((yuna run off again? dagnabit!))
Buddy cracked one eye open, to check on Catori's coughing and wheezy breathing, obviously concerned, as it would be a few days travel back to New Hope and the doctors.
"Are you OK, Flower?" he whispered, barely audible over the thundering of the horse-drawn carriage upon the road.
"Is it... the fever?" he was suddenly concerned.
(("Do you feel any homicidal tendencies toward the carriage driver?!" 😮 😛 ))
He looked at her deeply, but his hands moved instinctively to the butts of his pistols, holding them secure in their holsters...
"Water! We need water back here!" he had forgotten, they hadn't had much more than 3 drops of rain water to drink in the last few days...
Cavendish instructed him to waterskins between the seats, and Buddy helped Catori to drink a few hearty gulps.
"Better?" he asked as she swallowed every drop, like every good girl should.
Buddy raised his hand from around her shoulder, and checked her forehead.. she was burning up with fever! Oh farhfegnugget! if she was exposed to typhoid fever, now they all were exposed, and they might all soon be burning, coughing, gagging and dying!!
ah great! he left the hanging for THIS?!!
he loosened her tight blouse some from around her neck and chest, pouring some of the lukewarm water over her bodice, then fanning her gently with his hands.
"We... we passed a house on the way into town.. a house that was being burned because the owner had contracted the Fever... typhoid fever..." Buddy explained to the rest of the travelers. "We were taken in by the Army doctors, for testing, but we escaped before the testing was complete... we never knew if we had contracted the fever... it all happened so fast...
... and now, we're all at risk again... dammit all!" he cried.
(( does she have any holes in her chest that shouldn't be there? maybe gushing or spurting blood all over now that she is calm and laying down somewhat and has had that heavy diamond rock fondled and moved slightly from her chest??))
((ps: I'm going to try my best to not take charge of this one, just play it thru like a good little boy..))
Leo had grabbed the nearest horse and chased after Wolfe, but somehow he had escaped...again. To his far right he could see where Reno and his renegades were. Leo looked forwards towards the dot that was Wolfe Raines and then towards the carrage ot the renegades.
"I'll find you yet Wolfe, I'll find you yet..."
With that he rode off in the direction of the carrage.
Catori smiled weakly. "Buddy, I won't die on you." she said closing her eyes.
Miko waited patiently. When he spotted the carriage he had been waiting he signaled the other indians to circle the wagon. They did so making the carriage driver stop. He turned to Mr. C. and waited for instructions. There were at least fifty or more of them The Carriage surrounded!!!
Miko rode up to the side of the carriage. Dismounting his horse he yanked open the door. Seeing Catori weak and laying in Buddy's lap infuriated him. He chastised the whiteman in Comanche. He walked over and gently picked up Catori who was to weak to struggle.
Originally posted by SlickRick69
"Where the Hell are you going?!" Buddy screamed as Luis climbed out the window.It figures; the very first sign of any inkling of trouble not 10 minutes outisde of Abilene, and the first one to turn tail and run away is the dadblasted Mexican vaquero bandito cucarache!
((read more carefully, Slicky: climbed out through the window of the coach and sat down next to its driver. 🙄 ))
Originally posted by Darth Revan
((read more carefully, Slicky: climbed out through the window of the coach and [B]sat down next to its driver. 🙄 )) [/B]
((we read that but Buddy don't see it, and his woman is dying in his lap-- and face-up at that!-- so it's not been a good escape from Abilene thus far for Buddy! so he shouts after the runaway renegade vaquero any ways... pinche cuckaracha! 😱 💃 💃 😆 ))
Buddy lets Catori go, for the moment, but he exits the carriage and follows Miko and the rest of the tribe.
"Head on to New Hope if you like..." Buddy tells the carriage driver and Cavendish. "Try to smooth things over with Sheriff Sanders before we return... let him know it is my intention to take over law-dog duties in the town if I have to start by gunning him down in the street first thing...
We'll be catching up as soon as the woman is well enough to travel."
with that, Buddy was off, following the Comanches, at a respectable safe distance, of course.
((Wow, intence. Thanks for working Greg for my Slick. Geez, I'm gone for two days and i miss four pages. Good stuff.))
Greg, having been in the carrage the whole time, and listening to all of this, speaks up. "I think its best that she go to her tribe. The indians have far better ways of healing then any doctor in New Hope." He pulled his small liquor flask from his boot and handed it to Catori. "It will help the pain."
Catori had reached out for the flask ut Miko had brushed passed Greg so fast it merely fell to the floor. It was obvious he did not like Catori befriending these people. He Handed her to someone who was already mounted so he coould mount. After geting settled hetook Catori back. As he turned his horse to leave he told his men to "Scalp the driver. If the others make a move shoot them."
Catori layed a weak hand on Miko's. "No, leavethem alone." Miko smiled weakly at his sick betrothed. "Shhh, soon we will be home." Catori fell unconscious and the Comanche's did as they were told.