Title:           Surprise [Applejack]
Author:          Woofr
Pastebin link:   http://pastebin.com/81WQRiwN
First Edit:      Thursday 11th of December 2014 03:52:20 PM CDT
Last Edit:       Last edit on: Thursday 29th of January 2015 12:06:37 AM CDT

>You'd been out of a job for months since Twilight fired you after the "Spike" incident.
>Soon realized the chubby purple unicorn bitch was pretty much the only one who actually liked you.
>Took weeks to convince Applejack to let you work for her.
>3 weeks later and you still have no friends.
>Working just to survive and nothing else.
>Sleeping in the back of a barn belonging to an orange miniature horse.
>What the fuck have you accomplished?
>Nothing.
>Nothing for yourself or anything of real value to the ponies around you.
>You're an extra, a third wheel on a bike that the owner has gotten too nostalgic about to remove.
>Time to loosen those nuts and bolts.
>Might as well do it in the barn, die where you never really lived.
>You set up the noose on one of the timbers.
>No stool in here, leave to retrieve one, raining hard out.
>You spot a stool by the shed.
>Cue dramatic lightning.
>At least you wish it happened, make this last act stand out a little, make you someone worth remembering.
>Grab stool and return.
>Notice that the barn door is slightly ajar.
>Oh fuck, hope they didn't see or know what the noose was.
>Realize they wouldn't care anyway.
>Enter prepared to give big speech of "You fucked up" to whoever was inside.
>It's Applejack.
>She's sat down on the floor looking up at the noose, holding some sort of banner.
>Decide to ignore it.
‘’So, now you know what I'm going to do, at least I assume so. Do you expect some sort of suicide note? A letter of my resignation?’’
>A pause, silence.
>You notice a sound you hadn't when you first entered, crying.
>Applejack turns to you, her tears clear as day despite her wet coat.
>"B-but ah thought..."
>You're speechless, what can you say confronted with someone crying for you?
>Someone you thought never cared?
>Applejack wipes up some of her tears and snorts.
>She holds out the soaked banner for you to see.
>In big bright multicolor lettering, stained and darkened by Applejack’s tears it reads :
>Happy Birthday
I... I had forgotten...
>How did you forget your own birthday? Why did Applejack CARE?
>You lower to the ground, clutching your head, dazed and confused.
>"Ah thought you knew how I felt about you Anon... Thought you could see it when ah spoke to ya an worked with ya..."
>You think back, rushing through the annals of your mind
>Always when you had replied to her or addressed her, Applejack had turtled up
>Defensive, she felt vulnerable around you
>You always thought she was just ignoring you
>Whenever you were working together Applejack would take the more difficult parts
>Protective, she wanted to protect you like the way she saw you as protecting her
>You thought she considered you useless, that you couldn't handle it
>Tears start to well from your eyes
>You look up into her eyes
I'm sorry, I'm… a fool. A fool for not seeing it.
>Applejack chuckles, "Ah shucks, ah was bein' silly an all too. Just don't scare me like that again..."
>You smile, soaking wet, tears dripping down your face
>Applejack sniffs and pulls you into a hug
>Your lips touch and separate, you say
Surprise.
 
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