TIMESKIP:

It’s been a week since my father and the sheriff ran off on there mission and its been the best week of my life, every moment whitey wasn’t on duty in the office he was snuggling at my house with me, making love every single night every night better then the last with no sign of it ending, being able to kiss anywhere we liked at home on the street, in the office anywhere at all, I was in heaven, i felt like I was his wife, and I loved it, it made me want more than anything for the money to be counted up my father return and me and whitey run off and get married I didn’t even care if that martin man shows up if he does me and whitey are running away off to another town marrying there and making a new life for us out west the only issue….I wasn’t sure if my father was coming back, he hadn’t sent me any news or anything i was so worried about him, but I doesn’t take long for whitey to take my mind off it one ten minuets spare int he office with the doors locked will do, many more days passed and the town began to worry they said a man was coming for us to kill us i was so scared we stood this morning in front of the hotel any one able was given a weapon until it got to me

“No!” whitey told maggie “she goes with the kids” he told her

“what! whitey I can fend for myself” I tell him

“no I wont have any possibility of you getting hurt, not if I can help it” he tells me

“if im going down there with them your coming with me” I tell him

“I cant with the sheriff gone…Im the last one in charge” he says

“No whitey I wont go down there without you” I tell him

“you have to, I promise I will be stood waiting for you when it’s all over” he smiles “I love you y/n” he smiles giving me a little kiss “arnt you gonna say it too?” he asks

“save something for ya for when this is all over” I giggle giving him a kiss before going off to the mines with the children and other’s who couldn’t fight I was so scared as I heard guns shots I wanted to climb up I wanted to help I couldn’t live with not knowing what was happening I had to know if he was okay I tried to go up but the bar keep grabbed me stopping me

“NO! Let me go!” I yell when he at last let me go I ran up to La Belle the streets clouded in smoke as i saw people began to walk forward looking for the children that followed me out I saw Bill and my father, my father smiles and hugged me

“Oh y/n my little girl I’m so happy your alright” he smiled but I looked past him ….no…whitey? where is he? I stood in the smoke waiting for it to clear and I saw him laid by the office door he was….

“NOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHITEY!” I scream running to him kneeling down to him he had been stabbed bleed out long before I got to him “NOOOOOO! NO NO NO NO NO NO WHITEY PLEASE! please wake up please whitey” I beg still crying “YOU BASTARDS! why didn’t you let me out I could have saved him” I scream

“I was only gone a few weeks he couldn’t have been that important to you” my father sighed

“you wouldn’t know” I said sadly “you where too busy trying to wed me off you didnt even know what was going on, we were in love, since we where children” I cried

“but i-” he began

“Oh you idiot, you really think all those years you told her not to talk to him no to go near him you think she bloody listened of course not all those late night walks all those afternoons in the bar, they where together, snuggling in the stables or cuddling by the river” Maggie explained to him

“we had a plan he was getting everything together to pay off the man coming from the city double what he was giving you for me, and if that didn’t work..we where going to run away off west somewhere and get married, have kids, own a little place not to far from the river” I cry

“Y/n…step away from him” my father told me

“NO! I scream “i wont leave him, I wont leave him, never ever again not for you or for anybody, Im so sorry whitey” I cried “i love you so so very very much” I cried I dont know how long it was but it felt like a eternity before they took him away from me I felt so lost without him here with me, a long time went by, I dont know how long time seems to escape me these days the longest steps of my life from my house to that grave yard my tears where not the only ones falling that day, the day they buried him, not just mine even if mine where the most, Maggie too, and a few others the new preacher arrived today, the first thing he would do was to do this…once others had gone I was left the last one stood there to read “whitey winn” on a grave stone words I never wanted to see on one I cried so much, I felt so alone as a hand took mine, and turned and saw a man tall and well built with short black hair

“My god y/n, atlast I have found you” he smiled

“who are you?” I ask

“Martin, martin aster? dont you remember?” he asked “we are engaged did you not know my face?” he asked “I know you, I have carried your photo with me all my way here, you are not close to what I imagines you are far more beautiful” he smiled

“oh” I sigh

“my love, I have journey so far at last we can be together” he smiled trying to kiss me but I moved away “what is the matter my love?” he asked

“I am afraid my heart belongs to another man” I sigh

“who! I love you I have come all this way for you and you love someone else! where is he I’ll kill him” he yelled and I just glance to the stone “Oh…looks like someone did it for me” he smirked “then your fine to marry me” he smiled trying to kiss me but I slapped him

“how dare you!” I yell

“Y/n remember this is your husband” my father told me

“No he is not” I reply “it may have not been a union signed on a bit of paper, but I loved him and he loved me, our bond to each other was unbreakable and i am sorry martin but no matter what you do you will never be whitey, and I will never love you as much as I love him” I explain

“be that as it may but I paid for you your my wife now” he said trying to grab my arm but I slapped him again

“fuck all y’all” I sigh going off home getting my things and going off to the little river our little boat still sat there I took it out sitting it on the water opening my little cloth seeing the gun they let me keep, I let whitey be buried with one he would have wanted to keep it and I took the other keeping it with me it made me smile a million memories of him in this hunk of metal so many little toy gun fights as children so many nights trying to teach me to shoot as teenagers and them being the first things to go as soon as we got a little cuddly with each other the little handle made me giggle he had carved a little heart on it with his signature and mine he told me “it’s so your always with me, keeping me safe” i didn’t keep you too safe that day, I should have been there with you stood in that doorway with you and died with you, then we would be happy together, the gun even kinda has his sent that familiar mix of mud, sweat, beer, gun smoke and sex, what whitey just smelt like to me it makes me giggly that sent making me think of sweet morning after making love and waking up together in the sunshine, I dont want to be anywhere unless it’s with you, I dont want to do anything unless your doing it with me, I dont want to grow old without you here with me, I want us to stay together, for now and forever and with that I fired…..

“y/n? y/n, Oh y/n my beautiful darlin’“ a familiar voice said to me as my head cleared and I saw whitey, almost the same how I had seen him that day before I went to the mines but happier “ I promised I would be stood waiting for you when it’s all over” he smiled “I missed you so much” he smiled giving me a kiss

“Oh whitey, you have no idea” I cried so happy to see him to hear him to hug him everything about him every tiny detail making me so happy “where are we?” I ask

“well darlin’ this is our little piece of heaven” he smiled picking me up and I saw it a little farm with horses and chickens and land and a cute little farm house and barn even a few little rabbits in pens “our little place, far from everyone, just you and me, we wont grow old here, or even change that much” he smiled

“Ohh whitey, I love you” i smile hugging him tightly

“I feel like I’ve waited forever for you to say that” he blushed “come on darlin’ lets go inside” he smiled so I grabbed his hand running into our little house together happy to be together forever in our little place,

MAGGIES POV:

I went over to visit the yard, putting some flowers on the one for my husband as I walked back out i saw Arthur stood as the freshly dug one to the door I went over it was whitey’s now with another name added below

“whitey winn, and Y/n Y/L/N”

“you buried them together?” i ask him

“she would have wanted that, to be with him” he said sadly

“never could keep those two apart, try and try as you might but they where both persistent, stop them from meeting one way they just found another” I laugh

“I know” he said

“how did she die?” I ask

“she shot herself” he answered “with his gun, I think….they just wanted to be together” he explained

“well wherever he is, and where ever she has gone, I hope they ended up in the same place” I smile

“thats another reason I buried her with him, in the hope she would follow him, to wherever he went” he smiled

“well if she did, find comfort in the fact you know she’s happy with him” I smile “come on I’ll get you a drink” I tell him