Ah'll Kidnap Ya Heart

by Aray

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Romance, Comedy
Length: 5229

Applejack's infatuation for Rainbow Dash leads to an unconscious pegasus tied to a chair

Applejack has had an obsession with Rainbow Dash for years. She even has a shrine dedicated to the pegasus in her room. But what happens when the pegasus stumbles upon this secret? A knocked out Rainbow Dash tied to a chair in a barn kidnapped. That's what.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-07-02 19:40:02 UTC

Tied To A Chair

The bright yellow sun shone down starkly onto the green pastures and apple trees of Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack was busying herself with some bucking. A few droplets of sweat tripled down her forehead and she wiped them with her hoof letting out a heavy hot breath. She had been working all day long. Since six in the morning she had been up and about and hadn’t let up, not even a fraction.

She couldn’t. If she did she knew her mind would only wonder onto a dashing blue pegasus. She found her so perfect it was hard not to think of anypony else. Yes AJ’s infatuation with her had started shortly after the iron pony.

First she thought it was irritation, thinking Dash was full of herself but her thoughts began to change to more romantic intentions and she couldn’t understand why. Dash was brash, full of herself and egotistic and that used to boil up her insides but now…

All those hateful thoughts had consumed her so but the more time she was around the pegasus the less she could get her out of her head.

She wanted Rainbow Dash so badly. She had even started up a little holy grail for her in her closet, keeping pictures of the pegasus, her feathers that had fallen to the ground. Even apples she had half chewed.

Applejack knew that if she could never have the real Dash than she’d at least have as much of her friend’s hoof prints she could get.

Sometimes she would just make out with her pillow pretending it was her. Nearly every night she had dreams of being with Dash intimately, tasting her marehood and devouring her soul. The two becoming one.

She knew she had literally gone crazy but it was impossible to keep away from the pegasus. She was always around Sweet Apple Acres, flying up above in the clouds and snoozing in the trees. Applejack wished she could just climb up there with her and sleep in her hoofs. But no… she knew her love would never be returned. Rainbow Dash was just too cool, too smooth for an earth pony like her.

She looked down to the ground as she panted her tired breath out, wiping her forehead to get the sweat off and felt like giving up. She was straining herself to the max to fill her head with work and pacing. She knew if she started fantasizing about Dash she would not be able to get her out of her mind for the whole day.

Rainbow after all saw her as a mellow down to earth pony… if she knew how much she wanted her, oh she knew it would be endless torment. She just wanted Rainbow to be happy, and if only she was the one who could make her happy… well she would just cry into her pillow/love buddy… no one had to know… it was just too disgraceful.

She bit her lip so tight she drew blood as she bucked the tree hard trying to get that blue pegasus to leave her mind. At that second she yelped as a blue body dropped on top of her and she squeaked, yelling,

“What in tarnation?”

She looked to her side seeing a puzzled Rainbow Dash rubbing her eyes in tire. The blue pony looked at her and just cracked up into laughter. She jumped up off of Applejack and flew to her side, saying,

“Sorry, AJ. That there was my napping tree.”

“Err, it’s fine, Rainbow.” Applejack said, trying to play it cool. She smiled largely, straining a little as she looked at the beautiful pegasus and cleared her throat, punching her in the shoulder as she added,

“Just be careful not to fall on me again, kay?”

Dash looked at her confused… she was surprise AJ wasn’t blowing a fuse and just shrugged her shoulders saying.

“Cool… working hard today?”

“Well somepony has too.” AJ said with a hoarse laugh, darting her eyes to the ground to avoid contact with those magenta ones and Dash just thought that the country mare was pissed at her or something. She decided to hide her tracks and said,

“Yeah, well. I got the day off so I thought I’d rest up before I begin practice for some new stunts I’ve got prepared.”

“Yeah?” AJ said, smiling as she imagined the idea of watching the pony of her dreams soar through the sky doing swoops and twirls. She wished she could take her own day off just to spend it with her… but Dash may think that that’s odd.

“Yeah, well. Got to always be practicing if I want to get on the Wonderbolts.”

“Ah hear ya,” Applejack said with a small smirk. She looked into Rainbow Dash’s eyes for a split second, but that second felt like eternity as she studied every inch of her breathless face, trying to memorize it for her dreams.

“Cool, do you want to hang out later?” Dash asked nonchalantly, feeling at ease as she was in no hurry to do anything. Applejack’s mouth dropped open, the country pony nodding her head as normally as she could and mumbled,

“That’d be nice.”

