“Rainbow, Ah’m home.”

“Up here, Applejack,” Fluttershy called from the top of the stairs a few seconds later, “Rainbow’s feeling much better.”

“Ah’ll be up shortly, gotta put away some… Where’s the couch?”

Fluttershy and Rainbow’s giggling were barely audible to Applejack. “What’s goin’ on, girls?”

“I’ll tell ya when ya get up here, hon. And bring those freckles, we gotta tell ya something totally awesome,” Rainbow called.

Applejack shrugged and set her saddlebags by the door, taking out a small wrapped box with a bow on it, a bottle with a cork in it, and a small bag with vegetables in it. “Ah brought you a snack, comin’ up.”

Ascending the stairs, she stopped at the top and readied herself for anything that Rainbow might have to tell her, or that she may see. She looked to her room door, just cracked, and walked to it, bumped it with her nose, and looked around. Rainbow was lying on the bed with Fluttershy, both facing the door and wearing healthy smiles.

“AJ! C’mere, Fluttershy has to tell you something,” Rainbow said quickly. Fluttershy, in an uncharacteristic manner, punched Rainbow in the foreleg with a ‘shush’.

“Well, somepony’s feeling better. Brought ya some magic potion from Twilight and a gift from the farm.”

“Oh boy, chores,” Rainbow sighed sarcastically.

“Dash,” Fluttershy said softly, in a scolding tone.

“Oh, I’m just kidding. What’d ya get me?!”

“Well, I dunno if ya deserve it, talkin’ like that to the mare ya love,” Applejack said stomping her hoof and leaning forward, puffing her chest.

“Hey,” Rainbow said loudly opening her wings and flying quickly, landing almost chest to chest with Applejack, “I can talk how I want to who I want. You’re not my boss.”

“Ah am if’n ya want yer gifts.”

“Give ‘em to me or Ah’ll take ‘em.”

“Ya ain’t tough enough, filly.”

Rainbow’s feathers bristled as she grit her teeth and looked ready to fight. “Who ya callin’ a filly?

“The only one I see in front a me.”

“G-girls, don’t fight. Oh my.”

Both reared and readied their forehooves to strike, only to land into a tight hug. Fluttershy let a sigh of relief as she sat taller again.

“Sugarplum, I’m so glad yer better. Ya had me as worried as a hen in a timberwolf den,” she said moving her face into Rainbow’s mane.

“Babe, I’d never leave ya, not like that. Sorry for scaring you,” she said quietly as she inhaled Applejack’s scent from a day of work. She shivered slightly. “I told ya to shower ‘fore I saw ya.”

“Getting turned on?”

“Eeyup,” she replied starting to kiss Applejack’s neck. Her tail began to swish and raise as Applejack leaned back and nipped Rainbow’s ear.

“Um, girls, I’m still here.”

“Oh,” they said in unison, landing on all fours and looking to her with a slight blush.

“So, uh, ya had news?”

“Where’s my stuff, first?”

Applejack turned around and slowly knelt forward in front of Rainbow in an effective tease and show, grabbing the box in her teeth. “Here ya go, open it up,” she encouraged.

Rainbow sat down and giggled in apprehension as she tore the ribbon off of the box and opened it.

“Oh. Paper, thanks AJ,” she said crestfallen.

“Take ‘em out, silly. Ah was gonna wait ta give ‘em to ya, but this’ to remind you of why yer the best.”

Rainbow reached in and took the paper out. Her eyes widened as her mouth opened slowly while smiling. “Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh! Tickets to the next Wonderbolts show in Maretonia! Thank you so much AJ,” she screamed and took to the air.

“Well, somepony’s feelin’ a might better.”

“Yes, we spent the whole day talking and drinking tea. She wanted to wait for you to get back before she ate though.”

Rainbow was hugging and petting her tickets. “She’ll be busy fer a minute, what’s goin’ on that ya had to tell Rainbow first?”

Fluttershy blushed and shuffled on the bed then nodded and straightened her back. “Smell this,” she said firmly pointing her right hoof to Applejack.

“Uh, okay? Oh, new hoof polish? Scented like… Cotton candy?”

Rainbow turned to look at the scene by the bed, with her best friend letting her lover smell her hoof with a determined look.

“Didn’t know you for the scented polish kind, but it’s good, almost wanna taste.”

Rainbow burst into her trademark laughter and held her sides.

