//------------------------------// // When you feel this kind of emotion for somepony you shouldn't? // Story: What If?... // by RandomFics271197 //------------------------------// It was one day, Applejack was having her prom night with her coltfriend. What was his name? I don't remember, but what he did to her wasn't the pleasant thing. When she arrived at the prom, in her dressing, she noticed him. He was with another one. 'What?' she thought. She rushed away, with tears on her eyes. Her friends notice her behavior and yelled. "APPLEJACK." "What happen?" Twilight asked. "I don't know, she was so happy to come here. What Happen?" Rarity asked "I know, what made her runs away." Rainbow Dash said "HIM. Look at that jerk." She pointed to him. "He dumped her." she said trying to sustain her anger. "I will give him a piece of my words." she rushed towards him. "Rainbow Dash wait." Rarity said "Is the couple spending a good night? You jerk." she asked He looked back at her. "Oh, hey. Rainbow Dash, where's Applejack? Is she here already?" he asked trying to not sound nervous. She couldn't take anymore, she punched him on his face that made him fall. "You jerk. You hurt her. You're lucky that she cared for you because if she not I would break every part of your body." she said while raising her hoof. He trembled and rushed towards the stallions WC. "Ah, you just a little coward, she didn't even deserves you. Don't try to come to my face again, because next time." she said while crushing a plastic cup. Applejack kept running while tears roam freely from her eyes.'Why?' was what she kept asking to herself. She entered her house, and trotted in direction of her bedroom, she tried to not sound loud, she didn't want to wake up her family. She laid on her bed letting her tears out. When she heard a knock on her door. "Aj. Are you home already?" Big Mac asked. "Yes, I'm." she answered "Are you ok? Because you've arrived early." he asked "I'm fine" she said. "AJ. I'm BigMac. Not your friends, I know when you're lying. May I come in?" She nodded. He then open the door and stepped in. When he turned himself to look at her, he was paralyzed by her look. "Let me tell you, sis. Don't take this seriously, but... you look perfect." he said while trotting towards her. "Thanks. And there's no problem." she said while wiping her tears with her hoof. "Look, I understand if you don't want to talk. But I was worried when you rushed through the house while sobbing." "How did you heard me? I thought that you're a heave sleeper." she said He laughed and smiled to her. "Just when I want. But with you out of our house, I can't take a heavy sleep. Knowing what could happen to you." he said "So you want to talk? I mean I might not be the perfect pony to discuss this." he said She came closer to him and gave him a hug. "Look, whatever I said I need you to promise three things." He nodded. "You shouldn't tell Granny Smith or Appleblom. Second, I don't want you to solve this and third don't laugh at me." He nodded. "Well I was arriving to our prom, right? I was happy that I has a coltfriend and having a dance with him. Well, it look perfect in mind my. But when I arrived there, my eyes lied to me I saw him with other mare. I thought that he loved me.But I was wrong." "It's ok Applejack. The same happen to me maybe some years ago. Remember Cheerilee. She just left me, without saying a word." he said. "This kind of situation is normal in our lives Aj. You know something." he said She shook her head to a 'no'. "What if?... 'No bad idea you'... Forget it." he said "Come on Big Mac, let it out." she said "I can't. And besides if I told you you'd probably..." he said while stroke his hooves. "Listen I'm sorry." "Sorry, for what." she said. Then he gave her a little piece of paper. "If you, believe me, you shouldn't read it, if not you should read it." he said while he got off from her bed and headed towards her bedroom door, slowly opened it and stepping out of her bedroom, closing her door again. "I promise." she said while she stored that piece of paper in her bed drawer. In was a new day. Applejack returned to her duties. After the breakfast she trotted together with BigMac, to buck some trees. Both of them parted ways, Applejack took the right side of the orchard while Bigmac took the left side. Before they started, Bigmac yelled. "Hey. Let's see who's the fastest. Just like old times, AJ." he said "You know who'll be the winner, right?" she answered. He nodded. "ENOPE". As time past by, both of them were almost in a draw, when Bigmac heard a scream. He rushed toward the source of that sound. "AJ, are you ok?" he asked. Then he realized. "Did you break your leg?" "Let it be. I still had job too do." she said while getting up. She trotted towards an apple tree she lifted her