“When are you done work?”

“An hour.” AJ said nervously and looked at Dash, hoping that would be okay. Rainbow just shrugged her shoulders and said in a breezy voice.

“Cool.” She rose to the air and waved her off as she yelled, “See you in an hour!”

Applejack waved back at her, her hearting drumming madly as a smile began to creep itself up her face and she felt like screaming, YEE HA! But she held it in. She hadn’t hung out with Rainbow in weeks… always too busy working, but damn it she’d leave this day go.

She couldn’t wait. As soon as she was finished bucking this here field she’d hurry home and have a shower to clean herself up. She just couldn’t keep in her excitement as a grin spread from inch to inch on her lips. She was in love.

Rainbow Dash flew in easy beats around in the sky, trying to find another place to nap where she wouldn’t drop onto someone again but blinked with a smile as she saw Applebloom outside of her house, and fluttered down to her.  She grinned at the young filly asking,

“What’s up, squirt?”

“Hi, Rainbow Dash!” Applebloom said cheerily. She was knitting a scarf very badly but seemed eager to have it complete and the pegasus dared to venture ahead.

“What are you doing? Practicing becoming a granny?”

“No, tryin’ to get mah cutie mark!” Applebloom said as she knitted away and Dash pulled a puzzled look at that. The pegasus watched the filly try her best to make a convincing scarf but all it look like was a bunch of loose string. Dash laughed a little at the poor result but covered her mouth with her hoof when Applebloom looked at her. The filly frowned when she reached the end of her ball of wool and asked with big eyes, “Rainbow, could ya go into mah granny’s room and get more wool for me? Pweeease?”

“Why can’t you do it yourself?” Dash asked confused and Applebloom blundered,

“Ah would… ‘cept Ah don’t want my scarf to fall to bits with me gettin’ up.”

Rainbow rolled her eyes at the lame excuse. She looked at Applebloom’s big eyes and just sighed. She guessed seeing as she wasn’t doing anything else.

“Fine.”

“Ooo! Thank ya!” Applebloom beamed and Dash nodded her head annoyed and strolled into the home. She headed up the stairs and searched for Granny Smith’s room but paused as she saw AJ’s bedroom down the hall.

She grinned darkly… surely a pony like AJ would keep a diary. A diary full of embarrassing secrets no less. Rainbow always liked to go out of her way to tease her friends and this was no different.

She trotted up to the orange mare’s bedroom and pushed the door open looking around at her tidy room. She went into full snooping mode and began peering around. She crouched over on her fore legs, peeking under the bed and in her nightstand until she heard the closet door creak open and grinned largely. She swooped over to it and took two steps closer, pulling open the door but froze, her mouth dropping open.

There before her lay hundreds of pictures of her. Her sleeping, flying, at parties. Her lost feathers were glued onto the wall. There was love letters and a pillow made into a bad toy of her.

“What the hay-”

Before Rainbow had finished saying those words she felt a pan hit her on the head and she slammed into the ground, knocked out.

Applejack stood behind her, dropping the pan to the ground as she began panicking. Her hoofs trembled as she began to hyperventilate, saying to herself in terror,

“Oh buck! Oh buck!”

What was Rainbow doing up here? AJ had just come in to get a glass of water when she heard walking in her room upstairs and went to investigate. Little did she know Rainbow Dash would be in there and would go to the closet! Shit what was she going to do? Rainbow would think she was a total stalker! Her chest beat up and down in so much panic as she just ran over to her draw and pulled out her ropes, tying the pegasus up and gagging her mouth with a sock. Applejack still fumbled about hastily, thinking of where she could keep the pegasus so that she wouldn’t escape and tell someone! She pranced on her hoofs in haste as she looked around her room and finally spotted the old barn outside her window.

Of course! She now had to figure out a way to get her into there. She looked at her window and bit her lip, an idea sprouting up in her mind. She crouched down, lifting the unconscious Rainbow onto her back and walked carefully over to the window. She unlatched the lock and pushed it opened with her hoof, shoving Rainbow out of it.

She watched as the pegasus slipped out of her hoofs and heard a thud outside, squeaking as she hoped no one heard the fall. She ran down the stairs and out the door, going to the back of the house to see a knocked out pegasus on the ground roped up and out cold. AJ went over to her chest, laying her head on it to make sure she was still breathing. The breath was faint but she had seen Dash survive bigger crashes than that so she knew she’d be fine. She flipped her onto her back and looked around suspiciously for any pony that could’ve seen. She carried the pegasus over to the barn and dropped her down onto the ground gasping for air at both the weight and her hyperventilating.

