A/N: Hello Everybody! Sorry for jumping off the face of the earth without saying anything! Anywho, I think I'm actually going to start writing fan fiction again, I sort of just stopped, there's no real reason for it, but after getting the last chapter of this story posted up I guess it just got me going. In regards to when or how often this story is updated, I can't really say. I have a lot of real life stuff going on, and writing is just one of many other outlets for stress that I have. In regards to updates of other stories, I can't really say. Currently, this one is what's interesting me the most, so it's what is gonna be updated most likely. The Sounds of Insanity, and A Whole New World, will likely continue to sit and gather dust, but who knows, i might suddenly feel the urge to write a new chapter. I actually have a few chapters for "The New TA!" just sitting on my computer, once I get the cobwebs and spelling errors off of them I'll post them up soon (that means within the month). If you have any questions, or requests don't be afraid to send me a pm, I don't check them too often though, so it might take me a little bit to get back to you. I don't really have anything else to say other than please post reviews, if you have written a story on this site, and have gotten reviews, you know how nice they are, so please write one for me, bad or good, I want to know how to make myself bettererer as a writer! Now that this Assuming you've stuck through this monster of an A/N thank you very much, I greatly appreciate it, now please do your best to enjoy the story below ^_^.
It had taken a few moments to figure out how Pinkie Pie was supposed lead Jacob properly, but they eventually decided the best way was for Jacob to walk next to Pinkie Pie and hold onto the back of her poofy mane near her neck. Although neither Jacob or Pinkie Pie really thought of it at the time, that action showed an amazing amount of trust between the two of them. Jacob trusting Pinkie Pie not to let him hit anything, and Pinkie Pie trusting Jacob not to hurt her with his hand near her neck. Neither of them really thought of that, but a couple of the other ponies did notice the large amount of trust the two of them were showing each other.
The walk to Fluttershy's cottage was uneventful. Pinkie Pie was diligent in her role as Jacob's guide and made sure he didn't hit so much as a pebble. No words were spoken, but the tension was almost palpable. What would happen once they reached Fluttershy's cottage? What were the ponies supposed to do with an obviously intelligent brand new animal? And on Jacob's part, he was still having trouble accepting that he was in a land of talking ponies despite being led by one. How had he gotten there? Where was Anna? How could he leave? These questions were going through his head and so prominent in his brain that he almost he was walking. Neither party knew what to do with, or about the other. Eventually, the seven of them made it Fluttershy's cottage.
Fluttershy walked ahead of the group and started going into her house as she said, "One moment, I'm just gonna make sure that everything is nice and tidy, we wouldn't Jacob tripping over anything," Fluttershy glanced at Jacob to see if he had anything to say about the matter, but he was looking down again so that his mane covered his face. Fluttershy waited only a second longer before going inside and putting away stray objects, tucking in chairs, and making sure everything was put away properly. Fluttershy generally kept her house in pretty good shape, but she really didn't want to hurt Jacob because she left a food dish out, or leaving a chair not tucked into it's table. Fluttershy was done after a few moments and came back out to tell everyone to come inside.
After some moving around, Pinkie Pie and Jacob ended up sharing one of Fluttershy's couches, Fluttershy had a chair for herself as did Applejack, while Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, and Rarity took the second couch. There was a few more moments of silence before Rainbow Dash, "We're at Fluttershy's house now, you don't have to keep holding onto Pinkie."
Jacob flinched a little at her voice before saying, "Oh, uh, sorry, I was just thinking about some stuff, wasn't really focusing on what was going on," Jacob removed his hand from Pinkie Pie and started feeling up the area around him, trying to get an idea of his surroundings.
Applejack opened her mouth to say something, but Rarity spoke first, "What were you thinking about Darling?"
Jacob was still looking down, so it was kind of hard to gauge his reaction to the question, but after a moment of silence he answered, "A lot of stuff honestly. I'm still having trouble believing that I'm in some weird place where ponies can talk, and before you say anything, I do believe it, it's just hard accepting. I'm wondering how I got here as well, I'm wondering how the people I know are doing, heck, I'm wondering about what everyone is DOING right now, there's just so much that-"
Jacob was getting visibly distressed now so Applejack cut him off, "Well lets start slow then. You're in 'a land of talking ponies' known to the rest of us as Equestria, the sooner you accept this the sooner we can start talkin' 'bout more important things. 'Cause whatever you want to think, you're here, and there ain't no gettin' around that."
