I walked out and hugged him.
"Thank you for everything. I don't know what I would do without you." I
said lightly kissing his cheek.
**Vin is in his room writing** I am a man, not just any man. Sweet woman, I am your man. Yours, for you to hold tight and love until you can no longer love anymore. Hold me, sweet woman; show me the wonders of your world. Filled with love and care, unlike my world, filled with cruelty and despair. Teach me sweet woman, the works of the words you speak and the letters you write. One day, my sweet woman, I will give you everything you've every dreamed of and more. One day.
The sun rises in the east, over casting rays of golden light into the room. She lay there sleeping, I stand near the wall. "Protect me, stay with me." She asked the previous night. I did, for knowing that a woman all alone can surely get frightened and scared. I lean against the wall heavy with a yearning for sleep. I cannot sleep, for I swore to be her protector, her guardian.
"Vin?" I called before entering our room. I saw the beautiful man sitting at the desk writing. Writing, good, must be poems. I thought as I walked over to him.
"Hi, there cowboy" I said as I put my arms around his neck. "Hi, there to you too. How is Chris?" he asked.
"Fine, we just talked about buck and the past." I replied trying not to cry. "Oh, I see. These are for you." he said handing me the poems.
"There beautiful." I said smiling.
"You have the gift of words and wits." I replied kissing him. Just then as vin put his arms around my waist, Chris walked in. "Oh, sorry." Chris muttered as he started backing out the door.
"Nonsense, get in here cowboy, what was it that you wanted?" vin asked him smiling. "Well, I was wondering if you wanted to take the missus and we all can take a ride and watch the sunset." Chris said smiling at us both. He knew I was a sucker for the romantic stuff and he knew vin was too but vin didn't like to tell it.
"Yeah, lets. I will go get peso." Vin said jumping up like a little kid in play school. We packed furiously and mounted peso in record time. The black stallion leapt and took off to the west. We met Chris at his house a few miles from ours. Chris was sitting on his front porch, loaded up and ready. "Ready?" he asked.
"Yeah, let's go!" I called. We rode out after the sun. I held onto vin so tight he couldn't breathe. "Let go of me a bit, I'm suffocating." He croaked out to me.
"sorry, didn't mean too." I responded pressing my chin to the back of his shoulder. I breathed in the fresh scent of him, mountain spring with a hint of leather. I could stay there forever, just him and I. We made it to the pasture of greens that Chris was talking about on the way there. We dismounted and unpacked. Chris looked at us funny then realized why we were packed up. He smiled and brought out his canteen. "Vin how's your wound?" Chris asked making sure the sharpshooter heard him.
"Fine, I think." the sharpshooter's voice trailed as he pulled his shirt tail from his trousers to inspect his newly acquired wound. There was blood but not as much as before and the stitches were bugging him. He wished he could pull them out himself. I looked observing the site, it was quite interesting. I could handle someone else's injuries but not my own. I stood there and thought back about two years. "HEY! Don't touch that!" I screamed as Nathan tried furiously to stitch my fingers. I was just starting out at the saloon and I dropped a glass and it cut me on my first two fingers. Nathan was purple in the face from trying to get me to sit still.
"VIN! GET IN HERE!!!" Nathan called out to the sharpshooter standing in the door way. "Yeah, Nathan." The dark haired man asked with his blue eyes.
"Hold her still. I can't get her to stop moving." Nathan replied picking up some more thread. "Ok, Susan, listen to me. You have got to relax, calm down, you'll be alright." Vin said trying to soothe me.
"I'm afraid. I never had stitches before, I am terrified." I said looking at the handsome man with pleading eyes. "Here, maybe this will help." He replied stroking my hair with his left hand, his right was permanently attached to mine for the time being. I breathed a sigh of relief. I calmed slowly, until I saw the needle. I felt my eyes grow big, and I buried my face in vin`s chest.
"Oh, my god! NO! DON'T! I don't want any needles!" my screams muffled by vin`s clothes. "Relax, you'll be ok. Here, hold on tight." Vin said as he took both my hands in his. I gripped his hands like they were my life line and if I let go I would die. Vin sat there next to me, running his fingers along mine. He looked at me and I looked at him, my eyes as big as saucers and I was ready to cry monster sized alligator tears. "Oh, darling, you'll be alright." He said taking me as best he could into his arms. Nathan looked at him, arms wrapped around me and holding my hands.
"Vin, I need some space to get to her fingers there cowboy." Nathan said motioning to his fingers covering my injuries. "Sorry, Nathan." He replied removing his hand from mine. Vin looked at me with a smile. I took a deep breath as Nathan started sewing me up. "All done. You have to keep changing the bandages though. You should stay with someone for awhile, just incase you need help with anything." Nathan said looking at me.
