"I am not the leader. The Spirits who chose us are the ones leading this mission. If you want to discuss respect then respect those who chose us and are leading this mission. The fact that you say they do not respect us shows you do not respect them. And if I have to hold them to their word to prove to you they respect you and me, then that is what I will do."
 
Jeanette Isabelle

After seeing their camper it was all the 4 ladies could talk about or think about. Ruth tried to calm the other three down and hide her own excitement over it, but the latter was easier than the first.
 
   They were sure they had lost. They had been stuck in that truck for a few days. Joanna had tried to hide how scared she was with anger, the younger two had just cried, and so that had left Ruth to try to comfort them and prepare them for the harsh realities of life. They we're all good looking, strong women. She knew they would have been most likely sold as sex items. It was told that every once in a while a nice looking, strong girl was bought as a wife by men in areas with few women or by ones who didn't have the time or the know-how to court one. Often these women did well, but she knew it was too much to hope for. Now, here they were. She still held her emotions in check as best she could. She knew home might not be there but she couldn't help hope it still stood and everyone was alive and well. There was no hope, then there was that night the guns were heard, then appeared the dark haired man in the EMT coat and the blond cowboy who didn't stop fighting or helping though badly wounded. She didn't know how they had kept going throughout the day as they were going all night and all day so far, and the cowboy had been wounded but he didn't stop. their strength gave her hope that they would make it. She wanted to laugh and cry at the same time but now was not the time.
 
 Valentine knew how anxious they were to go to the camper alone, to look around and settle in. So, she made sure the bulk of the work was done first, then when it came down to the end she told them that herself, Macey, and Moro, who had joined them, could finish. Ruth tried to object but she was half carried out of Hondo and Valentine's camper and into their own before she could protest.
 
Ruth stood in their camper, hands clasped and looking around. The younger two bounced on the lower beds while Joanna climbed up into one of the top bunks and flopped back.
 
Ruth: I don't know how we can ever repay them.  
 
Joanna: Put your hands between your legs and you'll find your way.
 
Ruth: Jo! You heard them. No messing around!
 
Susanna: What do you mean, Jojo?
 
Ruth: She doesn't mean anything. Now Jo, you were raised better than that!  
 
Joanna: You rather have someone take it from you? This whole deal has shown me things.
 
Ruth: Such as?
 
Joanna: Life is short, use it or lose it, and virtue and purity is a currency to be spent or stolen. I'd rather spend it than have it stolen. Besides, who better to spend it on than our Saviors?  
 
Susanna: What do you mean by that, Jo?
 
Esther: She means sex with the cowboy and Mr Fernando.
 
Susana: Sex!?!
 
Ruth: Esther,  please. Susanna, none of us are having sex with them, Right Jo?
 
Joanna: Whatever.
 
Ruth: OK. Enough of that. We need to get stuff situated for living in here.
 
Susanna: But won't we be home soon?  
 
Joanna: What home? It's all gone, most likely.
 
Susanna: But Ma and Pa?
 
Joanna: Probably  d.  . .
 
Ruth interrupted.  
 
Ruth: We don't know anything. We will see when we get there. I hope everyone is alright but we have to prepare for the worst. But no matter what happens we will have each other.  
 
Joanna: Whoopie.
 
Ruth: Jo! Now we have lots to do as we need to help everyone else as we can too. We owe them a lot.
 
Joanna: I wonder which one has the bigger "D"?
 
Ruth: Joanna Katherine McDonald!  
 
Susanna: "D"?
 
Esther: She means dick.
 
Susanna: Dick? Oh, penis.
 
Ruth: Susanna! Esther! You three weren't born in a barn! You were taught better! Just because we have had some hard times doesn't mean we can act like savages!
 
Joanna: Well, if I'm going to be raped I'd rather not be a virgin when it happens.
 
Ruth: Jo! After all they have done you would go against their wishes?
 
Joanna: Men say no but they don't mean it. I bet you if the goods are offered they'd take without second thought.  
 
Ruth: No they wouldn't. They are honorable men. But like Fernando said if you push too far . . .
 
Joanna: Come on, now. Don't tell me you haven't thought 'bout one or both of them tearing off your dress and doing you?
 
Ruth (blushed): I . . . I . . .
 
Joanna: See? And I'm the bad one.
 
Ruth: Jo! OK, So I admit it. They are both handsome and they saved us. I have romanticized about it in my head but first off they said no so no. Second as far as Hondo goes, would you want to Hurt Valentine after all she has done for us?
 
Joanna: Hurt her? No. But if he isn't going to be faithful now is the time to know.
 
Ruth: They are married!
 
Joanna: Technically no they aren't. They say they are but she told me they never had a ceremony or anything. Just pledged themselves to each other.
 
Esther:  That's sweet!
 
Joanna:  eh.
 
Ruth: It is sweet, Esther.  And we aren't going to ruin it, are we, Jo?
 
