"Welcome to Sweet Apple Acres!" Granny Smith said as the Pie family made their way up to the house.

"Hello. I am Igneous Pie. This is my wife Cloudy, my daughters Marble and Limestone, and I believe you already know my two oldest." There was no warmth in Igneous' words. He spoke in a simple, matter of fact way.

"Sure have," Granny Smith said in a cheerful, upbeat voice. "Haven't seen too much of Maud. But Pinkie here . . ."

"Diane," Igneous corrected.

Granny looked at him in surprise. "Um, sure, 'Diane'. She's over here almost all the time. Her and my granddaughter have a band together. They practice in the barn over there."

Igneous spun around and glared at Pinkie. "Is this true Diane? You never mentioned being in a band. Praise and worship I assume?"

"He he. Um, well . . .," before Pinkie could finish she was interrupted by Big Mac.

"Howdy sir. I'm Macintosh. Nice to meet you." Big Mac extended his hand and Igneous shook it. "You can call me Big Mac. Everyone else does."

"Nice to meet you as well Macintosh. May we come in?"

Big Mac looked back at Granny who just shrugged. Both were having a hard time getting a line on Igneous. At least a positive one.

"Follow me," Granny said and led them inside.

In the dining room, Apple Bloom was setting the plates and silverware on the table while AJ brought the food out.

"These are my other two grand babies. Apple Bloom here is setting the table and Applejack is brining the food out," Granny said. "Now sit down and take a load off."

"Thank you very much Ms. Apple." Igneous looked around a bit confused. "Ms. Apple, where are kids' parents at?"

Granny stopped and bit her lip. "They've done passed on."

"I am sorry to hear that. But they are with the Lord now."

Granny looked at him for a second and just replied, "Ah, yes. Anyway, I couldn't ask for three better grand children. They've all stepped up around here; especially Big Mac." Big Mac just blushed.

Everyone sat down at the table. Pinkie and her family on one side, AJ, Apple Bloom, Big Mac on the other, with Granny Smith at the head.

"Well, enjoy everyone. We've all been working hard on this here dinner. Most everything comes from our farm here. Apples is our business, but we also like to grow our own food as well. Nothing's better than fresh, home grown, home made food. Eat," Granny said full of pride.

"Ms. Apple, aren't we going to say grace first?" asked Igneous somewhat troubled. To him prayer was the first thing you did at a meal. It was automatic. The fact that Granny would talk and tell everyone to eat before the prayer made him nervous.

Granny looked at him surprised again. She was starting to get annoyed by this man; but for the sake of Big Mac and Maud, she would make do. "Ah yes. Sure. Mr. Pie, will you do us the honor?"

"Everyone bow your head. Dear Lord, we come to you humble today; knowing you are the great provider of all our needs. We thank you for this food we are about to receive. We thank you for our lives, family, and all our blessings. And we are thankful for the grace given to us through the death, burial and resurrection of your son, Christ Jesus; without whom we would all be lost sinners on our way to hell. To you be all the glory forever. Amen. Now we may eat."

The Apples gave a quick look to Granny that said, who is this guy and what do we do? Granny just gave her best fake smile and said, "Well, thank you Mr. Pie. That was right lovely. Now as he said, dig in."

Everyone started loading their plates. There was ham loaf, mashed potatoes with pepper gravy, candied yams, green beans, corn on the cob, and fresh from the oven bread. They all started eating and were instantly impressed.

"Ms. Apple, everything is delicious," Cloudy said. "I especially like the beans. May I please have the recipe?"

"Sure honey. See me before you leave and I'll write it down. You may want to wait until the desserts. I'm sure you find a few more recipe's you'll be wanting to take along." Granny was now smiling. She loved it when people complimented her food. The sharing of food is one of the most loving things you can do in this world. To see it appreciated made her feel great inside.

"We're not really dessert people Ms. Apple. We indulge occasionally, but it's not something we have in everyday life," Igneous said and gave his wife a somewhat disapproving look.

Granny swallowed hard. This man was starting to work her last nerve. But she knew she had to be nice. "As you wish."

Igneous looked at Big Mac. "So Macintosh, how did you and Maud meet?"

