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// Bucky McGillygutty X Kicks McGee OTP 
// Story: Pony Shorts 
// by Miyajima 
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Bucky McGillygutty was a simple leg, with simple pleasures.  All she wanted out of life was a tree to buck and a place to rest her weary hoof at day's end.  All her life she'd been a farm leg, rising in the morning with the cockerel and working the day through.   In spring, she'd stride the fields, planting new seedlings.  In the heat of summer she would find shade under the leafy boughs of the orchard's trees.

But it was autumn she loved most.  Applebuck Season.

Her forelimbs had always said she had a strength rarely seen in girls of her kind, and she loved to use it.  The feeling of the muscles tensing beneath her coat, that energy released in an unstoppable rush towards the firm and unyielding bark of a waiting tree.  That sweet vibration as it resonated with the force of her strike, shaking apples free from their branches.

But she never worked alone.  By her side all day long was her lifelong friend, Kicks McGee.  She didn't say much, but she was a hard worker.  Bucky admired that about her.  She could respect a hard worker.  During the long summer afternoons, she and Kicks often rested together in the shade.  Neither said anything, but no words were needed.  They just enjoyed each other's company.

Over the years, Bucky had often been thankful to have Kicks by her side.  Sometimes she just couldn't get the last apple off a particularly stubborn tree, but Kicks was always there, ready to help.  Then there was one Applebuck Season, some years ago, where Bucky had misplaced her hoof in a sharp kick, and had to spend the rest of the season in a cast.  But Kicks was there.  She was always willing to lend a helping hoof.

Sometimes at night, as she lay in bed, she pondered what she'd ever do without Kicks.

It was almost as if they were... 

Made for each other.

They were simple legs, with simple pleasures.  But the company of another was the greatest pleasure of all.  

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Fluttershy looked up from the page, carefully putting the quill back on her desk.  She looked over what she'd just written, and sighed wistfully as her gaze turned to the pastures outside her window.

"I have got to get a better hobby."