Set after season 20 and well after Kitty leaves Dodge. Doc & Matt go to New Orleans to see an injured Kitty. There will be some spoilers... at some point. Disclaimers: As usual Gunsmoke is not mine and belongs to a scary conglomerate.

Chapter 19: Doc Adams gets to have a little fun.

You think it’s funny, sometimes. Or at least that’s what you to say, to cover up the fact that it hurts more than you’d have ever thought. Most of the time, though, you just try not to think about it at all.

When an exhausted Matt becomes ill, both he and Kitty have time to rethink their relationship. Updated! Chapter 15: Kitty and Matt have a conversation, an intruder breaks into the Long Branch.

With a feeling that was disturbingly familiar, he crossed his left leg over his right, smoothly avoiding her uninvited and unwelcome touch, and wondered if he should have stayed in Wichita one more day.

Matt and Kitty's first meeting and their early relationship...

This is a MM from one of my favorite episodes The Jailer. Yes, there are spoilers!

A harmless fishing trip turns into a nightmare for the Marshal and Kitty when they are taken by a group of bounty hunters who mistake Matt for a wanted man.

After one of Doc's most guarded and troubling secrets from his past emerges, Matt must find a way to help the recalcitrant doctor come to terms with an experience that Adams would rather deny and forget.