Ch.3 Sweet Emotions
DISCORD'S REIGN
Chapter 3-Sweet Emotions
"What do ya think that was about?" Rainbow asked as the rest of Twilights friends looked at each other in confusion, Spike still passed out on the table.
"I don't know." Twilight answered, bound by her word not to reveal the worry the Princess had told her about earlier in the day.
"Did you guys see that?" Pinkie asked bounding to where her friends were sitting, unfazed by the rather odd lunar event that just took place.
"Yeah, what do you think it was?" Fluttershy asked as Pinkie ate a few of the leftovers sitting on the table.
"I dunno, but it reminded me of the night Nighmare Moon escaped! 'Member?" she said with her mouth full. Selling cupcakes all day but not being able to eat any had given her a ravenous hunger.
Of course! Twilight remembered where she had seen those stars around the moon before. She was fairly certain they weren't stars at all! The very thing they had just witnessed happened four years ago when Nightmare Moon descended on Equestria. But what puzzled her was that Luna was Nightmare Moon, and that it was supposed to happen once in a thousand years! So why would the energy used to free her strike Equestria again?
The other ponies gasped in surprise at their bubbly friends suggestion.
"But Luna's right over there. I thought she was Nightmare Moon?" Rainbow asked.
"Whatever it is, I'm sure Princess Celestia will take care of it." Twilight reasoned in an attempt to calm her friends concerns.
"Looks like I've got a baby dragon to put to bed." she said levitating him onto her back carefully, though in truth she could have dropped him and he would still be asleep. "I'll be back soon girls."
She walked back to the library, giving her time to dwell on what she had learned about Big MacIntosh. Every time she thought about him she couldn't help but smile, the blanket around her still carrying his scent as well as a few drops of his extra hard cider they had accidentally spilled.
Normally he was so quiet around...well pretty much everypony. Is it really because he's that shy? He's the biggest stallion in Ponyville! What reason could he possibly have for being shy? she wondered as the music of the town square faded behind her upon her nearing the library.
Twilight slowly pushed the door open and stepped inside, lighting a candle in the darkened library. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of something strange about her bust of Starswirl the bearded, but only for a second. It was a different face, one with horns and a pointier beard. She looked back at it and saw it was still the same sculpture it had always been.
"I guess that cider hits me harder than I thought..." she whispered to herself as she climbed the stairs and put Spike in his bed, covering him with his blanket.
After she tucked Spike in, she removed and folded the blanket on her back, putting it neatly on her bed.
"Big Macintosh thinks I'm pretty!" Twilight whispered gleefully to herself. No stallion had ever said that to her, not that she had given any of them a chance since she was mainly studying up until she moved here. But still, the idea of somepony caring about her like that, especially some male pony was quite an enthralling proposition. She found herself wearing a wide smile with a hint of red under her eyes as she headed back out of the library to enjoy the rest of the celebration, only to be confronted by Applejack a few steps from her house.
She gasped in surprise as she softly closed the door.
"Applejack!" she exclaimed, trying to get her racing heart under control. "Will you please stop sneaking up on me?"
She looked into the country mare's eyes and noticed regret, instead of suspicion.
"Sorry 'bout the fright. Listen, I came over ta apologize for the way I acted earlier." she said remorsefully, not daring to look Twilight in the eyes. "It was outta line, friends shouldn't treat friends with suspicion like that...I'm sorry Twilight. I've just been so used to havin' him 'round that, I dunno...I guess I felt threatened by him havin' another girl in his life that wasn't family."
Twilight responded with her usual expression of understanding and forgiveness.
"It's okay Applejack. I understand you wanting what's best for your brother, but we haven't even been on a date yet! Everypony is already acting like I'm having his foal!" she said throwing her hooves in the air in mild frustration.
"Yeah, I 'spose I overreacted a bit..." Applejack laughed as they began to walk back into town.
"Have you had some of that cider he made?" Twilight asked.
"Ha, I learned my lesson back at the farm to stay away from that stuff. Burns like the dickens." she said as the music from the town grew in volume as they came back to the festivities.
