Understanding
Applejack was in her room taking a nap but wasn't having a peaceful nap
"No No Stay away" Applejack said.
Spike was in one of his tower when he heard Applejack He quickly flashed away into her room flashing his claws.
"wheres the intruder?" Spike hissed scanning the room, he looked at Applejack who had woke up at the entry "Wheres the interloper?" he asked.
"nopony's here but me" Applejack assured "that brought you here fast" she said.
"I thought something was wrong" Spike grumbled.
"Well other than a bloody nightmare" Applejack said, Spike sat on her bedside with one leg on the bed and one off on the floor.
"Tell me maybe I can offer some relief" Spike said gently.
"ah would like that" Applejack said.
"Tell me" Spike spoke.
"Well ah should've told yew from the start" Applejack told him.
"About what?" Spike said.
"after I set ya free I had a nightmare about you" Applejack spoke.
"about me?" Spike said with surprise.
"Well it was sorta of yew, but you were eviler and darker and you were coming for me" she told him.
"So you still have nightmare's about me" Spike said, then he got up to leave Applejack held his arm with her front hooves.
"Wait don't leave" Applejack pleaded.
"Well I think the very thing that appears in your nightmares is the last thing you want near you right now" Spike frowned.
"Please ah don't want to be left alone" Applejack whimpered, Spike just smirked and pulled her closer with an arm where her back was lying against his chest and her head was on his shoulder of the other side of his body,
"I'll stay with you till you fall asleep" Spike told her.
"Thank ya" Applejack said with a smile then closed her eyes and went back to sleep this time she didn't have bad dreams.
In Applejack's mind she was running from the darker Spike but then the Spike she got to know these past weeks appeared.
"Get away from her you demon!" Spike hissed standing infront of her protectively
"Wuahhahahahahhaa!, you do realize of course I am you" Evil Spike smiled evilly.
"I am nothing like you, your just an evil mirage" Spike snapped, then his eyes glowed with his mystic powers then with strength in his voice "Leave her alone!" he spoke in the voice he used as the Dragon Lord and defending Thorax he thrust'ed out a glowing clawedhand then Evil Spike yelled as he was thrown from the dream.
Spike looked at Applejack and vanished.
"Spike!" she called, then a flash of white Appeared as Luna came in.
"Princess Luna it's good to see you" Applejack bowed.
"are you okay everypony is worried and Twilight has been trying to find to get you back" Luna asked.
"I'm perfectly fine and you can tell Twilight to stop trying to help, I have Spike's friendship and trust" Applejack replied.
"That beast offered friendship?" Luna raised a brow.
"Don't call him that" Applejack snapped making the Lunar Princesses eyes go wide "He Ain't a beast he's my friend, don't get me wrong it took him a bit to warm up but he has changed, he has kept me happy and has giving me a good time" she said "He keeps me from having nightmares and comforts me when ah need it" she told her.
Luna processed this and a small smile grew "so it is possible to revive a cold dead heart" she spoke to her self "That is not possible a creature like him can't possibly" she started.
"That creature is Spike my good friend so quit calling him a creature or a beast" Applejack interrupted "Yer welcome to have your opinions but keep them to yerself" she hissed, then she faded since she was starting to wake up.
Luna just smiled after she disappeared from the dream realm "It is true they shared something before Spike changed now they have developed something" she smirked.
an hour later
Spike was outside teaching Applejack how to be more effective with her bucks "So your bucks are really powerful and instead of hitting it plainly think of something that makes you mad" he said.
Applejack lined up and thought of how her little sister was in danger from those three monsters and how angry she was, she reared back and slammed her backhooves hard as she could and twice as many apples fell into the baskets.
Then Spike looked at a couple trees and narrowed his eyes dangerously and slammed a punch into one then slammed a kick into another and the apples fell into the baskets.
"Very good Applejack" Spike said "Now what were you thinking of?" he asked.
"The time three misshaped monsters tried to attack my sister surrounded by fire" Applejack gritted "But then ah thought of how I got there in time and I saved my sis" she said with a smirk
"Sorry to here that" Spike frowned "If I see those monsters I will burn them into a crisp for you" he said.
"That won't be necessary" Applejack smirked "It was years ago" she assured "what were you thinking about?" she said.
"Well of how angry I was when I found out Celestia killed my parents and how angry I was when Twilight killed Thorax" Spike frowned "and I was angry at myself for not being there to protect him or failed to bring him to the Dragon Lands" he said "But when hope was lost you reached out to me and pulled from the point of no return" he said.
"It's just to show anyone can be saved if you get to the early enough" Applejack said.
"so very true" Spike smiled sweetly
Applejack was in her room looking at the crystal ball she was thinking of seeing her friends "ah want to see my friends" she ordered, it showed different scenes of her friends they were sad and some were hanging out with their coltfriend.
She dropped the ball and sniffed and started to sob "It would be good if I can see them again" Applejack sniffed.
