A/N: If you reread chapter 9, there's a clue as to what I planned on doing with Applejack. Hope you don't mind a filler chapter. Please Leave A Review.

Summary: Applejack's been spending a lot of time in town lately. Harry wants to get to the bottom of this. How will he handle the fact that his mother is dating?

Chapter 10: Applejack's Dating?

"Hi Uncle Macintosh." Harry said one evening as the big red stallion was putting the plow away for the night. "Seen momma around?"

"Nnope." The stallion said. "She left the farm about four."

"Left?" Harry asked. "Weird. Momma's been going out in the evening a lot lately."

Aww dang. Big Macintosh thought. AJ didn't want him to know unless it turned serious.

"I know, I'll get Applebloom to help!" Harry said excitedly. "By Uncle Macintosh." The alicorn foal said as he flew off in search of his slightly older aunt.

"Aww dang." Big Mac said. "I hope AJ won't be too mad at me."

Harry wandered through town for a while trying to find either his mom or Applebloom. He found his mother first. In a window at Sugarcube Corner. With an UNKNOWN STALLION!

"What?" Harry asked as he watched his mother laugh with the tan coated, brown maned stallion. Then hold hooves with him across the table...

MLP THEME BREAK...

Harry walked into Sugarcube Corner. Applejack saw him and winced. "Aww shoot. I knew he'd find out sooner or later." She said to the stallion who turned to smile at Harry who glared a little right back. "Sugarcube." Applejack said to her son. "This is Time Turner." She introduced the stallion.

"Nice to meet you." Harry said through gritted teeth. Why was his mother with this unknown stallion? Possibly he was a pervert! Harry noted his Cutie Mark was in the shape of an Hourglass with sand in it.

"And you said he probably wouldn't take it well." Time Turner smiled at his Marefriend.

"Son, we've been dating for a couple of months now." Applejack revealed to Harry.

Dating? What does that mean? Harry wondered.

"What that means is, he's my Coltfriend." Applejack explained to her son holding Time Turner's hoof.

Harry's eyes widened. "COLTFRIEND?!" He teleported out to Suicide Gorge He screamed in frustration so loudly it echoed for several minutes. Making several creatures peek out of hiding places.

He teleported to Sweet Apple Acres.

"Harry? Big Mac said you where looking for me?" Applebloom asked as Harry stomped up the stairs. When he got to his and his mother's room he sat on his twin bed and sadly looked down. Remembering the talk he had with Big Macintosh when he got back.

"Comes a time in every mare's life when she wants a mate." The older stallion explained to his nephew. "Tain' t nothin' ya did wrong. She just wants a family. Now I want you to promise me you won't give this fella a hard time just cause he's datin' yer momma. Promise me?" Big Macintosh looked down.

"Yes Uncle Macintosh." Harry said sadly. "I promise." Then he started up the stairs.

(Insert heart breaking ballad about how Harry feels that if Applejack and Time Turner actually become a couple she'll forget about him. And if they have foals then he'll be pushed aside. Until he won't be able to take it any more and has to be sent away to Canterlot to his grandmother.)

Harry narrowed his eyes and looked up. "I have to break this up."...

BREAK

Harry tiptoed behind the twosome couple as they walked down to the lake for a picnic.

"You fell like we're being followed?" Time Turner turned back and Harry ducked into the bushes.

"Doesn't look like it." Applejack said as she too looked back as well. Hmm...I smell shenanigans, but I'll let it slide as long as if its not too bad...She thought. Harry had been pretty upset when she told him she had a beau.

Time Turner put their picnic basket down and got the blanket out of the basket. Applejack helped him unfold it on the grass. Harry sneaked up and got out their tasty, delicious apple pie, and replaced it...with a mud pie. Literal mud pie. He put mud and worms into a pie crust. He cackled darkly and put the mud pie in the apple pie's place.

After a tasty lunch of daisy sandwhich, hay chips and cider from Sweet Apple Acres, it was time for the piece de resistance. The Apple Family's world famous Apple Pie.

"PFFFFTTTT!" TimeTurner spat out the first bite.

