The Infamous Mr.White (closed for Mayu)

[Savoredsting]

Captain Josiah Crawford, had just paid a nice young lad with the One-eyed Bandits Saloon a good silver dollar to take care of his horse for a few days. Though Josiah loved his horse Vulcan, he was not an accomplished horseman.

Josiah wore his trade mark white duster, with a red lining. his tight leather chaps where white as well. He was know by many here in the Frontier lands of the West as Mr.White, a named he carried from the Civil War. Josiah though carried little for it. he had a badge and his gun. He also had his target a young woman know as "Red"Rose Manner. She had cleaned out a casino in Reno, Not only the 15 grand but the whole casino floor. It is said she had some new contraption in weaponry, light a hand held version of a gatlin gun.

Josiah cared little of that he would catch her unawares. Like always he donned his white hat and tilted it just slightly over his missing right eye. He had lost it to some lad in Carolina and though he lost his eye that boy he had disemboweled. He sighed as he walked in his sandy blonde hair poking out the bottom and back of the hat, as his face carried the patch of stubble gained by the many days of travel he had endured.

Josiah walked up to the bar in soft well made moccasins and smiled as he placed a crisp dollar bill on the counter and looked at the bartender. " A glass of whiskey, and a glass of beer" he said with a smile as he looked about the spare Saloon. It was midday and most honest folk would be enjoying lunch or still working diligently at there jobs.

The Bartender pours the glass as he turns to say something he drops the glass and stammers. he shivers and sweats a bit, knowing the man before him could kill him at the slightest twitch without even reaching for the gun he had. Other s spun to look and were about to do some thing only to be frozen like the bar tender.

"Its okay oldtimer, I'm here for information nothing more, well aside a drink or too and if you could get me some thing to eat i'd love that too" he said as he smiled his reassuring smile. Seems my reputation has proceeded me again, i hope for The day i'm done and can just go to some small cottage some where and live the rest of my days in peace.

The drinks came as did the helping of soup. Josiah smiled and nodded to the man. " Say Oldtimer, have you seen a girl....about late teens come though here. should look like this." he slaps down a wanted poster for a timid looking girl the media had deemed Red Rose.

"Shes why i came here said she fled here on the train she jumped" he took a drink of whiskey and than put bread to soup"They sent me because she supposedly killed two more rangers and a bounty hunter, I don't know how but I am here to find her and take her out" he says nonchalantly as he scoops up the soup with the bread and eats.

"There was a gaggle of girls commin here to work for Ms. Ella at the Hotel. Its right up the street and its a good hotel, heard though Ms.Ella has her maids be personal attendants to all those who stay there if you know what i mean" the old man said with still a hint of tremble in his voice.

"I'll check it out" he says and with that he sees a young woman slink away and than run towards his next point to look. he smiles and finishes his soup.

"Say Oldtimer, Can i get to your roof" he asks as he stands and sets down a 20 and smiles as he lets the bartender lead him through his apartment to a balcony. Josiah smiles and quickly pops up on the roof. he manages to see the girl pop into the hotel.Run Rabbit run you'll lead me to your kin, and than rabbit stew becomes my meal ticket

he looks at the neck building and leaps to it, and than the next on and than the next one, until he is on top of the Inn and leans over, a few prostitutes plying there trade, and than he gets to Ms.Ellas room and there was the girl he had been following a simple blonde girl who was dressed as a simple every day respectable woman, than there was a girl in a nuns habit he could not make out and than Ms. Ella a fiery red head with a wardrobe of a lady from new york city, and the make up of a cheap 2 dollar whore. he watched and observed for know to see if his ability to read lips could help him now.

 

[Mayu]

Life had never been easy for Rose, her father was a man with money. He expected the best from her, and would take nothing less. It was really hard to do what her father wanted her to do. She would smile, dress properly and yet all she wanted to do was be free. She pretty much had a collar around her neck, and she was never free. Even her mother wanted out. But there was nothing anyone could do, not that anyone wanted to do anything.

She had her whole life planned out for her and she hated every minute of it, she wanted to choose her own bath. To be her own person, but her father never allowed it. She was to do this, and that. It drove her almost made, it was hard to even think. Sometimes she thought death was the only way out, though she wasn't a violent person. She would never take the life of someone, unless it was herself. But things had been going on she knew nothing about.

