Once they got out of the camp, Julia followed Morgan and Charles on the way to dewberry creek, while her mind was still crossed by Dutch's words.

"So where are we going?" asked Charles.

"Find a new spot to camp. We're packing up and moving on" answered Morgan speeding up.

"Again?"

"We have to. And fast"

"If only you hadn't made that mess in Valentine, I could have misled those Pinkertons. Instead, they're talking to Cornwall right now" said Julia.

"That doesn't sound good" said Charles.

"Killed a lot of law. Killed a lot of Cornwall's men. They must know where we are by now" said Morgan.

"I told them I would've checked around the town. Once you'll get yourself out of the way, I'll lead them to the camp and then I'll try to play them, again" added Julia.

"Good" answered Morgan turning to look at her.

Julia nodded.

"So, we're heading south?" asked Charles.

"Yeah, area called Dewberry Creek. Dutch wants us to give it a look, make sure it's clear and good place to lie low for a while"

Julia frowned trying to remember the area where she already had been years ago for one of her bounties.

"I can't remember a covered spot in that area. It's more of an open space"

"Micah suggested it" said Morgan.

"Of course he had" answered lowly Julia shaking her head.

"I've only known Dutch a few months, but…the way he talks, I never thought I'd see him wanting to head south" said Charles.

"You can't ever say what he's going to do next. I learned that by my own" said Julia.

Charles turned to look at her and so did Morgan.

For the rest of the way, they stayed silent until they got down a hill and saw the drained river in front of them.

"Hang on a second…I think must be it up ahead. The old dried up creek" said Morgan.

"Seems very open" said Chalres.

"I told you there's no covered spots here. I think we should find another place to "lie low"" said Julia.

"Yeah, well…let's take a look around" said Morgan.

They started to look around, but despite mud and rocks, there wasn't much. But then Julia noticed something in the distance.

"Hey, I see something over there" said Charles noticing a dead figure on the ground, surrounded by vultures.

"I see it too. It seems there's s fella's there" said Julia and spurring Wind Catcher she reached it.

As soon as she got closer to it, the vultures flew away reveling a dead man.

"Damn…" said Morgan when he reached her with Charles.

He got down his horse and controlled the corpse, and the same did Morgan while Julia walked to a little camp she saw soon after.

"He's been shot. Looks like trouble got here before us" said Morgan.

"There's a camp there" said Julia catching their attention.

"Let's take a look" answered Morgan getting closer with Charles.

The camp was a few feet from them and apart from a few tents there wasn't much and it seemed abandoned too.

"Let's see if we find something useful" said Charles starting to look.

The same did Morgan and Julia who walked towards the wagon at the end of the camp.

There weren't' horses, but what made Julia frowned were the boxes and barrels piled up near it.

She drew closer, her hand on her holster when she heard a deep breath coming from under the wagon. She moved some boxes but stopped as soon as she got face to face with a woman who seemed foreign.

The woman had two children, a girl and a boy, who was holding her skirt with watering eyes. She had a rifle in her hands but it seemed she didn't know how to use it.

Julia lifted her arms and stepped back and when Charles noticed her he tried to got closer but Julia stopped him with a gesture of her hand.

The woman got out from under the wagon pointing her rifle to them. She was shaking in fear.

"What the hell…" said getting closer, but Charles stopped him by his shoulder.

"It's okay. We're not going to hurt you" said Julia slowly.

The woman continued to look at them.

"Are you okay?" asked again Julia, but she didn't answer.

"She said, are you okay?" said Morgan.

"Sprechen sie Deutsch?" said the woman.

Julia looked at the two men behind her who looked at her confused in turn.

Julia looked again at the woman and shook her head.

"What happened?" asked again slowly trying to be understood, but again there was no answer.

"Are you alone?"

Nothing.

"Go on, get out of here. Go we need the land. Go" said Morgan.

"Shut up Morgan" hissed Julia.

Morgan turned to look at her and Julia took some steps ahead with her hands on the air.

The woman continued to point her file at her, but when Julia reached her and put a hand on the barrel, she put it down and Julia smiled at her.

"We'll help you" she said making gestures to help the woman understand her.

"What?" asked Morgan behind her but Julia shushed him once again.

"They took our father" said suddenly the girl.

Julia turned to look at her and putting a hand on her shoulder she kneeled in front of her.

