Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
"Hmmmm..." Fluttershy squatted on the front lawn of her cottage. Her lips smiled, fuzzy cheeks turning rosy as she threw seed across the grass, feeding the pigeons and water fowl that had gathered along the banks of a babbling brook. "Hmmm-heeheehee... he he he he..."
"Uhhh... Fluttershy?" Rainbow Dash reclined lazily on a tree branch overlooking her best friend's property. "Everything cool down there?"
"Heeheehee-yes, Rainbow." The animal caretaker nevertheless continued giggling.
Rainbow arched an eyebrow. "You're not... snorting some of that stuff you're tossing to the birds, are you?"
"Oh no. No no no no no. Nothing like that, Rainbow." Fluttershy emptied her bag of feed and leaned down to nuzzle a family of ducks. "I've just been in a good mood ever since Big Mac's last visit."
"Hmmmm..." Rainbow smirked, leaning her head back on crossed hooves. "I bet."
Fluttershy rolled her eyes. "He was telling me how happy the farm's been as of late."
"Oh?"
"Yes. Applejack's been serving tall stacks of syrupy pancakes every single day at Sweet Apple Acres."
"Hey, sounds snazzy," Rainbow Dash murumured. She squinted up at the blue morning sky. "Although I hope they have a pretty large outhouse."
"Rainbow Dash..." Fluttershy sighed through a wry smirk. "Don't you see what I'm getting at?"
"Hmmm?" Rainbow looked down at her.
Fluttershy flapped her wings and levitated beside the tree branch. "Applejack has been immeasurably happy." She folded her forelimbs. "She's been on top of the clouds for days now! Well..." A girlish chuckle. "You know what I mean."
"Sure." Rainbow stifled a yawn. "Just... don't know where you're going with it, exactly."
"Rainbow Dassssssh..."
"Eugh..." Rainbow clenched her eyes shut. "Don't do that."
"Do what?"
"Use... that voice."
"What voice?"
"That 'motherly older sister voice,'" Rainbow grumbled. "It's almost as bad as your Stare... only on the ears."
"There's a reason why Applejack's been so happy as of late."
"She got coronated as the Pretty Princess of Apples?" Rainbow mused, then blinked blankly into the air. "Guh..." Wincing, she reached out and manually coiled her wings to her side. "Down, girls... down."
"It's because she's had the loving support of a best friend," Fluttershy said. Her teeth showed in a beaming smile. "And that happiness has spread throughout her whole household. It's infectious, and it's left Big Macintosh positively jubilant every day. He doesn't understand the reason behind it... but I do." She squinted. "And I think I do too."
"So I may have cleared a cloud or two above Sweet Apple Acres so that AJ and Stu could have their silly date." Rainbow shrugged. "Big deal."
"It means a lot to them, Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy gulped. "And... and you might be playing it cool, but I know that it means a lot to you too."
Rainbow Dash breathed out her nostrils. She stared west with dull eyes. "Uh huh..."
"Perhaps not in the same way, but... still..." Fluttershy exhaled. "I'm proud of you, Rainbow Dash."
"Thanks, Mom."
"Heeheehee..." Fluttershy giggled. Eventually, she cleared her throat. "Anyways, it wasn't a date."
"...it wasn't?"
"Well, not exactly."
"Could have fooled me."
"Actually, Big Mac told me all about it," Fluttershy calmly said. She perched on the end of the branch across from Rainbow Dash. "Apparently Applejack went and took Stu to see her parents."
"...?" Rainbow Dash sat up. "The hay does that mean?"
"Rainbow Dash..." Fluttershy calmly shook her head. "I mean their graves."
"... ... ..." Rainbow Dash squinted. "They're... buried at Sweet Apple Acres?"
"Along the southwest edge of the property. By a garden." Fluttershy cocked her head to the side. "Did you not know that?"
"I... I mean, sure, it's... probably come up in conversation once or twice... but... but..." Rainbow cleared her throat. "Wait, a garden? How do you know about it?"
"Uhm..." Fluttershy brushed her bangs aside. "Because Big Mac first took me to see them months ago. I've... made several visits since. I've even helped Granny Smith with planting flowers around the plot." She bore a tender smile. "It's... such a peaceful spot. Beautiful, too." Her wingtips fluttered. "Being there and keeping the ground in check almost... m-makes me feel like part of the family."
Rainbow Dash stared at her for a while. At last, she swallowed and said, "You and Big Mac have been pretty serious too."
"Ohhhh... I don't know if 'serious' is the right word to use."
"Why not?" Rainbow smiled. "Serious love sounds like the best kind of love."
"I don't feel 'serious' every time I'm with Big Macintosh," Fluttershy said. "I just feel... happy."
"Yeah..." Rainbow glanced aside. "I... wonder how Stu and Applejack feel. Serious or happy."