Rose had no idea what to do or where to go, she had been a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She had a feeling there was a bounty hunter after her, or what ever they were called. But she did not care, she did not want to run. But knew that it was their word against her. And being a woman she would lose every time, and it scared her. It was the only reason she ran, because she had no proof to show.

Only thing she could do was dress like a man, hide her hair and hope to god people leave her alone. From a distance she looked like a man, but closer up it was easy to tell he was actually a she. She needed help and had no idea where to get it, what she didn't know was the man after her was actually in the town she just arrived at. She headed over to the church to see if she would be safe there, but had no idea. She had heard of yelling sanctuary and no one could drag her out.

But didn't know if everyone did that, and she did not want to take the chance. Walking down the Ilse as she knelt before the cross in the church, she did the cross symbol with her hand like she was suppose to. She did not have the heart to kill the person who catches her, for she was not a criminal. And knew if she hurt anyone or killed them, it would show her in the light they suspected of her. But looking up at the cross, she actually began to sing.

"Thou shall not fall"

Her head bowed as she was thinking of the times she fell, the times where there was no hand there to help her get up. She needed gods hand now, she needed a way out otherwise she would die. She knew that all to well, tears formed into her eyes and streamed down her cheeks. She was so scared about everything, afraid nothing was going to mean much. But looking back up as she allowed her humanity to flow right out of her body as she sang again.

"Thou shall not fly"

How she wished god to turn her into a bird so she could fly, fly away from the madness of their world. She was terrified of the people around here, terrified that nothing was going to happen in her favor. Before the cross she was begging for a sign, for some help. But she also believed in what she was singing, it showed that she was innocent. But that did not mean anyone would believe it, because she knew much better. And continued.

"Thou shall not steal"

Her mother taught her to never steal for gain, only kind of stealing her mother agreed with. Was the stealing that was so she could survive and to eat, but she never stole. She made sure of that as well, she was just afraid of what the hell was going to happen. Oh how she wished something good would happen to her, her hair in a pony tail she was terrified. That she was about to see her last sun rise and sunset. One more time the melody came from her.

"Thou shall not kill"

She slowly stood up as her voice that echoed stopped and she sighed a little bit, her green eyes looking around. She felt lost and with no answers, she grew terrified. But there was nothing anyone could do. Though she heard someone that had just entered the church, she was afraid to look. Afraid it would be death taking her soul, and sending her to where every she was meant to go. She wasn't ready to die, but couldn't hurt innocent people.

 

[Savoredsting]

Josiah had listened for a minute and noticed none of the girls was his target. they did however talk a lot of the package and the church. After another minute. he popped back up on the roof, and looked at the town. he saw the church up on a mesa, looking over the city.

"Why would they hide here there there is only one way in and one way out?" he says as he than finds another window. It housed a fat man getting a ride by one of the Hotels maids. he blanched as he opened the window and rolled in the man screamed and the woman rolled off as The man passed out. Josiah laughed and pulled out the mans wallet and tossed a ten at the girl and smiled.

"Keep the change you earned it." he than rolls the man off the bed and smiled."Oh its Fat Dan..." he took the sheets and tied him up and smiled as he than looked at the blonde girl and smiled"..Hes' worth about a grand if you want you can take the bounty I'm Good i got bigger prey." he says as he opens the door and leaves.

Josiah walks down the stairs and the Hotel lobby attendant blinks as he asks for the key. Josiah smiles and hands him a wallet and than nods. " It was a great Hotel, I didn't find the girl i was looking for But I'll come back when i find the right one" he says as he than begins to walk towards the church.

it takes him a bit as he listens about a strange man, who came into town three days ago. he wore a green coat and a green hat. Josiah had heard of this man before on his way to catch this Rose. However He had never seen him. He gets to the church and sees the man walk into the church.

"What the?" he says as she speeds up and gets in side when he gets in there , The man had disappeared however he looks and sees a girl. He walks up to her down the aisle and than looks at her.

"Excuse me miss but did you see....."His face goes from a simple smile to his stern face and looks at you." Rose Manner, you are under arrest"

 

[Mayu]

Rose could feel the eyes of the hunter looking at her, she could sense things around her no one else could. It was almost hard to breath half the time, but now it was simple. Right then and there she would put up no fight. She was not the kind of girl to hurt someone innocent, or someone who appeared it. She could feel the cold hands of destiny reaching for her and pulling her into the dark abbeys that she lived. It always amazed her how things could happen in her life, but she was tired of hiding.

