Amy's Strength & Tenacity

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

A month later Amy was 7 months and had started going for a short walk with Ty taking Shadow and another horse. Secretly Amy couldn't wait to ride Shadow and had thought about doing Show Jumping again as Marion had said she could go all the way with a decent Horse and now she had one.
Just before they were going to turn back Amy needed a rest.
"Ty, can we have a rest before we head back please ".
"Yeah of course Amy, how about over there under that tree, give the horses some shade as well as us".
"I'm getting you a proper Hat, a Cowboy hat, if Grampa's teaching you about Cattle then you need to look the part and it will help with the Sun".
"Thank you Amy".
"Your welcome ".
" So what are you going to do with this big fellow here".
"I was thinking that now I have a good horse again I may go back into Show Jumping ".
"You used to do Show Jumping ".
"Yeah, my horse was smaller because obviously I was smaller when I started,  I mean I'm not that much bigger now but he died a few years ago from Strangles ".
"What's that".
"Best to look it up, but it's not nice at all, they can suffocate".
"Oh wow".
"Yeah, took me a while to get over it".
"Had you had him long".
"Yeah, since I was Four years old and he died when I was Sixteen".
"I'd like to see you Jump eventually".
"Thanks, we'd better get back, My legs feel better now".
"Okay,  here I'll help you up".
"Thank you Ty, that deserves a kiss".
"You are beautiful Amy, and you have a kind heart".
"What, even looking like this".
"Definitely looking like you do, you Glow Amy".
"Thank you Ty, no ones ever said that to me".
They set off back and had there arms around each other with the horses following.

Back at Heartland Marion had Just finished helping one of her clients horses and the client was coming to pick her horse up later on when a Truck pulls up near the barn.
Marion's walking the horse back into the barn and puts him in the stable near the barn doors, when she shuts the stable door she see's the bloke stood Just outside the Barn.

"We're you any good at Jumping Amy".
"Yeah I was, mum used to say that if I had a bigger horse I could go all the way".
"What doe's that mean, all the way".
"The Olympics Ty".
"Oh wow, that would be an achievement ".
"Yeah it would,  who's my Mum arguing with by the barn, I've never seen her angry like that before ".
"Maybe I should ride down and make sure she's okay ".
"I think she's okay, we'll Just watch from up here".

"What the hell are you doing here Tim, if my Dad see's you he'll shoot you, I suggest you leave".
"I'm here because Someone told me that Amy had been Murderd by her ex boyfriend because he'd raped her, that's  why I'm here Marion".
"Well he should of got his facts right before he told you, yes he did kill her or thought he had. He threw her body down one of those old mine shafts, but she got hooked up on a large nail or something and when they found her three days Later she was barely alive, but thank the gods she survived somehow".
"What, Oh thank god for that, who was it".
"Jesse Stanton, may he rot in his cell".
"How's she doing ".
"It's been hard but she's getting better every day, except she scared of men she doesn't know and some she does, so I'd like you to leave before she shows up, or my Dad".
"Yeah okay, I'll be around anyway, I'm working at Big River".
He gets in his Truck and drives off, about halfway up the Drive he see's two people hand walking horses up on the hill towards Heartland and wonder's if the young woman is Amy.

To be continued