private Skittles n' Apples: My Best Friend & Sister

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Rainbow felt many feelings including awareness and slight embarrassment. “Uhh-I'm...not so sure about this....are.....are you sure...?”, the Pegasus asked as she slowly and carefully approached her friend. It did seem different, but now she felt slightly down from the sad truth. She never had anyone she could honestly do this with, and at this point she was hoping that this would turn out alirght. All she was wondering was that her friend knew what we was doing.

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"Just plop yourself down, and relax." Applejack assured her, smiling and, as soon as the pegasus had sat down, nodded back off towards the clubhouse.

 

"From what I was seein', your biggest issue was tryin' too hard, sugarcube." She began, tilting her hat a bit and picking up a piece of straw to stick in her mouth. "Demonstratin' that you love your friends or siblings doesn't always, in fact, usually isn't a thing you announce, whether physically or verbally. It's a subtle thing you poke in when appropriate, here and there, most of the time."

 

The leaves on the trees floated down once and again in spots. They danced in the wind and Applejack ignored them, being so sued to it, but Rainbow took notice of the calm, quiet sound of wind against branches, and birds chirping in the distance.

 

"When I play with Applebloom, it's always when appropriate, and is subtle stuff, like a quick tickle or somethin, most of them time."

 

Am ah really explaining personal affection habits with mah sister to Rainbow?...heh, this day just keeps gettin better.

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Dash was amazed by how differently and more-efficiently her friend's strategy was, especially considering how badly she was doing earlier.

 

“Wow...Applejack....I never would of thought of that....I'm...sorry I took things too far so quickly, I really should stop thinking so fast...”, she looked down in slight depression. “I'm really thankful that I have had so many good friends in the past year, especially somepony like you. You, living with a little sister, really knows how to deal with these situations...and I....well, you saw how good I was back there...” She put her head down in self-disappointment.

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Applejack had to restrain herself from hugging the depressed-sounding mare, so cute with her big purple eyes half closed and staring at the ground. For now, she simply patted her on the back with a single hoof, and stood back up.

 

"Ya'll gain from experience, so you got nothin' to be ashamed about," She said confidently. "That said...I don't think Scoot seemed too interested in the sisterly bonding thing. I got a hankering that she wouldn't have been even if you knew what you was doin'...maybe you should take some lessons from me n' Applebloom, then try and slowly build it up with her a little later down the line, hmm?" She offered, standing up and aiding her friend in doing the same.

 

"We should head on back, I think. You head back, I'll meet'cha there once I talk to the fillies about somethin'."

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A little cheered up, a slight grim appeared on Rainbow Dash's face. “Thanks Applejack, I knew that you could help me through this.” Confident and wasting no time at all, the cheerful Pegasus stood up, and sprinted as fast as she could back to Sweet Apple Acres. She was still a bit fatigued from the accident, and tripped over herself. Applejack started to look back, but then the high-in-spirit Dash quickly informed “I'm alright! I'll see ya later!”, this time with a little trot, rather than approaching the situation with more speed than necessary, kind of similar to her current affection problem.

 

Applejack then continued on to the clubhouse.

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Applejack smiled warmly and looked over her shoulder, observing the pegasus as she got back up with a smirk and continued to trot off from her trip. The earth pony shook her head and chuckled to herself.

 

"Glad you feel better so far Dashie, but the real comfort won't come till you make the approach...heh." She said quietly to herself, venturing inside the clubhouse and rounding up the two fillies. As she walked in, she found both of them working on designs for the new flag. She winked and corralled Scootaloo with her hoof.

 

"Say, I have a feelin' Dash'll be up and about as her normal self tomorrow, and not actin' as silly as she did today. Wanna come sleep over with me n Applebloom tomorrow, so you can hang out with Dash when she's feelin' 20% cooler?"

 

I bet I can get er' all cuddly and open to being affectionate by tomorrow. Heh. Tamin' the prideful Rainbow Dash shouldn' be too hard. Just another obstacle to conquer for me.

 

Applejack chuckled to herself at the thought.

