Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 10:50:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Daniel Running-water <danielrunningwater@yahoo.com>
Subject: A Heart's Legacy / Chapter 3 / Interracial and Beginnings

A Heart's Legacy

Sequel to Captured Heart

By

Daniel Running Water

Chapter Three

Previously in chapter two:

He watched as they rode away and then stepped into the store, moving
through it until he found George and Emily.

"Can I offer you a hand with your pa, ma'am?" he asked, and as much as she
found Shawn disgusting to be around, she did need help getting her father
into the wagon.

Along with Sam's help, Shawn got George into the back of the wagon and
climbed up into the seat.

"What do you think you are doing?" she asked sharply.

"If'n I know your father, he wouldn't want you driving alone back to the
ranch," he said, knowing that he just needed to get her out of town and
then he'd snatch her away.

Shawn wanted Emily, and this was the perfect chance for him to snatch her,
while her father was out for the count. She knew that she would need help
with her father once she got home, so reluctantly she climbed up into the
wagon, her handkerchief now covering her mouth and nose, she nearly fell
backwards when Shawn urged the horses on.

He watched as they rode away and then stepped into the store, moving
through it until he found George and Emily.

"Can I offer you a hand with your pa, ma'am?" he asked, and as much as she
found Shawn disgusting to be around, she did need help getting her father
into the wagon.

Along with Sam's help, Shawn got George into the back of the wagon and
climbed up into the seat.

"What do you think you are doing?" she asked sharply.

"If'n I know your father, he wouldn't want you driving alone back to the
ranch," he said, knowing that he just needed to get her out of town and
then he'd snatch her away.

Shawn wanted Emily, and this was the perfect chance for him to snatch her,
while her father was out for the count. She knew that she would need help
with her father once she got home, so reluctantly she climbed up into the
wagon, her handkerchief now covering her mouth and nose, and she nearly
fell backwards when Shawn urged the horses on.

Now chapter three:

Emily sat nervously beside Shawn as they rode along towards her father's
ranch. To occupy her mind and to also help her forget who was beside her,
she took in the beauty of the country she passed.

The meadows were washed in colors that were vibrant with nature's
glory. The yellows of the brown-eyed Susan's and goldenrods, mixed with
reds of the berries that covered the thick bushes, simply took her breath
away. The sky was a deep rich blue with not a cloud in sight.

"Why are we stopping," Emily asked when she felt the wagon slowing.

"The horses need watering," Shawn said as he pulled the wagon off the road
and down towards the river bank, causing alarm to grab Emily's senses.

Once Shawn had the wagon stopped, he got down and unhitched the horses.

"My father never stopped to water the horses whenever we rode back to the
ranch," Emily stated and when her fears began to deepen, she reached for
the derringer that she kept in her handbag.

She carefully slipped her hand around the handle of the gun and was
prepared to use it if she needed to against him. Once Shawn had the horses
unhitched from the wagon, Emily watched him suspiciously as he led the
horses down to the shore, letting them freely drink.

A soft moan came from her father in the back of the wagon and she turned
quickly, hoping that he was coming to.

"Father...oh please wake up," she whispered but all that George did was
moan.

"He's down for the count missy," Shawn said as he came suddenly up behind
her, surprising her. "Now how about you get down from there and we take us
a walk to get better acquainted," Shawn said and then grabbed her around
the waist and pulled her down to the ground.

During the commotion of being snatched from the wagon, Emily dropped her
handbag on the ground. As she stooped to retrieve it, Shawn grabbed her by
the arm, pulling her away and into the bushes.

"You ain't going to need no handbag for what we are going to do," he
remarked as he strengthened his hold on her.

"Unhand me you...you beast," she screamed and ran her free hand's nails
down the front of his face.

"Well aren't you the feisty one," Shawn said and slapped her hard across
the face and sending her falling to the ground. "Just like me sister,
Jenny, she was a feisty one too, but I broke her spirit just like I'm gonna
break yours," he chuckled as he rubbed the blood from his face with the
back of his hand.

"You won't get away with this...my father will shoot you dead," she said,
praying that someone...anyone would happen along.

