Author's Notes:

Author’s Note:
This chapter has a sexually graphic scene. You’ve been warned.

That said, Thank you in a huge way to Mocha Star for being this chapters Guest Editor while Thunderblast deals with things in the real world.

We moved on from the town once we had our supplies. The Royal Guard officers and I agreed it would make it easier on the townsfolk to not have too many troops and law enforcement about. It would help them get back to a daily and somewhat normal routine that way.

Appleloosa was a three day stayover and it was packed with work. We met with Sheriff Silverstar along with his two deputies, Fetter Keys and Star Spur. It was made pretty clear how thankful they were to have more help out in the badlands as their force was stretched pretty thin.

We spoke of what happened in Dust Gulch and all three were horrified to learn of what was going on. Silverstar pointed out that this was exactly the reason Equestria needed myself and the Canterlot Rangers.

I also met with Chief Thunderhoof himself and to my surprise, Stomping Hoof; the council member. They introduced me to Little Strong Heart and many of the others of the buffalo tribe. After we sat down, had a meal, and with Cort and LD weighing in on things, we worked through several small problems the tribes were having.

The trip back was uneventful, except for the warm welcomes and farewells we got in the four towns we stopped in. Word was out in the land, The Equestrian Rangers carried the law with them. It was nice to see the respect and the genuine smiles of ponies when we came into their town.

We arrived back in Ponyville around six at night and planned to park the wagon behind Twilight's Castle, then we’d all just head to our homes and unpack in the morning, then get started on paperwork. However, finding as we came around the corner, Golden, Jackie, Twilight, and to my surprise Redheart were waiting for us with big smiles.

AJ headed right for me, rearing up onto her hind legs and planting her forehoof on my chest. This brought her to around four foot nine in height; just a foot or so shorter than me. It also meant I could slide an arm around her, lean in, and press into a kiss that was deep and real. My heart hammered in my chest as I thought, God, how I had missed her.

Once more, in the back of my head, the doubt was silent. I really did love her; who cares if she is a pony and I’m a human. I poured myself into that welcome home kiss and lamented the second it broke so she could take a breath with me. Looking into each others eyes we both smiled.

“Welcome home, Shane,” the voice of the orange angel in my arms spoke.

I glanced up to see Golden breaking a kiss with Cort, but the other one made me blink. Redheart and LD were locked in a kiss that I would say rivaled the one AJ gave me. I blinked a few more times before Jackie looked over then back to me as she dropped back down to all fours.

“Yea, they’ve been dating fer a few weeks b’for y’all left on yer trip”

Shaking my head and looking back down at her I just blinked. “Well, I guess you learn something new every day,” I looked past Jackie and nodded, “and good evening to you, Princess Twilight.” I made sure to add in the ‘princess’ part just to poke a bit of fun at her.

“You missed out on all the fun, Shane” Twilight chuckled, “I’ll let Applejack fill you in on the book signing and the joys that came along with it.”

I lifted a eyebrow and looked at Jackie who had a smirk on her face. Ignoring that Redheart and LD were still going at it I smirked back at her and made to leave.

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Back at the farm, I was pushing the last of my gear into the closet. Jackie had insisted that we just get it now and not put it off til tomorrow. She had helped me haul it back here and now was putting away a few things in the dirty close hamper. She paused and frowned as she looked back over at me. I caught her look as I glanced up, she was holding the shirt I had taken the crossbow bolt in. Her hoof was near the blood stain and rips from being cut open.

Her eyes wide. “Sh-shane?”

I exhaled. “I was going to tell you,” I set the things I had down and walked over to sit down on the couch. She climbed up next to me and paused before leaning on me. I exhaled. “It didn’t hit anything important and no real damage was done, past the fact I’m a might sore.” I looked into the green eyes I had fallen for and her look told me she wanted to know more.

I spent the next half-hour telling her all about it and holding her when she started to cry. It really had dawned on me that there are only a few ponies that she lets see her that upset… and now I was one of the few. I never let go, keeping her close to me as she asked questions and I answered the best I could without giving her nightmare fuel.

At some point we had grown quiet and just cuddled before she lifted her head. Looking at me, she leaned up, I leaned down, and our lips met once more. Something was different this time, she pushed a bit harder into it. There was a need there and perhaps I felt the same for the orange mare in my arms. She ended up leaning back to the arm of the sofa, with me semi on top of her pressing down.

I never broke the kiss, never leaned back up. I felt her start to undo the buttons of my shirt with her hooves and I did nothing to stop her.

I broke the kiss long enough to look down into her eyes as she got the last button undone and started to push the shirt off my shoulders. Sure she had seen me shirtless, heck, most the town had at some point as I worked on the farm. Her hooves were freshly polished and smooth against my skin, I noticed.

