What If: My Second Life

CHAPTER 8: Seen Better Days

Author's Note: I really did work hard on that last chapter you guys, glad you liked it. This next chapter is being made right before I go to school. It's raining outside so hopefully it'll freeze over and we'll have a snow day! If that happens, expect three to four chapters today! Hope your ready for this!

Jesus Christ! I gotta stop waking up in these situations...I was hunched over the toilet, puking. My eyes were closed and my stomach felt like it was about to burst. It didn't help that I had a headache, that just made it more difficult to puke. I felt another one come on and I hurled into the toilet. It didn't have a color, just acids and water. Vinyl soon trotted in, giving me a glass of water and I drank it down fast. “Nnng..” My head hit the rim of the toilet and she frowned at me, really worried.

“If this keeps up, we're going to the doctor!” She said looking right at me, dead serious look on her face. “It's one thing for an alcohol puking, but you already puked that up about an hour ago! I'm really worried about you Jace.”

“Oh Vinyl..Your a sweet-” I had to turn away to puke again and she sighed, walking out of the room. She came back with my clothes and tossed them to me. “Come on, I'm taking you to the hospital. I think you have the flu or something...”

On the way to the hospital, I didn't puke. Instead, I held it in. It was fucking disgusting but I managed to do it. But when I got to the doctor's office, I had to ask for a bucket. I put my head inside of the bucket and groaned a bit before my stomach rumbled and I puked more. Vinyl was getting seriously worried.

“Oh Jacey...” Vinyl was now sitting in my lap, nuzzling me to keep my spirits up. She was sad that her lover had to be sick like this, and could potentially die if she wasn't around. Jace had stopped puking at this point, pretty much holding it in again. He didn't DARE kiss her!

The doctor came back in after a while and had the test results. “Well, good news is you don't have the flu..” Vinyl was happy to hear at least some good news. “The bad news is.. You have alcohol poisoning..” Jace looked down and buried his face in Vinyl's mane. He knew that he had royally fucked up back this time. He knew he could die from alcohol poisoning and that it was no laughing matter.

“Is there anything we can do for him doctor? Please...” Vinyl was crying at this point. She did not want to loose this wonderful man she called a coltfriend. She would never date again if he died.

The doctor smiled at her. “Well, more good news is that you brought him in at a perfect time! It hasn't had time to spread that much so, we can inject him with a medication that will take out the bacteria and clean him up! I'll warn you, he'll be out for about a day while the medication works, so he'll be in the hospital for a bit..”

Vinyl looked up at me and kissed me on the lips for several minutes. I was sad to feel her warm muzzle move away from my face at the end of the kiss, but it did comfort me a whole bunch. She hopped off me and gave me a little wave before heading to the hotel room.

Jace laid down, looking up at some nurses with their masks already on. “Now Jace, you'll feel a pain..” They lifted up my shirt and gasped at what they saw. “Oh Celestia are you alright?!” I nodded and reassured them that this was an old wound.

“I was hit by another pony who thought my friend was attacking their sister. I pushed my friend out of the way in time to get in the way of this other pony.. I'm fine now...” The doctor nodded and got the syringe out.

“Alright, as I said, your going to feel a prick... It WILL hurt since it's going into one of your organs.. Can you stay awake for this?”

“Hehe, Doc, you do not know what sorts of things I've stayed awake for.”

“Alright then, it's your call..” With that, he slowly inserted the syringe into my belly. It felt like it was burning right through my belly and I could feel it penetrate the skin of the stomach and inject into the stomach. Reason why it's not a pill to swallow is because that when injected, it's a lot more stronger than if they were to put it in a pill form. These ponies knew what they were doing I'll tell ya!

“Alright, Jace, we're going to have to tie you down. It's for your own safety...That hole in your stomach will close in about an hour. You can't roll over on your side without the threat of your acids spilling out and getting onto your vital organs.” Jace nodded and they had him strapped down to the table. Once they left, Jace fell into an uneasy sleep.

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Back at the hotel, Vinyl had started to think about Jace dying right before her and so many ways that Jace would die from this. She thought of the 'never going to happen' and the 'hell yeah that could happen!' scenarios. In the midst of all this, she broke down crying. She didn't want to loose him! He was the best thing that ever happened to her and if he went away...

Vinyl pounded a hoof onto the bed and sobbed into the sheets. “Why?! Why him?!” She sobbed out. Her body shook from all of this and made her loose more energy than normal. She quickly fell into a depressed sleep.

Dreaming wasn't a thing that Vinyl did very often, but this time, it wasn't a dream, but a nightmare. She was sitting on a chair, in the doctor's office, looking down and twiddling her hooves. The doctor came out and walked over to her. “I'm sorry Miss but.. He didn't pull through.” The waterworks started flowing at the news and Vinyl ran past the doctor into the room where Jace was. He as still, his chest not moving and his eyes were open, but lifeless. She jumped on top of Jace's body, sobbing into his chest.

