"Eternity's home visit! Clean logs" By White_light (https://pastebin.com/u/White_light) URL: https://pastebin.com/2LFVpHrp Created on: Wednesday 4th of February 2015 03:55:03 AM CDT Retrieved on: Monday 26 of October 2020 10:00:01 AM UTC -*- Eternity sits silently in her living room, hooves shaking... She takes a deep breath, tears trickling ever so slightly down her eye. Her eyes shift focus from her hooves to the knife sitting on the table in front of her, the blade tinged with the slightest hint of crimson. She feels a warmth trickling down her foreleg. She moves her gaze back to her hoof, seeing the thin trail of sanguine soaking into her fur as it slides down her leg. She exhales shakily, trying to suppress a few sobs as she lets her head press against the back of the chair. Sitting upright like this was uncomfortable, but she was numb to the pain, regardless of where it was coming from. After a few moments like that, she stumbles to her hooves, heading into the bathroom to glare at the polished metal that was her mirror. She looked at the singed, bandaged, depressing looking animal looking back at her with disgust. She raises her non bleeding hoof to rip off the bandage around her eye, using her wings at the same time to remove the ones around the massive bruise on her side, easily visible through her fur. She moves her gaze to the previously bandaged eye, staring at the milky white center and bloodshot exterior. Almost unwillingly her mouth curls into a snarl. Lifting up her bleeding foreleg in a fit of rage she punches the mirror as hard as she can, leaving a noticable dent slightly off center. She walks back into the main room, uncaring that blood has started to track on the floor from her leg. -*- Eternity takes a seat in the wooden chair again, her bandages discarded. Her good eye remains locked on the bloody knife still laying on the table in front of her. Her bloody hoof slowly, ever so slowly... creeps up, trembing and dripping more blood everywhere. "f-fuckss-s-shit god i hate, why am i doing this..." a lonely figure appears in the horizon of the house mumbling swears to herself under the hood and scarf like a crazy person, shivering heavily and sniffling as she approaches the building at a swift pace! -*- Eternity finally picks up the blade with her bloodied hoof, moving it slowly to her other foreleg, simply letting the blade rest against her skin, staring at her reflection in the polished steel. Oh wait... She stops and eyes the building across the river with a totally not upset gaze slightly brow twitchy gaze, it was close they said... The across the river part she might have forgotten "Sonnova." and turns tail and walks down for the bridge, *After probably 10 or so minutes* ... She gets to the flipping warehouse not bothering to write more stuff on other channels. *inarticulate groans* *Knock... Knock knock* The fully cloaked figure who was now standing infront of the door took a few steps back to lean against the wall, "Eternityyyy Haaaalp..." -*- Eternity starts crying more in earnest now, the blade in her hoof shaking, not so much slicing into her skin as simply digging into it from her inability to hold it steady. Blood slowly starts trickling out of that foreleg as well. Her ears perk and she jumps out of her chair with a startled yelp, she reflexively throws the knife towards the source of the noise, the weighty kukri not designed for throwing, but still embedding itself in her door enough to make an audible slam, as well as poke eeeever so slightly through to the outside. She quickly gets to her hooves, rushing into her bathroom and tearing open the medkit in the cabinet, wrapping gauze quickly around her fresh wounds and eye. She quickly wraps a bandage around her eye, wishing she had the voice to call out. On her way out of the bathroom she grabs a rag, rubbing away the majority of the blood that was coating her forelegs and what she could get off the wooden floors. She tosses the rag under the kitchen counter and hopes the dim lighting is enough to hide the probably smeared blood drops on the floor. She takes a shakey but calming breath before cracking open the door enough to look out, forgetting about the knife she left embedded in it. All in all it was about 5 minutes of waiting on White's part. Probably long enough to start considering going back home, but not quite long enough to actually leave. -*- WhiteLight slowly begins to slide down against the wall until the shivering pony was curled up against the wall right beside the door, "I swer I will p--ch som--ne -f so--ne doesn't open the d--r in the next... Fucking 10 seconds i swer." obviously not very happy with having to wait out in the cold like that... At the time she would have probably stood upa gain by now and was taking steps to leave, only noticing Eternity peeking just as she was about to leave really "Oh... Good i don't get to punch someone." -*- Eternity raises her good eyebrow, but opens the door enough for her to come in. -*- WhiteLight sniffles under the scarf, the absolutely shivering mare slowly turning around the face the house again casting a quick look to the temporarily mute mare before stepping