She looked around and saw an old wooden chair down the back, dragging Dash over to it and tying her up. Sure, to any normal pony this was overreacting to an obsession being discovered, but AJ was too crazed with fear to think rationally.

She did the tightest knots she knew how around Rainbow’s hoofs, tying her two hind legs to the chair’s and her middle section to the back of the chair.

She smiled crazily saying to herself,

“See, no pony has to know about this… this is all just some crazy mistake that we’ll be laughin’ about in a couple of days. HEE HEE!” She laughed out in nervous squeaks, her eyes large and desperate and panicked sweat dripped down her forehead.

She looked at the knocked out Rainbow Dash and smiled. Even when she was out cold she was beautiful! Applejack could do nothing but stare at her magnificence.

“Oh Rainbow,” Applejack said, walking over to her and stroking her mane, “Why do ya have to be so perfect ta drive me to this?”

She couldn’t believe she was touching Rainbow’s mane, it was so soft and flowing, every colour she could imagine and she nuzzled her head up against the unconscious drooling pegasus’s.

“Now don’t ya worry, Rainbow… once ya wake up we can laugh about all of this. Laugh, yes!” Applejack said nervously and kissed her on the cheek daringly. Oh Celestia! She tasted so good. Applejack could just have her right then and there but no… she would withhold herself. It was so hard but. Rainbow Dash was literally only a hoof away, completely at her mercy and she knew not a pony alive had ever gotten out of her bondages.

“Oh Rainbow, Ah love ya.” Applejack said hugging the tied up pony with tears in her eyes, “Ah’m just fearful that when ya wake up ya’ll think Ah’m crazy.”

She laughed as she thought of a joke and nudged the unconscious pony’s hoof as she said, “But if anythin’… Ah’m only crazy for you.”

She blushed as she said this to her crush, little realizing that none of it was getting through.

“Applejack!”

Applejack jumped as she heard her sister call for her in the distance, sweating furiously and stroked Rainbow on the cheek as she said with hope,

“Ah’ll be back as soon as Ah can.”

She looked at the gorgeous pegasus one last time, trying to pull herself away and finally cut eye contact to force herself. She ran out of the barn, closing the door and locking it up just in case… but no pony ever came around to this one because it was old and needed renovation.

At least Dash’s mouth was gagged so if she did try to call for help no one would hear. Oh that pegasus was so silly sometimes. Applejack began to daydream about the reasons the pony had been in her room in the first place. Obviously Dash was smitten about her just as much as she was her.

She skipped over to her sister with a big crazed smile on her face as she asked with a voice of complete happiness.

“What is it sis’?”

“Do ya know where Rainbow is? She went inside to get mah wool?”

Applejack shut her mouth, pulling a terrible poker face in that instant and said nervously,

“Err yeah… she, she said she had ta get goin’. Weather duties.”

“She could’ve at least told me?” Applebloom said annoyed and threw her woollen stringy scarf onto the ground with a hmph.

“Well ya know Rainbow,” Applejack said with a nervous laugh, “She’s as unreliable as… as a icecream!”

Applebloom nodded with a smile, but seemed to catch onto something odd in what her sister said and looked at her lost,

“That’s a weird sayin’?”

“Ha ha,” Applejack said, looking around awkwardly as she rubbed her sister’s mane with an anxious smile, “Is it?”

“Ya okay, Applejack?” Applebloom asked worried. She looked into her sister’s face and saw such worry and concern in them that Applejack had to glance away to keep her bluff going.

“Sure Ah am, sis… just worried about that work Ah left behind… gotta get back to it,” and with that she ran off, her little sister rubbing her head with her hoof confused.

Applejack could not lie very well and Applebloom suspected that Applejack had told Rainbow to go home. Applejack seemed to have been avoiding the pegasus a lot these days and she guessed that AJ had had a fight with her and didn’t want her around.

Of course Applejack had so much pride she wouldn’t admit her fault to her sister even if she was in the wrong… her sister was easy to read sometimes. But it didn’t bother the filly too much as she simply shrugged and headed on inside, getting something to eat.

