The Princesses and Working Mind stared at Blossom who was weakly trying to say something as she blinked away tears. "You forgot your hat," Blossom mumbled finally. She levitated the hat onto Working Mind's head and slowly stood up.
"Blossom," said Working Mind softly but Blossom cut him off with a shake of her head.
"If you don't mind, I wanna talk to somepony else from now on," she whispered. She weakly turned around and began limping away.
"Blossom, can you stay for a moment, please?" asked Princess Celestia. "The three of us need to talk to you."
Blossom stopped and hung her head. "What's there to talk about? You all think that if you let me out of your sight I'll start killing ponies because I can't help myself. You think I murdered Miss Tiara, you probably think that I'm on my way to murder your secretary, Dr. Mind. What do we need to talk about?"
Working Mind shook his head. "Blossom we don't think that you're--"
"You don't have to lie to me, I heard every word," Blossom muttered. "As far as you three are concerned I am my aunt. Do you want to talk to me about how I'm getting a padded cell next to my mother or are you just going to preemptively give me the needle? I assume my horn is coming off in either case?"
Princess Celestia shook her head sadly and began slowly walking up to Blossom. "Blossom, we just want to help you. You are not the pony that your aunt was, nor do I think that you will be."
Blossom chuckled weakly. "Well, then what do you want to do right now? I assume you're not just gonna let me walk out of here; I might butcher the entire town square. According to Dr. Mind I'm fully capable." Blossom slowly turned around and glared at them. "But capable and willing are kinda different things, right?"
"Blossom at the very least let us take you to the hospital to get your leg fixed!" Celestia pleaded.
Blossom glanced down at her leg which by this point was stained with her blood. "You sure? If I bleed out then pretty much every problem that keeps you up at night goes away. You just gotta do a little cleanup and try not to think about Mom and every single thing my aunt did will just fade away."
Luna glared at Blossom and stepped forward. "Thou art being foolish, Joyous Blossom!" she growled. "We do not wish you harm!"
"Well you still haven't answered my question!" Blossom snarled. "Let's say I go back to the hospital and my leg gets stitched back up. Then what? I am not letting you take me anywhere until I get an answer! My leg means that I can't run away so just answer me!"
The princesses exchanged a look and Celestia sighed sadly. "Once your leg is repaired we think it is best to put you in a mental health hold. We would not send you to an institution, it would take place at the hospital."
Blossom tightened her jaw and glanced down at the ground. "Well then lead the way," she muttered. "It's not like I have any choice in the matter. I mean, if you're all so scared that I'm gonna make my own kill basement that all it took was the hunch of my shrink then we'd better get this all over with right now shouldn't we? The sooner we stuff me in a padded cell, the sooner Equestria can move on."
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A few hours later, Blossom was lying in a hospital bed, fresh stitches in her leg. She was idly toying with her mane which, with time and a little help from Zecora, had grown back enough that it could be cut so that the style hid what had happened to her. She mused that it still felt weird, not being able to feel her mane on her neck.
She sighed heavily and leaned forward to fluff up her pillow with her magic. "You think I'd be high on my new shrink's 'to do' list but I guess not," she grumbled to herself.
She shook her head and glanced over at a book on her bedside table. Daring Do. Again. When the nurse had come by with the book cart she had picked out the only one that looked remotely interesting. Sure she had read it three times already, but it was that or stare at a wall.
Grunting irritatedly, she picked up the book and flipped it open to a good chapter. No reason to not skip anything she found boring. "Go get that sapphire stone, Daring," she muttered sarcastically.
"Ah, reading Daring Do, hmm? It's one of my daughter's favorite books."
Blossom's eyes flickered up and she saw a tan earth pony mare trot into the room. The mare smiled at her and pulled a chair next to Blossom's bed and sat down. "Good evening, Blossom," said the mare, "my name is Nevitt." She extended her hoof and Blossom half-heartedly shook it. "I'd like to ask you a few questions if that's okay."
"I'm not leaving until you've asked them so don't let me stop you," Blossom grumbled.
Nevitt's smile faltered slightly and she reached into her saddlebag to take out a notebook. She flipped it open and scanned something written on the page in front of her before looking back up at Blossom. "So, I'm just going to ask a few basic questions first, okay?" Blossom nodded. "Good. Question one, who raises the sun and who raises the moon?"
"Princess Celestia and Princess Luna," Blossom replied blankly.
"What is today?"
"Thursday."
"What is your name?"
"Joyous Blossom."
Nevitt nodded and jotted down a few more things in her notebook. "Okay, who is the mayor of Ponyville?"
"Blossomforth."
"The names of your parents?"
"Sweetie Belle and Rolling Thunder."
"Good." Nevitt shifted in her seat and turned a page in her notebook. "Now, these next questions are going to be a little more... emotional, but if you don't want to answer something just--"
"Say so and we'll move on to another topic," Blossom recited. "I've seen more than my fair share of shrinks in my life."