I helped slide it off over my shoulders and she gave a little gasp at the bandages on my shoulder. Her eyes darted from the bandage to my eyes and I shook my head. “I’m fine,” I reassured her.

She brushed her hoof along my chest from top to bottom, something she had not done before. I felt such a odd sensation of touch, softness, and yet knowing it was a hoof touching me. Tilting my head some I asked quietly. “What?”

A pink crept up into her cheeks and she trailed her hooves down to my ribs, nudging me to sit up. I watched as that orange mare started to undo the buckle of my pants deftly with her hooves, bending her fetlocks and maneuvering them like fingers.

Ok this was going someplace new, and I was not having a problem with it. I just asked very softly. “Y-you sure about this, Jackie?”

She gave a hesitant nod. “Long as you are, Sugarcube.”

I didn't need to think about it, but then again eleven years without someone to touch romantically was doing a bit of the thinking at this point for me. I turned some and sat as she got my belt open, then reached down to help her undo the button and zipper. She bit her lip as she shifted and started to tug my pants down.

I lifted my hips up, and helped slide them down, kicking them off my legs. Leaving me sitting on the sofa in nothing but a pair of boxers and socks. I watched her, my own breathing shallow and, well perhaps I was a little scared. I mean don’t get me wrong I wanted this, but...my past was coming into play here.

Of course, part of me didn’t care and Jackie gave a chuckle as she noted the tented out fabric of my boxers. Licking her lips, she slid her hooves up to her mane. At first I wondered what she was doing, then it dawned on me. She was removing the trinket weaved into her long manehairs.

I gently reached out and stopped her with my hands, gripping her hooves lightly. A look of confusion was in her eyes before I leaned in and pressed back into a kiss. Going deep, powerful, taking control as I locked into that heated moment with her. My fingers of my left hand slid up along her neck and found the bead. Slowly, I started to work it out of her mane as her orange tongue invaded my mouth and played lovers tag with my own tongue.

She shuddered when she broke the kiss this time, as I gently slid the bead off the end of the hairs it was on. Looking at her, I didn’t see any difference at first. Not until she gave a little blush and a giggle and nuzzled my neck some. “Trying ta get a peak there, partner?”

I exhaled, setting the glass trinket on the table to the side of the sofa. Returning my eyes to her as I smiled. “I, must admit that I am curious,” only to have her smile back at me. She leaned up, and once more we pressed into a kiss and a lovers embrace as she fell back and I fell forward, pinning her down to the sofa arm. My heart was hammering now and I could feel myself straining at the fabric of my boxers like I was a teen again.

Breaking the kiss, I leaned up and reached down. Tugging my boxers down off my hips, I caught her peeking down her body to watch. This, of course, meant that I had a view of her belly and thighs, as she was laying on her back. I could see her two pink nipples and further down were the edges of black flesh, her marehood was right there and I’d never seen it before that moment.

Finding myself a bit shy now, I slowly tugged the boxers off and kicked them aside. My own manhood jutting out of the black hairs around it. Now, I was no big guy, heck, I’m pretty average really, and I was circumcised too. I looked back at Jackie, curious of what she was thinking.

She was looking down at it, then shifted to get a bit closer. I leaned back some and oddly it almost felt like that first time a boy and girl play ‘doctor’ and get a look at each other.

“It, ain’t as long as a stallion’s,” she paused looking up at my face, a huge blush on hers now, “but it’s a lot thicker than a stallion’s from around these parts.”

I blinked twice. “R-really?”

She gave a nod then a hoof reached out. Slowly, almost trembling as she did. Curiosity on her face as she bit her lip, sitting up more, The frog of her hoof touched my manhood. I felt the strange finger like magic, soft as silk, as she brushed along it. As keyed up as I was, I couldn’t help it when it twitched and some precum leaked out and onto her hoof.

Blushing some I started to mutter. “Sorry a-about that, just be-”

Her other hoof came up and touched my lips. “Stop,” was all she said. I returned her smile and gave a nod, before watching her go back to feeling and exploring my shaft.

She exhaled and bit her lip as she brushed down to the base and back up again. No hurry or rush, she was learning about me as much as I was gonna learn about her and, well that was right. Not a single thought of her being a pony, or not being Shawna, came to my mind. I was focused on her alone.

I moved my hands out and gently started to stroke along her belly and ribs. She was right, it was different with the trinket gone. Nothing was hiding now, and I guess in some way that kind of changed how I was thinking about her.

She broke the silence once more and whispered while looking right into my eyes. “Ah… I want to go to bed now, Shane, if’n yer ready.”

I just smiled and leaned in, kissed her nose, lips, chin, then down along her throat making her lift her head up. Kissing down along her chest was something I had never done before. I nibbled and kissed her barrel as she took shaky breaths.and finally gave her an answer. “Yes,” ignoring how hard my heart was hammering.

