Chapter 1
The rain battered the window panes just outside of the barn. Apple Bloom watched in amusement as they splashed against it's glass. However, the couple of ponies sitting behind her, one a unicorn, and the other an earth pony, were not so happy.
It had been the same like almost every afternoon it seemed. Rarity had been shopping for some thread and needles when the sale's clerk refused to sell her the products. And why? Because Granny Smith had told everpony that Rarity was a lesbian with Applejack, and now, not even the rest of their friends, or family would speak to them.
Was it so wrong to love another female? Rarity wondered a lot of the times. If it was true love, it didn't seem so wrong to her.
And Applejack felt the same way, and that's because they bonded. That's what married couples needed nowadays, but nopony seemed to understand.
"Ah don't get why Ah have to stay in side," Apple Bloom complained. "Playin' in the rain is one of my favorite things to do."
"'Cause Ah don't want you hangin' around with those pony folk," Applejack explained to her again, nuzzling up against her sad companion. "They're bad ponies."
"Sweetie belle and Scootaloo aren't bad," Apple Bloom objected. That was true, too. Sweetie Belle was still sweet to her sister, as was Apple Bloom to Applejack. "That's the only ponies Ah play with, after Twist and Ah had a 'lil disagreement."
"She can go play with them if she wants, can't she?" Rarity implied, her eyes puffy from crying. Her words came out in choppy fragments, due to the hiccuping she had developed.
"Fine, but if Ah see her with anypony else - well Ah don't wanna think about that," Applejack told her younger sister.
"Ah promise Ah won't," Apple Bloom truthfully said, skipping out the door.
Applejack watched the filly hop into every puddle purposely outside on her way to Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle's house.
"I hope she doesn't become a lesbian," Rarity wiped some stray tears from her crystal eyes.
"And why is that?"
"Because I don't want her to feel the torture like we do."
Applejack felt her heart grow soft. She embraced Rarity and kissed her on the cheek, "Even if Apple Bloom becomes gay, Ah want her to be a fighter, like you and Ah."
Rarity perked her ears up when she heard a knock on the massive doors of the barn.
"Ah'll get it," Applejack said, releasing Rarity and walking over. She opened the top door and peeked outside.
Fluttershy was there, looking with wide, turquoise eyes at the orange, earth pony.
"What do you want, Fluttershy?" Applejack asked rudely, possibly ruder than she ought have been to one of her closest friends.
"I bought you that thread, Rarity," Fluttershy held up the spool of thread, looking farther inside the barn. At least Fluttershy was still kind. She could never go against her friends, no matter what anypony said.
"T-thank you, Fluttershy," Rarity hiccuped. She took the thread with her magic. "What do I owe you?"
Fluttershy smiled, "It's free of charge. I just- I felt sorry for you."
Rarity felt happy tears fill her eyes.
"Ah appreciate your kindness, but no need to feel sorry for us. But thank you anyway."
"Er.. Okay," Fluttershy turned away and started to walk back to her cottage.
"I wish more ponies were like Fluttershy," Rarity sighed.
"Don't we all?" Applejack agreed, closing the door to seal the coldness of the storm out.
Rarity felt tears come to her eyes again.
"I can't take it anymore, Applejack." she sobbed.
Applejack hugged her once more and rubbed her back gently, "We don't need them. We're fighters, Rarity."
"I can't fight anymore," Rarity continued to bawl.
"Yes you can, Rarity," Applejack comforted. "You just can't fight here any longer. We'll move. We'll go some place nopony will ever discriminate us."
"Where is that?" she asked, her eyes pouring tears out.
"The happy place," Applejack closed her eyes quietly. She walked inside her house quickly, trying not to be noticed by her family, and grabbed a sheet of paper and a pen from the arts cabinet that Apple Bloom liked to play with.
She quickly wrote something on the paper and grabbed Rarity's hoof.
"Where's the happy place?" Rarity asked, as she got pulled along by her companion.
"Ah don't know where it is, but before Granny Smith hated me, she told me everpony's got one that they go to when they feel lonely and want some peace."
"How will we be able to find it?" Rarity wondered.
"Granny Smith said you're able to sense it," Applejack informed, her hat absorbing the rain.
I hope Granny Smith was right, Rarity thought to herself.
Applejack raced past the ponies who were staring at them, angry and confused, with big, yellow umbrellas above their heads to keep dry.
They rushed all the way to the Everfree forest. Fortunately, the long limbs of the trees provided protection from the precipitation.
Applejack set rarity and herself down, just a few drops of rain sputtering on their noses.
Meanwhile, an hour after Apple Bloom had finished playing with her filly friends, she came back home, her mane and tail dripping wet, and a wide smile plastered on her sweet face.
"Applejack! Ah'm home!" Apple Bloom called, going into the bathroom quickly and wrapping a towel around her neck.
She looked around. She didn't see her sister anywhere, but instead, noticed the tiny sheet of paper Applejack had written on before.
Apple Bloom picked it up, her hooves making the edges wet and soggy. She read it aloud.
" Dear Apple Bloom,
I figured I would only write you a message since you're the only one who cares about me in this family now. Rarity and I have ran away, so please don't come looking for us. I love you little sister, but I can't stand all these ponies torturing Rarity and I. Best of luck in your life, and always be a fighter.
Love,
Applejack."
Apple bloom dropped the note, her orange eyes starting to fill with tears. She ran into the house again and embraced Granny Smith.
"Apple Bloom, what in the hay is wrong?" the crinkly, lime pony asked.
