26 - A Short Walk In A Pretty Town

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A few days had passed, her friendship with Micah still seems surreal to her, even to himself but she was happy at the minute, despite having to drink the foul tasting medicine the Doctor had given her. She could feel the effects of it working but the taste was less desirable.

She has just been out hunting and was on the way back to camp with some pheasants and a wild boar slung over her horse until she spotted Arthur speaking to two men dressed in yellow and blue. She couldn't make out what was being said but her eyes widened when she watched him shove the two guys into barrels before slinging them both over the edge.

She kicked at her horse, racing to the top of the waterfall where he stood watching over and dismounted, running through the water towards him. "Arthur! What the fuck are you doing?" She shrieked, looking to the man and then back down to the two floating barrels that crashed against the rocks.

"What? They asked me to." He sticks his hands up in defence, laughing at her reaction and sticking both of his hands on his hips, looking back over the edge of the waterfall, seeing the two men struggle out of the cracked barrels and collapsing on the shore.

"Proteus! Acrisius!" Natasha looked past Arthur, not even realising that there was a woman and her horse watching the whole event unfold. She jumped on her horse and rushed down, leaving Natasha completely perplexed by the whole situation.

"What's going on?" She asked more to herself than to Arthur who snickered beside her, placing a hand on her arm and dragging her out of the water and onto dry land.

"Two brothers, madly in love with one woman who kept dragging them along on a thin thread is all. Hopefully that crash against the rocks would knocks some sense into both of them." Arthur rolled his eyes, whistling for his horse to come closer to him so he could mount back up. "What are you doing up here anyway?" He questioned, looking down to the slightly shorter woman.

"Just been hunting is all. Robbed a stage yesterday with Sean and Mary-Beth, nearly ended badly as you can imagine." She rolled her eyes, feeding an apple to Caprice who started to whine beside her.

"Mary-Beth? And Sean?" He asked irritable, clearly not liking the sound of young Sean dragging young Mary-Beth into danger with him.

"I know, I though it as a bad idea but there was no chance in earth I'd just let him do it and put poor Gaskill at risk." She shook her head, sticking her left foot into her stirrup, lurching herself over the saddle, sitting more comfortably.

Arthur did the same and leaned forward on the horn, taking a quick glance at the brothers who managed to stir themselves awake, walking away arm in arm with one another before looking back at Natasha who was also looking down at the two men, not really sure what to make of them.

"How're you anyway? Heard you got a pretty nasty chest infection or somethin'?" Arthur asked politely, not seeing any harm in asking.

She shrugged in reply, leaning back in her saddle. "Yeah got a infection, feeling better though honestly. Was coughing up all sorts a few days ago. Nasty business." Natasha stated, rolling up the sleeves of her pale pink shirt, finding it slightly too big for her. She usually wore her shirts tucked into her jeans and accompanied it with a gun belt to hold them up.

"Well, if you're feelin' better do you want to come with me to Rhodes? Bill says he made some deal with the Gray's that he wants to check out. He's takin' me, Sean and Micah with him too so don't see the harm of having an extra hand?" He put out the offer.

 He's takin' me, Sean and Micah with him too so don't see the harm of having an extra hand?" He put out the offer

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