Author's Note

Decided this is gonna be a two parter

Chapter 5

(2 days later)

Twilight looked at herself in the mirror judging the outfit she had chosen to wear over to James looking at the baby light lavender sundress using her magic she made a quick adjustment to her hair after finishing up she turned to leave her room. As she left her room Twilight went downstairs to find Spike to let him know that she was leaving to hang out with James for a few hours after saying her good bye Twilight went outside and began to make her way to his house. Passing through town Twilight couldn't believe how hot May was already at some point she would have to start swim suit shopping with the herd along with planning the annual trip to the rainbow lake. Taking out her phone Twilight began to look through her schedule to set a time for the herd to meet and shop/discuss the trip with them, sighing Twilight couldn't help but think about how the last three years have been for the herd as she moved through town Twilights thoughts began to focus solely on the herds future. As the thoughts began to cloud her mind like a storm she felt her mood decline thinking to herself she thought 'Who knows maybe we should just give up on the dating scene.' before she could continue she felt herself run into something soft and solid falling down she groaned "Twilight you ok ?"

"JAMES !" Twilight yelped looking up to see the fox she was going to meet today he was wearing grey shorts and a black T-shirt with a shark biting a hockey stick on it. Holding out his hand James looked a bit squeamish realizing he caused the mare to fall, taking the hand Twilight felt him pull her up onto her hooves letting go to his hand she began to pat down her dress "Wow Twi you look great."

"OH.....really ?" Twilight asked looking off to the side with a blush trying to think of something to say until she heard a gurgling sound looking back at she saw James with an embarrassed look on his face giggling she said "How about we go to Sterlings family restaurant."

"Sounds good I had to skip breakfast." James said turning around he and Twilight began to walk to the café as they walked talked about the new shop James was opening after Twilight had developed a magic to enchant his 'tattooing' tools to permanently changed the fur a different color. After a few test runs with magical clones Twilight made a few adjustments so that the tools could tattoo with the same detail he used to do in his old world. After a few minutes they reached the restaurant Twilight had begun to ask about how business was going sighing James said "Decently so far, I mean you guys magically get tattoos on your hips and shoulders so not many pony’s are interested."

"True.........but hopefully business will pick up for you." Twilight said with a small smile and a blush shaking his head James scratched his arm before saying "Luckily I've had some ponies come in two said they were part of something call the Wonderbolts."

"Really you had two Wonderbolts get tattooed at your shop !"

"Yeah I think one said her name was Spitfire she also mentioned that she would pass the word on or something." James said scratching the back of his head with a small smile looking back at Twilight she saw a smile forming on her face patting his shoulder Twilight said "If Spitfire said she'd spread the word you should be expecting more ponies to show

“ I believe that she said something about showing it off on a talk show plus the extra hundred bits she gave me as a tip was nice.”

“Wow a hundred bit tip, how much did you charger her ?”Twilight asked giving the Fox a quizzical look turning away James began to think back to when she came to after a few moments James said "About 200 bits she got something pretty big on her right arm."

"So you got three hundred bits from her, what exactly did you do ?"

"You’ll have to wait and see Twilight I think her and her friend are gonna show it off in he talk show.” James said giving Twilight a snarky smile growling at him she gave the fox a small swat on the arm laughing at her James noticed they had reached the small restaurant once they were near the door James quickly opened the door for Twilight letting her walk in first. After making his way inside James saw Twilight already asking for a booth making his way up to them James said "So Twilight could I ask you something ?"

"Sure lets get seated for first." Twilight said nodding James began to follow the host to their booth after being seated and handed the menus flipping it open James began to look through it but quickly put it down to ask Twilight his question "So Twilight I've noticed that there are a lot more mares than stallion like this town I mostly mares except for like four guys not counting me."

"Oh yeah the ratio for colts and fillies being born has been 6-1 for about a hundred thousand years."

"Ahhhh ok that's a pretty big gap."

"Compared to your world yeah." Twilight said looking to her right she noticed a mare and stallion enjoying what looked to be a date, noticing this James followed her gaze seeing the date she was looking at. James thought about another question turning to Twilight he said "So Twilight how do stallions choose mares to date ?"