I wanted to carry her to the bed, but I knew that wouldn’t be happening. The mare stood and looked over her shoulder at me before trotting to the bed, a sway in her hips. I found myself watching her as she walked, then she flicked her tail aside. Teasing with a little glimpse of black flesh and a hint of pink.

Sliding up on my bed next to her, Jackie rolled on her back and looked down between her legs at me, not doing a single thing to hide the ebony folds from me now. At first I paused, then slid my hand up along her flank, watching as she shivered, then gave a little giggle.

“That tickles,” she admitted.

I slid my hand down and back around her flank then let the very tips of my fingers brush the ebony, rubbery looking folds of her marehood. They were warm, warmer than I remember a womans to be. Her reaction to the touch was almost a surprise. She let out a gasp, and her hind legs trembled. “S-shane,” she erotically hissed as I looked up to her eyes.

Watching her, I let my fingers wander the slit slowly. Dragging my fingertips up to the clitorus and back down them again making her tremble as I did before she let out a loud whiny. I had gently slid two of my fingers in to the first knuckle. Apparently that was enough, as she lightly kicked at the air a few times and her body clamped down around my fingertips. I felt her slit wink hard against the back of my hand.

Her breath hitched and held, her muscles tightened up around my fingers and I felt my hand get warm, wet, and slimy.

I could not believe it, I had given her a orgasm with just a touch! I withheld the proud chuckle I felt bubble inside me and asked something more appropriate. “You ok, Jackie?”

She had this smile: it was warm, and soft, and… well I could not deny it was filled with love for me.

“Shane,” she breathed a bit hard, “Ah don’t know bout human mares, but equestrian mares can do that ten, even twenty times”

I blinked, and then grinned, this was going to be a hell of a night.

I didn’t dive right in, rather I leaned up near her. She and I spent the next good hour or so talking, asking each other questions about our bodies, and exploring with touch, kisses, and a bit more.

I think I really blew her mind when I swallowed my fear and pride and slid down. Using my tongue, lips, and fingers I brought her to that end four more times. Finding each time she would hit a peak, then slide down and start up a new one. After that fourth one I climbed up her body, kissing, nuzzling, nibbling at her flesh and fur until I was sitting on my knees.

Finding myself resting with my thighs under her rump and my manhood resting across her stifle with her rear legs were out around my hips we were practically missionary as I smiled, looking down into her eyes.

“Sh-shane, Ah never met a stallion that would do that,” she breathed hard, rapidly, trying to catch her breath and blushing fiercely.

That made me blink. “Really? That’s pretty standard stuff for humans making love.”

She grinned and leaned up, hooking her forelegs around my neck and pulling me down. “Well, you can do that anytime ya want,” she gave me a sultry look that made my manhood twitch, then Jackie lowered her tone. “But right now, Ah was hoping you would go a bit farther with me”

I exhaled and gave a little nod, reached down, and I gently lifted my hips back while looking at the face of my lover.

Guiding myself so the tip of my shaft slid along her warm, very wet folds, I braced myself with her holding me up. I didn’t look down, but I could feel it out, and I felt my tip slip past her lips and inside her body. Trembling, I whispered. “Ah gotta go slow, Jackie, it has-” again she cut me off.

“Shane, you just do what you want, Ah’m here’n I will never leave.”

I found myself looking into her deep green cores as I gently eased my hips forward. We both hissed in a long exhale of breath as I felt the warmth of her body and just how tight she was. Sinking in, I hilted inside her with great care, breathing rapidly and trying not to end right there.

Hey you go eleven years with just your hand and see how you do.

Locked together now, I pressed my lips to hers in a kiss, then broke it. “Jackie,” only to see her smile and pull me down for another kiss. This time we held it, and I started to move my hips. No rush to this, so I went as slow as I dared.

Feeling her grip around me unlike anything I had ever felt before. It was warmer than I remembered, be that because it had been so long or because she was a pony I didn’t know or care, so long as I didn’t blow right then.

She did mutter as she broke the kiss to take a long slow shuddering breath. “Faust, you are… thick. Shane, keep going slow. Ah ain’t use to this.”

I smiled and kept my pace and soon she and I were rocking gently together. No pounding, no rushed hurry for a end, and no nagging voice in the back of my mind telling me this was a sin. This could be no sin, it was too pure, too special. I knew deep in my heart that I was in love with the mare under me, as much as I had been with Shawna.

Soon, I started to go a tiny bit faster and she clung to me, hooking her rear legs behind me at the small of my back. I was huffing now, face pressed into her neck and shoulder on the left. I panted and I could feel the end building, but when she let out a gasp and had yet another orgasm it almost sent me over the edge. It felt like a glove of pure silk gripping down with the strength of steel around my shaft.

