Years have passed and the citizens of Ponyville have begun to settle down into routines and growing families. Applejack soon begins to reconsider her relationship with Rarity, all the while also dealing with a bigger Apple family, struggling to keep everypony all together.
The story pretends that only season one actually happened, also giving Big MacIntosh a son.
Editing help from swoesight.
Feedback is appreciated, as brutal as it needs to be.
Brief update - finally got around to adding a fic cover, and re-editing chapter one. Just split up some paragraphs to help with the flow, and reworded some of the more awkward writing.
I'm working on chapter 2 - I wasn't for a while. I couldn't find any motivation. Then, during a Friendship Is Witchcraft rewatch, I saw all those dumb jokes about Twilight's shitty, forced applesack / charity shipfic and it reminded me of my own shitty, forced applesack / charity shipfic. It reminded me that I don't owe anyone anything - that I started writing this for fun. I hope everpony on this site remembers that - you're writing only for yourself. You don't owe a new chapter or some masterpiece. You should just have fun!
Anyway, chapter 2 is out when it's done.
Even if it's not a direct reference, See White by AcreuBall is one of my favorite fics of all time and it's awesome to see a mention of Vinyl/Rarity in a different story
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Can't say I've read that fic haha, but it did seem like a natural choice for someone Rarity might date when I was writing.