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Back at the farmhouse, Rainbow arrived at the front door. Happy and cheerful as can be, it was getting late. Late for a Pegasus who has been buys as her lately, that is. It was only 6:45 PM, and Dash was still recovering from all the work shed been putting up with lately. “I guess...I could use a little power nap. But then up and at 'em, whatever AJ is going to teach me about this stuff, I gotta be ready.” Swiftly, but not too swiftly, she found herself the bed she woke up in this morning, and she was ready to have a nice, short little rest.

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As the day went on, the sun got lower and lower in the open blue sky, with only a few clouds now. Applejack and Applebloom had taken the two or three hours that had passed since Rainbow had gone to take a nap in order to further recover herself, to do chores around the farm. Getting them out of the way now was beneficial for everyone, and they needed to be done, since Big Mac and his muscle wasn't here to assist in any of it...

 

By the time the chores had finished, both of the Apple sisters were exhausted. They, along with Scootaloo, trudged into the household and closed the door behind them for the night.

 

"Sweet Celestia that was harder than it looked..." Applejack muttered, panting and hanging her hat up on a spare hook by the doorway. She turned to an excited Scootaloo and tired Applebloom and nodded towards the living room. "Watch TV, work on your flag designs sum more, whatever it is you wanna do girls go for, just try to keep it down to a dull roar, ya hear?"

 

"Yes Applejack!" The fillies said in unison, running off into the living room and debating designs.

 

"Alright...and now, my pegasus friend, time to rest my aching hooves on that soft bed of yours, and explain how to indulge in sisterhood." The mare said to herself, walking up the steps of the house and finding it much more labor intensive than usual. She silently poked her head into the guest room, to find Rainbow still laying, snoring slightly on the guest bed. Applejack cocked an eyebrow and rose a smirk, and walked in, closing the door behind her. She trotted over to the bed, and, with an almighty pounce, leaped up into the air, and landed on her back at the base of the bed with a loud thump. Rainbow, her pillow and blankets soared a foot into the air, then plopped back down.

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From all the movement and shock, she moaned and shook her head. She was all groggy, but as soon as she caught Applejack on the corner of her eye, she knew what was going on. Her nap helped her think about her first approach, and she knew exactly what she thought she had to do. Pretending not to know, she sarcastically said “Oh, hey, Applejack, what're you doing here? I was just, uh, y'know, taking a little nap here, y'know it's not very nice to enter a sleeping mare's bedroom without knocking...”. She tried to look away without expressing her sly grin that was impossible to hide.

 

AJ returned a similar looking grin with a suspicious look on her face. But suddenly, Rainbow immediately pounced on AJ and was mercilessly giving her the cuddling treatment of a life time.

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"Awwwww, sugarcube, I sure as heck wasn't expecting that!" Applejack chuckled gleefully, accepting the blue pegasus' glomp and returning the hug. After a moment, the awkward position couldn't be held that way, and the orange and blue ponies toppled over onto their sides. Worked for Applejack all the same; she readjusted herself and laid on her side, embracing her friend, still amazed at the sudden approach. "And here ah I thought I'd have to get you to emerge from your shell. Come on Rainbow, that's no fun, I thought I'd get to work ya over to get you to cuddle, heh!"

 

AJ smirked, closed both eyes in an adrenaline rush of excitement, and dug her front hooves into the clinging mares' belly, tickling her mercilessly. Unlike Applebloom, the attack lasted longer, even to the point where the weather-control pony was pinned down to make the attack last. Rainbow laughed happily, and it could only make AJ smile. Huh...maybe that was kinda how Pinkie felt when making someone smile.

 

"And by the way," The blonde-maned pony added, ceasing the attack, and now pushing the pegasus' head down and ruffling her brightly colored mane playfully. "It ain't okay for a BOY to come into a sleepin' mares' quarters' sure, but I'm your best gal, I can come and bug you whenever I darn well please!"

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“Well, if you say so...” Rainbow said, half-ignoring what her friend was saying...then she thought about it for a bit....If that was one of the things you get when you're best friends like this, I never wanted this experience to end!

