Prompt: Privacy Genres: Satire, Musical

Rainbow Dash carefully opened the cherry-stained wooden box, the old hinges creaking from disuse. Her cerise eyes widened as she beheld the contents, a warm smile slowly spreading across her face. She ran a hoof lovingly over the silver instruments held within. Applejack stood very still, furtively eying her friend from the top of the ladder leading up to her attic. She questioned herself again as to why she let the pegasus store this ‘treasure’ in her house.

Blue hooves lovingly caressing the box, Rainbow’s mouth open as she began to sing, her voice a low coo.

“You there, my friend...”

Applejack murmured to herself, the gentle melody hidden beneath Rainbow’s voice, “I'm your friend too, Rainbow Dash.”

Rainbow’s tone grew in strength as she pulled one from its case. “Come, let me hold you.” As if the mare had been addressed, Applejack slowly cantered over to the pegasus and wrapped her forehooves around Rainbow Dash’s middle.

“If you only knew, Rainbow Dash,” she whispered.

“Now, with a sigh.”

“Ooh, Rainbow Dash.”

“You grow warm in my hooves...” her voice bled into Applejack’s own rising melody.

“You're warm in my hooves...”

“My friend.”

“You've come home,” the farm pony whispered.

“My clever friend...”

“Always had a fondness for you, I did...”

Rainbow Dash reverently returned it to its case. “Rest now, my friends.”

“Never you fear, Rainbow Dash.”

“Soon I'll unfurl you.”

“You can move in here, Rainbow Dash.”

“Soon you'll know…” Their songs joined again, singing in tandem. “Splendors you never have dreamed all your days...”

Applejack exclaimed breathlessly, “Will be yours!”

“My lucky friends!”

“I'm your friend—”

“Till now your shine.”

Applejack’s grip tightened. “Now you're mine!” Her gaze trailed along the case. “Don't they shine beautiful?”

Rainbow Dash looked over the silver Wonderbolt metals she had won in her tenure as cadet, then team lead, then member, then captain. She snapped the box shut and placed it on a shelf. That part of her life was behind her now. She turned her head around to behold the gorgeous orange mare gripping her tightly. Her voice dropping low with a content smile on her lips, she sighed, “Was merely silver.”

“Silver's good enough for me.” Applejack leaned forward, her lips meeting blue for the first time in ages. Their eyes fluttered shut as Rainbow’s hooves flew into blonde mane.

Author's Note

More Appledash? Madness! Also a strange sort of songfic satire, subverting expectations. I'm weird.

Prompt: Privacy, must be Musical, Satire and/or Adventure. 100-500 words, 4 hours to plan.