~A Heart Within You~ RDR2 Arthur x Reader

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~Next morning

~I woke up to someone shaking my bed "Get up, its twelve pm, we have stuff to do in Rhodes." I looked up at the figure and realized it was Arthur "It's. twelve. Pm." He opened the tent doors and the light peered into my face. I swear I could hear tiny burning sounds coming off of me. I swung my body off the side of the hammock (bed) and left it dangling. Arthur sighed "Always a struggle getting you out of bed" He walked over and slapped my face twice, nothing hard just a little tap tap. I glared at him. He grabbed the underside of my both my arms and pulled me up. "there." "Mmmm.... morning" I rubbed my eyes. I looked down to the floor- "Arthur your pants- your outfit!" "Yeeeah thought I'd dress up a little, instead of wearing all those dusty cowboy clothes." He was wearing Everyday reddish orange, plaid pants with a long sleeve black top with some of the buttons unattached. To top it off, he wore a solid black flat cap. "You remind me of Sean" (if you don't like the outfit, just ignore it tbh) "Speaking of Sean, We must ride up to Rhodes like I said before. Micah, Bill, Sean, and I are meeting a couple of the Greys over at the saloon" I grumbled "Alriiight" I walked over to my horse and gave him/her a little treat before we hit the road "ready?" "Yep." I stepped onto the stirrup and hoisted myself up. Arthur and I rode to Rhodes.

We stopped by the bank where sat Micah, Bill, and Sean. "About time! We were waiting on you Cowpoke, Shorty!" "Sorry Micah, F/N wouldn't get up." Micah got up in an arrogant way, and walked towards me. He flashed an ugly stare at me then motioned his hands to follow him, he turned around and the rest followed. "...the greys spoke to Bill about a job in security." "After the farce of stealing horses for them, we're doing this?" "Because we need to stay in with them, and they're paying." "Well what kind of security do they want" "we're about to find out." We walked a few more paces. Arthur looking past the horizon "This seem legit to you Bill?" "Sure." "Dutch said we was supposed to keep dealing with them until we find this gold." Sean spoke up "Can we trust them?" "Can we trust anybody...?" "Let's just get it done."

"They said there was a misunderstanding with them horses" "And... what about burning their fields?" "They don't know we had anything to do with that, Sean!" "Oh that so?" "Yeah! They think is was those Braithwaites. Listen I know these grey boys a bit now, this is on the level" Arthur clenches his fists "we're stuck in the middle of some ancient feud, but instead of playing both sides, we're being used by both of them!" "They were saying that Catherine Braithwaite-" "Hey hold up. This don't feel right" Sean turned around to face us, "This don't feel right? Well I coulda told you tha-" the whole world went slow motion and I saw Sean's brain scatter across the red dusted trail. my jaw dropped as I was stiff as a board with fear. A piercing pain shot through my arm, ripping the skin. Blood rushing out. Arthur grabbed me before my brains were flown out, the bullet marked for my head was perfect height to end me, instead it hit a wagon behind me. The pain from my arm hit me "Wha- What the fuck! My arm!! I got shot!" "You almost got killed just like Sean" "Sean is d-dead?" "YES!" I sobbed. Sean's death hit me hard, he was a good brother to me. I looked down at my arm, the blood gushing out...I passed out from shock. I can't believe this! You pass out from a little gunshot wound to the arm, but when you were tortured by Colm you were awake through every second of it. I couldn't see, but I could hear the gang yelling. "What happened to F/N, Arthur?!" "She's passed out from shock or blood lose!" "Grab her and let's get the fuck out of here!" "What about Sean's body?" "Bill, grab his body!" I believe Arthur grabbed me and began running towards the horses. I was placed onto a furry backside of which I assumed was a horse. I heard furious gallops along with indistinguishable yelling. I heard gunshots and death.

What did I do to be put into this life? I'm not sure. But it'll be just fine.