[Heads up! This chapter DOES NOT have something that could, if you use your imagination, be considered clop. It actually has clop in it! You have been warned!]

That dream had felt so real. Much more real than anything you were accustomed to dreaming. It had at times been chaotic, accentuated by events and challenges that you in no way would have wished upon your worst of enemies. The many events that took place had been illogical, impossible for you to have endured and let alone continued moving forward afterwards. And yet you had…

Even for a dream, it had been hard to believe it as such.

A rainbow colored nuclear explosion had devastated Ponyville, caused by none other than Rainbow Dash. Contrary to what one would have expected though, buildings were left standing. Nothing had been destroyed with the exception of every window surrounding the impact site and Mr. Davenport’s Sofa and Quills Store.

It had been an unexpected, but necessary action. The entire mare population had gone mad with heat and had desperately tried to get you to satisfy it. They had been rather forceful on the subject too.

The oddest part of the dream though, would have had to been your subconscious’s portrayal of Fluttershy as some sort of sex crazed predator. She had captured you and shackled you to a wall before attempting to get you to take Big Macintosh’s place while he rested his abused Big Macintosh. You and him were good friends, but even in a dream, that had been way too much of him than you would have cared to see.

And of course, there had been Pinkie Pie. No nonsense dream would be complete without her. She had somehow found you out in the middle of nowhere and dragged you back to Ponyville for party. A party that celebrated, as she put it at one point, the happy messy fun times that the heat crazed citizens were engaged in.

Or trying to engage you in, for that matter…

The dream had indeed been odd and painful at times. But in the end, it had been worth it. Through all your challenges and pains, you had along the way found the courage and determination to accept and do what you had never thought yourself capable of.

You had been true to your emotions, and told Applejack that you loved her.

It had been a good dream in the end.

And now, as the morning sun filtered through the window in your bedroom and cascaded across your bed. Your eyes slowly began to flutter open as you pushed away the dark dreamlike fog from your mind, and found yourself wishing it had all been true.

No matter how horrible and painful some of the events had been.

Slowly, you blinked as your eyes adjusted to the waking world, and eventually, though in a haze, you found yourself falling into a regular routine. One you always carried out when your dreams involved the pony you cared for.

Your eyes slowly focused on the ceiling in front of you, and you began to look at the details of it.

The ceiling was slightly faded, worn from age. The rafters were evenly spaced and made of a fine grained wood that gave the green, sage like paint coating a rather simple and gentle look to it. It was rather faded, but it held a homely and rustic look about it as well.

“That’s not my roof…”

You gently mumbled to yourself as you continued to look at it and suddenly realized your feet touched the footboard of your bed.

“And this is not my bed… and why am I naked?” You said a little louder as you forced yourself to sit up a bit and found out your body felt rather tired from the action itself, and confusion immediately set it.

Then, something suddenly sprang into your field of view from the right, covered in a white fur.

“OH MY GOODNESS YOU’RE AWA-”

“KYAAAAAAHH!”

The speed with which you sat straight up and reached behind you to grab your pillow only paled in comparison with the speed and force with which you struck the assaulting mare across the face with it. Whatever she was saying was lost to the wind as her face turned to one side with the force of your swing and her pink hair bun came undone as she fell to the floor.

The only thing that remained of her where she stood was a little white cap with a red cross on it that slowly flittered down to the ground behind its owner.

Well, so much for not hurting anypony…

Your heart was pounding in your ears as you clutched the pillow in your hands and became aware of mild sparks of pain shooting throughout your whole body. Among that though, you felt something wrapped tightly around your fingers and looked at it in shock.

It was Applejack’s ribbon. The one you had found near the tree.

“It-it wasn’t a dream… T-They’re still after me!” Your voice came out in shallow forced breaths as you tried to calm down and process what was going on.

“Oh crud, did I just… did I just knock out Nurse Red Heart? I-I, oh no! I left Applejack in the orchard!”

Panic began to set in as you began to fight with the bed sheets to gain your freedom. You had gone through so much and had finally found her, but…

“I need to find Applejack! I need to… I need to…”

You suddenly paused in your panic as you took in your surroundings and became aware of a certain familiarity with the room you were in.

“Wait a second, this is Ap-”

Your head snapped towards the door as it flung open and a butter yellow pegasus with a pink mane stepped through it. Whatever was running through your mind died at its source as pure fear immediately trampled those thoughts as it ran like ice through your veins, and your grip tightened around the pillow you still held in your hands.

“Oh my, what hap-”

“KYAAAHH!”

Gears snapped into place and you immediately let out your worn battle cry as you pulled back your arm and let loose of the pillow with all your might. All Fluttershy managed to let out at your sudden attack was a meek “EEP!” as the pillow flew at her…

“What in tarna-OOFF!”

And ducked just in time for your pillow to hit Applejack square in the face as she came running in through the door behind the shy pegasus.

Time slowed to a crawl as you tried to work out what had just happened and your arm remained outstretched in that incriminating position. You observed as the pillow fell gently off her face and gave way to her scrunched up expression as her golden mane gently fluttered back around her withers, towards the ground, unrestrained due to the lack of the ribbon you held. Her eyes were closed and slowly opened as the pillow finally hit the floor with a fluffy bounce.

“A-Applejack?” You spoke softly as time sped up again and her emerald eyes focused on your own, shock immediately overtaking her features.

“I-I-I-”

“Why yah no good…” Her expression suddenly became unreadable as her voice cut off right before she reached down and took the pillow in her mouth, and returned in muffled profanities as she charged at you. Her eyes were still deadlocked onto yours, right before she closed the gap and leapt at you as her hat flew off her head.

“Oh crud! Applejack wait!” You suddenly yelled out as you raised your arms for protection from her impending fluffy pillow counterattack. Much to your surprise though, no swing came, and after a few seconds, you dared to look at the pony that now stood on the bed you were sitting up in.

