#and when grace cant tell him if shes staying nearby he just hoists her onto boadicea and gently rides with her back to the gangs camp | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

shadowglens · 3 years ago

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grace coming and going from the gang over the years, and every time she shows up she’s a little more hardened, a little more of her softness chipped away, until arthur stumbles upon her with a knife hilt-deep in a debt collectors stomach and blood staining her blonde hair crimson

#txt #her sister and father are dead #one of her brothers patrick ran off to england with all of their families savings #her remaining brother james is forced to work endless hours as a labourer just to feed their mother and youngest brother william #and it gets to a point where grace is Desperately trying to hold her family together but theyre living essentially on the streets #and her father's debtors are sniffing at their heels as grace tries to keep them one step ahead #until they catch up to her - and shes forced to use the lessons arthur and hosea taught her #arthur rounding a corner in this desolate little mountain town to see grace her knees covered in blood besides a still-gurgling corpse #and she is so far from the woman hes known all these years but the look she throws him over her shoulder is the same *#*as the day he met her when she was 17 #and so he pulls her to her feet #wipes at the blood on her face and hands with a spare cloth from his bag #takes the knife and stashes it in his belt #and then just clutches her wrist in his hand until her breathing has evened out and the look of a scared animal has faded from her face #arthur heaving the body over his shoulder and dumping it around the corner and out of view from the street #and when grace cant tell him if shes staying nearby he just hoists her onto boadicea and gently rides with her back to the gangs camp #(anyway yeah this is when the gang is in montana like a year or so before rdr2 starts)#ch: grace beaufort #grace x arthur

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