Easy on the reins (Charles Smith X Reader)

Chapter 4:

As Charles walked over to Arthur, Cassidy peered out of her tent and quietly moving towards Arthur's location until she found a spot where she was hidden and could make out what Charles was asking and talking about with Arthur.

"Hey Arthur!" Charles called as Arthur turned to look at Charles coming in his direction.

"Hey Charles, glad to see you back from your mission alive. What's going on?" Arthur asked.

"Miss Ranger told me you went for a ride with her not to long ago in the day." Charles said.

"Yeah, we did, what'd she tell you?" Arthur asked.

"Not much which is why I always end up coming to you about all the details. She pretty much just told me that you two went for a ride and hunted down some animals and had some personal talk between you two." Charles said.

"Yeah, we did. I asked her before we went hunting if she knew how to skin an animal and she went into full detail... maybe a bit too much on it as to how she learned how to. Told me her father was the one who taught her at a young age how to do it and then I let her at it, I shot the animal until it was dead and had her collect the skin from the animal." Arthur explained.

"What kind of animal was it?" Charles asked.

"It doesn't matter, all you need to know is that it was an animal, and not a horse, who in gods name would shoot a horse?" Arthur asked as Charles chuckled.

"No one, we care for our horses Arthur, until their time is done, then we replace them with another. Simple as that." Charles replied.

"Fair enough. Yeah that was pretty much all we did, talked and talked and then hunted and came back here, well... I did but Cassidy came looking for you as you know because I'm sure she told you that." Arthur said as Charles nodded.

"Yep, she did. But let me tell you she definitely is a bit shy but sometimes, not all the time. She definitely prefers to talk very little than a lot." Charles said.

"Uhm... you'd be incorrect on that one my friend, she definitely has a lot to say when going for a ride." Arthur corrects.

"Well that'd be pretty true. Well, thanks for informing me Arthur." Charles said as Arthur nodded and Charles walked off, Cassidy sneaking her way back to her tent until she heard someone call her name.

She stopped in her tracks standing up from crouching and turned around to see it was Dutch who totally saw her as she was in his line of sight.

"What the hell do you think your doing Miss Ranger sneaking your way around the camp?" Dutch asked as Cassidy rolled her eyes and totally ignored him and walked back to her tent, Dutch shaking his head in disbelief and going back to what he was doing.

"Well got away with that pretty easily. Clearly he's been face to face with ladies that have turned his back on him a lot." Cassidy said to herself chuckling at the fact of what she said.

As Cassidy walked into her tent she set her rifle off to the side of the bed laying her head back against the pillow looking up at the sky through the small holes through the curtain above until she heard voices walk close by causing her to sit herself up against the frame of the bed staring at the entrance to her tent.
Then she saw what looked like Charles walk past but she was unsure.

She eventually became curious enough to slide herself off of the bed, slipping on her jacket and grabbing her rifle setting it in her belt holster and walking out looking towards her left where she saw what looked like Javier sitting by the lake, to her right was Charles and ahead of her was Dutch, or at least his tent, she wasn't sure where exactly he was but she didn't want to know.