Once they had gotten back to the table where the rest of their friends were waiting, Twilight noticed Princess Celestia still had not returned from Canterlot.
"Princess Celestia didn't come back while I was gone did she?"
"Nope, still in Canterlot." Rainbow Dash answered, finishing her glass of hard cider.
"Hm... I'm gonna go ask Luna if she knows what's going on with the moon tonight." Twilight said excusing herself and walking towards the royal table.
The pegasus guards crossed their wings as she approached, blocking the steps to were Luna was seated.
"State your business with her highness." the one on the right commanded.
"At ease boys." Luna said from her seat as they folded their wings with a snap. "She may enter."
"Luna...where did Princess Celestia go?" she asked quietly as she bowed, so as not to draw attention from the other ponies who were still in earshot of them.
"She believes the energy released from the moon was the uneasy feeling she foretold. She has departed to further investigate it, though I cannot say for certain when she shall return." she said with just a small gleam of worry for her sister in her eyes.
"Do you think it is?" Twilight asked.
"I pray it is not dear Twilight. For if it truly is something she believes she cannot mitigate, then we may be in more peril than we thought." she answered truthfully, to the young unicorns surprise.
"With all due respect your majesty...that's not very comforting."
"The subjects are the only ones who need comforting. Royal advisors such as yourself deserve to know the truth if you are to do your job properly." she stated in the elegant manner she had worked so hard on to replace her 'Royal Canterlot voice'.
'Me? A royal advisor?' Twilight thought happily as she was pulled out of her thoughts by Luna.
"Have you any other questions, fair Twilight?"
"No Prin- I mean Luna." she said, bowing and exiting the way she had come in. Dawn was almost here as the ponies in the town square began the countdown.
The sun began to illuminate the east as it made its rounds, painting the clouds a brilliant orange and red.
As the sun broke over the horizon, everypony that was still awake cheered as fireworks launched into the air in celebration.
"I'm losin' it." Rainbow Dash yawned. "I need to hit the hay..." she stood from her hay bale and promptly tripped over her own hooves. She did have a few (10) apple ciders, and was finding walking a little more than a challenge.
"I'll help ya home R.D." Applejack said, always willing to help Rainbow, especially if she could tease her about it later.
"Thanks..." she said, walking close to her so she wouldn't fall over.
They were out of the town square and safely away from any prying eyes before Rainbow Dash leaned against Applejack, rubbing her face into her strawberry blond mane affectionately.
"C-can you believe...I flew with the Wonderbolts?" she said, her words slurring slightly.
Applejack smiled as she returned her friendly nuzzle in agreement.
"Yeah...I knew you'd do it."
"You're darn right I did! I mean...you did..." Dash added, seeing her floating home in the distance. "The head injury was worth it huh?" She asked giggling as she still leaned mostly on her earth pony crutch as she walked.
"I 'spose it was..." Applejack answered. Her heart rate increased with every step they took together. Even though Rainbow was in her Wonderbolts uniform she still felt her warmth against her strong frame, a tint the color of the apples she maintained gracing her cheeks. Her thoughts wandered dangerously about the lightning quick pegasus leaning up against her. Thoughts she normally kept well hidden, only to be resurrected by a few tall glasses of hard cider. She felt the sore wings on her right began to stiffen against her slightly. Applejack didn't know much about pegasus anatomy, but she knew what that meant. She blushed even more than before as she nudged her charge to pull herself back a bit.
Rainbow opened her eyes and quickly tucked her wings back into her sides with an embarrassed laugh, her cyan coat now hot and red under her magenta eyes.
"Sorry...I was just...thinking..." she said in a much less confident tone than what Applejack was used to. She found it cute when the normally dauntless pegasus was nervous, tripping over her words.
"Yeah? I wonder what about..." she teased with a quick but meaningful nudge against her, the rainbow mane she had always admired falling gracefully over her neck.
'No, she isn't...nah' Rainbow thought hearing her response.