“Mmm..”  Rainbow stirred awake with a sore head, about to rub it with her hoof to sooth it but her hoof was restrained by something. She looked down groggily and saw she was tied up on a chair in a dark room. She tried to get free by shaking about but the chair was tied to a post and she was completely restrained by the hoofs and wings.

“What the hay?” she wanted to say but all that came out was “Mmph!” as a sock had been stuffed in her mouth and tied behind her head. She blinked in a little panic now as she was in the middle of Celestia knows where with no pony around and tied up to a chair. Had she been fillynapped? She tried to think back to what she had been doing before everything went black and remembered she had been in AJ’s room. Yeah that’s right… she had gone over to the closet and saw… an alter… with pictures of herself?

She blinked wide, remembering those exact events and tried to piece the bits together. She however didn’t need to think long as she saw a lantern switch on in the dark and looked ahead of her to see the orange country mare shadowed by the reflecting light in the darkness.

“Mmm!” Dash said, trying to wrestle out of the ropes and Applejack approached her with a nervous smile, rolling her hoof to the dirt as she said,

“Sorry, Rainbow…  ya kinda gave me no choice. Ya just caught me off guard, ya see.”

Rainbow pulled a confused look and Applejack blushed looking at her with innocent eyes. Oh Celestia that pegasus looked kiss worthy tied up like that. She was even more beautiful when she was conscience, and Applejack thought that was impossible.

Applejack came over to her slowly, carrying a basket full of apples in her mouth and placed it to Dash’s side. The pegasus looked at her confused and AJ blushed, reaching her face toward her, Dash trying to back off as Applejack pulled the sock out of her mouth with her teeth. The pegasus spat out the remainder of it and looked at Applejack terrified, like seriously, what the buck?!

“Applejack-?”

“Hush now you,” AJ said bashfully and picked up an apple shoving it into her mouth. Dash’s eyes nearly popped out in rage as she chewed down on it, swallowing a big bite before glaring at her and was about to yell again but AJ pushed the remainder of the apple in her mouth saying, “Ah thought ya’d be hungry.”

Whenever Dash tried to speak Applejack just shoved another apple in her mouth and after three had gone down the tube the orange pony finally let up. Dash stared at her petrified, but confused more than anything and simply had to ask.

“What the HAY, APPLEJACK?”

“Well, ya see…” Applejack said with a nervous smile, as if she was on a date or something and the blush reddened her cheeks, “You kinda came across mah… secret.”

“That you are OBSESSED with ME?!” Rainbow yelled and Applejack put her hoof to her mouth stopping her from shouting.

“Shhhs, Dashie… Ah never meant for ya to find out… as if ya’d even give me a chance.”

“Hmm… I wonder WHY I would now!” Rainbow just had to yell when Applejack removed her hoof unwillingly and the country mare smiled at her sheepish, looking around at the dank dark barn and put her hoof behind her head laughing.

“Yeah… Ah guess this is an awkward first date.”

“First date-?!” Dash tried to scream but a sock was shoved back into her throat and Applejack walked around in circles nervous as she said.

“Well AH KNOW this is drastic… but ya should know better than be snoopin’ in a pony’s closet.” Applejack said sadly and saw the annoyed and scared Dash looking at her with wide eyes. Applejack finally faced her eyes, staring into them with so much unrequited love it was scary and Dash tried to lean away from the force they admitted.

“Granted, Ah could’ve gone about this different,” she admitted, smiling awkwardly at her as she came over and stroked her face, “But would ya had felt the same?”

Rainbow just stared at her, feeling AJ’s hoof run across her jawline playfully and this was scaring her to no end.

“Ah know ya think this is over reactin’… but at least we can have time to talk now.”

Rainbow looked at her with so much fear, nodding her head slowly squeaking out a “mmm hmm!” and AJ sighed relieved, taking out the sock again as she continued.

“So…” Dash said weakly, looking at the love struck pony with caution and decided to tread with care, “When… when did this all start?”

“Ah think after the Iron Pony competition… and it just grew from there.”

“But…” Dash said, trying to piece this all together, “…how?”

“Can a pony say how she falls in love? No, you just connect… and don’t we connect, Rainbow?” she asked desperately, pulling the pegasus chest towards her as she leaned into her face and Rainbow sweated frightened.

“Err, sure…?” she said, being careful with her words. She could see Applejack’s eyes were lidded a little in desire. She could feel her breath against her face. Applejack dared to ask,

“Would it be cheeky, if Ah snuck a kiss from ya?” she asked and Rainbow stared at her in terror. Applejack blushed, looking down as she added, “Just, it’d be more fun makin’ out with ya while ya awake this time.”