She was even tired of lying and wanted this to stop, all she did was made herself look like she did the crime. It was really hard to think of a happy life, and now she was just beyond miserable. And now it was time to serve a sentence when she did nothing. But there was nothing she could do about it any more. Her heart pounding, she did not even turn around to look at him. Because she knew that there was nothing anyone could do for her now. Looking up at the cross in the church, asking for help.

Help she thought would never come, hearing her name being uttered from the mouth of a man. She knew her time was now up, the shadows in the church held secrets. And would give you the secrets if you knew how to listen. But as it was everything just seemed so different, she knew if she attacked him. It would make her look guilty, which was the main reason she did not fight here. And why she did not run from him, something that was very hard for her to do. Since she had been running so long.

Life was cold and highly unfair but that was the human condition, now all she did was collapse to her knees. Her eyes closing as everything around her grew silent, the only thing she could hear was the beat of her heart. Things would change given time, but she would not be around to see the change in man. Her breathing calm and she put her hands behind her back, her fingers laced so it was easy to see she had nothing to hide from him. She hung her head, and spoke something..unique.

"His gaze, from staring through the bars has grown so weary. That it can take in nothing more, for him it is as tho there were a thousand bars. And behind the thousand bars no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over. His powerful strides are like a ritual dance around a center. Where a great will stands paralyzed. At times the curtains of the eye lift without a sound, and a shape enters. Slips through the tightened silence of the shoulders, reaches the heart and dies."

 

[Savoredsting]

Seeing her give no resistance was odd. he had seen her work, had looked at what was done and knew her skill, she should fight. She didn't do it. Than there was the mystery man.

"Poetic" he says as he pulls out a pair of cuffs and slaps them about your wrists and pulls you to your feet."Rose Manner you are under arrest for the murder of 20 people, the robbing of a Casino, and a couple of federal agents" he says as he than begins to walk you towards the door.

he got half way down the main aisle and stopped. he felt a gaze upon him.Some one is watching me, No not me the girl? Could it be the man in green. Josiah looked over his shoulder at you and than speaks.

"You are being watched?" he said as he looked at you then lightly scanned the room..

"Has this happened before, when those agents came to you id d they get you into cuffs and than well ended up dead, and you fled in fear...I need you to be honest, if so i can help you"

 

[Mayu]

She heard what he said yet she could feel more eyes on her, they had followed her all over. Men had been after her to kill her, but when the charges were read that she did. She just shook her head and looked up, but shadows in the corner began to move. And knew they were after her, she never did know who they were. But right now everything just seemed a bit strange to her, everything around her kicking her in the stomach. But she knew she could get out of the cuffs quickly if need be.

"To be celebrated and forgiven.
We all have important lessons to learn.
Heaven's eternity is well earned.
Freedom and choice.
We all have our tiny voice.
Give all you have.
It all comes back.
But, that is not why.

Every day, we try.
Just because.
We love.
Love is the way.
The reason we wake up everyday.
Don't you ever doubt.
Love is a thing no one wants to do without.
And love is why.

We all try.
We all deserve.
Every life is precious and worth.
So, starting today.
Give some love away.
God cherishes each life you save.
To love unconditionally is brave.
Life is priceless.

A God given gift.
We all need to say this.
And prove it!
Today."

She said simply and sighed a bit "I would never take a life, you only live once. And to take someone out of the world is a greater sin then anything in our history. I was set up for a down fall they covered there tracks and they were all in black, I wanted so much to follow them but I could not. I was being followed by them. But I would rather kill myself then to become a killer and kill innocent people" She said simply looking up at the man who had captured her. "Please help me" She said softly.

 

[Savoredsting]

Josiah looked at the girl and than to the shadows. So many shadows. He thought he saw movement but couldn't tell exactly. Damn this feeling he was trained better than this.

He escorted your to the front of the church instead and to the pillar with the bowl of holy water. he than stopped and shut his eyes. he held his hand up to tell the girl to silence and than splashed the water. He heard it echo over the room and smiled as he spun to the right corner behind him and fired.

the bullet hit the stone and than he saw as the man in green was out of the shadow. he gently sat you on the ground and smiled." Rose be a good girl and sit there" he says as he pulled the hammer back and aimed.