"Well, she saw me while she was dropping Pinkie and Sonata off at school one day and asked me out." He gave Maud a quick smile but her face showed no expression.

"Oh, she asked you out?" Igneous looked over at Maud in surprise.

"I thought he was cute," Maud said emotionlessly.

Igneous cleared his throat. "Yes, well, so what do you do? Are you in school?"

"Nope. I graduate high school this year and I don't plan on going to college. This farm is ours. We used to own another back in South Carolina, but sold that and moved out here to run just this one. But this is our family business, Granny's getting older now and needs to retire . . ."

"Oh hush now child. I'm old but I'm not dead. I can still manage," Granny said with false indignation.

"Now Granny, you're still going strong for an eighty year old, but you're still eighty. You've done your part; it's time to rest now," Big Mac replied. "Anyways, with Ma and Pa being gone, it's up to me to step up and take over."

Igneous was very pleased with Big mac's answer. "Very noble of you son. I like your work ethic and you deciding to help carry on the family business. I own a mining company. I want Maud to join and someday take it over, but she just doesn't want to." When he finished it was impossible for anyone not to hear the disgust in his voice at Maud not joining the family business. He then turned back to Big Mac. "But don't you think taking a business course would help you out?"

"Granny's been filling me in on all that. She showed me all the paper work needed, taxes, how to hire, gover'ment regulations. She prepared me pretty well. And I've met all our partners, store owners, food processors, distributers, I have a good working relationship with all of them. I think I'll be good. And it'll take pressure of AJ so she can go to college."

"I told you, I aint going to no college," AJ said in annoyance. Her plan was to get through high school and join the farm just as Big Mac had done.

"Now sis, we've already talked about this; you and Apple Bloom are going to college, whether you like it or not. You need a proper education. I can run this farm. You two might want something different. If you decide to come back, fine; but you still need to go just to see what's out there."

"Oh I need to go but you don't? How come you get to decide but I don't?" AJ was legitimately mad at this point. She felt her brother had no right to force her or tell her what to do. He was her big brother, not her dad.

"Children please," Granny interrupted. "Not at the dinner table and not in front of guests."

"Sorry Granny," they both said.

"Well I am very pleased with your dedication to family Macintosh; but did you say you just graduated from high school?" Igneous was concerned.

"Yup."

"So how old are you?"

"Eighteen. I'll be nine teen in October."

Igneous looked at Maud. "You do realize you're four years older than he is?"

Maud just looked at her father. "I do have an understanding of basic math," she said and went back to eating.

Igneous felt like yelling at Maud but kept his composure. "Well, with God, all things are possible. You do come across as a very nice young man with a good head on his shoulders. I admire how family oriented you are. You have my approval to date Maud."

Big Mac looked at Maud, not knowing what to say. Was her dad being serious? They were both adults; needing parental approval seemed not just old fashioned but insulting. He turned back to Igneous and simply said, "Thanks."

Igneous smiled. "In fact, I would hope all my daughters would meet a boy just like you."

"But Pinkie's a lesbian," Apple Bloom said confused.

Everyone stopped eating. Pinkie's eyes bulged out of her head and her face grew deathly pale. Even Maud's face registered a slight emotional response. AJ kicked her sister under the table.

"OUCH! Whatch ya do that for Applejack?"

Igneous spoke very slowly, doing all he could to hold back his anger. "Little girl, do you know what that word means?"

"Sure, OUCH! Applejack! Stop it!" Apple Bloom didn't know why her sister kept kicking her, but she was getting sick of it. She then turned back to Pinkie's dad. " A lesbian is a girl who loves other girls. That's Pinkie. She's dating Sonata. In fact they've been going out longer than Big Mac and Maud."

Igneous slowly turned to Pinkie who just sat frozen. "Diane Pinkimenia Pie, is this true?" he asked in a smoldering rage.

Pinkie said nothing for a while. What was she going to do? She was terrified of her father. Terrified of him yelling at her. Terrified of him cutting off support to her and Maud. Terrified of being cut off from the rest of her family. Then she thought about Sonata. She thought about the old board games they played, playing catch and hide and seek, watching cartoons together, the weird games like reverse charades they had made up, building sound castles on the beach. She thought about Sonata's smile, the glow in her eyes when she was happy, how it felt to hug her, kiss her, the comfort of falling asleep beside her. She thought about love.

