Western RP: play thread

Victoria looked at him hopefully. Her whole theme of life was to teach kids so they can learn. She could work at the Saloon part time to make some cash and play cards with the men. maybe settle down and marry. She had her whole life paved out for herself she just needed to do it.

"What do you want?" asked Lily to the strange man. Her eyes started to squint as the sunpured into her eyes.

"Your my bride, Sunia," he sputtered in Camouche in a hidous way.

"That was a long time ago I was promised," said Lily with a faraway look in her eyes. "That was when I was just a lass."

Buddy peeked in, his gaze met the healer, then both looked to Catori, who stirred with each gentle stroke of the healer's magic hands on her roasting skin. Buddy knelt along side Catori on the small mat, and slowly placed his hand on her shoulder, frowning when he felt how very hot she was.

He waited for the healer to wake Miko, or to make a ruckus and alert the entire camp, but all the while, his eyes never left Catori. She couldn't die, he thought, not with him so close, so close to her heart...

"Fight, Flower..." he leaned in and whispered into her ear, kissing her softly, probably surely breaking some tribal law or another.

((yuna, could you please remember to put a few extra lines of space between posts when switching between 2 groups or characters... or use -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-= or something to keep it seperate, muchas gracias))

"You'd break the traditions of our tribe because your a white girl who thinks shes better than me?" asked the man growing furious.

"No, I didn't say-" Lily stated before she felt him grab her hand roughly. It left a red burn from how hard he led onto her.

"We will marry," snorted the man tugging her after him like she was a rag doll.

catori tried to sit up. she didn't want to lay still. she wanted to walk around. Buddy's hand on her shoulder kept her from rising. "Buddy?" she asked. "Buddy, I must stop Father. Miko has told him it is your fault I am sick. He's planning to get you all."

"I won't leave you..." Buddy defied the danger, gripping Catori's shoulder firmly. "We will face this together, like everything else."

Catori groaned. "I need to get out here. I need to speak to father."

"Stay." Buddy whispered calmly, still holding her down, looking to Miko. "If you love her as you claim to, you will go fetch her father, so she won't kill herself settling this..."

it was a simple request that should solve everything, Buddy thought; and he wouldn't have to get nasty and shoot any redskins...

(((Nice. better hope it goes as well as you think)))

Catori sighed. She settled into her cot as Miko stormed out of the tent. He returned shortly with Catori's father. Her father moved forward to the other side of the cot. He whispered to his daughter. Whe started to cry. "Father, it is not fair."

Miko listened. He loved Catori and knew they had to marry for the better of the tribes. he glared at Buddy. How could this white man take Catori from him.

Catori's father spoke harshly. "Catori you will marry Miko, or war will be declared on this man who made you sick and you will e exiled.

Buddy remained silent through most of the conversation, out of respect, until the end, with her father's accusations.

"I made her sick?" he snapped. "It is this lifestyle that will suffocate her, Sir!" he countered.

" Catori is not like the rest of your people, Great Eagle (symbolic and respectful term for Father). She is like a beautiful wild flower, and she must be allowed to blossom and flourish, to be free, without being contained and cut off from the things that bring the pink of life to her cheeks!"

"I GAVE her back to you, her Father, her 'family, her people..." he realized he might sound a bit too possessive with that line, so continued.
I let her be free, to live and to love as she chose, as she saw fit...
SHE sought me out, she saved my life! I let her make this choice, to come back here, to save her life...

...we are bonded now, in this life..." he suddenly seemed to know more about his precious little girl and her culture than he let on.

"We owe each other a life-debt... regardless who she takes as a husband, or for whatever political reasoning, Catori will always have a place in my heart, and I in hers. Please, let it be her choice..."

he had one last play. "If the Spirits see fit to grant her new life, the fever breaks, and if she should choose me, then I , then WE, will make every effort to bring peace between your two tribes.
If she chooses this lifestyle, and to be Miko's wife, I will go, never to return...

