After a long night, it was finally morning. Applejack had barely slept anything. She had been falling asleep just to wake up again the whole night. The sun was shining into her room, Applejack had no idea what time it was, and she did`nt care neither. She was just laying in her bed, glazing at the roof. She could`nt wrap her head around what happened the day before. It was too unreal, like a nightmare. She tried to think about what to do, but all she could think about was her parents. And her newborn sister, who had to grow up without her mother, hopefully her father will come home soon so she could at least grow up with one parent. But until then it was up to Applejack and MacIntosh to take care of her and raise her. Applejack kept glazing at her roof for a while. She eventually looked at the clock. It was 14:30. Applejack had never woke up that late before, but then again, she barely got any sleep last night. She slowly got up, when she got up she looked down on her bedside table and saw her fathers old hat that he gave her the day before. She picked it up and put it on her head.
She walked up to her mirror and looked at herself for a while.
"You look like a mess." she said and kept looking at the mirror. Her eyes were red from all the crying, her face was emotionless. She backed away from the mirror and grabbed a towel. She went into the bathroom and took a shower.
After a long shower she walked downstairs and tried to find her brother. But he was no-where to be found. She walked into the kitchen and saw a note on the table. It was from Big mac. She picked it up and read it: "I`m on the hospital to visit our sister."
Applejack went upstairs to grab her key and went outside and locked the door. She started to walk towards the hospital. The road towards the city felt longer than ever before. After what felt like hours of walking she finally reached the city. The city was quiet and not many people were outside.
When she headed towards the hospital she saw a crowd outside the entrance, and also some soldiers. Applejack picked up her speed and almost ran towards the hospital, a soldier stopped her from entering and asked her to state her business: "Hold it right there! State your business young lady." the soldier asked her with a strict voice. "I`m gonna visit my newborn sister, sir." Applejack replied and looked at the soldier.
"Sorry ma`m, Hospital`s full. You gonna have to turn around and head back to where you came from." the soldier said and gave her a cold, careless look.
"Ain`t gonna happen! Y`all took my father away from me and I lost my mother yesterday! At least let me be with what`s left off my family!" Applejack replied with an angry and also sad voice, her voice was cracking up when she yelled at the soldier.
The soldier looked at her and then let her in. He looked at her with sympathy as she walked in. "I`m sorry about your loss, but I`m just doing my job." the soldier said when she had walked pass him.
Applejack stopped and turned her head to the side, "If your job is to keep people from visiting their family, then I think you`re working for the wrong people." she said and then kept on walking. The soldier did`nt reply. She did`nt need an answer, the silence said it all.
The soldier wasn`t lying though. The hospital was full, there were soldiers and nurses running all over the place, she heard some soldiers talking about the situation at the border of Equestria, according to the soldiers, the Northern Empire had struck them with an intense force and if this keeps up they will reach the city in just a few days. The Royal army didn`t stand a chance against the Northern Empire. The Northern Empire`s army was bigger and more advanced than the Royal Army. Princess Celestia had been calling in backup from our Allies. But they would not arrive until next week. Applejack tried to look for her father as she walked towards the baby room. But she didn`t see him, all she saw was soldiers staring at her as she walked by, it was very unpleasant to walk past them. She didn`t even want to know what they were thinking about when they looked at her.
"What`cha think about that cowgirl? You don`t see pretty little things like that out on the frontlines. " She heard a young soldier say to his friend as they both chuckled a little. "C`mere girl" he said and tried to touch her.
"Keep yer filthy hoofs to yer self!" Applejack said as she kept walking.
The soldier started to laugh. "She`s a tough one, just how I like my women." He said and slapped his hoof on her butt.
Applejack stopped and gave the soldier a powerful punch to his face that made him fall to the floor. Applejack was only 14 years old, but she was very strong for her age.
Before the soldier got up, another soldier from a higher rank stepped up. It was their Sergeant. "Knock it off, Mc Field!" He yelled at the downed soldier. "You okay girl?" he politely asked Applejack. Applejack put her hoof down and looked at the soldier that touched her, "I will be as soon as this darn pedophile is out of my sight." she said.
"Pedophile?" the Sergeant asked her. "How old are you?"
