>Day that it all comes crashing down in Equestria.
>Wake up from your long slumber.
>Being Anon really takes it out of a guy.
>Head to the bathroom and take care of the necessities.
>Your stomach gurgles.
>Decide to appease it and head downstairs to the kitchen.
>Pour yourself a bowl of Ones and Zer-0s.
>"For when you're so hungry, you could eat a horse!"
>What a horrifying tag line.
>[M0ther's] everywhere must be weeping.
>It doesn't really matter to you though.
>This shit's delicious.
>Unfortunately, you only get half-way through your bowl before you hear the inevitable knock.
>You groan.
It never ends...
>This is the price you pay, living literally next-door to your own personal rapist.
>Leaving your breakfast to its soggy fate, you head over and answer the door.
God damnit, Flutt-
>Your outrage is silenced by a yellow hoof being pressed to your mouth.
>Your eyes follow it up to find a sight it has yet to behold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWxasQEzuBg
>Fluttershy hovers quietly a foot or so away, her face solemn but determined.
>"Save it, Anon. I know what you're going to say. I'm not here to guess your fetish."
>With that, she pulls her hoof away and lands back down on the ground.
>Shocked, you take a few moments before speaking.
You're... not here to guess a fetish?
>She sighs a deep sigh, filled with regret.
>"No, Anon. I'm here to apologize."
>She tries to hold eye contact with you and give you a faint smile, only to turn away suddenly.
>["I hurt myself today..."]
>She holds a hoof up to her face.
>[To see if I still feel..."]
>You watch her flex it and wince.
>["I focus on the pain."]
>Her gaze wanders back to yours.
>["The only thing that's real."]
>You notice a few scars that you hadn't before.
>["The needle tears a hole."]
>She closes her eyes and smiles weakly.
>["The old familiar sting."]
>["Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything..."]
 
>Her smile turns to a frown and you can tell that her body becomes wracked with sorrow.
>"I just don't know what's come over me since you showed up."
>You can see tears beginning to form in the corner of her eyes.
>"We used to have so much fun together."
>She smiles again.
>"It didn't take long before I fell in love with you..."
>She sniffles.
>"But I knew you didn't feel the same way..."
>"So I thought that if I could show you that I could be somep0ny that you could love, maybe you would."
>She frowns and sobs.
>"Fetish after fetish, I started going crazy trying to find the one that would make you mine."
>Her tears flow freely now.
>["What have I become?"]
>She grips your pant leg.
>["My sweetest friend..."]
>You feel her body shivering.
>["Everyone I've loved goes away in the end."]
>You start to reach out to touch her but she pulls away.
>["You could have it all."]
>She looks over and points to her cottage.
>["My empire of dirt."]
>She whimpers, dropping her hoof to the ground.
>["But I'd just let you down."]
>She hangs her head.
>["I would make you hurt."]
>Your heart aches in sympathy.
Fluttershy, I had no idea you were going through so much inner turmoil...
>You take a few steps towards her but she holds up a hoof and you stop.
You just need help.
>"No! I still can't let anyp0ny know the things I've done to you, Anon. I still have to look like-"
>She holds her hooves up to do air-quotes. "The Element of Kindness..."
>She scoffs.
 
>["I wear that crown of shit."]
>She mimes an act of innocence and then scowls.
>["Upon my Liar's Chair."]
>She eyes you up and down.
>["Full of broken thoughts."]
>She settles her gaze at your crotch.
>["That I cannot repair."]
>She wrenches her focus from you.
>"Maybe [beneath the stains of time."]
>She gathers some dust in her hoof.
>["The feelings disappear."]
>A gust of wind blows by.
>["You'll find someone else."]
>Somehow the dust remains still.
>["But I will stay right here."]
>She starts crying again.
>["What have I become?"]
>Her mane is caught up in the breeze.
>["My sweetest friend..."]
>She smiles another faint smile.
>["Everyone I've loved goes away in the end."]
>The wind blows so that her mane obscures her face.
>["You could have it all!"]
>She stomps a hoof to the ground.
>["My empire of dirt!"]
>Her legs wobble and her head drops.
>["But I'd just let you down."]
Fluttershy...?
>...
>["I'd just make you hurt."]
>She cranes to look up at you.
>["If we could start again."]
>A genuine smile plays across her face.
>["A million miles away."]
>She walks up to you.
>["I would stay myself."]
>She rears up on her hind legs to hug you and whispers:
>["I would find a way..."]
>She takes a few step back to look at you longingly.
>Before you can say anything, she spreads her wings and takes flight down the road to P0nyville.
>You stand, stunned, for a few moments before pressing your hands to where her head was just resting against you.
>Her tears left a wet patch on your stomach.
>You idly rub the fabric, feeling the cold against your fingertips when you feel the same wet sensation on the back of your hand.
>It happens again.
>And again.
>You reach up to your cheeks.
>They too, are wet.
>God damnit...
>Despite all the shit she's put you through.
>The daily abuse.
>The endless frustration.
>She can still reduce you to tears...
>Fuck you, Fluttershy...
>You walk back inside and close the door.