Rainbow Dash giggled to herself as they continued toward her house. Ever since the running of the leaves the first year Twilight had arrived, she couldn't help but feel a strange sensation in her stomach when she looked at, or talked to her country pal. She had liked mares from an early age, and had come to accept that about herself, but had never gone so far as to start a relationship with one, or even talk to another pony about her...orientation. But things were different with Applejack.
For some reason, she was so approachable, so easy to talk to about...well anything. Dash had picked up on subtle hints that there may be something between herself and AJ, but despite all her confidence, was always hesitant to ask on the off chance she was wrong about her friend being a 'filly fooler'. She loathed that phrase, never having used it to describe herself. To her it brought connotations of fooling around with the underage, painting the entire community as perverts in her mind. She was pulled from her thoughts by a gentle sigh from her left.
Rainbow sensed something was bothering her fair maned crush. Since her inhibitions were completely gone thanks to the cider, she came straight out with a sense of guilt she had been trying her best to mask.
"I'm sorry we couldn't hang out like we planned..." she said referring to the fact that if she hadn't won the contest, the blanket Big MacIntosh and Twilight had shared was going to be where they were going to lay and watch the stars.
"Don't feel sorry sugarcube, you won your contest!" Applejack said trying to lighten her friend's guilty mood. "You should be proud!"
Before they knew it they were under the cloud house Rainbow Dash called home as dawn broke over the hills.
"I am!" Dash countered, "But still..."
She turned around, facing her earth pony crutch.
Rainbow Dash couldn't help but catch herself staring into the emerald eyes that led her here.
"Here we are..." Applejack said, breaking the gaze, looking up at the clouds that formed Rainbow's house.
"Yup..." Rainbow answered, smiling at her with her eyes half shut. What happened next she could only assume was her subconscious tired of hiding her feelings and desperate enough to take a shot in the dark, or she truly had drank too much cider. Either would have been a reasonable assumption. Before she could even come up with a reason to stop herself, Rainbow acted.
Her eyes shut, she leaned into her friends lips as they touched for a brief second before Applejack pulled away, startled. Dash surprised even herself gambling on a single impulse like that, and almost instantly regretted her decision.
"Rainbow!" Applejack said looking around in apprehension. She was completely taken by surprise by her friends advance.
The blue pegasus immediately sobered up, ears dropping and cheeks tinting feverishly red in embarrassment realizing what she had just done. How could she have been so reckless?
'Rainbow what were you thinking?!'
She had no solid evidence that Applejack would even swing that way. In fact, she had more evidence for the contrary! Her heart sank in fear as she looked with apprehension in her eyes at the earth pony who took an unconscious step backwards.
"Rainbow...I..." she began as she glanced back up at the nervous pegasus. Her soft magenta eyes breaking away from her in something Applejack thought she would never see on the usually confident pegasus' face. Embarrassment.
"I'm sorry! I don't know what came over me! I was still kinda woozy from the cider...a-and I..." she trailed off, not really knowing any way to explain what happened. Her knees threatening to give under the weight of her embarrassment alone.
Applejack was still silent, her mouth hanging open slightly as she still tried to process what Rainbow had just done. This was the first time she had ever been kissed, and to think it would come from another mare! This brought back feelings she was sure she had buried deep inside herself. To think that Ponyvilles most valuable pony was batting for the other team? What would her friends think? What would her family think? What would she think? All these questions raced through her mind as she had almost forgotten there was a certain pony waiting in front of her to say something. Anything.
Rainbow couldn't fathom a response taking this long, and assumed she was holding her tongue out of regard for her feelings. She closed her eyes and let out a long sigh as she began to flap her sore wings, mentally beating herself up over the boneheaded move she had just made when Applejack snapped out of her daze.
"R.D. wait!" she called, catching her just as her front hooves lifted off the ground.
Applejack's mind was flooded with confusing feelings. She bit her bottom lip nervously as she considered what she wanted to say, but honestly had no idea how to confront a situation she believed she would never find herself. Her heart raced at the quick recollection of all the times she had buried the feelings her upbringing had told her were somehow immoral or wrong in regards to her friend Rainbow Dash. After a few seconds of silence, she finally settled on her words.
