Title: "The Greatest Wealth"
Author: Pirate Turner
Rating: G
Summary: Ezra has learned that the greatest wealth can not be accumulated through money.
Challenge: Anneack's Ficcers' Unite Magnificent Seven Challenge for the week of 7-14-10 to write a TM7 drabble about family
Warnings: Drabble, ATF
Word Count: 200
Date Written: 17 July, 2010
Disclaimer: Chris Larabee, Vin Tanner, JD Dunne, Buck Wilmington, Josiah Sanchez, Ezra Standish, Nathan Jackson, and The Magnificent Seven are & TM CBS, The Mirisch Group, MGM, and Trilogy Entertainment, not the author. Everything else is & TM the author. The author makes absolutely no profit off of this work of fan fiction, and no copyright infringement is intended.

"I offered you everything!" the international crime lord cried as six men surrounded him. "Wealth beyond anything you'll ever achieve!"

"And that, sir," Ezra Standish replied smoothly, his gold tooth shining in their dusky surroundings, "is where you are mistaken. Ah have already successfully accumulated more wealth than a man could ever dream of possessing."

The other man looked at him in surprise. "Then what the heck are ya are doing working for the man?"

"Simply put, sir," Ezra answered with a smile, "they are mah family."

As Chris and Josiah hauled the man away, Vin remarked with a tip of his hat, "Nice bluff, pard. Ya really had him goin'."

Ezra gazed confidently at his friends who were more of a loving family to him than any one he'd ever known before joining their team. "Who was bluffing?" he asked, smiling. "Ah only spoke the truth."

He walked away, leaving the others puzzled, as he reflected on his statement. He may still wish to accumulate monetary gain, but he was fantastically wealthy. Experience had taught Ezra that love did not exist, but his new brothers had proven him wrong and blessed him with the grandest riches of all: that of love and family.

The End

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