back legs and buck it, but she yelled again. "I told you. You broke your leg." he said while slowly trotting towards her. "Here, let me help you." "Stay away. I can do this, I won't lose again." she said "AJ, this is not about time to that discuss. You broke your leg. You need to rest a little." he said "Fine. But don't consider this a victory, will you?" she asked "ENOPE" he answered while he used his body to lift her. "Can you climb on me?" "Are you crazy? What Granny Smith says if she saw us like this?" she asked nervously. "I told her that you broke your leg and can't walk, she will understand." he said "Pff, look I can walk" she said while trotted a little bit but she feel down and started to yell again. "Fine, just don't make it weird." she said "I won't." he said while he used his body to get her up. "Hop in" She slowly climbed on his back. "Thanks, bro." she said. "It's ok." he said "How can you buck so many trees without a breaking any leg? I broke my leg everytime." she asked "Practice. And besides I'm a stallion. Remember. There's nothing who could get me down." he said while carrying her towards the barn. When they came near the barn, Granny Smith was waiting for them. "Oh, there you are." she said while she turned back to meet them. "What's the meaning of this? Bigmac, do you cared to explain?" she asked "She broke her leg." he explained. "Again. Couldn't she walks?" she asked Applejack shook her head to a 'no'. "Alright, alright. Did anypony saw you?" she asked "What's the matter, Granny? We did this everytime." Applejack answered. "Back when you're foals, but doing it now. It could be weird." she said while looking at them. "I'll get her to her room, I'll be back to bucking the trees, later." he said "No, you can't do it by yourself. I want to help you. Just wait until my leg recovers." she said. "Bigmac, please. Let me help you." "Alright, alright. I'll wait until your leg recovers." he said while climbing the stairs. "Thanks." she said. 'Big Mac. I know you might not want to break her heart, but I think that's time for you to tell her the truth.' she said to herself. 'Why? Why did they had to searching for you, again?' she continued. 'I can't lost another one and besides, you're sisters will miss you for sure.' she said. She stood there on her chair really a letter that reached her hooves last week. What did that letter said? It's something about Bigmac? Well that's what we'll find out. In Applejack bedroom. Bigmac dropped Applejack in her bed and headed towards the first aid kit. He then turned back and trotted towards her. "Big Mac. Why are you so caring about me? I mean... I know you're my brother and everything but" she said "I'm worried about you. I cared about you because they wanted me to." he said "They who?" she asked Obtaining no response, she repeated. "They who? Tell me, Big Mac." she insisted "Your parents, Applejack." he answered. "Our parents, Big Mac." she tried to correct him but he replied. "I'M ADOPTED, ALRIGHT." he yelled. She looked at him confused by his words. "Did you read the paper that I gave you?" he asked while tears started to form on his eyes. With an answer as a head shake to a 'no'. He said "It seems that I could believe you enough, AJ." "Big Mac, is that tru...true?" she asked. He nodded. "Just don't get mad, if we lied to you, all over these years. We just couldn't tell you right away." "Why, Big Mac? Why now?" she asked while she embraced him. "I can't keep it to myself for these long, you needed to know, and besides I received a letter saying that because of you reached your legal age." he said while trying to contain his tears."I..." "You what brother?" she asked letting her tears going down freely from her face. "Don't call me that." he said. "For me you're. It's not because you're adopted, that I think less of you. You still my brother, no matter what." she said while embracing him. "Why? Why, Aj? I lied to you. I mean all of us. Why? Just why?" he asked "You cared for me so much, Big Mac. I can't be mad at you, when we just growed up together, and we did everything together. There's something more that you want me to tell me." "Oh, yeah. That part. Well..." he said while rubbing his neck "Just let it out. I will hear you." she said "I've to leave. Since you're in your legal age, this all farm now belongs to you." he said "What are you talking about?" she asked "Applejack. I'm leaving Sweet Apple Acres and probably Ponyville. My real parents are looking for me, and since I am adopted this farm now belongs to you." he said while trying to hide his tears. "Didn't I had something to say in this? Did I?" she asked. "I don't think so." "But, I don't want you to leave. How would I explain her, Applebloom?" she asked. "She will be crushed, Big Mac. As well as me. There's any solution to