Rainbow’s eyes widened to no ending extremes and she shook her head in rejection but felt AJ leaned forward and forcefully plant her lips to hers. Rainbow tried to withdraw but AJ drew her close with her hoof, diving her tongue into her mouth and nearly choking the pegasus.

When she pulled back she looked at Rainbow with a smile but it faltered when she saw the look of terror in her hostage.

“What’s wrong…? Well Ah will admit, Ah’m not the most experience of kissers. All Ah’ve had to practice on is a pillow,”

Applejack giggled at her half true joke and Rainbow nodded her head slowly, just looking at her with a quaky smile saying.

“Uh huh… do you think… I c-could go?”

Applejack pulled a sudden sad face as she leaned over Rainbow, looking down at her with tears in her eyes as she asked,

“Ya… want to leave?”

“It’s just, I haven’t fed Tank yet and…”

“hush you,” Applejack said and leaned into her again, kissing her on the nose with a smile, “Tank’s a big boy, can look after himself.”

“Yeah… but.”

“When was the last time we just… hanged?”

“Applejack, this is the opposite of hanging.” Rainbow Dash said bluntly and looked at her scared, “This is fillynapping.”

“Really?” Applejack said, freaking out a little of that revelation and Rainbow nodded thinking she was coming to her senses.

“Yes… you should let me go, like now.”

“But…” Applejack said, tears and worry spreading to her eyes, “Ya’ll think Ah’m crazy. Ah just made a mistake, Rainbow… t-that’s it!”

“And I believe you.” Dash said warily, smiling at her with a nervous face. She tried to get out of the ropes again but her struggle was fruitless and she just added, “But Applejack, if you let me go I promise I will not tell any pony about what happened.”

“Ah am goin’ to let ya go Rainbow… jeesh,” Applejack said with a roll of her eyes at how silly her friend could be sometimes, “Ah’m not some crazy pony.”

“Uh huh…” Rainbow Dash said slowly, staring at her with cautious eyes. Applejack came over to her again and just smiled down at her, this dominating position making the usual brave pegasus shrink back.

“Good… because, well since we’re both here… maybe we could have… our first date?”

Rainbow stared at her. This wasn’t real… this couldn’t be real. She had actually thought that Applejack was hot and funny and the most down to earth of her friends before all this. And if Applejack had just asked her out even a day ago she would’ve said yes… but now? Seeing how she had literally driven this country pony crazy with her presence… she didn’t know how to act.

“Kay,” she croaked out afraid and Applejack smiled, rubbing her rainbow mane with her hoof, beaming sweetly as she said,

“Yay!”

She sat on the ground, looking at Rainbow with curious eyes as she asked with a big grin.

“So… how’s ya training been lately?”

“Good…” Rainbow said with still a hoarse voice, but cleared it. Okay, if she was going to do this and get out in one piece she’d play it cool.

“Well actually, I’ve been having a bit of trouble with this one trick.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah… I can’t pull up in time to do a triple flip before I hit the ground… So I’ve had a few sore wings.”

“Oh!” Applejack said worried and came up to her in weak steps, as if even in the approach of Dash she could hurt her, “Can Ah give ya a massage or help ya relax in any way?”

“Well, maybe if you released these ropes,”

Applejack pulled a coy look, smiling as she shook her head saying,

“Oh no, Rainbow Dash. Ya ain’t sneakin’ out on this date.”

“Ha ha… right…” Dash said and felt Applejack approach her, leaning over her as she placed kisses on the pegasus’s exposed shoulder and the pegasus shivered.

“Does this make ‘em feel better?” Applejack asked seductively, running her lips up to Dash’s neck and the pegasus said nervously.

“Err… maybe if it were my wings?”

“Sorry but Ah can’t reach them.”

“Maybe if you-”

But Dash was caught off in another kiss, feeling Applejack’s lips push into her slowly, sliding her tongue along her bottom lip and this somehow felt kinky to the pegasus. When Applejack withdrew Dash had a dazed look on her face.

“Better?”

“Yeah…” the pony said slowly, looking into those green eyes and smiled adding, “You know, we could have more fun if you undid these ropes?”

