Grand Pear is trying to mend his relationship with the Apples. They're nice enough, but It just feels like it's too little too late, and he wonders if maybe he'd be better off at his house in Vanhoover instead.

Maybe he shouldn't be here at all. They have their ways, and he has his.

Written for Animak for Jinglemas 2023!
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/222289/Animak

Prompt was (Spoilers) :
Hearth's warming tale, focus on Grand Pear spending the holiday with the Apples and tries to secretly help Applejack remake her late mothers special Hearth's warming 'apple butter'

Picture is straight from the Wiki entry for Grand Pear. He just looks so wonderfully unsure.

Nobody revealed how exactly Pear Butter and Bright Mac died, but it most likely had something to do with the feud between the Pears and the Apples. We all know how it all started: a rivalry between the two families, one favoring pears over apples. This caused some tension between Granny Smith and Grand Pear, which caused arguments left and right. It's like they never got along, letting their rivalry get in the way of everything else. This caused tension for the two star-crossed lovers, Pear Butter and Bright Mac, ending in the worst way possible.

Language, suicide/self harm, and sexual content warning.

Everypony in the Apple Family was so excited when Big Mac got married to Sugar Belle. But now that Hearth's Warming is just around the corner, the two of them are leaving to go visit Sugar Belle's parents.
Applebloom just can't understand why he has to go over Hearth's Warming of all times.

Written for Applejackofalltrades for Jinglemas 2022

Thanks to Sir Ragi and Nomad Flicker for proofreading.

The busiest day for the Apple family selling their products out there and it's the busiest day ever but unfortunately Grand Pear is not feeling too well due to his toothache and Applejack cannot do it and so is the family so she asked Sandbar and Gallus take him there and it's a simple routine but things will be much difficult that they expected.

Credit a good friend of mine from Tumblr frithislord aka frithnotdead aka frithlives for helping me with ideas. https://frithlives.tumblr.com/ thanks buddy

A young teenage mare falls in love with her rivals neighbor, Bright Mac. But, will their relationship be ruined by their families?
Edit: OMG My Story got featured? Thxs so much!

For years and years, Grand Pear refused to go back to Ponyville, his pride utterly bruised by his daughter's choice. How dare she choose an Apple over her own kin! How could she do that to him, his own little angel, with her beautiful voice and the songs she learned on his knee?

For decades, he never dared answer his own question. And it's not just the guilt that's creeping over him in his old age. Not anymore. He stayed away for too long and has let too much fester in his heart.

Now his own wife WILL make him face the music. Pear Butter is no longer around to play. But it hardly matters, because old stallions can't dance again... can they?

It's their first Father's Day at Grandpear's. Will it change the children's view on the holiday, especially AJ's? Grandpear sure hopes so. Then again, he's pretty sure the reason she hates Mother's and Father's Day has a great deal to do with him.

Art: Apple Pear by Phyllismi

Apple Bloom is proud to join her grandfather on a trip to the Vanhoover Food Court: the biggest annual gathering of every pony who's anypony in the food business.

While doing her rounds as a proud representative of the Apple family, she finds a Unicorn colt with a unique cutie mark problem: he wants to be a farmer, but he doesn't know how. Everything he tries seems to be missing something.

Luckily for him, Apple Bloom is perfectly qualified to show him how to find the true meaning of his talent and figure out what he needs to do to be happy with his work.

And absolutely nothing will go wrong.

One evening while Granny Smith sits and enjoys the sunset, she finds herself paid a visit by Grand Pear. The Pear patriarch wants to thank Granny for being the better pony and taking such good care of his daughter, but Granny Smith doesn't feel she deserves such praise.

Grand Pear is expecting to have an average day all by himself today. That all changes when his granddaughter, Apple Bloom comes by to spend some time with her Grand Pear Pear.