Apple Bloom was heading back from Zecora's hut when she saw a stray chicken roaming around the edge of the Everfree.

"Again?" she gently poked the chicken back to the cottage. She then noticed the fence was broken again and saw Fluttershy helplessly trying to get the chickens in one line.

"Oh goodness. Did I count right? One, two, three..."

"And four! Come now, go inside!"

"Oh thank you Apple Bloom."

"No problem! Broken again?" Fluttershy nodded. "Let me handle it."

"Oh you don´t have to worry."

"It´s no worries, I´ll get back in one piece in ten minutes!"

It took her only eight minutes to get the job done. Fluttershy was already waiting her in the garden with a glass of juice and cookies.

"You did a wonderful job Apple Bloom."

"I have a talent. Hey, maybe that´s my special talent. Let´s see! No, no Cutie Mark." Fluttershy giggled at the filly antics. "Why does the fence keeps getting loose?"

"Oh I believe is my ferrets friends. When they got into the cottage they pass through the fence and force it open."

"Well tell them to stop doing that!"

"Um that would be a little rude of me..."

"No, it wouldn´t! You need to be firm with them! Watch! Hey you!" Apple Bloom yelled at the ferrets, who were eating in a corner of the garden. "Stop breaking the fence! Use the door like the other animals!"

The ferrets looked at each other and then laughed.

"Why you little..."

"Apple Bloom, watch your language."

Apple Bloom sit back, feeling humiliated.

****

The next day the ferrets were getting back into the garden when they stumbled into a very angry filly.

"I told you three to stop breaking the fence."

The ferrets responded with a series of squeaks. Apple Bloom couldn´t understand them but she got the point and wasn´t happy with their words.

"Apple Bloom, why don´t you com- OH HEAVENS! Stop that this instant! Stop!"

****

Fluttershy closed the medicine kit and with a stern tone said "I´m very disappointed with you Apple Bloom. Violence is never the answer."

Apple Bloom crossed her bandaged arms and protested. "They started it."

"Yes, I heard some of the things they said and I will talk to them. But you were also wrong for resorting to your hooves to win an argument."

"But you let them do as they want! Why don´t you punish them or forbid them for coming back?"

"And what would I gain with that? I would only lose three good friends. I need to make them understand but not being disrespectful to them." Fluttershy explained.

"...you´re too kind."

Fluttershy just shrugged.

"I hate when you do that."

"Do what?"

"When you shrug, when you low your head and hide behind your mane. You always do that instead of speaking up."

"I guess I´m not the type to speak up."

"But you could! You are the bravest pony that I know. You faced a dragon and saved me from a cockatrice. I think you´re the most wonderful pony that I know! I like you!"

Fluttershy wasn´t sure what to say. Something in Apple Bloom´s words, in her passion.

"I really really like you. I think you´re great Fluttershy and I hate when you shrug."

Apple Bloom went quiet, her cheeks. now matching her bow.

Fluttershy softly lifted her chin. "I´m sorry. I´ll try to not shrug so often."

Apple Bloom smiled. It was true that she hated watching Fluttershy shrug but when she smiled that made her very happy. More than anything.

"What do you say we call the ferrets and try to talk things over?" Fluttershy asked, still smiling.

Apple Bloom nodded. She still didn´t like those ferrets but if dealing with them was with took to keep Fluttershy smiling, she could talk to them. She could do that for her.

(Well, I liked the prompt! One of the Cutie Mark Crusaders having a crush on one of the Mane Six. I went with a more childish definition of “crush” so you be the judges. Since they´re stand-alone stories I think they work, right? Even if technically they happened all in the same time-frame.)