"Well it depends on the stallion but mostly depends on the body structure and the coloration of the mares."

"I get body structure cause some guys prefer........certain things, but coloration ?"

" Yeah coloration choice is basically the brighter her colors the better chance she has finding a coltfriend." Twilight said her ears pinning back James realized that he brought something up that he shouldn't have coughing into his hand he said "So Twilight do you have any family ?"

"Oh yeah my BBBFF is a captain of the crystal guard, my mom is a lawyer, and my dad is a famous author."

"Wow sounds like your family does a lot." James said with a small smile leaning on one of her hands Twilight had a small smile on her face, looking James over she asked "So can I ask about your family ?"

"I don't mind you asking me, my sister is actually trying to open a bar with her husband, my dad runs a decently sized company, and my mom is an accountant for said company."

"Wow so your dad runs an entire company ?"

"Yup."

"So are you rich ?"

"Kinda but the thing you have to know about my dad is that he and my mom raised us to be good kids we live in a three bedroom two bath house that was a little larger than the house I live in now."

"Really ?"

"Yup my dad had us concentrate on school and being good little monsters instead of spoiled brats.”

“That’s good to hear what kinda education do you and your sister have than ?”

“ Public school BUT my sister literally went to the best business school in our country and is using her degrees to open a bar shoulda seen her professors face when she said that in her graduation speech.”

"What about you ?"

"I mostly concentrated on art and took lessons from my sis about running a business ."

"So tell me how you got into tattooing ?" Twilight ask chuckling James was about to explain how he ended up in the profession when the waiter arrived asking what they wanted to drink, after giving their respective orders James turned back to Twilight "A friend of my dads who used to watch me when I was a kid."

"Wow so when did he start teaching you ?"

"Hmmmm I graduated from art school at 20 so eight years ago."

"Wow so you've been doing this for eight years ?"

"No I didn't start doing it by myself professionally until I was about 24."

"But some of the pictures you've shown me from your old world are amazing."

"Yeah I guess, I just got lucky and could draw that good." James said shrugging his shoulders Twilight began to laugh at how nonchalantly he said that it wasn't a brag or him gloating he was just talking to Twilight, walking up to the table the waiter placed their drinks in front of them after doing that the two placed their food orders. After he had placed his order James adjusted his seating position a bit before asking "So what about you Twilight I heard your the private student of Princess Celestia."

"Yeah it was when I turned 8 years old my parents took me to an orientation class for her school and after a little mishap I caught her attention."

"Wait how exactly did you catch her attention ?"

"Uh my magic went hay wire and I turned the examiners into potted plants and blew the roof off the testing area." Twilight said while blushing her ears were splayed backwards pinning to her head James giggled how cut she look ed ignoring him Twilight continued "Then I ran from the hall and ended up teleporting into the throne room, I was there for a little over an hour before she found me and calmed me down afterwards she told me I made it into her school but due to my magic power I would have to live in the castle and train under her."

"Wait were you taken from your family ?"

"WHAT NO Princess Celestia wouldn't do that she let me go home when ever I wanted, plus she even joined our family on multiple occasions."

"So she's like a second mother to you ?" James asked only to get a small nod from Twilight chuckling at the cuteness she was displaying in front of him before they could continue the conversation the waiter approached again with their food. Once they had the food in front of them both thanked the waiter than began to eat after a while of eating James thought back what happened yesterday when the main six showed up to pick up the crusaders looking at Twilight James asked "So Twilight what's up with Rainbow and Applejack ?"

"What do you mean ?"

"Well after you guys came to pick up the crusaders Rainbow seemed to be a little upset about something but than when they mentioned how much fun they had and wanting to stay with me again her mood got worse and Applejack had a cross look."

"Oh well Rainbow lost an earlier bet and now Rarity gets to dress her for the next date we go on."

"Wait so was there another bet between you guys ?"