"Your father my ass, he's unconscious in the back of the wagon," he said
and laughed sadistically when he saw the fear on her face. "That's right
missy, you and me are gonna get better acquainted, so just relax and let it
happen," he said and began removing his clothes as he stared down lustfully
at her. "You don't know this, but I knew that you heard what your pa and I
was talking about last night. I saw your skirt sticking out from that there
closet that you was a-hiding in."

Again he laughed and nearly fell over with laughter; Emily just sat there
in shock when she realized that she was about to be raped. Once Shawn was
fully naked, he knelt down in front of Emily and literally tore her dress
open, exposing her voluptuous breasts.

"I am so gonna enjoy taking your virginity missy," he lowered his mouth to
her breast and sucked hard on her nipples while holding her hands to her
side.

"You just wait until Abraham finds your sorry ass, he'll kill you for
touching his woman," she warned.

"His woman...now that's a laugh missy, just you wait until he realizes that
he's in love with his sister," he said, shocking Emily beyond words with
the revelation.

Emily lay there almost comatose, too stunned by Shawn's words to move or
talk. She looked off into space as he hurriedly tore the rest of her dress
off.

"Abraham is my brother...oh God father what have you done, or worse, what
have I done," she thought as she remembered the kisses that Abe and her had
shared. but she was quickly brought back to the present when Shawn's body
covered hers, his manhood pressing hard against her thigh.

"Get off me damn it," she screamed and flailed her arms about, hoping to
get him off of her.

Shawn sat up straddling her and slapped her several times across the
face. With tears in her eyes she laid there helpless as Shawn lowered his
mouth to hers in a wet, raunchy kiss and forcing her legs apart with his
knee.

"Damn missy, those are right fine breasts you have," Shawn said kneading
them with his grimy hands before he lowered his mouth down to one of her
taut, pink nipples.

Emily's mind was numb as Shawn assaulted first one breast and then the
other, holding her hands to her side with his until he grew tired of
suckling her breasts. Smiling down at her lustfully, she quickly knew that
he was about to take her sexually.

"Please don't do this Shawn," she begged as he lowered his mouth to hers
and forced his rancid tasting tongue into her mouth, his cock probing
anxiously at her folds.

With tears rolling down her face and all hope of being rescued fading,
Emily resigned herself to the fact that Shawn was going to rape her. She
closed her eyes and silently prayed that someone would find her and she
gasped when she felt Shawn pulled from her and saw Abe standing there.

Appalled by what he was seeing, Abe nearly beat Shawn to death. He had the
man by the throat and was hitting him with his free hand. Shawn's eyes were
bulging by the time that Emily had finally managed to get to her feet and
stop him.

"Abraham don't, he's not worth going to prison for," Emily said and Abe
glanced over at her and let Shawn fall to the ground unconscious.

Unaware that she stood there naked, Abe drank in her beauty with his
eyes. Feeling the heat of his stare upon her, Emily quickly grabbed for her
torn dress and pressed it to her body, covering from his eyes, her
nakedness

 "Are you alright sweetheart," Abe said as he placed his arms around her,
and not bothering to let her talk, he brought his mouth down to hers and
tenderly kissed her.

Pushing away from Abe, slapping his face and spitting as if she'd just
kissed a frog, she stepped further back from him, clutching her torn dress
to her.

"What's wrong Em, what did I do?" he asked, shocked by her behavior and
rubbing the sting from his face. "I save you from being raped by
that...that foul man and this is how you repay me by treating me like I was
the one that done it to you?" he asked, his eyes angered and his voice
thick, he threw his hands into the air and walked off, leaving her standing
there in tears.

"You really don't know why, do you?" she shouted as she turned towards him.

"You know Em, you aren't all that much different than your old man," he
said and mounted his horse.

He gave her a long look and then turned his horse around and rode off,
leaving her crying.

"My God Emily...whatever happened to you," George said after he sat up and
looked around, finding her standing there crying and clutching her ruined
dress to her body and seeing Abe riding away.

George looked at Abe as he rode away and his anger grew to a point that he
reached for his rifle, aimed and fired, knocking Abe from his horse.

"Father no," she cried out and fainted.

Abe laid there dazed, blood trickling from the flesh wound to his
shoulder. He struggled to get up, stumbled, and then grabbing the reins of
his horse, he managed to get up and back into the saddle, riding away as
fast as he could.