Her emerald green eyes were tear stricken, red and puffy as if she had been crying for hours on end. They wasted no time as they focused on yours, and you saw her whole body tremble as her ears pulled back and a strained hiccup filtered through the pillow in her mouth. You gently reached out for it, and took the pillow in your hand and gave it a gentle tug.

She simply let go of it, and looked away from you towards the pillow you held as more tears rolled down her cheeks and the hiccups threatened to turn into sobs.

“Applejack, I’m so sorry for the pillow…” You spoke gently as you set the pillow down and gently took a hold of her chin before you raised her beautiful face up to look into her eyes. She didn’t’ resist you. She didn’t say anything, but instead flushed furiously as she lunged into your bare chest and broke out crying in earnest, her forelegs wrapping around you tightly.

Your arms automatically moved around her, to embrace her, as if it was the most natural response your body could rely on, and the warmth you felt radiate into you only made you hug her tighter.

“And I’m sorry for what happened at the orchard…”

“Y-Yah scared me half ta’death yah idjet… twice!”

You could only let out a sigh as you closed your eyes and tried in vain to fight off the burning sensation in your eyes from hearing her pained and tired voice.

“I never meant to Applejack.”

“Ah know that… ah just…” You felt her nuzzle against you more deeply as her forelegs held you tighter, as if afraid you’d go somewhere and her voice instead came out in a whisper, sobbing and hinting of shame as she spoke again.

“Th-they told me what y-ya did… even after a-ah accidently hurt you… You shouldn’t have to have suffered through what yah did! Not for ah pony like me… not for ah-”

Her voice suddenly left her as you kept your eyes closed and began to run a hand up and down her back while the other one, the one in which you held her red ribbon intertwined between your fingers, ran through her golden mane.

“Applejack…” You spoke softly as your hand found its way through her mane and began to tie the red ribbon around it from sheer memory alone.

“You are worth that and much more… I would endure it all over and over again, just to be able to tell you, over and over again… that I love you, with all my heart.”

No reply came, and instead, there was a long pause. You could still feel her in your arms, but…

You opened your eyes to look down at her, and what greeted you were her emerald eyes searching your own as her cheeks shone red with a deep blush. You both stayed like that for what felt like hours, but in truth, it could not have been more than a few seconds before you felt her wrap her forelegs around your neck.

She was still searching your eyes as her warm breath radiated up against your face, and she gently pulled your head towards her. You were more than happy to oblige as she closed her eyes, and you soon found your lips meeting hers.

For the first time since the whole ordeal began, your lips met hers, untarnished. There was no heat driven want or emotional and physical exhaustion behind it. The only emotion that shone purely behind that kiss was the love you each felt for the other, and you felt yourself melt into her lips as she pushed deeper into your own.

“Ah love you sucahcube…” She managed to say as your lips parted for a second or two, and your eyes opened slightly to look at her. She was looking back into your own with half lidded eyes, blushing furiously. She looked beautiful.

“Ah love you more than ah can eva’put into words…”

“This works for me…” You spoke as you both closed your eyes, and you gently pulled her in for another kiss.

“I love you Applejack.”

“AWWWWW!”

The sudden chorus of “aww” that echoed through the room caused both you and Applejack’s eyes to shoot open, and your focus immediately fell on the source of it.

“Oh darling! I knew you two would finally end up together!”

“Dagnabit, not now Rarity…” Applejack spoke up as she continued to blush furiously and buried her face into your bare chest again. You could only continue to look in surprised shock at the ponies that had piled in through the door.

Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy stood looking at the both of you with gleeful glimmering eyes. Rainbow and Twilight had a few bandages wrapped around different parts of their bodies though, and you couldn’t be sure because of her purple coat, but it looked like Twilight had a black eye.

Admittedly, even if two of them looked to be in no fighting condition, the sight of so many mares blocking the door sent a newly conditioned shiver down your spine, and you began to hug Applejack tighter against you.

“Sugahcube? Yah kind’a chocking me…”

“Uh huh…” Was the only thing you could force out that resembled a reply as you looked off to the side and slightly wondered about the possibilities of you jumping out the window with Applejack in your arms. It was only the second floor, and if you recalled correctly, there was a cart of hay near there. Or was it on the other side of the building?

As if reading your thoughts, or perhaps to prevent further injuries, Rarity’s horn flared with a blue aura and you heard the latch on the window lock into place. Oddly enough though, that only made you smirk a bit.

“You know that’s not going to stop me, right?”

“Oh I know that darling, you don’t have to worry about us. We won’t make you run like you did in Ponyville.” She replied as she bounced one of her purple curls in her hoof and winked at you.

Somehow, as your gaze slowly drifted towards Fluttershy, you found that hard to believe.

“Uh huh… Say, umm , Fluttershy, where’s Big Mac?”

“Oh, he’s back home at the cottage resting…”

“Really? You sure he’s not strap-”

“He’s back home at the cottage resting…”

The tone and stare that she fixed upon you was more than enough to make you aware just how thin a line you were threading with that particular line of questioning.

“Sucahcube… yah squeezing me again.”

“Uh huh…”

Your reply was the same as before as you swallowed a sudden lump of fear that had formed in your throat. An awkward silence permeated the room as the present mares shared confused looks between you and Fluttershy.

“Well, yes, quite alright darling. But I assure you we didn’t go through all that trouble to get you out of Ponyville in one piece just to gobble you up ourselves.”

“Hooves off Rarity…” You heard Applejack speak softly from her spot on your chest.

“Oh Applejack, don’t worry. We only made sure he found his way to you. Even though Rainbow Dash was a bit reckless in the matter.”

“Oh for Celestia’s sake, come off it Rarity! I already said I was sorry! Besides, it was the only option I had left!”

“Yes, well, be as it may dear, you should have been more careful. If I hadn’t pulled him into that alleyway when I did, he’d probably still be laying on that dirt road! Not to mention you made a mess of my windows!”