"Maybe both?" Fluttershy shrugged. "Every pony is different. I don't see why every couple can't be unique as well."
Rainbow sighed. She hugged herself. "Pancakes and gravestones..." Her ears twitched. "...I think that about does it, Fluttershy."
Fluttershy blinked curiously.
"Hook... line.. and sinker..." Rainbow bit her bottom lip.
"And... uhm..." Fluttershy leaned her head to the side. "...how are you doing, Rainbow Dash?"
"Me?" Rainbow shuddered. "I'm spending time with a good, good friend."
Fluttershy stared at her. She smiled. It wasn't long before she was leaning in to nuzzle Rainbow.
Rainbow closed her eyes.
"I have an idea..." Fluttershy leaned back with a smile. "What say we go to Sugarcube Corner? They're serving a fresh batch of imported Trottingham cider. How about it? It'll be my treat."
"Hmmmm... a cider of a different flavor," Rainbow Dash muttered.
"That's right."
"Sounds gross. Will probably make me barf." She hopped off the branch and hovered in place. "What are we waiting for? Let's do it!"
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Seriously.
Oh, come on, Rainbow! You're not fooling anypony with that!
Oh, and I just came up with a good reason as to why we're going to get our Appledashery and AppleDash cuddles eventually.
Why?
The tags on the index page for this monster of a roller-coaster ride of a story. There's absolutely no OC tag; just AJ's, Dash's and that of the Mane 6 together.
No OCs.
Which means... no AppleStuery.
As long as it's not hard cider, Shy. Drunk in public Dash would not be a pretty sight.
Though if you get her buzzed....
That's the spirit!
Also, reminds me of this one story I read once where Applejack actually did become an alicorn.
Redundantly redundant.
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That means Applejack will be unhappy for whatever reason between ships. This is a travesty!
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My favorite AJ Alicorn series. It hurt when the author never finished the sequel. Most the AJ Alicorn stories are incomplete(not including one-shots). This is another that went on hiatus. I'm going to cry in a corner now.
So like... can something dramatic happen already i mus know if my predictions will be true
I just can't help but feel we all jinxed the whole stu found the letter thing, I'm just hoping by saying that it jinxes it back.
I know it seems happy and all. But look at that, fluttershy is shoving it in her face again, and it's clearly irritated her in some way.
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6886637 Fluttershy think's she's helping... not sure how, as you said 'shoving' it in her face how happy life when in love helps, but in her mind apparently it does
Ehrmehgherd! We're back in cider space! AJ is once more the Apple princess!
6883841 After this chapter I'm leaning toward AJ having nothing to do with finding/reading the letter, therefore Stu is the only potential candidate (at this time) to have done so. So yes, that would make him rather dickish to read something that wasn't addressed to him and didn't have permission to read.
It could still turn out that AJ did read it and it has made her incredibly happy, putting Stu in a very weird position as a result. However, the odds of that happening appear to be slim.
Fluttershrink is always nice....but I had high hopes for an AJ-Stu-Dash interaction at the apple stand....
T-t-t-tomorrow?
6886309 Rainbow and AJ never left Cider Space.
Stu Leaves isn't real.
Stu Leaves is a program!
So. Dashie has a princess kink. Who knew?
Oh my god Fluttershy... How are you both so wise and oblivious? Yes Applejack's happiness is important, but so is Rainbow's. You finally heard how Rainbow was pushing herself to the point of self destruction -- with atrophying muscles no less -- in dangerous journies to prove herself for Applejack without ever desiring to let Applejack know. At this point I think it's clear Rainbow has some indication that Applejack's happiness matters as much as her own, even if it's a sort of twisted understanding half the time where Rainbow refuses to put herself first in a bizarre mix of perverse self-punishment and being overly loyal. It boggles me you're still addressing that when the bigger issue is the root of why her view on needing to make Applejack happy is so twisted.
I want to strangle her so much right now, but I can't... She's the Element of Kindness... She doesn't like ripping off band-aids, and she might not even be able to understand how important that is here because she hasn't met the Breezies yet... She's just gonna keep making things worse while trying to make them better.
6886309 Unless JE is including him in the mane 6 tag and has Stu slated to become the long lost element of cuddling.
6886946 I'm beginning to wonder if that's not right.
6888157 Don't. Even. Go. There.
Please. Just... don't.
Please.
I don't even want to think about that.
I'd actually be deeply excited for an arc of Rainbow trying tremendously awkwardly to date other mares.
Hm. Walking there wouldn't happen to take them past any otherwise rarely-visited spots of the property where a letter might be lying around, would it?
A true, true friend.
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A true true friend helps to breaks Stu's knees,
A true true friend will be there to make him bleed,
A true true friend helps a friend deceive the law that suspects their true true friend.