Chapter 7: What's Done Is Done

One month. It's been one entire months since Soarin left with Spitfire to keep his job with the Wonderbolts. When Applejack went to her room to cry no pony knew that it would be the last time many of them would see her for a month. The day after her friends came to try and cheer her up, but she didn't respond, Applejack just locked herself up in the dark, trying to hide from the truth that she had been used by Soarin. It took an entire week for her to talk to anypony again, but the most she ever said was a thank you when Big Mac put her food outside the door. Two weeks, that's how long it took for her to come out of the room, but she still didn't leave the house. Finally, at four weeks in, she was ready to talk to her friends again, her life having been slowly returning to normal during the third week.

"Hey girls," Applejack said quietly, her voice still hoarse from her crying as much as she did, "I understand you wanted to see me for a while"

"Yeah, we did..." Twilight said, speaking for everypony in the group, "Are you okay?" Applejack looked blankly at the group for a moment as she thought about the question, not even knowing the answer for herself. How was she? Was she actually okay? Applejack asked herself these questions in her head, trying to find out the answers for herself before she said anything to her friends. How does a pony who has known so much pain in such a little time respond to something like this? Would she ever be able to tell her friends of the things she had done while locked up in her room, of the number of times she looked out the window towards the ground, imagining herself jumping from the roof? No, she couldn't, so was she okay? No.

"No," Applejack said flatly as she looked out the window, cringing as she vividly remembered her dreams of ending everything. A darkness had come over Applejack's life because of Soarin, and even though it had been slightly returning to light she was still affected by her previous thoughts, afraid that things were going to return to the darkness.

"Please, tell us what happened dear, we're here for you," Rarity said, stepping forwards to try and comfort Applejack, but she shunned away. Applejack hasn't had any physical contact with anypony since Soarin left, and she was still anxious about letting another pony close enough to even breath on her.

"It's okay Applejack, if you don't want to tell us the specifics, then please, just tell us the basics of what happened," Twilight said calmly, hoping to coax Applejack out of her slump. For a moment Applejack seemed to shrink away again, but when she saw her friends worried looks out of the corner of her eye she had a sudden change of heart. With a deep breath Applejack began to tell her friends what happened the night before Soarin left.

"He took me to Sugar Cube Corner for dinner, Pinkie was our waitress obviously, and we both had a lot to drink," Applejack said, making Pinkie's hair go completely flat as she remembered that night, "We had left at some point, and Soarin was carrying me home when he suggested that we have sex"

"Oh no..." the girls gasped, all of them already having a good idea what was coming.

"We did it out in one of the fields, and in the morning we woke up just before the Cutie Mark Crusaders came by," Applejack said, sounding more depressed that before, "Then when we were heading home Spitfire came to take Soarin away, and he just... left. I haven't seen or heard from him since..."

"That low life son of a bitch..." Rainbow muttered with a disgusted look on her face, hating herself for finding Soarin hot at one point. Talk to Rainbow two, three, years ago, and she wouldn't have believed that Soarin would be possible of something like this, but now, there was no pony in Equestria that would make her go against what Applejack says.

"Applejack, we..." Twilight said slowly, but not even she was able to find the right words for what needed to be said.

"It's okay, Twi, now, can you pass me that bin over there?" Applejack asked, pointing towards the garbage bin that was behind the girls. Without asking why Twilight levitated it over to her, and the next thing they knew she was throwing up everything she had in her into the bin. The five of them looked at her worriedly, none of them sure what was going on with Applejack. Once she had calmed down Twilight stepped forwards, an even more worried look on her face.

"Applejack, it's been four weeks since you had sex with Soarin, right?" Twilight asked, getting an angry glare from Applejack.

"Yes, now what's it to you?" Applejack said, angry that Twilight was bringing that up again. She just wanted to forget about it, she wanted everypony to just forget it ever happened and just go on with their lives, but here was Twilight, asking questions about it. As Applejack silently cursed away at Twilight she looked intensely at the orange mare's stomach, her horn starting to glow lightly. A few seconds later, Twilight had a strange look on her face.

"What are you looking at Twilight?" Applejack asked, sounding very annoyed at this point. Twilight was silent for a few seconds as she tried to collect her thoughts into a single sentence.

"Applejack..." Twilight started, taking a deep breath to calm herself down, "You're pregnant"

"Is it Soarin's?" Applejack asked, a bit of hope in her voice. Even though she had made a joke that he needed to be a Wonderbolt to pay foalsupport, she didn't think he was that kind of stallion. Maybe if she was pregnant he would come back and be a proper father to their foal. If he did that Applejack would love him again in an instant, forgetting all the pain he's put her through by leaving. She was also happy that she hadn't had the guts to end her life when she thought of doing it, if she did she would have been killing her unborn foal as well.

"I would assume so, unless you've had sex with another stallion since then," Twilight said, realizing how snobby her comment was, so she quickly followed up with, "Oh, sorry" Applejack waved it off as nothing, but Rainbow obviously thought it was more than that.

