Wild Hearts
Out on a capture, Arthur crept closer to a pony he had been following for some time. A beautiful mare with light chestnut colored fur and a blonde mane and tail. His Chestnut mare. As soon as he was close enough, he threw his lasso into the air, and landed right around her. She fought and struggled to get away as he pulled in more of the rope. And then, as soon as he was close enough, he jumped forward to tackle her. And damn if he didn't land right on top of her.
And she took off running. Running as the human clung to her back, with his arms wrapped around her, holding on for the ride. He pressed his cheek to the back of her neck as she ran. He could hear her strong, wild heart beating. He could feel her powerful muscles rippling beneath her fur. He could smell her lovely scent in her mane. He pressed his face deeper into her golden locks, wishing to stay there forever.
"Hmm,"
The morning light streaked in through the curtains of the window. Applejack stirred from her slumber. She realized that she was in a bed. She felt somepony's hoof draped across her. She shifted a little to look at who it was. She felt fingers rubbing her belly idly before Arthur's arm pulled her tighter to him. She suddenly remembered where she was.
She was in Arthur's house. In his bed. He was behind her, holding her tightly to him. She could feel him pressing his face into the nape of her neck. The steadiness of his warm breath on her told her that he was still asleep. Feeling his embrace around her felt... comforting, assuring. She felt safe.
I love you
The words echoed in her mind from the other day, when he was delirious from the concussion and sun. They haunted her thoughts, unsure of their true meaning. He wasn't in his right mind at the time, after all. He could have been hallucinating that he was saying it to anyone. Besides, she told her dog that she loved her. But it didn't mean it was the romantic kind.
Maybe he did love her. But it was the way that one loved a pet. Certainly he cared about her. That much was clear. She cared about him as well. Maybe in the general sense of the word, she did love him. But it didn't mean that she was in love with him. How could she be?
She wrestled with the thought of it.
Still... it seemed more plausible than any kind of a relationship with Buck, out in the stables, even if he was supposed to be the same species as her. The idea of that repulsed her. But Arthur on the other hoof...
Applejack shook her head. It was crazy, that idea. He couldn't possibly like her like that. Not in the way that she needed. She tried to clear her mind of the notion.
Maybe he was just being overly affectionate from being isolated for so long. In all her time here, she hadn't seen a single other member of his species. Certainly not any females. His affection was simply being misplaced. Or she was just misinterpreting it. After all, she reminded herself, she wasn't thinking clearly herself in her condition. Her thighs rubbed together uncomfortably. 'This damn heat.'
Her heart and mind were in a tug-of-war. She clenched her hoof and grit her jaw in frustration. She needed to know, consequences be damned. She rolled over toward him, with his arm still draped over her. The movement was enough to cause his eyes to flutter, stirring him from his dream. She looked at him, less than a foot from his face. He looked back are her big, green eyes and smiled.
"Good morning," he said with a yawn. As he stretched, he realized his arm in her side of the bed's territory. "Oh, sorry," his smile faded as he pulled his arm away. Applejack felt the warmth of his arm on her body leaving her. She felt the comfort and security of it slipping away. It was now or never, she decided. She took his hand in her hoof and held it.
"Arthur, I need to ask you something," Applejack said.
Arthur looked down as his hand, clasped in her hooves, and then back to her face.
They may have been separated by species, many anatomical differences, and cultural barriers.
But her holding his hand, and the look in her eyes shattered all of them.
"Do you love me?" she asked.
Arthur suddenly found it very hard to breath. It was as simple a question as anyone could ask. All she wanted was a little yes or no. But it wan't so simple.
"AJ I... you know I care about you a lot."
"That's not what I asked," she pressed. "I asked if you loved me. After you were kicked, while you were half-conscious, you said 'I love you'." His face turned red. He didn't remember any of that, but still. "Is it true? Do you love me?"
"I- well, yeah. I mean, of course I love you. I-"
"But do you love me like you would love a human mare?"
"A woman."
"Like a woman? Do you love me like that?"
"AJ, I-" he winced and pulled his hand away from her hooves, covering his face. "You must think I'm weird. I'm sorry. I just, I, I-" he gasped, unable to speak through the tight lump in his throat.
"Do you or not?" she asked again. He couldn't bare to look at her. He couldn't stand to see the look on her face when he told her.
"yes" he croaked his confession through his hands, certain that it would ruin everything. He felt her weight shift in the bed. To run out of the room, he figured. At once he felt her weight on him. She grabbed his wrists with her hooves, pulling his hands away from his face.
"Say it!" she barked at him.
"Yes, dammit!" he said, more clearly.
"Say the words!"
"I love yo-hhmmfff!"
He didn't even get out the 'u' in 'you' before she pressed her lips to his, kissing him deeply.
"Arthur," she panted, "would you- could you love me like a woman?" She all but whimpered, "I need it so badly, it hurts." He pressed his finger to her lips.
"Shhh." He wrapped his arms around her and held her close, kissing her again as he rolled her onto her back.
No more words needed be spoken.
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Hang on, didnt you already upload a finished last chapter? What's up here? Didnt like the way it ended?
Why was this cancelled?
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I was called out on the original ending being an indication of not caring about the story anymore. Which was true.
And it was described as "a middle finger to the readers". Which was not my intention.
As it is now, this could be considered complete. It has what could be considered an ending.
But the cancelled status is more truthful than complete. And it should have been what I did 15 months ago, rather than try to force myself to finish something that my heart just wasn't into. I'm sorry.
But if someone wants to write an ending for it, I'll happily upload it and give full credits.
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Point. I thought the ending was a little meh personally, but I had seen weirder shit that had worked, so I wasn't overly miffed by it.
7746623 dude never ever let anyone tell you how your story shall end, if people don't like it, who cares it's your story, you should end it the way that you end it, not them. Don't listen to those negative comments and listen to yourself and end the story the way that you want it. Just a piece of advice.
7746691 I appreciate that. It's not that I have thin skin. The negative criticism of the ending didn't bother me. It was the fact that I was called out on not caring about this story anymore. Because it was true. And it showed.
As much as I wish you had more of this story in you, I think ending it here is better than the alternative.
I will stand with you on this decision Shakespearicles as I have watch story's fall apart and you code feel it the author just forced the story.
yes you did publish a last chapter and it was a real shocker but as you say it did not fit the story.
so I agree with you in pulling it down and placing the story as cancelled maybe at some point in life you will be hit with the right ending for this grate story.
I feel like you could have written a much better ending than the original; but if your heart's not in it, then it's probably for the best.
Hate to see this story go out like this though.
I'm sorry to see you cancel it, but if you really didn't care about it anymore it's for the best. Thanks for trying to restart it, at least, even if it didn't turn out so well in the end.
7746719 Yeah.
I was more than a little puzzled by the deleted version. I was indulging in wishful thinking, I guess - I didn't want to think you were just throwing the story over the Reichenbach Falls. Speaking for myself, the deleted version would only have worked as a hook for a sequel into an AU, which if you had tried to force it, would have been bad all around. But, I'm glad you reconsidered it, to throw us this bone before pulling the plug on it.
Sorry it didn't work out. Wish I had the chops to try a continuation, but I don't, and there's no point to trying to pretend otherwise. Glad you revised it.