“Uggh…” Was the only reply Rainbow Dash gave her as she sat on her haunches and ran her hooves down her face.

“Girls! It’s okay, he’s fine… sort of. And we managed to do it according to plan with only minor alterations.” You heard Twilight suddenly voice into the discussion, trying to placate things between the white unicorn and rainbow pegasus before it could escalate. It wasn’t really working and both of them were starting to bicker.

Oddly enough, you found the whole exchange refreshing given what you had endured. It almost felt normal. And, as you looked down at the pony you held in your arms, the one you loved, and smiled, you could only hope some sense of normality eventually returned once the heat dissipated.

With a few welcomed changes of course.

“You have wonderful friends Applejack…”

“Ah know sugahcube…” She replied with a hint of sleep to her voice as you moved your hands to rub up and down her back. You felt her immediately relax more into you, and relished the feel of her breath against your chest. She had her ear pressed against it, and the other seemed to flicker every time your heart beat and a smile splayed across her tired features.

“Poor thing…” Your head suddenly jerked up to look at Rarity as you heard her voice. They had stopped arguing. All the ponies present were looking at you, and you felt yourself blush a bit as you realized you didn’t know how long you had been lost in happy thoughts while looking at Applejack in your arms.

“She spent all week looking after you at your bedside.”

“I was out for a week?”

The shock in your voice was evident as you looked between all the faces of the mares present, including Applejack’s.

“Well, technically it was close to four days that you were out.” Your gaze fell on Twilight as she spoke up, and grinned before shyly looking away from you and instead looked down at Applejack.

“You were seventeen hours and twenty four minutes shy of the ninety six hour mark required for it to have technically been four days… Rarity just wants to push the romance angle a bit.”

“Well, not exactly romance darling. I am simply trying to make it obvious what a devoted lover Applejack can be.”

You heard Applejack mumble something, but you weren’t able to make it out. Her breathing had become more rhythmic the longer you rubbed her back, and it was starting to affect you as well. Sleeping with your love in your arms did hold a really appealing allure to it. But as your mind wound down, you found there was something that kept nagging at the back of your thoughts, and it eventually forced its way out through your lips.

“Say, umm… not to poke the hornet’s nest or anything…”

All the mares in the room suddenly looked at you with confused and questioning stares. Self preservation told you that your next words had to be selected rather carefully lest you find yourself in boiling water.

“If I was out cold for four days, naked, in this room... How come none of you, umm, lovely beautiful mares tried to, you know?”

“Have happy messy fun times with you till we broke the bed and your hip?”

Every pony, and you, turned to look at Pinkie Pie as she jumped up and down where she stood, smiling and apparently oblivious to just how exactly she had described your fears.

“Um, yeah, wow, thank you Pinkie for being so blunt about it… It was actually super easy! Twilight here know this really kinky spell that-”

“RAINBOW!” Twilight suddenly interrupted as her cheeks flared red beyond any ability of her purple coat to properly hide.

“Oh Twilight, no need to be ashamed darling, what you do with your magic is simply divine!”

Twilight just got redder and redder as your eyebrows rose higher and higher while you looked at her.

“Besides, without it we wouldn’t have been able to focus long enough to help this strapping, handsome, mmm, tasty looking stallion.”

“Uhh…” You voiced out as you felt that the room suddenly had too many mares in it again, and an awkward silence took hold of the room.

“Ugghh… my head.”

That quickly changed however as a white hoof reached up from the other side of your bed, away from the door, and grasped at the bed sheets to pull its owner up. Applejack suddenly lost all signs of sleepiness as she lifted her head from your chest to look at what had disturbed hers and your bed.

“Nurse Red Heart?”

“Oh sweet Celestia I am so sorry Nurse Red Heart! I-”

“No no, ow, it’s okay sweetie...” She cut you off as she finished standing up and tried to fix her hair into a bun again while she leaned against the bed. She wasn’t having much success with it and seemed to give up as she instead reached down to pick up her nurse’s cap. You felt incredibly horrible for what you had done and for having completely forgotten you had done it in the first place.

“No, Nurse Red Heart, it’s just- I’m really sorry! That was reflex and-and, I don’t know why I-well, I do but I-”

“Oh sweetie, don’t worry about it. You’d be amazed at how many traumatized stallions we get each year.” She continued as she reached down towards the floor again and came back up with a thermometer.

“Re-really?”

“Why yes, I should really have known better. I mean, you are still a male after all. Only makes sense you’d react like one too. Poor things though, they -say ‘ahh’ and keep this under your tongue- they jump up and scream whenever I walk into their rooms.”

You and Applejack listened intently as she spoke and took your wrist in her hoof and measured your heart rate while taking your temperature with the thermometer. Hearing her explanation and retelling of prior events with traumatized stallions though didn’t make you feel any less guilty for what you did. Still, you kept quiet until she took the thermometer out of your mouth and looked at it while still holding your wrist.

“Still, no excuse for me to go smacking you across the face with a pillow…”

“Oh sweetie, don’t worry about it, I’m not angry, okay? But just be mindful for next-oh dear…” Nurse Red Heart suddenly stopped as she looked at your temperature on the thermometer.

“What? He’okay nurse?”

“Oh yes Applejack, silly old me though, this is the rectal thermometer I just used.”

“WHAT?! I had what in my mou-”

“Here you go sweetie, these two pills are for your headache.” She interrupted your outburst as she placed two white pills into your outstretched hand…

“Huh-what? But I don’t have a head-”

"NNNNNGGAAAAH!"

And then proceeded to uppercut you square through your jaw so hard with the pillow, you were pretty sure you saw the back of your own neck. The instrument of your demise slowly feel to the floor with a downy soft bounce.