Spike was in his room frowning "Oh good lord of dragons, this again I did everything Zecora told me and she still puts on a sob fest" he grumbled but also felt a pang of worry, The Mirror Spike looked at this with glee.
"Wonderful you still bring pain to the one's close to you no matter what you do" Mirror Spike.
"Oh stick a pillow in it" Spike snapped and threw his pillow at the mirror Mirror Spike disappeared as the pillow hit and reappeared.
"If i want your word I'll ask for it" Spike snarked "Besides she is going to feel lonely when she's alone so I just have to be there for her" he said "Like I have been doing"
Mirror Spike shook his head with displeasure "I don't know you any more, you did everything before you fell for that mare with no hesitation or second thought, but now it's like I'm looking at someone else" he sneered.
"At least I have changed unlike you" Spike shot back.
"Exactly and for what a simple earthpony" Mirror Spike Spat.
"Don't you dare talk about my bride like that she is more than simple, she's the apple in my eye" Spike hissed.
"Ugh mushy stuff, that eye dripping pony will nev-" Mirror Spike started but was cut off by a loud and deep growl.
"You call her that again or make any more bad remarks about her" Spike snarled "I will throw you out the window into one of those trees" he hissed at the end.
Mirror Spike just smiled evilly "Ahhahaha heehaha oh hoe, you think smashing this mirror will make me stop?" he said "Have you forget one thing? I'm you" he said.
"Oh Shut up and go away" Spike hissed clenching a fist "Or I'm throwing you into the dump" .
Mirror Spike just cackled wickedly "again, you think that will make me go away, I'm never going to leave" he said "I'm you I'm what were and what you are and what you will always be" he said ignoring Spike's threatening growl "No matter how soft you get no matter how much light has been brought back in you" "You will always be The Bringer and Lord of the Apocalypse" he cackled.
Spike's eyes widened "No" he spoke.
"Oh yes" Mirror Spike grinned wickedly.
"no, NO!" Spike yelled as he grabbed the mirror by the frame with a clawedhand so hard the metal bent under his grip and threw it into the wall hard as he could the glass shattered loudly and the frame bent way out of normal shape.
he approached the broken glass on his knees half of his face was replaced with the Mirror Spike's he swiped the pieces away with disgust , He was so caught up in his thoughts he didn't hear the door open and Applejack walking in.
"Spike?" Applejack spoke.
Spike gasped and spun around on his knees with surprise "Oh A.J what brings you here, what can I do for you?" he smiled sheepishly
"who were yew quarreling with?" Applejack asked.
"The mirror it called me names and I got mad at it" Spike chuckled sheepishly pointing at the destroyed mirror "now how can I help you with my sweet apple?" he asked.
"I think the more appropriate question is: how can I help you?" applejack corrected.
"Nothing really you would think I'm nuts for talking to a mirror" Spike replied "the only creature that wouldn't question the sanity of talking to mirrors is Discord" he said "because he does it to only he would under stand that" he said.
"Well I understood why you wanted a bride" Applejack said laying her hooves gently on his clawedhand.
"Uh because I wanted to resurrected a part of me that was destroyed?" Spike tried.
"Your lonely, you've been by yourself pretty much all yer life and the next part in isolation" Applejack said kindly "and the only creature you had was Thorax but you came rotten when you would see what you didn't have" she said.
"Yeah some connection we had the time we spend'ed in The Badlands, he became more than a friend became my brother" Spike sighed.
"Yeah a brothership like that when it's sinks, you turn your back on the whole world" she said getting closer till she was against his hip "and you get lonely anypony would crack under those issues" she said.
"I'm a dragon, a mystic dragon of that I'm suppose to be made of stern stuff" Spike told her.
"Doesn't matter if yer a changeling, a pony, a hippogriff or a super powerful dragon" Applejack replied "yew still have feelings and you deserve love and a friend" she said.
"It does feel nice to have a real leaving object that I wasn't made from my power" Spike admitted "I just didn't expect you to come forward, I would picked Cheerilee she is awe-fully perdy" he said.
"bag yer pardon?" Applejack hopped on her hooves.
Spike cracked up "oh you should've seen your face" he said, Applejack tackled him and the two tussled playfully across the room and Applejack pinned Spike on his back firmly on top of him.
"I surrender" Spike smirked with a claws by his head "get off please" he said, the mare got off and helped him up.
"I was wondering if you want to go on a date with me this evening, heard there was a full moon tonight?" Spike said.
"I wouldn't mind a friendly date" Applejack smiled.
"yes" Spike said "So weeks of being with me, what do you think of me" he asked.
"Well I really love spending time with ya, your funny sweet and handsome I might add" Applejack said "yer a really fun guy to hang with and I don't mind being with you" she said "I love you as a friend, a really good friend"
Spike smiled "Well I love being with you to and I'm glad you decided to come with me" he said.
"and I wouldn't change that for nothing" Applejack smiled before the walked out.