Mary has a bite

She pulled his knife from his belt and stabbing his hand drew his second revolver firing four shots into the man in his chest and immediately realizing for what had happened dropped the gun and started to break down, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...I didn't want to...I...I" I immediately hugged her feeling the arms wrap around me, "I know but as far as I see it; you were defending yourself" she nodded wiping the tears from her eyes spoke, "I just want to go home!" "We will and when we do, we are going to have to sort you last name out!" "What's wrong with it?" "Gaskill doesn't have the same ring as Smith, now does it?" "You mean?" "Yes, I want to marry you Mary; I almost lost you this time; who knows if there will be the next time, I want you to be my wife, like you should have been years ago!" I pulled her onto my horse and kissing her neck she smiled before seeing Sadie nod to her replied, "Give me some time to forget this and get sorted, then I will James. For too long I have waited for you to ask me and today after what has had happened, I am the happiest woman in the whole of the West!" when we rode back into the town we were met by the tears of joy and cheers from the people who were happy at the sight, some were happy that Dutch's body was hanging over the back of Sadie's horse others to see Mary on the horse with me alive, maybe not well but alive and getting off she was embraced by Abigail and the other ex-gang girls who cheered hugging her again when she said we were getting married and taking her arm Haytham removed the body to be buried; the Van Der Linde gang was gone the others knew to back off and for once the town was quiet, something I wished it would remain.

Years later:

We were finally a family: me, Mary and baby Arthur who was graciously produced by Sadie who wanted and stuck to her policy of producing the child but never wanted to see the child again afterwards. The Skinner Brothers collapsed under their own weight, the leaders were hung leaving them leaderless and clueless on what to do next and with that people started to fight back killing more and more of them until they fled towards Tumbleweed who also pushed them back until they simply surrendered and were hung. The Del Lobo on the other hand were made of tougher stuff but were again outsmarted they would ambush trains but in this train would be men with guns and behind them was often men hiding for their attacked, they had a lot less men then the Skinners especially when Thieves Landing was burnt to the ground and the robbery’s were seen as very costly in terms of numbers and loss of equipment, they were pushed back to the Mexican border whilst most stayed and died and the odd ones fleeing into Mexico. The town was peaceful and now sitting down drinking a cold beer sitting on the step with Arthur playing with his dog and Mary sat on my lap hugging me. “Finally something peaceful about this town!” I nodded before pulling out the letter spoke, “This came for you earlier!” she opened it and reading it smiled in disbelief, “I can’t believe it they are going to publish my book!” I looked down and reading it spoke, “A trip to Washington it looks like!” she nodded before kissing me spoke, “I’m going to be famous!” I kissed her back before saying, “Good, you worked hard on the books. Arthur we need to pack!” the boy skipped back in and kissing her again, “Come on Mrs Smith we have a trip to take!”