Apple Coloured Rainbow

Chapter One

Applejack let out a content sigh as she worked in her orchard, wiping the sweat from her forehead after all the early morning harvesting she had been doing. It was hard work but she didn’t mind it all that much. She had been doing it for the most of her life, it was work she was good at - it was part of what her cutie mark told her what her special talent was, after all - and-

“There you are,” a voice from above caused her to look upwards, and she smiled as she stepped backwards so Rainbow Blitz, her coltfriend, could land with a takeout bag from Sugarcube Corner. “Was flying all over your farm to find you.”

“So what, instead of five seconds, it took you ten?” she joked with him, walking over to him to get her breakfast.

Blitz snorted at her, giving her a pastry and a cup of coffee, before taking another pastry and his own cup of coffee from the bag. “I may be fast but I’m not that fast when carrying food AJ,” he said he leaned against a tree, sliding down to the ground with Applejack joining him.

“Still the best fast food Ah ever ate,” she said elbowing him with Blitz giving her a squawk as he held his cup away from himself. “Thank ya kindly,” she told him.

“No problem,” he told her. “So, what did you have planned for the day?”

“Not much more work,” she told him. “Low season and all, though Ah got to get ready for the near end of the year harvest soon. But before that Ah got to prepare for the annual family get-together in about five months or so at a distant family’s farm.” She let out a sigh, rolling her head backwards before resting her head against Blitz’s shoulder. “Ah’ll be honest when Ah say that Ah’m not looking for all that travel for all that time for just a week.”

“Well, if you want, I can help you with the farm and stuff once I get back,” Blitz offered.

“Ah appreciate that pardner,” she told him, giving him a peck on the cheek. “Be nice to have some help on the farm as well introduce you to the rest of mah family and what do you mean when you get back?”

“Derpy just delivered a letter saying that Fleetfoot had got into some accident and they want me to replace her for the Canterlot, Cloudsdale, Manehatten and Los Pegasus circuit of their annual tour,” Blitz told her with a grin quickly appearing on his face.

“Well congrats, Blitz,” she said as she carefully hugged him, holding her coffee and pastry awkwardly. “That’s gotta be a big dream of yours even closer to being done.”

“Yeah, it is,” he said as he placed his coffee down so he could reach into his back pocket and pull out an envelope. “Here, a ticket and a backstage pass so you can join the afterparty at Canterlot.”

“Just Canterlot?” she asked him, tilting her head at him.

“Yeah, sorry about that,” Blitz apologized. “Fleetfoot had some others, but she’d given out all but this one before she had her accident. And so did all of the other ’Bolts, otherwise I’d see if I could snag some from one of them.”

“That plum sucks,” she pouted before she looked up at him. “So when are ya needed?”

“A couple of days or so,” he said. “About two days to get me up to speed to what I need to do and then a few more so we can practice before the big show.”

“Darn, so our time alone can’t go beyond this,” she said as gave him another peck on the cheek which made the pegasus squirm with delight before he pouted.

“Yah,” he said as he stretched out his legs. “I’m kinda glad you said that and not me. Didn’t want you to think I was trying to guilt you or anything into some love making.”

“Sucks pardner, Ah know that it’s bad luck to do that before a big show,” she told him before shaking her head. “Ah suppose Ah’ll could go tell Granny that she can come home now that we don’t need it.”

“Then again, we could be responsible adults and not do anything but be with each other,” Rainbow Blitz suggested with Applejack turning her head at him.

“Who’re you and what have you done with Rainbow Blitz?” she chuckled at him with Blitz pushing at her.

“Do I need to tickle you to prove I’m me?” he said with a grin with his hands out open to her sides.

“Don’t you dare pardner,” she told him, holding her finger out to him. “And Ah’m kidding, ya know that. Mighty nice to just have ya around.”

“Yeah, it’s still pretty cool that Granny let us do this.” Blitz said with Applejack remembering that little powwow all that while back.

It had been late, far later in the night than they usually parted ways but Applejack felt daring tonight.

“AJ, if your Granny catches us,” Blitz said as he tried to get up again but Applejack just leaned against him, running her fingers along his sides.

“She’ll tan our hides, Ah know,” she said as she rubbed her head against his shoulder. “But Ah’m too comfy ta move right now.” She let out a yawn, truly tired but not tired enough not to run her fingers along his butt over his boxers and give him a pinch. Blitz almost let out a yelp but managed to restrain himself.

Blitz gave her a dirty look before shaking his head. “I promise I’ll be out of here soon, AJ,” he said as he looked around for his pants. “Just going to close my eyes for a moment.”

“Ya do that,” Applejack said with another yawn. “Ah’m doin’ the same.”

Applejack closed her eyes for a moment and then the next thing she knew, Apple Buck was opening her door and saying “SIS, BLITZ, Granny says breakfast is ready and she wants to talk to you two!” Then her little brother slammed her door shut with Applejack’s eyes widening as she realized what had just happened.

Looking to her side, she saw Blitz give her an equally scared look. “Welp,” she said as she pushed the blanket off of them and getting to her hooves. “It was mighty nice knowin’ you,.” she told him as she walked over to her dresser and pulled out a pair of pants to put on.

“Maybe it won’t be that bad?” Blitz said with a chuckle as he pulled his pants up, only to get a flat look from Applejack. “What, I could be right.”

Applejack grabbed her hat and smacked him, with Blitz pulling back. “Get yer shirt on and come on downstairs with me. This is goin’ ta be tough and Ah ain’t doing it alone, Sugarcube.”

