Honor of Thieves

An Honest Days Work

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Crimson woke up an hour before dawn with Rose lying next to him. He got out of bed trying not to wake her up. Before he left the room he softly kissed her cheek and whispered, "I'll see you at lunch Rose." Then he made himself breakfast and headed out to Sweet Apple Acres. By the time he got there Celestia was just about to raise the sun and he waited by the fencepost. He was waiting for fifteen minutes leaning on the fence with his eyes closed.

"You ready to work Red?" Applejack said walking to him

He glared at her and replied, "Please don't call me that, I think I prefer 'thief' than that name."

"Sure, but tell me one thing why are ya working when have so much money already?" Applejack said walking past him and toward the

"I promised Rose that I would start a new life without the money and she wanted to be apart of it." Crimson said walking next to her, "Besides, we specialized in artifacts that couldn't be sold in regular markets, and nobility who would flaunt their wealth to the poor."
he chuckled, "They deserved it."

She stops in front of the trees and said, "Okay Red now get to work." Which got her an angry look from Crimson

"Where do you want me to start?" He said glaring at her

"This entire acre right here, and when yer done begin on another acre. Each acre will get ya 40 bits." She said and he walked past her and started kicking the first trees in his path

After a few hours Applejack decided to give Crimson a break and give him something to drink. When she found him he had just bucked a tree and its apples fell in the buckets, "Hey Red, have yourself a break."

He groaned, "I asked you kindly not to call me that." He sat down under the shade of one of the trees.

She handed him one of the bottles, "Well it's better than saying Crimson all the time."

"You're just going to keep calling me that are you?" He asked getting a nod from the farm girl, "Thought so." He drank the apple juice.

"So why is the thief working here again?" She cocked her head at him

"Celestia severely cut my paycheck, as part of the deal we made for me being in the guard." He sighs, "At least I have some income." Crimson gets up and goes back to work
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Rose went to the library to keep discussing her and Crimson's lives before all of this and probably learn a new spell or two. When she entered the library she was greeted by Spike.

"Hey Rose how's it going?" the baby dragon said putting away books Twilight finished reading.

She shrugs, "Oh everything's fine, Crimson's working with Applejack and I decided to see Twilight before getting him for lunch."

Spike goes and gets Twilight

"Honestly, it's a little boring here, I'm not used to sitting around not doing anything." She sighed and started looking through the books.

Twilight enters the library, "Hey Rose here to talk about yours and Crimsons lives?"

Rose turns to her and nods, "Yes Twi, and discuss some family secrets, the ones that me and Crimson agreed on." She sits down at a table with a chess board on top of it, "Wanna play?"

Twilight nods and across from her, "I'll go first."

"Fine by me." She smiles, "Now make your move."

Twilight moves a pawn and starts their game.
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About an hour Rose groan as she lost to Twilight, "That was a good game I haven't lost in a long time."

Twilight giggled at her, "Did Crimson or any of your friends play?" Twilight starts resets the pieces back to their original places.

Rose nodded and smiles saying, "Yeah, Crimson played, but he stunk at it, Silver didn't know how to play, and Halo hated the game entirely." Rose giggled, "It was always funny to see Crimson lose. He'd always think of new ways to beat me, then mope when he lost."

Twilight laughed, "He sounds like a colt."

Rose kept giggling and replied, "He basically is. He just doesn't like to show it though, boyish pride an all that nonsense." She looked at the clock, "Oh, I got to go, I promised Crimson that we'd have lunch together." She started to leave the library.

"Well you two have fun." Twilight said smiling at her and walked to the door with her, "Well I hope we could play again."

Rose nodded and started to head to Sweet Apple Acres
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About an hour Rose groan as she lost to Twilight, "That was a good game I haven't lost in a long time."

Twilight giggled at her, "Did Crimson or any of your friends play?" Twilight starts resets the pieces back to their original places.

Rose nodded and smiles saying, "Yeah, Crimson played, but he stunk at it, Silver didn't know how to play, and Halo hated the game entirely." Rose giggled, "It was always funny to see Crimson lose. He'd always think of new ways to beat me, then mope when he lost."

Twilight laughed, "He sounds like a colt."

Rose kept giggling and replied, "He basically is. He just doesn't like to show it though, boyish pride and all that nonsense." She looked at the clock, "Oh, I got to go, I promised Crimson that we'd have lunch together." She started to leave the library.

"Well you two have fun." Twilight said smiling at her and walked to the door with her, "Well I hope we could play again."

She turned around and looked at Twilight, "I'm sorry about not telling you about some of the family tradition."

Twilight shook her head, "Don't quiet about it Rose, we always have tomorrow."

Rose nodded and started to head to Sweet Apple Acres
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Rose got the orchard and saw Crimson panting by a cart full of Apple barrels. Applejack was standing next to him laughing, "I win again Red."

He growled at the farm girl, "I asked you not to call me that."

Rose walked to them and said to Crimson, "Come on now, don't be a sore loser, Red." She giggled as she said the nickname that A.J. gave him

Crimson groans as she giggles at him, "Please don't you start too, since I lost Applejack is telling that name to the other Elements."

Rose kisses his head and smiles at him, "It could be worse. Now let's get lunch you big lush."

Crimson nods and looks back at Applejack, "Thanks for the work. I'll be working with the others for the next few days, or weeks depending if I have any assignments from the princesses."