"Hey!" Applejack protested as bits and crumbs got in her mane. "That's a special Apple Family recipe! What the hay is wrong with you?" Applejack demanded.

"Worms!" Time Turner said showing her his pie piece. Applejack took a close look. Earth Worms where wiggling around in gooey muck.

"Its a mud pie." Applejack said as she checked the pie. I knew I smelled Shenanigans. She thought to herself.

"I don't know what your trying to pull AJ." Time Turner said in slight anger. "But I got food poisoning once from a bad cupcake. Its not something I'd care to repeat. If your trying to poison me, we're through."

"YES." Harry pumped a leg in a victorious way. Bye bye stranger!

"Time Turner!" Applejack protested as Time Turner stomped away angrily.

Later that night, Harry went up to bed. How did he get away with the mud pie incident you may ask? Well it has to do with a simple cloning spell. A pony who uses this spell can be in two places at once. So while Applejack and Time Turner went on their date, Harry was seen with Granny Smith in the house doing chores. He happily jumped the last two steps and bounded to his and his mom's room. He heard...sniffling. Was his mom crying? He opened the door slowly. Sure enough. Applejack was on her bed. Harry walked up to her and saw that she was holding a picture of her and Time Turner together.

"Momma?" Harry asked in confusion.

"I liked him sugarcube." Applejack sniffled. "A lot. Now I didn't put that mud pie in the basket. I know I didn't." She said sadly. "Do you have any idea who did?" She asked.

Feeling akward about lying to his mother, the Element of Honesty, Harry backed away. He didn't mean to make his mother cry. He just wanted her attention again. "I just forgot...I promised Shady Daze and Featherweight...a study date! Yeah that's it! A study date! Bye!" He ran back downstairs and out the door. Intent on finding Time Turner and setting things straight. Harry ran through Ponyville trying to find the tan Earth Pony.

"Miss Mayor!" Harry ran up to her. She usually had an idea where somepony was. "Have you seen a earth pony called Time Turner around?" He asked the older mare.

The older mare thought for a moment. "You could try the clock tower." She pointed to the center of town. "Its been a little off lately and I just commissioned him to fix it."

"Thank you Mayor!" Harry called back as he ran off.

Harry found Time Turner with a visor on his head and screwdriver in hoof tweaking a few things in several gears. He looked up and saw Harry.

"What do you want?" He asked before turning back to his gears.

"Momma's sad. I don't like seeing her sad." Harry said simply. "It wasn't momma that put that mud pie in your basket." He confessed.

"And how would you know? You weren't there remember?" Time Turner asked in confusion. "Three ponies saw you doing chores with Granny Smith."

"Spell." Harry said simply. "I followed you and swapped the pies." He said guiltily rubbing his left front leg with his right front leg.

"You did? Why?" Time Turner asked.

"Jealousy I guess?" Harry shrugged. "You where taking up a lot of Mom's evening time. Sometime's she'd get home after I was already asleep. And I missed her!" He finally admitted.

"I guess we did go out alot these past two months." Time Turner admitted. A lot had happened in town too. Many fairs and movies in the movie house and carnivals. He took AJ to every one of them. "Here's the deal." He said. "I'll let up on taking AJ out so much, in return you give me a chance. Capiche?" He asked with his screwdriver pointing at Harry.

"Colt Scouts honor!" Harry saluted Time Turner.

And both kept to their promises. Time Turner begged AJ to take him back. under realization that if he hurt her, all bets where off between him and Harry and the colt would retaliate at full and greater force. But for now? Who knows what the future could bring...

Two Years Later...

Harry closes a photograph book after looking at several memorable moments. Birthdays, fishing trips, Parents Day at school, But this special book was of him and Time Turner. The books title? Me and My Dad.

To Be Continued...

After a good two week writers block, I finally finished Chapter 10. Chapter 11 will be Apple Family Reunion and then chapter 12 and 13 will be Crystal Empire where more of Harry's family's tragic past will be revealed and a secret about King Sombra and Celestia. Stay Tuned!

Please Leave A Review!

WriterPON3