I DO NOT OWN HATFIELDS AND MCCOYS OR THE DIALOGUE.

Election Day 1880. Tug River Valley. Johnse's POV

Johnse and Roseanna walked for a spell until they reached Johnse's still in the woods. It was a small structure, but it was sturdy enough. The still had room for all the liquor making and a cot for Johnse to sleep on if he ever need to pull an all nighter or if he needed to hide from an angry father whose daughter he had deflowered.

"Ain't she a beauty?" Johnse asked as he led a Roseanna to where the moonshine magic happened. "I can produce maybe...I don't know, half gallon a day of fine Western Virginia corn liquor. I mean, this is the horse's head still, catch can."

"It's bigger than my brother Tolbert's." Roseanna remarked. That got a smirk out of Johnse. It was good to know that he was ahead of the competition.

"You know, I built this rig myself." He pointed out. "I borrowed the money to buy the parts from my pa. I figure, make a good living, support my family proper. I'm even building me a cabin not far from here, down the road a stretch from Jedidiah Graham's place...for my wife to have babies in."

"Got yourself a wife?" Roseanna asked as Johnse chuckled.

"Oh, you You're teasing me, I know." He replied.

"Well, one thing I know for a fact, you got girlfriends by the bushel." She shot back as Johnse looked her dead in the eye.

"I ain't serious about none of them..."

Jed's POV

Meanwhile, Jed was keeping company with his brothers in law back at the festival. Cottontop was bobbing for apple and Tolbert was still poking fun at his expense.

"Look at that mush head." Tolbert snarked. "Yer supposed to drown the runt of the litter like this." Tolbert pretended to choke Cottontop as Pharmer and Bed snickered.

"Just kick him in." Pharmer added. The fun ended when Cap Hatfield came over and got his cousin away from the McCoys.

"Easy laughing a bunch, ain't it?" He remarked as Jed felt bad for Tolbert's teasing.

"Well, have fun boys, I'm gonna take my wife home." Jed stated as Tolbert nodded. Pharmer and Bud side hugged him.

"See ya Jed." Bud replied as Jed walked over to Alifair and kissed her deeply.

"How's our baby?" He asked.

"It's doing all right." She said as the parents to be smiled at Alifair's stomach.

"Where's your sister?" Randall asked as he brought over a candy apple for Alifair's younger sister.

"I don't know where she went." She replied.

"Well, go find her, we're leaving." He stated.

"You let her stay, Randall." Sally insisted. "The boys will bring her home." Randall sighed as he called out to his sons.

"Tolbert!" He exclaimed. "You're to bring Roseanna home without fail, you hear me?"

"Yes, sir." Tolbert replied. Jed sighed as he realized that he had not seen Roseanna for quite a spell. He had an idea about where she was and who she was with, but he hoped that he was wrong.

Roseanna's POV

Back at the still, Roseanna felt that she was falling for Johnse Hatfield more and more every minute that she spent with him.

"How many times you been kissed?" Johnse asked out of the blue.

"Not counting grandmas and such?" Roseanna asked.

"Not counting." He clarified.

"Couple times maybe." She admitted as her cheeks turned pink.

"I bet you ain't never really truly been kissed right." Johnse assumed as leaned in closer. "Not to boast but I believe I have a strong reputation as a good kisser." As Roseanna looked into his eyes, he leaned in and kissed her upon the lips. It was like nothing that she had ever felt before. She felt alive for the first time in her whole life.

"There, now you can't say you never been kissed." Johnse said as he and she both turned a shade of red. It took Roseanna a few minutes to regain her senses but once she did, she realized that they had been gone an awfully long while.

"Good Lord, it's getting dark." Roseanna commented. "We ought to get going." Johnse nodded as the two made their way back to the festival.

Johnse's POV

Johnse cussed himself out once he and Roseanna returned to an empty festival. Everyone had gone and they were alone in the dark.

"Oh, please, let them be here, please." Roseanna begged, but her pleas fell on deaf ears.

"Oh, no."

"Oh, no."

"Well, your Pa and my own they is all gone,even your kinsfolk." Johnse realized.

"Oh, God, my poppy is gonna kill me." Roseanna wailed. "How am I gonna get home?"

"Well, I'll take ya with me." Johnse offered. The last thing he was gonna do was leaver to walk back to Kentucky by herself.

"My name is McCoy." She reminded him. "Your father would hardly welcome one of us." Johnse assumed that Ol' Randall had probably filled his daughter's head with all sorts of bullshit about his family.

"Ya put everything you heard about Devil Anse Hatfield out o' your pretty head." Johnse insisted. "He ain't nothing like that." Roseanna nodded as Johnse saddled up his hors, got her on, and rode away into the direction of the Hatfield home...and history.

HOW WILL THE HATFIELDS REACT TO JOHNSE BRINGING HOME A MCCOY WOMAN? REVIEWS NEEDED AND APPRECIATED.