"Revenge",Pt.11

                                                                                    Pt.11

                                                                                “Revenge”

“You can relax Marshal!”…I can assure you, she’s not going anywhere ,..not just yet anyway…?
Doc said swiping his Mustache …    Doc…?    Ok, Ok…   as Doc walked closer to the bed..
Well Young Lady…  in her usual husky voice…. Hello Curly…  Now, Just you keep still…
And let me have a good look at you…?   That’s if this big Lug will give us a little privacy?…
Kit, Honey I’ll just be out here….  Matt said as he stood to make room for Doc…  Oh, I’ll be here..
Cowboy!… 

After Matt left,… well now…how you feeling?… well, Curly , that depends… Yeah Honey I guess
It would…   No, Curly…, What I mean is ..What happened?…looking surprised…Honey what do you remember?   Well, let see , that God awful woman had Katie and I ….in that …I guess it was an old root cellar…, Katie started to panic and loose control…then I some how got the shotgun away from her…
We were outside… My Leg???   She shot me in the Leg….but, I’m sure it went clean through…right?
Doc ,just listening intently …yeah, .. Yeah that’s right.  She was going to shoot ….suddenly stopping…
And a rush of panic coming across her face…OH, Doc!… Katie?  Then she quickly tried to get up..
Only to let out a yelp of pain…,  No, No you don’t ..wait just a minute…Katie’s just fine…
Then What,  … What happened?    You stop her Kitty, You protected Katie…LeMond and Eugene are in jail… now furrowing her brow… And The Woman, Ruba Lee?   She’s dead!   I, I,   killed…
Shaking his head, no, no you didn’t…   who Doc?   Again rubbing his upper lip and tugging on his ear…
Honey , that’s not really important right now.   WHO DOC?   Oh, alright… when you shielded Katie..
From Ms. Mather’s… her bullet hit you instead…, and when Matt and the men rode up hearing the shot…
Before she could take a shot at Matt,…Well, like I said Ms. Mather’s is dead.    BUT, Who Doc?
Katie!…, Katie pick up the shot gun, and shot her …. OH….Doc!….


Along the stream,  Billy  Martin, who happened to be one of Jake’s new hired hands…quietly walked with Katie.., he had spent the better part of the week trying to comfort her and letting her know he was willing to be her friend…,  he too was abandoned as a small child, and bounced from place to place…so he felt he understood her, better then most people…?   He like that she was a rather simple girl,.. Easy to talk to…


Sitting dangling their feet in the cool water, Katie told Billy, as best she could about her life…
I don’t really remember what happen to my folks…sickness I guess?   But then I was left to fend for myself..    Folks say I did some awful things…, but Miss Kitty and The Marshal.. and Ma’ and Pa’..
They say it was just,…ser,..viv..al..?   I had to do it…   Well Katie I think they are right…!
Miss Kitty and Marshal Dillon are good people…and if they say you did nothing wrong,…I believe them.
Thank You Billy…   Miss Kitty ..she saved me..  She saved me… and now I have Ma’ and Pa’…
Well, I for one am grateful for that!… hey maybe we should head back to the house, wouldn’t want your folks to get worried?… then he held out his hands.. to help her up…..

Arriving back at the house, Bess’ told Katie …Kitty was awake…. Very excited…can I …can I …
Land sake little one…yes of course…but, remember she needs her rest still….
Katie quickly, tip-toed into the room…. Smiling at the site of Kitty awake, and talking to Matt…
Ahhh, ….. Katie , Honey come , come sit….   At first she would say nothing…  It’s ok sweetheart..
I’m going to be fine.., And I have you to Thank … Tears just streamed down Katie’s cheeks….


                                                                                    TBC