My deepest apologies to all for it taking me so long to update this story. School is really keeping me hopin' right now so please bear with me.

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The next morning Jewel awoke to the sun streaming in through the window. A window? Where was she? She wondered, squinting her eyes she looked around and slowly realized that she was in that nice woman's room, what was her name, Katy, Kathy, Kitty? Yes, Kitty. Slowly, Jewel rose to a sitting position and saw that she had been covered by a quilt, it was also at this time that she realized that she had, had the most restful of sleeps. It had been a long time since that had happened for her. Jewel got all the way up, folded the quilt and then slowly crept into the other room to find it empty. She was just about to go to the door that would lead her away from the suite of rooms when she heard a voice behind her.

"Good morning Jewel." Kitty said. Kitty didn't know why but she had risen early and had just finished heating bath water for the other girl.

"Oh!" Jewel gave out surprised little shout. "Miss Kitty!"

"I was up early and I thought that you'd maybe like a bath." Kitty said to the other woman. She could never imagine looking the way that Jewel Monarch looked right now and how she must feel! A bath would make a world of difference, Kitty just knew it.

Jewel looked down at her ragged dress and dirty bare feet. "Oh, that would be wonderful."

Half an hour later, Jewel emerged from the wash room feeling like a different woman. Her hair was clean, soft and shiny, her skin clean and slightly scented from some of Kitty's fine soap. She was also wearing a fine dress and a pair of stockings and shoes that Kitty was letting her borrow until she could buy her own. When she came down into the bar room she found, Matt, Kitty, Chester and Doc all having morning coffee and a bar tender behind the bar. Jewel looked him over carefully, checking to be sure that he wasn't Rex.

"Well Jewel, I see Kitty's taken care of you well." Matt said.

"Yes Marshall." Jewel said shyly.

"Jewel Monarch, I'd like you to meet our other friends. This is Chester Goode." Kitty said pointing to the tall, skinny man on her right.

"How do, miss." Chester said politely.

"And this is Doctor Adams or Doc."

"Miss Monarch." Doc said, tipping his hat.

"Doc?" Jewel said hesitantly, "May I come and see you…later today?"

"Why of course, you just stop on over to my office. Kitty can show you." Doc said.

Jewel knew that she was pregnant, she had all the same signs that she had had when she was pregnant before and as much as she hated those buffalo hunters for putting her into this position she wouldn't, couldn't blame her child.

After having morning coffee, Jewel watched the exchange between Matt and Kitty and was intrigued by it. How easy they were with each other and was again reminded of herself and Rory when he had been alive. From just looking at the pair, Jewel could tell that Matt cared a great deal for Kitty and Kitty cared a great deal for Matt. She wondered how long they had been together. Lost in her thoughts, as she went across the bar room she ran smack dab into the one person she thought that she would never see again, Rex Stills.

Stills grabbed her by the upper arms, unaware of who she was. "Excuse me miss." He said.

Jewel looked up, instantly recognizing Rex. "No, excuse me." Then as quickly as she could Jewel went up the stairs and into Kitty's suite of rooms.

Kitty followed shortly and found Jewel sitting in a chair, looking like a scarred little rabbit. "Jewel, what's wrong?" Kitty asked.

"Stills, Rex Stills, how long has he been here?" Jewel asked.

"Oh I don't know, a while now I guess. Maybe a month? Why are you so scarred Jewel, what's between you and Stills?"

After telling Kitty the story about herself and Rex, Kitty shook her head. "I don't think you have any reason to be scared Jewel. Maybe he just wants to be reunited with you."

Jewel just shook her head, "No, Kitty. I-I'll just leave. I don't know how I'll pay for it, but I'll get on the next stage out of Dodge."

Kitty looked at the wide eyed girl. "Do you really believe that he'll hurt you?"

Jewel shook her head again but didn't say a word.

"Because you were one of his girls in a saloon?"

Another nod.

"Jewel, stay up her, let me go down and talk to Rex. See if that is really why he's in Dodge or if he is just passing through." Kitty said.

Jewel nodded in agreement again and watched as Kitty walked out the door.

Downstairs, Kitty crossed the empty bar room, an odd thing on such a hot summer day, to find Rex behind the bar wiping glasses. "Hello Rex." She greeted.