“Nurse Red Heart!” Applejack suddenly blurted out as she stood up on the bed and took a hold of your lolling head with her fore-hooves. All three Applejack’s in front of you wore expressions of sheer concern, but after a few blinks, they eventually coalesced into one beautiful mare.

“Oh don’t worry, he can take quite a bit of abuse.”

“That ain’t no reason to go on n’test how much he can take!”

“Trust me Applejack, you got yourself a keeper with that one. Just make sure to teach him how to treat a mare properly and not to go around hitting them with pillows. He's not a foal for crying out loud.” Nurse Red Heart finished with a definitive “harrumph” as she walked towards the door and every mare except Applejack watched her in silence and shock while she walked past them and out of the room.

Another awkward silence filled the room, no mare being entirely sure what to say after such a display of aggression on behalf of a caregiver. Eventually though, Twilight was the first to break the silence as she cleared her throat to get everypony’s attention.

“Well, um, I think we should head back downstairs girls and let them rest a bit.”

Everypony present simply nodded and began making their way out the door as Twilight’s horn flared and she drew the curtains to the window and made the room a bit darker. She turned towards the door and fell in behind Rainbow, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy as Applejack’s hat shone a blue hue and hung itself on the footboard of the bed.

“Oh I agree darling, let us leave these lovely couple to enjoy each other’s… cumpany.”

Your eyebrows rose as you heard the emphasis she put on the last word and made it sound like something completely different. The sensual gaze she cast in your and Applejack’s direction though made it obvious it had been intentional. So, embarrassingly enough, the blush that overtook you only served to make Applejack raise an eyebrow at you before she too blushed and turned towards Rarity.

“Rarity, just what’re ya imp-”

“Oh Applejack, darling, I’m just teasing you two a bit…” She replied with a smile on her face as she turned and walked towards the door as well. She was putting a rather enticing sway to her haunches.

Needless to say your eyes wondered a bit and, although Applejack didn’t notice, Rarity sure did as she turned to look back at you and batted her eyelashes.

“I’m just so happy that you were finally able to get him Applejack…”

Your jaw dropped as you watched her walk out the door right before her horn glowed and your old worn pants floated off a chair.

“Oh dear, these are rather… worn. Did you want me to spruce them up a bit? I’m sure I won’t make them too ‘Yosemite’ tight this time around…”

You didn’t reply, but just kept staring while Rarity smiled and folded the pants in her magic and placed them back on the chair. She then simply walked out the door and you watched as the door became enveloped in a blue aura and it closed behind her.

It took you a second or two before you realized Applejack was looking at you strangely now.

“What was that all about?”

“I… I’m not sure, but I think she tried to kill me.”

“Huh?” Applejack’s face turned into one of shock as she looked at you and then back at the door.

“Rarity? Have yah spit your bit’o sum’thing sugahcube?”

“Applejack, I don’t even know what that means…bet Big Mac does though…”

“Maybe Nurse Red Heart hit ya'harder than she wanted.”

“No, pretty sure she hit me as hard as she-”

“Where’re the pills?” She interrupted as she began looking around on the bed.

“Did yah take’em already?”

“Applejack I’m fine, I don’t need them.”

“Don’t matter, yah need to take’em!”

“Applejack.”

“Maybe ah should go n’bring her back to check you.”

“NO! Sweet Celestia, NO! Applejack!”

“Ah knew t’was a bad idea to bring yah here. We need to get you to the hospital!”

“Applejack!”

You raised your voice as you took a hold of her shoulders and turned her towards you. There was a slight bit of shock in her expression, but it vanished as soon as you took your arms off her and used one hand to caress her cheek.

“Applejack, I’m fine, really. I’m fine. Nothing hurts.” It was a lie, of course, a few things did hurt but you didn’t want her to worry as you put on your best smile.

Unfortunately though, as soon as those words left your lips, tears welled up in her eyes and you got a hint of what was about to happen. You immediately wrapped your arms around her, and gently pulled her towards you. Her hooves wrapped around your chest as she buried her face into your shoulder and neck.

“Ah was so worried about yah sugahcube… ah-ah can’t stop thinking’bout how yah passed out at the orchard and… n’how you hit hour head against that tree because… because of… me and-”

She stopped talking as you rubbed her back and tried to calm her down. Both of you remained embraced like that for close to an hour.

Eventually though, all you felt and heard was her steady and rhythmic breathing, and found it comforting that she had calmed a bit… and worrisome that she would get into such a state because of you.

Gently, you leaned your head down, and softly kissed the top of her head as you whispered into her ear.

“Applejack, I don’t’ think I’ve ever seen this side of you before…”

“Quiet yah idjet n’let me sleep.” She replied with a slight grumble and rubbed her cheek against your chest and shoulder.

“It worries me is all, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen this side of you before. It’s rather caring and-”

“And yah don’t get to make any remarks about how ah act aftah what you pulled off…”

“What did I pull off?”

She didn’t reply immediately, but only hugged you tighter and began to slowly nuzzle into your neck again. Once more you felt her warm breath radiate across it rhythmically, as she sighed and took her time to think about what she wanted to say. When she finally spoke though, she sounded tired, but also sounded surprised.

In a good way that is.

“Yah ran through a town filled with heat crazy mares, to get back to me, the one you love… No stallion’s evah been crazy enough to that for ah mare…”

You only smiled and laughed quietly as you felt sleep threaten to take you again. Too much had happened in such a little span of time, but you didn’t care.

“Well, no stallion’s ever been madly in love with a mare as beautiful and wonderful as you, Applejack.”

Admittedly you were expecting her to laugh a bit at your cheesy remark, but what she did instead surprised you none the less. A smile and a nibble on your neck was the only reply she gave. Well, and also…

“Nevah thought you’d be this corny.”

You smiled as you heard her voice, and relished having her in your arms.

“Yeah, guess I am a bit corny.”

“Uh huh, n’cheesy and a huge idjet that makes me worry about him...”

“Sorry… wish I could promise it won’t happen again. I mean, I am only human after all.”