"So I understand," said Nevitt stiffly. "But you know that it's my job to say things like that."
Blossom snorted and put the book down. "Yeah I know," she grumbled. "But you can imagine that it would be tiring to hear so many times."
Nevitt shrugged. "I suppose so, but that's not important right now. We need to move on to my questions if that's okay." Blossom spun her hoof in a 'go on' gesture. "Okay, do you know why the princesses thought it would be best to put you in an M1 hold?"
"Because they think that if they take their eyes off of me for two seconds they'll turn around to see half of Ponyville slaughtered in pools of their own blood," Blossom deadpanned.
Nevitt shifted uncomfortably. "Er... that's not quite--"
"Save it," Blossom snarled. "It may not be how you put it but let's not beat around the bush here: you all think I am my aunt!"
"Blossom we don't think that!" Nevitt insisted.
"Spare me! I heard every word!" Blossom's expression hardened into a glare. "Dr. Mind told the princesses that he thinks that I'm capable of first-degree murder. My aunt was a serial killer, it doesn't take a genius to connect the two! You're all scared that I'm going to be Equestria's next murderer!"
"Blossom, that isn't true at all!" Nevitt insisted. "We just--"
"Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah," Blossom growled. "We just want to help you. I've heard it all before, despite the fact that it stopped being true when I was eight. You think that the princesses took me up to Canterlot to 'help' me? No, they took me to make sure bodies weren't gonna start turning up in Ponyville! What, did they think that my aunts would just let me run around, killing willy-nilly without so much as a second thought? Did they really need to take me to Canterlot to keep an eye on me?!"
Nevitt uneasily cleared her throat. "Blossom I assure you that the princesses motives are pure. They just want to make sure that you don't hurt yourself or anypony around you."
Blossom let out a joyless cackle. "Oh don't make me laugh!" she cried. "They want to know that they don't have Rarity 2.0 on their hooves and that's all. But did they, or anypony else stop to consider the one big question that seems to come up the least?"
"What question is that?"
"You all ask whether or not I'm capable of murder as if it's some disease! Of course I'm capable of murder!" Blossom pointed a hoof at Nevitt. "You're capable of murder! Everypony you meet on the street, everypony you meet for a meal, everypony you give a glancing nod to is capable of murder!" Blossom deflated slightly and lowered her gaze to the ground. "It just depends on how far you're pushed." her eyes snapped back up. "But nopony ever thinks about the fact that I have continuously said that I don't want to hurt anypony. You all whisper about whether or not I will you don't even take a second to consider whether or not I want to hurt anypony at all!"
"Do you?" said Nevitt quietly.
Blossom sadly shook her head. "No. I don't. I didn't even want to hurt Miss Tiara and I wish that I could take it back. I really want to take it back, even though she hurt me. I know I hurt her too much when I killed her, but I was scared that if she got back up she'd keep trying to hurt me. She had cut off my ear and was gonna cut off my cutie marks." Blossom flattened her ears and a tear dripped from her eye. "If I was another pony, the princesses would look down on my situation with pity, not fear. I'm here just because of who my aunt was. How is that fair? It isn't, is it?" Blossom leaned her head back on her pillow. "I just want them to leave me alone."
Nevitt silently observed Blossom for a minute before putting her notebook and pencil back in her saddlebag. "I think that's enough for today," she said. "I'll come back to talk to you tomorrow." Nevitt stood up and walked out of the room.
After closing the door behind her, she walked down the hall for a few paces and met up with the two princesses who were waiting for her. "How is she?" asked Celestia.
Nevitt glanced back towards Blossom's room with a sigh. "You want to know how I view this, Princess?" she said. "Blossom is like an open wound that you're worried will get infected, despite the fact that it's bandaged up. If you leave it alone it'll heal, if you keep gnawing at it it's just gonna get worse." She shook her head sadly. "And even though today is the first time I've met Blossom, I've read a lot about her. If you want my honest opinion based on everything that I know about her, you two have been gnawing at that wound for ten years if you'll pardon me for saying so."
Nevitt bowed to the princesses and began walking down the hall. After a few feet she stopped and turned back around. "If you just leave her alone, that mare will not be a danger to anypony. The only confirmed kill she has is of a mare who was physically and psychologically torturing her. She has two families who love her and will do anything to support her. She's bandaged up. Stop tearing off the bandages to see if the wound got infected."
The two princesses watched the psychologist walk away, neither quite sure of what to say.
FINALLY! SOMEBODY GETS IT!
I love Nevitt so much right now. Way to go, it's about time someone with half a brain showed up. Of course, that means you're going to do something doubly tragic to make up for it. I've learned how this game of alternating high and low points work.