 

Well, then, how do you like this! She was about to pounce on her friend with some revenge belly-tickling frenzy, but this time she tried flying up in the air prior for some added power and surprise. Just as she mounted up in the air, her wings started to twitch, as they were still injured, and landed on the floor on the side of the bed, moaning in moderate pain.

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"Ahaha, awwww..." Applejack said, chuckling and shaking her head as she gazed off the bed at the fallen pegasus. She was on the floor, hooves curled up in the air cutely as she groaned and winced at the pain. AJ got off the bed, knelt down by her friend, and poked her nose. "If you weren't hurtin' from that, I'd take advantage of that failure...now come on, miss excited, you need to keep that wing closed and quiet till it's all better, no exceptions."

 

Helping her regain her composure, Rainbow made her way back onto the bed, and AJ scratched her head, and casually sat upon the bed covers below Rainbow's feet, creating bumps in the comforter from underneath.

 

"Alright, might as well get on to the actual explanations, huh?" She said casually. "What is it ya'd like to know, first off? Anything you've been wondering? Ant specific tips ya'd like? I'd rather not ramble on incoherently for half an hour without knowin' what you wanna know, first."

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“Hehe, sorry about that, AJ, I keep on forgetting..”, the slightly embarrassed mare said as she scratched the back of her head in slight embarrassment. “I guess I just need some more advice on not getting to excited with this and taking situations on too quickly, or at least in my current condition...” She looked over behind her and twitched her slightly damaged wing. “I guess that's it, just a little thing...I just think I take too many situations like that...”

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"Alright, well..." Applejack began, suddenly getting an amusing idea, and turning towards the doorway. She let loose the full potential of her voice with a yell that was sure to be heard even downstairs, where the two fillies were still doodling design ideas. "Applebloom! Get on up here!"

 

"Huh?..." Applebloom's ears twitched as she heard her big sister's calling. She got up and trotted up the stairs rather quickly, leaving Scoot behind to work on the flag designs. Her filly instincts told her to approach with caution...she seemed mad.

 

"...Applejack? What is it?" She said softly, opening up the door and poking her head inside. Applejack stared at her with a semi-blank expression.

 

"Com'ere." The orange earth pony said simply, holding a hoof out coaxing the young filly to come over to the bed. Applebloom looked her sister in the face, and gave her a suspicious eye.

 

"...You're not gonna tickle me are you?"

 

"Nope."

 

"Sit on me?"

 

"Nu uh."

 

"Noogie me?"

 

"No sir'ee."

 

"...Squeeze me?"

 

"Will ya'll just get over here already?"

 

Applebloom slowly headed towards the older pony, cautious. She had lived with Applejack long enough to know when she was being a trickster, and this certainly seemed like one of those times. Rainbow watched in silence the entire time, blinking, wondering what was gonna happen.

 

As soon as the young pony got close enough, Applejack softly put out a hoof and ruffled the girl's bow and hair. After a moment, she patted her, then winked.

 

"A'lright, that's all I needed ya for."

 

"...?" Applebloom blinked in utter confusion, then rolled her eyes, turned, and stomped out of the room, muttering under her breath about wasting her time.

 

"There ya go Rainbow," AJ announced. "Sublte. Ya don't need to jump on em all the time, cause then they'll expect it after a bit. And ya can't rush it either, just take it slow."

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Rainbow started to blink in sudden realization. “Applejack...that....that makes it a LOT easier!” She couldn't help but give an excited squee as a cheek-to-cheek smile appeared on her face, giddy from the whole world that was just unlocked to her. “Applejack...I....I...-wait, don't tell me, I know what you're thinking- ‘Don't thank me yet.’, but don't worry, I'll try it.....on....second thought...” She had to ponder for a bit, because if she messed up this time, she would probably lose the chance of having a sisterly figure to to this stuff with forever, and she wasn't sure if Applejack was okay with having two. She just kept pondering there, trying to think of she was going to use the tactics her friend just gave her the past several hours. If she messed up, things could get really rocky.

