~A Heart Within You~ RDR2 Arthur x Reader

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~Dutch called you and Arthur to go do something, Arthur went fishing with Hosea and Dutch and you had to go shopping~

(Warning: this chapter has sensitive topics example: abuse and cutting etc)

This chapter is long asf

Shopping...shopping shopping? I haven't gone shopping in so long.

I rode up into Rhodes on my trusted stead.
I hopped off the horse and looked at the list one more time.. Okay- okay. I walked up to the general store and said hello to the man. He just eyed me and didn't say a word. I brought a few items up to the register and paid for them. I walked out of store and looked down at everything I think I got everything? I ran into someone and fell over "I-I'm so sorry" the man looked at me. "Wait a minute.... You're apart of the Van Der Linde gang! Oh Colm is going to be real happy about this" he whistled "w-what?" He pinned me down and started to tie me up, he put a band around my mouth "We'll see what little Dutch thinks about you missing. He slammed a shotgun into my face and I blacked out.

A harsh bump woke me up. I was strapped to a horse with a band around my mouth so tight that all I could do was mumble someone help me!! "Mmm!" The man looked back "oh shush up will you, Save your breath from when Colm makes you scream. We arrived at a small camp filled with many starring eyes. I was brought down into a cellar of one of the cabins Fuck fuck fuck not again! Please someone get me the hell out of here!!! I was thrown into a corner of the room, ropes were immediately tied onto me. The O'Driscoll that carried me in here ripped off the band from my mouth. "Let me the fuck go!!" "Aw we'll let you go once we get our information and get little Dutch locked up" I looked down with tears in my eyes I'm going to be stuck here forever, or killed... A tall slender man walked down into the cellar "Hello there little lady- well now! Seems we have familiar face.." "I-I'm s-sorry Colm please don't hurt me" I was filled with fear once I remembered what he did and could do to me. "So you ran off with old Dutch, hmm? What, did you not like how I treated you, so you needed him to whip you instead?" Colm grazed the side of my cheek, "Now where is Van Der Linde?" "...." I looked up at him with piercing eyes, then bit down on his hand really hard, even some blood squirted out. "OW! Fuck you little shit. I guess you need some pushing!" He pushed me into the wall and he pulled out a knife. He put the knife up to my arm and grazed it across the skin, then pressed it down into my arm "T-that hurts!! Gaah!" He pushed all the way into my arm, then with one quick motion, took it out. He continued to cut at my arm over and over. He went up to my face and asked me again "Where. Is. Dutch?" "Please... Stop." He slapped me hard on the face three times, then punched me in the eye. He pulled up my shirt "w-what are you doing?" Then put the knife to my stomach "Well, you're  still mine of course. Let's make sure they know that too, if you ever see them again" He once again pressed the knife into my skin, but this time he wrote his initials into it "There you are my lady, now you are mine" You looked down at your stomach and saw the letters engraved into you 'C O'DRISCOLL' your eyes welled up with painful hot tears as you looked down at yourself in agony. Colm put his hand on your chin and pulled your head up. "Now let's have some fun. Tell me, where is Van Der Linde?" "I-I don't know Colm! Please just let me go..." He punches my face once again, but harder. "TELL ME!" He threw me across the room with another punch, then kicked me in the gut. I sobbed bloody, hot tears.

***Arthur POV***

I arrived at the camp on boat with Dutch and Hosea "That was some fishing trip, Arthur. You still have a lot to learn though. Hosea nudged my arm with his elbow "Haha yeah. We should do it again sometime." I walked up to camp and was greeted by the girls and Mr. Pearson "Arthur Arthur!" Yelled Tilly "Yes, Tilly?" "F/N hasn't returned in hours! We fear something has happened to her" the girls started freaking out and talking over each other "woah woah! Settle down girls, where did she last go?" Mr.Pearson stepped in "I sent her to go get some supplies in Rhodes and she never came back. Can you please go check on her?" "Sure thing. Probably got caught up with some other things. Either that or she takes awhile." I rushed up to my Horse and ran as fast as I could. I came up towards the Rhodes general store. "F/N? You here?" I walked into the store and repeated the question "Hey I think I saw your lady just get kidnapped by some O'Driscolls about a few hours ago" "Goddammit!" I pushed myself out of the store and noticed some blood on the ground "that better not be hers! I followed a barely visible trail of some horse tracks along with a bit of blood