this." "I don't know, Applejack." he said. "I don't know. I...I'm sorry." he said while he finished healing her leg. "There you go, just go as..." He stopped his talking when he felt his 'sister' tight hug. "I don't you to go. I... I... I will do anything to keep you here. Applebloom needs you, Granny Smith needs you. I...I...I need you. Just don't go." she said. She didn't care about her tears, even know they kept this for themselves. "I know. I know. But I can't AJ. I really can't." he said while caressing her mane. "I would send you letters." he said. He tried to free himself from her hug. "Could you let me go?" he asked. She shakes her head to a 'no'. He used a little strength to free himself, she didn't hesitated and let him go. He trotted slowly to her bedroom door "I'm sorry, Aj. I'm really sorry." he said while closing her bedroom door. He then came downstairs, only to find Granny Smith staring at him. From his look and expression she knew. "Did you tell her?" she asked He nodded. "I know how she could be feeling. But you had to do it." she said trying to keep her tears on place. "It will be hard to not have you hear, 'Little' Mac." she called by the name she call him when he was little. "Granny, you never called me by that name since....since... the accident." he said. "I could've saved them. I could've saved them." he started to cry. "I was there, looking to them. Unable to move." he continued. "If it wasn't for me. They saved us, Granny. They've saved from that hell, from that orphanage. And how did I paid them, leaving them there. Watching to me. I COULD'VE SAVED THEM." he kept crying. "You could Big Mac. But you chose saving Applejack instead." she tried to comfort him. "And besides you're little Mac. You couldn't do much." "I could if I tried. I would cross the damn ocean to save them. Granny, they saved me from isolation. They adopted me. And would did I repaid them. Tell me." "You saved your sister, their daughter. Even know that you couldn't save them, you saved their best treasure." she said He nodded and headed towards the orchard. "Where are you going?" she asked "I got a job to finish before leaving Sweet Apple Acres." he said "Big Mac, no. There are so many trees left, you can't take them all." she said trying to stop him. "There's no mountain, challenge or ocean that will stop me from my objective, Granny. You should know that better that anypony." She nodded and returned to her chair. He then close the door. 'Oh Mac. I didn't know about this. *sniffs* I can't let you leave. I will speak with Twilight. Let's see if she had a idea.' Applejack received a letter from Spike. It was a invitation to a sleepover on her castle. She smiled this could be a nice idea and the perfect time to tell her. She left her house and headed towards Twilight's castle. She entered and greeted her friends. In that night. They all laid on the main hallway. Rainbow Dash started to conversation. "So, AJ. Did you keep see that morrom?" she asked "No. He was a..." Applejack said "Jerk. Yeah we know." RD said "So, what about you guys? Did your dance partners danced with you?" Applejack asked "Yup." they said "Hey I got and idea, let's talk about...hmm...crushes" Rarity proposed. "Ok." they agreed. "Oh me first, me first, me FIRST." Pinkie Pie yelled. "Go ahead then." "*cough, cough* Cheese Sandwich." she said "That wasn't a surprise." Rainbow said "You and him will probably be perfect. Trust me." "Alright, who's next? Twilight, could you?" Rarity asked while looked at her. "Flash Sentry. The new recruit of my brother. He's so cute." she said while a small blush appeared on her cheeks "What?" "Nothing, dear. Now Fluttershy." Rarity said. "Hmm... actually I don't have any... I've..." "Isn't it obvious, it's DIscord. Are you guys blind?" Rainbow said. Suddenly a bright flash appear near her and a thunder hit her. "OOOOWWWWW". "JUST SHUT UP WILL YOU." Discord yelled. She nodded grabbing her tail and brushing it. With another flash, the bright light disappeared. "So now, Rainbow. What about you?" "Soarin. He's awesome and... and..." she said "He's fast, yes we know." Applejack said. "Now what about you , Rarity?" Rainbow asked "Well. Twilight, Spike isn't home is he?" she asked, obtaining a no as an answer. "Is Spike. And you all probably know." "What about you, AJ?" Rarity asked. "You promise me that you won't get mad if I told you." she said while slowly clapping her hooves. They nodded. "Well, it's... it's... 