"Come on A.J she's fainted three times already and thrown up" stated R.D as she looks over at the disheveled filly in a sisterly embrace.

"Not to mention the fact she's been up all night plus yesterday night wich is about thirty seven hours minis Friday" continued rarity seeing the sleeping ball of fur in a warm embrace.

"I know but every time she falls asleep she has nightmares!" Said A.J frustratedly eyeing rarity darkly.

"And every time ah try an put er dawn she holds tighter at me before she starts squirming and fighting begging that...sigh" said A.J ending with a sigh as her sister jumps straight into the latter.

"Ah nono pleas A.J no don't ahhh mn mn ng ahah-" began Applebloom as she started fighting and sobbing
" -shh shh it's OK your safe everything's gonna be fine" cooed A.J trying to calm her sister down.

"Sis wh whah why can't ah see?" Asked Applebloom giving an occasional struggle.

Couse it's dark out but everything's fine ah'm here ya just had a bad dream its late ya can sleep with me if that'll help?" Soothed A.J Deciding to leave out the more traumatizing details.

"Mm hmm" Murmurers Applebloom as her sister brings her over to a pile of pillows.

"Sniffle a.a. A.J?" Questioned Applebloom as she's leed to what she hoped was her sisters room.

"Yeah?" Answered A.j as she lays dawn with her sister and brings her close.

"...ah keep having the same nightmare don't ah?" Asked Applebloom getting as tightly embedded in her sister's embrace as she could.

"Uh huh and complaining in her sleep beggen ah don't eat ya or hurt scootaloo n sweatie ta stay back why em ah doing this.
So tell me how much of it do ya believe?" Responded A.J nuzzling her sister.

"Ah don't know ah know ya wouldn't but every time ah wake up its the same cycle of questions n answeres just phrased differently then it's the same nightmare!?" Said Applebloom shivering. Not sure of dream from reality.

"Huh and have ya thought bout asking a different question?" Tryed A.J giving rarity a hurt and angered look.

".........no..ah ah just don't know what's real anymore" came Appleblooms tired response.

"sounds ta me like yer stuck in a nightmare cycle" said A.J not sure where she was going.

"What's a nightmare cycle?" Questioned Applebloom yawning.

"It's exactly like it sounds a cycle of waking from a nightmare only to fall back into it too tired ta stay awake long enough to tell the difference" came A.J trying to explain what she thought was happening.

"But how do ah tell them apart?" Asked applebloom letting out another yawn.

"Becous of this...ow" told A.J as she pinched her sisters shoulder electing a yelp.

"hay that hurt!...physically and? ah...? You can't feel that in dream's!?" Complained Applebloom as she realized she was in fact awake.

"Exactly' that's just one way ya can test it by trying to touch things and ah'll help" assured a.j nuzzling her sister.

"Realy...but what's the other way?" Said applebloom with a brief smile.

"Ya know ya tend ta move when yer sleeping" told a.j pulling her sister closer.

"Ah sumtimes wakeup at the bottom of the bed but why?" Responded applebloom not sure how it would help.

"Ya know when yer having a nightmare and ya can't move no matter whatcha try?" Asked A.J thinking of how she was going to make her idea work.

"Yeah like my hooves've been glued to the ground or I've ah ah been ng shackled" answers applebloom ending with a wimper.

"Shh easy yer fine an yeah that can happen when yer tangled in yer sheets n the like so ah'm gonna help by keeping those kinda things from happening an when yer squirmin ah'll let ya know everything's fine" explained a.j encouragingly.

"But how-' Shh yer fine and ah'm right next ta ya whenever ah see ya struggling ah'll help" shushed A.j as her sister droned on before noding in and out of sleep. "Good night little sis.. "Good night yawn mngnmmn" said A.J her sister giving a tired yawning murmmer as she droned off to sleep.

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"Are you sure obout this?" Questioned rarity as she helps R.D rearrange the furnishings moving the tables, cushions, and the like in accordance to the idea.

"Yeah it helps me and Scoots" answered R.D as she moves the other end of the table into position.

"Hmm and you're sure an ed-glue made of a couch, two table's some sheet's and a bote loud of cushions is going to help?" Asked rarity tying the last sheet corner to the left table's outer leg.

