Author's Notes:

Hey people! New chapter alert! Sorry for the wait but it was a difficult chapter for me to write! I plan on making revisions later. In the meantime any mistakes I missed that you find, please point them out so I can fix them! It would help me greatly thanks!

Sweet Apple Acres was busy with ponies doing chores and farm related duties. Diamond Tiara was working with Big Mac tending to the animals in the barn, she was too small for apple bucking. Applejack and Twilight worked together to help Trixie with clearing out the south field of apples. Apple Bloom assisted Trixie picking up all the apples that missed the basket, much to Applejack's reluctance.

Apple Bloom watched as Trixie zipped around from tree to tree punching or kicking them to release their fruits. As she did so, Apple Bloom was absentmindedly picking up the fallen fruits not paying attention to where she was going. She ended up bumping into a tree dropping all the apples she was gathering on the dirt path. One rolled over to Trixie, tapping her hoof lightly startling her.

"Oh, son of a *buy some apples*!" she cursed kicking the ground. Trixie gasped, tripping over a root landing on her face. She came to a sliding halt just out of arm's reach of the yellow filly. They both looked at the other bewildered. The azure unicorn stood up dusting herself off casually before speaking.

"APPLE BLOOM WHAT A THING TO SAY!" she yelled flailing her hooves. "Where did you learn that kind of language?"

Apple Bloom was many things but she tried her best not to be a liar. She didn't want to be a snitch either but she knew if she didn't say where she heard that phrase from she'd be in deeper trouble with AJ.

Sighing she decided to fess up and face her coming punishment with dignity. "Ah, heard it from mah friend."

She didn't say which one so Trixie made a guess as to who she was referring to. "You mean Sweetie Belle?"

"NO!" she shrilled. "Scootaloo."

The older mare sighed, shaking her head. "Well, I won't tell if you don't." she said with a laugh.

Apple Bloom smiled at her nodding in agreement. The two continued to work in silence as time passed on. After an hour of working nonstop the two sat down to take a break, sitting under a tree bearing fruit still. Trixie wiped some sweat off her forehead and Apple Bloom adjusted her pink bow, but was unable to straighten it.

"Trixie, can ah ask you something?" the filly asked.

Trixie tapped her hooves, taking the bow off with her magic. "Sure thing. What do you want to know?" she asked pulling back Apple bloom's mane. She started to work the bow into her mane tying it as she spoke.

"I wanted to know, why did you stand up for me and Sweetie Belle?"

"When Trixie did what?" she asked back. "Trixie doesn't recall- oh, you mean from the other day!"

The filly nodded allowing Trixie to do her hair, sitting quietly.

"Well, Trixie certainly sees why you'd ask that considering what happened only a few days ago with the amulet. Trixie assumes that's what lead to the question, correct?"

Again the filly nodded.

"Well to be honest, Trixie would have done so even had she not be possessed by that horrid thing." she said flinging her own mane out of her face while still using her magic to hold Apple Bloom's hair as she tied the bow with her hooves. "Your sister wasn't being rational. She shouldn't have hit you like that." She sighed looping the bow around the filly's mane. "Apple Bloom, I'm going to tell you a secret about love."

Her ears perked up, listening intently to the mares words.

"Love can make you... it can change you. I was once like your sister. I hated ponies who believed in same sex relationships. It didn't matter if it was stallions and mares it was all the same to Trixie. She hated them. ALL of them." she growled doing the final loop in the bow and letting Apple Bloom's mane fall back.

"So what made ya'll change?" she asked, tugging her bow a few times. After she looked up to Trixie. She had a worried expression on her face. "If my sister's reaction was anything to go by then how did you change?"

Apple Bloom sighed

The mare smiled patting her on the head.

"I fell in love."

"Ya fell in love?"

"Yes Apple Bloom. Trixie fell in love." she placed her hooves on the fillies shoulders. Putting her mouth an inch from her ear, whispering, "Love makes you change. It's a wonderful thing. I feel you made the right choice choosing love over intolerance." she finished standing up and walked over to a tree. She then bucked it like an earth pony making all the apples fall to the baskets below. A few had fallen from the basket to the earth below. One rolled over to Apple Bloom who picked it up and placed it in her own basket.

"I fell in love with an earth pony who I worked with sometime ago. She changed me for the better."

She looked over at Trixie who was on her way to the next tree. Placing the small basket on her back, she followed her work buddy picking up any stray apples that lay in her path. All the while Apple Bloom wondered about what Trixie said. It seemed odd to her. This mare, Trixie, was so different than how she was when she first came to Ponyville. Apple Bloom remembered her sister going on about two she was humiliated by a unicorn mare, and then the ursa minor came to town.

Trixie was humiliated and run out of town. She hadn't seen this but heard of it. It was the talk of the town for the longest time. Even months later it would pop up in casual conversation here and there.

Then she returned to town with the Alicorn Amulet. Apple Bloom watched as she forced the town into submission and made the citizens do her bidding. She was scared of her might. Afraid she might hurt her and her friends. After she banished Twilight, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle hid in the clubhouse one night, and that was the night that brought them together. Ironically she owed it to Trixie for taking Rarity captive which forced Sweetie Belle to seek refuge at the clubhouse that night. Ah guess I really owe her one. the yellow filly thought, picking up another apple.

Once they finished for the day, half the field was picked clean. They carried all the apples back to the farm to be stored for later. Applejack came up to them a short time later, glaring at Trixie. The azure mare glared back at the farm pony placing the last of the apples into a storage room.

"Can Trixie help you?" she sniped.

She ignored Trixie's question and walked over to Apple Bloom, who cowered under her sister.

