A Rancher's Heart
Summary: Mark is the most stubborn and hard-working Rancher in the town of Dead Valley. He is also a dedicated Father of three adoptive sons. When overly nice Lily Stone comes to work at his ranch. He asks her something that leaves her speechless. Will she be able to handle a house full of boys and also win the heart of the Rancher known as the Undertaker?
Note: (READ IMPORTANT) this is a new story and it will be packaged in a Series type of story. So take this as Book One of the entire series. I have three more in the works but I will post them once I am done with this one. I hope you guys like it and review. I will be using Dead Valley of course.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from the WWE or TNA. I only own Lily Stone and other OC I bring in.
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Bio
Name: Lily Stone
Eye/Hair Color: Blue/ Brown
Height: 5'9
Description: Lily for her height still looks fragile. She has a very soft looking face and her hair is long to her waist. She is curvy.
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A Rancher's Heart
One: Arriving At Tombstone Ranch
"Mark come on you need someone to help you." Steve tried to tell his friend.
"I need no one in my home; the boys and I are doing just fine." Mark said stamping his fist on his desk.
"Alright, than tell me the last time you had a decent dinner and I am not speaking of frozen dinners." Steve said.
"We did, when…" Mark couldn't think of a day than he snapped his fingers. "When we visited their Uncle Glenn."
"That was almost two months ago." Steve said. "Come of it Mark I am not asking you to marry someone, but get someone that can do the cleaning of the house and take care of the boys."
"Fine." Mark growled. "Now if ya excuse me I gotta go tend to the horses."
"Alright then I'll see you some other time." Steve said. Steve put on his badge and raised his hand so he could shake it with Mark. "You know I'm right." Steve told him.
Mark smirked at him. "Doesn't mean I have to like it; Stone Cold." Steve gave him a crocked smile.
"Respect the badge Undertaker don't want your boys to see their daddy get taken in by the Sherriff." Steve laughed.
"I'll see ya at the bar later." Mark said.
"I'll be there its poker night." Steve told him as he left. Mark saw to it that his closest friend left the ranch in one piece. By that he meant not be obliterated by his sons.
"Uncle Steve!"
'Speak of the devil and he shall appear.' Mark thought. Steve was suddenly tugged by three little boys. Well not so little, the three boys he adopted after a fire in the apartment complex took away their parents. John, Randy and Stephen, he let them keep their original last names since he wanted them to know they were not his boys in blood but in heart, his last name was added there. That had been three years ago. Than John had been five, Randy had been three and Stephen had been the youngest at one.
"Now boys let your Uncle go he must go and safe some damsel in distress." Mark said.
"Aw!" were the sentiments followed by that. As he saw his son's run the other way he decided Steve was right they did needed someone in the house. He decided to post the want-ad around town, to see what he got. Oh he knew most of the people in town and knew they wouldn't even come near but if it kept Steve's mouth shut he would be okay with that.
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Freeway – Two Days Later
"I must be out of my mind." Lily said. She had to be, because how could it be explain that a rational person quit a very stable job that gave her a lot of money and leave the city. She didn't even know where she was going. She just knew she needed to get away and find something else to do. Why did Ken have to cheat on her? Okay she may not be the biggest beauty in the world but she told him that if he felt the relationship wasn't working to tell her, it wouldn't make her mad she would have understood. But 'No!' he had to go and cheat on her in the home they had shared. She had gone and left being in the day-care to one of the richest people in Los Angeles to go somewhere she didn't even know.
Now her truck was filled with almost all her stuff. Since some of the other things she threw away.
"Now where am I?" she asked. She looked out the windows and saw nothing. "Great I am in the middle of nowhere, can my day get any worse." She said.
At that moment her car began to get smoke out of her hood.
"Really I was just kidding." She said. To make matter worst it began to rain, she made the move to the closest place to town.
"Death Valley, how ironic, it seems you have a sense of humor." She read, it was just nice she was entering a town that made her feel just wonderful.
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Steve was out in the town when he saw the truck come in with smoke coming out of the hood.
"Now, who would get lost in this rain?" he asked no one. He was not in the best of moods, Mark had interview almost everyone in town and no one seemed perfect for the boys and it was really getting annoying. Mark even made him run a make on them and they both knew most of the people that applied because they lived in the town all of their lives.
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Lily stopped the truck and put her head down on the wheel. She laid down there for a bit, she didn't want to get down on the rain. She probably would have stayed there if someone didn't knock on her window. She jumped and turned to see a bald man with a baton and he wore a badge.
"Great, now I'm going to jail." She whispered. She rolled her window down. "Yes." She said.
"Can I help ya with your vehicle ma'am I can see it has been smoking when you came?" Steve said. He couldn't see the woman because she wore a hood.
"I would really appreciate it." Lily said.
"Good, let me give a call to our town mechanic Shawn and we'll get your car to the garage..." Steve told her.
"Thank-you." Lily said.
It took a few minutes before her truck was lock and pulled to the mechanics shop by the town mechanic. When they arrived she climbed down from the truck and took the hoodie off her head. Steve could only think of one thing knock-out the woman had a very beautiful face.
"Ma'am this is Shawn Michaels he will be taking care of your car." Steve said. Shawn shook her hand.
"Lily Stone." She said she turned to look at the Sherriff. "You are Sherriff…"
"Sherriff Steve Austin." He said. "Now may I help you with something else?"
"You don't know if someone is hiring a caretaker do you?" she asked, he was kind of playing around she didn't really expect an answer. Steve smirked.
"Oh yes I do, if ya want you can freshen up and we can go see the job." Lily looked at him; she was really not expecting that.
"Okay." She said.
