Chapter Two: The Bondurants

Now no one would ever think that a woman in this day and age would defend herself. Especially since it wasn't required for women to learn defense because it was supposedly the man's job to protect to his family. And when The Daniels had a girl first instead of a boy, Benji Daniels raised his only daughter as a boy. Teaching her the ways of hunting to support herself and teaching her she doesn't need to ever depend on a man. Taught her the ways around a gun and self-defense. He felt that his only daughter shouldn't have to be defenseless especially in a time of high crime activity. She played baseball and football with the neighborhood boys and never let anyone pick on her. So when her parents died she had to take on the roll as the protector of her brothers. And protect she did

After the men that tried to attack her and turned the three new men that showed up and gripped the revolver in her hand and the knuckles in the other, prepared for another attack. As she stared the three men down she took in how they looked. The oldest two were the bulkiest and the shorter one looked like the one in charge. Just by looking at them you could tell that they were brothers. The oldest, you could tell because he was the tallest and had that haunted look to him, like he had seen too much of the worse in the world. He had brown curly hair sticking out from under his beige fedora and dressed in brown pants with an off white shirt with suspenders and the top few buttons unbuttoned and a brown jacket. The middle one, who looked like he was in charge, was wearing a similar fedora just a little darker then the taller ones. But instead of wearing a jacket he wore a sweater with his white shirt all the way buttoned up. She then looked to the smallest one. He was handsome, just liked his brothers and wore similar clothes to his brothers but with a brown hat.

Gerri's eyes were still narrowed especially at the bigger two. The one with the sweater had his hand in his sweater pocket but slowly pulled it out after Gerri narrowed her eyes at him and gripped her gun tighter til her knuckles turned white.

"Gerri?" a timid voice came from behind her, breaking the tension between Gerri and the 3 newcomers. She slightly relaxed after a moment when the men didn't do anything and kept their hands out of their pockets and in front of them. She turned around and stuffed the gun down the back of her pants.

"Yeah, Tom?" she asked. She took a rag off of the truck and started to clean her knuckles making sure there wasn't any blood left on them.

"Uhhh… is everything okay sissy?" Stanley asked slowly coming out from the door way, opening the screen door.

"Everythin' is fine bubba. Get da res' of da boxes to da house and star' unpackin'." Gerri turned to the three men still standing around their truck and tensed back up a little bit. "Who are you?"

The one wearing the sweater cleared his throat a little before speaking. "I'm Forrest," his voice was smooth and rough as he spoke with a Virginian accent. He then pointed to the tall one. "This is Howard, my older brother. And Jack, our little brother" As he introduced them they each took off their hat and tilted their head slightly in greeting.

Gerri smiled a small grin at each man. She tucked her knuckles back into her pants pocket. "I'm Gerri. The boys pushing the boxes are my younger brothers; Tommy, Adam, and Stanley." She reached out her hand to the men and Forrest was the first to step forward and he also took off his hat and gripped her hand in her hand shake. He was slightly shocked when he grabbed her hand, expecting a small shake like women usually do, but what he got was a firm hand shake that showed that she wasn't a dainty woman. He felt the slight callouses from what he assumed to be farm work. He slightly grinned at her. Then Howard and Jack shook her hands, both slightly shocked at the firm hand shake from the woman.

She sighed and spoke to the men as she went to the trailer to unhook it. "Now, wha' can I do fer yew men?" She unhooked it and pushed it over so that she could get the tailgate. She heard a slight smack behind her and feet stumbling towards her and Jack came next to her. She looked at him and raised an eyebrow at the young man before telling him, "I go' it." She took the trailer and pushed it back away from the truck and sat the trailer down. She sighed and turn towards the brothers, wiping her hands on her pants and sticking her hands in her pockets.

"Sis! Wha' you wan' me ta do wit this one!?" She turned to Adam and yelled back.

"Read da freakin' room on da box!"

She turned back to the brothers and Forrest slightly cleared his throat before speaking. "We were just coming to see the new residents of Franklin County, ma'am."

A/N: Hey, guys! I know that this chapter is short but I'm trying to post sooner. I want to thank my new followers. And to the ones that reviewed; funny-kitty, Parldro42082, Guest. I'm going to try and write more and post more sooner.