"I`m 14." Applejack replied and looked at the polite Sergeant.
The Sergeant looked at the soldier that violated her. "You disgusting pig! The General will know about this!"
The soldier got up from the floor and looked ashamed and also shocked. "14?! She looks like she`s older. I thought she was 18. She punches harder than most soldiers `round here."
"Can it Soldier!" The Sergeant yelled at him. "We can take this outside! Get out!" he yelled. He then turned to Applejack, "I`m terrible sorry about this m`am, where are you going?"
"I`m heading towards the baby room to see my sister." Applejack replied.
"Let me follow you there so nothing like this will happen again." The Sergeant said and followed Applejack.
After walking past numerous of wounded soldiers and stressed nurses they finally reached the baby room.
"Here you go m`am, the baby room." The Sergeant said when they were infront of the doors to the baby room.
"Much obliged, thank you kindly sir." Applejack replied and looked at the Sergeant with a pleased smile.
"It was my pleasure, I`m gonna make the soldier who touched you showel dirt for the rest of the war. And when you`re done, take the backdoor out of the Hospital if you don`t want to walk the same way back. There`s two soldiers there guarding it, but just tell them that Sergeant Mc Gee sent you." The Sergeant said before turning around and walking back.
"Alright, thank you sir." Applejack replied before she opened the door to the baby room.
When she stepped inside the room she saw Big mac holding their new sister. The baby room was almost empty, there were not many babies left, parents came in and brought their babies home since it doesn`t feel safe to leave the babies in a hospital full of wounded soldiers. When Applejack stepped up to Big mac and looked over his shoulder to see the baby, Big mac smiled: "She got ma`s eyes." he said with a proud voice.
"And almost your colors too. I guess you won the bet Applejack, she looks more like you than me." he said and looked at Applejack.
"Here you go, hold her." Big mac said and gave the 1 day old baby to Applejack.
Applejack looked at the baby with big eyes and a huge smile. The little baby looked at Applejack with her big Orange/gold colored eyes and made a tiny giggle sound. Big mac had never seen Applejack smile that big before.
"Hi." Applejack said to the baby, "I`m your sister."
The little baby made another giggle and tried to reach Applejacks hair.
"Aren`t you the cutest lil`thing ever? You look so happy. I`ve waited for so long to meet you."
The baby smiled and looked like she understood what Applejack was saying to her.
Big mac shed a tear. It was such a beautiful moment. He wished he had a camera and could take a picture of his sisters.
Applejack looked at her brother. "She`s perfect, MacIntosh. Our sister is so beautiful."
Big mac just smiled and looked at the baby, "What should we name her?" He asked Applejack.
Applejack looked at her sister, "How about.... Apple Bloom." the baby smiled at Applejack. "You like that? Apple Bloom?" she asked the baby with a playful voice.
The little baby giggled.
"I think she likes it." Applejack said with a smile.
Big mac smiled back, "Apple Bloom it is then." He said and put his arm around Applejack and put his hoof on her shoulder.
"Because she is like a blooming flower." Applejack said and looked at her sister.
The baby reached out her arms and tried to reach Applejacks face, Applejack tilted her head forwards closer to the baby.
The baby grabbed Applejacks nose and giggled. Applejack giggled as-well.
This was the best moment of Applejacks life. She have never been this happy before. She couldn`t stop smiling. She looked at her sister with her big green eyes and kissed her on the forehead and put the baby to her chest.
Then suddenly a nurse stepped into the room, she was stressed and was talking fast. "I`m sorry, but all babies needs to get moved to a different location, we got another group of wounded soldiers coming in and they need this room." The nurse said and looked at the parents in the room.
Applejack looked at Big mac, "Maybe we oughta take her home, I don`t want to leave her here." she said and looked down on the baby which looked back at Applejack with curious eyes.
"Let`s take her home. She don`t need to spend her first days in a place like this." Big mac replied and looked at the baby and put his hoof to her chin. "Would ya like that? Go home?" he asked the baby.
The baby smiled and giggled.
"I think she likes that idea. C`mon, let`s go home." Applejack said and wrapped an extra blanket around her sister to make sure she wouldn`t get cold when they got outside.
