out at the walkway next to my bed and saw Maverick poke his head into view.
"Ahh there you are. I see she finally woke up." He walked over to me and sat on the opposite side of Redheart. "I knew she would, she's a tough little filly aintcha?" He said as he gave me a playful noogy. I giggled as I tried to push his hand away. "Oh I almost forgot, here, everyone at the force pitched in and got the family a little something. Rex we're over here!" He called out, and the colt that had been pinned down from Ms. Lily's weapon a few day's ago appeared wielding a huge and awesome display of flowers. "I figured you could use a get well gift." He smiled at me for a moment as Rex set the flower's next to me. He then turned his attention to Redheart. "Can I speak to you for a moment Ms. Redheart?"
"Oh uh sure... Derpy I'll be right back, if you need me i'll be just a moment's notice away okay?" I nodded my head. in response All three of the adult's left me by my lonesome. I laid my back onto my bed as I waited for Redheart, Maverick, and Rex to return. They had entered the hallway outside of the room and their silhouettes moved back and forth through the frosted glass of the door they had just closed. The room was a dead silence; quiet enough to where the only sound within the room was the click of the clock hand, passing each second. My ear's perked up when I heard them begin their conversation.
"I regret to inform you this Ms. Redheart, but Ms. Lily has escaped."
"What do you mean escape? You said your men got her!"
"I thought we would have gotten her... With all the crap that was going on; I didn't want you to worry." He took a moment and I saw his shadow move, looking into the room. "Derpy and Daze had been through enough that day. You had been through a lot yourself. I figured a lie was better than the truth, even if I knew it was wrong to do so, I thought some relief would be good for the three of you." Mom just stood there, like a stone statue.
"What happened exactly?"
"Maverick pinned her down. She had been going insane; firing a strange device at me and everyone else in the unit. Once he had her pinned down she quickly used a teleport spell... Our magic expert Tele wasn't warned quickly enough to prevent her from casting the spell."
"I see." Redheart sunk her head down.
"Rex can you give us a moment please? Why don't you go an deliver Daze's flower's?"
"Yes sir" With a salute he walked away from the doorway until his hoofsteps could no longer be heard. Once he was no longer apart of their company mom lifted her head up, and as quick as lightning, she smacked Maverick right on the lips. My jaw hit the floor. Maverick instantly closed his eye's returning the kiss. My jaw continued to lower itself. They remained that way for a few moments before Maverick broke the kiss.
"I'm sorry Redh-" Mom held her hoof up to his mouth.
"You really need to step calling me by my last name." She chuckled as she lowered her hoof.
"Sorry, Misty. I thought we could have gotten her-" She raised her hoof up again, silencing him once more.
"I understand, I thank you for that. Not just for that day, but for the past few weeks too.You have been the absolute best"
Weeks!? What the buck is going on here?!
"Well... You may not say that when you hear what else I have to say to you." My mom cocked her head to the right; confused. "Can we go somewhere and sit down?" Unsure she nodded lightly; Maverick then proceeded to lead her away from the door.
An hour later.
I sat there with thoughts racing through my mind at a thousand miles an hour. Was Ms. Lily still free, and out there? Has it really been week's since that day? And if so, why did mom lie to me about that? Why was mom smacking lip's with him? What was so important that he had to have mom sit down before telling her? All these question's were about to get answered as I saw their silhouette's return and share one more kiss and hug before Maverick left. She waited a while, waving to him as he left. Once he was gone, she slowly lowered her hoof to the floor and took a heavy sigh right before entering the room again with two bowls of ice cream in hoof.
"Sorry I was gone for so long Derpy... There was something Maverick had to discuss with me. Here I got us some ice cream, not the best in the world but still alright." She said with a chuckle as she took her place by me, handing me my bowl.
"Something you'd like to share?" I asked as I took the bowl from her.
"Excuse me?" She was thrown off by my stern tone and hard glare at her, as she took a bite.
"Out there, I heard the gist of the conversation. So you can continue to lie to me, because I know it's been a few weeks, not day's that I've been out. I know Ms. Lily is still roaming Equestria, and I saw those smooches of yours. Or you can tell me what's really going on here."
"You saw and heard that huh?" She looked down not making eye contact with me, dropping her spoon into the bowl.
"Yeah" She nodded and slowly exhaled a heavy sigh. She then looked up to the light's at the ceiling, then at the floor. Trying her best to avoid eye contact with me, until she finally raised her head back up to meet my eye's.
"So what do you want to know?"
"Everything."
"That... May take a while."
