Grudge or Love?
Grudge or Love?
“Twilight, oh Twilight!” a certain white unicorn knocked at the tree-house library.
The ever studious unicorn was, as usual, using her spare time to re-read her favorite books and create her list of responsibilities. After memorizing the page she had left off on, Twilight closed the book and greeted Rarity who had been looking very worried.
“Rarity, you don’t look so good,” Twilight commented as she saw Rarity racing up to her bedroom then off into the rest of the house. “Can I… help you with something?”
“Is Spike home?” the dress maker asked.
“No… He’s off with Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres,” Twilight answered.
“Oh, Twilight, I did terrible thing to him. All for that snooty little photographer, Photo Finish. She ran off with another pony to make her into a star,” Rarity explained.
“NO!!! My camera, how could this happen?” the famous photographer cried out for her broken camera.
“I just don’t know what went wrong!” the renown (or perhaps infamous) derped, gray Pegasus said as she sat on a destroyed stage while the final light standing fell.
“What exactly did you do?” Twilight asked as her friend paced.
“I ignored him, called him stranger,” the white unicorn said.
“Well… I could imagine why he took it so bad then…” the purple unicorn said quietly to herself.
“He came back? How… was he?” Rarity asked.
“He didn’t even want to answer me. He just took some gems up to his bed and stayed up there until I brought Pinkie and Applejack to cheer him up,” Twilight answered.
“Gems? Where did he get gems?” the designer asked.
“He got up early today to finish his chores and head out to dig them up for you…” Twilight said, knowing that it only made her friend feel worse.
“I must apologize to him, Twilight…” Rarity said as she began racing out the door.
“I think it’s better to let him cool down a bit. You can come back tomorrow,” Twilight said, leading her friend out. “I’m sure Spike will forgive you, he’s not one to hold a grudge.”
“I do hope so, Twilight,” the white unicorn said as she exited out the library.
Though he had not intended on helping out at the farm, Spike could not sit around while one of his friends was hard at work. He found himself running about, fetching baskets for apples and pushing carts full of them. He never took the time to actually take in the scenery at Sweet Apple Acres before then, and it was breathtaking, completely taking his mind off of his problems.
The only thing more impressive to the young dragon was the hard working, country pony. She had been bucking apples since they had gotten there and she was still going strong, even while Big Mac had taken a break. Spike had brought her some well-earned water after all the non-stop work she had done.
“Thank you kindly, Spike,” Applejack said as she drank. “How are ya likin’ the farm, Spike?”
“It’s…” Spike said as he looked around him, then unwittingly stopped to stare at Applejack as she glistened in sweat.
“Spike?” the work pony called to him, snapping him back to reality.
“Beautiful…” Spike said as his cheeks turned a deep shade of red.
“You know you’re always welcome here, Spike. Anytime you want, come and visit,” Applejack said as she rubbed his head.
“It’s getting late, I should probably be going. But before I go: thanks, Applejack,” the dragon assistant said.
“I should be thankin’ you. With your help, we’ve done almost all the work around here,” Applejack returned the sentiment.
“Almost?” Spike asked.
“Don’t go worrin’ about it, Spike. It’s nothin’ I can’t handle by myself,” the blond farmer said.
“I could stick around to help. I don’t think Twilight would mind,” Spike said.
“Well, if you’re feelin’ up it. We just got to get these last few wagons of apples to barn,” Applejack told the dragon.
“Alright,” the purple dragon said as he struggled to push two of the carts that were linked together.
“Uh… here, Spike, you can take this one. I’ll take these,” Applejack said as she motioned towards a lone wagon of apples.
By the time Spike returned to his tree-house home, it had become dark and Twilight had already began her midnight shift with her pet owl. Twilight, of course, had not minded the quiet. She was still able to get much done, even without Spike, although she did miss having her assistant to keep her company as well as his help.
“Hoo-hoo!” Owlowiscious hooted, pointing his wing towards the library’s entrance.
“Spike!” Twilight greeted the purple dragon. “You’re home late. You have fun over at Sweet Apple Acres with Applejack?”
“Um… Umm…” Spike said blushing at the work pony’s name. “Of course, it… was fun.”
“Spike, are you ok?” the unicorn asked, raising an eyebrow.
“Pff… yeah,” Spike assured his friend. “By the way, I promised Applejack I’d help her tomorrow. If… you don’t mind?”
“Of course not, Spike!” Twilight replied.
“I’ll be back in time to help out here,” Spike said, hugging the unicorn's neck. “Also, thanks, Twilight.”
“Anything for my friend and number one assistant,” the unicorn said, gladly returning his hug. “Oh, I didn’t know what you wanted to do with your gems so I took the liberty to organize them by color and shape.”
“I think I still want to give them to Rarity,” Spike said. Though he thought he would still be angry or upset from repeating her name, he felt nothing of the like but the incident with her and Photo Finish was still burned into his head. It was not something he could forgive so easily.
“She missed you, actually,” the unicorn said, levitating a list where she kept all her visitors names and arrival and departure times. “She came at 3:47 P.M. to apologize to you but since you weren’t home, I told her to come back tomorrow.”
“She came to apologize?” the young dragon asked.
“Why wouldn’t she? She felt terrible about it, Spike,” Twilight told her assistant.