forward "Hi Eternity, heh, How... *Cough* How are you doing?" she said as she rushed inside to escape the cold. The inside wasn't much better, still frigidly cold, but still warmer than outside. It wasn't lit either, the only light coming from the moon through the windows. -*- Eternity puts on her best fake smile, nodding slightly, her eyes flicking worriedly to White's belly for a second before going back up to her eyes. -*- WhiteLight stops short of the entrance, eyes already searching for something to sit on that wasn't the floor while also exploring the room, "I uh..." she pauses for a second as she gets stuck on an annoying stammer, ending up on a grunt as she finally made eye contact with Eternity "Just needed something really quick, i know its not the time and... You can't really teach me how to cook now i guess without a voice..."---- "AND ALSO to see the place you live in! As well as... Keep you company since the bed is a rather boring place to stay in for the whole night... When one can't sleep." "I mean me i can't... Sleep." -*- Eternity leads her to the center of the room where the kotatsu and pile of pillows, gently easing her down into the fluffy pile. She keeps her face locked in that mask of politeness, unable to form the highly emotive expressions she was known for. -*- Eternity makes sure she's comfortable before walking across the room to the fireplace. She bends down to start the fire up, but struggles a bit with getting the tinder to catch, which ususally wasn't a problem for her. Light could possibly notice the new bandages halfway down her forelegs once the light from the fireplace illuminates things. -*- WhiteLight very quickly feel into silence after saying that, simply donning a weak smile as her head slowly craned down slightly, "Well this is n-nice..." is all she got herself to say as she is eased down on the pillows, silently staring back to the door to see the big knife still on the door. "Heh... Hm... I hope i didn't choose a bad time to visit..." slowly lowering herself to lay on her belly over all the pillows with that already small smile flickering away pretty quickly... "Needed some... Tea... Didn't have that many leaves left so... Yes." -*- Eternity finally gets the fire lit after an annoyingly long minute, quickly making her way back to the kotatsu, taking a seat at the table edge next to White. -*- Eternity blinks, looking at White sprawled out next to the kotatsu. She gets up from the pillows and walks into the kitchen, a slight tremble in her steps as she pulls out her kettle, quickly filling it with water and a mixture of ginger and rooibos. She returns and hooks it over the fire in the fireplace before returning back to the table and sitting down, still just staring at White with that oddly neutral face. -*- WhiteLight nervously rubs her forelegs together as she gazed up at Eternity, finally pulling down the scarf from her muzzle along with her hood as she quickly walked away for the kitchen, "its a bit sad that you can't talk now... " she whispered, slowly starting to sound and lot more somber after saying that, "You... Are funny to listen to... And i kinda feel like I'm talking to myself, again." -*- Eternity closes her eye, taking a deep, methodical breath. Opening it again, you can see the faintest of smiles on her face. She shakes her head and scoots an inch closer to White to show she's listening. It's a real, genuine smile. -*- WhiteLight veeery gently and affectionately nuzzles into her side, as if sorta afraid to hurt her further by doing that, "... I'm uh... Not bothering you or anything right? Because i was possibly, maybe stay in here to rest for a bit, if you don't mind." she continued with the same hushed and saddened tone, offering Eternity a tiny nervous smile again, really trying to not wince too much from the fits from her stomach. -*- Eternity winces at the pressure against her side, her smile dropping for a second. You can see now in the light of the fire that her barrel is unbandaged, leaving the massive, ugly bruise visible. She hesitates for a mere second, but returns the nuzzle gently. -*- WhiteLight winces more from the bruise she was seeing than her own pain all of a sudden, the mare tensing up and almost freezing in embarassment as she looked up at her "S-shoot sorry! I d-didn't see that... Somehow." she hurried to apologize sounding utterly mortified by that even if it was for just a second. "I also uh... Need to ask for some of the ingredients for your tea if you don't mind, O-or at least to see them so i can go get them my... Myself yes! maybe..." -*- Eternity puts a hoof to her mouth, silencing her. You can feel her slight tremble through your muzzle from the brief touch. Her head flicks back to the kettle, which has started to whistle. Carefully getting herself to her hooves, she grabs the kettle off the hook, pouring a bit into one of the cups already on the top of the kotatsu and sliding it slightly to White. She sets the hot kettle down in the center and returns to the fire, shoveling a large amount of burning embers into a bucket. Carefully working her way underneath the kotatsu she lifts the grate in the floor, dumping the smouldering embers into the hole and closing the grate, warmth already radiating out of the floor grate and getting caught underneath the blanket. