The Mailmare Behind her Hat

by Fire_Lotus

First published

As a young stallion starts his first job, he falls in love with a certain blonde mare and tries to figure out how to get her to notice him.

When Raspberry Thunder goes for his new job as a mailstallion, he had no clue that it was going to have it's hardships and rewards. A certain mare catches his attention and she invades his thoughts and fantasies.

First Day

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As a young stallion walked into the post office, he was beaming. Today was the first day of Raspberry Thunder’s new job, and he wanted to look his best. He had his pink hair trimmed and brushed to his favorite look. It was all in somewhat vain, his mane came out a little messy but he made it look more suited for him. His tan fur was dusted and groomed. His cutie mark, a raspberry that was struck by lightning, showed that he liked to make sour things, or bad things, sweeter. His hooves he had cleaned and slightly buffed them just so that they weren't too feminine. He kept his head held high and breathed in confidently, hoping that his first day would be great.

All that optimism, though, came to a shattering halt as he smashed into a older mail-stallion. As he looked he noticed, that he had stopped the blue stallion from walking around to get a closer look at the younger female recruits. He smirked but that was soon to be a frown as the older pony towered over him and started yelling, making everyone look at him. He flattened his ears against his head as the more experienced stallion was swearing at him in words he had no clue that they could be put together.

“What in Celestia’s Fucking, Why can’t you watch where you are going? Are you so fucking stupid that you can’t see where you’re going?”

“I’m sor-”

“Sorry. Sorry? Is that all you can fucking say?”

He closed his eyes and tightened his wings to him, in hopes that his smaller size would get the stallion to leave him alone. That, though, seemed to piss off the older pony more and more insults shot at him as he cowered there.

“What the fucking hell are you doing?! You are in PUBLIC! Why are you even here? Are you trying to be a Mail Stallion? What a fucking joke! You won’t last a fucking week!”

Raspberry thought there was going to be no end to his yelling and kept his head down and held his gaze down towards the ground. He tried looking for an escape at the time but, this was his first job and that made him really scared that they would just fire him on the spot. His eyes began to water to his udder amazement and he tried really hard to not let the other pony know how much his words hurt him.
“Hey!” Another pegasi stepped in between him and the pissed off Pegasus. She had opened her wings, as if to block any negative feelings against the pink haired stallion that was still feeling the smartness of the furious blue stallion’s words. He stormed away, leaving Raspberry feeling more relieved.
She waited until he was out of sight, which gave him a little time to look at her. Her hoofs showed her experience while her slightly chubby figure fitted against her outfit perfectly. Her rump was modestly covered in her blonde tail. Her cutie mark just lightly showed, bubbles that looked like they were rising, even though at a bunch of glances showed that they were still in place. Her hat let her hair flow out from under it and cover... her eyes? He squeaked as he saw her eyes looking at him. She was watching him staring at her! He looked down quickly and blushed and as she turned her head at him he noticed not both her eyes was watching him, for her left eye trailed over to the left a bit. Even though they were a little weird they were a pretty amber and they were breathtaking! He had caught himself staring again and as she tilted her head, he felt suddenly light headed. She was looking confused and he realized she had said something to him. He shook his head and watched her lips move as she asked him again.
“Are you alright?” Her eyes both showed concern, and confusion as the young stallion looked like he was thinking about something. She smiled brightly as he nodded quickly to not say anything stupid and make his first day any more awkward. She motioned him toward one of the rooms and he followed her quickly, only to find that he was in a fitting room with his new outfit on his back.
He walked out of the room in a over-sized outfit. The arms had fell almost to his hooves and it had worn out in some areas, patchwork hastily slapped on and sewn with whatever thread the sewer had. He grimaced at the new buttons that were mismatched and the threads already coming undone. He could maybe ask his trainer if he could fix it up a bit, maybe get the town fashion expert to help him. Somehow he felt like the cute filly had the same problem and through the years, she had either got hers refitted, or had gotten a new one altogether. Either way, he wanted to show off for her and get her to notice him. He rolled up his sleeves to take away the bulkiness while calculating what he must do to at least keep them up while he worked, and he walked up to the next room to get his trainer and his mailbag.
He skidded to a stop as he saw the dark blue stallion earlier today, and with his new mailbag right next to him. He had his light blue hair slicked back and his outfit looked like something out of a Wonderbolts picture. His uniform had looked ironed and starched and as the young stallion looked at himself, he felt more of a newbie. His name, Silvermist, was etched under two stars on a badge. He looked at his cutie mark which was quite odd. A silver feather over a envelope. He looked back up, as soon as the older stallion figured out who his new trainee was. Silvermist smirked and kept his thoughts on how to torture the poor colt for embarrassing him in front of the new fillies.
"Well Well Well.... I guess she won't be able to save you this time...." The blue stallion smirked and unfurled his wings. Raspberry gulped and backed up then walked slowly towards his new trainer, ready to get what the nice mare had protected him from.

Back From Hell

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Raspberry opened the door of the mail postal service, eyes open wide and ears back. He whimpered as he felt the burns against his wings. His “new” outfit was burned as well and he knew he had to do something to fix it as fast as he could. He glanced quickly down as he heard the chuckles and gasps from the others but he just kept trotting towards the training room.

All he could remember was the fire, the fire that could melt the wings off a breezy in seconds. There were magma geysers that were unpredictable to the point that he had to move the bags as fast as he could to not hurt the letters for the people in the next town. His ears went back more as he wobbled a bit when he saw his trainer tap his hoof.

“What the everliving fuck did you do that took so long?”

"I'm sorry that it took me so much time but-"

"But the road to Nowheres wasn't a road of cherries and cupcakes? There will be no excuses and no more sowwies...." the trainer’s face had a mocking look of patheticness that Raspberry wanted to smack if this wasn't his first job and if his wing wasn't screaming in pain.

"Right... I'll be faster next time..." He turned and left the room, not knowing that right outside was a mare that was dangerously close to the door.

"Ah!" She fell back and landed on her backside and she held her ears back and looked at him, scared but curious. "I heard you had that scary creeper but I didn't think he was that harsh..."

"Umm who are you?" He tilted his head to the side a bit and kept his eyes on the mare. She was a little too skinny around the waist but held her head high even after she was caught eavesdropping on a conversation. Her pastel brown coat had a little dapple of chocolate colored spots on her and her green eyes shone like jade. Her wings crossed nicely around her back but her mane looked wind-messed and the only thing really taming it was a pair of leather goggles. She looked too energetic to be just out of work but he guessed that she had a much easier day than him. The worn out suit that matched his made him realize that she was a new recruit just like him.

"Ah! The names Rain… I am a trainee just like... " she brightened more as she spoke. Raspberry sighed and looked around the room for the other mare, the one he was actually wanting to talk with... so much so in fact, that he got lost in thought and missed the last sentence.

"Huh?" His ears shot up in attention and looked back at the mare.

"I was thanking you for this morning. If you didn't stop that stallion, I might have been fired on my first day here. I heard he likes to make the rounds on the new recruits and if he tried anything with me he would have been in the hospital." she watched as the one she was talking to started gazing around. "But it must've been hard working with that guy after this morning..."

"Uh huh...." he looked around and started walking towards the door as she giggled and trotted to the time sheets to clock out.