Applejack looked at Blake who was laid out across her couch and she studied his face. She then looked outside to where everyone from the Mane 6 and Big Mac were trying their best to harvest the apples, but it was slow work compared to if she was doing it. She sighed and went to her room. Blake opened his eyes slightly and slowly rolled off the couch. He grimaced as pain shot through his back but he push through it as he jogged out into the field, he made sure to keep well out of The Mane 6 line of sight and when he finally got to a tree he lined himself up to it and bucked as hard as he could muster. He managed to knock the apples into the buckets below and he collapsed to his knees. The pain in his back was almost unbearable but he shook it off and walked over to the next and repeated the process. After a few acres he collapsed and he wasn't able to get up when Big Mac came by him.

"Aren't you supposed to be getting some rest for your back?" Big Mac asked him.

"Let you guys have all the fun?" Blake asked painfully.

"No, so you don't have permanent damage to your back." Big Mac replied.

"Mac, I don't need your sister worrying about me." Blake replied as he finally got his feet and leaned against the tree. "She's already blaming herself for the injury I have right now."

"Yeah, I know, she told me." Big Mac replied. "Thanks to your quick thinking she still alive, but aggravating your injury won't make either feel better."

"No offense, but where I'm from we had no doctors and we just pushed through our injuries." Blake replied.

He was about to say more when there was a scream from the house. Big Mac didn't even say anything before Blake took off galloping as fast he could ignore the pain in his back. As he got closer to the house and saw the chimera Blake poured on any extra speed that he could and rammed head first into it. They both went down and Blake used his weight to pin the monster down as Big Mac and the Mane 6 came running up to them. They stopped short as a Cutie Mark started to glow on Blake's rump.

"You made a mistake coming here." Blake yelled at the chimera while his body and wings were started to be cloaked in fire. "I'll make you regret it."

The chimera could only whimper as Blake started to pummel it and after awhile it flung him into the nearest tree and it took off. Blake slowly got to his feet was about to chase after the chimera when he felt Twilight's hoof on his shoulder.

"Don't worry about it." Twilight told him.

"What about the town?" Blake asked her.

"We'll handle it." Rainbow Dash told him.

"Yeah, just stay here with AJ." Pinkie Pie told him.

Blake looked over to Applejack before responding. "Okay, this one time I will listen to you."

He noticed Applejack let out a sigh as he said this and he walked over to her.

"I guess there's no more applebucking for me today." He told her.

Applejack from him to Big Mac and back to him before she sighed.

"Stay with Big Mac, and he's going to bring you when he deems it necessary." Applejack replied.

She was shocked when Blake wrapped his arms around quickly.

"What's this for?" Applejack asked him.

"You almost died twice today, and I'm just glad you're okay." Blake replied as he looked her in the eye.

"Can we talk when you get back?" Applejack asked him.

"Of course, anytime AJ." Blake told her before leaving with Big Mac.

They got to the clearing where Big Mac found him and he stopped Blake.

"What are your intentions with my sister?" He asked her.

"I like her and I don't want anything to happen to her, but with me current situation I can't tell her." Blake replied trying to avoid Big Mac's eyes.

"She feels like you alienated her slightly." Big Mac replied.

"Why?" Blake asked him.

"Because you didn't tell her you were planning to disobey doctor's orders and go to the apple orchard." Big Mac told him.

Blake turned and walked back to the house.

"Where are you going?" Big Mac asked him.

"Truthfully, I need to talk to your sister and right now she is more important than this harvest is to me." Blake replied.

Big Mac only nodded as he watched Blake run to the house. When he got there his back was on fire and he slowly walked up to Granny Smith.

"Where's Applejack?" Blake asked her.

"In her room." Granny Smith told him. "She cares about you, you know that right?"

"Yeah, it's been more apparent now more than ever." Blake replied as he trotted to Applejack's room.

He knocked gently on Applejack's door and when It opened he just stood there.

"Don't be a bump on a log, come in." Applejack told him her barely even.

"I'm sorry if I'm why you're crying again." Blake told her as he came into her room. "I should have told you what I was going to do, and don't say it's okay because it's not."

"I should have expected that you would go to the orchard, you always help even when you're hurt, you helped rebuild the barn after it was destroyed even though you could barely stand." Applejack replied. "It looked like your legs were jelly when were standing still."

"Back then my knees went weak when I was around you AJ."Blake replied. "I like you but I can't pull into my life being it as dangerous as it is."

"Blake I've stopped stampedes with only my dog by my side and I didn't budge an inch." Applejack told him.

"You've seen my scar, but no one not ever Fluttershy knows how I got them." Blake replied.

"Isn't your back hurting you?" Applejack asked him.

He couldn't even respond as he collapsed to his knees and gritted his teeth as he failed to get back up. Applejack helped him back to his feet and they slowly made their way to her bed. AS he laid down he could help but notice how the bed smelled strongly of Applejack and he inhaled deeply and contemplated the scent until he heard Applejack clear her throat.

"Huh, what?" Blake asked her.

"Aren't you going to tell me how you got those scars?" Applejack asked him.

"They remind me that no matter what I never truly belonged anywhere." Blake told her.

"That's sad but vague." Applejack replied.

"These scars were inflicted by many ponies, unicorns and pegasi." Blake replied. "It was until I got here that people stopped segregating me from the whole community."

"I'm so sorry." Applejack told him.

"The past is the past, no way to change it only to move on." Blake replied.

Applejack looked at the ground for a second before she spoke again. "No matter where you go or the danger of it all… I want to be by your side, always."

Blake was shocked by what she said and quickly shook his head.

"Fine, but you stay with me at all times until I'm sure you can protect yourself." Blake replied.

Applejack nodded quickly and hugged Blake.

"I'm going to take a guess and say you two are a couple now?" Big Mac asked them. "If so, then it took the two of you long enough."

Before Applejack could react Blake kissed her quickly and she smiled.