Jacob took a deep breath, looked towards Applejack and gave her a very awkward, forced looking smile. Applejack couldn't stop herself from cringing a little at the site of the odd smile combined with Jacob's milky eyes, but luckily he had no way of knowing that. "Thank you, for, snapping me out of that. I was just getting really worked up, thanks for snapping me out of it, what's your name?"
Applejack smiled back, not remembering that Jacob had no way of knowing she was, and said, "No problem, now, lets start with small things ok? What were you doing before we found you?"
Jacob lowered his head again and said, "I was with my caretaker, Anna, she was taking me to the bathroom when I fell, but I didn't hit the floor, I hit dirt. I freaked out and cried for help, you all know the story after that," Jacob's hands finally settled beside him and once again there was silence.
"Um, I gotta go guys, sorry, it's getting late and I have work in the morning," Rainbow Dash broke the silence before making a quick exit from the awkward situation.
Rarity let out a small harumph, and muttered, "I really must teach her proper manners," Applejack let out a small chuckle, but didn't say anything. "Well as tactless as Rainbow Dash was about it, she did have a point. It is getting quite late and we all have work in the morning, I believe it's time we said our goodbyes."
Rarity was standing up to leave, when Twilight Sparkle said, "What about Jacob? Where is he going to go?"
Heads turned to Jacob, but he remained silent. Pinkie Pie, who had been uncharacteristically silent the whole time suddenly piped up saying, "Well he's gonna come and sleep with me of course sillies!"
The other ponies looked quite surprised, except for Rarity. Twilight Sparkle asked, "Why is that Pinkie?"
Pinkie Pie giggled and said, "Well I said I would be his guide didn't I? I can't just leave him!"
Pinkie Pie's logic™ was sound, if not a little odd. It had been made quite clear that Pinkie Pie only had to lead him to Fluttershy's house. Twilight Sparkle was about to say something when Jacob said, "I'm fine with that," none of the other ponies really knew how to respond to that, and so the matter was settled, Jacob would go with Pinkie Pie. Without any of them realizing it, it had indeed gotten quite dark. Twilight Sparkle realized that this was actually a good thing. Having a tall new animal suddenly appear in Ponyville was something that needed to be done carefully. Getting Jacob into Ponyville without any other ponies knowing until they figured out how to introduce Jacob was for the best. So, under the cover darkness, Pinkie Pie led Jacob to Sugar Cube Corner, her place of work, and her place of residence. Pinkie Pie had Jacob wait outside momentarily while she went ahead to explain the situation to Mr. and Mrs. Cake, the owners of the establishment. Although a little bewildered at the sudden situation, they told Pinkie Pie that Jacob was welcome to stay the night, and a few others if necessary.
As Pinkie Pie led Jacob inside, the Cakes watched from the side as the large creature, with it's hand on Pinkie followed her. Still "looking" ahead with his head facing downwards, Jacob said, "Um, thank you very much for letting me stay here," Mr. and Mrs. Cake were a little surprised that it could talk, regardless of Pinkie Pie's warnings. It was so weird looking, almost like a Diamond Dog, almost like a small Minotaur, but not quite either. As weird as it looked, the Cakes had come to trust Pinkie Pie's judgement, and believed her when she said he wouldn't be a problem.
Pinkie Pie carefully lead Jacob behind the counter, through the bakery, around the back-room, up the flight of stairs and finally down the hall to her room. Jacob blindly (hah) followed her, instinctively trusting her not to let him hit anything. When the duo reached Pinkie Pie's room, Pinkie Pie carefully helped Jacob into her bed, finding that it was only just big enough to accommodate him, after Jacob was situated, Pinkie Pie (quite literally) hopped into bed with him.
After feeling Pinkie Pie beside him, Jacob flinched away and said, "W-why are you in the bed too?"
Pinkie Pie giggled at the silly question and answered, "Because this is my bed Silly, where else am I supposed to sleep?"
Jacob was awkwardly scooting away from Pinkie Pie and towards the edge of the bed as he said, "Pinkie Pie, I'm not comfortable sharing a bed with someone, it's just not something that humans do! I thought you led me to a guest bed or something. If you don't have one I'll just sleep on the floor," Jacob had finally managed to get out of the bed and fell to the ground with a thump.