“Rainbow, we’ve only kissed a few times!” Applejack said, punching her in the shoulder with a shy grin, “But Ah won’t say Ah haven’t thought about it… Ah think about it every minute…” she came up to her ear and the words shivered down Dash’s spine,

“…of every day.”

She licked Rainbow on the ear and the pegasus felt her insides tingle… not sure if it was from terror or arousal. She felt Applejack start to stroke her face again with her hoof, smiling as she looked down on her and Dash just had to ask.

“Applejack… is this the craziest thing you’ve ever done?”

The orange pony looked at her shyly, shaking her head as she said with a nervous laugh, “Ah used to try feed Bloomberg my period blood.”

“FUCKING HELL, APPLEJCK!” Rainbow screamed and the pony shoved her hoof into her mouth to quiet her.

“Rainbow…” Applejack said, hurt by that reaction, “We’ve all done crazy things… You included. Let’s not forget your breakdown at the Best Fliers competition…”

She gave her a stern look and Rainbow just stared at her with a weak smile, nodding slowly as Applejack finally removed her hoof.

“Wow, Applejack…” she finally said, looking at fillynapper with scared but amazed eyes, “You are not that boring country girl I thought you were.”

“No…” Applejack said and leaned close to her ear again, whispering, “I ain’t.”

Rainbow Dash smiled at her with scared yet enticed eyes and simply asked,

“What else?”

Applejack looked bashful and rolled her hoof around the pegasus chest as she said with a grin,

“Ah killed a mare.”

“WHAT?!”

“Only when Ah was little,” she said innocently, hurt again by her love’s reaction, “Rainbow, if we are gonna make this work ya have to accept me.”

“Who?” Dash asked determined now and added, “HOW?”

“It was mah cousin… we were havin’ a bath when we were just five… and Ah held her down until no more bubbles came.”

Rainbow Dash was now completely terrified. She felt like bursting into tears as if she was going to die if she stayed here any longer and just felt Applejack pull her into another kiss, this one more passionate than the last.

“Ah love ya, Rainbow Dash…” Applejack said as she withdrew and leant her forehead to hers saying “And Ah would never hurt you.”

She pulled her close as she whispered,

“Unless you wanted me too…”

“Applejack… you are really scaring me,” the pegasus said, tears now rising in her eyes as she struggled harder in her restraints and Applejack just cried back.

“Ah’m only tryin’ ta please ya! Please, Rainbow!”

“P-please let me go!” the pegasus begged, “Please… please just don’t hurt me.”

Applejack looked at her shocked… Rainbow really believed she would? She just looked at her in tears, how could she believe this? Applejack loved her with all her life, she would do anything to prove this.

Anything.

And she decided Rainbow had to know this.

“Okay…” Applejack said, and Rainbow looked at her with wet eyes, “Okay, sugarcube…” she whispered and began to untie the ropes. Rainbow just watched her, tears streaming down her cheeks as the ropes began to fall to the ground and when her wings were released she jumped up into the air, desperate to get out but heard Applejack just say,

“Ah love ya, Rainbow Dash…”

The pegasus froze in the air. She just hovered there. She looked behind her shoulder and only saw Applejack fall to the ground, tears in her eyes. The pegasus just watched her.

And she didn’t know why… but she couldn’t watch her cry.

She couldn’t leave her just like that. She must be crazy thinking that. It was as if she owed Applejack something. A love she had never gotten from any pony… a friend who could accept her for all of what she’d done… all of what she was.

Rainbow never understood what she did next. She flew over to her and landed next to the weeping pony. Applejack only flinched away when she felt a wing place slowly over her and she looked at Rainbow Dash with red eyes.

Dash just looked ahead, not saying anything and heard the country mare whisper,

“Why?”

The pegasus didn’t reply, not giving a reason… not letting the truth come out but the reason was still all the same.

Applejack needed her. Then and there… and as a friend… as the element of loyalty… she couldn’t leave her in her hour of need.

But it was a connection that led to feelings that felt unwanted… not healthy for her at this very moment.

Feelings of love. And she couldn't understand... maybe she never would.

“Just shut up,” Rainbow whispered and nuzzled into her head not saying anymore. She felt Applejack lean into her too, holding her warmth.

After half an hour the lantern ran out of fuel and died, leaving two ponies in the pitch dark.

But the warmth was still there… the beating hearts and soft bodies and when both awoke in the morn they found each other wrapped in the other’s hoofs.

This was going to be hard… but at the same time…

No fuck it, this relationship was gonna be fucking hard.