***

Spotted Wolf sat beside the fire in Hawk's lodge, his eyes fixated on the
flames and his mind thinking about Jonas and their relationship. Although
the night before had been exciting, he woke up still feeling the pains of
rejection and guilt in his heart.

"Are you alright Spotted Wolf," Seth asked, resting his hand on the man's
shoulder as he knelt down beside him.

"Gah-ween my friend, my heart still searches for Jonas," he said as he
placed his hand over Seth's.

"I'm sorry about last night; I never should have let it happen. I knew how
much you were hurting, and even still I let it happen."

"Gah-ween Red Sun, I enjoyed it as much as you and Hawk did. I was the one
that was wrong in allowing it to happen, I wanted to make Jonas hurt as
much as he had hurt me. Would you forgive me Red Sun for using you and Hawk
to get back at Jonas?" he asked with teared filled eyes.

"Listen to me Spotted Wolf, there is nothing to forgive," Seth said. "It
happened and it was great, but now we must put it behind us. You have a
wonderful future ahead of you as our people's Shaman. Besides, you may even
meet someone that you can love and he loves you as equally," Seth told him,
but it did not seem to matter to him.

"I shall never love again," he promised. "I gave my heart to Jonas and that
is where is shall remain. I knew that it was over even when he said that
his son was coming to live with him."

"He said him and not us, Spotted Wolf?" he asked.

"Ay-uh...him and not us," he said affirmatively. "I saw little things that
he would do as if hoping that I would be the one to leave, and as much as I
refused to see it, it was I that walked away."

Spotted Wolf broke down crying, resting his face against Seth's shoulder as
his tears flowed. Hawk entered the lodge and found them embracing, and his
heart broke for his friend.

"Do not cry over this man, Spotted Wolf, for he is not worthy of your
love," Hawk told him as he knelt beside him, he too embracing his
friend. "Come my friend, it is time that you became our Shaman and moved
into your new lodge."

Spotted Wolf wiped his face of tears with the back of his hand and looked
at Hawk, wondering if he had what it took to be a good Shaman.

"Are you sure that I am right to do this for our people?" he asked looking
into Hawk's eyes.

"Ay-uh my friend because your heart is right and filled with compassion,"
Hawk assured him. "Come, let us go and get you settled in."

"Later Hawk, but first I need to go into town and retrieve my belongings."

"Ay-uh then later," Hawk said and watched as Spotted Wolf left.

"I am willing to say that he and Jonas make up," Seth said as he stepped
into Hawk's warm embrace. "Now my chief, how about you and I make some love
before he comes back?"

"Mmmm ay-uh...Hawk likes your idea," he said huskily, pulling Seth to him
and kissing him.

***

Jonas stood staring out of his window, his heart yearning for Spotted
Wolf. He knew that what he had done to his lover was wrong, but his fear
over losing his son, was greater.

"Father what is wrong, for you have not been yourself since Spotted Wolf
left yesterday? Even at dinner when we should have been rejoicing over me
being back in your life, you seemed saddened."

Even Caleb could see how strange his father was acting and he suspected
that it had much to do with Spotted Wolf.

"What...did you say something son," Jonas asked, turning away from the
window to look at Caleb.

"I was saying father..." but Frank's coughing interrupted him as Jonas
hurried over to see what was wrong.

Jonas felt Frank's forehead and he could feel the fever that was raging in
the man's body. Soaking a cloth in some water, Jonas wrung it out and
applied it to his forehead.

"I feel like shit doc," Frank said with a weak voice and began coughing
uncontrollably.

Jonas removed the bandage and found the source of the fever, the wound was
badly infected. Even though Spotted Wolf had done everything possible to
cleanse the wound, infection still set in.

"Your wound is infected Frank," he told the man.

"Mr. Bennett knew that damn injun didn't know what he was doing," he
muttered and flinched when Jonas began cleaning away the infection without
the benefit of anesthesia.

"Spotted Wolf did everything that he should have; he couldn't help it if it
got infected, no more than I can prevent it now. So just lie there and keep
quiet while I cleanse your wound and hopefully prevent gangrene from
setting in."