"Well it helped scootaloo sleep the first night and I'm thinking you know full well what you put her through*" said R.D as she watched rarity levitate the final cushions against the iner wall of the tables.

"It's not like I hade much choice, she stuck her muzzle in it" said rarity with a harrumph.

"You could of taken her to twilight's have the memory wiped" said R.D suggesting what she could have done.

"I WASN'T THINKING, I....I couldn't bear losing her let alone her memories! I just thought that that if i.. We-maybe, well you know how it feels to avoid the one's you care for most, I I just thought, i don't know now I just feel worse" said rarity vehemently before quieting down remembering the reasons for the fort. "I. I knew it was just a mater of time' I just wasn't ready and I lost it, it was like I'd gone ferial like an animal" finished rarity solumnly as she sat in front of the fort.

"I know, when squirt found out I tryed to explain; but I couldn't get through to her, she caught me on the out skirt's of town near flutters, if I had just been patient and waited tell I got home; but I hadn't felt hunger like that I was just about done when I noticed her the look still gives me nightmare's" started R.D telling rarity she wasn't alone.

"And you lost it." Said rarity looking dawn.

"No I let go, my whole world came down she tried to say something; but she turned and ran then it hit me not just did I lose my whole world she was my world and I wasn't just gonna watch her, let her leave nor could I she probably wouldn't but I couldn't take the risk I caught up to her I knocked her out grabbed her looped back grabbed what was left and went home, i made the cloud in a spare room hard to the point if you threw a vase at it, it shattered." Told R.D as rarity just listened in contemplation

"i sealed us in an waited for her to wake up hunger was a nightmare I fought fore what felt like forever when she woke up she just wouldn't listen I'd go to a corner she'd go to the other. I finally got close enough to grab her, I just held her let her struggle, cry and beat on me. tell she gave up we just sat there; but I wasn't there not mentally" said R.D looking down as she continued her story devoid of any emotions.

"when I came oround enough I heard her ask me to say it wasn't true that she'd had a nightmare. When I didn't say anything she just sat there crying. When I finally had the nerve to talk all I could say was sorry. She'd go to say something but shy away from it, I couldn't stand her being that way I hatted myself all could manage was short murmmered answers I barely realized I was answering her; but the last question made my heart sink she asked me how I'd feel if I ate her, If I ate her, rarity you know how horrible I am when it comes to those things" reminded R.D as rarity just nods sulonmly keeping to herself ofering what little solace she could.

"It wasn't Intel she ask again that I answered I said I'd feel dead inside that I'd feel like my heart dried out and shriveled up or at least that's what I'd say now sigh. I don't even remember to be honest; but what I do remember is what she said afterwards and it still haunt's me, she asked me if I wanted to, to eat her and that she didn't care as long as i was happy that i was the only sister she wanted and nothing I did could change that so longs I told her why." Said R.D as she feels a hoof put on her shoulder albeit ignored as she continues.

"When I finally stopped crying enough I told her why, there wasn't an emotion on her not in her voice just a blank face and when I asked her why she'd except that, she said because she loved me and she wanted to be a part of my life even if it meant she had to be my next meal to do it. Pretty soon she started asking me if I would, if i would eat her. And we keep talking in circles before she began asking me what she tasted like after that she started asking me to, and eventually I couldn't help it hunger was starting to hurt me."

"but I kept strong tell she put her hoof in my mouth saying if I didn't eat her it would mean I didn't care either way and eventually hunger got the better of me, she didn't even move or even try to and I didn't even fight myself till afterwards and I spent the next hour trying to talk her out of it when I asked if she really really wanted to spend the last moments melting inside me; but when she stopped responding I took it apon myself and forced her out.
even when I look at her now It still haunts me. If it wasn't for zecora shed still be missing her fur and covered in burns! ng MHG ah ng." Finished R.D as she breaks down. Rarity couldn't speak all she could do was hold and embrace a broken Pegasus as the mess let out bottled emotions about her favorite fledgling.

"its OK she's fine now we can't dwell on a mistake if we do it won't get any better" tried rarity hopeing she had said the right thing as she offered her best comforts.

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