Pinkie Pie frowned at the situation. She didn't really see any problem with the two of them sharing a bed, especially seeing as how it was more than wide enough to do so, but Jacob said he wasn't comfortable with it and was now crawling on the floor. "Ok Jacob, you can have your way this time, but next time will be different story!"
Jacob sighed, he had half expected her to try and force him to sleep with her. After saying thank you to Pinkie Pie, she got a pillow and some spare blankets for Jacob to both sleep on and use as blankets. Once he was situated a few feet away from the foot of the bed, they fell to sleep.
Morning came, the sun was just starting to put it's rays onto Pinkie Pie when she heard, "Anna! Anna! Anna, where are you? Where am I! What's happening? ANNA!" Pinkie Pie sat straight up and looked down to see Jacob writhing on the floor, getting tangled in the blankets, he was hyperventilating and almost yelling!
"Jacob! Calm down! Never fear, Pinkie Pie is here!" Pinkie Pie hopped out of bed and hurried over to Jacob to get him out of the blankets.
"Pinkie Pie? Who's-… oh, right" Jacob sounded really sad at the end the sentence. He had hoped that the ponies really were just a dream, but, they were not, and as Pinkie Pie helped him out of the blankets and on to his feet, a single tear fell down Jacob's face.
Pinkie Pie was rambling about something involving toasters, when she saw the tear, she paused her story and asked, "Jacob, a-are you crying?"
Jacob moved a hand to his face and felt the tear and said, "I guess I am," he then fell back to his knees and started crying in earnest. Not just tears, but flat out bawling. Mrs. Cake appeared at Pinkie Pie's door, a question poised on her lips, but Pinkie Pie shook her head and shook her hoof, motioning for her to leave. Mrs. Cake frowned, but did as asked.
Pinkie Pie leaned down and nuzzled Jacob, not saying anything, but trying to let him know that she was there. Much to her surprise, Jacob threw his arms around her in a hug and spoke threw his tears, "I'm so scared Pinkie Pie! Anna's gone, I'm in a land I've never heard of, and I'm scared! I don't want to be here! I just want to be home with Anna! I JUST WANNA BE WITH ANNA!" Jacob was almost hysterical, his tears making Pinkie Pie's fur moist.
Pinkie Pie returned the hug and said, "Shhhhh, don't worry Jacob, it'll be okay, you might not have Anna, but you have me, Okay?" Pinkie leaned back from the hug so she could Jacob in the eyes. She then realized he was blind and that wouldn't really mean anything to him, and pulled him back into the hug tighter before she said, "You got that? You can trust me! I may not know where you're from, or even WHAT you are! But I'm your friend okay? And I'll make sure that nothing happens to you!"
Jacob broke away from the hug and put moved his hands around Pinkie Pie's body until his hands were on either side of her face before he said, "Promise! Swear you won't abandon me!"
Pinkie Pie was taken back by that response but said, "I Pinkie Promise! Cross My Heart, Hope to Fly, Stick a Cupcake in my Eye!" and Pinkie Pie did the appropriate motions, "Now! Do you promise that you'll try and limit your breakdowns to once a day? If you do, I promise only cookies and good things await!"
Jacob sank back to his knees, his tears finally stopping. In a much quieter voice than normal he made a t across his chest and said, "Cross my hear and hope to die."
Pinkie Pie didn't really here him, but got the message that he was better now. She said that she was going to get him some breakfast, and that he shouldn't leave this room. Before Pinkie Pie left the room, Jacob said, "Pinkie Pie!" the exuberant pink pony stopped and looked back at Jacob, "Thank you."
Pinkie Pie got a wide grin and said, "No problem! And just so you know, my friends call me Pinkie! And you are most certainly a friend silly dilly"
Jacob smiled again, a smile very similar to the one Pinkie Pie first saw on his face. Different from the one he gave Applejack when he was trying to be polite, this was a smile of genuine happiness. It's smiles like those that make Pinkie Pie tell all her jokes and act so silly. Because no matter how bad things get, knowing that she had made others give such wonderful heartfelt smiles gave her the courage to continue and to continue making ponies smile. That was Pinkie Pie's purpose. To make ponies smile. Now she just had to add Jacob to the list of people she wanted to make people smile.
