“Hard work is its own reward.”

Someone had told you that once a long time ago, when you still lived on Earth. You couldn’t recall who it had been though. Maybe it had been your mom or dad, or perhaps a teacher from school. Or, perhaps it had even been that one crazy cat lady that had lived down the block from you with her crazed cat traps when you were younger. Honestly, you couldn’t remember who it had been, but whoever it was, those words had stuck with you.

You always tried to work hard to get things done. No matter how trivial the task at hand was.

You supposed that your determination, or stubbornness as some had called it, had gone hand in hand with this ideal rather well. So well that, rather to an unfortunate extent, it sometimes blinded you and made you oblivious to the things around you.

Which at this moment seemed to be nothing in particular as you floated through the relatively familiar darkness of unconsciousness.

“Well, I got knocked the buck out… thank you Lyra.”

“…”

“Huh? D-did somepony call my name?”

Your voice sounded distant as you heard your name called once again, and the darkness around you began to lift. You suddenly felt ground beneath your feet, and for a moment it felt as if you were walking up a wall.

“…’

The voice called out your name again, but although you heard it clearer than before, you didn’t turn towards it. Instead, you focused on your hands. You were holding something. Something round that was slightly heavy. Your arms stung a bit, tired, exhausted, and you once again heard the voice call out your name as the darkness cleared. You blinked, and you suddenly found yourself in the barn at Sweet Apple Acres. In your hands, you were holding a basket. There was stack of similar baskets only a few paces from you. You were standing next to a cart, unloading the last basket as you felt a drop of sweat linger on your brow before it fell and landed on your hand.

“I… I remember this.” Your thoughts called out as you began to move, the motion coming on naturally as your mind recalled more of this particular event.

Slowly, you walked towards the stack of baskets and placed the last on next to it. Your back stung a bit as you raised yourself back up to full height, and used your arm to wipe the sweat from your forehead. It had been a long day working at your newly opened store.

“Alrighty then, yah asked for it!”

“Huh?”

You finally turned around to look at the source of the voice, only to recoil in shock as your eyes fell on a certain orange pony soaring through the air straight at you.

“Yee-haw!”

“KYAHH-OOf!”

Applejack’s hooves wrapped around your neck as the rest of her body followed. Your arms wrapped around her in an attempt to catch her, barely managing to take one step back before the back of your knee hit something. You both fell backwards, Applejack riding you and giggling like a school filly as you toppled over a bale of hay into a pile of, well, more hay.

It took a moment for you to recover your bearings and realize that you had not been knocked into a pile of buckets. It took only another fraction of a second to realize that a pair of beautiful emerald green eyes were looking back at you as Applejack’s weight settled comfortably on top of you, right before she pressed her nose against yours and she smiled at you with her eyes.

“Yah know it ain’t polite to ignore your mare, right sugahcube?”

“Pretty sure it’s not polite to tackle your stallion either.”

You suddenly felt Applejack’s lips press tenderly against yours as she relaxed further on top of you. It was really hard for you not to relax as well, and your arms wrapped tighter around her. Her coat was covered in sweat and her scent was neither offensive nor off-putting. In fact, it was rather alluring.

She had endured a day of hard work as well. But then again, this was Applejack. Your Applejack.

What else could you expect?

Your tender kiss came to an abrupt end as she pulled away and smiled down at you. Her green eyes were laden with something primal, something that you were all too familiar with, and you wondered if your own scent was as alluring to her, as hers was to you.

“Ah’m sure yah’ll forgive me on account of how happy I am to see you.”

“Forgive I do, for happy too am I.”

You felt her hoof hit you lightly on your chest as she giggled and dove in for another kiss, a bit more heated than the last one. However, before anything could advance down that venue, Applejack pulled away again and sat up as she straddled your stomach and put her forelegs on your chest. Automatically, your arms moved down her barrel, caressing her, all the way down to her hind legs.

“You know, I don’t think you’ve tackled me any other day when I got home. What’s so special about today?”

“Well…” She spoke softly as she began to move one of her hooves around in a circle on your chest. “Ah don’t think ah need ah reason to be happy to see you, besides that ah love you.”

You could feel a smile tugging on your lips as you looked into her eyes. All you could see in them was the honest love she had declared. And, well, something else too. Something that made you want to tease her a bit.

