A Strange But Familiar Place

I notice that Applejack is starting to wake up and turn my magic off immediately, letting go of a pink balloon I was playing around with. It floats towards the ceiling and hits it with an audible bumping noise. I put on my necklace and look at her. Applejack yawns during this and looks around the room. When her eyes set upon me, we both stare at each other for a small time before she seems to look away with her hat turned downwards by her hoof.

"I'm awfully sorry about doing that to ya. I was just scared for mah little sister, ya know? I don't know much about ya and I was already tired with tha harvest I just kind of lost all judgement. I know that ain't a excuse for what I did to ya, but I'm willin to do anythin to make it up to ya's." she said in a somber tone.

I look at her seeming horribly disappointed of herself.

"Anything?" I say with a bit of a smirk while sitting up. "Then please jump up on this bed and lay on your back."

She looks at me surprised and then blushes immediately, then nods after hesitantly getting up. Applejack does a small climb up onto the bed and looks at me and then away as she lays herself on her back with her bottom facing towards me. I quickly cover her lower parts without looking for another second and proceed to tickle the sides and bottom of her stomach. Another surprised face appears for a split second and turns into a face of laughter and smiles. I continue to tickle her until I see her tear up and then I stop with a smile. I then start to rub her exposed belly, avoiding the small almost unnoticeable bumps where her nipples reside. She calms down after a few heavy breaths and looks up at me with a redder, more embarrassed blush.

"I thought that you were gunna... Ya know. Take advantage of my debt that I owed ya. I never woulda thought that somepony would do THAT to me. At least, not anymore." Applejack says with a bit of nervousness in her voice.

"I just wanted to show you that I forgive you and that I'm not some sort of evil being sent here to destroy everything or whatever. A lot of other ponies look at me like that and I didn't want a friend of Twilight to look at me that way too." I say with a smaller smile, realizing that I've been holding back some sadness from being rejected by everyone.

She smiles at me for the first time since I met her and rolls off the bed onto the floor, standing up.

"Well I'm glad ya showed me you aren't here to hurt us. I'm willin to give you a chance and start over. Just all this at once, with the elements and then you popping up in this here world from nowhere looking as suspicious as you did... It took a heavier toll than I thought. My gut was telling me you were lyin though, and since I'm the element of honest I suppose you do have some secrets, dont'cha?" she says with a smirk and a wink.

I feel a small bead of sweat go down my head and nervously scratch the top of my head. "Well, you got me there, though I promise I'm never going to hurt anyone on purpose. Unless they're deserving of it." I say while looking her straight in the eye.

She focuses her stare into my eyes and then nods in understanding. "Alrighty then, now that's over..." she says as she lifts a hoof towards me. "My name is Applejack, nice to meet'cha uh... What's your name again?"

I chuckle a bit and lift my hand to put her hoof in it and shake it gently. "My name is Devan Whitney, and it was a pleasure getting kicked by you" I say with a grin.

She turns slightly red again and looks away. "You're not gonna drop that huh?" Applejack says with a bit of sad smile.

Wow... She looks pretty cute when she looks guilty. Is that mean? Or selfish? Meh, whatever. Everyone at home called her a 'background character' too..

I smile and take a pondering stance with my head and hand. "Well, I suppose I could drop it... If you give me a job at your farm. After all, that's why I was coming to see you in the first place. I just happened to meet your sister first." I say while tipping her hat up slightly.

She looks at me and instantly regains her smile. "Shoot, is that it? Well of course you can work at the farm with me, is ten bits for a hard working day good for you?" she says in reply to my statement.

Is it? Huh, I never did find out what things were worth but I guess I can figure that out later.

"Sounds good to me. When do you want me to start?" I ask with some optimism in my voice.

She looks me up and down and smiles in an almost motherly like way. "When yer body is feeling better. It still looks like ya haven't healed up yet." Applejack says while poking a particularly sensitive spot on my side.

I yelp in reply to her poke and she looks at me with immediate worry. A somewhat sad looks appears on her face for a second before it's replaced with another smile.

"Alright, I'm gunna head back to the farm. I have some things I need ta do before I get to bed. I'm glad you're alright. I'm sorry for misjudging you. Thank you for giving this stubborn mare a second chance." she says while giving me a quick and surprising nuzzle to my leg.

Applejack then walks out of the room after waving a goodbye to me and closes the door behind her.

Wow, she is... A lot different than I thought she would be. I hope I'll be healed soon, I need a source of income and I'm sure her farm work will be better exercise than the running and light stuff I do. Welp, here's hoping I can get through to Rainbow and Flutters as well! I mean I got Applejack to like me... Then again it took me getting horribly injured.. I hope rainbow doesn't drop me out of the sky. That might hurt.