“Yessem,” he said as he pulled his shirt on and stood next to Applejack. With a sigh from the both of them, they left the bedroom and made their way downstairs where they caught Apple Buck running out the door with Granny and Big Mac sitting at the table with all but two chairs pulled away, leaving Blitz and Applejack forced to face her elderly green grandmother.

“Sit you two, we need to have a talk,” she said sternly. Gulping, they made their way to their chairs. “First thing first, two questions,” she looked at them, her eyes lingering on Blitz. “Are you two using protection?”

“Granny,” Applejack blushed with Blitz turning red in the face as well. Before she could say anything else, she felt Blitz squeeze her hand and felt her confidence grow. “Ah mean, yes Granny, we do.”

“Second question. Do you talk after you two’ve had sex?”

“Love making,” they both said instantly, causing Granny to raise an eyebrow.

“Sorry, that’s what we call it.” Appljeack said, scratching the back of her head. “It just makes it more personal and meanin’ful for us.”

Granny just raised an eyebrow at this with a smirk on her face. “Ah think that answers that question.”

“So we’re good?” Blitz asked hopefully, only for Granny to shake her head.

“Not yet; we’re goin’ to move onto some grounds rules,” she said. “First off, you start slackin’ in yer work because of him, ’Jackie, it’s over.” She held up a hand to quiet her. “Second, if he starts slackin’ off in his works because of you, Ah’ll write up to Cloudsdale for a new weather pony.”

Applejack looked at Blitz and the both of them nodded their head at this.

“Good,” she said. “Third, if yer going to be spendin’ the nights here, Blitz, Ah would like it if you slept in the guest room fer now.” Blitz began to open his mouth, only for Granny to cut him off. “Ah know yer two young ponies and Ah feel Ah can trust you be in the room with my Jackie but Ah need to get comfortable with the notion, okay?”

“Seems fair,” Blitz said, nodding his head.

“And if yer going to be here, Ah expect you do help out around the house; ain’t no freeloaders here,” her granny continued. “Ah don’t expect you to go out in the field or nothin’ but takin’ yer turn at the dishes an’ cookin’.”

“Ah’ve been trainin’ him how to cook an’ such, but Ah think he can handle it,” Applejack said with Blitz scowling at her.

“Now onto somethin’ Ah suspect will be a bit more to yer liking,” Granny said, tapping the table. “Ah don’t want you two to ‘make love’ while Apple Buck is home, since Ah’d have to explain the birds and bees to him, an’ it ain’t fair to make Macy here to listen to you go at it while he’s home either. It ain’t fair to make you guys go mess around in the barn and such while we got a nice house here. So, once a month Ah’ll send Apple Buck off to his friends for a couple of days, Mac here will be with some of his guy friends and Ah’ll be playin’ bridge over at Summer Dawn’s place and let you two have the house alone for a couple of days.”

“That sounds go-”

“A couple of days every second week,” Blitz said, with a strange, determined look on his face.

“Blitz, what the hay are yo-” Applejack turned to lecture her coltfriend.

“Ah said once a month, Blitz,” Granny stated with a similar look on her face.

“How about every three weeks,” he bargained, leaning across the table.

“Any way to make the offer better?” Granny said with a raised eyebrow.

“Yes, once every month or so and I get to move my Cloudominium over some unused part of your farm,” Blitz said with a look of victory on his face.

Granny just hook her head at him.”Ya ain’t no good at negotiatin’, Blitz, almost as bad as Jackie here.”

“Hey!”

“Startin’ off, once a month you’ll get the house alone, an’ you can move yer fancy sky house over one of the storage barns,” she said. “And that is the final offer beyond nothin’.”

“Sounds fine to me,” Blitz said with a smirk on his face. “Anything else?”

“You break mah Jackie’s heart, Mac here breaks you,” Granny said sharply with Mac just narrowing his eyes menacingly. “And if you go do somethin’ silly Jackie, like cheat on him or something and break his heart, ya ain’t no granddaughter of mine.”

“Understood,” they both said without any hesitation.

“Good,” Granny said as she stood up. “Breakfast is just about ready an’ both of ya are grounded; Jakie for having a colt over without mah permission and Blitz, Ah don’t know what it is but Ah’m sure ya’ve done somethin’ wrong in town.”

Blitz actually tilted his head from the side and nodded sheepishly. “Yah, that’s true,” he said scratching the back of his head. “I’m not sure if Rar-”

There was a high pitch screech that interrupted him with Applejack giving a shake of her head before getting up and giving Blitz a shove. “Come, grubs ready and ya’ve got ta apologize to Rarity for whatever ya did.”

“Ah can’t believe it’s been almost a year since we’ve been dating,” Applejack as she leaned against Blitz some more. “An’ before ya ask, we can celebrate our anniversary after ya get back.”

“Thanks AJ,” Blitz with a loud sigh of relief. “I was worried about that, to be honest, that you would be pissed at me for missing our first anniversary if I was out on tour.”

“Blitz, Ah know that this has been a big dream of yers fer a long time and it would be plain wrong of me to ask ya to do otherwise.”

Blitz shook his head and hugged her close. “Tell me, what did I do deserve somepony like you?”

“Ah could ask ya the same thing, pardner,” Applejack replied before she finished her pastry before slapping his leg. “C’mon, let’s get these apples to the barn so we can be done quick today.”

“Sure thing, Applejack.” Blitz smiled as he picked up one of the baskets and walked with her to the barn.