“Really now?” You commented with a bit of mischief in your voice as your hands moved down to her haunches, and without warning, began to grope them. Applejack immediately went rigid on top of you, right before she closed her eyes, relaxed, and enjoyed the sensation of you massaging her rear.

“I think you need to be a little bit more honest with yourself, sweetie.”

Applejack paid you back in kind.

Without warning, she dropped on you and wrapped her hooves around your neck and hugged you tightly right before she kissed you. Hard. Your lips smashed together as if she was trying to consume you. Her hips had begun to grind against yours, your hands never letting up as you enjoyed the sudden primal desire she was displaying. It felt like hours before she pulled away and allowed you breathe. You felt dizzy as she pressed her forehead against yours. She was still sweating, and her hot breath felt wonderful as it cascaded down your neck.

“Sugahcube…” She managed to speak as she fought to catch her breath. “Ah love you. Never doubt that.”

“O-okay…” Not surprisingly, you too were a bit out of breath.

“But... you’ve been working so hard this past month… ah hardly get to see yah until yah get home all spent and tired.”

“Applejack, I’m only doing it to-”

She didn’t let you finish saying what you were going to say as she silenced you with another kiss, and lingered on your lips till she was sure you weren’t still trying to speak. When she finally pulled away though, your lips followed hers till she giggled and put up her hoof to stop you.

“Sugahcube…” She spoke tenderly as she moved her hoof away from your lips and began to caress your cheek. “Ah know why yah do it. And ah love yah for it. But… ah love yah more because of who yah are, not cause of what yah do…”

You felt her lips gently touch yours again before pulling away, and her tail began to gently twitch and bat against your legs.

“And right now… ah miss yah, sugahcube.”

You only smiled as you brought your hand to her hoof and took a hold of it before you placed a gentle kiss on it.

“Well, I guess I am pretty awesome, huh?”

Applejack only giggled and booped your nose with her other hoof as she rolled her eyes.

“Guess ah can forgive ah lack of modesty seeing as even now ah know ya’ll work… hard.”

The hard grinding motion she suddenly employed as she spoke only served to emphasize what she meant. Your hands immediately moved back to her haunches, but, what you did next was obviously not what she expected as she suddenly turned to look at you funny.

“Why yah stop me sugahcube?”

“Because Applejack, sweetie, no matter how much I want to and tease, I’m tired, sweaty, and dirty right now.”

No sooner did those words leave your lips that the buttons on your shirt exploded in various directions as Applejack ripped it open. Damn, and it was a new shirt too.

“Umm, okay… uh, Applejack?”

“Yes sugahcube?”

“What if somepony walks in on us?”

“Ah really don’t care right now sugahcube.”

Her grinding began anew, even with your hands trying to hold her haunches still.

“The only thing ah care about now…” She ran her tongue across your exposed chest, her eyes locked with yours.

“Is how much ah…” She reached your neck and gave it a hard nip, before letting her hot tongue run along the spot.

“Need you…”

The way her hot breath and tongue caressed your neck set a fire down below, and you suddenly found yourself helping her with her grinding instead of trying to stop her. The slowly growing wet spot on your groin nearly doubled in size as she slowly shuddered on top of your chest, and moaned rather loudly into your freshly nibbled neck. That fire quickly turned into an inferno.

She was right. You had been working too hard. So, why stop there?

“Applejack?”

“Uh huh?”

“I thought you said you missed me, not needed me?” Your voice became laden with a new kind of mischief.

“Uh huh, one and the same right about now sugahcube.”

She moaned again as you began to match her grinding with your own hips.

“You really want it then, huh?”

The only reply you got was another loud moan as she began to grind even harder into you.

“Good…”

“Huh-HEY!”

Without warning, and with a great risk to your well-being, you moved your hands from her rear towards her sides and rolled Applejack off of you and onto the hay. You immediately stood up, removing and flinging what remained of your shirt into a corner. Applejack’s legs flayed above her for a fraction of a second before she righted herself and glared daggers at you. She was now covered in hay.

“What the hay are yah doing?!”

“If you want to have a roll in the hay, you’re going to have to work hard for it and look the part–GAH!”

