•Tombstone• Brothers Under The Sun

Chapter 38

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝓻𝓾𝓽𝓱

Ellanora was jolted awake when she was pulled off the horse. They rode for hours, causing Elle to fall asleep. She was in pain, the pain was too much it knocked her out. She began to sweat in the sun as her body felt weak. She wasn't ready to leave that bed. She needed more time to rest.

The cowboy dragged her onto the top of a hill that overlooked a valley. She recognized the valley, it was the one she travelled on to get to Tombstone. Tombstone was only a few hours away, they had backtracked.

"Well, what do we have here?" A voice said causing Elle to look in its direction.

Throwing a cigarette to the ground and tipping his hat up from the ground, Johnny Ringo smirked at Elle who glared at the man.

"Thought you could kill us all?" He mused while circling her like a hawk.

"They're gonna find you, and they will kill you." Elle growled.

"Oh I know," he whispered, "I want them to find me. I want to kill Wyatt Earp."

"And he wants to kill you."

A horse came running up from the valley and Elle glanced at who is was. The men joined Ringo and jumped off his horse.

"Behan?" Elle looked at John Behan with confusion.

"Miss Raycroft." He said plainly.

"You're working with the cowboys?"

"Like Fred and I told you," he glanced at Ringo, "Cowboys run these parts."

Ringo moved part of his jacket and revealed a silver star, making him official law. Elle glanced at the star and felt anxious about the situation. Ringo could kill Elle right here. His defence could be he was protecting the people as Elle and the gang had killed so many cowboys.

Ringo pulled Elle closer to him, pulling her along as they walked across the hill. Elle limped her way as she was forced to walk, hands still tied in the front of her body.

"Do you remember those some years ago?" Ringo said.

"You killed my family." Elle growled.

"Ah well you see," he stopped walking and faced her. The two now alone on the hill. "Your little Henry was a cowboy himself."

Elle looked at Ringo as if he had five heads. "What are you talking about Ringo? This ain't funny."

"Oh it's not a joke," he licked his lips, "he was a cowboy before he joined your family's ranch. Ran away because he didn't believe in what we did, killed a few of our men. We found him and well..."

"You son of a bitch!" Elle yelled.

Ellanora pulled her hands forward and lunged at Ringo who moved out of the way, causing Elle to stumble forward. As Elle turned to face Ringo, he kicked her bleeding thigh causing pain to ripple through her body, enough to make her fall to her knees.

"That's one nasty gash you got there." Johnny said laughing.

"You killed him, you killed Henry." Her voice had grown deep and her eyes burned with anger.

Ringo smirked down at the girl and narrowed his eyes at her. "Take her away." He said before turning away.

Everything felt heavy to her, the rope on her wrists felt like chains. The blood on her leg felt dry and cracked. Her mind was buzzing as she watched Ringo walk away. She was fuming.

A few cowboys lifted her to her feet and as she turned to pull away from them, a hard blunt object hit the back of her head. Feeling dizzy her eyes closed and she feel to the ground.

"Wyatt stop!" Doc yelled from behind.

The group had been chased by cowboys after they saw Elle get taken away. Killing those cowboys that spotted them, they now ran in the opposite direction.

"Wyatt!" Doc yelled again before being taken over by a coughing fit.

Wyatt slowed his horse down and glanced at the other men in the group, all giving him worried looks at Doc who was coughing a lot more then usual. He had paled too, his eyes hollowed out, dripping with sweat.

"You've got to go back for Elle." Doc gasped out, wiping the blood from his lips.

"You are in no shape to be fightin anyone Doc!" Turkey Creek said pulling the reins on his horse.

"I don't care!" Doc Holliday was then taken over by a coughing fit.

Wyatt looked over to his friend and sighed. Looking out over the valley Wyatt spotted a group of horses running through it. Squinting he saw the red sashes. Looking to McMaster's, he pointed to the group, making McMaster's pull out his binoculars. Looking out over the valley, McMaster's saw the group of cowboys, while Doc coughed into a handkerchief.

"Ringo and Behan are out front." He said while looking through the binoculars, "There is about fifteen of 'em. They're all wearin' badges."

Wyatt sighed, turning his his friend who was in a coughing fit, "Christ." He muttered. "We gotta find somewhere to hole up."

Doc, now losing air, turned white as a sheet and his mouth was covered in blood. His eyes rolled back into his head as his breathing became shallow. The men around him noticed and saw him beginning to lose consciousness. Wyatt and Turkey Creek jumped off their horses and caught Doc before he fell off his horse. Pulling him down, Wyatt held him in his arms and grabbed his own handkerchief, clearing the blood from his mouth.

Looking out over the valley, he knew he had to find somewhere for Doc to rest. Wyatt needed to save Doc, as well as Ellanora.