"What was that...just now?" she asked looking her straight in the eye, a favor her winged friend was having some trouble returning.
To Rainbow's relief, she didn't recoil in disgust. Thank Celestia for small victories.
'I guess I can't un-ring this bell...' she thought taking a deep breath and trying her best to gather the words to explain what she had done.
"I...I think I..." she stuttered, her nerves impeding the progress of the words she was trying so hard to get out.
'Two more words! You're almost there!'
She looked up from the ground and into Applejacks waiting eyes, shining in the dawn sunlight. Her face alone was almost enough for her to cower away from what she knew she had to say.
"I like you..." Dash nearly whispered.
It took the country mare a second to process what she had just revealed.
'Rainbow Dash...likes me?' she thought, though in the back of her mind she felt a tinge of happiness.
"You, you mean like..." she began, Dash simply nodded. Rainbow wasn't afraid of much, but being rejected was one of those things a huge dragon or monster couldn't do.
"Yeah, like that..." she added timidly. Dash was acting quite unlike herself, but this was a huge moment for her. Up until now, she hadn't told anypony about her preferences. The fact that she was able to even say it to Applejack was a huge relief in and of itself, her response not included.
In truth, Applejack had always suppressed the butterflies she got in her stomach whenever Rainbow Dash brushed up against her, slept over at the farmhouse in her bed, accidentally sending a leg in her direction in her sleep or just held eye contact for a bit longer than necessary. But what had just happened unleashed all those pent up feelings at once, overwhelming her normally no-nonsense demeanor.
"I...didn't know that's how you felt about me..." she admitted, the normally headstrong pony flattening her ears, feeling more flattered than embarrassed. To be honest, every time they competed Applejack could care less wether or not she won, she was just glad to be around Rainbow. While her buddy seemed to be a little more concerned with victory, she always held out a secret hope that she had felt similar, whether she acknowledged it or not.
Though her voice and confident attitude would never show it, Applejack had the ability to raise Rainbow to incredible highs and crushing lows on a whim. She was a pro at hiding her feelings behind a near impenetrable wall of self confidence, but in the end, hiding her true feelings towards some mares dug at her heart and ego. The fearless and tough Rainbow Dash afraid to be honest about a facet of her personality that helped define who she was? It was in fact the most un-Rainbow Dash thing she had ever done.
She had kept her feelings hidden for one reason and one reason only. The paralyzing fear of rejection. The thought of Applejack declining her was something that haunted her nightmares, leaving her panting in a cold sweat in the middle of the night. Her paranoid mind began racing with scary thoughts as earth pony began to open up a little more.
"Well...that was mighty brave of you Rainbow." she added in an uneasy tone.
"I'm sorry Applejack...I had no right to-" she was silenced by the earth pony's hoof across her lips.
"It's okay. Really...ta be honest...I have some feelings for you too, I-I'm just not sure what they mean yet." she admitted, blushing furiously as words she'd never thought she'd say came easily for some reason.
Rainbow Dash smiled from beneath her hoof, feeling somewhat vindicated to have at least gotten her to admit that something was between them.
She looked back into Rainbow's deep magenta eyes for a brief second and realized why she had the courage to tell her of the confusing feelings she was certain she would keep under wraps for life up until that point. Those darn eyes of hers.
"I just need some time to think about them...okay?" Applejack asked, dropping her hoof and turning back toward town.
The earth pony took two steps before Rainbow Dash called to her.
"Then let me give you something to think about."
Rainbow threw caution to the wind, energized by the admittance of her true feelings for Applejack. Maybe it was the cider, maybe it was Rainbow Dash tired of hiding her feelings. She didn't know for sure, but one thing she did know was that she would make her intentions clear to the one mare who seemed to understand her on a level she had never before experienced.
Their lips met for maybe two seconds as Rainbow Dash stood on her hind legs, standing Applejack with her and pulling her in close with her forelegs around her shoulders. Rainbow 'accidentally' fell over, taking Applejack to the ground with her and continuing what she started. Her hat fell off, allowing her strawberry blond mane to set a beautiful backdrop to the face the lightning quick pegasus had cultivated secret feelings towards. She giggled from beneath Rainbows lips as she felt her friend hold her down with her forelegs.