“Then don’t, because by Celestia, ah love you sucahcube. I love ya because of who you are. Just… just promise me yah’ll be careful. A-ah don’t wanna loose you.”

Silence took hold of the room as Applejack waited for your reply, and as the minutes wore on, it looked like you might not give her one…

Not in the form of words at least.

“Sugahcube, you’re crying…”

Tears had indeed snuck up on you, tears that you happily allowed to roll down your cheeks because of the sensation you felt inside of you.

“No matter where I am, or what stands between you and me… I promise I will always come back to you Applejack.” You whispered back your reply only loud enough for her to hear you, and a comfortable silence fell between the two of you as your last words faded, and remained embedded in your heart and hers.

“I will always come home to you, Applejack… Because my home is where my heart is, and my heart… will always be with you, my love.”

Hours must have gone by and you found yourself slowly drifting off to sleep. It had become obvious a while ago that Applejack had been as well.

You had not stopped rubbing her back since everypony left and, if you had to take a guess, you were almost certain she had indeed fallen asleep in your embrace.

“Mmm, don’t stop sugahcube…”

So for obvious reason, her mumbling reply startled you a bit as you stopped rubbing her back.

“Thought you fell asleep.”

“Mmhmm…” Was the only sleepy reply she gave you as you switched from rubbing her back, to running one of your hands down her mane. She immediately pressed further into you as she made herself more comfortable against your chest.

Your back had been hurting for a bit already from having been sitting up for so long, so as you leaned back against the headboard to get more comfortable, Applejack followed suit and wasted no time in draping one of her hind legs across your waist so she too could be more comfortable. She moved completely on top of you, and was now straddling you.

Needless to say, it was a rather compromising position, and if not for the bed sheets that separated your naked body from hers, things might have started to get interesting.

“Applejack?” You spoke softly as you saw one of her ears flicker, but no reply came. Instead, the only sound that emanated from your love was the sound of her rhythmic breathing.

Well, so much for making things interesting… You thought as you relaxed a bit more and relished the sensation of the pony you loved sleeping on top of you.

“Can’t argue with you though, I think you have the right idea…”

You eventually joined her in the realm of drams after a minute or two. There was no rush to push thing further that you had.

Besides, you had all the time in the world now.

Night had completely covered the land as hours went by with you sleeping on Applejack’s bed. The room had remained dark as to not disturb you two, but even though the curtains had remained drawn, a bit of moonlight shone through the edges of the fabric.

It was enough to cast a calming glow within Applejack’s bedroom. And little by little, your body had begun to wake up as you felt something hot and moist spread across your body. Whatever it was, it was starting to make you sweat as well, and eventually, your eyes fluttered open as wakeful consciousness over took you.

It was only but a second before you realized that the source of the heat you felt was coming from the mare that lay on top of you. The moisture was her profuse sweating.

“Applejack?” You called out as you ran a hand from her withers to her lower back. She was burning hot. No reply came from here and you became alarmingly aware of just how rapid and heavy her breathing was.

“Applejack!” You called out again as your voice took on an alarming pitch and you placed your hands on her shoulders to push her off a bit so you could look at her better.

Her head simply lolled slightly to the sides in a horrible fashion that made your heart leap into your throat.

“Applejack!” You spoke louder as you gave her a shake. No reaction.

Seconds felt like hours as you called out her name once more and shook her more vigorously.

“Sweet Celestia, somepony hel-”

Your voice died in your throat as you felt her shift in your grasp. To your relief, her eyes slowly fluttered open and focused on yours.

“Hey sugahcube…” She spoke almost in a whisper as she smiled and you were finally able to swallow your heart again.

“Thank Celestia… so not fair to get revenge on me like th-mmm!”

Without warning, Applejack wrapped her forelegs around your neck and pulled you into a rather aggressive kiss. You were a bit surprised to say the least, but before you could reciprocate, you found yourself being pushed harder against the headboard as she pushed herself harder against you. She wasted no time in grinding her hips against your crotch, and your own arousal became apparent as you realized and felt how soaked the bed sheets had become the more she ground into you.

This had been building up while she slept next to you, taking in your scent. The scent of the one she desperately wanted.

Her kissing was growing desperate, like if she was afraid you’d run away. No such thought had crossed your mind, and your hands quickly found their way to her shoulders to hold her firmly.

Breathing though was starting to become a commodity.

“MmmhhmwaAPPLEJACK!” You called out as you pushed her away and managed to separate your lips long enough to take a deep breath. You could feel her struggling to make you lips meet again with hers. You couldn’t help notice a familiar hazed quality to her eyes as she pushed against your arms harder and harder.

“Applejack hold on a minute! Let me-OW!”

A sudden forceful push caused your left shoulder to shoot off a spark of pain. The involuntary pained cry to let out had an immediate sobering effect on Applejack and her vibrant green eyes suddenly started back at you in shock.

“Oh no sugahcube, ah-ah… did it again! Horseapples!” Her expression changed to one of shame and exasperation right before she tried to get off of you. You stopped her as one of your hands shot up to her check, but instead, she tried it to push it away as she kept trying to move away from you.

“Ah’m s-so sorry!”

“Applejack it’s okay, the shoulder was ju-”

“No it ain’t! You’re in no condition for me ta’go and loose it and try to have my way with yah!”

“Well that’s my decision and I’m fine! I want to Applejack!”

“Ah need to go and get Twilight so she can help me with this stupid heat!”

She wasn’t listening to you. Whatever lingering emotions or thoughts she had from bashing your head against a tree, even after everything, were clearly still weighing heavily on her. She was afraid of hurting you. A valid concern given you were a human, and yet, one you felt you should have a say in.

“Applejack!”

So if she wasn’t going to listen, then you’d just show her that getting injured by her was the last thing on your mind.