 

“H....hey...kid?”, she called out softly.

 

.......nothing happened. She just sat there with another blank expression on her face, she was feeling a bit nervous to do this.

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Applejack mounted the end of the bed once more and laid her hooves across one another. Smiling, she watched Rainbow give a, quite honestly, pitiful call. There was now way that Scootaloo had heard that, and AJ just shook her head.

 

"Come on sugarcube, you gotta be louder than that or nopony is gonna hear you. Don't treat it like somethin' you can mess up. Don't treat it like some test you're gettin' graded on. Treat it naturally. Use that same cool, passive attitude you use most of the time, and you'll do fine! Then, once Scoot feels a bit more opened up to you, then you can do some more affectionate stuff if ya want."

 

She got off the bed and smiled.

 

"I'll be downstairs. Good luck, have fun, all that jazz, and when ya come back downstairs with her, I'll be hopin there'll be two pairs of sisters in this here farmhouse!" Trotting out the door, the orange pony gave a reassuring glance to her friend, waved, and went downstairs. There she left Dash to call on her number one fan, alone.

 

(I am officially switching to Scootaloo alone now)

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Rainbow watched as the mare left the room, the let out a sigh of relief. Maybe...maybe that's all the nervousness was from...probably makes it easier now that im all by myself....yeah.....here it goes.... She inhaled deeply...

 

“S..squir....-wait....that's not her real name...c'mon...what was it....oh...” Thankfully, it wasn't loud enough for even a pony down the hallway to hear.

 

She tried once more...inhaled...

 

“Scootaloo...!” It wasn't nearly as quiet as the first attempt in front of Applejack was. It was loud, but not too loud, but as loud as Applejack would like to hear from her apprentice, so to speak.

 

Full of confidence, the Pegasus was ready to show off what her good friend has taught her after this time, crazy as it was to think it all started from her worry of losing her reputation. She stood their, on all fours, waiting for the little filly so she can show her what she's wanted for a long time...

Edited May 22, 2012 by NASCARFAN160

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After only about five seconds, the sound of a young voice coming up the stairway and bouncing into the the guest room filled Rainbow's ears, along with the clopping of small hooves became apparent. Another second later, the orange and purple-manned filly emerged into the room, looking at her hero and blinking. She was smiling, seemingly have let go the strangeness that had happened yesterday. She walked a bit more into the room.

 

"Yeah, Rainbow Dash?..." She asked quizzically, curious to what the pegasus wanted her specifically for, and looking visibly excited about it.

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“Hey, Scootaloo, can you come over here for a sec, I want you to..uh..check something out over here for me!”, she said with a cute wink, and beckoning motion, and then hopped over to the opposite side of the bed where Scootaloo couldn't see her.

 

She couldn't help but giggling inaudibly, she was ready to surprise her number one fan and hopeful soon-to-be sisterly friend.

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The young pegasus blinked and cocked an eyebrow, completely confused. But she nodded as if on auto-pilot, and trotted over to the bed. Barely being tall enough to see over it, she got on the bed to try and see what the blue pegasus was doing.

 

"Alright, what is it you want me to do?" She asked, straining her neck, trying to see what it was that Rainbow was doing. She had a mix of confusion and excitement, both of which were suppressed by the uncertainty of the task. She moved a bit closer, and a bit closer to the fastest flyer in Equestria, thinking of a million things that the awesome Rainbow Dash could be offering her to do!

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The blue mare had something very big planned......she had her back turned the whole time, to make it look as if she were occupied with something....something that Scootaloo was dying to know....she kept on inching towards her favorite pony in Equestria, feeling a bit more startstruck with every little step...

 

“Hey...earlier today....do you forgive me...?”

 

Scoot stopped in her tracks, speechless.