Joanna: Come on, forbidden fruit is always sweeter. Besides there's always Fernando, though he might like them younger. You seen the one he calls daughter? Looks nothing like him.
 
Ruth: When did you become such a horrible person, Jo?
 
Joanna: Oh get over yourself. We were just talking. I didn't mean it. They are both nice guys, of whom I'd love to have one of or both do me, but I won't ask it's just a fantasy so chill!
 
Ruth: OK. Enough already. Just please don't ruin things for us by trying something.
 
Joanna: yeah, whatever.
 
Ruth: And I need your help. You are the next oldest. I need you to set a good example for our sisters. It's up to us to raise them if something happened to the folks.
 
Joanna; Damn it, Ruth! I know! Just . . . Oh forget it!!
 
With that Joanna stormed out of the trailer and out to the tree where Hondo had sat to think. She gritted her teeth as she looked around she looked up at the sky and yelled, "WHY?!? ". She hit the tree with a closed fist then held her hand as she hurt it. She looked up at the sky again with tears in her eyes and muttered, "why?". She then fell to her knees sobbing.
 
Ruth settled the other two down and set them to some tasks then went after Joanna. She looked around camp for a moment until she saw her huddled under neath the tree off a ways. She walked up to her and stood by here for a moment under she hunkered down near her.
 
Ruth: Jo?
 
Joanna (sobbing): why? Why?? It's not fair it's just.  . . Not.  . .
 
Ruth: I know. I know.  
 
Ruth pulled Joanna onto her arms and Joanna didn't resist but wrapped her into a tight bear hug. She whispered between the sobs.
 
Joanna: Never leave me. Please don't leave me.
 
Ruth: I'll never leave you.
 
Tears streamed down Ruth's face as she held her cousin in her arms. She knew more troubles lie ahead but they were together with good people. They would make it through. They would make it.
 
(edited to fix spelling and some broken sentences.)

"Then #$@!ing leave. You're nothing more than a #$@!ing coward who wants to leave when things get tough. But when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping for arms and supplies to deal with the tough going. Because you leave, you will be brought back and repeat this shit again. For what? So you can leave again? You're the one causing the time loops. And while things get situated, people are going to die, Gabrielle is going to die. Why? Because you can't handle it. So pack your bags and leave. I had it up to here with your whining and your 'spirits are good to humanity' and your 'spirits are rebuilding Texas.' bullcrap because it is the Spirits who caused this!!! You are so deep in their lies you do not realize you're dying while you are drowning and you do not want no one to help you!  While you're at it think about how many people are going to die because of your actions. Think about how many people are going to get hurt because you do not have the balls to do what has to be done. All that says is that Ms Jeanette Isabelle Miller is a selfish self-serving bitch, when long ago I thought she was somebody worthy of admiration because of the work she does as an EMT. No. You just want the power and the glory without the responsibility. Face Jeanette - people are going to die because of what you do and do not do. If I did not act when I did you would be nothing more than frozen body parts of a child floating in space around the sun or as a collared slaved on Talos-3 because that is what the Orions would have done to us. You think I want a #$@!ing medal for that? Please. You made your bed so now you need to sleep in it." He tells her.

"What is between the Spirits and I is between the Spirits and I. You are not to choose sides but you are to choose wisely with what you know of human and society's rules and laws. I am not telling you what to do but apparently the spirits are and what they expect of you." He tells her, "You being sent back will be sent back to when before it happens, in which you will repeat the process of being brought over here again. And again, and again. You are the Time Loop. To stop it, you must complete the mission. So you leaving and cause the demise of hundreds if not thousands, and the process starts all over again; or are you completing this to the end no matter how bad things get, who's feelings gets hurt and what price is paid? For me the choice is simple - there is no other option other than the second one."

"Did Moro offer you immortality? For one reason or another, despite that reason it was offered, it is either a) a reward or b) a bribe. You break the sacred trust of all EMTs if you do it for the second, and EMTs do not accept rewards - they do their job - which is my damn point to all this! You do not see that Moro has you wrapped about her finger. If you dare think that she doesn't then why she if offering you immortality in the first place? It is the reward a master gives a trained pet for completing a trick. Just because you know somebody all your life, you do not know them. You only know what they care to show you. How many Mafia Children's hearts out there were broken because their fathers were arrested or even killed when they were told that their 'daddies' were hard working self-made men? Nearly all of them. And like them - Moro has shown you what she wants you to know, and not the damn truth of what and who she is." He tells her.
 
Then he throws in - "'Any action that suddenly ends this timeline loops it back to the beginning and you start all over again.' If I did not say that to you before, I'm saying it now. This Timeline is so knotted like a monkey paw's knot, it is almost impossible to take a different action to stop the loops other than to complete the mission. How many times have we been here before? Tens of Times? Hundreds of Times? Thousands of Times? Who knows! Who cares! We're finishing this, as I stated before, despite the price one has to pay in ego or in life - it is getting completed for the loops will need to end in this turn."