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Authors: Melodie Grace
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Indian that was giving me and Frank a hard time. Just one!” Lisa said sobbing. “I don't want anyone else to get hurt. I know Frank wouldn't want anyone else to get hurt. This just doesn't make any sense.”
“I know, dear,” Ted said, looking sad. “But sometimes people need justice and that's just the way it is for some things. Right now, you're right that most people are choosing to be very worked up over certain things when they don't have to be worked up at all. But here they are, getting worked into a right rabid froth about something that happened that didn't even really involve them at all.”
Lisa calmed down gradually. They both sat and tried to eat their lunch, but all either could manage to do was pick a little at their food like there was something wrong with it. Lisa kept looking over the town with tears streaming out of her eyes. She couldn't believe that people were being so vengeful. It hurt her to think that Frank's memory was somehow being used as a catalyst for a manhunt.
Secretly, in places she would never reveal to Ted, she also blamed herself for Frank's death. No matter how many times she replayed the events in her mind, she would never be able to go back and unsleep with Ted or be given a chance to stay at the house instead of leaving to get a shoe for the horse. She realized that it didn't do any good to get down on herself about it. She knew that nothing would bring Frank back, but she still felt guilty.
“Don't look so sad, sweetheart,” Ted said. “Tomorrow is a new day. We don't really know if all of this fervor to go looking for the boogeyman is really going to hold or just all blow over by the morning. You know how people are sometimes. They are so quick to speak of big, bold plans to do this and that and most of the time it doesn't amount to anything anyway. We both know this. So let's not get upset about it, all right. It doesn't do anyone any good to be upset about it.”
However, despite Ted’s reassurances, Lisa couldn’t shake off the sadness or the worry. That night when she went to bed, it was with Ted. When they made love she thought about Frank and what she had lost. Afterward, as she thought back over the physical act, she realized she was lucky to have Ted around now. Maybe it was time to let go of the past. She knew it would be hard, at least until all of this were through.
Lisa couldn't help but feel like she had another part yet to play in the unfolding of what would be remembered as the Great Scalp Hunt. However, at the time she didn't know it would turn into such an ordeal. The only real idea Lisa had in her head while she was by Ted in bed was to be make sure to appreciate the moment for what it was.
Part 3: Ted’s Decision
Chapter 1
Lisa's new life in the city was one she could have never imagined while she had been living with Frank at the homestead. Ted let her live with him with no charge, and didn't expect her to have sex with him if she didn't want to. It wasn't that Ted didn't want to make love to her. It was just that he didn't want her to if she didn't want to. He'd tried to explain all that to her in the first month of their living together but she had blushed so deeply and looked away embarrassed that he decided to drop it.
At first Ted had been gone much of time, leading the townspeople on small patrols through the surrounding hills, and that had left Lisa time to get to know the people in town. Lisa had been shy, though. People in town treated women very differently than Frank had treated her when they had lived together on the homestead. People seemed to think that women couldn't do anything on their own, and if they were on their own, it could only be for a short period of time.
None of them would have thought it wise if she'd suggested a ride out to the homestead by herself. So she didn't suggest it, and instead just rode out there if Ted was gone for the week. Lisa would ride out to the homestead and go through her old things,
“I know, dear,” Ted said, looking sad. “But sometimes people need justice and that's just the way it is for some things. Right now, you're right that most people are choosing to be very worked up over certain things when they don't have to be worked up at all. But here they are, getting worked into a right rabid froth about something that happened that didn't even really involve them at all.”
Lisa calmed down gradually. They both sat and tried to eat their lunch, but all either could manage to do was pick a little at their food like there was something wrong with it. Lisa kept looking over the town with tears streaming out of her eyes. She couldn't believe that people were being so vengeful. It hurt her to think that Frank's memory was somehow being used as a catalyst for a manhunt.
Secretly, in places she would never reveal to Ted, she also blamed herself for Frank's death. No matter how many times she replayed the events in her mind, she would never be able to go back and unsleep with Ted or be given a chance to stay at the house instead of leaving to get a shoe for the horse. She realized that it didn't do any good to get down on herself about it. She knew that nothing would bring Frank back, but she still felt guilty.
“Don't look so sad, sweetheart,” Ted said. “Tomorrow is a new day. We don't really know if all of this fervor to go looking for the boogeyman is really going to hold or just all blow over by the morning. You know how people are sometimes. They are so quick to speak of big, bold plans to do this and that and most of the time it doesn't amount to anything anyway. We both know this. So let's not get upset about it, all right. It doesn't do anyone any good to be upset about it.”
However, despite Ted’s reassurances, Lisa couldn’t shake off the sadness or the worry. That night when she went to bed, it was with Ted. When they made love she thought about Frank and what she had lost. Afterward, as she thought back over the physical act, she realized she was lucky to have Ted around now. Maybe it was time to let go of the past. She knew it would be hard, at least until all of this were through.
Lisa couldn't help but feel like she had another part yet to play in the unfolding of what would be remembered as the Great Scalp Hunt. However, at the time she didn't know it would turn into such an ordeal. The only real idea Lisa had in her head while she was by Ted in bed was to be make sure to appreciate the moment for what it was.
Part 3: Ted’s Decision
Chapter 1
Lisa's new life in the city was one she could have never imagined while she had been living with Frank at the homestead. Ted let her live with him with no charge, and didn't expect her to have sex with him if she didn't want to. It wasn't that Ted didn't want to make love to her. It was just that he didn't want her to if she didn't want to. He'd tried to explain all that to her in the first month of their living together but she had blushed so deeply and looked away embarrassed that he decided to drop it.
At first Ted had been gone much of time, leading the townspeople on small patrols through the surrounding hills, and that had left Lisa time to get to know the people in town. Lisa had been shy, though. People in town treated women very differently than Frank had treated her when they had lived together on the homestead. People seemed to think that women couldn't do anything on their own, and if they were on their own, it could only be for a short period of time.
None of them would have thought it wise if she'd suggested a ride out to the homestead by herself. So she didn't suggest it, and instead just rode out there if Ted was gone for the week. Lisa would ride out to the homestead and go through her old things,
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