They were riding in the wagon when finally Bass couldn't stand it anymore and demanded, "Can you tell Rocky over there to stop staring at me?"

Connor frowned as he looked over at the squirrel in question. He shot his father a look of confusion as he insisted, "His name isn't Rocky."

Bass's Rocky and Bullwinkle reference was clearly lost on his son, so he just let out a sigh before commenting, "Well Squirrelly Joe, or whatever his name is, won't keep his beady little eyes off of me."

"Twitchy," Connor said, which seemed to capture the squirrel's attention as its head turned to look over at him. "Ven aca."

With that, the squirrel skittered away from Bass and over to Connor who smirked down at it proudly.

"Your squirrels speak Spanish?" Miles asked from up front as he turned to look over his shoulder. "In that case, what's Spanish for 'bite me again and I'll shoot you'?"

"Vete al infierno," Connor responded pointedly.

"That wasn't the translation I was looking for, was it?" Miles questioned.

"No," Connor agreed happily.

"So then what was it?"

"Go to hell," Connor translated as a smirk grew on his lips.

"Don't worry, I'm already there," Miles responded dramatically.

"This is why the squirrels don't like you," Charlie, who was seated beside her uncle with a strikingly plump squirrel in her lap, insisted.

"I liked you better when you agreed that he's crazy," Miles retorted.

"I've never had a pet before, okay?" Charlie defended herself.

"Squirrels aren't pets," he argued.

"Don't listen to him, Miles," Charlie cooed as she scratched her uncle's squirrel counterpart behind the ears. "He doesn't know what he's talking about."

As Connor shot her one of his flirty little smiles, Charlie could feel Monroe's eyes on her, watching her every movement for her reaction. She felt like there was something crawling on her and just wanted to smack it away, but instead she simply turned her head away and ignored both the father and the son as she pretended to suddenly become very interested in her uncle's fight with her squirrel.

"Leave him alone, Miles," she told him.

"Thank you," Miles insisted huffily as he kicked at the squirrel.

"I meant you," Charlie corrected him. "Look at how little he is, it's not a fair fight."

"That's literally the fattest squirrel that I have ever seen, Charlie," her uncle argued.

"You're still a giant compared to him, just let him be," she insisted.

"I should leave him alone?" Miles asked incredulously. "He's the one that keeps running up and attacking me... Especially since he imprinted on you like a baby duck and decided to attack anyone who even looks at you."

"Well maybe if you stopped kicking him, then he'd stop biting you," she pointed out in an exasperated tone.

She chanced a glance in Connor's direction to find that he was staring over at her once again.

Charlie was anything but happy with the favour that Bass had not even asked fo, but insisted onr. There was no way that she was going to have sex with Connor just because he told her to and she hated that he had taken that option away from her. If she slept with Connor, then it would be like she was doing it for Monroe, which was an idea that she couldn't stand. But if she refused just because of Monroe's suggestion, then she was still letting him have control over her actions, even if it wasn't the control that he had been seeking out.

It had been a while and Charlie admittedly had needs that she would like to be met and Connor was a prime candidate for that. Hell, she'd even grown to miss him after he had run off, as much as having him around was a pain in the ass at times. She hadn't helped track him down so that Bass could have his son back and potentially decide to go after the second coming of the Monroe Republic once again. No, she had spent weeks tracking Connor down because she had wanted him around. She had wanted him, but now Monroe was undermining those feelings and she hated it. Finally she decided that she would just ignore him and do what she wanted.

A/N: Please read and review! Another huge thanks goes out to KimberlyHavey for reviewing last chapter! :D