"Ok, thank you Nathan." I replied pulling myself up from the couch I had been laying on. I had to lean on vin for I had been so flustered I had no energy left to stand. "Whoa, there girl. Here, lean on me and we'll take you back to my place for now. I'll keep an eye on you. how's that sound?" vin asked with a smile.
"Sounds good. I'll need your help anyways." I replied smiling. We walked out of the saloon and mounted vin`s horse. We rode to my place to gather some clothes and then off to his. We rode up to his house and dismounted his horse. Vin helped me into the house and in what I assumed was his room, for some rest. "Here you go." He said helping me into the bed. "Get some rest, I'll wake you when foods ready." He added covering me with a blanket. I lay there and watched him exit the room, a few seconds later my eyes closed. Vin stood by the door, watching cautiously. "She looks so beautiful when she sleeps." He thought to himself. He silently closed the door and walked into the kitchen, he went to the cupboard to find something to eat. "Nothing, not a single thing. What else could a single guy ask for? Got a sweet woman in your bed sleeping and you can't even feed her because you have no food!" vin muttered under his breath. He'd just have to get Chris and he'd think of something. He walked out side and mounted Peso. He hoped Chris was home. He rode up about ten minutes later and found Chris sitting on his porch whittling as usual. "Hey, there stranger." Chris called as vin walked up the steps.
"Yeah, hi yourself, I got a problem. see this girl she staying with me because she cut her fingers and Nathan said she needed to stay with someone till she got better enough to stay alone. So I got her at my house and have absolutely no food. Not uncommon for a bachelor though, but I told her I make her some food! Goddamn! I'm such an idiot!" vin cursed himself over and over. "Hold on there pard. Let's take a look in my kitchen and see what we can cook up." Chris said as he walked into the house. The men raided the cupboards and fridge. They found lots of food but then what to do with it all? They whipped out one of Sarah's cookbooks and thumbed through it. They had found a recipe for some soufflé thing and made that. Needles to say it didn't turn out as planned but it was edible, the soufflé didn't rise like it was supposed to but it tasted good. They wrapped that and a chocolate cake in a basket and some flowers. "There, now go take it to her. be nice and show her that smile of yours that gets all the women in town." Chris said with a grin. Vin walked off to put the basket on peso before mounting.
"See you later brother." Vin said with a smile. "Let me know how it goes, all the details!" Chris called back as vin trotted off.
**Vin is in his room writing** I am a man, not just any man. Sweet woman, I am your man. Yours, for you to hold tight and love until you can no longer love anymore. Hold me, sweet woman; show me the wonders of your world. Filled with love and care, unlike my world, filled with cruelty and despair. Teach me sweet woman, the works of the words you speak and the letters you write. One day, my sweet woman, I will give you everything you've every dreamed of and more. One day.
The sun rises in the east, over casting rays of golden light into the room. She lay there sleeping, I stand near the wall. "Protect me, stay with me." She asked the previous night. I did, for knowing that a woman all alone can surely get frightened and scared. I lean against the wall heavy with a yearning for sleep. I cannot sleep, for I swore to be her protector, her guardian.
"Vin?" I called before entering our room. I saw the beautiful man sitting at the desk writing. Writing, good, must be poems. I thought as I walked over to him.
"Hi, there cowboy" I said as I put my arms around his neck. "Hi, there to you too. How is Chris?" he asked.
"Fine, we just talked about buck and the past." I replied trying not to cry. "Oh, I see. These are for you." he said handing me the poems.
"There beautiful." I said smiling.
"You have the gift of words and wits." I replied kissing him. Just then as vin put his arms around my waist, Chris walked in. "Oh, sorry." Chris muttered as he started backing out the door.
"Nonsense, get in here cowboy, what was it that you wanted?" vin asked him smiling. "Well, I was wondering if you wanted to take the missus and we all can take a ride and watch the sunset." Chris said smiling at us both. He knew I was a sucker for the romantic stuff and he knew vin was too but vin didn't like to tell it.
"Yeah, lets. I will go get peso." Vin said jumping up like a little kid in play school. We packed furiously and mounted peso in record time. The black stallion leapt and took off to the west. We met Chris at his house a few miles from ours. Chris was sitting on his front porch, loaded up and ready. "Ready?" he asked.
"Yeah, let's go!" I called. We rode out after the sun. I held onto vin so tight he couldn't breathe. "Let go of me a bit, I'm suffocating." He croaked out to me.
"sorry, didn't mean too." I responded pressing my chin to the back of his shoulder. I breathed in the fresh scent of him, mountain spring with a hint of leather. I could stay there forever, just him and I. We made it to the pasture of greens that Chris was talking about on the way there. We dismounted and unpacked. Chris looked at us funny then realized why we were packed up. He smiled and brought out his canteen. "Vin how's your wound?" Chris asked making sure the sharpshooter heard him.
