A Smile That Hides Pain (Karina x Male Reader)

Flashback: The Fallout

FLASHBACK

Narrator POV

"Get them bags packed up quick, Miss Grimshaw. Hurry!" Micah spoke. "Well, we're doing our best!" Grimshaw defended. "Hurry, we ain't got long. Hurry!" Micah said.

"We just got plenty o' time, Micah. We all need to have a little chat!" Jeon said as he suddenly rode into camp on his horse. "Black lung, you're back. Hooray." Micah said sarcastically. Jeon ignored him and walked into camp.

"I just saw Agent Milton Dutch!" Jeon yelled, getting Dutch's attention. "Abigail shot him, she's okay, not that you give two shits about that." Jeon said as he stopped and turned to Micah and his friends.

"You rats, all o' you." He spoke. "You gonna be at his funeral Micah? I know you two were pretty close." Jeon said. "What the hell are you talking about cowpoke?" Micah asked.

"You talked." Jeon spoke. "That's a goddamn lie!" Micah said as he took a step forward. "Dutch..." Jeon began. "Dutch! Think of the future." Micah said.

"Milton told me." Jeon finished. "And you believe him cowpoke? You believe him?!" Micah retorted.

"It all makes sense now." Jeon said as he realized Micah's plan. He framed Molly for being a rat, and then brought up the possibility of another rat to Dutch. And because he was the one who brought it up, Dutch wasn't likely to expect the 2nd rat to be him. But in truth, there was no 2nd rat. It was just Micah.

"No, it damn well doesn't." Micah said before he and Jeon quickly drew their side-arms on each other. Micah aimed his custom Double Action revolver. But Jeon aimed his hand-made custom Navy revolver. A revolver he modeled after Dutch's Schofield. 

"Dutch, think!" Jeon said, hoping Dutch would realize Micah's treachery. "Dutch, be practical now." Micah spoke.

"Dutch!" Jin suddenly yelled. "Jin?" Micah spoke as Jin walked into camp, tightly clutching his left shoulder where he'd been shot. "You left me! You left me to die!" Jin yelled.

"My boy, I didn't have a choice. Jin I didn't..." Dutch started, but was cut off when Jin yelled Dutch's betrayal once more. Dutch's facial expression went from sympathetic to angry.

"All of you... you pick your side now because this is over." Jeon said before turning his head toward Dutch, his gun still trained on Micah. "All them years Dutch... for this Pinkerton worshipping, piece of garbage!" Jeon yelled.

"Be quiet cowpoke, be quiet! You live in the clouds." Micah retorted. "No, you be quiet Mr. Bell, and put down your gun!" Susan said as she stood with Jeon, aiming her signature Pump Action shotgun at Micah.

"There's Pinkertons coming, fast!" Javier said suddenly as he ran back to camp. Susan turned to face Javier and at that moment, Micah used her moment of ignorance to his advantage and shot her in the stomach, making her fall to the ground. Jeon reinforced his grip on his gun and paid Micah his full attention, but Dutch was at his breaking point.

"Now!" Dutch said as he drew his two Schofield's and aimed at Micah and Jeon. "Who amongst you, is with me..." Dutch began as he walked to stand next to Micah while Jin walked to stand next to Jeon. "And who, is betraying me?!" He finished as he aim both his guns at Jin and Jeon.

Cleet and Joe siding with Micah was no surprise, but it was a surprise when Bill and Javier suddenly ran to stand with Dutch. "Bill, Javier, think! You're siding with the enemy!" Jeon pleaded, but they didn't listen. At least Javier didn't aim at them directly, instead pointing his revolver to the air, but Bill went all in, aiming his repeater at them. "He's lying. He's lying!" Micah said.

Suddenly gunfire came from behind them. It was the Pinkertons Javier had warned them about. Dutch's traitors went to the other side of the camp to take cover, and Jeon and Jin took cover at some nearby crates.

"You alright Jin?" Jeon asked as they took cover. "Yeah, let's just get outta here." Jin responded.

Jin's rough condition made fending them off impossible. Especially when the rest of the gang decided to run off and leave Jin and Jeon to deal with the Pinkertons.

"In here, we can escape through the cave!" Jin said as he left his cover to run through the cave. Jeon followed suit.

The two of them navigated the cave, Jeon falling behind from fits of coughing, but he assured Jin that he was okay to keep going.

After they climbed a ladder, they were somewhere behind the camp and ran down a small hill before whistling for their horses. "You... You need to go... go back home, to Y/n. To your sister." Jeon said, partially out of breath. "How?" Jin asked.

"John, Abigail, and Sadie. They're at Copperhead landing. They can get you home." Jeon said. Jin grabbed his hand and held it. "Thank you, brother." He said as he tried to run, but Jeon held his hand still. "I want you... to not look back. This is over." Jeon said as the horses arrived.

As they mounted up, they found themselves pursued by a new threat: Their old friends. Dutch, Micah, Cleet, and Joe were on horseback and were chasing after Jeon and Jin. Micah claimed that they were the traitors, and Dutch believed him, yelling that he couldn't believe they'd do this after everything he'd done for them.

As the two were being pursued by both Dutch and the Pinkertons, the two got a small reprieve, in the form of Dutch and his dick riders being pushed back by more Pinkertons. But, it didn't last long.

As Jin and Jeon started to go up a hill, some Pinkertons landed deadly blows to their horses, causing them to fall to the ground and start to bleed out. Jeon quickly got up and nailed the surrounding Pinkertons in the head, before kneeling down to his dying horse. He comforted it, caressing it's head and whispering a thank you into it's ear, before it passed on.

Jin spurred him to keep pushing, but Jeon reminded Jin of the money. There was a chest in the cave at the camp. And Jeon had been given the key to it from Abigail.

"I head back down there, I'm dead in seconds." Jin said. "Maybe you're right, but you'll need money to get back home." Jeon responded. "Can't get back home if I'm dead." Jin retorted.

Jeon was faced with a decision: Go back for the money, or help Jin get away.