"DIANE! IS THIS TRUE!" Igneous demanded.

Pinkie turned to her dad with a smile still on her face. "Yes, it is. I love and am in a relationship with Sonata."

All of Pinkie's family gasped. Igneous stood up, his face a deep, bright crimson. "How dare YOU! YOU HAVE BETRAYED GOD, US, EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR! Homosexuality is an abomination unto the Lord! You have given your soul over to Satan to burn in the fires of Hell forever! You and that harlot. And to think we stayed in the same house as you, your young sisters, sleeping under the same roof with you and that degenerate."

"Well Dad," Pinkie said standing up. Anger now boiled inside of her. It replaced all the fear she had and now she was ready for war. "I hate to say this, but the bed you and Mom have been sleeping used to be our bed. Don't worry though, we cleaned the sheets for ya."

Igneous shook in rage. He wanted to grab a hold of his daughter, to strike her across the face for being so vulgar. "You," he said in a low, rumbling voice that made the others' blood run cold. "You dare speak TO ME LIKE THAT! To speak so vile in front of your mother and sisters; TO SPEAK THAT WAY IN FRONT OF ME! You have become a demon possessed degenerate! Unnatural, UNCLEAN!"

"Maybe your just confused honey," Cloudy spoke up. She hated to see her family fight and was looking for any way to defuse the situation. "Maybe you're just really good friends?"

"Mom; AJ and I are really good friends. I know what really good friends are. And you don't burry your head in the nether regions of your good friends!" She addressed her statement to her mother but looked at her father the whole time.

"THAT'S IT! YOU ARE MOVING HOME WITH US!" Igneous yelled.

"No I'm not! I am not 'demon possessed' or unnatural or unclean or any of that stuff. I am a human being who's in love with another human being who loves me! Who are you or your God to judge me? He made me, according to you. But not in His image. If God's a man, then I can never be in God's image as a female. But forget just that, He made me, as I am. How can He make me and then say I'm a sinner and going to Hell? Especially if He is perfect and loves me?"

"You are blinded by the enemy. Your mind has been tainted. You're coming back home with me and getting your mind set straight and that is it!"

"Oh shut up you Bible quoting fool!" Everyone turned around and looked at Granny Smith who had just yelled that at Igneous. "I had my fill of Bible thumpers when I was a little girl, now shut the hell up."

"How d . . ." Igneous started but Granny cut him off.

"My house, my rules." She then got up. "Back when I was in my twenties, I fell in love with a wonderful, handsome, black man. Jacob was his name. My god was he perfect. I wanted to marry him. But my family was dead set against. Even had all the Bible verses lined up to prove whites and blacks mixing was against God's will. Now I was lucky, I did meet another man, their Grandfather, who I loved as much. But that was LUCK! And now, here you are, doing to this sweet girl what my folks did to me. Well I aint havin' it! Come in my house, acting a fool. I know those girls, love `em as my own, and they love each other. Half the world would be lucky to find a relationship like they have. All the gall dern hate, a lot of it generated by that darn book you've been talkin' about, in the world, we should cherish love where ever we find it; not lookin' for a way to stomp it out of existence!"

"That's it! We're leaving, all of us. Cloudy, Limestone, Marble, Diane, M . . . where's Maud?"

Everyone stopped and looked around. Maud and Big Mac were gone. The two had slipped away during the argument. Now no one knew where they were. Everyone was questioning everyone else when Apple Bloom said she heard a noise. It was the soft sound of something moving upstairs. Everyone left the table and went upstairs to see the source of the sound.

They walked the upstairs hall, listening. The closer they got to Big Mac's bedroom, the louder it got. Just before they got to his door it stopped. Curious, Granny went up and opened the door. They all gasped when they saw Big Mac and Maud laying in his bed, naked, together, covered in sweat.

It's ok," Maud said in her dead pan, "We're done. Oh and his nick name; 'Big Mac' is highly appropriate."

"Yup." Big Mac just said.

AJ slapped her forehead and said, "Oh lord!"

Granny laughed and Apple Bloom looked confused and said, "I don't get it."

"You better not!" said AJ.