After several long minutes of working on the wound, Jonas felt confident
that he had cleaned it sufficiently and re-bandaged the wound. He gave
Frank several spoons full of medicine and once Frank fell asleep, he left
the room.

"I am going over to the mercantile son, keep an eye on things until I
return," Jonas said and grabbing his hat he left, leaving Caleb alone.

Caleb busied himself reading and was almost asleep when Spotted Wolf
entered, causing Caleb to jump.

"Spotted Wolf...my father is not here," he said looking at him.

"I do not need to see your father, I have come to get the rest of my
belongings," he said coldly, walking past Caleb and into the bedroom that
he had shared with Jonas.

Jonas knew that what was wrong with his father was also wrong with Spotted
Wolf. He gave Spotted Wolf a few minutes and then followed him into his
father's bedroom.

"Is everything alright between my dad and you," Caleb asked, causing
Spotted Wolf to turn abruptly and gaze at the boy.

"Why would you ask me that," he said rather sharply, causing Caleb to back
away at his tone of voice.

"It's not important Spotted Wolf," he responded and turned to leave the
room.

But before he left, Caleb turned around, focusing his eyes with those of
Spotted Wolf.

"You and my dad are in love with each other, aren't you," he asked,
catching Spotted Wolf off guard.

"It is best that you not stick your nose into your father's business," was
all that he said and resumed packing a large travel bag.

"I heard the whispers last night at the hotel and I also heard the name
that certain men called my dad, when they thought that he would not hear
them. I may just sixteen, but I'm not stupid."

Spotted Wolf liked this boy, not because he was Jonas' son, but because he
could read people and their emotions. He felt compassion for the boy and
decided that he should know, even though Jonas kept their love a secret.

"Ay-uh Caleb, your father and I are lovers," he said and waited for the
boy's reaction.

"I could tell that you both were, it showed on your faces whenever you
looked at one another."

"Your father is ashamed of our love, so that is why we are done." Spotted
Wolf said knowing that it was breaking his heart that it was.

"He's ashamed because of me, isn't he?" Caleb asked, and then Jonas entered
the room, surprised to see Spotted Wolf there.

"Why are you here Spotted Wolf, I thought you made it quite clear yesterday
that you no longer wanted anything to do with me?" Jonas asked, but his
eyes showed that he was happy to see him.

"I came to get my belonging sir, and then I shall leave," Spotted Wolf
responded, turning quickly away.

The air was so thick with tension, that one could have cut it with a
knife. Caleb looked at his father and then turned his attention to Spotted
Wolf, who was acting like he and his dad were invisible.

"Alright you two, you really need to sit and talk this out," he said,
surprising both Jonas and Spotted Wolf with his statement. "Yes father I
know, now what are you going to do about Spotted Wolf? Are you just going
to sit there acting as if his leaving does not bother you, or are you going
to tell him not to leave?"

"Son, I..." Caleb walked over to his father and looked him directly into
the eyes.

"Don't talk to me father, Spotted Wolf is the man that you love and he
should be the one that you are talking to," he reprimanded. "And you
Spotted Wolf, stop being so stubborn and tell my dad how he hurt you
yesterday," he added before leaving the room.

"Jonas...I..." he started to say and was interrupted when Jonas tenderly
placed his mouth to Spotted Wolf's, kissing him tenderly and his hands
sought out the pleasures of the flesh.

"No don't speak and just listen sweetheart," Jonas said when he broke their
kiss. "I was the one that was wrong; I was afraid of Caleb finding out that
we were in love and possibly hate me. But I was wrong to judge him as I
did, and more so to wrongly judge his love for me. Can you ever forgive me
Spotted Wolf for hurting you so deeply?"

"Ay-uh my beautiful husband, I love you and yes you did hurt me. But there
is something that I must tell you before you and I can become as we once
were."

Spotted Wolf pulled away from Jonas, for he knew that it would make his man
angry once he told him about what he shared with Hawk and Red Sun.

"Now it is your turn to listen and not speak," he began and then drew in a
deep breath before he continued. "Yesterday when you shunned me and my love
for you, I went to stay with Hawk and Red Sun," he said and Jonas began to
interrupt but Spotted Wolf placed a finger to his lips, silencing him. "I
shared their bed with them and I also shared their love," Jonas looked long
and hard at him, feeling the hurt of betrayal in his heart.