"Give it up or I will have to shoot you" he says as he smiles and keeps his aim steady as he walks towards the man.

The man in green popped up and spat"You about killed me!" he said as he was a good ten feet from Josiah and smiled. "You forget your self Mr.White" he says as his odd side arm a big as a mans fore arm points at you and smiles. It has over 15 small metal barrels that connect to a simple shaft that held a box. He fired.


Bullets flew rapidly at Mr.White! Josiah dropped to the floor and shot the shaft and arched the other shots up. His pistol arm was burning he had been shot, but that didn't matter now. He than kipped up and shot again hitting the box and watching as the gun jammed and the man in green growled and hopped back into the shadows.

Josiah concentrated on the sounds and heard some tinkering as he heard a spat. He shot the gun again and heard him miss. Mr.White growled and grabbed Rose.

"Come on, We have to get out of here. He doesn't want you dead, or you would have been before I got here" he says as he than tugs you along the aisle and out the church. People were coming to investigate the shots, Josiah smiled and let a crowd form as he slipped you and him in it.

"Stay close he can't focus on us in this crowd, plus I don't want you to stray, if you do he will set you up again. He is well trained and a little wound won't stop him. He felt blood trickle down his gun arm and looks to see it now.

Damn you can never get used to a bullet. He hears in his head as he gets you through the crowd and than heads you towards the hotel as he smiles."gonna get us a room at Ms.Ellas" he says as he winces as a horses tail brushes his wound and than looks at you.

"Don't worry I am gonna sort this out, I dislike killing criminals unless it is the only means to resolve the issue, though our 'Mr.Green' may be one of the subjects" he says as he than looks forward as you step through the doors of the Hotel.

 

[Mayu]

Life could never be simple it always had to be complicated and it drove her to the point of madness and it drove her enough to drink as well. Right now things were happening that made no sense to her, but she knew she had been set up. And it was why she ran, she wanted to find the son of a bitch who did it. But she ended up running into the man that was watching her, she did not know what the hell would happen. But she knew death had been in her family for a very long time, that was a given.

Her heart beating quickly however and everything was just so damn different for her, her heart beating and now she had this man to help her, it was really crazy but she did the best that she could with the situation she was in. And then she felt everything growing to quite and knew something was about to happen. She felt the sighs as she watched what this man before her was doing. Perhaps he felt it to? She was about ready to slip the handcuffs off and to try and help, but knew that would not look good.

But then the shot happened and it did not startle her, kinda hard to startle someone or something if they expected to get shot. She opened up her eyes as she prayed silently to god to give them a hand but also to help her with what she needed. And when he told her to sit she did not want to do it, she could sense something bad was to happen and she did not want him an innocent man get hurt because of her. Well perhaps not innocent exactly but still, a bounty hunter that gets hurt on the job? doesn't look good.

She heard yelling and shooting and was down on the ground, she peeked out once everything seemed to go quite again, she just hoped the right person won. Because if not things were about to get a bit different for her. Right now everything just seemed different, sighing a little but as everything just seemed to stop. Her eyes looking up as she just could not allow this to go on much longer. But then silence again and had a feeling it would stop for a while, but she heard someone coming.

But then she heard what was going on and noticed it was the man who arrested her, so she got up quickly and heard what he said. But she noticed something looked wet on him, she waited till they got a room and she sighed a little bit. But the more she looked the more it looked like blood, and she began to wonder if he had gotten shot. Her instinct to help kicked in big time and she smiled a little. She slipped out of the cuffs that were on her, setting them right on the table where they could be seen.

And she reached up to see the wound, it looked clean through but it looked rather painful. "Let me clean this up or it could get an infection and kill you" She said as she took out a small knife. "I will need to clean the wound out and stitch the wound closed" She took off her bag that was against her hip, and with the light candle she smiled a little. And began to put the blade of her knife against the fire to get it sterilized as much as it could be. As she got everything out that would be needed.

 

[Savoredsting]

He pulled a small bag from his coat and than slid his right side of his coat off, he let you get a batter look but sat the bag in front of you and smiled.

"Med kit, needle thread, alcohol, bandages, foreseps. a few other things, morphine" he says as he smiles. " I read your file, and knew you had some back ground in medicine. I also know you tried to aid the victims of the past instances" he says as he reveals his arm and smiles as a stream of blood and a deep wound. On his chest and back are blades numerous blades as well as some on his legs. he was well armed. sitting there letting you touch his wound his eyes barely react as well as his arm. other wise he was stern and stalwart.