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu ] -*- WhiteLight lets out a last whimper as Eternity silenced her, the mare giving off a little quiver staying silent and just simply watching her forelgs fidgets around nervously along with her tail, White had never seen a kotatsu before but watching Eternity do that made her subconsciously want one "Woah i kinda want one of these now instead of a couch..." White said with some amusment, starting to smile again as she quietly watched the steaming tea cup, waiting for it to cool down for now. -*- Eternity looks worriedly to White, nudging her belly gently and nodding her head in White's direction, trying to show her concern. -*- WhiteLight quickly snaps her head around at the nudge, looking back down towards her belly seemingly confused for a moment "Oh him hes... Its fine, its just a very annoying stomach ache and a bit of weakness for now but I'm fine..." White stated as she looked back to Eternity with another weak smile making its way up again, "I know i-i shouldn't be going around anymore but i really, really don't like staying in one place for too long with nothing to do."--- "Especially when i feel horrible all the time..." -*- Eternity drops her eye into a more serious look, almost a scowl, when she says 'just a stomach ache'. The kind of face your mother makes when she knows you're full of shit. -*- WhiteLight 's ears slowly drop as she sees the scowl, her smile quickly turning into a sheepish frown but despite that, she leaves it at that and simply goes silent again not wanting to really dwell on that too much... Instead she just quickly drags her head back over the tea cup as she starts to sit up on her haunches again "I'll be fine, its-... Its not like I'm already being really irresponsible by going around like this with this cold." "What do yo want me to say I'm... Not doing that well honestly but thats normal you know..." -*- Eternity gives her a light smack on the back of the head, not hard enough to really do anything, but enough to convey the meaning. She nudges her belly a tad bit more seriously, locking her eye onto the side of White's head until she turns to look at her again. -*- WhiteLight suddenly jerks up from the smack coming totally unexpected to her, the mare blinking a few times as if confused by that... "H-hey...?" Is all she says as she slowly turns her head slightly to sideglance Eternity while a hoof slowly rubs against the back of her head, "I-..." she pauses as she simply looked at her with her mouth locked open with the words suddenly not wanting to come out from fear of saying something wrong. -*- Eternity rolls her eye and gets up, coming back with a notepad and quill. She quickly scratches out a note. 'You're pregnant now. Start acting like it.' -*- WhiteLight 's mouth closes shut as she read said note, going deadpan as she sighs through her nose and replies with a simple "I know... I know..." before slowly turning her head around again and turning stoic all of a sudden, silently staring down at that tea. "If... Only there wasn't so much to do Eternity..." -*- Eternity slides the tea towards her, softening her frown. She starts writing another note, however pauses for a few seconds as she stares at the page. 'I'll... be here to help.' -*- WhiteLight stared down into the cup... And at her reflection in the tea for a bit longer, she was obviously a bit conflicted now that she was thinking about it more, getting more and more disheartened as time went on... Her eyes then slowly drift away and over the note she had wrote, White mustering up a almost broad smile as she then shifted her gaze up to the bat "You're too nice Eternity, Thank you... If theres anything I can do to help just let me know though." for a moment looking a bit sheepish, worried that her honest words might have been too dry perhaps, White leaning in again slowly to nuzzle against her cheek now, hoping that the cheek wasn't bruised or anything. -*- Eternity smiles more fully now, enjoying the sensation of their cheeks brushing together, though the wet fur from her earlier tears is definitely noticable. -*- WhiteLight silently leans back again, adding to her conflicting feeling comes the sadness for Eternity's condition actually hoping there was something she could do about it all, "Do show up sometimes when you're not busy... Your house is kind of across the river so i had to take the looong way around on the bridge." she said with a bit more enthusiasm now, especially when she starts to grumble "Damn winged ponies and their wings, i want wings." and ending it off with a deep pout as she sets herself upright again and wraps her forelegs around the cup of tea to begin sipping it. The tea is a a relatively warm blend, the sweetness of the rooibos offset by the spice of the ginger. While it doesn't leave a taste in your mouth, it undoubtedly leaves a warmth in your belly. -*- Eternity writes a bit more, pausing a few times. 