They took the back door out of the hospital. The corridor which she came from was full of soldiers that screamed of pain and it was blood on the floor from some of them. Doctors and nurses was running back and forth. It was chaos.
Applejack and Big mac rushed away from the corridor and was approaching the back door. As the Sergeant said, there were two soldiers guarding the door. They stopped Applejack and Big mac and told them to turn around.
"Stop it right there! This door is off limit." One of the soldiers said.
"Sergeant Mc Gee told me that I could use this door." Applejack replied to the soldier.
The soldiers looked at each other. "How do I know you ain`t lying?" The soldier replied.
"Because I told her she could use the back door after a soldier had violated her." A familiar voice said. It was the Sergeant. He came around the corner and approached the soldiers.
"Sergeant Mc Gee! Sir!" The two soldiers said and saluted the Sergeant.
"At ease soldiers. Let them pass."
Big mac reacted to what the Sergeant said. "Violated??? Who touched my sister?!" He asked the Sergeant.
"Calm down son. The soldier slapped her on an inappropriate place, but we`ve dealt with him. He will showel dirt for the rest of the war. Your sister also gave him a lesson. She gave him one hell of a punch. You should be proud of her." The Sergeant replied to Big mac.
Big mac started to calm down. "I can`t be more proud of her than I already am. The soldier was lucky that I wasn`t there when he touched her."
The Sergeant looked at Applejack and her sister. "Is this your sister?" He asked Applejack.
"Yupp. She`s 1 day old." Applejack replied with a smile.
"Can I see her?" The Sergeant asked.
"Of course." Applejack replied.
The Sergeant stepped up to Apple Bloom and looked at her. Apple Bloom looked back at the Sergeant.
He started to chuckle. "She reminds me of my daughter."
"Hey there." He said to the curious little Apple Bloom and stroked her chin.
Apple Bloom giggled and looked at the Sergeant.
The Sergeant smiled and looked at Applejack. "This is what keeps me fighting. We will win this war and make sure that she will have a safe future." He said with a confident smile.
"I sure hope so." Big mac replied.
"I better get back to work now. Y`all stay safe now and take care of the baby." The Sergeant said.
"We will. Thanks again kind sir." Applejack replied as she headed out through the door.
When they got out they both shivered. It had gotten cold and the wind was strong.
The streets were almost empty. They started to walk towards the dirt road that lead home. After walking for a while they finally got home.
They unlocked the door and stepped in. They were both freezing, but Apple Bloom was surprisingly sleeping. Applejack had held her to her chest the whole way home, keeping Apple Bloom warm and protecting her from the wind.
Big mac went to the fireplace in their living room and started to throw in some logs and get some heat up in the house. Applejack sat down on the couch and looked at her sleeping sister.
"She is so pretty. Sleeping without any worries." She said and smiled.
"Eyupp. She is just like you when you were newborn. Instead of crying, you were laughing and smiled all the time. You were also sleeping the whole way home. I can tell that she will be just like you when she grows up."
Applejack smiled and kept looking at Apple Bloom. "I am so proud of her. Such a healthy and happy lil`filly. I wish Ma and Pa could see her."
Big mac sat down next to Applejack and looked at Apple Bloom. "I`m sure Ma is watching us right now and is smiling. Pa will see her when he comes home." He said and gently stroked Apple Bloom`s chin.
Apple Bloom moved her head a little bit to the left into Applejacks chest and kept on sleeping.
Big mac rose up and was heading towards the main hall. "I`m gonna go and cut some more wood. I`ll be back soon." He said and looked at his two sisters.
"Okay, I`m gonna stay here with Apple Bloom." Applejack replied.
Big mac smiled and walked out.
Big mac was out for 3 hours cutting wood. It had gotten dark and he started to head back inside with the wood he cut. When he walked into the living room he saw Applejack and Apple Bloom. Both sleeping on the couch. Applejack had leaned backwards into the couch and Apple Bloom was sleeping on her chest. The only light source in the living room was the fireplace and some candles. He quietly grabbed his mothers old camera and took a picture. He then proceeded to put some logs into the fire and later sat down on the couch and looked at his sisters.
Everything felt so good. He just wished that his parents was home and that the war wasn`t happening. But he was staying positive. He thought that the war would be quick and his father would come home soon.