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- >You toss and turn on your bunk, unable to sleep
- >It feels as though a thousand hot needles are piercing your eyes
- >An incessant ache forms under your skin
- >To top off the list of your nocturnal discomforts, your entire body is itching
- >You can't find a comfortable way to sleep
- >As it is, you are stuck in the weird limbo between wakefulness and slumber
- >You can't wake up either
- >You continue to toss in your sweat dampened sheets
- >Suddenly, a noise approaches in the hallway
- >It's the night guard making their rounds throughout the cell block
- >Fuck, if a guard caught you having sleep troubles you would never see the end of it
- >Concerned looks
- >Worried glances
- >Special treatment
- >Warm milk before bed
- >The persona you had crafted could be shattered completely
- >You roll over and face the wall, willing your breathing to slow
- >The echoing hoofsteps stop just outside your door
- >If you weren't sweating before, you certainly are now
- >Just fuck off will you?
- >There's probably some stallion who had night terrors somewhere
- >Go find him and leave me alone
- >Your inner dialogue goes unheard in the still prison air
- >You hear a gentle tap on your door
- >Fuck
- >When you say nothing, the door opens just a crack
- >Double fuck
- >"Anon?"
- >The gentle voice doesn't cut the air, it is carried softly to your ears
- >Of all the guards to be stationed in your cell tonight, this was the worst possible one
- >It had been mere hours since you last saw Cookie
- >She had left your cell with a dopey smile on her face and a slight wobble to her step
- >"Anon."
- >This time there is no question
- >"I know you're awake, Anon. You never sleep with your back to the door."
- >You can barely hear her soft voice
- >With a sigh she pads gently into the room
- >"I uh... I brought you something."
- >Just great, it begins
- >You roll over and glare at the intrusive mare who flinches back
- >You must look a sight right now
- >Eyes bloodshot
- >Hair crazed by tossing and agitated hands
- >A facial expression that looks worse than your mother after a Jaeger Bomb
- >The mare visibly steels herself
- >"Trouble sleeping, big guy?"
- >No shit
- >You say nothing
- >She tries again
- >"You wanna talk about something, Anon?"
- >You roll over and face the wall again, willing yourself to just pass out
- >Really not in the mood for this shit
- >The cream coloured mare sighs again and you here the clink of something being placed on the small coffee table in your cell
- >"Look, Anon. You can tell me what's eating you so I can help or I can sit here all night reading you bedtime stories from the library
- >Ohshit.jpg
- >You roll back over and fix the defiant mare with the meanest glare you can muster at two in the morning
- "You wouldn't dare."
- >To her credit, Cream stands tall matching you glare for caring gaze
- >And just like that, you know you can't win
- >This mare holds the better hand
- >Hell, she holds the whole fucking deck right now
- >You try to start slow
- "I can't sleep."
- >Your voice sounds like it got run through a wood-chipper
- >Cookie just smiles softly, nods and approaches your bed
- >"I thought that's what I heard. I brought you something, if you think it will help. Warm milk always knocks me right out."
- "No thanks, Cookie. It's just never done the trick for me. My mum used to try it all the time, to get me to go to bed."
- >Cookie must have noticed something because she sits down on the edge of your bed and hovers a hoof over your arm
- >You don't move your arm away
- >Cookie smiles and lays a hoof on your shoulder, rubbing it in small circles
- >"Is something bothering you, Anon? Anything you want to talk about. You can talk to me about anything."
- >Here it is, the moment of truth, the point of no return
- >Hell, that was five minutes ago
- >You should have just told her to leave
- >It's too late now
- >Was it always too late?
- >Could you have prevented this?
- >You make up your mind to talk to Cookie
- >But you sure as fuck don't want any of the mooks in your cellblock to hear
- "Hey, uh... Cookie? Could you close the door? Please?"
- >The mare gets up and you almost call her back
- >The lack of contact with something feels like you pulled a piece of your body off
- >The door shuts with a muted click and the presence returns to your side, somehow managing to find the exact position she left
- >"I'm listening, Anon."
- >Her soft voice fills your room and you feel another hoof join the first in soothing your fevered skin
- "I don't know how to start."
- >"Anywhere, Anon. Just start anywhere."
- "And nothing leaves this room."
- >"Of course not, Anon."
- >You're stalling now
- >The mare just continues to smile at you, rubbing her hooves in small circles across your arms
- "Fuck, I don't know."
- >Cream doesn't stop, even at your expletive
- >Most ponies would be questioning there faith in a God at that
- >"Why don't you tell me about where you grew up?"
- "Well um, I grew up on this little planet called Earth. It's not very big, and it's not very interesting."
- >"Tell me about Earth, Anon."
- "It's a blue planet, covered in water almost. It has trees and animals and everything like that. Some places are cool, most aren't."
- >"What did you like about Earth, Anon?"
- "It was home? I guess? Hard not to like your own house..."
- >The mare gently pushes you over so that you are facing the wall
- >A hoof starts to rub your back
- >"How do you feel about moving to Equestria?"
- "I don't like it Cookie. Everything is wrong."
- >"What's wrong with Equestria, Anon?"
- >She starts to hum wordlessly into your ear
- "Nothing is wrong here, Cookie. That's what's wrong. Everything knows what it's supposed to do. Everything just magically works out like there was some fucking moral to the day's story."
- >She pauses in her humming to rearrange herself behind you
- >You are barely cognizant of the fact that you are now being spooned by a little horse
- "I have to pretend to be some kind of badass because I don't want to like it here."
- >Her humming changes tempo and she goes to work on your neck
- "I don't want to feel like I'm part of this gay rainbow of happiness."
- >Now you've done it
- >You've started admitting your problems
- >Next thing you know, you'll be crying into some mare's shoulder while she shushes you and tells you that you're going to make it
- "Problem is, now I'm stuck in a place where everything treats me like a walking nuke and no one likes me for me."
- >Cookie's humming tapers off
- >"I like you, Anon."
- "Thanks Cookie. I like you too."
- >The cell returns to silence, broken only by the rustling of Cookie as she rocks you gently
- >Your eyes start to feel heavy
- >"Anon?"
- "Yeah?"
- >"Why don't you try to work real you into your schedule?"
- "What do I get out of it?"
- >"Make me a proposal Anon."
- >You think for a few seconds, working out the free points in your weekly routine
- "I have an hour in the afternoon every Sunday and Friday."
- >"That'll get you a cuddle after every one of our sessions."
- "Throw in a snuggle before bed."
- >"Add five minutes of Ear-Scratchies to the daily session and you've got a deal."
- "Done."
- >YOu clasp at the hoof that's wrapped around your shoulder and shake gently
- >The deal done, you feel your eyelids getting heavy again
- >"Good night, Anonymous."
- >You fall asleep to the gentle ministrations of Cookie, her humming in your ears
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