Author's Note: More Harry in Canterlot this chapter! This will focus less on the Mane 6's problems and more on Harry! Will include Fancy Pants and Blueblood!

Chapter 32: Bridle Gossip Part 2

Harry woke in his suite at the castle. His grandmother's sun poking through the curtains. His new phoenix Peewee was yawning sleepily on his perch.

"Good morning Peewee. Harry said with a yawn as he got out of his super comfy silk sheets. He made his way over to the vanity desk and tried to make his hair presentable. But as always it stubbornly stayed messy as ever.

"Why won't you stay flat?!" Harry screamed in frustration. "I'm the freaking Crown Prince and I can't get my mane hair flat!"

He grumbled as he made his way to his private bath, the maid for his suite having drawn him a very hot bath half an hour ago. Now it was still hot, but the room was steamy. Just how he liked it. Harry sighed in content as he lowered his body into the large bathtub the size of a small 6 foot long swimming pool. He made bubbles with his breath as he lowered his muzzle into the water while he thought about the events of the previous day.

Momma had no right. Harry thought in anger as he made some angry splashes. "She had NO RIGHT!"

"My Prince are you alright?" His maid asked with a knock on rhe bathroom door.

"I'm fine Miss Clean Shine!" Harry called. He looked over the tub's edge. Water had spilled over a good two feet during his little tirade. After making sure he was squeaky clean he wrapped a towel around his back and tummy with his magic and started brushing his teeth.

How dare momma bring up...her...the mommy I'll never know. Much less shame me with her name. "How dare she!" He slammed his hooves on the counter and the resulting shock waves made the glass he was using "Ouch!" Harry had stepped on a piece of glass on his front right hoof.

Clean Shine burst through the door. Seeing the wound sje rummaged through a medicine cabinet. "Let me see." The Maid/Nanny said in a kind tone as she held a pair of tweezers in one hoof while she layed down, careful to avoid glass. She carefully removed the piece of glass and opened the wound in the process.

"Now this will sting a little."

"I grew up on a farm. I'm no stranger to cuts and scrapes." Harry pointed out as Clean Shine held antiseptic spray. She gave him an extra spritz for the sass. "Sadist." Harry hissed.

"Go get ready for breakfast young colt." Clean Shine ordered.

"Bluebloods not here is he?" Harry asked. His nephew and his newlywed husband where on a two month honeymoon in Baltimare.

"Yes. The honeymoon ended a week ago. Now go get ready for breakfast with your family."

Soon Harry found himself going down to the Royal Family dining hall. A room soley for those born and married into the Royal Family. Of course non Royal Family ponies could eat in here if invited. Twilight Sparkle ate here during her years before moving into the older mares dorms at Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns.

"What happened?" Celestia asked her grandfoal when he came to breakfast.

"Stepped on glass from a broken rinse glass." Harry waved it off. "I've gotten worse on the farm."

Blueblood scoffed as he cut up his pancakes. "Which wouldn't have happened if he had been raised by myself and my husband."

"Blueblood I warned you-" Celestia started before Harry cut her off.

"I swear on my birth momma's grave if you make one more crack about my family-!"

"Harry!" Celestia said in shock. Its fine, he's just angry at Applejack. Not that I can blame him. The Sun Princess reasoned with herself.

"Darling leave the lad alone." Fancy Pants said as he took a sip of orange juice. "If he wants to stay with the Apple family we have no right to try and change his mind."

"I may end up staying in Canterlot actually."

Even Celestia stared at the foal as he nibbled on hay bacon.

"Well I'm 9 now. I'm sure I'll probably be needing all kinds of lessons preparing for my eventual coronation. So why not move to the castle permanently? Especially after...yesterday...I don't think I could face her again." He said sadly.

"What happened yesterday?" Blueblood asked his aunt.

"Applejack shamed him using both myself and Lilliana." Celestia told the couple who gasped.

"What on Equestria could have made Applejack do such a thing?" Fancy Pants asked the only male alicorn in existence.

"I've been learning about potions from a zebra who lives in Everfree. Master Zecora is kind of a boogeypony who freaks everypony out when she comes to town"

Meanwhile in Ponyville...

"How dare you!" Zecora shouted after Harry's simmering potion had been destroyed. He had worked so hard on it for weeks! "You ruin my and mine student's work then you rudely accuse ME of being a jerk!?"

"Student?" Twilight asked. Then noticed the textbooks and reference guides. "You mean Harry?"

"Of couse she means Harry!" Applebloom snapped. "If Applejack would have stopped yellin' at him and asked why he was with Zecora she would have found out Princess Celestia asked her to teach him about potions, poisons and their antidotes!"

Applejack looked down in shame. The tiny mare clearly ashamed of her actions.

"The cure for poison joke is simple. Ya just gotta take a bubble bath." Applebloom told the mares.

A couple of hours later, the mane 6 where getting their baths, Applebloom and Zecora smiled at each other as they added the bath mix.

"Now that our ailments are all cured we still have one problem to fix." Twilight said in the library later.

"Yeah, Applejack's big screw up." Rainbow Dash glared.

"Twilight!" Spike came running down the stairs.

"Another letter from the Princess?" Twilight asked then she noticed his sad expression as he shook his head.

"Just read it." Spike said wuietly.

"From the desk...of Prince Harry?!"

"What's it say?" Pinkie asked excitedly as the rest gathered around

"Dear mother and friends, I will be remaining in Canterlot for an indefinite amount of time. I don't think I can face HER again." Twilight said with a gasp. "Prince Harry, Heir to the throne of Celestia, Crown Prince of Equestria." She then studied the letter as Applejack and the other mares gasped.

"Okay. Its okay." Applejack said as she paced. "He's just mad at me."

"Yeah. We get that Applejack." Twilight said as the adoptive mother of the Crown Prince paced nervously.

"I suppose a trip to Canterlot is in order?" Rarity asked the girls. "We can't let the little dear brood over this unpleasantness forever can we?"

"To Canterlot!" Pinkie Pie shouted eagerly.

"Girls we can't just show up unannounced!" Twilight said in frustration.

"So write the Princess a quick letter." Rainbow Dash said with a wave of her hoof. "I'll go get the train tickets! Come on Fluttershy!"

"Spike. Take a letter." Twilight ordered. Spike brought up a quill and scroll. "Dear Princess Celestia, The girls and I are coming to Canterlot immediately. And yes, we're bringing Applejack. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."

Later that afternoon, Applejack was telling Granny Smith and Big Macintosh about what happened.

"I messed up Granny." Applejack said in dismay. "I messed up real bad."

"Damn right ya did." Big Mac glared at the younger mare. "Ya don't shame a foal usin' a dead parent Applejack."

"Big Mac's right. Ya made yer own bed with this un' Applejack. Ya gotta fix it yerself. We cain't bail ya out of it."

Apllejack left for the train station with her head hanging.

"Our bushel may have just lost an apple." Granny said as they watched Applejack leave.

"Eeyup." Big Mac hung his head sadly.

To Be Continued...

Next is the finale! Will Aj be able to repair the broken relationship with her son?

Find out next time!

Next episode will be Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000!