Still, if I had a hat, I'd take it off for you, good sir.
Well.
That was....
Uh....
Well, I'll just say this.... Blossom has never said truer words.
Joyless Blossom. Has a ring to it, I guess.
At last, somepony who understand the problem here. So, MAYBE, things could start to go better for once.
Who i'm kidding here? We all know that this only means more shit about to hit the fan. Because this is a Tragedy fic, and that means that there's not a happy ending here, so, whatever happens, it will always turn worse.
For some reason, i need to know how all goes south, despite knowing it won't end well. Too hooked to leave, too attached to poor Blossom.
The first story has a theme song.
2385998 I have that song on my ipod for that very reason. I love it.
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I have it on my laptop.
I like to silently scream when Rarity actually screams.
lol Idk
About time a doctor was found who has an ounce of common sense. And he truely cares about Blossom, and now "what she might do". The doctor is right; the Princesses NEED to back off!
Oh, and Blossomforth is now Mayor of Ponyville?
2386049 Sure. Why not?
So I compiled some errors I noticed.
In chapter 1
Should be 'her'.
In chapter 2
Should be 'he would'.
In chapter 7
Should be 'was' .
In chapter 9
Should be 'if'.
In chapter 20
Should be 'couple".
Should be 'then'.
Am I doing this right? Also superb story so far, looking forward to your next chapters. Will try to give a long ass review after it's done.
It's kinda scary how true it is, that everybody is capable of killing.
2386064 I hope she at least had the sense to dye that horrendous mane grey.
Also, your new avatar is creepy.
Nevitt seems to have a good head on her shoulders, and she is certainly right.
The Princesses have likely done more damage trying to make sure that Blossom heals right, than if they had just let her heal on her own.
Somebody's making sense. Shit's gonna go downhill, I can sense it.
Bravo! I like this doctor. The princesses should be ashamed of themselves. I hope things get better for Blossom!
The best part is that Celestia and Luna have no idea how extensive the wound they're nipping at is.
Can't wait until they learn that they've had an innocent mare institutionalized for the past decade.
2386093 Fixed. Thanks.
YES! FINALLY! I like Nevitt!
Little Blossom seems to be pretty feedup
Yay!!! Omg listened to that song xD!!! Is that song really this storys theme officialy?
Now I can chalk up the amount of ponies that have their heads on straight to 3.
1 father, 1 kid, and 1 psych.
The princesses in their infinite wisdom didn't consider the fact that Blossom could very well be stable if not constantly bothered about everything she did.
Ya'll better apologize.
2386535 Nah, it's not. It just happens to fit well with it. In-fact, I actually learned about the first story (and this site) because of a comment I saw on that video! I was curious enough to look it up, and now I'm spending way more time than I probably should here
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Cough... cough... Scarlet... Cough... Tomato... Cough cough...
Guess what?
Great chapter!... Saying this again and again gets boring already...
Oh, and at last somepony who is actually thinking.
Btw, I can see at least 9 possible endings to this story. Can't wait to see what happens next.
Well, that was... interesting. Not quite what I had hoped for, even if part of my last review was said in sorrow/anger. I really feel sorry for Blossom, she doesn't deserve this, just like her mother didn't... though not sure if anyone'll get mad if I say I understand Celestia and Luna, now that I'm thinking. I mean, as far as Equestria is (or just the Princesses are) concerned (even if the Princesses or some of them know better, but can't really act on it or something), Blossom is the perfect spawn of a mother who killed two foals unnecessarily, even if Blossom was the one who killed them herself... and related to Equestria's deadliest serial killer, even if in the previous story, damn Working Mind said that most of Equestria's serial killers had family and such, and none of them turned out to be murderers of the serial sort (if I recall correctly). Of course, Working Mind did work with Sweetie Belle and probably thinks that a seemingly normal pony that he deemed mentally fit will probably snap again... but enough of my defending them.
Oh, and like everypony else, I like Nevitt (and Blossom with her bold/blunt statement about the subject of murder) for showing some common sense unlike the Princesses and the shrinks Blossom has seen. I honestly hope they'll still back off, but still wary of what's gonna happen even if already done the supposedly most/only(?) dark chapter in the whole story, if things don't change from how you had planned (not to keep bringing it up, but like with what you said with the Diamond Tiara arc and how she acted). Dunno how much more I can bear to see her go through...
Anyway, sad chapter, even if didn't hit me while reading like the others recently, given the pace of events... I honestly hope the Princesses do the right thing... or get pushed some more, BEFORE they do it; if they just took Blossom away without telling anypony right away, I assume. Once again, looking forward to next chapter and hoping it comes a little faster, due to eagerness in wanting to see how this plays out, despite the somberness of it all.