"I understand, for it was I that forced you into their bed," he said but
his anger was now directed at Hawk and Red Sun. "I won't ever forgive them
for taking advantage of the pain that you were feeling, Spotted Wolf. I
can't, I won't, for they were wrong to do so."

"Gah-ween my husband, it was I that was to blame not them. I wanted you to
feel hurt as you had caused me and that is why I did this with them. They
truly thought that we were through, for I felt that we were. So please
don't hold such feelings of anger and hate towards them."

"Listen father," Caleb said from the doorway. "You were both wrong so get
on with your lives, don't let bitterness destroy what appears to be true
love between you."

"Come here son, when did you grow to be so wise," Jonas asked, embracing
his son and holding him close to him.

"Father, I have lived too long with mother, and with her endless stream of
men," he said, shocking Jonas with this news about his ex-wife. "Yes
father, mother is no more than a whore when it comes to her men, sleeping
with a different man each night," he said and remembered the one night that
had scared him.

"Are you sure that you are alright with what we share together?" Jonas
asked Caleb, and before he could answer, Jonas saw the acceptance in his
eyes.

"Yes father, for even at sixteen I can recognize true love when I see it,
and what you two have is just that, true love. Now if you will excuse me, I
am going into town and look around."

"Just be careful son, for although we have a sheriff, we don't have a law
abiding town."

"I'll be careful father, now you two make up and I'll take down the shingle
outside so that you won't be disturbed."

He left.

***

Tired and weak from loss of blood, Abe rode into town, heading towards
Jonas' cabin. As the heat of the sun beat down on him, his eyes blurred as
he tried to focus as he rode. Noticing a form walking towards him, Abe
stopped his horse just before he passed out and fell from his horse.

"Help me please," he moaned when his eyes opened momentarily. "Get the
doctor...I've been shot," he passed out once again.

Caleb looked first at Abe and then his blood soaked shirt and instantly
fell in love with this stranger. Seeing that his father's cabin was just
feet from where Abe laid, he got up and ran back to the house. Bursting
through the cabin door, he rushed into his father's bedroom and caught his
father and Spotted Wolf naked and kissing.

"Father...come quickly...there is a man outside that's been shot," he
gasped out as he struggled to regain normal breathing.

Instantly, Jonas and Spotted Wolf dressed, and grabbing their medical bag
followed Caleb to where Abe was lying.

"My God it's Abraham," Jonas gasped out as he knelt down beside the man.

Spotted Wolf was tearing Abe's shirt away while Jonas examined the
wound. Jonas pulled his bag closer and then looked inside for the
gauze. Pulling out several large pieces of gauze, he placed it over the
wound and held it while Spotted Wolf wrapped it, securing the gauze to the
wound.

"Son, quickly go and get the buckboard," Jonas instructed and then looked
over at Spotted Wolf. "Do you want to ride out to James and Shane's ranch
and tell them about their son, or would you rather I did?"

"I'll go Jonas as soon as we get Abe into our office," he said and looked
up to see Caleb rushing towards them with the buckboard.

Together they lifted the unconscious Abe into the back of the buckboard,
and then with Jonas kneeling beside him, Spotted Wolf climbed up on to the
seat and spirited the wagon back to their cabin.

"Why is he bleeding so much when it's only a flesh wound?" Spotted Wolf
asked.

"Because it's not a flesh wound as I had first suspected; the bullet
penetrated his shoulder and exited the front," Jonas noticed, upon closer
examination. "We need to get him into the cabin where we can fix him up
before he looses anymore blood," he explained as the wagon pulled to a stop
in front of their cabin.

"Do you think that the bullet may have injured an artery," Spotted Wolf
asked as he watched the blood spurting from the wound.

"There could be a very good chance that it did," Jonas agreed with Spotted
Wolf.

After they carried him into their cabin and placed him on the examining
table, Jonas looked solemnly over at Spotted Wolf.

"You'd better ride out fast for James and Shane," he said, his voice
showing the fear he had.

***

Forgetting about Shawn who laid unconscious among the bushes beside the
river, George had now taken the reins from Emily, and was heading into
town, to see if Abe had ridden there for help.

"I told you already that Abraham was not the one that did this to me, it
was that evil man Shawn that came to your house last night," she said.