At first she was going to resist, but after realizing her still somewhat intoxicated partner wasn't letting up, she melted into the suppressed warmth she felt for the winged pony deep in her heart. Uncertainty morphed into bliss as Applejack accepted her formerly confusing feelings instead of trying to repress them for the first time in her life. Any thoughts or worries she had about caring for another mare had disappeared, only to be replaced by a rush of unfettered adrenaline, the likes of which she had never felt before.
All the worrying thoughts Rainbow had about being rejected were swiftly put to rest as she passionately kissed the farm girl, her partner returning just as much intensity, taking her a bit by surprise. Applejacks foreleg stroked the top of her head, knocking off her goggles and freeing her rainbow mane to fall elegantly against her face. She moved her forelegs to brush against Rainbow's sides, her wings now straight out from her slender yet tone frame as Applejack rolled the blue pony onto her back, her turn to show her newfound more-than-friend that she wasn't the only one able to pin a mare to the ground.
A blue hoof ran through her mane as the relief of all the pent up and uncertain feelings flowed out through her lips, threatening to collapse her already shaky legs. A few blissful seconds passed before Applejack broke the kiss, staring with a passion she had never felt for another mare before in her eyes, their bodies so close she could feel the stirred up head radiating through Rainbow's Wonderbolts uniform. Applejack was ten shades of red as she smiled flirtatiously, her heart feeling as though it was going to explode in ecstasy. How could she have gone this long in her life thinking what she had just done was somehow wrong?
"I didn't know you liked being on top..." Dash panted, getting a playful giggle out of her earth pony friend, her eyes dancing with joy that she had the courage to accept her. Neither of their words belying their own inexperience at what they were doing, the pair simply following whatever urge came naturally. Applejack's worries about anypony else seeing them now long since melted away in the soft magenta pools of the high spirited pegasus before her.
"There's a lot you don't know..." she whispered, giving her friend a quick kiss on the end of the nose she found so cute before getting up and letting Rainbow Dash get to her hooves, wings still straight out proudly for the world to see.
"Get some sleep darlin'." Applejack said, her heart still racing and adrenaline still pumping through her veins from the last minute. "You've been up all night."
"I think I could stay up one more night." she hinted suggestively with an eyebrow waggle, never in a million years dreaming to say those words to anypony but the mare who stood before her.
Applejack smiled and turned back to town after putting her hat back on and fixing her now ruffled mane.
Rainbow Dash simply fell back onto the grass and stared up into the brilliant early morning sky, her heart soaring among the clouds she regularly moved and shaped. She didn't care in the slightest if ponies knew of her interest in Applejack anymore, but she did come from a rather conservative farming family. Unlike Rainbow, despite what Applejacks personality would lead one to believe, she did care about her reputation in Ponyville and what other's opinions were of her and the Apple clan.
As she headed back toward Ponyville, the cruelty of reality began to slowly rob her of the unbridled joy she had just shared. If anypony in her family knew of Applejack's little interest in another mare, she would be exiled from the farm for sure, she just knew it. She slowed to a trot and then to a walk as she reentered the town square, her cheeks were still as red as her big brother's coat. She couldn't deny the rush she got when she was with Rainbow, especially after something she felt so glad she had the courage to be apart of. It felt so wrong in comparison to everything she was raised to believe...but she couldn't help herself.
There was just something about the stunt flying pegasus that she found thinking about when she would lay awake at night, finding her bed too big and cold for just one pony. She couldn't put a hoof on it, but she definitely felt something between them now if she hadn't before. She wished she was as carefree as her better half, although she was unaware that even her dauntless friend was still not ready to shout her feelings from the highest mountain. She would be lying if she said she wasn't envious of how little she perceived Rainbow Dash to care about how the world saw her. She was her own pony and no one else's. Maybe that's what drew her admiration of her in the first place. She bumped head first into Twilight while she was lost in thought.