'That would be... nice. You'll be seeing... a lot more of me..." She slowly slides the pad over for her to read. -*- WhiteLight silently sips her tea with quite a bit of gusto, the silence making White slowly close herself in her thoughts again making her put up a generally worried ezpression for... Many reasons, enjoying the fact that the nausea was slightly less annoying now that she was drinking, now she was just tired and weak! Although getting snapped back momentarily as the note enters her proliferal vision "W-well, I'm glad, Me and Light will be happy to see you for sure!" Pausing for a second as she takes a sip of the tea again. "And uh... whenever i get a kitchen and learn how to cook properly I'll make sure to make sure to start learning how to make some nice cookies sometimes, along with the tea." "At least i plan on doing that don't know if I'll remember." -*- Eternity nods slowly, a small smile on her lips. She tries her best to check and see if the bandages around her new cuts have bled through yet, noticing a slight shade of crimson on both, not enough to worry her, but enough to know she needs to fix it. She scribbles out one final note. 'Bathroom. Once I'm done I'll help you upstairs to my room for bed. Not going back home in this weather.' -*- WhiteLight 's smile slowly fades as, being this close to Eternity, she also can notice the shade of crimson over the bandage, she can't help but wince to the sight "A-alright, thank you." and then goes back to sipping her tea slowly, kind of enjoying the flavor of it. -*- Eternity nods, hoping she doesn't register that those bandages weren't there yesterday. She quickly gets up and shuffles her way into the bathroom, where the medkit is still strewn all across the floor. Unraveling the bloody rags around her legs, she actually takes her time to properly clean and dress the cuts. She comes out like 10 minutes later, standing next to the seated White and offering a hoof to get up. -*- WhiteLight silently eyes those bandages as Eternity left, she doesn't say anything about those and simply turns around cringing returning to just sipping the tea until she finally finishes it a minute later... Sitting there waiting for Eternity to return tight lipped before just slooowly brining in another pillow and laying down on her side, several minutes later upon returning she sees White kind of half alseep with one eye half lidded which opens up fully after she returns, quickly pushing herself up and grabbing onto Eternity's hoof to stand again. -*- Eternity turns and leads her upstairs, careful to keep a good grip on her as they ascend. She shies her eye away from the other two doors in the hallway and opens the door to her bedroom, a large comfy looking pile of pillows and other comfy looking things inside a wooden frame, a couple large downy sheets on top. -*- WhiteLight gets back on her hooves with a yawn, the hoof she had used to grab onto Eternity's plopping back down almost limply leaning on the mare beside her to walk shuffling her hooves across the floor seemingly not willing to lift her hooves too far off the ground... "Ohh... This isn't the only bed r-right? Like... You don't have to sleep on a couch now or something right Eternity?" White asked sounding pretty woirried about that for some reason as she walked in the bed room. -*- Eternity basically pushes her down into the mega plush bed, taking a few moments to let her get comfortable. "Eeek!" White exclamated in alarm at the sudden push and falling right into the giant pile of comfy things almost on her back, frowning in a sheepish manner as she looked up at Eternity not moving from her current position other than rolling to lay on her side "Wow... I just felt bad to take your bed is all..." she quietly squeked out in respose as she quickly found a pillow to put under her head. -*- Eternity walks around and joins her on the other end of the at least king sized bed, snuggling down under the covers and laying on her back, staring up at the ceiling somewhat sullenly. -*- WhiteLight simply tightens her lips as Eternity merely lays on the other side of the bed, and after a moment of just eyeing her just laying the ther White simply rolls over to the edge of the bed and starts to take off her things, since she was still wearing everything she came in with. -*- Eternity takes a deep breath as she lets the day unfold before her mind's eye. It'd been a long time since she... no. There are people here that care about her and that she cares about. She's not going to jeopardize that by getting them worried over her own problems. She closes her eye, relishing the warm, soft embrace of the bed all around her. Pretty soon she'll be out like a light. -*- WhiteLight messes around for a good few minutes fiddling with the straps of the saddlebags, taking off her cloak, her scarf and finally her quilted jacket making sure to fold everything up as best she can before looking for something to lay them on or otherwise just putting it all on the floor bundled up next to eachother "Great, now hopefully--" rolling back and crawling over and nuzzling the blankets to find a spot under them, laying down on her back almost right next to her bat friend "... Uh, g-good night, Eternity." -*- Eternity is already long gone.