"Yeah but that one we kinda have to keep between us." Twilight said looking down to the side nodding at this James turned the conversation to a different question. After lunch both of them spent the day walking around the town enjoying the day with each other after a few hours they both said good bye and went there separate ways, making her way home Twilight had a little skip in her. Opening her door to the house Twilight made her way in after a few steps into the house Twilight noticed how dark it was until a voice spoke up “So Twili did you enjoy your date ?” jumping a little she turned to the voice to see Pinkie sitting a leather chair with Opal on her lap growing Twilighht said “Pinkie how many times have I told you not to break into my house !”

“849 times counting this one but you didn’t answer my question.”

“84— wait what date !” Twilight exclaimed finally realizing what she had asked earlier before she could continue Pinkie said “Please you dressed SUPER nice you took him to lunch and the way he was looking at you the entire time, it was a date.”

“Pinkie it wasn’t a date and did you spy on use ?”

“Yup, and it totally was.”

“No it wasn’t we were hanging out as friend and even if it was he wouldn’t want to date someone as plain and ugly as me.” Twilight said her mood deflating realizing her mistake she got up and gave the mare a hug while whispering “Twi don’t say that your one of the prettiest and funnest mares I know inside and out.”

“Thanks Pinkie that means a lot, and Pinkie ?”

“Yeah Twilight ?”

“Why are you naked ?” Twilight asked looking down at the naked back and bare bottom of the baker sighing Pinkie patted Twilights back while saying “Don’t worry bout it.”

(7:40 p.m. James house)

Sitting down to watch some horror movies James popped the cap of a beer, leaning back he looked between the three choices he had IT(2017), Alien (1979), or A quiet place (2017). The sound of rain hitting the roof of his house James let out a sigh, his decision was at an impasse he wanted to watch all three but couldn’t decide which to start with all taking a breath he thought ‘ I might have to resort to the old dart board to choose.’ getting up to grab the board James placed his beer on the table. Before he could get to the room which he had everything somebody had started knocking in the door, stopping James turned to the door walking up to it pondering who it could be after a moment they spoke “James it’s Applejack can we talk ?”

“Yeah.” James called back opening the door he was greeted the the orange mare looking her over she was wearing a red/black plaid shirt and worn denim jeans sitting atop her head was the signature stentson. The mare was soaked from head to toe from the rain, moving out of the way to let her into his house. Turning around James saw Applejack staring at his tv, walk-in past her he made his way to the restroom to grab a towel so she could dry off. After Applejack finished drying herself off she turned toward him a serious look forming on her face thinking he had done something to offend her James was about to apologize when Applejack said “ Ah was wrong about you James.”

“Thanks Applejack........so you want to join me for a beer, unless you want to brave that storm?” James asked as he went into the kitchen to grab some junk food pondering the thought Applejack replied “Sounds good ah don’t think the rain is goin anywhere soon.”

Returning with her beer James began to explain some of the horror movies of his world, after finishing his explanation Applejack smirked at him and told James that her and Pinkie were big into watching horror movies. Asking if they could watch Alien James picked up the remote and hit play, forty minutes into the movie they heard the sound of rain hitting the roof intensinfy. Groaning a bit Applejack muttered something her breath turning to her James said “ Just take my room for tonight.”

“You sure James ah don’t—“

“Applejack it’s all good just take the room.” James said as he directed his attention back to the movie looking at the fox Applejack couldn’t help but chuckle at him. After finishing Alien they moved onto another, than another after a couple more movies with out realizing Applejack fell asleep during fourth movie. Looking at her James let out a small chuckle carefully picking her up James walked her to his bed, gently placing her in the bed and tucking her in Kames noticed that her Stetson was still in her head taking it off her head and placing it in the night stand he went to leave the room when she tiredly mumbled “Night daddy.”

Chuckling a bit James walked out of the room and made his way back to the couch turning off the T.V James got comfortable on the couch, after a few minutes James felt himself fall asleep.

( the next morning)

As James began to wake from his sleep the first thing he noticed was the smell of pancakes and bacon in the air, groaning a bit he swung his legs off the side of the coach and stood up. Turning around he saw Applejack in the kitchen preparing breakfast, looking over to the table he noticed a few pancakes already set out along with two plates and glasses. Turning back to the kitchen James made his way over the fridge and pulled out some milk, turning to Applejack he asked “ Do you want me to grab anything for you ?”