Your hand moved from her cheek to the back of her head while your other hand found it was to her back and pulled her towards you. She let out a squeak as you met your lips with hers, and conveyed just how willing you were to participate. Sheer desire was all you conveyed as your tongue forced its way into her mouth and was greeted eagerly by her own.

For the first time since your ordeal had begun, you found yourself eagerly participating as you explored every nook and ridge of Applejack’s mouth. Her tongue was all but too eager to caress yours as it worked on the underside, sides, and top of your own. Eventually though, air became a necessary commodity and you were forced to separate amid heavy breaths.

A strand of your intermixed saliva linked you both as her green emerald eyes shone clearly though half closed eyes in desire.

“I want to… I want you…” You spoke as clearly and as honestly as you could. You felt her hot heavy breath caress your face as her eyes opened a bit more and focused on yours. A deep red blush had taken hold of her features.

“Sugahcube, I-I don’t want you to get hurt.”

“Applejack, you won’t, I trust you not to. And I will not deny you anything… I want you.”

The blush on her face intensified as she looked away from you and considered your words. If she didn’t feel like continuing, even after you told her you’d be okay, then you would not push the matter further. But if you were honest though, you really hoped she didn’t take that route.

“O-okay sugahcube…”

Although as you looked at her eager eyes, you got the sensation a part of her was thinking the same as you.

You moved in and kissed and nibbled her neck as she eagerly exposed it to you once your intentions were clear. You could hear her breath catch every time you alternated between the two and made your way to every reachable spot on her neck and withers. She wasted no time as well as you felt her forelegs wrap tenderly around your neck and each hoof found its way to your hair and back. You found your hands doing something similar as the one around her neck traveled down her back and the other made it way down her mane.

Once you found your target, with a quick flick of your wrist, you pulled one of the ends and undid her ponytail.

The next thing you heard was a lustful moan from her lips as your hand joined your other hand on her lower back and pulled her towards you. What she felt then was the underside of your eager and waiting arousal as it pressed against her soaked petal and rubbed against them.

The sensation was overwhelming. It was obvious both you and her had been anticipating this as soon as her neck became your playground.

“Sugahcub-ahh! Mmm!” She managed to force out as your hips began to grind against one another and she managed to pull her neck away from you.

“Ah want you. Oh Celestia ah want you! Mmahh!”

You could feel her hot breath on your face as you looked into her clear green eyes, filled with lust, right before she dove in to kiss you with as much passion as she was trying to convey.

“Ah want you to be mah’stallion… ma-mah’first and only…”

She kissed and bit your lip tenderly as she pulled away.

“Ah want to be your mare… and only yours…”

She spoke heavily through hot breaths as she ground particularly hard into your arousal, coating your length in her nectar. She was picking up speed and force. You were more than eager and happy to add your own to it as your arousal and desire for her grew.

“Applejack, I-”

“Ah want… Ah want nopony, nobody but you sugahcube! Mmmahhh! I want you! Oh Celestia ah wantMMMMAAHHHH!”

She brought herself to orgasm on top of you as she pressed particularly harder against you and you felt her drench your arousal in it. You had to fight to hold your own at bay, simply brought one by her delightful grinding. You could only gaze into her half closed green eyes as her gaze also refused to leave your own. Her hot breath caressed your face every time she exasperated from the convulsions that wrecked her body and made her gently trash against you.

You wasted no more time as you dove in and locked her into another kiss. Her tongue quickly met your own as she continued to ride out her orgasm. Eventually though, it subsided, and your parting lips were a sorrow you both felt.

But, as you looked at her blushed and loving face, you knew it was not over. Even if did take a bit for the both of you to catch your breath.

Especially since neither of you could stop diving at each other to kiss, and your arousal cooled down a bit.

“Ha… ha… wow… that was so not fair.” You finally spoke as you got enough air in your lungs.

Applejack though only smiled devilishly as a hint of confusion flashed across her face and she felt your hands move to her hips. You answered the unspoken question as you leaned in closer to her and pressed your forehead against hers.

“You should let your stallion do some of the work too…”

Her eyebrows raised a little as you pushed into a kiss, but quickly changed into a squeak and a giggle as you pushed her further back with your kiss and pulled her hips closer to yours. You gently guided her onto her back as you continued to kiss, and as you leaned over her with your hips pressed in between her hind legs and against her own hips, you found it very difficult not to go all the way.

“Applejack.” You spoke her name between kisses that began to trail down her neck, and down her chest. Your eyes never left hers as she looked at you with her lips parted in baited anticipation.

Her breathing came in faster as you passed her chest, then her stomach, and down towards her breast, and…

“Sugahcube, hold on a bit.”

You stopped as you moved and hovered over one of her nipples. Your hot breath cascaded across it and you felt her shudder in your grip.

“Ah-ah don’t want you to force yah’self to do something yah don’t want to. Most stallions don’t… don’tHAA!”

She lost her voice as you took her nipple into your mouth and ran your tongue across it, around, and suckled on it lightly while caressing her hips. You felt it stiffen and could only smile as you pulled away and tugged it lightly along for the ride. Her eyes were quick to refocus on your own as she blushed at her body’s honesty and breathed heavier than before.

“Yeah, but your stallion just happens to be human…”

You grip on her waist shifted and you felt the toned muscles of her haunches tighten and relax as you caressed them. You heard her moan as she continued to look at you with lust filled, half lidded eyes, and baited breath.

“So just relax…”

No sooner did the words leave your lips that you tightened your grip and pulled her wait up to your head as you sat up. Her back was pressed against your bare chest as her head now rested between your legs. She continued to look up at you as you moved your arms and wrapped them around her waist and held her still. Her hind legs were spread apart and dangled above your shoulders.

She was completely exposed to you, and what you saw, made your arousal as hard as steel.

You felt her fidget a bit as it pressed against her upper back and saw her bite her lip as she continued to watch you intently.

