Pinkie had ran for the bedroom without thinking. She was curled up in a ball beneath Sunset's blanket and crying her eyes out. She wiped at her face with her sleeve as she continued to sob.

Why did everyone leave her?

She knew why. It was so easy to take advantage of poor, defenseless, broken Pinkie. She was so starved for love, anyone could see it from a mile away. She was always hoping to find the one. It was awful when she thought about it, because the only person who didn't just use her for sex was the only person she honestly just wanted to have sex with and for them both to go their separate ways.

Twilight had betrayed her. The thought left a bitter taste in her mouth. She felt bile rising in her throat as she ran for Sunset's bathroom. She quickly raised the lid of the toilet before emptying her stomach's contents loudly. She spent several minutes simply heaving and crying in the bathroom before a knock came at the door.

"Pinkie..." Sunset's voice filtered by the door reached the girl, who was now curled up in a ball on the floor. "You okay?" she asked.

"No..." Pinkie whimpered. Everything hurt at the moment. Her heart ached and her eyes burned and her head throbbed as she continued to cry.

"Pinkie," Another voice, and one that the girl did not want to hear. "please let me in."

"Get out!" Pinkie sobbed loudly.

"I just want to talk to you." Twilight said.

"Make her leave, Sunset." Pinkie called through the door. "Please, make her leave."

"Pinkie," Sunset said. "I think you should hear her out."

"Not right now." The trembling girl said quietly. "I can't right now. I can't see her like this... Please, make her leave."

"I'll wait." Twilight said loudly. "I'll leave the portal open and I won't leave it until you're ready to talk to me. I won't eat or sleep or even move away from it... Not until I have a chance to talk to you again."

"Don't hold your breath..." Pinkie mumbled as she fell back onto the floor.

She could hear Twilight crying on the other side of the door as she walked away, and in Pinkie's mind, the worst part was, that she still cared. She fought against the urge to run out of the bathroom and hold the crying girl and tell her she loved her and that everything was okay, but she couldn't do that.

Not now, at least. Not until she became at least halfway numb to what had happened. She had been used, abused, and thrown away before. She thought she had found something better with Twilight, but then she had done almost the exact same thing.

Another knock. "She's gone, Pinkie. Can I come in?"

Pinkie nodded before realizing that Sunset couldn't see her. She sat on her knees and reached up to unlock the door. Sunset quickly stepped into the tiny bathroom and closed the door behind her before quickly dropping to her knees and throwing her arms around her friend.

"What did she tell you?" Pinkie asked as she slowly raised her hands to her friend's back.

Sunset merely shook her head. "Nothing." she whispered. "She said explaining herself wouldn't mean anything unless she talked to you."

"I don't want to hear what she has to say." Pinkie whimpered.

"Why not?" Sunset asked. "Don't you want to give her a chance to explain herself, or even apologize?"

"No, that's the problem." Pinkie said as she finally met her friends gaze. "If she explains herself, I'll forgive her."

"How is that bad?" Sunset asked.

"Because, I'll just leave myself open to get hurt again." Pinkie cried. "I'll let her walk all over me until there's nothing left. I'll give her everything I have until all I am is an empty shell that she can keep using." she took a deep unsteady breath. "I can't keep giving myself to people who are just gonna use me and hurt me and then throw me away like I'm garbage."

"I'm sorry." Sunset whispered, not knowing how else to respond. "I'm sorry."

"Maybe I'll go to Equestria in a few days, but right now, I just can't see past how badly she's hurt me." Pinkie said. "I won't go alone though..." she muttered.

"Rainbow will go with you..." Sunset ventured.

"I want Adagio there." Pinkie said. "If I end up going, that is."

"You'd rather have Adagio there?" Sunset asked.

"No," Pinkie said, "I want them both there."

"Why are you still here?" Applebloom asked as she entered the living room to find the siren, once again, on her living room couch.

"Because, you're sister would rather I stay here for now." Adagio said calmly. "I know you hate me, but trust me, just as soon as I'm able, I will leave."

Applebloom looked around the room, noticing that for the first time in several days, her sister and Rarity were not laying on the couch with the siren. "Where is my sister anyways?" she asked as she sat in the recliner.

"She and Rarity ran to the store." Adagio said as she paused the show she was watching. The scene on the television stopping on an image of a pink haired guy breathing fire at some grey skinned guy. "Did you want anything? I can text them and ask them to pick something up for you."

"I'm good." Applebloom said. "What're you watchin'?"

"Just some show, I don't know the name of it, but your sister seemed to think I'd like it."

"It looks weird." Applebloom said.

Adagio giggled slighty. "It sort of is weird, but it's got a really interesting story."

Applebloom shrugged. "So, why are you really here?" she asked. "I didn't tell my friend, but I know that you and Sunset didn't really break-up."

"It's part of the plan." Adagio said with a shrug.

"And kissin' ma sister?"

"Also part of the plan."

"How does that help you find my friend?" Applebloom asked. "None of this plan makes any damn sense."