"Every thing you need is in there" he says smiling as he watched you work. his left hand pulls up and sets a pipe in his mouth he than pulls out a well wrapped tobacco and than puts it back into his coat and than pulls out a match. he strikes it on his boot and than lights the pipe.


"I'm ready when you are, Don't worry I have antibotics in my pouch" he says as he smiles and than puffs some smoke. "Trust me, I've done this to myself so don't worry about me flinching"

 

[Mayu]

She sighed a little and nodded, Rose got things around that had to be dealt with. Like some water and if he had done this to himself he was a hard ass. And it was something she did not know if she liked or not, but when he said what he did she looked down for a moment. Closing her eyes as she thought about everything he said about her, with the medical stuff she knew and who she tried to help. She opened up her eyes slowly and took a cloth and dipped it in the water, and silently sighed a bit.

"So tell me, with someone wanting to help someone. Can you honestly look into my eyes and tell me that I am guilty of the crime? I only ran to get help. But when I saw you that is why I did not run or struggle. I can easily get out of the cuffs because I am double joined and I know how to pick locks. Rather my hands are behind me or in front, I could easily get away. But I choose not to until now when you needed help" Rose said simply and began to wash out the wound to see it better.

Then with the knife she got the bullet out and anything else that may have been in it, within ten minutes he was cleaned up and stitched up. She wrapped a clean bandage around the arm and washed her hands since they had blood on them. Rose said nothing as she sat down on the bed and buried her face in her hands. She just felt like she was going crazy in this world, everyone wanted her dead. Even her own blood wanted her dead, seeing her as some murder who has nothing left.

 

[Savoredsting]

"You didn't do a thing" he says pulling out his pipe and smiling." This lovely scratch here proves that You could of easily sent me to my death bed as you could of severed an artery. Yes I know medicine, as well as a few other things to keep me alive and well" he says as he pulls out his gun and looks at it. It was one simple cylinder its metal was black, but its handle was white as a sheep. it was craved and intricately done.

""that man in green is the culprit, his hard ware is southern" he puffs some more and than looks at you. " He seems to target northerners" he puffs again and than smiles." he must be a member of the southern league." he says as he looks over at you with his good eye.

" Look if I can discern this all out you will be cleared, your too pretty a girl to let them hang ya" he says as he walks over and sits be side you. he lets his hand slide over your shoulder and holds you close.

"the Southern League seeks to cripple the north, and to divide some of the best assets the union has and destroy them. They destroyed the Armored steam car we were in production to make, and the Southern League, destroyed a train car full of union soldiers they were gonna send to stop the Indian Mexican Guerrillas in California. Why they targeted you though is a mystery" he says as he puffs away on his pipe next to you.

"Don't worry though Rose, I'm Mr.White, and if you ask any one my tales are legendary, its said I'm unable to Get into heaven, and the Devil him self has cursed me from hell its self..I find it funny, but it would make sense" he says as he lets arm slid back to rub your back.

 

[Mayu]

She smiled at him and listened to what he said and sighed a little he was sweet and wondered why he was so sweet. Everyone wanted her dead and even she wanted to die. To be at peace, to be where no one would say that everything she did was her fault. Life could be really funny that way. Everything in her just wanted to turtle up and die, but she wouldn't do that. She was a damn fighter. Perhaps it was her fault but perhaps it was not, honestly she lost count with everything.

Watching the man before her and say what he did, when he said she was much to pretty to hang she blushed. Her blue eyes looked down, she had never been called pretty or beautiful from people who were strangers. No stranger ever called her pretty, least till right now. It was nice to see such kindness in people. She was really happy and when he touched her, something in the way he touched her meant something. Her eyes looked back up at the man before her.

"You are unique willing to do all this, and no person has ever called me pretty. Unless family but family don't count. Since half the time I think people say that shit just to say it. But right now she just did not know what to believe any more. She did however beautiful that he was serious, and she trusted that. Nodding to him she just could not help but smile even more, her eyes looking up. Seeing how everything was the way she was, and she enjoyed the way he touched her.