"Miss Kitty."

"Say Rex, did you ever know a girl by the name of Jewel York?" Kitty said, using the last name that Jewel had first given them.

"No, can't say that I have. Why?" the man asked, moving closer to Kitty.

"Oh no reason. I was just wondering." Kitty said, playing it cool, allowing no emotion to cross her face, the same way she did when she was playing poker.

"There has to be some reason, Miss Kitty, otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it. This is the first time you've even really talked to me since I came to work here. Your always to busy with your friend the Marshall that is always in here."

"Well," Kitty said carefully, "If this Jewel that you're looking for, why would you want to find her."

Rex looked Kitty full in the eyes for a few seconds before answering. "Cause, I guess I might as well tell ya, there is no way to prove it now, she was a whore down in Texas, a girl of mine you might say, that was before I went to prison for stealing money from the bank where I worked. I loved Jewel, prolly would have married her too, if I coulda found her when I got out, but she was gone."

"Robbed a bank?" Kitty asked, pretending that she knew nothing of this story.

"Yeah, down in Texas. She helped me and then took off with the money." Rex said. "I just wanna find her, see how she is. If she's moved on, that alright but I gotta know. I guess I thought that she loved me too.

"Oh?" Kitty asked.

"Well then, I suppose, then there isn't a lot anyone can do is there?" Rex said, smiling. "I mean it has been quite a few years. I know that I'm different and I'm sure she is to, but is she's around Dodge somewhere, I'd like to talk to her, make sure she's ok."

Kitty left Rex at the bar shortly after that and went back up to her room. She found Jewel pacing the floor. Gentelly she placed a hand on Jewel's arm and lead her to a seat. "He's looking for you Jewel."

"But why!" Jewel cried. "Why does he want to find me so badly? I don't have anything left of what we had together in Texas. That all left the day he went to prison! The only good thing that happened as a result of that was me meetin' Rory York. Then when he died, I died too!"

"He just wants to make sure that your ok." Kitty said. She honestly believed that it was all that Rex wanted, was to ensure that Jewel was ok. "Are you sure that you won't at least go and talk to him?" Kitty wanted to make things alright for both Jewel and Rex. She also wanted to see another happy couple in Dodge, since things were moving along so nicely with her and Matt.

Jewel looked up at her with wary eyes, "Do you really think that is all that he wants?"

"Judging from how he talked, yes." Kitty said. She felt she was a good judge of people and also good at reading them, so she felt confident giving the other woman the answer that she had.

After over an hours worth of talking it over, Kitty finally convinced Jewel to come downstairs with her. Using the angle that the other girl would feel safer if she was in a room full of people and that Kitty and Matt would be there if anything happened.

After a half an hour, Rex and Jewel had moved off to their own table as Matt and Kitty sat and looked on. Looking at Kitty, Matt commented, "Well, I guess that has certainly turned out for the better."

Kitty smiled and tilted her head slightly towards the handsome marshal, "Yes it certainly has. I hope they find their happy ending together, Jewel deserves it."

Matt didn't comment but rather just sat appreciating Kitty and her beauty.

A few weeks later……….

Matt and Kitty stood together at the stage depot, saying farewell to Rex Stills and Jewel Monarch Stills. The two had seemed to reconnect and Jewel had come back to life after being reunited with Rex. All the old sadness that had filled them both was gone and they both seemed to be truly happy. No one had been surprised when the couple had decided to get married and then they were going to San Francisco. All the helping with Jewel's wedding and plans to move away had brought back the longings that Kitty had for marriage and family, though she kept those things private. There was no reason to scare off Matt, not when things between them were going so well.

As the stage left, Matt and Kitty waved to their new friends. Once it was gone Matt noticed the wistful look on Kitty's face and asked, "What's wrong Kitty?"

"Oh nothing." Kitty said, brushing aside the question.

"Want to join me for a drink at the Longbranch?"

"Sure Marshal, if your buying." Kitty said, laughing as she and Matt walked side by side to the Longbranch.

Ok I don't think that this ending is the best so if you have ideas for alternate/better endings please send them to me. I am thinking of adding a story to this—but I don't know when it will happen. I would like to thank everyone who read it and also added it to their favorite stories list. Your support is so deeply appreciated!