He knew nothing about her other than the tales he had heard of her from his kind, in school and in writings, doubtlessly distorted. Some of them couldn't get past the fact that the Princess had banished them over an aeon ago. Never mind the reason, or their deserving of it. He was amazed that bitterness and hatred could survive in hearts that long. Were hearts not meant to love?

This story is a sequel to Just Give Me a Reason

It had finally happened.

Of course it had. Naturally. They’d been heading towards the big tipping point for months.

She was only surprised it had taken months.

She did not know why she dreamt of Canterlot. She glanced at the glory of the sunrise and the second audible exhale of the morning whispered out from her. She thought of closing the curtains.

It was an off morning. She’d not had an on morning for a while.

Lithification--the process in which sediments compact under pressure, expel connate fluids, and gradually become solid rock.

Like the process that forms the strongest rocks, the Pie sisters spill blood, and tears. They make friends, and enemies. They find love, and hardships. All in the name of growing up. This is a lifelong story about sacrifice, dreams, and the meaning of sisterhood.

>Rating will be bumped up as needed<

He wouldn’t wish fame on his worst enemy.

Every few years he sees the stars in the eyes of the new hopeful recruits and he shakes his head and tsks under his breath in bitter wryness as their hopeful faces blind him. And every year his thoughts jeer, “They don’t know what they’re getting themselves into.”

She waited for Rarity’s face to bloom into softness, the way it always did when Rainbow made some big romantic gesture like this. Rarity’s face stayed impassive. But she smiled. It was a smile that was reserved and slightly tired—barely genuine. The warmth in it was quiet, self-contained.

And that’s when Rainbow’s entire world came crashing down.

She did not need her any longer.

The first story in the What Could Go Wrong? series

This is the story of a mare, in the middle of the night, with a parchment and quill, and a pestering Muse.

Includes rambling about the nature and woes of writing, and why no one should do it.

Rated Teen for swearing.

This is a [love] story.

Sometimes I feel like my life could use some spicing up. But I don't have the energy, or the passion. I like my routine, repetitive as it is. I like being alone, lonely as it is.

Rarity and Applejack must struggle through their toughest challenge yet as parents: meeting the so-called 'holders of their children's hearts'.

Pffft. Please.

Growing up is hard on its own, especially when your accomplishments are forever overshadowed by those of somepony else. And how could one not be overshadowed by Rainbow Dash?

Rainbow's son must learn to step out of his mother's shadow.