Title: The Wrangler and Ms. Nameless
Rating: PG.13/T
Author: atouchof_princecharming
Summary: When a mysterious woman wanders into town, a gruff wrangler becomes intrigued.
Spoilers: Possibly a few from "Cowboys & Aliens", but nothing that gives the movie away.
Disclaimer: Woodrow Dolarhyde, Percy Dolarhyde, Jake Lonergan, and any other character from "Cowboys & Aliens" belongs to its creators. All other characters belong to me.
[Introduction - "Shadows of his Cattle Ranch" ]
She appeared to him in the darkness much like everything in his life. The mother of his child gone—dead from an unknown illness that swallowed her soul in the night so many years before. Their only child—his son, so drunk on power from being cruel to others he might as well not even exist.
There had been nothing left for him. His days were spent in the shadows of his cattle ranch where he stalked his workers with a icy stare. They never once did turn around to see if had his black eyes fixed on them for fear he would unleash his greatest weapon—a rifle he kept glued to his side.
He had never shot a man without a damn good reason, but they didn't need to know that. The business they were to have had to do with the jobs that had to be done; he never did leave room for anything else.
It had been a peculiar night when she had arrived. The usual stars were there in the western sky, but the colors were different and the air held a presence unknown to him.
He had taken his rifle with him because it took form with his hand more than he ever would admit. It hadn't just been at his side for his workers to fear him even more than they already had from his face alone, but it was there for his protection.
Everything he did that night had been done with gruffness only he knew how. From the moment he drew his gun forward and pushed the front of it inside the bushes he knew she was hiding behind of straight to the way he had physically blocked her from disappearing off his ranch.
And as that night faded and the dawn approached, he embarked on a journey he never once did dream of...