The Ballad Of a Bird~ Jack Marston Story

☙ ✯ ❧Chapter Nine☙ ✯ ❧

{listen while you read?~ I recommend We Made It to the Station by Joshua Quimby}
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The two had quickly made it to near Bacchus Bridge in just under a day and made a camp a little ways down the tracks atop the exit tunnel entrance above the train tracks and Rex found Birdie standing on the edge they occupied looking up at the mountain standing before them

"How much longer we got?" She questioned not moving her eyes from the hill side

"I'd say about an hour before the train comes through" Rex answered looking at his watch

"I'll be back by then if not I promise you I'll be on that train" she said and turned to King mounting up

"Woah woah! Where are ya goin!" Rex said sure he can usually put up with her random run offs but not before a big job

"To see something!" she answered simply and Rex huffed a little in anger

"We might as well lie down on them tracks if this goes south! So where the hell do you have to go right now!"he yelled at her and she glared back

"To see my father's grave!" She yelled back and Rex froze mid arm raise and then gestured a surrender

"Oh I'm sorry for yellin then just be on that train Songbird" Rex said and she nodded

"I already promised I would be" she said before gently spurring King down the hill and following the tracks and Rex watched her though his eye glass as she soon disappeared up the mountain

She was still gone as the whistle blow carried across the valley as Rex watched the train grow closer

"Dammit Birdie" he muttered and prepared jump his way on to the train as the tunnel rumbled underneath his worn boots

With a grunt he landed on a train car and quickly found his footing before he fell and watched as the train rolled quickly towards the bridge when he saw King

The horse had appeared keeping up with the train car he occupied but what caught his attention was his empty saddle and he watched as the horse quickly stopped before the bridge when he was suddenly thrown on his back as his foot was kicked out from under him looking up just to see Birdie looking down at him with a smirk

"Gotta lay low don't wanna get shot off if the bullet doesn't kill ya the fall will" she said with a smug smirk and laid down next to him on her stomach and took her rifle in hand and Rex joined her staying on his back put unholstered his revolver and checked his rounds

They stayed in silence as the train continued down loudly both thinking of the  possibility of what could happen just a few meters down the track

And then it all happened like a snap as three masked men boarded the empty train car below them but immediately took cover as Rex and Birdies fired at them from above the rest of the men on horseback riding along side the train didn't spark any familiarity in Birdie as she quickly took aim and shot them off their horses most not getting up and Rex stood up to get better shots off at the men below

"Find the money!!" A man yelled out and soon the three men moved into the cover of the next train car when suddenly someone had grabbed ahold of Rex's ankle he dropped from having his foot taken out from him once again as two shots rang out only to look over to birdie holding it now kneeling her revolver in hand he looked to where she had been aiming and saw a unknown man fall like a sack of potatoes off the train car unmoving