Specs of hay filled your mouth, making you close your eyes from the assault carried out by Applejack’s tail flinging hay at you. Your ears caught three quick stomps before there was a second of silence, and something slammed into you, forcing you to take a few steps backs. Hooves wrapped around your waist, back, and head as an eager mouth connected with yours, and an equally eager tongue forced its way in. You welcomed it with your own equally eager tongue and a moan as one of your arms wrapped around her back and you forced her lips harder against yours while groping her well toned haunches with the other. The lustful moan she let out was all you needed to force her tongue back into her mouth, quickly followed by yours. Her tail had wasted no time in undoing your belt and quickly working on the button and sipper of your pants.

She never ceased to amaze you with what she could do with her tail, but then again, she had had a lot of practice since you two became a couple. And so had you…

Your hand quickly left her haunches and found the base of her tail, right before giving it a quick and forceful tug.

Applejack quickly went limp in your arms as she let out a cute moan and broke the kiss before melting further into you, twitching lightly. It only took you a fraction of a second to realize your pants were down around your ankles, and that your boxers were now soaked. She had cum simply by you tugging on her tail, and she now lay limp against you with only the one hand grabbing her tail and the other pressed against her back holding her in place. You knew that was one of her weaknesses, but never to that extent.

“Well, somepony is sensitive.”

“That ain’t… fair, sugahcube.” Applejack managed to mumble as she pulled herself up a bit with her hooves and rested her head over your shoulder. Whatever fight she had had at the start of your little game seemed like it had quickly left her.

“I said you’d have to work hard for it, sweetie.” Your voice was practically dripping with mischief now as you adjusted your hold on her, dropped your boxers, and moved both hands back to her haunches to support her. You didn’t need to look down to know your arousal had awoken and was hard as steel right now, ready to give your mare what she wanted.

But, only if she was willing to work for it…

“So, love…” Applejack moaned again as you spoke and kissed her shoulder, and worked your way to her neck. “Why don’t you show me how hard you’re willing to work for it, hmm?”

You finished your request with a hard nibble on her neck and a strangled moan from her throat. Without any other noise but a mumbled promise you’d pay for it later, Applejack’s hooves trembled as she slowly lifted herself up and barely managed to look down as she aligned her dripping arousal with your own pulsing arousal.

You couldn’t deny it. You were as eager as she was.

And without any more delays, both of you got what you wanted as you felt her let go and drop down against you.

The sensation made your head spin. The sudden rush of being enveloped by her velvety walls in one motion as she impaled herself on you was more than what you were prepared for. Neither of you said a word or dared to move as you both waited for the heavenly sensation to die down.

Minutes must have passed before either of you felt able to move.

And, the first motion nearly sent you over the edge.

“Sweet Celestia!”

“Mmm-ahh!”

Applejack didn’t even lift herself up very much, choosing instead to leave her head resting on your shoulder as she let out a needy moan. In one fluid motion, Applejack’s hips had pulled away and thrust back, taking you deep inside her tightening marehood, hitting against her core. You grunted as you moved your hands to grab her hind legs and gave her more room to work. She didn’t falter as she repeated the motion again, and again, until she had a rhythm going.

It was hard. One fluid, hard motion, in and out.

You could feel her heart beat faster against your chest as she moaned in abandonment with every wet impact of your hips. And, with every moan that reached you ears, you felt yourself sub-come to more primal urges as you felt yourself near your peak.

“Uh, uh uh, nngh AH! Ah ah ahh!”

“Ap-applejack? Ha ha, you close sweetie?”

“Ah nngh, uh huh, ah… BUCK-AHH! Mmm!”

Something fell off the wall as you took two big steps and slammed her against the wall of the barn, right before you began thrusting into her with abandonment. Her moaning reached a new crescendo as you moved one of your arms away from her hind legs and snaked it around her back to better support her as she suddenly went limp in your arms. The wall behind her was creaking in protest with every hard thrust that you gave her, only caring to make her cum over and over again.

“Ah! Uh, uh uh, Celestia, mmm-ah, cum for m-me sugahcube! Ah ah, nngh, please m-make me cum! Ah’m-nngh ah, almost- ah, ah ah AH!”

