Beautifully Broken (Wayhaught)

♔ T W E N T Y - O N E ♔

Michele Gibson sighed as she paced back and fourth. The morning daylight streaming from the window slowly extinguished and Michele stopped moving to look outside, feeling an overwhelming dread as a cloud pushed in and eclipsed the sky over her motel. The room went dark as the cloud continued to expand beyond, its opacity increasing directly overhead.

Michele took a quick look around and saw her green duffel bag lying on the ground next to her bed. She threw it onto her bed and began piling all of her clothes into it. The last thing she shoved inside was a glass framed picture of her kids, before she zipped it up.

Mama Earp gave herself a few deep breaths as she stared at the motel room door. On the last breath, her lips curled into a vicious grimace just before pulling the door open with the shotgun aimed and ready. She started this mess, now she's gonna fix it.

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Nicole was in her cop car when she noticed a black Nissan Sentra zooming down the road. The gingers cop instinct kicked in, "Bloody hell." Nicole whispered as she turned on her siren.

Nicole followed the Nissan Sentra and watched as the car pulled off the next exit onto a smaller side road and let the car roll to a stop.

The tall ginger got out of her police car and walked to the car. She stood briefly, looking at the tinted windows, unclipping her gun holster; Nicole's hand at the ready before making her way to the driver's door.

Nicole knocked on the window, and the person inside slowly rolled down the window.

"License and Registration?" Nicole asked looking at the girl inside who was wearing a pink coat. "And a permit for the cherry-light." Nicole pointed to the red blinking light on top of the black car.

"Nicky! I was trying to get these too you while they were still warm." Jolene picked up a basket on the passenger seat and held them too Nicole.

"Lemon scones." Nicole picked up the dessert and observed it.

"No poppy seeds," Jolene smirked, "I know you hate them, days of flossing. Am I right?" Jolene watched as Nicole took a huge bite out of the lemon scone.

"Mmmm! Youuu! You know all of my weaknesses Jolene."

"After you, I'm gonna drop off some fortifying treats to the Earp ladies."

"The homestead?" Nicole pointed in the direction to the Earp house.

"Oh no, no there off in some typically nutting mission, Wavey and Nonna, looking for their fugitive mamasita," Jolene smiled with a devilish grin as she watched Nicole in shock with satisfaction. Nicole's eyes and her mouth were frozen wide open in an expression of stunned surprise. "Oh, am I just dropping all of this on you? I thought Waves would of at least texted."

"Not something they always think of." Nicole looked down, angered lingered in her.

"Including you in their plans? Speaking of plans, I do have to get going, I need your girlfriend to finish all of this," Jolene pointed to the lemon scones. "I would do it myself but of course I can't physically harm her." Jolene chuckled while placing one of her hands on the steering wheel.

"What?" Nicole asked, confused.

"Oh don't worry, doesn't mean we can't have some fun first," Jolene pushed the scone closer to Nicole's mouth. "That's it, eat up."

Nicole chewed her food for a while then swallowed it down. "Jolene, your free to go. Go tell Waverly and those Earp bitches I said hi." Nicole waved off Jolene as she started the car.

"What did I just say?" Nicole spoke to herself feeling weird, but she brushed it off and walked back to her car, still eating the Lemon Scone.

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