"Who did?" asked Charles.

"M-men…last night" answered the girl.

"Where did they bring him?" asked Julia.

The girl pointed behind her.

"Aint' no business of ours! I don't even speak their language" said Morgan.

Charles turned to look at him.

"You ain't as tough and dense as all that. Come on Julia" he said.

Julia wiped a tear that was rolling off the girl's cheek and smiled at her.

"I'll find your father" she said before she got up and followed Charles.

Once she got on her horse, Charles headed towards the direction pointed by the girl.

After a while he found a trace.

"There, tracks. Come on" said Charles.

Julia looked down and saw the trace in turn. When she turned to look at Morgan she saw him sigh and shake his head.

When Charles sped up Julia kept his side while Morgan followed them.

"What's going on with you?"

"What you mean?" answered Morgan.

"You were just gonna send that woman and her children on their way?" asked Charles.

"We're wanted men. We got Pinkertons breathing down our necks. We should be moving camp, not running off on som…"

"Oh, shut up Morgan. You were going to kick them out so we could take the camp. You would've left them be killed by some bastards only because you're too stupid to even think any different than Dutch want you to think"

There was a long instant of silence followed by dirty looks between the two while Charles tried to find other tracks.

"You better be careful, woman. My patience's almost up to the limit" said Morgan with a threatening tone.

"And then what? You're gonna put your hands on me again?" blurted out Julia.

"I already made my apology to you. Weren't you the one who said we were good?"

"Enough. I've found other tracks. Come on" said Charles interrupting them.

Julia stared at Morgan for a moment before she looked away.

They followed the tracks until they reached the bank of the big Flat Iron Lake and from there they got into a forest where Charles had to find the tracks again.

They continued to follow him in silence, avoiding to look at each other and finally they got into a big open place near the lake where there was a little camp that seemed abandoned.

Something's wrong, thought Julia while she got down from Wind Catcher.

The camp seemed to be bigger than the one at Dewberry Creek and that meant that there were more people staying there.

While they walked towards it, Julia saw a man lying on the ground with both hands and feet tied up.

The man was struggling to get free and he was mumbling something, but the gag around his mouth didn't let him be understood.

This man looks like our feller said Morgan getting closer.

"Quick, cut him free and let's get outta" here answered Charles.

Julia was about to get closer to the man in turn, but when Morgan freed him from the gag he said something and a moment after they heard some horses coming out of the forest and when she turned she was five men who started to shoot at them.

"Take over!" yelled Morgan kneeling behind some barrels.

Charles did the same, hiding behind some boxes while Julia took cover behind a big tree.

"I see three coming this way!" said Charles.

"Two are coming from here, but I see more of them arriving!" answered Julia shooting.

One of the men tried to get closer on his horse, but she shot him before he could reach her, making him fall before she finished him with another bullet.

Another one was shooting her from her side, but she had to cover herself a few times before she saw him. The bastard was hidden behind a bush.

She took advantage to charge her pistols and when she looked at him again she shot him twice on his chest.

"What are we doing? This ain't even our goddamn fight!" yelled Morgan continuing to shoot.

"We're on this now, Morgan. So, shoot those bastards!" yelled Julia back.

Four other men came out from the forest and surrounded them, forcing Julia and Arthur to change the cover. The two moved together, taking cover behind the same barrels. They exchanged a look before they charged their guns and continued to shoot.

Julia shot twice to a man, missing him but at the third time, she hit him in the head. Then she moved her attention to another one, shooting him twice after he fell on the ground and tried to get up and shoot her.

"Bastards…" hissed Morgan between teeth while recharging his rifle.

"Are you all right Morgan?" asked Julia while she shot three times killing another one of those men.

"No, as I said this is not our fight!" answered the man before he turned and shot a man in the head.

Charles looked around carefully before he got out from behind some tents.

"There's no more of them" he said putting away his pistols.

Julia got on her feet, stretching her hand to help Morgan get up.

"You know something? This is a better camp spot than back there. Much easier to defend" said Charles.

"Yeah, you're right. We should camp here" said Julia walking towards the german man still tied up.

"What you think Arthur?" asked Charles.

Morgan looked around.

"Yeah, maybe…"

Julia helped the man on his feet and he shook her hand saying something that Julia didn't understand but smiled anyway and nodded.