...if she is to die, let her go knowing she has that choice, knowing she has my heart... knowing that a silly fool of a white man could love her as much as one of her own... give her that much, if this is the end?

Please, Great Eagle? She's your daughter..."

that was about all he had in him; he leaned and kissed Catori on the forehead, then rose, released his hold on her shoulder, and backed gracefully from the small tent... mostly so nobody could see the tears break from his eyes.

Greg saw Buddy back out of the tent and walked through the camp to where he stood. "I saw a man go in with Miko. Is everything ok?"

"Everything will be fine..." Buddy lied.
"Lead the horses to water... we'll be leaving here soon." he walked blindly away from the tent, not toward the horses, the way he had come, the way back to the wildnerness, but further into the Comanche camp, not even certain where he was going, or what trouble he would get into...

Catori stubornly sood. She ran passed her father and passed Miko to find uddy. She ran to catch him just as neared the center of the camp. without warning she embraced him from behind. "Do not leave me." she begged as her knees gave way and she fell to the ground.

Buddy does the proper thing, scooping Catori's weak and limp body up from the ground, and turned to head back to the healer tent.

"This is no way to get well, Flower..." he chided her quietly as she slept in his arms, her fever raging. "You must rest... these are your people, they will help you."

he made way to the healer tent again, wondering what her father and fiancee might say to this, her effort to be with, Buddy, the outsider.

Miko was fuming. He took Catori from Buddy. "Leave!" he demanded. He gingerly laid Catori onto the cot and covered her.

Catori's father walked up to Buddy. "It is her decision. If she lives." he said sadly. "It has a tigh grip on her. The fever may not let her slip."

Buddy nodded, frowning grimly. "She is strong of spirit, and heart, Great Eagle... she will fight." he bowed to her father, glaring at Miko, while essentially ignoring the young man's demand. Buddy stood fast, for just a moment of defiance, then nodded to Catori's father and went to help Greg tend the horses.

"I wonder if we could find a white man's cure for fever?" he was talking to himself, as much as to Greg, to get another white man's opinion on such things.

Leo rode onwards to the town of New Hope. However, once he got there he was in for a big suprise.

Upon seeing him the townsfolk ran into their houses. Some locked their doors and closed the shutters on the windows. Others stood at their windows aiming rifles at Leo. Someone had run to get the sheriff, who came out with his deputy. They both took out guns and aimed them at Leo.

"We told you what would happen if you ever came back here, Leo. What would happen to either you or your brother" He spat on the floor by Leo's horse.
"Sir? I cry your pardon. I have no memory of ever being here before. Yet if I have been and if I have done something wrong then I demand..."
"You're in no place to make demands sonny" the sheriff said, keeping his guns trained on Leo.
"...I request that you not kill me and give me time to plea my case."
Leo's hands slowly lowered to his belt where he undid his belt, he then threw it t the sherriffs feet.
"You may keep my guns until such time that I have shown you I am not who you think I am."
The sherriff was silent for a moment, he was a good man and would do what was right, "Very well. Dismount."
Leo did so and the sherriff walked up to him and grabbed him by the coler. He pushed Leo towards the sherriffs building and locked him up. He placed Leo's trusty guns (in their holsters, on his belt) on the wall behind his desk.

Miko walked at of the tent and over to Greg and uddy. His eyes flashed with anger. He waited for them to acknowledge him before he let Buddy Hold it.

Greg ignored Miko for a minute and spoke to Buddy. "We probably could find a cure for her. But we would have to leave now to get it back in time. And it would have to be a fast run. I'm sure we could get it at New Hope, and be back here in time." He now turned to Miko. "Do you need something?"

((forget my posts about the man marrying her. It doesn't fit the story.))
"Does anyone know if Catori's alright?" Lily asked the chief's second son.

Buddy turned and glared at Miko, but would not speak to the young man, his competition, the person who would be responsible for suffocating the life and spirit out of Buddy's Beautiful Flower...

"We should skin out of here as soon as possible, gun-slinger..." Buddy insisted, tending to his horse.