 

[Savoredsting]

"Such a dirty mouth on a lady like you" he says hearing shit come from your mouth he chuckles. his one good eye looking over you as he sits his gun on the chair and than he stood and slipped off his coat. he had a harness covered in small slender knifes, save four of them. They where longer and all different.

he undid the harness and sat it on the table as well he than takes off his hat to let his hidden golden locks fall free. he smiled and stood in his brown pants and dun colored shirt. He puffed on his pipe some more before he began to unbutton his shirt and than winked as he pulled it off flipped it around and it was now a bright blue. he pulled a comb free and combed his hair and than smiled.

"I have to leave for a second, i need to procure a few things for you and also see if Ms.Ella would be so kind as to have her get me one of her guns from her cache she has some where in her office' he says as he than walks to the door and pulls the simple long arkansas toothpick up and strap it to his side. he hate having only one blade but it would do for now.

"If I don't come walking through that door Than you take my gun there and shoot got it Rose" he says as he stands at the door and than head down to the desk.

 

[Mayu]

Rose looked at him watching and smiled hearing what he said, sitting back and relaxing. She liked dressing like a guy, away from the long ass dresses. And the corset that would keep her breasts down, she bound her breasts up but it was easier to breath with the binding that she did with them. And relaxing she could not help but smile to herself, everything seemed so nice and it was quite. Though she had not slept in a nice bed in many months. Her eyes darting around, unsure if she felt safe yet.

But then hearing what he said about needing to go for a few minutes, she looked right back at him very nervous now. Her heart beating it was amazing, now was the time to be strong she knew it was something she did not want but nodded to him. Rose was just terrified someone would come for her while he was gone. But then hearing what he said about shooting, and him maybe not coming back. Least the possibility of it and it really scared her, looking down a little bit she sighed.

"Not coming back rather its against your will or not, you have to. Without you I will hang, and I wont be able to get back some things that were taken. Be safe sir" She said simply and taking one of his guns. She sat back down just in case, though she hoped that he would come back. The thought of that made her really worried. Her heart pounding, this effect he had on her she had no idea what it was. She offered him a smile as she tried to sit relaxed, but it was something she could not really act.

 

[Savoredsting]

"I don't intend to die today" he says with a chuckle as he taps his pipe out into a spittoon and opens the door. he head down stairs and makes his way through the throng of women 'maids' as the flirt and smile at him. he smiles back as he walks down and stands at the desk.

he rings the bell and quickly a thin man dressed in a fine black suit jacket and a bow tie stood. he looked over josiah and sneered, and than asked.
" Can I help you sir?"

Josiah nearly pulled his blade and rammed it into this guys eye. he was recovering from a wound to his arm and was pissed for not slaying Mr.Green. The Southern League was up to something. He needed to know what? So he looked at this man and pulled from his pants pocket his money clip and set down two fresh hundred dollar bills and smiled.

"I'm Mr.White, Josiah White and i am staying with a lovely lass. I met her on the road broke and starvin' So i need a few things. First I need the tailor to come here with a few dresses and his sewin kit. he needs to make sure he comes in the front as if a vacationer. The second is the lovely chef at the restaurant needs to send over a basket of goods, you know a nice meal so me and the lass may eat. than Ms.Ella needs to send me up a nice light revolver for the girl. A shot gun and a nice rifle as well. The last is the tailor also needs to bring a coat a nice sturdy coat and dies it a nice red color. Oh and last is i will need every thing on this list" he pulls out a small piece of paper and hands it to him."Have it delivered to me in a speedy time and i will pay you another 200 dollars in a tip got it" he says smiling as he than turns and leaves the man.

"Certainly sir, Certainly right away" he says as he calls for a bell boy or two to begin helping him. Josiah smiles and shakes his head thinking about the poor bell boys and than heads back up stairs. he than gets to his door and pulls out his pipe and loads a a pinch of tobacco in there as he waits and knicks on the door.

"Its Josiah, and i'm coming in" he announces as he opens the door and steps in.

 

[Mayu]

She smiled at him and could not help but enjoy this kind of thing, everything was really perfect and as it was right now she just did not care what was going on. Her heart pounding and right now it was just nice. Everything seemed to go on over and over in her head, it was kinda hard to think of her life before. Remembering her parents it was hard yet nice at the same time, she missed her family. It was hard to think that she would never see them, monstrous how people wanted to blame her for things.

