Hondo I. Sackett
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Hondo: Alright, Jefe. It has been a hell of a day already so, yeah, I can't argue with resting up a bit.
Valentine: where is Karl?
Hondo points off a ways to behind the trailer in the outside shower area. Karl still lay unconscious , face first in the mud.
Fernando: we still have some things to talk about, but I need rest and get some answers first.
Hondo: You know where to find me.
Fernando nodded and then turned back towards his camper with Macey.
Valentine: what else happened with Karl?
Hondo: He mouthed off to me earlier about him only being about himself and how he planned to dump Tonya and had i not shown up he would have never gone back for Zoey. He also planned to break up Ruth and her family.
Valentine: That is horrible! What a monster!!
Hondo: yeah. So I tried to tell Tonya an' he overheard an' got mad that I exposed him. He hurt Tonya bad with his comments.
Valentine: that poor thing. Like they haven't gone through enough!
Hondo: I know. I feel bad for them but don't want to give them too much false hope as I'm not sure what's gonna happen in days to come. I still hafta talk to Jefe about somethings. But anyway, I told him he was leaving camp. I took Tonya to you and grabbed his stuff. By the time I got back outside he had lied to Ruth about why I was running him off and took off towards the market, to speak who knows what other lies. Fernando met me and stopped him with a quick trip to see Lucy.
Valentine laughed: serves him right! I hope he soiled himself.
Hondo: he shit himself alright. Thats why he is laying out back.
Valentine: he passed out?
Hondo: no. When we got back Ruth came and screamed at me. She made a comment about bring the slavers here herself if we hurt Karl.
Valentine: those poor things have been through hell too. She was just angry, uninformed . . .
Hondo: and blinded by love.
Valentine: What?
Hobfi: yeah he was putting the smooths moves to her and she fell hook, line, an' sinker for him.
Valentine: that's why she was angry! She played her too! I ought too stomp on him!
Hondo: if that was it.
Valentine: oh no. What else?
Hondo: Jefe's girls heard Ruth's threat an' scared the living shit out of them. He had a talk with his girls, but Ruth an' Joanna are terrified.
Valentine: that's what he meant by things being straightened out tonight?
Hondo: yup.
Valentine: what did they do?
Hondo: took them somewhere. They claim they we're naked and strapped to chairs in a place with women screaming from being raped. They we're told they we're going to be drugged an' raoed repeatedly until dead and their bodies dumped in a river, or something like that. They we're near hysterics. They offered themselves for slaves to us, physically an' sexually.
Valentine: those poor kids! How could they!?! Scaring a couple poor girls with rape!
Valentines own past made her very sensitive to things like that.
Hondo: they saw it as proctecting their father. It wasn't right but it was done for love of their father. Just don't say anything about that and let Fernando handle them.
Valentine: oh! alright. I don't understand them at all but I guess I wasn't asked to.
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Hondo: that a girl. Just let it go, alright?
Valentine: OK. I'm going to go check on them though and I'll keep an eye out on Karl.
Hondo: OK. I hate leaving that to you alone right now but Jeanette's group has no clue what's going on, I need some rest before I help Jefe with his gun class tonight, and no one else is old enough or in the right mind set to do so.
Valentine: I understand. Ill keep him in camp. If he leaves I'll wing ihom in the leg with your 17 hmr.
Hondo: just don't kill him and hold off on castration. We might need to hold that over his head later on.
Valentine: alright.
Hondo gave her a quick kiss then headed to the camper. The kitchen was full of Jeanette's group working on supper. Hondo looked in his room to findnthat Tonya had cried herself to sleep. Zoey was trying not stay out of the way but watch the supper preparations. She was still too shy of the others to talk to them bitbshe did keep an eye on them. Finding it too crowded and noisy to rest, hondo grabbed a blanket out of the linnen closet and walked out to the Bronco.
Once at the Bronco he folded down the backseat into a bed and laid down, covering up with the blanket and covering his eyes with his canvas duster, as his leather coat needed cleaned still. After a moment he hears the broncos side door open. He lifted the coat to see who was there. He jumped a bit as Zoey was three beside him.
Hondo: Damn, little lady! Make some more noise next time you almost gave me a heart attack!
Zoey: sorry. I just naturally move quietly.
Hondo: you and my wife. What ya need.
Zoey: Nothing.
Hondo: then why are you here?
Zoey: I wanted to be with you.
Hondo: not doing anything exciting at the moment. Have a gun class with Mr. Fernando tonight and trying to get some rest before it as it has been a long day.
Zoey: I'm sleepy too. Can I nap with you?
Hondo covered his eyes again.
Hondo: just don't let your snoring wake me up.
Zoey smiled again and curled up next to him pulling the blanket over herself as well. She sighed contentedly, acting like it was the first time in a long time she truly felt safe and comfortable. After a moment Hondo heard a strange noise and felt a weird vibration. It took him a moment the he chuckled to himself and settled back down. Zoey was purring.
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« Last Edit: May 29th, 2016, 1:02pm by Hondo I. Sackett »
Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out
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