Keeping secrets in a relationship is dangerous and risky, but everypony does it. But when you lie about what you are... Written for the X Becomes a Changeling May Prompt.
Snippets of the lives of Rainbow Dash and Applejack. Time and again, they discover that this phrase accurately describes falling in love, being in love, and life in general.
Rainbow Dash saved Spike from a dragon attack--and paid for it dearly. Now scarred, in pain, and unable to fly, she becomes a recluse in her own house. Applejack is determined to get her out again. Somehow.
Tales of a strange pony with snakes for a mane and a glare that can turn ponies to stone turn out to be too close to nonfiction for one writer's liking.
Applejack is captured by the dread pirate Rainbow Blitz. She's offered her freedom in exchange for the location of her home island, or else she can remain a prisoner forever. She decides to take a third option.
After that fiasco that was the Grand Galloping Gala, Octavia would like to do nothing more than drink herself into a stupor. Pinkie Pie, on the other hoof, wants to apologize.
Ledger Line may have found salvation for Cherry Jubilee's failing cherry orchard in a strange, wandering earth pony. Applejack may seem strange and secretive, and that hawk she's always with is a little weird, but at this point, he's desperate.
On the eve of her 50th anniversary, Applejack reviews some of the small, stupid, inconsequential, yet supremely important things that helped her relationship with Rainbow Dash become what it is.
Rainbow Dash brags to the three idiots from flight school that she has a boyfriend in Macintosh, even though she doesn't. The only possible solution is to make it true.
Introverted DJ Vinyl Scratch tries to win over a famous cellist while her roommate Lyra tries to figure out where she stands with the candy maker at the mall. It sortof works.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash return to Manehattan and revive the Mysterious Mare-do-well. Of course, gangsters won't be the only thing they'll end up fighting...