"He's going to bring you to your family" she said pointing at Arthur.

"What?" asked Morgan.

"Family. Yours" said again Julia.

The man said something shaking her hand again before he went towards Arthur who sighed.

"Okay, then. Charles, go find the caravan to divert here. This spot should work for us" he said getting on Tundra before he helped the man.

"I agree"

Julia and Charles looked at Morgan going away before they got rid of the corpses spread all over the camp.

"I'm going to find the others. You come with me?" asked Charles when they finished.

"No, I'm going to get rid of these things and see what we should keep" answered Julia pointing the camp behind her.

Charles nodded and Julia looked at him while he got on his horse and went away.

She took a look around the camp, finding some valuable objects. Then she got rid of the things she thought they wouldn't need, and she put aside the ones that could've been useful to Miss Grimshaw or Pearson. While she took down the tents, she decided to keep one in case she would have needed it.

The sun was already setting down and the cool air had arrived, so she decided to set up a fire near the big tree at the center of the open space, waiting for the others.

Wind Catcher was behind her and every now and then he tapped her on her head making her giggle and turn.

"Alright. Here" she said giving him a sugar-cube.

Soon after she heard a horse coming and turning around she saw Morgan getting down his horse.

"Why you're here? I thought you would go with Charles" he said reaching her.

"I get rid of that camp, keeping only the useful things" answered Julia.

Morgan nodded.

"Can I sit?"

Julia nodded.

"So, did you find that man's family?" she asked.

"Yeah, I've found them. They said something, but I understood nothing and then they give me…this" he said putting out his bag a gold bar.

"Very kind of them" answered Julia.

"Yeah, well I think you should keep it. If it weren't for you and Charles I wouldn't help them people"

"Why don't you give it to Charles?" asked Julia.

"Because I know he would refuse it"

Morgan offered it to her and Julia took it.

"Thank you. And by the way, why would you let those people die?" she asked putting it in her bag.

Morgan sighed.

"It's…we got a lot of problems right now. We don't have time to act like heroes"

"Dutch Van der Linde get out of this body" said Julia making Arthur turn to give her a dirty look.

"Listen, Arthur…being an outlaw doesn't mean you have to be cruel. I'm not the kindest person in the world, but sometimes kindness can be repaid. Not always in gold bars but…you know what I mean"

Morgan smiled at her.

"I'm not a good man"

"Because you've killed people, robbed and lied?"

"Yeah…"

"But you also helped that man finding his family. And Mary with her brother and you went fishing with Jack. Those are acts of kindness, Arthur"

Morgan nodded, not sure about what to say and if he wanted to say something.

"And by the way, I'm sorry for what I said earlier. I'm…kinda of stressed out"

Morgan made a gesture with his hand to say that was okay and that there was no problem.

Both of them stayed silent, staring at the flames in front of them.

After half an hour they heard the caravan behind them and the girls shouting and turning around they saw Dutch and Charles.

Julia and Arthur got on their feet, cleaning their pants from the dirt.

"Just let me tell you something…I know it might be difficult to you, but don't turn into an idiot. Or at least into a complete idiot"

"Why you saying this to me?

"Because, even if I don't like to admit it, you're better than I thought. Maybe turning into an old man helped you"

Julia sneered before she turned and walked towards the wagon from where the girls got off and started to help Miss Grimshaw.

Morgan stayed there for a moment, looking at her while she got her things and almost ran away to avoid Susan. He chuckled and shook his head amused before he reached Dutch.

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HI EVERYONE!

Sorry for the late, I'm so lazy these days, the more I do nothing the more I don't want to do anything. Am I the only one?

Anyways, I was playing the other day and I was desperately trying to get a coyote's pelt, but I couldn't find those little bastards anywhere.

In the end, my father told me where to find them (yes my father plays RDR2 too even if he can't shoot and O'Driscoll and Lemoyne's bastards always kill him) and I finally got my beautiful jacket mad of coyote and ox ( btw I was so sad when I killed it :( )

However, I hope you liked this chapter. Personally I liked how Julia and Arthur always fight and then they act like best friends. They sort of can't stand each other but they actually like each other (?)

I don't know, I love writing those moments.

Okay, I got to go now.

Let me know if you liked this chapter, I'll post ASAP.

HORSE KISSES!