Applejack and Blake both looked at Big Mac as he walked away.
"Just do that much around me." Big Mac told them.
Blake chuckled and ran his hoof down Applejack's back.
"I could get used to this AJ." Blake told her as their lips met again.
Applejack smiled as she hugged Blake tightly.
"Where your cutie mark?" Applejack asked him.
"Don't know, someone I know might be able to explain it though." Blake replied.
Blake got to his feet and walked with Applejack to the dinning room where Granny Smith and Apple Bloom were cooking.
"Where's Big Mac?" Applejack asked them.
"He's finishing the harvest with the rest of the Mane 6." Apple Bloom replied.
"I need you two get some things from the market." Granny Smith told them as she handed them a list.
Blake trotted over to the produce basket and begun the annoying process of getting it onto his back. In the end Applejack got on the other side of the basket and pushed it onto his and tightened the strap around his chest.
"I'm surprised you haven't tried to talk me out of carrying the stuff on my back." Blake told her.
"You would just talk me into letting you do it anyways and this way it'll be easier for me to pick out the stuff we need." Applejack replied as she kissed Blake's cheek.
"There will not be any fun business under my roof." Granny Smith told them.
Blake chuckled as he and Applejack left the house towards the market. When they got there Applejack lead the way through the market but after awhile they both stopped as they came face to face with an angry nurse Redheart.
"I told you not to put strain on your back." Redheart told Blake.
"I've through worse ma'am." Blake replied coolly.
Nurse Redheart got up in his face before speaking again. "Have you taken care of thousands pony in your medical career?!"
"No, but I have gone through worse." Blake replied while examining his hoof.
Nurse Redheart stalked off silently and Blake put his hoof back down.
"What are you two looking for?" A guy asked them.
"Do you have any carrots?" Applejack asked him.
"Do you have any apples?" The guy asked her jokingly. "Hey Blake."
Blake just nodded as Applejack placed a few apples on the guy's table and picked two bushels of carrots and placed them into the produce basket.
"I think that is all the things on the list." Applejack told him.
The two walked back to the house and when they got into the house Big Mac took the basket off of Blake's back and started passing the ingredients to Apple Bloom and Granny Smith.
"How's your back feeling?" Big Mac asked him.
"It's bearable." Blake replied. "I'm going to go lay down for a little while."
Big Mac nodded and pulled Applejack off to the side.
"He's going through something." Big Mac told her.
"How can you tell?" Applejack asked him.
"I just have a feeling." Big Mac replied.
"Thanks for the heads up." Applejack told him.
Big Mac nodded as she walked over to where Blake was asleep on the couch with a leg hanging off. Applejack ran a hoof through his golden mane and his eyes opened slowly and he smiled.
"Is it morning already?" Blake asked her jokingly.
"No, I didn't mean to wake you sugarcube." Applejack told him.
"It's okay, it was a nightmare like always." Blake replied.
"Nightmares? Like what?" Applejack asked him.
"I don't want to tell you, I woke up screaming from them when they first started." Blake told her.
"Maybe I could alleviate some of it." Applejack told him.
"It's my past." Blake told her.
"Then tell me about it." Applejack replied.
"Later, I think dinners ready." Blake replied.
"You two can eat in there, I want you to rest your back." Granny Smith told them.
Blake just nodded as he rubbed his eyes.
"One crazy day." Blake told her.
"Hard to believe it actually was only one day." Applejack replied.
Blake laughed at everything that happened in the day as Apple Bloom brought their food out to them. Blake sat up as well he could since his back was now bothering him more than ever now.
"Just get up as much as you can, and I'll feed you since you need use your arms to hold yourself up." Applejack told him.
"Tomorrow we are going to my friend to see if he can hook me up with anything." Blake replied.
Applejack nodded as she scooped up some of the soup and started to feed Blake though it took and after she was done feeding him she quickly finished her soup.
"Well, I'm going to get in the shower." Applejack told him.
Blake smiled as she left and Big Mac sat down beside him.
"Three years, since you came here." Big Mac told him.
"Three years, it has been that long hasn't it?" Blake asked him. "Hard to think I was able to relax for this long."
"Relax?" Granny Smith asked him. "You're one of the busiest alticorns I know, you always running around doing things for everypony, this is probably the longest you've gone staying in one place."
"Yeah I know, I feel like I'm getting a little jumpy." Blake told them. "I'm going to get some fresh air."
Blake walked outside to where no one could see him and held up one of his hoofs. A flame jumped to life right above it and where ever he moved his hoof the flame followed.
"Blake what's that?" Twilight asked him.
"Is everyone with you?" Blake asked her as he quenched the flame.
"Everyone except Applejack." She replied.
"Then we wait for her." Blake told her as he turned to them.
Everyone looked at him like he was strange and as Applejack came out he took a deep breath.
"The reason I didn't tell anypony about what I could do was because it why I have my scars. Even though I'm an alticorn I don't need to use my horn for my magic." Blake replied.
"You have our trust and respect." Twilight told him.
"I had their trust and respect and I was the heir to the throne and they tried to kill me." Blake replied. "Some of my scars I keep hidden but they surface whenever I use my power."
Blake held up his hoof again and as the flame appeared so did the sutures around his mouth the scar down his chest and two scars around his wings. Applejack gently touched his face but he could bring himself to look at her.
"Blake I told you that I want to be by your side and this doesn't change anything." Applejack told him.
"Yeah, dude those scars show how tough you are, and plus they make that much cooler." Rainbow Dash told him.
Blake let the flame go out and his scars faded into nothing.
"It's getting late so we should be getting home." Twilight told them.
"Tomorrow, meet up back here." Blake told them.
Everyone nodded and left until only Fluttershy was left. She hugged Blake gently and spoke softly into his ear.
"No matter what we have your back." She told him.
Blake nodded as she turned to leave and then he turned to Applejack.
"We should get to bed too." Applejack told.
"I'll sleep on the couch." Blake told her.
"You're a guest in my house and no one will spend a night on that couch." Applejack told him.
Blake followed Applejack back to her room and hesitantly climbed into her bed. Soon they were both asleep and Blake was unaware of the events that have started to unfold because of him.