In the middle of her grieving, a hand came up and stroked her mane softly, she looked over to see it was the hand from her lover. She got excited and looked at his face, and screamed in horror at what she saw. Instead of that sweet face she loved to look it, it was nothing but a skull. It was looking right at her, it's eye sockets black and it's jaw open. She tried to get away but the hand grabbed her by the mane. Now the hand was nothing more but a skeletal arm and was picking her up by the mane. “Why didn't you help meee?!” Came Jace's voice through the skull's mouth.

Vinyl woke up, screaming Bloody Mary and woke to the face of the hotel owner. “Oh my word! Are you alright dear?!” The owner sounded very worried. Vinyl just buried her face in her hooves and cried, having lost all hope of ever seeing Jace again.

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After having accepted Jace's fate, Vinyl had slowly made her way to the hospital, expecting to come find a corpse. She pushed open the door and was greeted by and big hug from Jace himself. “Oh Vinyl! I will never EVER leave you again! Swear to Celestia! I'm so sorry!” We both held each other and cried for a good time, until Vinyl was able to speak clearly.

“Jace! It was horrible! I had the most terrible nightmare about you! Oh thank Celestia your alright!” She nuzzled me and kissed me all over, till one kiss met both our lips and we stayed lip-locked for what seemed like hours. I wished it would be hours, but wishful thinking right? We soon pulled from each other, still holding each other. I didn't care if anyone stared! If they stared, they had to deal with it!

Going back to the hotel was more fun than usual for Vinyl. In my sorriness for making her worry, I carried her home. She was riding on my back, smiling and kissing my right cheek the entire way back to the hotel. “You didn't have to do this..” She would keep telling me every so often.

“Hey, I feel like I've done a wrong to you and I need to make up for it.” I turned my head and kissed her on the nose. She blushed and nuzzled my cheek.

“Mmm..I love you so much Jacey~”

“I love you more sweetheart.. Now.. May I ask what that nightmare was about?”

“...”

“It's alright if you don't wanna tel-”

“No, No! I'm just..Thinking..Umm..” She looked down and let out a long sigh as I carried her back to the hotel. “Well.. I was in the doctor's office, waiting for them to release you. The doctor came out and told me that you didn't make it. I started to cry and ran in to see you. I jumped on your body and looked into your still opened eyes. Jace...” I looked over at her and she was on the verge of tears. “Your beautiful eyes.. They were so dead and dark..” I had to stop and put her down to hug her.

“I'm right here angel.. You need to get this off your chest.. You'll feel a million times better.. I promise..” She nodded and dried her eyes. I picked her back up again, this time, cradling her in my arms.

“Well, I started to cry into your chest...I felt something stroking my mane... I looked over and saw it was your hand that was stoking me so kindly (shut up, don't get any ideas) and when I went to look at your face..” She closed her eyes. “It was nothing but a skull.. Looking back at me... I-I looked back at the arm but, that was just bone now! I felt it grab my mane and pick me up, telling me why didn't you save me...” She was now shaking, I kissed her on the cheek and she held back sobs. “The worst part was... It was your voice...Oh Jace! It felt so real! I lost all hope of ever seeing your face again, and it weakened me. I'm so sorry..”

“Vinyl.. You did NOTHING wrong! I was the idiot who made the mistakes. I was the one who drank until they passed out.. I can still remember you putting yourself to bed. I drank until I blacked out. I need to learn to mature..” I looked at her and she had started crying again. “What's wrong now love?”

She sniffed and looked up at me. “You're going to leave me now aren't you?!!?” I was shocked to hear this and I clutched her close to my chest, though it hurt like hell.

“Don't you think like that Vinyl! I'm not leaving you for this! I wouldn't even dream of it!” I kissed her wet cheeks and wiped them away. “I'm not leaving you.. I want to be there for you... I really do.. I've never told anyone this before. Your the only one I've ever told this to Vinyl. I mean every word I say..” She took some comfort to this, leaning up to kiss me on the lips and then falling asleep from all the drama that had happened that day.

(I didn't state this before but they were in Canterlot for the concert so that's where they were staying for the night.)

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On the train ride home, we got a personal cart in the back of the train. It was really nice and really expensive. That ride home was rather calm. Vinyl would sit in my lap and I would stroke her mane, getting kisses here and there. I had talked her into me giving her a massage. She got onto the deluxe bed in the cart and I started to rub on her back. She was already loving it. I started to check for stress points and let me tell ya, this pony was all kinds of stressed! I started up by he shoulders and her neck, giving her a nice relaxing massage, not apply a ton of pressure. She closed her eyes and was letting out sexy moans. (Oh God..) I moved down to her back and slowly rubbed on that area since it was one of the most stressed parts and needed the most attention. She let out almost a yell of pleasure (HNNNG) and it was the most sexiest thing you would have ever heard. I moved down to her flank and she 'eep'ed when I rubbed on it. I chuckled and applied more pressure and I could just listen to those moans all day. I went back up her body and when it was over, I had put her to sleep. I chuckled and crawled into the bed with her, pulling her close and falling to sleep with her. It had been a long day.

Author's Note: Well, that's going to be it for the Jinyl scenes for a bit. You might get little descriptions about them for the next couple chapters, but that's really about it. I also have a snow day, well.. Ice day.. Since its raining..In the middle of cold Janu- ANYWAY. Yeah expect a couple more chapters today folks!