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Billie's P.O.V.
I still can't believe what happened with Zee and Jesse those two were so in love and now there not speakin' to each other. Cole and the boys won't leave me alone for two minutes so there's no way I can even tell Jimmy how much it meant that he didn't tell no one. But that's no important right now I have to try to get Jesse to listen to reason. There ain't no way we were going to make it out of Missouri alive if he gets what he wants.
"Jesse where are we going?" I asked.
"Where do you think Billie," he said looking at me with a glare as if I wasn't supposed to ask questions like that. With a sigh I fell to the back with Frank looked at him longing for an answer for our brother's behavior. Frank just shook his head. We were for what I could tell headed to wherever Jesse assumed that Thaddeus T. Reins was. My opportunity opened when Frank went up the lead with Jesse and Cole. Jimmy let himself fall to the back without anyone noticing. I smiled at him and mouthed the word thank you. He smiled back and nodded. Bob looked back and seen us together and motion for Jim to get back up front with Tom and him before either of mine, or his oldest brother noticed that we were together. I nodded and he gave me a sympathetic smile before going to join his brother and Tom.
"Okay I'm going to do something and Cole, Bob and Frank are coming with me the rest of you I want to stay here, You got that Billie." Jesse finally said after we could see the city limits of a small border town.
"But Jesse.." I started only to be cut off.
"No but Jesse's I'm doing this that man is going to pay for what he did to us Billie." Jesse said. " Now stay here I mean it ."
I sighed I knew there would be no conning Tom or Clay into doing what the old Jesse would have and sneakin' in to town after them. After they had left I jumped of my horse, Jim did the same he came over to me. Right now even Jim Younger couldn't lift my spirits. He gave me a hug if it had been any other time since I had gotten there it would have been more special but right now it was just comforting.
"It will be okay Billie."
"Jim I'm worried what if it goes wrong what if someone gets hurt."
"Don't worry. Like I said things 'll okay they always are with your brothers." I pulled away and nodded I jumped back on City Limit's and wait for my brothers and cousins to get back. It only took about three quarters of and hour before they came riding like the wind back towards with only three horses and four rider I knew something went wrong but didn't dare ask we rode until we crossed the state border. We stopped somewhere about an hour the other side of the border it wasn't until then I realized Jesse was the one that was hurt. After Frank had him lied out on the ground and the others were settin' up camp like nothin' had happened I went over to my two brothers. One was' layin' in a bloody shirt and the other tryin' to get him to drink somethin'.
"Jesse," I said fightin' back the tears.
"Billie don't cry sweetheart." Jesse said. "I'll be okay. I always am remember I'm a James." He wiped the tears off my cheek with his good arm. From what I could tell it was only a hit in his forearm but he had been hit all the same.
"Come on Billie let's give Jess here some time to rest," Frank said.
"But…"
"Go on Billie I'll be fine." Jesse said. Frank and I walked away frank turned to me.
"We can't go back anymore. Jesse and me did somethin' really bad back there and Missouri is no longer part of our lives." He tried to put his arm around me but I ran to my horse and rode off. Until I found somewhere that I could be alone to put it all in perspective. My life had just changed drastically and I wasn't sure where we were going or what we were doing. I wasn't sure what had happened to my old self or to the girl I used to be that was scared of the dark unless she had one of her brothers with her. But now I was ridin' with the most famous bank robbers in this country and I could never go home again.