"Oh! Sorry Twilight, I'm pretty tired from bein' up all night." she answered with a yawn.
"Me too. Rainbow make it home okay?" she asked as Applejack unconsciously blushed at the mention of her name, her thoughts still occupied by what they had both shared by her cloud home.
"Y-yeah...I got her home." she said looking away. Applejack was much better at concealing her feelings than Twilight, but still not a very good liar.
"Well that's a relief, I thought she was going to pass out on the table like Spike." she said catching the yawn Applejack had just released.
"I can teleport you back to the farm if you'd rather not walk." The purple unicorn suggested, seeing how tired the earth pony looked.
"Thanks Twilight, that'd be great." Applejack said putting herself up against her so the spell would work.
In a flash of purple light they were at the entrance to Sweet Apple Acres.
"Thanks, I'll tell Big MacIntosh ya said hello." she said yawning again as she trotted eagerly to her soft, waiting bed.
Twilight teleported herself back to the library, barely closing the door behind her before letting out an exhausted sigh.
She wasn't sure she could make it up the stairs as she put one hoof in front of the other, finally reaching the top and flopping down on her bed.
She rolled onto her side and covered herself with the blanket from the night before, the scent of Big MacIntosh and extra hard cider intertwining in her nose as she fell into an easy sleep.
A day had gone by since the Summer Sun Celebration, the usual routine of Ponyville falling easily into place, just in time for a warm summer. Applejack had just gotten done tending the southeast apple field when she met her brother untying himself from the plow in the barn.
"Sure is a hot one today!" she commented as she removed her hat to wipe the sweat from her brow with the other hoof.
"Eeyup." he said taking a drink from the water trough in the barn.
"Big Mac...can I ask you somethin'?"
She had thought a lot about how she was going to phrase this question. In the past day she had done hours upon hours of soul searching before coming to terms with what she knew in her heart. That it was owned by only one pony, a blue pegasus with a penchant for speed and competition. She wished she had Rainbow Dash's courage to just come out and shout it to the world, but that wasn't who she was. In fact, for being the element of honesty, it had taken her quite a while to be honest with herself. This was the first time she would dare hint at her true feelings, knowing that if anyone would; if not understand, then at least keep her secret, it was her older brother.
"Eeyup." he answered laying down in the shade of the barn as she took a spot beside him.
She took a deep breath and began her well thought out question.
"Uh...What would you say if I told you that, Rarity and Fluttershy were...romantically involved with each other?" she asked, trying to gauge her brother's reaction to an unconventional relationship.
Big MacIntosh kept staring out of the open barn door, not breaking his gaze, chewing on a sprig of wheat in thought. Applejack looked over at him, not having a reaction to judge.
"I'd say that's their business. Though I never saw Rarity as the type to be interested in mares." he said calmly, taking a very progressive stance on something she was sure would offend him.
'Okay, he ain't judgmental...heck he's my brother! He'll understand...right?' she sked herself as she swallowed hard and tried to steel herself against what she was about to admit.
"Uh huh, well...what would you say...if...if..." she began, but found her heart attempting to beat straight out of her chest as she choked on her words.
"If t'was you and Rainbow Dash what were romantically involved?" he said in his cool monotone, still not breaking his stare out into the open fields.
Her eyes widened in surprise at his nail-on-the-head answer. She thought she had done such a good job at hiding her feelings, how could he have picked up on it so easily? Applejack only hid them because despite her rough and tumble general attitude, she didn't have the strength to face the potential ridicule of those who were less open minded, her family included.
"How...how did you..."
"C'mon now Applejack, I'm your brother. You've never shown any interest in stallions, even when they made their intentions clear. You're always helpin' her with her stunt flyin', takin' her to the hospital when she hurts herself, waitin' by her bedside till she's well, droppin' whatever you're doin' to be with her when she comes 'round the farm. When I see you the happiest, you're usually 'round her." he said, still not averting his eyes from the fields. "It don't take a genius to connect those dots."
She merely lay beside him in awe of her brother's astute power of observation, as well as relief that he wasn't chastising her or making her feel bad about the way she felt about her friend.