"A-Applejack's gone! She left with Rarity," the filly sobbed, her tears falling on Granny Smith's leathery coat.
Granny Smith's face morphed into anger, as she continued to squeeze her granddaughter, "Don't you worry, Apple Bloom. Applejack ain't part of this family anymore."
"W-why not?" Apple Bloom asked, letting go of her grandma.
"Homosexuality ain't right," Granny Smith bluntly replied.
Author's Note
I fixed the first chapter, so you can all stop now.
Fluttershy isn't mean anymore.
Celestia isn't against homosexuality.
Granny Smith and Big Mac are.
And I corrected the grammar.
So if you can find anything else to complain about, I honestly have no idea what to tell you.
Applejack was carrying Rarity on her back, mud collecting on her hooves. The white unicorn had fallen asleep, and probably for the best anyway. The rain was only making the ground nastier, and the prissy creature would be throwing a fit right now.
The rain started to pound down on the earth pony, as she saw lightning flash across the sky. The mud became tighter on her orange hooves, as she tried to pull them out.
"Urgh!" Applejack grunted, using all her might to try to get them out of the ground, but the more she pulled, the tighter it got.
Rarity's eyes flickered open, "Applejack, what's wrong?"
"My hooves are stuck in the mud," Applejack replied.
Rarity attempted to cover her mane with her hooves, "If I preform a spell, I think I can pull you out." Rarity told her, "I never was too good at them, though."
"Just try," Applejack urged, her hooves going deeper into the grub.
"Okay," Rarity nervously bit her bottom lip, and started to fire up her horn. A blue light shone around it, as it transported her to the ground that was clear of mud.
"Alright, now try to pull me out, 'cause Ah think Ah'm sinkin'."
Rarity closed her eyes, aimed her magical head piece at the orange mare, and fired.
With luck, it pulled the pony out, who was covered in dirt from her chest to her hooves.
Rarity dragged her over to the ground she was standing on.
"Thanks," Applejack smiled, leaning in for a hug.
Rarity pulled away, "Please no hugs until you're properly clean."
Applejack rolled her eyes jokingly and continued on down the path.
Back at the barn, Apple Bloom was busy packing her stuff in a suit case.
"Ah don't care what Granny Smith says. Ah gotta find Applejack," Apple Bloom told herself, stuffing a blanket inside the travel bag.
"You ain't going nowhere," Big Mac came into the room.
"And who's stoppin' me?" Apple Bloom turned back and shot. "Ah don't care if ya'll don't like Applejack anymore, but she's my sister, and Ah'd love her even if she was gay, retarded, dead, or alive!"
"Lovin' another female is wrong!" Big Mac urged.
"No it ain't," the filly growled. "You can't just abandon your sister 'cause she loves Rarity!"
"You're too young to understand," the red stallion spit into the trash can in his younger sister's room.
"No Ah ain't!" Apple Bloom started to cry again. "If Ah ever became gay, would you still love me?"
Big Mac ignored the question and walked out of the room.
Apple Bloom heard a locking sound on the outside of the door. Her pupils shrunk as she rushed over to it.
"Let me out!" she cried.
"Nope," Big Mac pressed himself against the door, standing on his hinds.
Apple Bloom continued to ram herself into the door, but seeing it did nothing, she stopped, only to discover she had given herself a bruise.
She walked over to her suit case, and smugly opened the window in her room. She crawled out it, slowly down the side of the house, and started to walk into town, the rain stopping.
"You can give the silent treatment all you want. You ain't comin' out," Big Mac grimaced.
Finally, Applejack and Rarity met with a glistening body of water.
"Gorgeous!" the unicorn admired, picking some of the beautiful flowers from the side of the shore.
"It's certainly somethin'," Applejack smiled, inhaling some of the delicious fragrance that the plants brought forth.
"These flowers are absolutely to die for," Rarity dipped one in the shiny water and felt it's petals. "I just think they're amazing."
"Ah agree," the earth pony walked inside the water and cleaned the now-hard mud off her coat.
Rarity gathered more flowers, until her magic could barely hold anymore, "Their petals are so.. soft."
Applejack looked strangely at her friend, "Rarity? Are you OK?"
"I'm so happy," Rarity's eyes started to close.
"Rarity!" Applejack ran to her companion as she fell to the ground. She grabbed her hooves and slung her around her shoulder.
Oddly enough, Rarity was still holding the flowers with her magic.
"Rarity, what's wrong with you?" Applejack tried shaking her, but the mare remained asleep. Quickly, she dunked her marefriend in the water, but only succeeded in getting her companion's mane wet.
"Please wake up," Applejack whined, tears starting to sting her green eyes. She blinked them furiously to bat the crying away, as she dipped Rarity in the river.
She didn't notice that the flowers' centers were opening up, and shooting out tiny, black tongues that made it's way around the unicorn. She didn't notice until one of the tongues hit her hoof.
"Huh?" Applejack asked, the slimy organ around it. "Get off!" she waved her hoof wickedly and flung the tongue off.
Applejack only manged to add another constriction to Rarity, "Get off her!" The earth pony raced over to her friend, whom she had let go of when she flung the tongue off, and started to bite the tongues.
The vines loosened themselves from Applejack's teeth grasp and whipped her in the face.
While Applejack fought some of the vines off, she noticed the others were wrapping tightly around Rarity's neck.
She threw her hooves up to loosen the tongues around Rarity's neck, but some other vines grabbed her own, "Help!" she managed, making an awful gagging noise. The vines grabbed her hooves as well, so she couldn't undo her own constrictions.
