Love In The Adjacent Corner

Chapter 6

Fluttershy over heard a familiar voice coming from behind her. "Ah there she is. You've always been the best at tracking ponies down Flam... Oh would you look at that." Fluttershy turned her head to see Flim and Flam standing behind her, and in front of the sunrise. She continued to hold her daughter tightly.

Flim spoke, "I can see now why you missed your last delivery."

Fluttershy nodded with tears still in her eyes. "I wasn't able to make my delivery. My daughter is very sick."

"She also smells," Flam added.

Flim knelt down to Fluttershy in a comforting way. "Its alright. We're ponies too. We understand that you're going through a rough part of your life right now. We can't force you to deliver drugs if you don't want to." Flim showed sincerity in his words.

Fluttershy appreciated his understanding but had too many tears to speak: She nodded instead.

"Although..." said Flam.

"Right, although," Flim continued, "We don't really care about your personal problems. We need to know whether you're still willing to work for us or not."

Fluttershy couldn't answer. Her emotional state wasn't ready to talk about business. She stared at Flim with sad, teary eyes.

Flam said, "I think that means she's not willing to do work for us anymore."

"Yes I think you're right brother Flam." Flim grabbed hold of Fluttershy's hoof in a compassionate way. "You see," he said, "Our business is bigger than you think. Drugs aren't the only thing we sell here in Ponyville. Now we may not be able to make you sell drugs against your will, but we got other jobs that we can make you do against your will. Flam grab her!"

Flam grabbed Fluttershy by the scruff of her neck. Fluttershy shrieked and with her free hoof, she held on to Lantana—afraid to let her go. "Lantana!" she cried out.

Flim slapped the back of Fluttershy's hoof, forcing her to let go of her daughter's body. "Leave that gross thing behind," he said.

Flim and Flam continued to drag Fluttershy to an old shack. Flam said, "You see, it's fine if you don't want to sell drugs for us anymore. In fact, I might even say its better than fine. Drugs take a lot of work to sell, and we can only sell them once. Not to mention we have to stick our necks out in the public going door to door to sell them."

Flim added, "It's really not our best line of work. If it wasn't such an easy business to start, we might have just not even bothered."

"Sex is where the real money is," said Flam, "Ponies pay good money for it. We give them a young attractive pony, like you, for them to use however they want for an hour, and then we rent you out to the next pony. We can rent you out several times a day, every day a week, every week a year, and as many years you have until your beauty starts to fade."

Flim added, "Doesn't that sound like fun?"

Fluttershy continued to kick, scream, and cry. She didn't really understand the logic of what Flim and Flam were explaining. She was too worked up from being taken away from her daughter, but despite her struggles, they weren't enough to escape their grasp.

Fluttershy was dragged into the shack, and taken to the basement. Her hooves were tied together, along with her wings, and she was thrown behind a locked door on her side. "Welcome to the Flim Flam residence," Flim said. The two brothers left the room, closing the door behind them, and didn't look back.

The basement Fluttershy was in had an unsanitary appearance. The floors were dirty and the room had a rank smell. The room was filled with several other ponies that were tied the same way she was. All of them were female. Their faces showed no interest or desire to speak, and Fluttershy had no reason to either. Some were pagasi, others were unicorns, and some were earth ponies. All of them looked grungy like they haven't bathed properly in a long time. Fluttershy wondered if that was going to be her in the near future.

Fluttershy was able to see a light come from under the door. She heard hoofsteps and the thin walls carried the sounds from the next room. She herd voices pass through the walls. One voice was familiar enough to her to know that one was either Flim or Flam, and that another quieter voice that barely penetrated the walls could be anypony except for the Flim Flam brothers.

"What'll it be for you?" asked one of the Flim Flam brothers. A muffled voice replied, but was too distorted to make out what he was saying through the walls. Flim or Flam answered after the muffled voice stopped, "Sure I got unicorns. I'll go bring one up for you."

Hoofsteps grew louder as they approached the door. The door opened and Flam dragged out one of the unicorns. He didn't say anything or address any pony. He dragged the restrained unicorn out of the room and closed the door behind him. From behind the closed-door she was able to hear the, once muffled voice, a bit more clearly. "Oh yes perfect. She will do." said the voice.

Fluttershy could here Flam's response, "I'm sure she will. Take her upstairs into the first room. Bring her back within the hour." Fluttershy could hear the clanking of coins that she could only assume was Flam's payment.

An hour passed, and Fluttershy became sore from laying on her same side. She couldn't move to adjust herself, and the shoulder and hip she was laying on started to cause her discomfort. The door opened again, and Flam returned the unicorn back into the room with restraints.

Fluttershy could only imagine what just happened to her. The unicorn was about the same age as Fluttershy. She was shaking with her hind legs tightly closed from whatever it was that just happened to her. She was clearly miserable, but she never shed a tear. Her will was clearly broken, and it most likely broke a long time ago.

Out of fear for the unknown Fluttershy felt obliged to ask, "What did they do to you?" The unicorn turned her head toward Fluttershy, and it wasn't until then that Fluttershy noticed that the unicorn's white coat was covered in fresh stains all along her abdomen.

The unicorn answered blatantly, "When its your turn—you'll know."