"Go wash up. Lunch is ready." She said nudging her little sister towards the house. Apple Bloom nodded silently running off towards the house. Then, Applejack got up into Trixie's face, pressing her nose against hers. "Ah thought I told you to stay away from mah sis." she hissed keeping her voice low.

Trixie pushed Applejack back with her hooves, not taking her eyes off her. "Trixie doesn't need your permission to talk to somepony she knows. Before you say anything, Big Mac told her to assist Trixie since you didn't say a thing before," Trixie said, brushing past Applejack.

She wasn't about to let her walk away from this though. With a mighty stomp on her tail, AJ halted Trixie in her tracks. The unicorn turned to face the orange mare with a frown.

"Ah don't appreciate your tone, missy," Aj turned to face Trixie, who kept her back to her.

The azure mare didn't flinch. Instead Trixie closed her eyes taking a deep calming breath. *Remember what Maud taught you Trixie*. Trixie thought to herself.

Applejack eyed the mare now realizing something was off about her. Then it dawned on her what Trixie was wearing. "Ya'll know this here's an apple farm, right? Not a rock farm?"

"Yes, Trixie knows Applejack." she replied

"Well, I would invite you to stay but I reckon you have other duties elsewhere," She said walking past Trixie, closing the storage room door behind her. "Let's go. I'll walk with you."

Trixie frowned. "I'll have you know Trixie can find her way around easily without help. There's no need to strain [/it]yourself," The unicorn walked up to the farm pony.

"That ain't what ah meant," Applejack sighed, shaking her head. "Look Trixie. You don't like me and I sure as hay don't like you. However I'm willing to work with you if only to get through the week without incident. So, can we agree to disagree?"

"You have a funny way of thinking Applejack. *Sigh.* Fine. Trixie will work with you provided you are kind to her and your sister."

Applejack stopped dead in her tracks, stomping the ground. "You... you have no right to tell me how to raise mah family!"

Trixie stopped with a look of shock on her face. She glared at the orange mare. "Oh so sorry, Trixie didn't know!" she said with heavy sarcasm. "Trixie didn't know it was also alright to beat a child in the street for being different! Maybe if you weren't so intolerant and oppressive your family would be better off, don't you think little hayseed?"

Applejack had to use all her willpower to refrain from lunging at the smart mouthed mare and beating her senseless. She took a calming breath, closing her eyes and inhaling, then releasing it in a zen like motion.

"Ah guess I wouldn't know since you're the one who oppressed the entire town for a week!"

"That was the Alicorn Amulet and Twilight forgave Trixie!" she rebutted.

"And while we're on the subject, let's not forget how you treated, Twi, in mah home!" she shoved her with both hooves. "You don't come to mah home and treat mah friends like that!" she shoved her again.

Trixie couldn't believe what she was hearing. Sure, she admits she was wrong to treat Twilight like she did after she forgave her. I should really apologize for that. But to say she could treat her own friends with distaste and intolerance and not her was also wrong. She wasn't about to let this fly.

Trixie turned to face Applejack looking directly into her eyes.

"YOU HYPOCRITE!" Trixie stepped forward shoving Applejack back. "You say Trixie can't treat your friends like trash, yet you clearly do so yourself! What kind of pony are you!? Why do you hate fillyfoolers so much!? WHY!?"

Applejack growled, pawing the dirt like a bull ready to charge. "Because-" She charged Trixie slamming all her weight into her. "- they ruin families!" She mounted Trixie and started beating her in the face. "They took mah ma and pa! And they're the reason Apple Bloom had to grow up without a mother or father!"She cried as tear flowed down her cheeks.

Trixie struggled to get Applejack off her. The assault on her face was intense but she wasn't about to allow this to go without a fight.

"You think you're the only one who lost somepony they loved because of that!?" Trixie headbutted Applejack in the head forcing her to clench her muzzle which was now red with blood. "I lost my father because of my mother running off with another mare to live in Las Pegasus! You have no right to judge me or any others!" Trixie yelled standing up, her face was bloody.

By now Applejack had recovered enough to stand on her own to stare down Trixie. The stood silent for a minute before AJ charged Trixie again. This time Trixie was ready. She charged her horn taking hold of Applejack in her pink aura. She flailed trying to break free, but to no avail. It was almost comical to watch.

"Are you ready to see reason?" Trixie said with a smirk on her face. "You can't break free!"

"That's what you think!" AJ rebutted. She reached for a tree nearby throwing an apple onto Trixie horn. This caused her to lose focus and lose her magical hold on Applejack letting her fall back to the earth below. Scrambling to her hooves she lowered her posture gritting her teeth as Trixie did the same after removing the apple from her horn.

"Ah lost mah family too! So you should understand why ah hate fillyfoolers!" she walked over gripping Trixie by the shoulders shaking her. "Why can't you see what they're like!?"

Trixie scoffed swatting her hooves away. "So we're the same then?"

"We aint nothing alike!"

"We both lost family. The difference between us is I've moved on. You clearly haven't. It's sad really," Trixie said walking past her standing under the Sweet Apple Acres sign. "You will drive your family away if you keep acting like this. Drive Apple Bloom away, along with your friends will too." she stated coldly, walking off the property.

"If you don't change you'll regret it later!" she called back as she walked towards town.

"Why can't she see that just because you're different doesn't make you a bad pony?" Trixie said to herself.

Applejack watched as the unicorn made her way off towards town. Wiping her nose she hacked spitting some excess blood to the side before turning to head home. She pulled her hat down to cover her face as to not get Big Mac to over react at her appearance. She looked one last time at the direction Trixie went, sighing, she continued down the path heading towards home.

"Why can't she see that all fillyfoolers all bad?"