(Sorry about the wait. I got distracted with some one shots I was working on.)

We killed. Billy was the one who killed first. It was Henry Lee. Whatever. The name wasn't important, just the death. We ended up having a shoot out at the drug den he was staying at. A lot of the people were killed. I didn't really care; they were druggies anyway.

Doc read aloud to us the next day in town as we hid behind a long half collapsed wall. I didn't know why the hell we were here.

"Nine men lay dead or at death's door yesterday noon following a gunfight between Lincoln resident Henry Hill, forty-five, and what patrons have called a 'kid'. A local miner has identified the kid as one Henry McCarthy...also known as William H. Bonney, nineteen or twenty. In a flaming shootout, the kid, Billy, killed Mr. Hill then took on an onslaught of Hill's partisans bringing the damage to six verified slayings. Bonney is believed to be the captain of a deputized gang."

"You're kidding." I said.

"Captain?" Dick asked in outrage.

"How come it doesn't say nothin' about... about two I closed out?" Steve yelled in his squeaky, annoying voice.

"Shit, Dick, you sent a lamb into slaughter and he walked out a king sheep." Charlie said. He seemed kinda jealous.

"El Chivato. Billy The Kid." Chavez was amused with the situation. He was like me; I was enjoying all the killing we were doing.

"Damn. Murphy's gonna want blood, brains and balls for this." McKlowsky added in. Why does he feel like he always has to say something?

I sat next to Chavez and sighed. He smiled at me. I wish I felt like smiling at him, but I just gave him the same tired expression on my face. I noticed Doc get up from behind our pathetic wall. He tried to leave, but Dick grabbed him.

"Hey Doc, don't be stupid!"

"What?"

"You know they're gonna be looking for us." Doc wasn't interested rightnow. He had a little china girl in his mind.

"Yeah, I'll be back in a minute."

"Where the hell is that idiot going?"

"To see a woman, Dick. Something you would know nothing about." The boys laughed at my comment. He got angry at my remark.

"Oh, and you would?" Wow, he was right. I wouldn't.

"You're an idiot, Richard."

The next day we met these two bushwhackers out in the desert. Chavez snuck up behind the first one as he examined some horse manure. He put his knife to the man's throat, that guy was scared shitless. I loved watching Chavez intimidate people. It was so gratifying. I pointed my rifle into the other's ribcage as he tried pulling out his pistols. The others came out with their guns.

"Buenos Dias, Shitheads."

I pulled the guy off of his horse. He hit the ground hard.

"God, can't you land?"

"You don't understand, Dick, by killin' Henry Hill you all started a war."

"By killin' Mr. Tunstall you all started the damn war, Baker!"

"Just the same were talking 30 or 40 men against your, what 6 or 7?"

I smiled evilly at Baker.

"I'm going to kill you." I whispered in his ear. Billy went to bother horse manure man.

"Were gonna bury you. You can believe that."

"Quiet Bonney! We're takin' you to jail. No killin'!" I thought it was funny that no one pronounced their words correctly. They kept saying 'killin', instead of killing.

"Objection your Honor! These boys are going to the grave in the name of John Tunstall." This was probably the first time I noticed how insane Billy really was.

"I said quiet, Billy! I don't need that kinda talk. Law don't talk like that."

"Yeah, well law don't kill innocent merchants neither. Do it?" Steve yelled, eagerly wanting to kill more for the pleasure than to avenge John.

"Shut-up, dirt face." Doc said calmly.

"Let's take these sons a bitches up to Cap-i-tan mountain and blow there brains out. What do ya say, Steve?"

"Uh-huh! Uh-huh!"

"Hey, Billy," Billy glanced at McKlowsky. "Be easy."

What? Did he just tell Billy to calm down.?

" Dick, I don't think we should go by way south." Dick was kind of surprised. We all were. McKlowsky doesn't normally have anything important to say.

"Why's that?"

"Well, I think Murphy will be watchin' the trail and ambush us. I think we should go straight ahead through Lincoln."

Everyone paused and thought this over. I waited to see Billy's reaction. He glanced at me with a smirk.

