“So, now what?”

“Quill,” Twilight said softly to the mare in her hospital bed, “they’re going to take you to a medical facility where you can be helped.”

“I refuse,” Quill said calmly as she crossed her forelegs. The room fell into near silence, save for Rainbow’s wings flapping to keep her afloat. “I’m a fully grown and competent mare that made a mistake. You know they can’t force me without legal intervention and I’d win anyway. Don’t push the subject,” she said knowingly, “I took a season of law just for fun.”

“I didn’t mean to imply-”

“That all pegasi are as dense as Rainbow?” Quill smirked.

“Hey!” Rainbow interjected, “Ah heard my name, what’s goin’ on?” Applejack pulled her hat down to cover her face while Twilight and Quill giggled.

“And ‘Ah rest mah case’,” Quill said pointing to Rainbow.

“I need a rest? Nah, Ah’m fine.” Even Applejack laughed into her hat, now hiding her mirth at Rainbow’s expense.

“Okay, reign it in, girls. What’ll you do, then, Quill?” Twilight asked.

“Uhm, I don’t know. I guess I could just go hobo-style. Live house to house, cloud to cloud. I’m not going to get my job back at the weather corporation since I won’t reapply. I could always sleep my way into-”

“Shutup, Quill,” Rainbow said curtly as she hovered to the window and pointed out, “you’re staying with us until we get you on your feet.”

“...What’re feet?”

Rainbow sighed. “Just a prank me and Pinkie were gonna do on Lyra, if you don’t even get it… Wait, I was being serious about you staying with us. Ah’m sure Scootaloo wouldn’t mind.”

“Well, she’d better be over that whole poke thing,” Quill rolled her eyes as Twilight groaned loudly to the ceiling.

“You did NOT poke her in the ‘eye’, did you, Quill?” Twilight sighed in defeat, knowing the answer.

“Hey, Rainbow did too!”

“You did it first,” Rainbow replied to Quill, pointing a hoof at Quill and sticking out her tongue.

“Eee-nuff! Girls, it’s settled and this squabblin’s done,” Applejack said as she fixed her hat to her head. “Quill’s getting out in two days and she’s stayin’ with us. ‘Til then Rainbow, ya got work ta do. Ah’ve gotta get chores done cuz we’re harvestin’ beans soon. Twilight, just get and let Quill have some time alone,” Applejack glared between the other three mares, “and if any of you meet up ta roll around Ah’ll show ya what it’s like ta be an apple tree on harvest day.”

The room was filled with gulps and nods as Applejack turned to Rainbow and puckered her lips. “Uh, right,” Rainbow said landing and kissing Applejack and nuzzling her. “We’ll see you later, gals,” Rainbow said as she wrapped her tail around Applejack’s leg then walked in tandem out of the room.

Quill chuckled to herself. “What?” Twilight asked.

“Rainbow’s totally into AJ, didn’t you see that?”

“The kiss or the threat on our lives?” Twilight deadpanned.

“Rainbow’s tail, it was on AJ’s leg.”

“So? I don’t…” Twilight made an ‘oh’ face as she looked back to the door, “she’s tail tied? Rainbow?!”

Quill snickered and nodded. “Wow, my parents don’t even have that,” Twilight said wistfully before looking into Quill’s eyes. “Wait, doesn’t that imply?”

“Heh, yeah, Rainbow’s finally done it. She’s truly in love at a level I’ve never even known.”

“Sheesh, maybe I should try that with Sun.”

“Twi,” Quill asked, “what’s with you and that orange stallion? He sounds kinda weird.”

“What? Weird, nah,” Twilight waved her hoof dismissively for a second before turning and nearly pressing her muzzle to Quill’s. “Help me, what do I do?” she asked backing up, “all he wants is sex. He’s already started a whole herd,” she sat and nibbled on her hoof tip, “three other mares. Four mares to him and what will happen when he wants us all at the same time?

“What if he wants me to watch again? I can’t keep watching my first coltfriend be with another mare. It doesn’t turn me on like it did at first… what?”

Quill sat with her mouth agape for a moment before she blinked hard and closed her mouth with a gulp. “Twilight,” she said softly as she rolled to her side and gestured for the lavender mare to place her hoof on her bed, then she placed a hoof on top of Twilight’s, comfortingly, “Twilight, he sounds like a very nice colt. You talk about him like he’s just the parasprite’s wings… but he’s not your type. I’m telling you as a mare who knows, that you’re better off without him.”

Twilight’s lower lip trembled and she whimpered. “Y-you sound like every other pony and dragon in my life. Why can’t I be happy with him?”

“Are you happy with him?” Quill asked wisely.

“Y, yes?”

“Are you asking me or telling me?”

“Yes?”

“Twilight, I have a question about a book.”

“Oh, okay!” she sniffled and wiped her eye with her free leg, “what is it?”

“Howdoyoufeelaboutyourcoltfriend?” Quill rambled quickly.

“I don’t want to be with him. Oh my,” Twilight pulled her hoof back to cover her muzzle in surprise at what she’d said. “Uh, I,” she paused and blinked tears from the corners of her eyes as her horn glowed to life and she vanished in a purple flash of spherical light.

“I don’t think that went so bad,” Quill said to herself as she lay in silence, alone again. “Heh, all alone and the scent of a half dozen mares. What, to, do?” she smirked as she scooted lower in the bed and sighed as she relaxed and let her hoof trail down her body.

I'll be adding another photo set of Quill and Lime next chapter.