**F/N** POV

"Stop....please..." I've completely given up, but I'll never tell him where the gang is, no matter what happens to me; I want them to be safe.. "Colm! We need you somewhere towards Blackbone forest, it's pretty important" Yes... please leave me. I spit out blood. "Fine. See you soon girly." He gave me two quick fist fulls to the face before he left. I sat there with wide eyes, terrified for my life and dignity. I sat in a small pool of blood fucking hell...

**Arthur POV***
My horse galloped next to an old home. The place was surrounded with O'Driscolls, so much that it would be nearly impossible with my horse. I got off of him and snuck my way through the bushes and grass. I finally made my way to the bunker, I slowly went down the stares and opened the door.

**F/N Pov**
"Pssst F/N I've come here to get you- what the hell has he done to you?" He ran over and untied me, He caught a glimpse of my stomach "He marked you? That sick son of a bitch!" My eyes were blurred with tears, I quickly hugged Arthur "Thank you...." he grabbed me and we slowly snuck our way out of the camp, I got onto his horse, we briskly ran off towards our camp. I hugged onto him as tight as I could, still breathing heavily "it's alright now, Pearson shouldn't have sent you alone." I didn't reply I just sobbed some more

We arrived at the camp Arthur gently takes me off the horse and brings me towards the tent. The girls, Pearson, and Dutch rush over to us. Arthur puts his body in front of me so I wouldn't become overwhelmed "I'm so sorry F/N I shouldn't have sent you alone. I was just so busy with my own things I wasn't thinking." I tugged on Arthur's sleeve indicating I want to go in the tent. "She'll talk to you guys later" We walked inside the tent "I'll go get you some stew" Arthur walked out of the tent and towards Mr. Pearson. I sat all alone in the tent with my thoughts rushing in, I looked at the stab wound on my arm and the engraving that Colm did..I hope he hangs.

Arthur came in with a huge stew boil and gives it to me "I'm so sorry for the way things turned out... When you go somewhere, tell me first. If I'm not there don't go yet because I would need to come with you." I put the stew boil down and hugged Arthur hard. Arthur reaches over to his chest and pulls out one of his shirts "Here. You can have this until we get you some more clothes." I looked down, noticing my shirt isn't really a shirt anymore. "I'm once again really sorry for how things turned out." I put on his shirt, a little big; but I'm grateful. "We also need to bandage your wounds, so I got these from the medicine cart. He put some Miracle cure into a rag then into a bandage, he wrapped it around my arm tightly and tied it with a pretty bow. He moved down to my stomach and exhaled a sharp and annoyed sigh "He'll pay for this shit. Let's hope this doesn't scar." He did the same action, miracle cure in a rag then in a bandage. He wrapped it around my waist. "You'll be better in no time."

I came out a few hours later when it was dark and everyone was surrounded by the campfires. I sat next to Arthur and put my head on his shoulder. Everyone looked at me, I could tell they wanted to ask me what happened. Lenny spoke up "So what happened, if you don't mind me asking" "One of the O'Driscolls took me captive by the store, they knocked me out unconscious and I woke up at a camp with atleast a dozen of them, I was taken down into a cellar and tied up. I was tortured by Colm" I sighed "He stabbed me through my arm, then...." I pulled up my shirt and showed them the initials "He wrote... his initials into me.." "That's going to leave one hell of a scar" Said Bill while taking a swing of whiskey. Lenny chuckled "No shit Bill." "Let's hope it doesn't." We all talked the night away and I ended up falling asleep on the log.