'No AJ, they'll probably call you a freak.' Shining Armor." she said. "My brother. PFFFF. AHAHAHAHA. Come on AJ. You've got to be kidding me. He's a married stallion now." "It's Big Mac. Alright." she yelled while used her hooves to cover her face. She heard her friends gasping. "AJ. Are you sure? Your brother." Rainbow said. "Yes, there's any problem with that. Oh, yeah it probably have some problem. Just go ahead call me something. I...I..." "Applejack. Can I talk with you for a second?" Twilight asked. She nodded. Twilight signed to her friends to leave them alone. "Applejack. What you said here? I've to put my hoof on that. I can't let this kind of relationships happen. So I need you to explain me. WHY?" she asked "He's not my blood brother, Twilight." she started while letting tears out of her eyes. "Big Mac, is adopted, Twilight. And he's leaving the farm, maybe forever, including Ponyville." she continued. "And I discovered, why Granny Smith stopped called him Little Mac. It was before the accident that take my parents..." she continued. "Look, Twilight if you want to punish someone. Just me, don't punish my family or him. He never touched me or did something to me. I just want him here. In the farm where he belongs. But he can't, because I reached my legal age now all that, damn farm that we raised together, would belong entirely to me. I can't Twilight, Big Mac is my brother and I don't want him to go. There's something I could do." she finished "I'm sorry, Applejack but I don't know. You just need to accept it, that's all." she said "Accept it, accept it. Thanks for the advice. Didn't you felt alone when your brother left you? Tell me." she said "Yes, I did but I learn to live with it." "HE SAVED ME, TWILIGHT. FROM THE DAMN DISASTER THAT RARITY CAUSED, IF WASN'T FOR HER CURIOSITY ABOUT THAT SHINING GEM, THEY WOULD BE HERE TODAY. BIG MAC COULD SAVED THEM, BUT HE SAVED ME INSTEAD. HE DOESN'T BLAME HIMSELF ENTIRELY BUT IF YOU BRING THE TOPIC. FORGET IT, I KNEW YOU WOULD REACT LIKE THAT." she shouted. "Applejack, wait. Where are you going?" she asked "HOME. MY BROTHER PROBABLY WILL LEAVE TOMORROW OR SO, I DON'T KNOW. AND THERE'S NOTHING THAT WOULD STOP ME, TOO FULFILL IT. JUST DON'T BOTHER ME UNTIL MY BROTHER LEAVES FOREVER." she said while rushed towards the door. 'I told you that they wouldn't understand.' she thought to herself. She rushed towards her room, she tried to call for Big Mac, but no answer. 'Did he leave without telling me?' she thought. She looked over her balcony and saw him, he stills be here. She sigh in relief. She trotted towards her bed and laid down. But then something in her mind clink, in her head. 'That piece of paper.' She opened her bed drawer and grabbed the paper. Her brother words kept appearing in her mind 'If you, believe me, you shouldn't read it, if not you should read it.'.'I'm sorry, Big Mac, but I need to know the true.' She opened the piece of paper and started to read it. Dear Applejack, If you're reading this it's because you discovered the truth behind Big Mac. Yes, he's adopted. We wanted to have a child. We failed on the first try. And decided to try again and it worked. But we wanted that you had somepony more or less of your age, to keep playing with you, so you won't feel alone. We received a new that a new colt was arriving to the orphanage, his backstory touch them that we decided to adopt him. He had a red coat, and his name was Big 'something'. We decided to name him, Big Macintosh, just like father's middle name. We were feared that because of his different coat color you would suspect that he wasn't you're really brother. But we're wrong, you raised together, played together. We love both of you. Somedays after the accident: Hello, this is Big Mac writing, I just wanted to say, that I... I... like Applejack. Even know that we're brother. And I received the new that I'm adopted. I hope that Applejack didn't notice or get mad about this thing. GOODBYE DEAR DIARY. "They...They..." she tried to contain her tears. Suddenly a small piece of paper, felt to the ground. "What's this?" she asked She opened and started to read it. This piece of paper is a note from our contract with the mayor. As long Ms Pear and Mrs Apple, runs the farm Big Mac should stay in there. Or he had to leave when Applejack reaches Legal age, since he isn't a Apple and his 'real' parents are searching for him. "WHAT? NOW THEY WANT THEIR COLT BACK. FIRST THEY LEAVE HIM BEHIND AND NOW THEY WANT HIM BACK." she yelled not caring if somepony would heard her. She looked at her door and noticed somepony standing there. "Big Mac? How much did you hear?" she asked "You read it didn't you. I thought that you promised me that you won't read it." he said "Look, Big Mac. I had to know, I really had to know." she said. "And broking your promise was the only way." he said "Please, Big Mac. Listen to me." she said while hoping off her bed. "Those 'things' are searching for you, right now? Why right now? Because you became famous. You're the brother of The Element of Honesty. Can't you see? They don't love you they just want you because of your fame around