"Hey." He had started.

"What?"

"I saw that."

Charley freaked. "What did ya see?"

He knows what I just saw. Did you see that Molly?"

"Sure did, Billy."

"Whatcha talkin' about?"

"Where's the ambush McKlowsky? In Lincoln? 'Cuz you know your men-MURPHY'S MEN! Are waitin' to jump us in Lincoln."

"Billy, what are you talkin' about? McKlowsky's with us; he's a regulator."

I glanced over a Chavez, he was just as uninterested in this as I was.

"Yeah, but he used to ride with Murphy! That's what I'm talkin' about!"

"That was a long time ago-"

"He's a spy!"

"He's been with us! We made a pact! Right, McKlowsky?"

"Right. Jesus, Billy, come one," McKlowsky held out his hand.

We all waited again for Billy's reaction. Horse manure guy tried to move, but Steve and Charley put their attention back on him. This was getting really annoying; we were just wasting time standing around arguing like buffoons.

Billy grabbed his hand and everyone relaxed. I didn't care I was still looking at Chavez; he seemed strange.

"Ah, shit I'm sorry McKlowsky."

"Hey, it's alright. We're all upset about, John."

"Sorry I didn't sniff you out sooner you goddamn traitor." Billy fired a single shot to McKlowsky's head, blowing his brains all over Doc's face. Poor Doc.

"Billy!' McKlowsky was dead and Chavez and I didn't really care.

Everyone yelled. Steve and Billy were laughing.

Chavez threw a knife into the guy I was supposed to be watching. Oops. It was alright though, Chavez enjoyed killing him. So, I enjoyed watching Chavez do it. Of course Billy had to shoot him twice in the back as if he wasn't dead already.

"Hold your fire!" Dick ordered. Nobody listened. It was chaos for those brief moments. Horse manure guy got on his horse while we were all yelling at each other.

Doc fired and hit him square in the back. He got back up somehow.

Doc yelled, "Get that son of a bitch!"

Steve gave the horse manure guy a big shotgun hole. Chavez pulled his knife out, wiping the blood on it's victim.

Billy was laughing. Dick was being a dick. Charley was freaking out like a little girl again. Doc was calm as he usually is. Steve was smiling like an idiot at his new kill. Chavez and I were silent, standing next to one another, and judging all of them. Well, that's what I was doing.

"Court adjourned." Billy said with a smile.

"Moron!"

"Richard, he was right. McKlowsky was acting strange."

You would think Charley pissed his pants by the way he was whining, "Oh Christ Jesus, Brady's gonna hang us for sure now!"

"What are we doin' now Dick?" Steve wasn't helping.

"Quiet! Everyone close their fargin lips for a goddamn second and let me think!"

"We better skin outta here."

"Okay. Everyone skin up the river."

We all just kind of looked at Dick, "Now!" he yelled.

"You better stop believing what them papers write about you."
Billy got really quiet and had that sly smirk on his face.

"Okay, Dick."

"Somebody get that idjit on a horse."

Everyone left except Doc. I was worried about him so I went to make sure he wasn't going to break down or something.

He stared at McKlowsky's body.

"Don't dwell on it, Doc. It won't do you any good. It's done."

He sighed.

"No, this doesn't bother me."

I brushed off my embarrassment at being wrong.

"Good, I didn't want to get all sentimental with you, anyway."

He faintly smiled and put an arm around me. I took off my black hat and handed him a rag to wipe his face.

"It's just…How am I supposed to have a family in this kinda life?."

"You can't Doc." He looked up at me. "You just can't."

My thoughts wandered to Chavez, big surprise.

I had saddened Doc by what I said so I tried to change the subject while we rode.

"It's that China girl isn't it?" He smiled. I teased him.

"I might get jealous."

"Molly, you'll always be my favorite non-related sister."

"Good. Always?"

"Always."

((Sorry if this chap. Seemed rushed, because…well it was. I wanted to get to the Peyote chap. next really fast. Don't worry lots of Chavez and Molly and what-not and their relationship in the next one.))