Purrs, Paws and Collars

The morning cockerel stationed at Sweet Apple Acres bellowed its cock-a-doodle-doo at its loudest, having saved up his strength the night prior, the fowl cacophony echoed far and wide.

Fluttershy's eyes flickered opened and lazily reached for a glass of water and took a long sip before putting the now empty glass back.

She sat up and stretched and saw that at some time during the night, Apple Bloom had crawled onto the bed and wrapped herself around Fluttershy's waist and was unconsciously purr-snoring. She gently grabbed Apple Bloom and positioned her on her lap, giving her a big hug.

"Hey, F'Shy, your nice and soft."

"And you're nice and warm, Bloomy."

Apple Bloom reached up, kissed Fluttershy on the cheek.

"What're you doin ta' day?"

"I promised Rainbow that I would go and look at her ideas for the wedding today. Would you like to go?"

"I made plans with Sweetie yesterday for today, so I'll be with her"

Apple Bloom and Fluttershy got out of the bed and walked downstairs to start breakfast, which turned out to be toast and homemade jam.

"You and Spike looked quite cute together the other day."

Apple Bloom started coughing and trying her hardest not to choke at the accusation.

"I-I do not ha'v a crush on Spike; he's four years older than me we can't date."

Fluttershy wiped her mouth clean of crumbs and raised a single eyebrow.

"I never said anything about a crush....do you have a crush on Spike?"

Blooms face lit up, and she was about to deny what Shy said but instead let out a big breath and caved in.

"Yeah, but I can't go out with Spike; the age gap is too big."

Fluttershy stifled a giggle and ruffled the other girl's hair.

"Oh, don't be silly. He's not too old."

"I guess, but I want a relationship. Like RD and Twilight there both the same age."

Fluttershy shook her head, confusing Apple Bloom.

"What, what did I say wrong?"

"How old is Rainbow Dash Bloomy."

"She's twenty-four; we celebrated her birthday a month ago."

"Okay, so how old is Twilight."

"The same isn't she; also twenty-four...she could be twenty-five."

"Twilight turned twenty-nine on her last birthday."

Apple Bloom was astonished by what she heard from her 'owners' mouth.

"WHAAAT!, those two have a five year age difference...no wonder Twilight never advertises her age during her birthday's"

"So, it's pretty safe to say that Spike is still in the ballpark, hmm."

"Your gosh darn right he is. Now I just need to plan a time to ask him out."

After breakfast had concluded, both of them got dressed in time for Applejack to arrive back from the farm. Big Macintosh drove away in his jeep that he had dropped his sister off in.

"GIRLS, I'M HOME"

About an hour later, Fluttershy and AJ arrived at the library, which by the looks of it was still under refurbishment, with whited-out windows and caution tape over the main doors.

Applejack pressed the buzzer, and the voice of Scootaloo crackled into existence.

"Who is it?"

"It's Fluttershy and Applejack. Can we come in?"

The door clicked open, and they made their way inside, where Scootaloo and Twilight greeted them in that order.

"Hey, you two, what brings you over."

"Hi Twilight, I promised Dashie I would look at her scrapbook today."

"No wonder she's been jumping off the walls all morning."

As Fluttershy and Twilight were talking, AJ walked into the kitchen to talk to Spike, who was drinking a High Horse Power energy drink, and as he saw his friend, he passed one to her too.

"Cheers, Spike, so how ha'v you been lately?"

Spike took a big swig of his highly caffeinated beverage before answering.

"Yeah, I'm alright. It's been nice relaxing and all that."

"You sure looked mighty relaxed hand-feeding Apple Bloom yesterday."

"Never been much of a cat person myself, but yeah, it was fun...and ya know I like AB, she's cool."

Applejack sensed an opportunity.

"Did you know that my sis is a vegetarian?"

"Oh, really, I had no idea."

Applejack leaned into Spikes' ear.

"That means no meat goes in her mouth."

