Never & Rush wrote: This is a vent piece, so don't mind me. I just need to write this down to help me.
It's not a pair pair, but it's my version. <3DaisyDae
~Her Daddy gave her her first pony
Then taught her to ride~
The little red-headed girl stood in the aisle way with her too big breeches and oversized hunt boots.
Her deep auburn hair was pulled back into a bun and tucked neatly under her helmate with only a few strands escaping their confines.
"When do I get to ride?" She asked, her small pitchy voice was eagar.
An older woman brought a horse from within one of the neat wooden stalls. The little girl stared up in wonder at the horse.
It was beautiful, more so than she had dreamed. The mare was the color of rich milk chocolate, and fresh marshmallows.
The girl's eyes were wide as she stood for a moment, letting the image of her horse sink in. This was her horse.
The older woman gave a faint laugh and cracked a smile at the girl, 'Come closer dear, and meet your new horse. Her name is Daisy."
For a moment the little girl just gazed in astonishment at the horse, then she took a step forward and stretched out a tiny hand to pet the horse's muzzle.
The paint mare, Daisy, stretched the rest of the way to meet the little girl's hand, pressing her warm, soft nose against the girl's trembling hand.
It took no more than that small gesture for the little 8 year old to fall in love with the paint mare.
~She climbed high in that saddle
Fell I don't know how many times~
Sweat rolled down Dae's face. Underneath her Daisy was loping along, letting Dae show the world her stuff.
On one side of her, a sorrel horse was acting up and threatening to swerve into the pair's path.
The other side consisted of a tall white wall, and Dea realized that this could not end well. Her horse sensed the panic in the 14-year-old's body and they both knew what was coming next.
The horse next to them swerved into their path, slamming them both against the wall and causing Dae to fall to the ground, as her horse scrambled to get up. Behind them horses veered around Dae, and a voice boomed overhead.
Dea heard nothing as pain seered through her arm and she held back the tears. How many times had she fallen before?
Ten, twenty? Definitely more. But none had been like this.
Panicked voices swarmed the girl, and a someone was taking her horse away. She tried to tell them to bring Daisy back, but she couldn't make much sense of her words.
Not much else registered to Dae, as her horse was pulled away, limping as if she had been hurt.
~~~
After a night in the hospital, Dea was released to go home. Only a minor concussion and a fractured wrist had kept her from her horse.
It only took a little bit of demanding, and a slight amount of whining for Dae to be taken to see the paint mare she had come to love in the past few years.
~Cowgirls don't cry
Ride, baby, ride
Lessons of life are going to show you in time
Soon enough your gonna know why
It's gonna hurt every now and then
If you fall get back on again
Cowgirls don't cry~
Upon arrival, Dae could sense the tension in the barn. The vet had come out to see Daisy, and see what had happened in the show ring. Silence like death greeted the teen.
Eveyone had pained looks on their faces and Dae already knew what she was going to be told. Warm tears fell from her cheeks as silent sobs racked her body.
The vet emerged from the stall, with a grave expression all but engraved into his face, "Dae, I'm afriad she's to hurt. It's amazing what she did. Daisy managed to catch her hind leg on her front one and rip the tendon. It's to dangerous to do surgery on it, and she will lose full use of the leg without it. Your only option is to put her down."
The sobbing Dae could only shake her head, if only the horse next to them had kept their space.
"I want to talk to her," Dae managed to say, and everyone quickly allowed the sorrow-filled girl to enter the stall.
The first thing she did, after a moment of staring was take one step towards the horse and stretch one hand out to touch the horse's nose.
Daisy stretched her nose out too, to meet her best friend halfway. As they had done 6 years ago, when they had first met.
It was as if she knew this was the end of their friendship, that something better would wait for her on the other side.
Dae wrapped her arm's around the mare's neck and let the tears soak into the fur. She remained like this until the tears came no more, and only dry, silent sobs escaped from their hold in her body.
"Dae, darling, please let me take her pain away." The vet's voice brought her back to reality and the teenager was pulled from the horse and dragged from the barn.
With her head in her heads and fresh tears falling, Dae knew that her horse was gone. She wouldn't go into the barn, and never would her friend be replaced.
(Yeah. It's crap, but it made me feel better, in a weird way. There's a whole other part of the back story in my head, but this wasw what I wanted to write. The ending.)
Loved it.
