Oneshots - Kayce Dutton

My brother's friend.

Request - You were a sister of someone who was with Kayce in the military and they died after getting out. You wrote a letter to kayce about the funeral and that your brother had stuff he wanted to give kayce. He never showed up so you drove out to the ranch to give him a letter and stuff. Kayce had no idea about what happened and later found out monica burned the letter because it came from a girl and she didnt like it. Kayce invited you to stay for a couple days and while you are there you over hear Monica being disrespectful to the ranch and the wranglers so you say something to her and kayce john over hear them and kayce gets mad at monica and asks her to leave.

"Are you sure about this?" Your dad asked you as you shut the bed of your truck.

"If he ain't gonna be man enough to come to get his friend's...his brother's stuff for him," You paused at the driver's door and looked at your dad. "Then he can say it to his friend's little sister's face."

"Be careful, sweetheart," Your dad frowned as you climb in and drove off.

The Yellowstone Ranch was about an hour and a half from your family's home. You drove along the highway and thought back to all the letters your brother wrote you, saying he had a best friend over there, and that it turns out he's from Montana too. It sounded like they became brothers in arms over there, watching out for one another.

On home from one of the tours, you met Kayce. He was quiet but polite to you. Once you got to know him better, and a few beers in, he opened up more to you and you became friends as well. He was married, but it wasn't good. They even got divorced, or so you heard, right before your brother's accident.

A little while later you pulled under the sign of the Dutton ranch and realized why its name was infamous. It was massive, stretching farther than your eyes could see as you turned up the road to what you assumed was the main house. You could see some barns a little ways away as you pulled to a stop next to a few trucks with the logo on them. Turning off your truck you sat back in your seat.

"You were right," You whispered out to your brother who had told you how beautiful this place was.

Your brother had only visited a few times, the last one being almost two years ago. He had come out when Kayce was having another problem with Monica and stayed a while to help out around the ranch and try to bring up Kayce's spirits.

You got out of the truck and shut the door, turning around and walking up to the porch. A man was sitting on one of the chairs and stood up, he looked older and your guess was that was Kayce's father.

"Can I help you?" John asked.

"I'm looking for Kayce Dutton?" You answered, stopping right before the first step.

"Who's asking?" John walked to the top of the steps.

"Y/N Y/LN," You said. "I'm Eric's little sister. Eric Y/LN."

John looked at you for a moment and you realized he didn't know you or your brother.

"Eric and Kayce were overseas together," You mentioned.

"Oh," John nodded. "Hold on and I'll get him."

You waited as John walked into the house. Taking a shaky breath, you looked back around at the land. Weirdly enough, it reminded you of Kayce for some reason.

"Y/N?"

You looked back at Kayce walking down the steps. He had a small smile on his face and that made you angry. How could he be smiling?

"Long time no see?" Kayce didn't stop as he approached you, opening his arms.

"Seriously?" You snapped, pressing your hand against his chest and making Kayce stop.