Upon hearing the innuendo, Spike spluttered, coughed, gasped and nearly fell to the floor with drink running out of each nostril.

Applejack slapped her knee in hysterics.

Spike composed himself enough to stand up and not look like someone who had just washed up on a beach.

"Excuse me, AJ, but I need to go get a breath of fresh air."

Apple Jack smirked and tipped her hat in his direction as he left for the front door.

Scootaloo saw Spike coming her way and caught his attention.

"Spike, could I like lay on your lap, please?"

Spike glanced back and forth between the door and Scoots.

"Yeah, sure."

"Thanks, Spike"

Spike sat on his prefered chair, big and leather with cushiony arms to boot. Scootaloo removed her trainers, put them out of the way, climbed onto the chair, and curled up.

Spike began to stroke Scootaloo's arms and legs, then her belly before moving to her ears and scalp. Scootaloo started to pant out of appreciation and moved her head back into his touch.

She eventually adjusted herself so that Spike could scratch her on the back.

"Hey uh, Scootaloo, do you want me to...stroke you...umm down here too?"

Scootaloo looked at Spike and rolled her eyes with a smirk.

"Spike dude, you ask me the same thing every time we do this, I already said it's okay, I'm not embarrassed about it, and you shouldn't be either, plus I'm the one who asked for you to do it in the first place, if that's not confirmation then I don't know what is"

Spike nodded in understanding and hovered his hand over Scootaloo's s denim-clad rump, lowered his hand, restarted his rubbing and scratching, and reached all of the different areas in the general vicinity and then dropped to her legs and feet.

"Spike, this is nice. Can we just do this for the rest of the day?"

Spike brought his hand back up to Scootaloo's posterior and heard her give a contented sigh in appreciation for the attention he was giving her favourite spot.

"Yeah, no problem, got nothing better to do anyway."

"Good because I didn't feel like moving, especially with your hands working wonders on my ass like that"

Spike flinched at the rudeness of her wording but continued all the same.

Rainbow rushed down the stairs holding a big book, making enough noise to wake the neighbours...if they had any, she then sped around the corner and caught Fluttershy in a big but gentle hug.

"It's good to see ya, Flutters."

"It's nice to see you too. Is that the book?"

Rainbow presented the book then dragged Fluttershy over to the corner sofa.

"Oh Dashie, these are simply lovely designs. You did think of everything, didn't you?"

Rainbow blushed and hid her face in her friend's shoulder; she then pointed to a specific spot on the paper.

"I liked this dress here...what do you think?"

Fluttershy studied the picture in question with a calculated eye and gave Rainbow a one-armed hug.

"It's lovely, Dashie. I'm sure you will look beautiful."

Rainbow looked at Fluttershy with a sidelong gaze.

"Do you mean that?"

Fluttershy smiled and stroked Rainbow's hair.

"I'm positive."

Twilight sat down next to her girlfriend, one comforting hand on her thigh.

"I told you she would like it, didn't I."

Rainbow didn't respond but laid her head on Twi's shoulder.

Applejack came into the living room and joined the fray, taking a gander at Rainbow's bride's maid dress.

Spike had started to give attention to Scootaloo's inner thigh. After much pestering her crotch area, Spike was slightly uncomfortable at the extra attention that Scootaloo had talked him into giving her but appreciated the trust she had in him.

"Hey, Spike, do ya mind rubbing my ass again?"

Spike wordlessly gradually moved his hand back to her rump and continued his kneading. Everyone at some point had looked in his direction but paid it no mind and just made casual chit chat with one another.

Time-pressed on, and soon enough, it was time for Fluttershy and AJ to go back home. After saying their goodbye's, Twilight and Rainbow Dash cuddled on the sofa, Spike still stroking and scratching Scootaloo's bottom as she sighed happily.

Twilight decided to put the TV on and search through a list of films eventually settling on -Affection Truly- a romantic comedy that Rainbow Dash had introduced Twilight to when they first started dating.

The film started, the lights dulled with a clap, and some rather intense relaxing took place.