"Well, once we found out that your friend was following both me and Sunset we had to figure out which of us she was targeting." Adagio explained. "Me kissing your sister, was to find out if she had anybody's number besides A.J.'s. If she did, Rarity definitely would have got a picture of me kissing Applejack, but it's been over a week now, and she hasn't gotten any picture like that."

"Why are you tellin' me all this?" Applebloom asked. "I mean, I know I asked, but I figured you'da been worried that I'd just go tell her everything."

Adagio shrugged. "Because, I believed you when you said you were done with her. Plus, at this point, we know a lot more about what she's doing and it wouldn't matter that much if she knew we were on to her. We would probably just make a new plan." Applebloom opened her mouth to speak before Adagio continued quickly. "And I don't hate you." she said quietly.

"I-"

"I know you hate me, but I don't care, Applebloom." Adagio smiled kindly at the younger girl. "I think you'd be a great friend, and even though you hate me now, maybe eventually you'll find it in your heart to forgive me for hurting the people you care about most. I think that you're a great girl and you're just feeling a little hurt. I think you feel alienated in your group of friends, because you and your boyfriend are the only straight ones in the group and you hate that I ever attempted to hurt your friends and family."

Applebloom stared at the siren for several minutes, as if searching for some kind of deceit, but found only genuine warmth and kindness. Adagio was completely different than she was before.

"Like I said, I know you hate me, so if you want to insult me and storm off, that's well within your rights." Then she grabbed the remote and gestured at the television, "But, if you want to stay and watch some wizards fight with me, then you're more than welcome to do that too."

The siren pressed play on the remote before diverting her attention from the younger girl. Applebloom stared at her for several minutes before standing. She walked over to the couch and sat next to the siren. "So, why's the pink guy fighting the grey guy?"

"What do you mean someone broke in?" Fluttershy asked. Rainbow was currently supervising the woman who was installing their new security system. She knew something was wrong when Rainbow had not slept at all the night before, and then this morning she paid the security company a large sum of money to put in a state-of-the-art security system. When her father had passed away, he had left Rainbow an enormous amount of money, but Rainbow had been very adamant about being smart with the money.

She never would have spent it unless she thought it was absolutely necessary.

"I mean, I went for a run yesterday and when I got back the place was trashed and the back door was wide open." Rainbow said as she watched the woman work.

"Did you call the police?" Fluttershy asked. She already knew the answer, but she asked regardless.

"No." Rainbow said. "That's not a problem is it, security lady?"

"It's none of my business." The woman said as she continued to press buttons on a box on the wall. "If you're asking professionally, that's not going to affect my company. If you're asking me as a person, I know there are times when the police can't do anything and you have to take matters into your own hands."

The woman turned away from the box for the first time since Fluttershy had been home. She was a fairly tall woman with long green hair down to the middle of her back. Her eyes were green and there was something playful lurking beneath them. Fluttershy could tell at a glance that the woman was a good person, but dangerous at the same time.

"I'm sorry, ma'am." Fluttershy said. "I didn't mean for you to get dragged into our personal issues."

"Think nothing of it." The woman said with a shrug. "And don't call me ma'am. My name is Mythic, please feel free to use it."

"How much do you have left to do?" Rainbow asked.

Mythic seemed to ponder the question for a moment before shrugging. "Well, I've got everything installed, now I just have to sync up the system, help you choose a password, show you how it works, and then I'm pretty much done."

"Awesome." Rainbow said as she sat on the couch. Mythic pulled a device out of her pocket and began waving it around the room, humming to herself as she pressed buttons. "Yeah, I didn't want to tell you until this got set up, because I didn't want you to worry."

"And you didn't think sleeping on the couch would worry me?" Fluttershy asked with a light frown. "That's the first time since I moved in that I didn't wake up next to you."

Mythic sat in the floor and pressed more buttons on her device. Rainbow's gaze flickered to her quickly before facing her lover. "Look, I'm sorry, Shy, but I didn't want you to lose any sleep worried that somebody was gonna break in..."

"You mean, like you did?" Fluttershy asked. "Rainbow, we live together now and we've agreed to spend our lives together. We have to share our burdens, as a couple."

Rainbow sighed before quickly gripping her girlfriend's hand. "You're right." she said. "I was just trying to protect you, I'm sorry."

Fluttershy giggled slightly before pecking Rainbow on the lips. "It's alright." she said quietly.

Both girls noticed silence where the beeping of buttons had been a moment ago and they both turned their heads to the woman in the floor. Mythic was smiling at them both as a blush lit her face. "What?" Rainbow asked defensively.

"Ya'll are just too cute." Mythic said as she chuckled and continued her work.

"You're weird." Rainbow muttered, earning another laugh from Mythic and a disapproving look from Fluttershy.

"I get that a lot." Mythic said with a shrug before standing and walking back to the box. "Alright, now we need to get you girls a password."

Rarity suppressed a groan as Applejack took a sharp turn. She hated her girlfriend's driving, she hated leaving Adagio alone when she had already been attacked in that house once, and she hated this stupid old truck. The truck in question was a dark brown that suggested when it was brand-new (over twenty-eight years ago) it was a light red. The stick shift made an awful cranking noise every time her lover shifted gears and the whole thing smelled of oil and rust. She had no idea how the two could go together.