“Ah’ll take some of that milk if you don’t mind.”

Nodding his head James made his way over to the table and poured some milk into both glasses, looking back to the pancakes he took a quick whiff before saying “Man Applejack these smell amazing.”

Puffing our her chest Applejack boasted “Course they smell amazin these here pancakes are made with a family recipe past through the generations.”

“Cool can’t wait to try them.”

Bringing the last of the pancakes to the table Applejack took a seat while saying “You’ll love’m ah used mah great great great great granpappies recipes.”

“Wow that’s a lot of greats.” James said with a chuckle she began to eat the pancakes, taking a bite out one of the pancakes James mouth was light up with the taste from the pancakes, looking down at the golden discs James swapping the food in his mouth he went slack jawed. Chuckling at his expression Applejack began to eat her own stack, after a minut or so of slack jawed staring James snapped out of his stupor and started to shovel the pancakes into his maw. After finishing breakfast Applejack looked over at the stove to see the time 9:23 a.m. gasping she exclaimed “ Ah got to get going !”

“You late for work?” James asked as he tossed a towel over his house giving him a quick nod, James motioned for Applejack to follow him as she did they both went into a dark room filled with some junk. As she walked past him James turned and flipped a switch turning the lights on, sitting in front of her was a strange looking black carriage. Tapping her on the shoulder James told her to hop in walking to the other side she opens the door and got in with James getting in on the other side. Reaching up James flipped down the visor letting a pair of keys fall into his hands, reaching forward James inserted the key into the ignition turning the key he started the truck jumping Applejack looked panicked chuckling James said “What you never been in a truck ?”

“A truk?”

“Yup that’s what this is a truck.”

“But what is it.”

“A truck is a type of vehicle from my world.” James clarified reaching back to the visor he clicked a button on a remote looking forward Applejack saw the wall move up chuckling James said “ Yeah that was a door, so any questions.”

“So what kinda truck is this ?”

“It’s a 2013 Toyota Tacoma I’ve had it for about four years now.”

“ So are there a lot of these back in your world?”

“Yup there are hundreds of different vehicles.”

“Wow.”

“Yup but before we go any further copy what I’m doing.” James said looking at him Applejack saw him reach for some type of strap pulling it over his shoulder than clipping it to a slot, after watching him do that she copied his movements once she finished James started moving the truck out of the garage. During the drive James and Applejack talked getting to know each other James to the best of his degree explained how agriculture was done back on world James also asked Applejack how they farmed. Chuckling Applejack told James it’s best to watch her and the family farm than raising an eyebrow at her James was about to ask what she meant, ignoring him Applejack pointed to her sign indicating they had arrived at her family’s farm. Turning right James drove the truck toward her house parking parallel to the hous both of them exited the truck, looking up at the house James saw the door open up revealing Applejacks older brother Big Mac. Smiling at the sight of his sister Mac began to walk over to the truck to greet her, heading in the opposite direction James couldn’t help but admire the scope of the family’s farm. From the looks of it the majority was an apple orchard but as James looked around her could see some other types of crops, taking a deep breath James enjoyed he fresh air and quiet until a small yellow and red blur ran into him falling to the ground James let out a yelp. Hearing something hit the ground both the Apple siblings ran over to the sound looking over they saw James on his back with Applebloom sitting on his stomach, grinning at the sight Applejack walked up pulling the filly off the fox grinning Applebloom turned to her sister and asked “ Is James gonna help us today ?”

“Nah Applebloom he—“

“I can help out Applejack it’s no problem.” James groan whil being picked up by Big Mac letting out a Cheer Applebloom began to dance around, chuckling at his sister Mac set the fox down before grabbing his sister to calm her down sighing Applejack began to walk into the orchard while saying “Fine me and Mac we’ll handle the Applebuckin you and Bloom will grab the baskets and take them to the cart.”

“Applewhating now ?” James asked while following the siblings into the orchard “C’mon what’s Applebucking ?!?”