The sudden trembling of her moist walls and gush of nectar was all you needed as you pushed yourself deep into her and coated her womb with you seed. Every trembling spasm from her as she milked you sent your body into ecstasy as you gave your mare more and more of what she wanted. You kept yourself pressed into her, your thoughts drowning in that heavenly sensation you both had denied your bodies for so long. You could scarcely feel the mixture of your primal love making dribble down your legs as you fought to catch your breath.

You suddenly felt dizzy as you slowly registered that you were still hard as a rock while you remained buried deep against Applejack’s core. Something that she too, did not allow to go unnoticed…

“More…”

“Ha… ha… Applejack?”

“More… harder… again…”

You felt her slowly, sluggishly kiss your shoulder as you slightly became aware she had drooled on it, and she began to slowly make her way towards your neck. Each hot kiss she placed on your skin felt like white hot iron, burning you. And with every kiss, she repeated what she wanted from her stallion.

“More… more… give me more, sugahcube.”

Those last words and the hard bite on your neck was all it took for your mind to go blank with lust.

It had indeed been too long, for the both of you.

Before you realized what you were doing, you had pried her off the wall, and carried her towards your workbench. With one motion of your arm, you cleared off the top of it, sending the clutter of tool to the floor, right before you laid her on her stomach on top of it. Her hind legs dangled limply off the side of it, and she quickly let out an excited giggle that quickly turned into a needy moan as you laid yourself on top of her and pushed your still buried arousal harder into her. You felt her hind legs twitch weakly against your legs as you kept yourself tightly pressed against her and began to nibble on her ear. You moved your arms under her forelegs and across her chest. And, with one hand, you began to caress her cheek as you gently tilted her head towards you, and kissed her.

Even though what you were about to do was nowhere near gentle, the kiss was a different story.

Through it, you could feel the love she felt for you, and she could feel in turn the love you felt for her.

Neither of you wanted to break the kiss as you felt her forelegs wrap around the back of your neck and head, and you heard her sigh in satisfaction.

That was all you needed to know she was ready, right before you lifted her upper body off the table and gently pulled out, leaving only the tip of your arousal inside. You held her like that for a few seconds more before your kiss finally broke, and she cuddled the side of her beautifully flushed face against yours.

“Sugahcube… yah made ah mess of your workbench.”

“Not yet I haven’t, love.”

“Mmmhmm…”

Applejack draped her head back against your shoulder and turned to meet your lips again… right before you slammed yourself into her.

The workbench groaned in protest, right before you pulled out and slammed yourself into your mare again, and again. You had her lower half pinned between you and the workbench as each hard thrust sent her dangling hind legs swaying and made Applejack kiss you with more fevered want and lust. You could feel your mixed fluids from before leak out of her with every thrust of your hips, which only grew fast and harder until Applejack broke away from the kiss and screamed out as another orgasm took her. The new gush of fluids only added to the lewd sounds of your union, and only spurred you on as you kept thrusting into her.

“Ah, uh uh, mmm, sh-sugahcube! Don’t stop, don’t stoAHH!”

Applejack came again as her sudden moan slowly died at its source and her head draped back down onto your shoulder like a rag doll. Every thrust now pushed out of her a small, lewd, and delighted whimper as her walls contracted with every third or fourth thrust as she reached her orgasm over and over again. With every new orgasm, her slick and silken walls felt like they got tighter and tighter the more they spasmed around your thrusting rod, quickly pulling you to your peak.

You couldn’t hold out much longer. And, as more things began to fall off the workbench, you gave one final thrust as you gave your mare’s womb a second coating of your seed, calling out her name. Applejack’s voice broke into a silent moan as her body spasmed, and she went limp in your arms. You could feel her cumming over and over again as her walls greedily milked you for every last drop. Your legs felt suddenly weak as your head spun, and it became a tremendous effort to gently place Applejack’s limp form on the table, right before you fell to the ground and pulled your still spurting arousal out of your satisfied mare.

Two pearly white ropes landed on her slowly reddening haunches as you sat on the ground with a thud, and looked at the spectacle. You could see her chest slowly rise and fall as her marehood continued to spasm and wink while it remained agape, and pushed out dribbles of your seed onto the floor.

There was a lot.

Now, you had made a mess.

“Sugah-cube?”