"I don't believe you for one minute Emily, because I have seen how you two
look at one another, so stop covering up for him," George shouted as he
continued onward.

"Please God, let Abraham be alright," she prayed silently, as her anger and
hatred rose for her father.

***

Shawn slowly began to come to and his head was throbbing as he managed to
sit up. He looked around and once he saw that he was alone, he hurried to
stand, only finding that his legs were still weak and dizziness filled his
head. He collapsed to the ground groaning in pain from the beating that
he'd taken from Abe.

"You son of a bitch, I'll get you for this," he mumbled as he tried once
again to stand.

Wobbling and occasionally stumbling, Shawn finally made it to the road
where he waited for someone...anyone to come his way. Hearing the pounding
of hooves he stretched out his body across the road, face down, hoping to
stop whoever it was that was riding his way.

"Whoa," Jed Williams said, pulling on the reins, causing his horse to stop
abruptly.

Dismounting and rushing over to Shawn, he turned him over onto his
back. Jed's eyes widened when he found a revolver aimed at his chest.

Bang! Bang!

Shawn fired point blank at Jed, killing him. Shawn hurried to his feet and
ran towards the horse that Jed had just arrived on, walked it over to a
tree and tied to a branch before going back to Jed. Looking around
carefully first, Shawn leaned down and grabbed Jed by the arms and pulled
him into the bushes, hiding his body from whoever may pass by.

"I have a pretty good idea where I can find you kid," Shawn said as he rode
over to James' ranch.

***

Mister James and Mister Shane are sitting in their study," Mammy said to
Spotted Wolf when Spotted Wolf asked her if they were home.



"What is wrong...you look like you saw a ghost," she asked crossing herself
as she led him to the study.

"Spotted Wolf, what are you doing here," a smiling Shane asked when Spotted
Wolf walked into the room.

"You must come quickly, Abe has been shot," he gasped out as he tried to
catch his breath, noticing the fear and shock on their faces.

"Shot...where and by whom," Shane asked angrily as he and James rushed from
their office with Spotted Wolf trailing them.

"Is he alive?" James asked frantically.

"I don't know who shot him, but by the way Jonas looked at me and told me
to hurry to get you, I don't think it looks good for him," Spotted Wolf
said sadly, wishing that he was wrong.

Within minutes, the three were riding as fast as their horses would take
them. Shane led the way as he continuously struck his reins against the
horse's flanks.

"Now where are they going in such a rush," Shawn asked, hiding on the side
behind a thicket and then he remembered the sound of a gunshot as he was
coming to. "I bet their boy got shot by her old man," he chuckled and
turned his horse to follow them, making sure that he kept a safe distance
so that he wouldn't be seen.

***

The sounds of gunfire and whooping disturbed the peacefulness of the
village as renegades came charging in, shooting anyone that moved. It
didn't matter if it were men, women or children; they were out to
annihilate all of the Indians.

Hawk exited his lodge firing at the white eyes that had their faces
covered, taking down two immediately and Seth took down one as he followed
behind Hawk, his rifle aimed and firing.

"Hawk to your left," Seth shouted and Hawk turned and fired, dropping
another attacker from his horse.

"Red Sun go...get help from James and Shane," Hawk ordered.

"Gah-ween my husband, I will not leave your side. If you die then so shall
I," Seth promised and fired off another shot, dropping another rider from
his horse.

Between Hawk, Seth and the warriors, soon most of the riders were either
dead or wounded. An eerie quiet overtook the village when those of the
attackers that were left, rode away from the village. Suddenly the only
sound one heard, was the wailing of the mothers, wives and sisters as they
mourned those that had died.

Hawk and Seth walked almost aimlessly through the village as they looked at
the dead and wounded.  Seth dropped down beside a dead mother who was still
clinging to her infant child and beside her was her dead husband. Seth
looked up at Hawk and his eyes were asking why, as his tears flowed freely,
not caring that it was a sign of weakness to cry, and all the while he held
the infant to his chest.

"Tall Cloud is the only one left alive from his family," Seth said, his
voice weak and trembling. "Why my chief...what have we done this time to
warrant this kind of retaliation?" Seth asked.

