CHAPTER 3

Memories

It had now been about three years since that incident. I had just got back from my searches in the town. She was watching television shows on the T.V. I had hooked up to the computer in the living room. She looked over to me and sighed.

"When can I go with you, you would be able to carry more if I went to." This was true but I didn't want anything to happen to her. And a small bandit tribe had came in and would look at her as food.

" When you are older. Besides, another tribe came in a week ago and it is pretty nasty out there most of the time."

" Fine, dad."

I went into the kitchen and dropped off my findings on the table. She jumped up on her hind legs ad put her forelegs on a chair. So she could see for herself. There were cans of food, computer games, water filters, and a DVD. Tonight was movie night at the homebase and I had got what I thought was a classic. she had never seen Titanic and I thought that she was old enough to handle it now. Though I estimated her to be only about 6 or 7, she acted very mature for her age. I went into the living room and popped the movie into the computer and switched the input on the T.V. to the computer, then I sat on the couch. She followed soon after and jumped up on the other side of the couch. As the movie began to play we got comfortable and began to watch the movie. About halfway through the movie she fell asleep. I looked down to her and smiled. I turned the movie off and covered her up. Then I walked to my room for some peace and quite. I had gotten a second computer so she couldn't read my journal. I had no deep dark secrets that would really destroy her. But there were two I didn't want her to know. The first was my big secret about my past. Where I had come from and who I had been. The second was what I did when I was sad or lonely. I would go into town, go to the tallest building, and I would help people cross the city. I knew the thought that I had killed more than the wolf would greatly alter her image of me. I had helped all kinds of people across the city. I had also failed sometimes. The people I had let down still haunted me today. I knew that I could have done more but I didn't. I opened up my file where I had all my pictures and a word document. I opened the word document and dated it. then I wrote:

"Dear Anna,

I wish you could see her. she is so big now and she is getting so smart for something of her age. she reminds me of you, you know? She is stubborn and and can be very troublesome at times. But she is also kind and she will go out of her way to help anyone who needs it. She still doesn't know you existed. I haven't been able to tell her. I just don't know how she would react. Even though I haven't told her. I still love you. I miss you. And I wish you could be here to see our daughter grow.

forever your love,

Marcus"

I stopped and saved the document. I looked at the title. Letters to Anna. I missed her so much. AJ and her would have gotten along so well. But the revolutionaries took her and made her work for them. They worked her to death in the mines to get the iron that wasn't there. If only. If only. But I was thinking in a perfect world. She always said," If we were meant to live in a perfect world. We would. But we don't. So it is up to us to make the best of what we have and live our lives as they are given to us." There was so much truth in that statement. I would have loved for her to live. But she gave me a daughter. Though not through child birth, I she was still alive I wouldn't be in New Orleans. And I never would have met my daughter. I sat back and opened the picture file labeled my love. I went through the pictures of when we got engaged, our wedding, our honey moon, our lives together. I began to cry so I turned my computer off. I sat there and cried to myself for a bit. My hands covered my face and I sobbed gently. I eventually moved to my bed and laid in the warm sheets. I turned my head into my pillow and cried more. Now that it was muffled and softened, I could cry to my hearts content. I cried loud and out, not caring how loud because no one could hear me.

It went on like this for at least one hour. when I eventually stopped I rolled over and stared at the wall. I heard the door creak open but I didn't move. I heard the hoof steps come around the bed until her large eyes were facing me. She looked at me and I stared back at her, I could hardly see her through my tears.

" I hear you crying almost every night. I don't know why daddy, but you do. But please know that I love you. And even though you went through a lot before I came. I will always love you. And you will always be my dad." As she said these last few words she jumped up on the bed. She laid down right next to me. She leaned over and kissed me on the forehead and then laid her head right near my chest. I pulled her in closer and whispered in her ear," and you will always be my baby girl." Her warmth engulfed me and she soon fell asleep again. I laid there and thought about what may have happened if Anna had lived and meet AJ. I shrugged it off and closed my eyes and let Applejack's sweet voice ring in my memories as I drifted off to sleep.

I feel pretty good about this chapter. I put some more work into it but all of my stuff still seems short to me. but I am urged to write faster and that will cost a few details. I have also forgot to mention one thing, for legal reasons.

*** All characters in this story belong to their respective owners. Applejack and the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic cast are property of Hasbro.***

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