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After Arthur has an odd encounter at the Rhodes gunsmith, he and John have a heart-to-heart. John does his best.
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this is so sweet i’m sobbing,,
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“C’mon. You must have thought about it sometime. No bounty, no strings, ten thousand dollars in your pocket. What would you do?”
Arthur takes another swig from his bottle, and stays silent, and John thinks maybe he’s just too drunk to think up an answer (and that was fine – Can’t Remember Shit-all Drunk Arthur was easy to handle, you just had to steer him to his tent at the end of the night. Let’s Dance Drunk Arthur was who you had to watch out for, because he was shortly followed by You Looked At Me Funny So Now I’m Gonna Break Your Face Drunk Arthur, and that was when things got expensive). But as they settle into a peaceful silence, gazing at the campfire, a quiet voice pipes up.
“Horses. Out west. Near the mountains.”
“Oh?” Charles asks as John blinks at Arthur. But his brother doesn’t look away from the flames.
“Yeah. I figure, I’m okay with ‘em. I could get a ranch somewhere, breed ‘em, train ‘em. And a dog. I’d like a dog.”
“Aw don’t sell yerself short there English, you ain’t just ‘okay’ wif ‘orses! That big bastard o’ yours was a goddamn menace when you bought him, but now he’s a lamb! I’d buy a horse off ya any day, I would - I’d call him Merlin!”
But as Sean and Javier fall into an argument about good horse names ( “who the hell names his horse after his mother anyway?!” ), Charles continues to watch Arthur.
“That all?” he asks, and John thinks he sounds weirdly... gentle?
Another long pause. And then, in an even quieter voice,
“And... and a, a family. I’d like a family.”