“Mmm, ah take it then ya like what you see?” She asked as you felt her tail caress your arousal and failed to hold back a grunt. The sensation of her surprising silky, yet satisfyingly rough tail travel up and down it was almost unbearable.

You had to force yourself to refocus and hold her tighter before planting a trail of kisses on the inside of her thigh. Mercifully, that seemed to have disarmed her a bit as her hind legs bucked and spurred you onward as you moved closer to your target… and completely missed her glistening and winking lips.

Instead, you skipped over to the other side and began to do the same.

“Sug-sugahcube, ain’t polite to tease your marAHHMMM!”

Well, if anything you were polite. You could have sworn your tongue was made of pure electricity. Her hind legs immediately tense up and held your head in place. You eagerly continued to lap up her nectar while parting her petals further apart and pushed in deeper to get as much as you could.

Applejack's legs slowly relaxed a bit but continued to tremble overhead as her lust filled moans came out between squeaks and happy sighs with your name intertwined among them. The feeling of your lips against her winking lips made you want to just go deeper, almost as if she was kissing you back. You had other plans though, and, as you lapped up further, you found your mark and wasted no time in wrapping your lips around it and sucked on it.

Her moaning scream as her hind legs wrapped around your head and pressed your face deeper into her only served to spur you even further in your assault as you lightly and gently nibbled on the fleshy protrusion. Your ministrations were relentless, eager, and spurred further by your mare’s rising vocal and lusty approval.

It didn’t take long before you were rewarded by Applejack’s high pitched moan as her body began to spasm and your chin and chest became coated in her orgasm. You hungrily lapped everything you could, and didn’t stop or let her rest. You lost yourself among her moans of pleasure as you alternated between focusing on her lips and her pearl.

The pressure around your head from her trembling hind legs felt numbing, but you kept going till your jaw and tongue felt numb as well. You weren’t sure for how long it went on, but Applejack’s moans had diminished little by little along the way. Her hind legs had not let up though, so as you eventually let her rest and looked at her, you could not help but think you might have gone a bit far with it.

Applejack lay trembling on the bed. Her chest rose and fell with every forced breath she took. Her eyes were unfocused as they stared up at the empty space between her and the ceiling. her unrestrained mane lay scattered around her as evidence to her carnal trashing as a result of each orgasm you have her. She looked satisfied…

“Applejack?” You called her name as you kissed the inside of her thigh and caressed her stomach.

She was burning hot and sweaty.

Slowly though, she began to react, and a small smile formed across her lips as her beautiful emerald green eyes focused again and met yours.

“You okay love?”

“My turn…”

“Huh-GAH!”

In what could have only been a move that would have made any wrestler proud, Applejack’s legs tightened around your head and rolled you over to the side with frightening ease.

Once the room stopped spinning, you found yourself pinned to the bed as Applejack startled your face and smile down at you. Her eyes had not changed to the heat crazed fog state you had come to fear, so your new position was… exciting to say the least.

She must have read your mind though, as the only things visible from underneath her were your eyes filled with curiosity and surprise.

“Ya had your fun, but ah think’s about time this mare claimed her stallion...”

She spoke with a voice that only conveyed love and lust for you as she slowly lifted and began to move back along your chest. You felt a slight shiver course through you as you felt the slowly cooling trail of her moist arousal spread further and further down. And your hands rose and settled on her hips to help guide her before you both gasped as your arousal suddenly poked her entrance. Her eyes though, immediately sought yours as she began to breathe heavier and flushed crimson.

“And ah think it’s time for you to claim your mare…”

No sooner did those words leave her lips that she pushed back and you felt her petals part as you poked harder against her entrance. The pressure and heat radiating from her as your arousal twitched against it made you want to push back and bury yourself deep inside her.

By the looks of it, Applejack wanted the same.

Instead though, she trembled as you glided your hands from her waist up towards her back and helped her lean over you. She smiled as her head neared yours and she rested her forehead against it, her golden mane cascading around you, limiting the world to just you and her. Your eyes desperately sought her and found them as she closed them and pushed her lips tenderly against yours, lovingly… and you felt yourself enter her.

Her breath caught through your kiss. Only the tip of your arousal had gone in, the tightness and heat was incredible as her silky walls and folds contracted around you. It felt like she was pulling you in with every beat of her and your heart. She was breathing harder as your kiss grew in intensity and you added your strength as she slowly lowered herself further.

Every fraction you felt yourself slip in caused the both of you to breathe harder and harder until suddenly, you felt something stop you and Applejack gasped painfully, breaking the kiss.

“Applejack… ha… ha… w-we can stop if you-MMMM!”

Applejack made her reply painfully obvious as she kissed you and pushed down with all her weight. Her hips slammed down against yours, taking away the resistance with it as she screamed painfully into your mouth. It took all your focus not to reach your peek there and then.

You now felt the tip of your arousal delightfully pressing against her deepest part.

She was trembling on top of you as a few tears fell on your face and her emerald eyes opened to look into yours. Although she looked a bit pained, she was smiling at you lovingly and did not speak.

Honestly though, no words needed to be said as you both kissed deeply. Everything you felt for each other was conveyed in that kiss. And, as you held her, caressing her, joined with her as only lovers could, you felt your heart beat with hers and little by little you felt her trembling subside… and the kiss broke.

She smiled at you as she whispered your name and pushed off of your chest till she was sitting on top of you. The new position simply served to add more pleasure as you felt yourself push harder against Applejack’s core, and you quietly observed as she pushed her hooves against her lower stomach, as if trying to feel you deep within her.

Celestia damn that’s sexy… You thought as you smiled up at her and moved your hands back to her hips. Her coat felt damp and incredible against your hands, and she too smiled as she relished the sensation and gave you a very sexy smirk while her beautiful half lidded eyes studied your prone form beneath her and she licked her lips.

“Ah hope yah ready for ah pony ride sugahcube…” She spoke as without warning, you felt her lift off of you and your arousal nearly went with her as the velvety moist tightness around it refused to let it go.

