More Than Friends

Author's Note: This chapter will be a slight flashback to immediately after Dash gets knocked out. Building on the tense relationship between Applejack and Fluttershy. Keep the criticism coming, but keep it constructive.

"Oh no!" cried Fluttershy, rushing over to Rainbow's limp body. "Dash, wake up! Please!"

"Calm down honey," Said Applejack. "It's not like she's dead."

Fluttershy glared up at her, seething. "Leave us alone."

"Why should I?" asked Applejack, her head cocked to the side and her eyes narrowed.

"I want to wake her up, and you're being here is NOT HELPING!" Fluttershy yelled, her voice almost coming over whisper level.

"You think that I don't want to wake her up either?" fumed Applejack. "I actually CARE about her!"

"You think that I don't care? That I, the element of KINDNESS, don't care about one of my friends?!?!" Fluttershy began to advance on Applejack, giving her one step below 'The Stare'.

"Y'all know that your little 'stare' doesn't work on me." Applejack glared right back into Fluttershy, causing her to shrink back slightly.

"I care for her more than anypony else in this town, or in all of Equestria for that matter." They said in unison. They stared back at each other in surprise, before glaring at each other even harder than before.

"You think that you care more than I do?" fumed Applejack. "You are a bucking wreck. Nopony will ever want you. Nopony has ever been into introverts, and they never will. You are nothing."

Fluttershy was close to tears now. "H-how could you..."

"Get out of my house," growled Applejack, "NOW."

Fluttershy floated over to the door, looking defeated. "B-but..."

"OUT"

Fluttershy slammed the door behind her, the door almost making a sound as it closed. Shortly after she left, Big Mac came into the sitting room. Looking at Applejack as she lifted Dash onto her back. "Wha...?"

"Don't ask." grunted Applejack.

"Kay..." He said, slowly backing out the door.

"Let's get y'all upstairs and in a comfy bed, sugarcube." huffed Applejack, hauling the unconscious pegasus up the stairs. "And we'll just see where it goes from there..."