 

“Well, it doesn't matter, because you're going to have to now...” Instantly she turned around, facing the surprised filly and gave a great pounce, no emphasizing flight jump, just a regular old pounce. She landed on the bed, and started tickling the poor thing's belly to the point where she started to burst into laughter. When satisfied, Rainbow stopped and let the little Pegasus laugh it out, until she recovered. Rainbow, with a smile on her face, knew that she had accomplished something, and also had made a young mare very happy. She could only imagine what Applejack would be thinking.

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"Hey, what the!-ahahaha! W-What the!? S-Stop-p-p-HAAAhahaha!" Scootaloo giggled, tackled to the soft bed sheets and being pinned by the older pegasus with ease. She blushed amidst her giggling, her wings and hooves squirming for release whilst she was assaulted by the blue mare. What in the hay was going on!? The young filly felt a burst of both warmth and embarrassment shoot through her appendages and chest, barely managing to open a single eye through the small tears that began to form, and see that Dash was grinning happily whilst digging her blue hooves into the girl's tummy.

 

Dash stopped. Scootaloo flopped to the bed from her squirming and panted for a few moments, then took defensive maneuvers at the end of the bed. Her bright purple eyes were wide, and she had a very confused expression. Dash just sat there and smiled, blinking every now and then.

 

"What the...what was..." The Cutie Mark Crusader began, trying to find words, seeing the warm and kind look on her heroes' face. She didn't even know what she herself thought about what just happened. She had such mixed emotions, but still, she couldn't deny the fact that she...enjoyed the attention from Dash.

 

"W-What was that for?"

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“...you don't know? That's what two sisters would do to eachother for fun! I've heard you didn't have one, and thought you must have been sorta depressed without one, so when I felt the same way, I decided to see what you thought of it! And, I'm starting to think you do.”, she explained, with another cutesy wink. Her earlier reason was just to get in on the fun she was missing having no sister, and now her new additional motive was to make her number one fan happy with this treatment, despite not really paying too much attention to her earlier until now. Rainbow enjoyed it a lot her first time, and she was 100% sure the filly enjoyed it just as much.

 

Excited for some more, the mare waited happily for a response.

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...Sister?...

 

A flurry of emotion smacked the young filly in the face. Rainbow Dash, the Rainbow Dash, the greatest, coolest, most awesome pony in all of Equestria thought of her as her...sister?

 

And she...she thought she must feel depressed that she didn't have one?...

 

Memory after memory of night after night, going to sleep in her own bed and thinking about how she was the only one, her, the only one of the three that didn't have a big sister to talk to, play with, or go to sleep with at night. Nothing but the cool pillow and warm blanket. Scootaloo the loner whom acted tough and cool to be just like her idol. The more she reflected while staring off into space around Dash's chest, the more Scootaloo realized how happy she was suddenly feeling. Her insides were on fire with joy. Her idol, the person she aspired to be, was smiling in front of her, offering her everything she could ever have wanted. Not just the opportunity to be by her side...but even better...to be her little sister. Suddenly, the Cutie Mark Crusaders and all the plans she had made that night drifted away into nothingness. This was the greatest moment of her life!

 

"D-Do you mean that Rainbow Dash?..." She chocked out, eyes full of a fragile, unbelievably hopeful expression. When Rainbow grinned and nodded, that was Scoot's que. The young filly, far from the awkwardness she had felt yesterday when Rainbow randomly attack-hugged her, jumped forward and wrapped her smaller hooves around the mare's tummy, pressing her face into Dash and feeling as content as could be. She didn't even know what to say. But that was okay.

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(Aw, man, I...I can't take it... X,( )

 

“Sure as heck, kid!” She returned the favor, laughing and giving her some noogies. “It never happened until now, but if I realized that you were that big of a fan before, I would have made it a little easier on ya!” She tumbled over and started to give the filly another big wave of tickles, watching as the cute little Pegasus was laughing almost to the point of crying.

 

I....could get used to this... Rainbow thought watching her new sister enjoying herself more than ever before. A small tear of joy rolled down Rainbow's cheek, for not only gaining a sisterly figure, something she lacked all her life, but never realized how much it could mean to her until now, and also for introducing her always-number one fan to the experience, something she also never had or liked pretty much until this point.