If people really knew her as a person they would know she would rather take her own life, then the life of an innocent. Her heart pounding in her ear, it was amazing how things were going for her. Closing her eyes as she heard screams in her head, she did not know what it was but she just did not care. Before she met the man that jailed her, smiling a little bit it was just different. She opened up her eyes as she stood up her hands on her hips as she sighed sadly.

Life was precious and to her to take a life was terrible, she wanted to find a man. Settle down and raise a family, but it was very hard to do that now. People wanting to kill her, people wanting to just watch her hang from a pole. It was hard to know that no one seemed to care about her, it terrified her so much. Her stormy eyes looking around, she looked out the window but in a way that no one would be able to see her. Since she knew no one could know she was there.

She heard someone coming and had the gun in her hand ready to fire, but then she heard him and smiled. Watching him open up the door, she put the gun down and sighed a little bit. Unsure why she felt so attached to him out of the blue. But she knew what she liked and right now she just wanted peace. But began to wonder what in the world was going on with things. Sighing a bit as she ran her fingers through her hair and smiled, crossing one leg over the other.

"Have fun?" She chuckled.

 

[Savoredsting]

"Yes, we should be gettin' provisions soon" he says as he puffs on his pipe and walks in he looks at you and smiles.

"Its a shame what they did to you, you've been running a few years now, a girl like you should be married with a family enjoying life, not out here with the whores and the criminals." he says as he walks over and pulls his knife off. he pulls off his shirt completely revealing his lovely tattooed back and his lovely scars on his chest and abs. He was a fighter always had been and probably always will be.

"The tailor is commin as is food and some supplies, the guns will get here first the pistol should be of womans make, light easy to handle. the Shotgun will be yours as well. And I'll take the rifle. Normally I use the knives but this bastard and his weapon are something else entirely" he says as he walks over and begins to use the basin to wash him self a bit.

 

[Mayu]

Rose watched him carefully and found it almost hard to imagine what kind of man he had been, but watching as he removed his shirt. She saw the tattoos on his back, which were beautiful, tilting her head to the side as she looked over every little detail. Right in that moment everything just seemed to stop for her. But then when he turned in a way she could see the scars on him as well. She had never really seen the male form naked and the torso was enough to peak her interest.

"Whats the tattoo? It's very beautiful" She said being honest since she did admire such feelings. It was nice to take moments like this and really look around you, it wasn't that hard to do and did not take much time either. Smiling big time she could not help but just allow everything to come to her. "You have been a fighter, I take it you came out of the womb punching your way out?" She smiled a bit as she sat back down and heard what he said about the weapons, she in turn nodded.

 

[Savoredsting]

"Those Yeah, i got them from an old salt" he says as he looks at you and than chuckles." He told me the Tribes in the East Indies believed that a man marked with the sacred beings gained some of there power. The old salt gave them to me as reward for passing my training. Though what good it has done is little." he says milling over the images in his head as he turned and looked at you.

"I guess by your odd nod, you are not comfortable around guns and half naked men" he says as he looks at you. he takes out his pipe and shakes his head.

"I can teach you how to use the gun, its a device to protect, " he says as he smiles" I can kill a man if need be but most of the time i seek to shoot there gun out of there hand or something similar,but out here in the West its dangerous so to know how to use one is a must, If you want I can teach you he ways of the gun, the blade and the fist...If you wish"

 

[Mayu]

Rose chuckled a bit and sighed crossing her arms and sat back, it was rather nice to have this kind of conversation. But hearing what he said she grinned even more "yeah well I have lived a sheltered life there is nothing around that. Its not the half naked thing that gets me, its just me being around a man period. I am just not use to it, any man who I have come across has either tried to rape me or kill me. And frankly I am kinda annoyed at some men, though I am not saying you are like that"

Putting her face against her hand she sighed, this was just fucking great. Now she was rambling like a dumb ass. And he was probably going to laugh his ass off, but she tried her best not to really worry about things. But she thought about things "Guns don't bother me, its having to kill or wound people I do not like. But I get it if I want to live I have to" She said shaking her head and was rather pissed about things. She may have been a woman but was far from dumb.

"But what ever you can teach me id appreciate it"

 

[Savoredsting]

"I see..." he says as he looked at you his one eye taking in your frame as he puffs away. "Did those men who tried to rape you...Did they succeed" he asked as he finished washing his body and than pulled some shaving cream from his bag and washed his face he than looked at you.