"You...don't think it's weird?" she asked cautiously playing devil's advocate. "For a mare to like another mare like that?"
"Maybe before the Summer Sun celebration I would have. 'Till I worked up the courage to talk to Twilight, I couldn't have even guessed what it felt like...to be sweet on somepony like that, I mean. I was a slight uncomfortable when I first noticed the two of you, I'll admit. But love ain't something that has rules. It don't just exist 'tween a stallion and a mare, it can exist anywhere two pony's have the same feelin' in their hearts when they look at each other, gender or species notwithstandin'."
"Eeyup." he said wisely. The red stallion didn't speak much, but when he did have something to say, it seemed to be just the right words the situation warranted.
Applejack felt more relieved than she had ever remembered feeling before. She may not have been ready to tell her other friends, but at least she had told somepony, and that was enough for her to feel a weight lift from her shoulders. Her jovial mood was not to last however, as she asked a follow up question.
"You think I should tell the rest of the family?"
This question did cause him to break his stare and look directly at her with a dead seriousness in his normally soft green eyes.
"No. You know Granny Smith's set in her ways. She's still the elder, she may well kick you off the farm for somethin' like that. You may be able to tell Applebloom when she gets older, but I wouldn't go flauntin' that kind of news at the next family reunion. You and I may be open minded about it, but I can't speak for the rest of the Apple clan." he said sternly warning his sister about getting too proud in the wrong setting.
Applejack looked crushed, but at least she had the small victory of the support of her older brother, one of the ponies that mattered most in her life.
"That ain't fair..." she sighed under her breath, loud enough for the red workhorse to hear.
"I know it ain't. But you can't make everypony happy. You have to live your own life. Once you run the farm, you can do whatever, and be with whoever you want. But till then, you should keep this between us."
I tried not to Ham-fist the scene between Applejack and Rainbow, but I still feel like I did. Any pointers are more than welcome on that subject if you're feeling generous.
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Yes MOAR
sorry but I wont be reading this anymore because of shipping
Ordinarily I stop reading fics with an entire chapter of shipping, but this has Discord, so there's an exception.
Still, appledash is sort of predictable in almost any fic, and it's written pretty well here.
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thanks, Discord's fun starts next chapter.
Is it just me, or does the diolouge seem to switch back and forth in weird ways? It has really confusing switches between characters.
*side note rainbow is most popular lesbo of mane 6 all i c is rd x applej, rd x flutter etc. etc.(might be that rainbows are deemed gay color)*
I was hoping when I initially started reading this for some Discord/Pinkie shipping, but judging by the way this is going, it's not going in that direction. I suppose I'll have to write a Discord/Pinkie shipfic, then, won't I?
Anyway, you do know what you're doing and though I'm not a fan of RD being lesbian, and I won't write it, I do understand it and if the fic is good enough, I'll continue reading. You pulled it off successfully.
Well done so far. I'll continue reading, Discord is one of my favourites and you dive into his psyche really well from what I've seen so far. I usually play him as a protagonist so this is interesting. Looking forward to see where this goes. 
If it weren't for the fact that I prefer Rainbow-Sparkle shipping, I'd say AppleDash does make sense.
Also, just to be honest, I am still of the opinion that most people who are deadset against homosexuality are themselves LGBT themselves, but have been so steeply brainwashed that they simply can't bring themselves to listen to their true self.
Which is why I say it would be hilarious to discover that the Majority of the Apple family is fool of gays/lesbians ;p
Also....BRING UN TEH CHAOZ!!!
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whatever floats your goat
This is a Discord story right? Don't get me wrong I do like a little romance and the tiniest(alright, alright, HUGE) amounts of turmoil... But still...
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*Hands Over Money*
Do it, for
JUSTICE!
Dat cute AppleDash scene
I think I'm gonna like this story
YES!! omgomgomgomg thank you
Appledash is my fav ship 
I don't like hearing AJ being kicked out of the farm by Grannysmith though so mayybbbbe Discord would be so kind as to turn her into a statue of stone for a while. 
10/10