She was glad they were heading back, but she worried that something had already happened with Adagio. She worried for the girl, and she hated to 'mother-hen' her (as her girlfriend put it), but truly Adagio was like a baby finally learning how to take its first steps. Every time someone hurt the siren, it was as if she were falling in her attempts to learn.

Rarity worried for her. Applejack just hummed along to whatever ghastly country song played through the one good speaker in the truck with a smile on her face, as if she didn't have a care in the world. Rarity knew that she also did her best to watch over their new friend, but she seemed more at-ease with the situation than her lover.

The truck finally pulled into the driveway outside of Applejack's house before she threw it in park. The couple quickly grabbed the bags out of the floorboard of the truck and began carrying them inside.

Applebloom's voice could be heard as a scream from within the house, and both girls shared a look before running top-speed into the house. Applejack of course entered first.

"NO! NO! NO! NO!" she screeched.

Both girls slid to a stop in the living room to find Adagio crying and Applebloom screaming at the television screen.

"What in the sam hell is goin' on in here?" Applejack asked.

Applebloom simply huffed and pointed at the screen. The two had apparently stopped the show, the screen revealing a young girl with purple hair, crying as she stood before a glowing pillar of light.

"They can't keep killing off my favorit characters." Adagio said through her tears. "It's not fair... everyone of these shows I watch my favorite character dies."

"I told her that she wasn't gonna die, sis." Applebloom said. "They never kill the kids in the shows, but these assholes did."

"Language." Applejack said sternly.

"Well, they are." Applebloom said quietly. "They made her cry."

Applejack and Rarity froze as they realized what the young girl had just referred to the siren as... her. Not it, or that thing, or even bitch, but her.

"Adagio told me she was worried to pick a favorite character cause every show she watched with ya'll her favorite one died. In the first one, it was the guy with the blue armor and the spiky hair. In that pirate one, it was the fire dude. In that wizard one," she gestured again to the television, "it was the little girl."

"Y'mean, ya'll been watchin' T.V. together since we left?" Applejack asked.

"Not since ya'll left. I didn't wake up till ya'll had been gone for a while." Applebloom said as she returned to her seat on the couch, next to Adagio. "I know I should be doin' chores, but ya'll left her all alone, so I though I'd keep her entertained till ya'll got here. Didn't know ya'll'd have her watchin' somethin' so depressin'. She's cried a dozen times durin' this show."

Rarity smiled to herself as she carefully grabbed the bags from her lover. She had been worried for nothing. She should have known, she had seen the changes in the siren first-hand the past month. She should have seen that as bright and warm as the siren had become, that Applebloom couldn't resist befriending her much longer.

"I can't help it." Adagio said as she wiped her eyes. "This show... it's just so easy to feel like the characters are really people, ya know?"

Applejack laughed quietly as she sat on the couch, before throwing her arms around her sister and friend. Rarity smiled at the scene.

Trixie stared at the box on her table for a moment. She had realized as soon as she had taken the box, that it would be useless to her. She mentally kicked herself. She had been so clean and thorough so far, until she had broken into Rainbow Dash's home.

Stealing the box had done nothing for her. She knew that, although they didn't know who it was, the Rainbooms knew they were being targeted. So, they likely would not believe if she framed someone else for stealing it. There was no way she could prove that the embarrassing contents belonged to Rainbow Dash.

"Trixie may have made a mistake." she mumbled to herself.

She quickly slid the box under her bed and looked around her room. She knew she had screwed up when she began targeting the siren. She knew once she had placed the bug on Adagio's phone that there would be no going back. She sighed as she felt her head start to throb. She quickly grabbed a bottle of her bedside table, before placing two pills in her mouth.

They were getting worse.

She didn't know how to stop now. Between the headaches, nightmares, and fits of crying herself to sleep, Trixie realized that she had taken her grudge too far.

There was no way to stop it now, though. Even if she were to just stop tomorrow, they would eventually figure her out. They could take legal action, or just turn Rainbow loose on her until she could no longer breath without the help of a machine.

It was nice to at least think about the look on Scootaloo's face when she got paid. Trixie wondered how she would spend the money. She knew it would be for the girl she loved, but she didn't know exactly what she had in mind.

She curled up into the fetal-position as her chest began throbbing in time with her head. She looked at the other bottle on her table. The one she hadn't opened since the battle of the bands.

She should, shouldn't she? No, she wouldn't.

Should or should not did not matter any more. She had sworn she wouldn't take them anymore. She would be fine. She was always fine. Better than fine, she was the Great and Powerful Trixie.

She was great and powerful. She was Trixie.

She was fine.

Author's Notes:

I just kinda wrote with this one. I didn't edit it or anything like that, so if you see 'em shout 'em out. I usually have a lot to say, but it's one in the morning, so I don't really have the energy for much.

Comments, you guys know how those go... yeah...

Uhm, I regret not going to bed four hours ago? nothing.