“She did, huh?” Spike said as he started up the stairs leading to his basket-bed.
“Oh, Spike…” Twilight whispered to herself, her ears falling upon hearing his words.
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So Rarity is going to have to work for it? Well at least she is truthful, and thank you for not going into the bashing. Good chapter
Yay Applespike.
I think you may be moving a bit fast on Spike's attraction to AJ. Granted he fell for Rarity at first sight, but that began as a purely physical attraction. He's known Applejack for years, so shifting his attention from Rarity should probably take a little longer.
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Well, thanks for comment but really, it's about being seen with the wrong company rather than fearing that Spike would steal her thunder as Flutters did. Glad you like the story, hope you keep reading.
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Oh, don't worry. She'll work for it, you'll definitely see that later. Glad you liked the latest chapter.
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Again, glad to see you like the story.
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Years might be stretching, it's been maybe close to two years, canonwise I would say. But it's not sudden love, that's not the feeling I was going for. More like the development of something of a new crush. I hope you stick around to see how it'll work out. I tried to avoid that "sudden in love" cliche that most fics do or the overly dramatic Spike's feelings for Rarity being shattered.
I have to say he is holding a grudge pretty well
I don't know why, but I enjoy Spike shippings immensely. (I hope I don't turn into MallaJong....)
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Oh, no worries there. I'm definitely following this fic
I actually can picture rarity doing that, great story so far!
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MALLAJONG IS GLORIOUS!
I adore is so far.
AppleSpike. Mo stweey pweez?
wooow nice chap hahah but oww i really wanted to keep readin more but i can wait for da next update ! nice work :DD
Writing and plot progression is really rushed in this one. The conversations seem rapidfire and direct, which, while it is how Twilight seems to prefer to talk, is not something Rarity would do. She would hum and haw about telling Twilight what really went on until collapsing in a pool of her own melodrama begging forgiveness.
Spike's little 'Beautiful' was really out of place too. He's not going to go that far that fast, he might have for Rarity, but I feel he's matured at least a little, not to mention that he's just been burned by going down that path. I'd have expected him to try playing things closer to the chest. AJ also would have picked up on that and made a remark thinking he was talking about the sunset over the acres rather than her (she's proven to be rather perceptive in the past, but her personality isn't the type to think of others as in love with her, not to mention Spike already has a crush on Rarity, so how could he have one on her as well?).
The 'Oh, Spike' at the end also seems a little out of place. I get that you were having Twilight respond as though Spike said it angrily or with pain in his voice, but the descriptions of how Spike said it just did not get that across. I'd consider rewording the bit about how Spike was talking to properly convey that.
Y`know, I always keep wondering WHY in the name of all that is sane every single author that tries to broach the topic makes Rarity so mindnumbingly vain.
Point A. “Oh, do you know this… dragon…?” another voice asked. It was the famous pony Photo Finish and she had apparently been talking to Rarity.
"What dragon.... Oh, that`s just Spike. He`s an assistant to my dearest friend, Twilight Sparkle. Surely, you know Twilight Sparkle, don`t you? Personal protege of princess Celestia? Yes, that Twilight Sparkle." - white unicorn retorted smoothly, casting an appreciative eye over the collected gems - "I`m terribly sorry, Spike, could you please come back later? I`m a bit preoccupied at the moment, I`m afraid."
Why would Rarity elect to look like she`s trying to hide an embarrassing acquaintance ineptly? Wouldn`t it be so much better for her to casually brag being close to princess` favorite? A brag and a threat in one serving.
Point B. “Is Spike home?” the dress maker asked.
“No… He’s off with Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres,” Twilight answered.
"Good... Twilight, I really need to talk to you about Spike." - Rarity offered, - "His behavior is getting... unbearable." She raised her hoof to silence Twilight`s objection - "Darling, please, hear me out. I`ve tried to be understanding, I really did. But this... this crush of his, it`s going way too far and I do need you to talk some sense into him. His sense of appropriate timing is atrocious. Just now, he interrupted me when I was talking to Photo Finish... and I don`t need to tell you just how impatient and finicky she can be when somepony makes her wait. And let me tell you - it does sting that she run off to photograph Derpy. Getting Derpy of all the mares picked over me, can you imagine that? The indignity. And I have Spike to thank for that."
It`s obvious Rarity is not in love. So the question is - just how broken would she be about waving Spike off? My guess is - not nearly enough to think she "did horrible thing" to Spike. Rather, she`s likely to be moderately aggravated with Spike butting in and spoiling her plans.
Ok, so he has just fallen for Applejack just like that? I was hoping for a lot more build-up like an initial attraction, like just thinking she's kind of pretty or something, not a carbon copy of how he just fell for Rarity... Also, the grammar here needs work...
2281401One can easily be infatuated by a someone (or somepony in this case) by simple looks. For example my friends young sister thinks she loves justin bieber because he's handsome*gag*however this is simple physical attraction or infatuation.
Applejack is an awesome, awesome pony, end of story. This is going to be awesome, can't wait to see Spike's reaction
Looks like spike finally grew a pair...
That's a load of crap there. You need to grow a pair and learn when to give someone the middle finger back, pansy-ass bleeding heart.