Equestria. DID YOU FORGET WHAT M... OUR PARENTS DID FOR YOU, DID YOU?" she shouted. "AJ. You don't get don't you. I'm not and Apple. I'm not your brother. That law." "This law. What is this law? NOTHING. I'll have a speech with that damn mayor. She will turn this thing back." she said while passing through him. In mayor office. She heard a furious knock on her door. "Yes, come in." she said 'BOOM' she kicked the damn door sending it in the mayor direction. "What is tarnation is this?" Applejack asked while pointing to the letter. "Oh, that. *laugh* I should know this was coming." she answered. "YEAH, YOU SHOULD. HOW DARE YOU? MY PARENTS DIED BY NATURAL REASONS, THIS LAW SHOULDN'T APPLY." she shouted. "Look, Applejack. Is not that I don't want to help you, but the only way you could make that law unavailable. It's... I'll regret saying this but you gave me no chance... you need to marry him or just a normal romantic relationship." she said while covering her face. "WHAT? IT'S JUST THAT. BUT HE'S MY BROTHER" "*cough,cough* According to our book. There's no law restricting it from happening when one of them is adopted. He came here with the same question, but I saw that he couldn't tell you the truth." she said "He couldn't tell me, because he feared that I could be mad at him. But I can't, he cared for me since they parted way. Thanks mayor." she said while trotting back towards her barn. When she reached Sweet Apple Acres. She began to call for him. She then suspected that he was bucking some trees, she climbed to her room and looked through the farm by her room balcony. Nothing. She then trotted downstairs and saw Granny Smith and Applebloom crying. "Granny, where's he?" she asked. Granny pointed in direction of ponyville. "He's going away." "WHAT? Did you stop him? Why didn't he wait?" she asked "Applejack, there's no need to hide anymore, we both know the truth don't we. Just don't made it public, alright." Granny said She nodded. "Just get him back." She rushed as fas as she could, not caring that her leg hurt. 'There's no mountain, challenge or ocean that will stop me from my objective, Granny. You should know that better that anypony.'. 'I was your objective wasn't I, Big Mac'. She arrived at the train station. 'only Appleloosa'. Then she heard a loud voice. "Last call for Appleloosa, I repeat last call for Appleloosa" he shouted. She moved through the crowd. When her worst nightmare came through, the train was going away. 'NO.NO.NO.NO.' she kept saying in her mind. "Big Mac. Why? Why did you had to go? I..." she started to cry and started to trotted back to Sweet Apple Acres. But she didn't notice between the crowd stood a figure familiar to her. 'You came didn't you.' She trotted back Seet Apple Acres. 'I failed, Granny. We lost him. I couldn't repay him. For what he did.' "Hey, girl. Wait up." a familiar voice said. "Go away, Rainbow Dash." she said not even trying to look at her. "Why, did I did something?" "Yes, you made me lose time. A time that I won't have to tell him." "Him, who?" "My brother." she said. "Tell him what, AJ." She noticed something was strange but decided to not look at her. "I love him, Rainbow. I..." she said. When she turned back and saw him. "*laugh* It's a nice weather, isn't it. I think we should see the apples..." he was stopped by her tackle. Both of them fell on the ground. Tears feel down from her eyes dropping on his coat. "I was afraid to lose you, too. I didn't know, Big Mac." she said. "It's ok, AJ. It's good that you got the real truth. I was afraid that if I told you, you would believe that I was a freak." "I was scared at the first, but when I heard that wasn't a law over it." "Look AJ. We might need sometime. I'm not going anywhere right now. You just need to tell the mayor that you're in..." "Don't say it. I know what I've to do." she said "Could we... you know shared some..." He kissed her on her cheek. "Slowly, alright. Pony society will probably find it weird." She nodded and headed towards Sweet Apple Acres. When they arrived, Granny Smith and Applebloom were waiting for her. "So did you..." she asked "I'm sorry, Granny. But I think that... 'Little' Mac is back." "Hello, Granny. I shouldn't have left without telling anypony." he said "It's ok, Big Mac. It's good to have you back." They embrace themselves. Big Mac signed in relief. Applejack was right his 'real' parents were just wanting him back because of his fame, not for what he is. He could feel that Apple Family is his only, true family. In that night. Big Mac was dreaming. "Thank you, Big Macintosh." his parents said Big Mac smiled and happily reply. "I had to repay you. Cared for her is my repayment for your kindness to me." he said "I love you." THE END Careful. News say that are ninjas in your room that are expert in cutting onions