The Red Wolf ~ A Red Dead Redemption story

Chapter 20: Charm

It was morning and Hosea stood on guard duty. He woke up to see snow surrounding the whole plains and lake with mountains in the distance. He was mesmerised by the beautiful. Everyone else was just waking up as he saw Miss Grimshaw pacing around doing some chores and Arthur had taken Copper out for a walk.

Mac had been a bit worried for a while. He hadn't spoken to his brother since he went on to do the train score and was becoming hectic as to why it had taken so long to do. Not only that he hadn't been informed by his younger brother about anything so he had hoped Davey hadn't screwed things over in town or not. But Hosea had reassured him that Davey wasn't alone so there was nothing to be worried about.

Though the peace and the serenity of the beautiful winter North Dakota morning was shattered by the bellow of a wild animal.

"Dutch!" Bill yelled out as he rode to the outside of the manor with Davey following.

"HEY WE NEED HELP OVER HERE!" Bill roared out again, waking up everyone from the Manor.

"Bill?" Hosea asked as he walked over, but to his horror he saw John's body on Davey's horse. The man sprinted over frantically as he was fearing the worse.

"Wait is that John?!" He exclaimed as he went to Davey's horse to check John's pulse. Thankfully he was still alive.

"John and Davey have been shot!" Bill yelled as he got off his horse to help Davey off.

Hosea just had enough as he angrily turned to Bill demanding answers "What the hell did you do?!"

"We were trying to get the train score off the Red Wolf, he got the law on us and ruined our plan!" Bill explained but it seemed to not explain anything to Hosea who was still locking his gaze on Bill as he helped John's body off Davey's horse.

Dutch had stormed out the house with Mac following after him. Arthur seemed to have returned from his walk as he ran over to the commotion with Copper running back into the house. Davey had a little bit of strength left to help Bill explain what they did, though they wished they didn't and had John explain instead of them.

"I told you boys this plan was stupid!" Hosea yelled at the pair as he helped Davey off the horse.

"Bit late for that Hosea" Davey sheeply replied.

"You goddamn fools! I can only speculate what might have happened, but I think the results speak for themselves." Dutch scolded as he saw Arthur and Mac taking John's body inside the manor.

"You saw the Red Wolf didn't you?" Mac asked as he walked away with John's unconscious body. It weren't much he said but one could speculate his disappointment and frustration in his obvious question.

"Yeah, we might've....pissed him off." Davey slumped though Hosea held him up.

"We kidnapped his girlfriend and tried to ransom her for the score." Bill explained. Hosea just looked like he was about to have a stroke from that explanation. He had warned them about the Red Wolf and it seemed his words fell on deaf ears and Dutch's face turned red as he walked up to Bill and Davey.

"You idiots! You never thought to consult me at any time? Look what that caused!" Dutch yelled at them both, both men both wanted to hide and be away of Dutch's shouting but both couldn't and Bill was trying to think of a good excuse but it wasn't really a good one at all.

"Well....you said-"

"I don't think that's a perfect excuse for keeping stuff from me boys. Not only that you have almost killed John!"

"Wasn't meaning for that to happen. The man tricked us into thinking he was unarmed so we'd shoot him." Davey tried to smile at the thought but he was shot down with the glares of Hosea, Arthur, Dutch and Mac.