“Ung.. J-jackie, I ain’t going to l-last.”

She started to rock her hips faster and grunted in my ear. “Harder. Don-don’t stop.”

I did as my cowgirl bid me. I pulled almost out and pushed back in faster and a bit harder and started pistoning inside her. I clenched my eyes closed and said breathily, “Jackie, I…”

“Do it in me,” she said, then gasped as she let out a sound that was a whiney and scream at the same time. Her insides clamped back down on me even harder than before and it was too much, it felt like she was trying to milk me for all I had with her rhythmic undulating insides.

I shoved my face into her neck and let out my own soft bellow. Not holding back as I felt myself finishing inside her and I pressed in as deep as I could as my own orgasm shot human cum inside her pony body. I grinded my hips against her and her winking slit felt like it was massaging my shaft to get it all out of me.

I don’t know how long we stayed locked like that, but eventually I collapsed over her. Barely holding my full weight off her body on my elbows as I gasped for breath. She clung to me tightly and I felt her orgasming again. We were both sweaty, smelled of sex, and exhausted, rightly so. She looked up at me and I sat up so I could tilt my head back to look down at her.

“Shane, Ah love you”

I felt so honored, so blessed, so free of that voice in my head. This was right and no one would tell me otherwise.

“Jackie, I love you too.”

I woke under the blankets, but with something warm pressed to my nude body. I could feel soft velvet like fur and a mane pressed to my neck. I smiled and opened my eyes, my arms hugged around Jackie. I was spooned behind her and she was sleeping on my arm.

Unfortunately for me, my arm was dead asleep and I had to use the bathroom.

Gently as I could, I started to work myself back and to try and get my arm out from under her. She muttered. “Ya best rethink leaving this here bed, Shane,” she turned her head so I could see her smiling face.

I shook my head. “I am afraid that nature calls.”

She smirked some. “With how you been poking me in the dock for the last hour, Ah’d say nature woke something up earlier than you.”

It was my turn to blush. “It’s a human guy thing and it happens some mornings,” I kissed her and pulled my arm free, “just happens that you’re the reason it hasn’t gone away all night.” She giggled as I was getting up and watched me intently as I walked across the cold floor to the bathroom.

I heard her mutter, “Well, ain’t that a nice sight for the morning.” It was a statement that I could agree with when I thought of waking up next to her.

After my morning piss I got back in bed with her and cuddled up. She was looking at me for a time and checked my shoulder to be sure it was properly bandaged and that I didn’t rip the stitches out last night. While she was on top of me checking the bandages something slipped inside somewhere and the next minutes were kind of hazy.

Afterwards, Jackie was back to laying in my arms facing me. Still breathing hard and enjoying the afterglow as she asked me in her softest tone “Shane are you ok with, with this?” she touched a forehoof to my chest. I moved her hoof to over my heart and her eyebrows rose as she understood that’s where my heart was.

I looked her in the eyes and then gave her a nod. “I am, Jackie. We wouldn’t be here now if I wasn’t ready. More than I have words for, I am okay with this. With us. With you sharing your body and heart with me for the rest of our days,” I chuckled softly at her reaction to my admission and accidental poetry.

I was just about to kiss her when the door opened and voices followed as two ponies walked right in like they owned the place.

“Shane, where is your sorry ass at? Mac and I were just ta-”

I was looking over at Cort from the bed, thankful the blankets were up over the two of us. I watched as Big Mac’s eyes went between his sister and me, and back to his sister a couple times. Then both stallions started to blush and stutter, backing out of the doorway.

“Ah, oh, well crap, uh, let's go, Mac, give’m time ta get ready.”

“Eeyup!”

The door slammed shut again within three seconds after that last shout.

Jackie snorted through her nose loudly in frustration. “Well buck, guess Ah ain’t going to be hiding this from the family.”

I shrugged and turned her to face me, then kissed her on the lips for a second. “At least it wasn’t the crusaders.”

She blanched at the thought of that and I laughed loudly. Giving me a knowing look females use, she grinned. "Y'all know what today is, right?"

I blinked, looking at the orange pony laying next to me in the bed as I stroked my fingers along her side. I got that 'you have missed something, stupid' feeling.

"Uh, no?"

She grinned wider and I found myself on my back with her straddling my hips, her hooves shoving my shoulders into the bed to pin me with her polished hooves reminding me of her strength. My manhood pressed between her teats sent tingles through me as she told me.

"It's Hearts and Hooves day, Shane, an’ Ah mean to show mah special somepony how I feel ‘bout him."

I blinked, my eyebrows rose, and then my mouth formed the word that slipped out of it. "Ohh."