2387423 Blossom is in the hospital where M1 holds take place. She's in a normal hospital room.
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Yeah, I just recently noticed while re-reading this chapter right away (to see if would hit a little more at the heartstrings) and hoped you would not see that, before I removed it, which I did a couple of minutes ago. Since I obviously missed that part. Still sad chapter, though. I'm still holding out hope in you and this story (even though this is the only series of yours have read at this point), but... to be honest, losing faith as review said.
2387493 Losing faith that what?
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That know what you're doing and despite the main category tag, this story MAY have a happy ending for Joyous Blossom (and possibly Sweetie Belle), as I had hoped the one before this would with Sweetie Belle, but jammed a knife when played out events the same to what happened on Rarity's first day at school (though different at the same time), so she ended up separated from her daughter. It's very emotional and dramatic... but I suppose that's the point of all this, right?
2387544 You really think that I might be doing this on the fly with no real planned end goal in sight?
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No, I don't see it that way, but... it is pretty emotional and crazy, nonetheless. And I didn't mean it to sound that way, but I just have had faith in this series despite that I started with the prequel to this (and then read the first one, more or less, over time though and not all at once), I think, and it's getting hard to feel the same but I still want to read out of curiosity. I didn't read it for a while despite being long aware of it and having read gore (for MLP anyways, hardly read such a thing before this fandom to best of my recollection) for a long time, because I didn't want to read about Rarity being a killer even if have read all of the Mane 6 (I THINK, not sure about AJ or RD, but most if not all of them including Rarity before this one) possibly doing so at some point (minorly or majorly). And even others... but anyway, I honestly hoped once Blossom had entered Sweetie's life and/or she had moved on after realizing the harsh truth about her sister, Sweetie Belle would be happy, but I digress.
What my final sentence meant was that it was supposed to make us FEEL for Blossom (at this point, but overall should probably say Rarity's family, mainly SB and her daughter), see how awful her life has become as a result of the actions her aunt did long before her (and to a less important significance, her mother's actions). Maybe shouldn't have used the word dramatic, but as maybe a sensitive person in general, this story does tug at the heartstrings and makes me feel sorry for Blossom cause she got a raw deal due to her aunt, and there is quite a bit of drama/conflict in this series and story in particular due to the Princesses not letting up on watching her as Nevitt said. Hope that clears it up...
Edit: Added some notes and changed some things for clarity if you look over this chapter's comments again. Oh, and again, hope to see next chapter up soon, even if the wait on this one wasn't bad, but more than a day can cause impatience (though sometimes I can be patient), especially with your rate of updates to this particular series, even if may be writing other things simultaneously.
Congrats I'm crying...
It's been a while since I've been this emotionally invested in a story. I got to admit you're a sly one this whole story I worried Blossom would become like her aunt and everytime she killled I was scared it would be a downwards spiral for her. This thinking made me no better then the princesses, for I keep checking the wounds. We all want to be the hero, sadly our best intentions can always backfire. It's hard to be mad at the royal sisters knowing this, I'm hopeful for a happy ending but we'll see... It's your story and I wouldn't want to change what's planned!
TL/DR: Fine work Bronywriter.... MOAR!!!
Simply splendid sir. Words fail me right now. Just... have a moustache. And Spiderman.
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Fair chapter. Like dinokuba said I can see this ending in many different ways. Im not sure how I want it to end, but I think i'll be satisfied with most of them.
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OPPA BONBON STYLE!
Nevitt is new best pony
I'd cry, but I am a man. So fluttershy will do it for me.
2386811 Nine possible endings? Now I'm curious.
All I can say is: FINALLY I CAN NOW SLEEP X.X
FINALLY! I am not caught up. Now I just have to wait for the next chapter.
*Glances at the clock*
Any time now...Any time now...
I would like to say that reading The Secret Life of Rarity, The Public Life of Sweetie Belle, and continuing into this, it has been an emotional roller coaster and I must say, it is absolutely amazing. I look forward to you continuing the story and I am very happy to have read everything so far.
2409194 I hope to have the next chapter out tonight.
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Tonight? Funny, I should probably ask, what timezone are you in? It is almost 1AM Eastern Time here.
2409212 Mountain time. It might not be until tomorrow still.
I agree with nefrit the princesses keep trying to dig deeper into the poor kids mind. like nefrit said its like checking the wound to see if its infected. I think its best the princesses leave blossom alone great story so far
Good job Nevitt!
I really like that part with Nevitt. I was like, "FINALLY SOMEPONY UNDERSTANDS!" I was so happy when she told the princesses to back off.
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Finally.
Final. Fucking. Ly.
I have been waiting SO LONG for another pony like that.
Of course, the first was June Star. I think that was the pony's name, I'm bad at names.
And now, we have Nevitt. All it took was some rage!
At last.
I had wondered when the two would realize this.
Oh, and the tabloids. And Diamond.
Stop shaping her into what you fear!
I shall read on.