"And I can see that the most recent of male encounters could turn you off of them, I can though tell you not all men are bad. though we may do bad things we are not all bad" he says as he lathers him self up and pulls out the odd angled knife thats blade did a right angle. he put it to his face and began to shave.

"I will train you in unarmed, bladed and firearms. As i have those with me. i can also aid you in archery, and sword, as well as stave if you wish" he says as he smiles. he hadn't been with a woman in ages it seemed. he remembered one right after the war but that was awhile ago now. He felt old having fought for so long and trained so hard. he was gonna make this girl free of her pursuers and her charges, but how?

 

[Mayu]

Rose watched him and he seemed to watch her, he was a curious man that much she did know. And was really satisfied to know certain things. It seemed really nice about how things were going, but then he asked if they had succeeded in raping her. But she watched him begin to shave, she stood up and lightly stopped his hand. She took the blade from him and wiped it off a cloth that was there for just that purpose. And she gently began to shave him, she use to do this for her father.

"No he didn't, he came at me and wouldn't stop so I took the blade from my boot. And put it between his leg, telling him I would cut it off if he did what I knew he wanted to do. I cut him a little to prove my point, he backed away and called me a witch. But he ran so no he did not get that from me. I am still a virgin sir if that is what you are asking me" She said as she enjoyed the thought of helping him. The way things were going as it was, she just did not care to much about anything.

"I use to do this for my father, I miss him. Died in some war or fight which ever, dunno much about it. Mother wouldn't tell me, seems I lost everyone and everything. So really if I died there would be no one there to mourn me" she said sadly.

 

[Savoredsting]

He about grabbed your hand, and his eye went wide and than narrowed. he wore an impassive expression but having you touch him to take the blade about made him react. He though was in control and than looked at you. he was still uneasy as he watched you shave him. he wanted to talk but didn't until you pulled away and than wiped a bit away.


"I see, bastard deserved it" he than was about to talk again but stopped and let you continue, his body tightening as you touched the steel to him and he merely let you. his muscles danced beneath his skin wanting to react but Josiah kept them in check with his brain. When you stopped again he spoke."And as for mourning, I have mourned a few of those i have caught and taken in, they may have done something awful but i respected them and the things they did even the few things that the did, one was a man whose crime was killing his wife do to the horrible atrocities of war, another slew several men for killing ex slaves seeking to by land. they died not for there sins but for the sins that others had inflicted upon them" he says as he than quiets again as you finish up your work.

 

[Mayu]

Moments came to her everything just seemed different, the way he looked at her. She started to think perhaps this wasn't good to do. But she kept going showing she had very steady hands, and knew she could easily take the blade and slit his throat. But he seemed to hold a tiny bit of trust, a spark of trust that meant a lot to her. And she noticed that when she stopped for a moment he would talk, so she kept pausing a bit so he felt much more safer. Her blue eyes looked at him.

"Sorry I guess I shouldn't have just taken your knife, I am just so use to doing it for a guy" she blushed a bit. "but thank you for that little spark of trust, I know I could easily kill you. But I would never" She wiped off his face and he looked nice and clean shaven. So she put the knife down and smiled a little bit. He seemed rather curious about her, as she was curious of him. She was happy to be there with him, she felt safe with him and it felt nice for a change.

"Thank you for everything you are doing, though I am surprised you took my word that I am innocent. I thought I would have to give you proof some how that I did not do the crimes, I just want a normal life. But even once I am free, it will never be normal again. No man will want me, some will still see me as a heartless woman. A black widow of sorts" She looked down tears in her eyes. She turned her back on her and silently cried, trying not to make a big deal about it.

 

[Savoredsting]

"No its not that you'd kill me, we part of it is but thats because no one has shown me general kindness since I donned my white coat" he says as he comes over and rubs your shoulders he stands behind you waiting he just rubs your arms and smiles.

"You will find a man, trust me, you are a beautiful woman who can treat injuries, and know how to survive, you are strong, and fierce." he says as he than turns you around"And have no fear of the me the governments most decorated assassin" he says with a slight smile as he looks at you and than pulls a white hankerchief from his pocket and wipes your eyes.

"Now you just stop crying okay, Josiah is here for you" he says pulling you close and holding you to his chest as you cry. he tensed up but did it any ways.