A burning passion has grown on my red heart.

It was another hard working day for the apple family. Granny Smith was napping(as if that was new for Applejack), Big Mac was bucking the apple trees as per usual, and Applebloom was at school.

After an hour of waiting, Applejack went to go work on her chores for the day. "Hey Big Mac, how many more trees need buckin'!?" Applejack shouted to her Brother.

"Just that one over there!" Big Mac replied, pointing towards a shaking apple tree.

"What in the hay? Did Applebloom come home from school early again?" Applejack said heading towards the tree.

"HELLOOOOOO COUSIN'!" Applejack's cousin Braeburn said coming into view, pulling an apple tree that was sitting in a cart. Braeburn stopped in front of Applejack with the cart's wheels pulling dirt from the ground beneath it.

"Braeburn, what in th' hay are ya doing here?!" Applejack asked, with a demanding sounding tone.

Braeburn looked confused for a moment "OH! I came to give ya this apple tree here as a thank ya for Bloom berg!" Braeburn looked behind Applejack "Is Granny Smith still sleepin' inside?"

Applejack gave Braeburn a stern look at that question "Yes, she is. Now why else did ya come here?" she asked whispering.

"Sorry... Well, I also came to help on the fields, to help ya get some extra inventory from the trees!" Braeburn said smiling, trying to get Applejack out of a bad mood.

"Well Ah appreciate the thought Braeburn, but we got enough hooves here already." Applejack insisted.

"Look Applejack, the next train to Appleloosa isn't gonna leave for the next couple of months, so I'm staying." Braeburn said.

"Uggghh... fine, y'all can stay here at Sweet Apple Acres until the next train to Appleloosa comes. But you're workin' everyday now, ya hear?" Applejack said, questioning her cousin's reliability at this point.

"Gotcha Cuz!" Braeburn said, going to start bucking apples down from trees nearby.

A couple of days went by, and the weather was normal, but on today's working day, Ponyville was due for some lightning and rain. "Braeburn, remember, this is the last tree fer the day!" Applejack shouted in the wind and rain, hoping her cousin would hear her.

"Gotcha Cuz!" Braeburn shouted back. At the same time, they bucked the apple tree to get all the apples down. Little to his knowledge, Braeburn was standing underneath a cluster of apples, and got repeatedly pelted with the hard red fruit.

Braeburn shook his head, trying to wake himself up a bit from the blunt fruit hitting him so many times. "Braeburn, are you alright?!" Applejack shouted, though Braeburn barely understood anything he heard from her.

"Uh.. Cuz... I think I feel like how you felt when Apple buck season came from when Big Mac had that injury. Remember when you told me 'bout that?" Braeburn said, shaking his head some more. But before Applejack could reply to Braeburn, lightning stuck the branch above Braeburn, and fell on top of him!

"BRAEBURN!" Applejack shouted. Applejack pushed the branch off of her now bleeding cousin, who had a gash on his head, and several medium sized cuts on his back. She picked him up as best as she could, and brought him to the house.

"Big Mac, I need yer help!" Applejack shouted throughout the entire house. Big Mac came into the living room...

"Eeyup?" he asked, like nothing was the matter.

Applejack looked to where her brother's deep voice had come from "We need to get Braeburn over t' th' hospital, he's got cuts and a gash, a tree branch fell on him and cut him up badly!" Applejack explained as best she could whilst trying not to begin crying. Big Mac looked startled at this, and he looked behind Applejack to see a Braeburn bleeding on the floor. Big Mac ran towards Braeburn, and picked up Braeburn.

"Let's go, he needs help now." Big Mac said, leading Applejack out the door.

2 hours later....

"It's a good thing you got him here while you could, and did ma'am." The hospital's mainly known doctor said "Had you not, he might've died from his blood loss." he continued, looking at the blood transfer unit next to Braeburn's bed.

"Will 'e be alright doc?" Applejack asked, worried that she might lose another family member.

"Yes he'll be alright but.... there's something else." the doctor said, giving a worried look.

"What is it then?" Applejack pleaded, wanting to know everything about Braeburn's condition.

"Well you see ma'am, apparently he lost some of his memory from the branch hitting his head. The report from Nurse Bray wave says that he won't remember his name, who he is, what he's done, and some family members as well. Also, he'll suffer migraines when he fully recovers as well." The Doctor informed Applejack, worried about her feelings for her hurt relative.

"Well that's just terrible!" Applejack began "How could Braeburn forget those things?!"Applejack asked the doctor.

  The doctor walked towards the blood transfer unit, and said "Well you see, he's going to suffer a small case of amnesia, or in more specific terms, memory loss. Now like I said, it's small, but he's forgotten a lot of important things. Who he is, his name, family members, and don't forget, he will suffer migraines from time to time after he fully recovers." The room door opened, and a nurse came in "Ah, here's the nurse that'll be taking care of your cousin while he's here, and when he's ready to go. Applejack, this is Nurse Redheart."

The white mare with a pink mane and tail, and red cross for a cutie mark walked towards Applejack, and said "Yes, as Doctor Heartbeat said, I'll be helping your cousin return back to normal in not time, and I truly am sorry to say, but the visitation time has ended." Nurse Redheart tried to put on a smile, hoping not to upset Applejack.

"Well fine, but Ah'll be back everyday from now on, so be prepared for me showin' up every afternoon." Applejack said, looking displeased from what Redheart told her "C'mon Big Mac, we gotta let Granny Smith know what's happened." Applejack began walking out the door, with Big Mac following.

After Applejack and Big Mac left, Nurse Redheart went to get Braeburn another bag of blood, as the already attached one ran out of the needed liquid. When she returned, Braeburn began moaning from the pain he was still feeling. Though he was in pain, Redheart began to think how cute Braeburn looked when he was sleeping, even if she just now saw this stallion for the first time. Braeburn woke up, but was still weak from his little amount of blood in him...

"W-Where am I?" Braeburn asked the nurse, who was now sitting on his bed, next to him.

"Oh!" Redheart said, getting off the bed, so to be more professional around the patient "You're in Ponyville's hospital, and you're in emergency care. As you can see, you need some more blood, as you've lost quite an amount of it."

Braeburn looked confused at what the nurse was saying "Who am I, and who are you?" Braeburn asked, still with many questions on his mind.

"Your name is Braeburn, and I'm Nurse Redheart. If there's anything you need, let me know, as I'm going to be staying in the room with you until you recover from the blood loss, and I'll be helping you regain the lost bits of your memory as well." Redheart said, holding his hoof gingerly, so as to not cause him any pain in any area where he had been hurt by the tree branch.

"Wait... I remember the tree branch hitting me, and an orange mare trying to say something to me, but not much after that... Who's my family again?" Braeburn said, still with many unasked questions, in which he wanted answers to.

"Oh, your cousin Applejack will be coming by tomorrow, and every day after that to check up on you." Redheart said "She's really worried for you, you know."