"Why are we all being so calm right now?!" Rainbow asked angrily, "He basically raped her, and now he's off touring with the Wonderbolts while she sits here wallowing in her own shame!"

"Rainbow!" Rarity snapped back, but she was quickly shut up by Rainbow's shouting.

"He fucked her in the field, left her when he had to go back to work, and now she's pregnant with his bastard foal!" Rainbow shouted, looking Rarity dead in the eyes, "He has to pay for this, one way or another!" Rainbow looked at the rest of the girls to see if any of them were going to try and oppose her, but none of them did anything, except for Fluttershy. She started crying.

"I'm sorry Fluttershy, I didn't mean to make you cry..." Rainbow said softly as she moved towards her old friend, a worried look on her face. She's know Fluttershy for most of her life, and she's always tried to make sure she was always happy. Seeing her cry just made Rainbow hate Soarin even more. Without waiting for anypony to back her up or say goodbye, Rainbow flew out the window, heading home as fast as she could. Going straight in through her bedroom window Rainbow looked at the Wonderbolts' tour schedule, seeing that they were nearby in Cloudsdale.

"I'm gonna beat that bastards ass so hard he won't know which way is up..." Rainbow said as she got ready to fly back out her window, checking the schedule one more time before she left.

[Club Music]

Soarin was trotting around the night club with a bottle of whiskey in hoof, getting kisses from every mare he went past. In one months Soarin's fame had returned, and he was back in his role of co-captain of the Wonderbolts. Even better, because they were in Cloudsdale every mare in the room knew who he was, and all of them wanted for him to let his little stallions fly around their indoor stadiums.

"Hey, how are you liking the DJ?!" the club owner shouted to Soarin, his voice barely audible over the music. Soarin looked over the crowd to see DJ Pon-3 behind the turn tables, rocking out one of her songs.

"She's really awesome!" Soarin shouted back, noticing her flank bouncing in such quick little movements that it looked like she was vibrating. She must be really good in the sack... Soarin thought to himself as he watched, only being distracted when a random mare that was going under him decided to give Soarin Jr. a little kiss. Looking down he saw a beautiful mare preparing to take his entire sausage into her mouth.

"Hey, hey, don't do that here..." Soarin whispered, wanting to keep the overeager mare hidden from the testosterone filled stallions that were jumping around to the music, "Let's go into the bathroom first..." The mare nodded happily as Soarin led her towards the mare's bathroom, thinking that if he did it in there he might get a few more mares to join in. Overhead he saw a pony fly over him, straight into the mare's bathroom before he could get there. As he pushed the door open he felt somepony grab his coat, pulling him inside.

"Oh... Eager are w-" Soarin started to say before he got a hoof in the mouth, chipping three of his teeth. Before he could look up at whoever was attacking him he was dealt another blow, this time hitting right in the eye. Soarin yelped loudly enough to scare the mare he had following him to run away screaming, causing the music to stop almost instantly. Everypony's attention quickly turned towards the mare's washroom, where Soarin could be heard crying as his mysterious attack pummelled him until he bled.

"You. Son. Of. A. Bitch!" his attacker shouted with every punch, adding in more force on the last word, "You. Left. My. Best friend. Alone. And. Now. She's. Pregnant!" As soon as Soarin heard that he recognized the voice of the mare that was beating him mercilessly. Rainbow Danger Dash, one of the rookies that was at the top of the list for Wonderbolt tryouts come next year.

"Rainbow what they fuck are you doing?!" Soarin shouted as she moved to work on his rib cage, "You're going to ruin your chances for getting into the Wonderbolts!" Rainbow didn't seem to listen as she punched him in the kidneys, forcing his urine to come out, making him piss all over himself.

"YOU FUCKED APPLEJACK AND LEFT HER!" Rainbow cried as she kept beating Soarin up, one of his ribs cracking with a loud crack, "SHE'S PREGNANT YOU SACK OF SHIT!" Before Soarin could say anything back to her she landed a knock out punch on his jaw, making his head crack against the tile floor. Immediately after that two bouncers came into the bathroom and pulled Rainbow off of him, both of them having an issue holding her back off Soarin. Two Wonderbolts came running into the bathroom to try and resuscitate Soarin, but they ended up having to call the paramedics. Meanwhile Rainbow was being taken to the police station by two guards that were called over to await her sentencing.

"Rainbow Danger Dash, anything you say can, and will, be used against you in a court of law," one guard said as Rainbow gave up fighting, "You have the right to remain silent"

"Soarin is a piece of shit..." Rainbow muttered as she looked behind her, seeing a large group of crying mares watching as Soarin was being carried away to the hospital.

"Yes he is ma'am, yes he is," the other guard said, earning a sharp glare from his partner in the process. For the rest of the trip to the station the three of them were dead silent, none of them wanting to say anything to each other.