“What the hay’s gotten into her, ‘Shy?”

Fluttershy pulled her leg back and hid it under herself, beginning to blush again, she turned her head to hide her eye behind her mane, keeping a distant view on her orange friend.

“‘Shy, what’s goin’ on? You two aren’t pranking me, are ya?”

“P-P-Pinkie. A-and. Oh, this’ too good,” Rainbow said wiping a tear from her eye, “go on, tell her,” she said hugging her tickets to her chest again, grinning widely.

“Me and Pinkie ..did stuff.”

“What was that, Sugarcube?”

“Me and Pinkie did stuff.”

“‘Shy, ya gotta speak up. You can trust me, I won’t laugh like some ponies.”

Rainbow smirked, but to Fluttershy, which raised Applejack’s curiosity.

“Me and Pinkie did stuff.”

“What kinda stuff?”

Fluttershy looked down, burying her face in the pillow beneath her, and mumbled the answer.

“Oh Celestia, just please tell me ‘fore I get it from Rainbow.”

“Please don’t,” Fluttershy said looking up into Applejack’s eyes. “Pinkie and me, did some stuff a couple nights ago.”

“A couple nights?! You haven’t washed your hoof since then?!”

“Be quiet Rainbow, she’s talkin’. Go ahead, Ah’m listening.”

“And, that’s about it,” she finished sheepishly.

“Well, what’d ya two do. Ohh, I get it. Woah! You and Pinkie finally,” Applejack raised an eyebrow suggestively.

“Oh, n-no, not really, I mean, oh gosh.”

“They masturbated to each other, at the same time,” Rainbow blurted. Fluttershy inhaled sharply and looked between the two mares.

“Congrats, ‘Shy, you’re finally almost to the next level. Wait, if ya did it in front of each other… Wow, cotton candy,” she said wiggling her nose before she shook her head, “how’d yer get her smell on ya?”

Rainbow flew over and looked to Fluttershy. “Yeah, how did that happen? I can’t believe that I didn’t ask.”

Fluttershy’s blush took over her body, turning her a very light shade of pink from nose to tail.

“Holy shit,” Rainbow said staring wide eyed at Fluttershy, garnering a glare from Applejack and a squeak from Fluttershy, who returned her face to the pillow, wings over her head.

“Rainbow Dash, that language is not welcome in this house.”

“AJ, don’t ya get it? Fluttershy hoofed her. Fluttershy hoofed Pinkie Pie! ‘Shy, I didn’t know you had it in you to be in her like that,” Rainbow said in a steady voice.

Applejack took a reactive step back and looked to Fluttershy. Her heart began pounding in her chest as the imagery took hold. Pinkie laid back, legs splayed open with that flexibility of hers on Fluttershy’s bed. Fluttershy lying parallel with her left hoof on Pinkie’s teats and her right slowly entering the extra pink folds of…

She shook her head and noticed Rainbow staring with the same level of shock and awe as she was.

Both of them stuttered and mumbled, trying to find words to say. Anything to say to Fluttershy. Applejack was the first to speak again.

“Uh, um, well congrats. Wanna come over for one of our parties?” she finally asked.

“Yeah! That’d be awesome, us four? That’s,” Rainbow began counting, “only two left of our super group and then-”

“Rarity would never be a fillyfooler,” Applejack said flatly.

“Well, there’s Twilight still.”

“She was smilin’ like I’d never seen, talkin’ about she found a stallion and she kicked them other mares out the same hour. Somethin’ about you havin’ a talk with her,” she looked forcefully at Rainbow, “Rainbow. What’d you say to her?”

“Well, I didn’t tell her to turn straight! I just suggested something about her trying a rut, or something, I don’t really remember cuz I was all achy.”

“Well, then that’d be four of us six, D and M, and maybe Cloud Kicker,” Applejack said before she was interrupted by Rainbow making a ‘gross’ face and Fluttershy looking up, her face apple red, in surprise, her eyes begging ‘no’.

“Okay, no more Cloud Kicker. But the six of us should have some fun in this house, try some games. Like ‘meet the stallion’, right Dashie?”

Rainbow frowned and stuck out her tongue. “Not gonna happen.”

“We’ll see.”

“Anyway,” Rainbow said turning to Fluttershy, “so, this’ a big occasion, and I was wondering if, maybe, I could smell your hoof again?”

A second later a pillow hit her in the face.

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