Arthur awoke with the warmth of the sun beating on his face, when mary-beth saw him getting up she ran up to him.
"Arthur! Arthur! You are ok!" She exclaimed.
"Uhh.. Mary-Beth?" Arthur said slowly trying to stand up.
"Its me arthur. Everyone arthur is up!" She said.
Bill, Dutch, javier, john, and the rest of the gang crowded around Arthur's tent.
"I'm glad your ok arthur." Bill said.
"Good to see you up brother." Javier said.
"You're lucky, john saved your life." Abigail said.
"Alright, Alright everybody arthur is glad to see you all but let's give him some space to get back on his feet." Dutch said.
John came and sat next to Arthur "Good to see you amongst the living again."
"Ahh I feel dead." Arthur said clenching his side.
"You would have been dead if I didnt get that bear." John said pulling out a bottle of whiskey.
"Yeah that damn bear, thanks for saving me marston. I guess we're even now." Arthur said.
"You saved me more times than I can admit, and here take this to take the edge off." John said handing the bottle to arthur.
Arthur popped the cork on the bottle and begain to drink from it but the sound of multiple gunshots made the burning liquid go down the wrong pipe and made him gag, afterward Arthur rushed and grabbed his trusty cattleman revolver and ran towards the gun shot noises. He arrived to the gang barely holding off dozens apon dozens of pinkertons rushing their little camp. Arthur took cover next to Dutch.
"DUTCH! What's going on?" Arthur said.
"Those god damned pinkertons found us." Dutch said unloading his revolver at the pinkertons.
"We cant just stay here. They'll overwhelm us." Arthur said.
"More coming from the left! And right!" Bill said.
"If you got a plan you best use it now dutch. A few more minutes and we are dead." Arthur said while firing a few shots off.
"Uh-Everyone retreat! Split up!" Dutch said.
Everyone dispersed. Hundreds of bullets whizzed through the camp, little jack was still playing on the ground when Abigail tried to collect as john tried to cover their esacpe.
"Let's go jack! The bad men are coming!" Abigail said.
"Wait mama my book!" Jack exclaimed.
"Now Ja-" she was cut short by a bullet to the brain.
It took john a moment to realize Abigail was hit.
"Oh christ abigail!" John screamed and ran over to her body.
"Those sons of bitches got her!" John got up and started emptying his guns at the pinkertons till arthur ran by.
"Marston let's go!" Arthur said.
"They got abigail!" He said.
"Well jack ain't gonna have neither of you if we don't go now!" Arthur screamed.
John holstered his guns and grabbed jack and ran as fast as he could following arthur into the forest. They ran for what seamed forever until they both had to stop from lack of breath. John, Jack, and arthur where in the middle of nowhere and the distant gunshots where replaced with the typical sound of the forrest.
"I think we lost em'." Arthur said.
"Papa is mama going to be ok?" Young jack asked.
"I-I don't know son." John said falling to his knees.
"God dammit, I've been a bad husband. I should of been better to her, now she's gone." John said.
"Listen, john we gotta get out of here. This thing with dutch is over, we gotta run and dont look back. I just gotta find out where mary is." Arthur said.
"Well that part ain't gonna be hard, just got this letter a few days ago from her." John said pulling it out of his back pocket and handing it to arthur.
Arthur read the letter
"Dearest Arthur,
I have bought us a large plot of land up near black water at a place named beeachers hope, it is beautiful and I plan on spending our last days together there but we need a home to go on our land. When your done playing outlaws and lawmen please join us here. The doctor says everything is well, I just hope your here before our child comes. Also I cut things off with daddy, but Jamie came with me.
Love, Mary."
"Well marston we dont have to look no farther. Mary bought a large plot of land near black water, just needs a little work." Arthur said.
"Well it's a start. Jack whadda say we give farming a shot?" John said.
"I dunno papa when is mama gonna join us again?" Jack said.
"Soon son soon." John said hugging his son tight.
"Alright John we got a long journey ahead of us." Arthur said standing up.
"That we do, come on jack." John said.
They walked for hours which transitioned into days, they made camp in lemoyne outside a burnt church. Arthur decided to go hunting to get back on the saddle so to speak after being asleep for so long, john leant him his custom Litchfield reapeter. Arthur wandered for awhile then came across a few wild turkeys, he steadied his aim and manged to pick off two of the rather blump birds. Arthur ran down to the bird and harvester their flesh and afterward arthur stopped and decided to write in his journal
"Things haven't just haven't been going well, I awake surrounded by my fellow gang members who are quite happy to see me awake then I'm watching them die by the hands of those pinkertons. like poor Abigail, poor women didn't get a chance at a decent life. I must say Marston is an idiot but I do pity him after losing Abigail. Also there is no one I'd rather be stuck with than him. He's dumb but I know he has my back but it feels like these 20 years have been for nothing."
[Insert sketch of Abigail].
Arthur finished the sketch of Abigail and made his way back to their makeshift camp.
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