The pace was agonizingly slow. But soon the only part of you that remained in her was the tip of your arousal, and you immediately tried to focus and prepare for what was coming next.

Applejack’s hind legs trembled as she lowered herself down on you again, smoother that the first time. But it was no less breathtaking as once again you bottomed out in her before she rose once more.

Little by little, her speed increased as her moans found less and less restraint. And, as her moans came out louder, so did your own.

Soon, the only sound in the room was heavy breathing, moans, squeaks, and the slapping wet sound of your union. Every time she slammed down on you, her golden mane cascaded around your joined forms as her lustful and loving eyes closed, trying to focus, and only opened to look into yours.

It made you want to go further, to push harder. To show your mare just how much you loved and desired her.

Your hands around her waist added your own strength as you began to thrust up and met her as she fell.

Applejack’s moans began to cut out as her body slammed against yours and her breathing became strained and ragged. You were nearing your peek, you weren’t going to last much longer at this new pace.

“Ah-Applejack I’m not going to – I can’t hold-”

She fell on you, kissing you frantically as she moaned into your mouth, asking you to hold a bit, before her tongue rushed in to meet and wrestle with your own. Her heart was beating frantically against yours and you felt every pulse radiate into your arousal as her velvety walls began to tremble.

That was all the warning you got right before she pushed painfully hard against you and reached her orgasm. The contractions that surged through her velvety walls destroyed whatever restraint you had left as they sucked you deeper against her womb and attempted to milk every last drop you had to give... and you were more than eager to comply as you pushed deeper into her and drenched her womb with everything you had to give your mare.

The kiss had not broken through either of your orgasms. And, as you remained inside her, relishing the sensation of your union and afterglow, you could only hope that it never did.

Sadly though, you felt an all too familiar encroaching darkness. Both from the sudden strenuous activity on a still recovering body, and maybe also due to lack of oxygen. And before you knew it, you felt yourself grow tired and relaxed.

“Ha… ha… sugahcube?”

You suddenly became aware of Applejack’s lips no longer being in contact with yours, and blinked a few times to try and clear the shadows away before you felt fit enough to speak.

“… wow…”

Well, nopony said it would be a scholarly conversation that came out of your lips.

Still though, Applejack simply smiled and giggled cutely as her flushed face came to rest against your and nuzzled into your face. No other words were really needed as you both relished the sensation of each other and minutes passed.

Too soon for her though, you felt yourself slip out of her as she let out a dreamy sigh and cuddled closer to you. Somehow, you managed to will your arms to grab the covers and drape them over your sweaty forms as you felt spent and tired.

“Not just wow sugahcube… but amazing.”

That made you smile, and you happily kissed her as you hugged her tighter against you.

It was a tender kiss that soon turned into loving pecks as both of you relaxed more and more.

In such a state though, it was easy for you to let your mind stray, replaying everything that had led to that moment.

Your journey, in all honesty, it had been tough, painful, and yet wonderful for the sheer fact you were finally where you wanted to be… with the pony you loved. With the one you wanted to remain with. So, as you began to stare at the ceiling, an idea began to take form.

“Applejack?"

"Hmm?"

"I want you to stay with me.”

“Of course ah will sucahcube, ah-”

“No, stay with me at my house in Ponyville.”

Well that came out of left field.

Applejack fell quiet, but after a few seconds, you felt her move on top of you and her eyes soon came to a stop in front of your own as she leaned over you. She was intently searching your face as you instinctively began to search hers as well.

After a few more seconds though, she smiled, and you felt your heart soar…

“No…”

And crash into the ground like a cannonball.

You blinked a few times, as if to clear the debris of your face plant, and eventually, you found your voice again.

“Okay, ouch…”

“Sugahcube-”

“No no, it’s okay. That was a bit too sudden and-” And now she was kissing you with a fevered passion. Needless to say you were confused, which clearly showed as she pulled back and looked at you.

“You are such an injet sum’times.”

“…”

“Ah want YOU to come live with me… here.”

“Huh?”

She remained quiet for a bit before simply resuming her position on top of your chest, and pressed her ear against it. You saw a sad smile form as she listened to your heart for a while, and then looked up at you.

“Ah want you to come home… like if you never left… like before.”

It was your turn now as you remained quiet. But she didn’t need a reply though, as she could clearly hear it in your chest. You knew your heart was racing, and she knew it was racing because of her. That was honestly all she needed to hear as you slowly began to caress her. Your answer was pretty obvious, and you both remained like that till sleep came to claim you.

And it did.

Little by little, you felt her breathing grow more and more rhythmic, matching your own, as sleep began to take you once more. It was peaceful and quiet. A perfect ending for everything you both had been through.

Yet, one final thought did manage to force its way out through your lips as you closed your eyes, and mumbled into her ear, causing it to softly twitch.

“No, it won’t be like before love…”

“Hmm?...”

“It’ll be better.”

Finally, in your last waking moment, the last thing you felt was the mare you loved cuddling against you as a warm happiness spread through you from knowing you had finally reached your destination.

You were finally home…

Oh shoot! What about my home in Ponyville?... Wow, that was not the final thought you were hoping for before you fell asleep.

Author's Note

Well, this is by far the longest thing I've ever written. Aside from school work that is.

Anyway, point is that for those that have been following this little story of mine, you already know that this particular subject matter is not my particular strong point. You've seen me slowly waddle into it throughout some of the chapters. But this is the first time I dive head first...

Which I guess in retrospect is not the best way to dive into a pool that is filled with... well, this. Things might get messy and you might end up swallowing something you don't want to.

But I digress.

Actually, no, I don't. I don't have anything else to write so hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Next one should be sometime in the following weeks.

Disclaimer - All characters presented in this work of fiction are owned by their respective creators and owners. In short, all the wubs go to Hasbro.