"Her Big Fluttering Heart"
by Neoraichu
Big Macintosh X Fluttershy
...
Fluttershy made her rounds of the chicken hens in their coup, making sure that each and every one was properly watered, fed, and had their wastes removed from the space around their nests. The rooster was perched on her rump, looking over Fluttershy as she tended to every one of his hens. There was still a few eggs to gather from the late layers.
"My," said Fluttershy quietly, "You have so many hens to look after. I wonder how you keep up your strength to tend to them all."
"Bawk," said the rooster.
"I suppose that would help."
"Bawk," said the rooster.
"Really," she replied, "There's no need to brag."
"Fluttershy," called a stallion from outside, "I brung them thar apples y'all asked fer."
"Ah," she said, "I suppose that must be Big Macintosh."
She gently chased the rooster from her rump as she went outside. He was walking by the chicken coup with a couple of baskets of apples on the sides of his barrels. She couldn't help but like his red color, his orange hair, mane and tail, his golden yellow hooves, and his large green apple (that appeared to be cut in half) cutie mark.
"Hello Big Macintosh," she said quietly.
"Howdy Fluttershy," he replied amiably.
"I see you brought all the apples I requested."
"Of course."
"You're so dependable."
"Of course I is when it comes ta you."
Fluttershy blushed as she said, "Thank you."
"Y'all is the perdiest Pegasus I knows."
She blushed more as she said, "I couldn't be."
"Ya is, ya is I tells ya."
She was rendered speechless.
"So where y'all want these here apples?"
"Just put them with the rest over there in the shed," she replied as she pointed to the shed with her hoof.
He walked in the direction indicated as she smiled softly at Fluttershy. She sighed as she watched him swaying his hips as he walked.
"I wish I could tell him how I really feel," she sighed softly to no one in particular.
She waited a while as he unloaded the apples into the shed, and then he returned with neither baskets nor apples remaining.
"Well, I wish I could stay longer, but Applejack is expectin me to come right back home. We all got things ta do today."
"I understand," she replied quietly, "I hope the rest of your day goes well for you."
"An the same to y'all", he replied as he walked away.
'Oh how can I get a stud as wonderful as him to notice little me', she thought as she watched him go, 'I wish he'd take care of me like I take care of my animals, or he takes care of his apple orchard.'
She turned and went back to the house slightly saddened that Big Macintosh had left once more without knowing how she felt about him. Sometimes being shy was a burden to the quiet pale Pegasus. She wondered if anything could bring the two of them together. If anyone realized the situation well enough to even try to help them.
...
"Applejack!" called Big Macintosh as he approached the main house, "I's home!"
"I hears ya!" Applejack called back, "Did y'all flirt withen Fluttershy?"
"Flirt?" he replied, "Whatcha all talkin bout?"
She waited at the door for him to get closer before she said, "I've seen the way y'all looks at her. I can tell when y'all likes a mare."
"I don't know whatcha all is talkin bout, little sister," he answered, "I couldn't be interested in a mare who could never be interested in lil'ole me."
"What makes ya think she ain't interested in you?"
"Cause she's all sweet an innocent," he mused, "she couldn't like someone who's made love ta as many mares as I all have. I ain't sweet nor innocent."
"Did she all tell ya thats herself?"
"No," he answered, "I've never been able ta flirt wif her or tells her how I feel bout her..."
"So ya does has feelins for her!"
"Well ya," he said slightly awkwardly, "I does like her. I likes her a lot. I jus knows she caint fell da same bout me."
"Ya won't know fer sure if'n ya never asks her, would'ya?"
"Look. Don't sez nothin to Fluttershy bout this. I'll tells her how I feels bout her when I think she all wants ta hear it."
"Somewhere around the twelf of never," she muttered quietly.
"What was that?"
"Twernt nothin," she said quickly, "Nothin at all."