A/N: It was a long time coming, but finally here's the new chapter. Thanks for the faves and likes everyone! Good to see you back Wyatt Family's Bitch, I thought I'd lost ya lol.
Later that night as they walked through the front door Maria grabbed Bray's attention. "There's a gator out. It went after one of the dogs." Evangeline moved but Bray grabbed her arm. "Let me handle it. You're still a bit too drunk." "Am not." She protested as he grabbed her shotgun from beside their bed. "Luke and I will handle it." Evangeline wrapped her arm around a still heavily intoxicated Kaitlyn and helped her to her room. "They'll be okay, won't they? Alligators are scary." "They'll be okay. This isn't the first gator Bray has killed. We'll be eating it for dinner tomorrow." Evangeline replied. Kaitlyn made a face and she laughed.
She helped Kaitlyn to bed and took her shoes off of her. "I think you partied too hard." Evangeline teased. "Evangeline can I ask a question?" "Sure." "How did you and Bray meet? You seem like you've been together forever. You're always on the same page and never fight." Evangeline laughed to herself at the never fighting bit. "Well, you see... I was lost and I was looking for the man I thought I was in love with. I was about 16 and something inside told me to go to Louisiana. I never knew my parents or any of my family, but my birth records said I was born here. I lived on the streets for a year or two until I met Bray."
"I was down at the river washing some clothes when I caught glimpse of this boy that was fishing at the edge of the river. Apparently I'd caught his attention too because he came over to me. He looked me dead in the eyes and offered his hand, telling me his name. I got lost in those pretty blue eyes of his and he held my hand. He said he'd seen me around. When he went to leave he turned back to me and offered me dinner and a clean place to sleep. I was fascinated by those eyes of his. He seemed so much wiser than a 13 year old should gave been. Anyway, long story short he brought me home to his adopted Daddy, Henry Wyatt. Henry was a good man, opening his home to lost people and children." Both girls startled at the sound of the shotgun blast outside. Evangeline jumped to her feet. "Bray's hurt." She grabbed a pistol from her bedroom and rushed outside, Kaitlyn hot on her heels. "How do you know?" "I just do." Evangeline said over her shoulder. Both girls stopped as another shot rang through the swamp. "Bray! Luke!" Evangeline called, loading shot shells into the gun in her hand.
She crashed through some brush, gun aimed. Luke held the smoking shot gun pointed at the now dead gator. Kaitlyn rushed to him and Evangeline for Bray. "I got too close." He admitted through clinched teeth. The gator hadn't bit down fully but Bray now sported a pretty gruesome looking wound. She looked for their flashlight but spotted it broken in the muck. "It doesn't look very deep." She said, but she couldn't see much in the moonlight. "Let's get you back to the house." He was bleeding pretty badly and Luke had to help carry him to the house.
"I'll got get the truck." Kaitlynn volunteered but Luke stopped her. "We don't need to go to the hospital." "But Luke, he's as white as a sheet!" Luke shook his head as he helped Bray to a chair. Evangeline disappeared into her room and came back with a couple of boxes and a toolbox. She pulled up a chair and sat between Bray's knees, pulling his injured arm towards her. "It's shallow, the gator gave you a love bite." She told him and squeezed his arm. She grabbed a pair of pliers from the toolbox and gently pulled a tooth from the wound. "It left you a souvenir." Kane sat down by Kaitlyn, both watching Evangeline attentively as she worked. "I think we need to take him to the hospital." Kane said, echoing Kaitlyn's thoughts. "He'll be fine in a few minutes. If you moved him again he'd probably faint." Bray rest his forhead against Evangeline's neck as she worked on the wound. Erik and Luke went outside to bring the dead gator up to the house and Maria tried to coax Bray into drinking some orange juice.
"Come on baby, drink it." Evangeline coaxed him as she mixed up different herbs and packed them into the wound. After packing it and bandaging it up she and Maria laid their hands on the wound, saying something under their breath. "What are they doing?" Kaityln whispered to Kane. He ahrugged, watching the two ladies intently. Evangeline mixed up more herbs into a glass and made a drink that she tipped to Bray's lips. Once he swallowed it down she stood and helped him to his feet. Kane took his other side and together they took Bray to his room, Maria in tow with Evangeline's cigar box. Evangeline thanked everyone for the help and bid them goodnight, when they left she stripped Bray down to his underwear and got him ready for bed. "I always keep you on your toes, don't I?" He laughed groggily. "Never a dull moment." She replied as she cut out the lights and climbed into bed with him. She kissed him goodnight and pulled his uninjured arm around her. "You gotta stop scaring me. I don't know what I'd do without you."