"Fine, I think." the sharpshooter's voice trailed as he pulled his shirt tail from his trousers to inspect his newly acquired wound. There was blood but not as much as before and the stitches were bugging him. He wished he could pull them out himself. I looked observing the site, it was quite interesting. I could handle someone else's injuries but not my own. I stood there and thought back about two years. "HEY! Don't touch that!" I screamed as Nathan tried furiously to stitch my fingers. I was just starting out at the saloon and I dropped a glass and it cut me on my first two fingers. Nathan was purple in the face from trying to get me to sit still.
"VIN! GET IN HERE!!!" Nathan called out to the sharpshooter standing in the door way. "Yeah, Nathan." The dark haired man asked with his blue eyes.
"Hold her still. I can't get her to stop moving." Nathan replied picking up some more thread. "Ok, Susan, listen to me. You have got to relax, calm down, you'll be alright." Vin said trying to soothe me.
"I'm afraid. I never had stitches before, I am terrified." I said looking at the handsome man with pleading eyes. "Here, maybe this will help." He replied stroking my hair with his left hand, his right was permanently attached to mine for the time being. I breathed a sigh of relief. I calmed slowly, until I saw the needle. I felt my eyes grow big, and I buried my face in vin`s chest.
"Oh, my god! NO! DON'T! I don't want any needles!" my screams muffled by vin`s clothes. "Relax, you'll be ok. Here, hold on tight." Vin said as he took both my hands in his. I gripped his hands like they were my life line and if I let go I would die. Vin sat there next to me, running his fingers along mine. He looked at me and I looked at him, my eyes as big as saucers and I was ready to cry monster sized alligator tears. "Oh, darling, you'll be alright." He said taking me as best he could into his arms. Nathan looked at him, arms wrapped around me and holding my hands.
"Vin, I need some space to get to her fingers there cowboy." Nathan said motioning to his fingers covering my injuries. "Sorry, Nathan." He replied removing his hand from mine. Vin looked at me with a smile. I took a deep breath as Nathan started sewing me up. "All done. You have to keep changing the bandages though. You should stay with someone for awhile, just incase you need help with anything." Nathan said looking at me.
"Ok, thank you Nathan." I replied pulling myself up from the couch I had been laying on. I had to lean on vin for I had been so flustered I had no energy left to stand. "Whoa, there girl. Here, lean on me and we'll take you back to my place for now. I'll keep an eye on you. how's that sound?" vin asked with a smile.
"Sounds good. I'll need your help anyways." I replied smiling. We walked out of the saloon and mounted vin`s horse. We rode to my place to gather some clothes and then off to his. We rode up to his house and dismounted his horse. Vin helped me into the house and in what I assumed was his room, for some rest. "Here you go." He said helping me into the bed. "Get some rest, I'll wake you when foods ready." He added covering me with a blanket. I lay there and watched him exit the room, a few seconds later my eyes closed. Vin stood by the door, watching cautiously. "She looks so beautiful when she sleeps." He thought to himself. He silently closed the door and walked into the kitchen, he went to the cupboard to find something to eat. "Nothing, not a single thing. What else could a single guy ask for? Got a sweet woman in your bed sleeping and you can't even feed her because you have no food!" vin muttered under his breath. He'd just have to get Chris and he'd think of something. He walked out side and mounted Peso. He hoped Chris was home. He rode up about ten minutes later and found Chris sitting on his porch whittling as usual. "Hey, there stranger." Chris called as vin walked up the steps.
"Yeah, hi yourself, I got a problem. see this girl she staying with me because she cut her fingers and Nathan said she needed to stay with someone till she got better enough to stay alone. So I got her at my house and have absolutely no food. Not uncommon for a bachelor though, but I told her I make her some food! Goddamn! I'm such an idiot!" vin cursed himself over and over. "Hold on there pard. Let's take a look in my kitchen and see what we can cook up." Chris said as he walked into the house. The men raided the cupboards and fridge. They found lots of food but then what to do with it all? They whipped out one of Sarah's cookbooks and thumbed through it. They had found a recipe for some soufflé thing and made that. Needles to say it didn't turn out as planned but it was edible, the soufflé didn't rise like it was supposed to but it tasted good. They wrapped that and a chocolate cake in a basket and some flowers. "There, now go take it to her. be nice and show her that smile of yours that gets all the women in town." Chris said with a grin. Vin walked off to put the basket on peso before mounting.
"See you later brother." Vin said with a smile. "Let me know how it goes, all the details!" Chris called back as vin trotted off.