"You can use the room in the back no one goes there and my wife keeps it clean." Shawn told her. Lily went to grab one of her luggages and her bag and went to the room Shawn had pointed too.
Once she was out of ear-shot Shawn turned to Steve.
"Are you seriously sending her to apply to be Mark's caretaker, most of the town has applied and being turned down."
"Well most of them were woman trying to get at something else than taking care of the house." Steve said.
"I know but this girl looks too fragile to be taken to the Undertaker." Shawn said.
"Oh come on." Steve said. "Plus if she is it's going to be fun."
"Fine."
"So, when do we leave?" they both looked up to see Lily and she was dressed differently. She wore a dark suit, it were dress pants and a dark blue blouse, the jacket was a dark but also had dark blue highlights in the edges.
"Still thinks she's wrong?" Steve whispered.
"Nope." Shawn said.
"We'll leave right now." Steve said.
"Good." She said, she turned to Shawn. "Here's my number so you can tell me of the process of the truck."
"I hope to see you soon."
"You too." Lily said.
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They got in the cruiser and Steve drove them to the new place she was going to look for a job.
"So, where do you come from?" Steve asked.
"From Los Angeles." Lily answered.
"So you're a city girl." Steve said.
"Not really I was raised in a small town here in California, Pueblo Chico I don't think it's in the map I moved to Los Angeles with my ex-fiancé." She told him.
"Oh, well what happened to make you break down here?" Steve asked.
"He was unfaithful." Lily said. "I got my stuff and I kind of left in a hurry without really thinking."
"Oh well I hope Death Valley makes you happy." Steve said. "I can call my wife I'm pretty sure she knows of other jobs if this one doesn't work out."
"That would be nice." Lily said. "Now what can you tell me of my possible employer."
"Well his name is Mark Callaway if you come to town you will hear him being called the Undertaker, he is the town's rancher and one heck of a shot. He used to be in the marines retired and took over his Daddy's job; man is more capable being a Rancher than anything else." Steve said
"Oh and the kids." Lily said.
"Well he has three little boys their not his by blood, but they might as well be. His oldest is named John and he is eight, his middle son is Randy and he is six and the little one is Stephen and he is about to turn four." Steve told her.
"Does he have a wife, so I know what to do from her?" Lily said.
"Uh I wouldn't bring her up, she died a few years ago and Mark doesn't like talking about it."
"Okay." Lily said. She looked up as they entered the secluded area.
'Tombstone Ranch.' She thought as she saw the sign. For some reason it made a shiver run down her back. She did not know, if to take that as a blessing or a curse.
"So welcome to Tombstone Ranch let's go in." Steve told her. She got out of the car and walked the steps toward the front door behind Steve. Steve knocked on the door loudly.
"Mark open the door, I got an applicant." Steve yelled.
"What?" Mark opened the door and Lilly was shocked. She wasn't the only one Mark could only see the delicate woman standing next to Steve and looking at him with pure dark blue eyes he had ever seen. Eyes that reminded him of the deepest parts of the ocean. Lily was shocked by the power the man eluded it was nothing to laugh at.
"Mark meet Lily Stone she is here to apply for the caretaker position." Steve said. Mark glowered at Steve.
"Come in." Mark growled. Lily went in and she saw three little boys looking at them sitting down in the stairs. As Steve and Mark walked toward the living room, she gave them a small wave. They waved back at her. She went in the living room.
"Sit down." Mark said. Lily sat down and looked at the man straight in the eye.
"Now, how do I know you will be a good caretaker of nor only my children but the house?" he asked.
"Well sir."
"Mr. Callaway." Mark answered.
"Well Mr. Callaway I worked for a prestigious caretaker service." Lily said. Lily began to tell him all her credentials. Mark couldn't believe it, the woman was more prepare than he expected. He was going to have to hire her. Well he didn't have too, but she had everything he had asked for as the caretaker of the place.
"Mr. Callaway." He turned around to see Aiden Stone his horse caretaker he was an old man in his fifties. What he didn't expect were the next words.
"Grandpa." Lily said. Aiden turned to see his granddaughter sitting there.
"Lily dear is good to see you." Aiden said. Lily got up not caring about the man sitting there and went to hug her grandpa.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I work for Mister Callaway, the biggest question what are you doing here?" he asked.
"Long story, I'll tell you about it later."
Steve looked at Mark with a satisfied and a satisfied smirk.
"Aiden, this is your granddaughter?" he asked.
"Yes, sir."
"Then I suppose you're going to be excited to have her here for she is going to work as the caretaker of the children." Mark told him. Lily looked at him.
"Are you sure?" she asked.
"Yes, it seems you have all the qualifications that I have asked and even more." Mark said. "Boys come downstairs and meet your new nanny."
They could hear the running of boys coming down the stairs. There were in the entrance of the living room as the boys came down. Lily looked at the boys. The youngest one seemed frightened and he had the most adorable orange hair she had ever seen.
"Hi, my name is Lily." She told them.
"Hi." She received two answers from the other two boys that smiled at her. She got on her knees in-front of the little boy.
"Hello, what's your name?" she asked.
"His name is Stephen, I'm Randy by the way and that's John." Randy answered. She stretched her hand and shook the two oldest boy's hands. She looked at Stephen.
"Do you want to see a trick?" she asked him. He looked at her with wide eyes and had large eyes, holding a blanket on his arm. He just nodded. "Well let's see what you have here." She said and touched behind his ear before getting a coin out. "A quarter."
"Whoa, how you do that?" the boys asked. Stephen touched behind his ear before smiling at her.
"A magician never reveals her secrets." She told them. She got them laughing and Mark had to see the satisfied smug on Steve's face.
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