Disclaimer: Don't own the Young Riders, sadly.
A/N: This story is rated M for a reason. There will be smut. This is a continuation of my Journal War stories, please read those first.
The two happy couples had been married exactly seventeen hours when the sound of a couple of horses being ridden hard into the station yard reached everybody's ears. They looked around the bunkhouse and saw that nobody was missing and there were no riders due in.
"Now who on earth could that be?" Emma asked standing up from the table and heading out onto the porch followed by the rest of the family.
"Where is she?" The reverend McCormick shouted jumping down from his horse.
"Oh hell, we forgot to tell him." Cody whispered from the back of the group Kristy still inside with Lou, both of who were feeling a little queasy at the moment.
"Rev. McCormick, what a pleasure to see you." Emma called out graciously, but the boys could see the worried look in her eyes when she saw the rifle the reverend was carrying.
"I want to know where my daughter is, I know that boy has been seeing her behind my back." he said pointing to Cody.
Cody swallowed hard and stepped forward. "Where is my daughter?" the reverend asked once Cody was standing in front of him.
Cody looked back towards the bunkhouse and his family and then glanced at the other man with the reverend. Cody couldn't help the smug smirk that crossed his face when he saw John Spencer looking nervously over at him and the other boys.
"Kristy is inside the bunkhouse." Cody said as respectfully as possible.
"And just what is she doing in there?" her father asked.
"Eating breakfast." Cody stated earning a snicker from one of the boys.
"What is she doing out here in the first place and where was she last night, she never came home?" the reverend asked.
"She was here last night in the main house. And she is home." Cody said.
"Like hell she is, that's my fiancé in there. She needs to get out here now. I'm going have to marry her today to protect her reputation." John spencer said.
"Sorry but you can't do that." Cody stated looking up at the pansy of a man.
"And why not?" John asked.
"Because I married her yesterday. Sam Cain performed the ceremony." Cody said.
"You what!" the reverend shouted stalking towards Cody.
Cody held up his hands in front of him in a placating manner. "Now … now rev. McCormick. I love your daughter and she loves me." Cody said taking a step backwards when the reverend continued to stalk towards him, gun still in hand.
"You'll get an annulment. I don't care if you love her; you ain't good enough for her." Reverend McCormick said.
"I can't do that." Cody said as he continued to move backwards hands still held in front of him. "Kristy is with child … my child."
"You bastard!" the reverend shouted raising his rifle aiming directly for Cody's chest.
"Daddy! NO!" Kristy shouted rushing out of the bunkhouse to stand in front of her father.
The reverend and Kristy stared each down until finally he lowered the gun. "What have you done Kristy?" he whispered.
"What I wanted to do. I love Billy, daddy. I begged you to reconsider him but you wouldn't so I had to go behind your back. Yes we messed up but Billy loves me and I him and he's going to be a great father." Kristy said.
"But where will you live, you can't stay in that bunkhouse with all those boys." He asked.
"In the main house. Ms. Shannon and the marshal are getting married and will be going to Omaha at the end of the month. She is giving the house to Louise. I'm going to help her with the household things. Me and Billy are going to stay in the main house with her and Buck until we can afford our own place." Kristy explained.
"Who is Louise and are you talking about that breed?" the reverend asked.
Kristy turned to look back at Cody, he stepped closer and motioned Lou and Buck over. The other riders, Emma, and Teaspoon had gone back into the bunkhouse.
"This is Louise and Buck Cross; we are all going to be living in the main house together." Cody said.
The reverend looked over the other couple, his eyes going huge. "You're that scrawny rider, Lou, aren't you?" he asked Lou.
"Yes sir I am, not any more obviously." Lou said with a little laugh.
The reverend turned back to Kristy, "I won't allow this. You will get that annulment and you will marry John Spencer. I will not have you living in the same house as a breed and his whore who masqueraded as a boy."
Buck and Cody both about lost it when he called Lou a whore. But it was Kristy that surprised them. She slapped her father across his face. "You have no rights to tell me what to do anymore. I'm a married woman with a child on the way. I will stay married to the child's father. You will apologize to Louise. She is not a whore that is why she rode for the express because it pays well and she didn't have to sell her body. She is a respectable married woman. And Buck Cross is one of the finest men I have ever met. You should be ashamed of yourself daddy, judging people just by their appearance or profession. You call yourself a preacher yet you have not Christian love or charity in your heart. I think you should leave now and don't bother coming back with the marshal, he legally married us, so he can't help you. Goodbye father, I'll come get my things later." Kristy stated before turning around and marching back inside the bunkhouse followed by Lou.
Buck and Cody both crossed their arms over their chest and looked at the reverend waiting. He grunted before turning and mounting his horse. The two rode out of the station yard as if hell itself was after them. Buck looked over at Cody a smirk forming on his face.
"You got yourself a little spitfire." He said laughing.
"Like Lou is any better." Cody replied with a grin.
"You know we are going to be living in a house with two pregnant women right?" Buck asked.
"Oh lord … we might not survive this Buck." Cody whispered.
"If we can survive this, we can survive anything." Buck whispered back before the bunkhouse door opened to reveal Emma.
"You boys going to come back inside and finish eating?" she called.
"Yes ma'am." Cody replied.
A/N: If you have any funny preggo stories, share with me and I might be able to use some of it in this story.