"Hawk does not know but he knows who these dead men work for," he said
pulling off the scarf that covered one of the dead men. "Bennett," he said
with much hatred in his heart and then held his rifle high in the air,
screaming out a war cry, calling his warriors to him.

Once those of his warriors that were still alive and not wounded had
assembled before him, he looked at each and every one of them before
talking.

"Go and paint your faces and bodies with war paint, for today we go hunting
white eyes," he said bitterly, again thrusting his arm and rifle into the
air as he let out another war cry.

"Oh Hawk no...if you go after the whites, the general at Fort Smith will
send out the cavalry and they will only finish what these men started,"
Seth warned.

"I go hunting for only one white and those that serve him," Hawk said,
looking over at Seth. "Hawk goes to hunt that evil man Bennett," he said
turning and walking back to his lodge to prepare for war.

Still holding the child to him, Seth looked down at his innocent face and
tears began to flow, he loved children but felt too old now to raise an
infant.

"I see the concern that is in your eyes over this child," Hawk said from
where he stood as he applied the war paint. "I shall give Tall Cloud to
Strong Bear and White Deer to train to be a great warrior."

"Ay-uh my husband," Seth said and then lowered his lips and kissed the
child. "I will ask Sun Blossom to share her milk with the child, for she
has plenty for her son Black Crow and for Tall Cloud."

"Ay-uh," he agreed and came to stand in front of Seth, and took the child
from him and laid him on the softness of their bed. "It is time to go and
avenge my people," he said, pulling Seth into his warm embrace. "Hawk loves
you with all his heart," he softly said and then pulled Seth into a
passionate kiss.

"Return to me Hawk, for I am nothing without you," Seth said and kissed him
back, their arms entwined as they held each other close.

***

Caleb watched his father as he cut away Abe's shirt, exposing his muscular
chest with hard, round nipples that just beckoned to be sucked, standing
tall on his hair covered chest.

"Help me remove his jeans," Jonas said to Caleb, causing the boy's heart to
begin racing.

The longer that he stared at the unconscious Abe, the more that Caleb was
falling in love with him.

"Is he going to live, father?" Caleb asked watching his father as he
cleaned out the wound, and ignoring his question.

"Hurry and get those jeans off of him, I need to see if he's shot anywhere
else." Jonas shouted, ignoring his son's question.

Caleb ran the scissors up the length of Abe's right pant leg, stopping when
he had cut through the waistband of his blood soaked jeans. He then
repeated the cutting on the left leg, finally exposing Abe's lower half of
his body.

Caleb pulled the jeans away and gasped when he saw the enormity of Abe's
manhood as it lay limp against his thigh.

"My God would you look at the size of that thing, I can just imagine how
much larger it would get when hard," Caleb thought to himself as he
continued to stare at Abe's manhood.

Jonas could see the affect that Abe's naked body was having on his son, and
glanced over at him, thinking that the blood which was disturbing him.

"You don't have to stay here if this is too hard on you to watch, because I
can handle this by myself, now that I see that his only wound is in his
shoulder," Jonas said.

"I want to help you father, I find this very interesting," Caleb replied,
but in reality he was admiring Abe's muscular body.

But seeing Abe's nakedness, brought back to his memory a time that was not
pleasant to him. He thought back on that night when he was just fourteen
and how one of his mother's `friends' had forced himself on Caleb's young
body, raping him several times through that night while his mother had sex
with another man two rooms down.

Now seeing Abe's nakedness only rekindled Caleb's fears and he ran from the
room, no longer able to watch.

"Are you alright son," Jonas called out to Caleb who was standing beside
the door to the cabin.

"Yes father...it's just that there is so much blood and I felt sick," he
lied, unable to share his secret with his father.

Suddenly the cabin door burst open and in like a hurricane came George
Bennett, followed by Emily. Emily gasped as she stood there in shock and
watched Jonas completely cover Abe with a sheet.

"Oh no he's dead," she thought and fainted, just as James and Shane entered
the room.

James froze when he saw the sheet that covered the body of his son and he
too, fainted.

To be continued...

There is the end of chapter three my faithful readers; I do hope that you
are enjoying this chapter. I would greatly appreciate your comments and
thoughts at danielrunningwater@yahoo.com

Thank you kindly,
Daniel