You snapped out of your trance like state as Applejack’s weak voice reached you and you looked up in time to see her trying to get off the workbench. You were quick to act as you barely moved to catch her, just as she fell off the workbench, and you slowly sat on the floor of the barn again while you gently laid her against your chest. Her coat was drenched in cooling sweat, just like you, and as you wrapped your arms around her, you felt her relax further into you.

“We… we ain’t gone at it like that since, ha ha, since-”

“Your heat?”

“Hehe, yeah…”

Nothing else was said as the both of you remained like that, basking in each other heat and scent, and allowed your bodies to cool down. You could hear Applejack’s breathing and your own grow ever shallower, signaling you were about to tumble into a very pleasant slumber.

That wouldn’t do any good at all, seeing as anypony like Applebloom, or Big Macintosh could just walk into the barn any minute.

“Applejack? Sweetie?”

“Mmm?” Her reply was laden with sleep, and it was hard not to yawn as your body protested what you were about to do.

“We should go clean up. The lake’s nearby. We could probably sneak there if we went around the barn.”

“Alright then, but waist down feel all nice n’tingly, and… mmm, full.”

The sensual sound of her voice as she said those last words made you simply arch an eyebrow as you looked down at the orange pony nestled against your chest. The huge content and coy smile on her while her eyes looked hungrily at you made your face redden, and your hand moved of its own accord to caress her cheek, and guided her into kiss. Your tongues wasted no time in dancing with one another and you felt your arousal gain new life, reading for what you knew was yet to come.

“Not now sugahcube. Wait till we get to the lake.”

“Well! Up we go then!”

Applejack giggled like a school filly as you stood up without warning and hugged her close against your chest. It was a side of her that only you could bring out. One that you knew she’d never share with anypony but you.

She loved you, and you loved her. And, as you moved your head down and kissed her with a passion only love can bring, you knew that your mare meant everything to you. That you’d never kiss another mare like you kissed her right there and then.

It was a good memory to have while knocked out. And, one that you wish you could wake up to as you felt yourself begin to stir… and opened your eyes.

“Whoa…”

You heard a voice echo out in the darkness as sound filtered into your mind and you felt sensation filter back into your limbs. Thanks to your dream, you felt warm and tingly all over. Which honestly was a good way to wake up compared to every other time you had awoken from being out cold.

“If fate wants to keep beating me up like this… I don’t mind as long as I keep waking up feeling like this.” You heard your thoughts ring out as you continued to cherish the sensation. The lingering warmth of an event form so long ago. The tickle of a silk-like coat pressed tightly against your bare chest. And the sensation of your lips pressed against your mare’s lips as the scent of mint oddly intertwined with nutmeg filled your nostrils and-

Your eyes shot open as your mind crashed into a wall like an out of control car, killing all dream like thought. You were in a cave. That much you could tell because of the rock ceiling about you. There was a fire crackling calmly on a few feet from you as it gave off a pleasant heat…

And a pair of golden hued eyes met yours. Shock was the only thing you could see in them as everything else began to register as your mind staggered out of the wreckage it had been in.

Lips, actual lips were pressed tightly against yours, trembling, unsure of how to react. You could feel heavy breathing against your face as your hands registered your grasp around its owner’s neck and back. A chest was heaving against your own as a heart other than yours beat so fast it felt like it would explode. And perhaps, the most sobering sensation of all was that below your waist.

You we wearing your boxers… and your dream had left you at full attention.

Poking right against something that made you and the sea foam colored pony on top of you blush furiously.

Lyra managed to pull away from your lips and looked down at you with an unreadable expression. Which when compared to yours was rather odd, seeing as you were pretty sure your own expression conveyed nothing but pure shock.

Your mind suffered another car crash as Lyra’s expression changed to one of joy and she dropped her head against the side of your cheek, and began to squee as she nuzzled against you.

You stuttered, unsure of what to say in your shock. But that all quickly changed as shock gave way to fear when an enormous shadow suddenly loomed over you.

“You’n ah need to have a talk’bout sumthing… outside. Now.” The voice said as it echoed off the walls of the cave, and caused your chest to reverberate with its weight. It carried no anger in it, or promise of demise. Just that simply weight of an order given without a chance for compromise.

Your body was already pushing the content unicorn off of you as you sat up, and turned to look at Big Macintosh as he walked towards what you assume was the exit of the cave.

Your mind was blank, not wanting to think about what you knew was about to happen.

Author's Note

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