"I, I can't believe this. I have one daughter who's a reprobate and another who's a whore. No, you're both coming home now!" Igneous said.

"Why? Down stairs you was fussin' your one daughter didn't like boys, well this one clearly does!" Granny couldn't help but laugh as she finished. "As long as they're being safe, just let the young ones be."

"It doesn't really matter, I'm already pregnant," Maud said in a matter of fact tone.

Once again everyone gasped. Granny said, "Big Mac, get your butt over here now!"

"Happy now?" Igneous asked smugly.

"Shut up! Mac, over here, NOW!"

"But Granny, I'm naked." Big Mac protested.

"Boy, I've changed your diapers. I've done seen all you got to offer; now over here!"

"It's much bigger now," Maud said

"Will you quit talking about my brother's pen . . OH DEAR LORD! HOW THE HELL CAN YOU WALK WITH THAT THING?" AJ said in horror as Big Mac got out of bed to walk over to Granny and she saw (by accident) what Maud was talking about.

"I'm surprised you can walk Maud," Pinkie added.

"Oh my, I didn't know they could get that big," Cloudy said in shocked, yet somewhat interested tone.

"That's it! All the young-uns and Pinkie with me." AJ ordered. Everyone left except for Igneous, Cloudy, Granny, Big Mac, and Maud.

Big Mac got to Granny who slapped him across the face and said "Boy, you know better than that!" Then she gave him a hug. "Congratulations Mac," she then said.

"What is wrong with you?" Igneous asked, furious.

"What? Aint no use crying over spilt milk. The kids are gonna be parents. Young parents. They're gonna need all the love and help we can give. Besides, they're both over eighteen; nuthin' we could say about it anyhow," said Granny.

"I am Maud's father, there's always something . . ."

"SHUT UP!" Maud screamed at the top of her lungs. She got out of bed and Igneous turned away. "NO! You look at me! You and your god, killed me inside. You crushed all they joy and love I ever had out of me. I am emotionally dead inside because of you. That's why I took Pinkie with me; to save her from that fate.

"I'm the one who didn't want to use a condom. I wanted to feel dirty and slutty and sexy and I just wanted to feel SOMETHING! ANYTHING! Anything other than this continuous, empty, numbness. You have no idea how much harm you have done. Rejoice in the Lord? Your lord is a sadist and so are you. You have no love in heart and did the best to ensure I didn't either. Guess what?- until recently, you succeeded. But no more.

"Do what you got to do. Cut off financial support if you want. We'll survive. I'll survive. And you will never, EVER, see your grandchild. Do you understand?"

Igneous just looked at his daughter. "You are of age, Pinkie . . "

"Pinkie stays with me. I've already contacted a lawyer about the emancipation process for a minor. She will sue you, she will win, and all your church will know what fallen daughters you have raised. And don't even think about taking this out on Lime and Marble or I'll get them as well and you'll have no one!" Maud growled her last sentence. "Now, once again, do you understand?"

"Yes." It was all Igneous could say.

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Pinkie crawled into bed beside Sonata. The bed was theirs again. As soon as they had gotten home, her parents packed up and left. In fact, the whole house was theirs; Maud had gone back to spend the night with Big Mac. Sonata grabbed Pinkie, pulled her on top of her, and started kissing her.

"I missed you Pinata," Sonata said when she took a break from kissing Pinkie.

Pinkie looked at Sonata's smiling face and her heart was filled with joy. "I missed you to Sonapie."

"So we're really going to be Aunts?" Sonata asked with happy anticipation.

"Looks like," Pinkie said with a laugh.

"You know we're going to spoil that kid silly; right?"

"I wouldn't have it any other way."

Author's Notes:

I didn't want to do a 3 parter, but when I was writing yesterday, I got so tired and sleepy, I knew I couldn't continue on. Also this section was so long, it might have been too much put into one single part (or second part ). And I did change canon a bit. I know Pinkie's full name is Pinkamina Diane Pie. I did swap the middle and first names around. I felt "Diane" worked better in the general theme and feeling of the story, and while similar; the two Pinkies are different entities. So, in this world, the "Diane" could come first.

Alright dear readers, next week, Fluttershy then we start the third and final act. Stay tuned! Or not; it's up to you.