- >Be a female caregiver at a group home.
- >The three children you take care of all have some range of autism.
- >They like toys so you decided to get them fluffy ponies for them to play with.
- >One blue pegasus stallion, a male black unicorn, and a green earth mare.
- >The fluffies play well with the children.
- >Both are easily entertained by things fluffies like to do.
- >They can spend hours playing ball, or blocks, or hide and seek.
- >The fluffies also serve for calming the kids.
- >Petting a fluffy on your lap while it coos softly can do wonders.
- >You make sure though that whenever playing is done you are supervising it.
- >The fluffies sleep in one room, and the children in another.
- >Fluffies come to be considering part of the family.
- >One evening you're making spaghetti for the whole family.
- >You are in the kitchen getting started boiling the water and warming up the sauce.
- >The kids and fluffies are playing right in the next room.
- >You got a Nintendo 64 for the kids.
- >Sometimes they'll play on it for hours, staring at the TV, with the fluffies equally entranced.
- >Right now one child and fluffy are playing on the Nintendo, and the others are just playing on the floor.
- >You got out to check on them.
- >Gary gets up and asks you if he can go to the bathroom.
- >You say yes and tell him to be quick because dinner will be ready soon.
- >Twenty minutes later you've finished the giant batch of spaghetti, along with broccoli and biscuits.
- >You go in the family room and announce that dinner is ready.
- >Wait a minute...
- "Where is Gary?"
- >"He still in bathroom."
- >You tell the children that they are not allowed to be in the bathroom for more than fifteen minutes.
- "...What the? And where is Flower?" the green fluffy is gone.
- >"Huh? Dunno."
- >Things are falling apart.
- >You don't like not knowing where the people and things you are responsible for are.
- "You all play a little longer. I'll be right back."
- >"Okay mommy! Huwwy pwease, wan sketties!" you hear from the black unicorn, Crater.
- >You hurriedly walk upstairs.
- >Knock on the bathroom door.
- "Gary, it's time to come out. You've been in there too long." you say with a nice but authoritative tone.
- >"Okay..."
- "And where is Flower? She's your fluffy."
- >"Uhhh, dunno. No come in."
- >Hmm sounds suspicious.
- >Then you hear screams coming from inside, along with splashing.
- >"Nuuu! Fwowa no wan wawa! Pwease stawp!"
- >Flower's in there! And Gary is doing something to her!
- >Open the door.
- >You she the green fluffy in the toilet flailing her hooves wildly.
- >She can't get out of the smooth toilet bowl.
- >Gary has his fingers on the handle.
- >He's been known to flush toys down the toilet before for no apparent reason.
- >Now it looks like he's trying flush this fluffy, which he considers a toy, as well.
- >"Gary flush toy."
- "No stop!!"
- >Before you get to the toilet Gary has flushed it.
- >Flower starts to submerge into the water.
- >"WAAAGHRRHGHRHGH HEWP!!"
- >You grab the fluffy pony from the toilet just before she would have disappeared and been crushed by being forced through the exit.
- >Carry Flower back to family room and rest her on a blanket.
- >She's choking and gagging.
- >Must have swallowed some water.
- >You squeeze the fluffy as hard as you can to get the water out of her.
- >The other kids and fluffies huddle around you.
- >"What wong wif fren? Seabweeze gif huggies?" blue pegasus Seabreeze udders.
- "No stay back! I'm trying to save this animal's life!"
- >"Wha?? Fwen big owwies? Huggies make betta." Crater says.
- >It's not working, she's still choking, and there's not much time left before she dies.
- >Begin performing rescue breaths into the fluffy's mouth.
- >This is the only way she might be saved.
- >Finally Flower coughs up the water she had and starts breathing normally.
- >Once she regains her composure she starts crying and giving you hugs.
- >"Fank you mommy. Hewp fwuffy fwom wawa munsta."
- "You poor girl..."
- >"Fwuffy cowd..."
- >Wrap Flower in the blanket to dry her off and get warm.
- >Starting to think putting fluffies with autistic children was a bad idea.