Tragic Mistake

by doc

RATING: PG-13 violence.

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SUMMARY: An attack in town leads to tragic repercussions for the peacekeepers. Vin & Chris, primary.

DISCLAIMER: Hard to believe but I have absolutely no rights to the characters of the Mag 7. While those belong to the writers and producers of the series, you can rest assured that if they were mine they would be put to good use!

A Special THANK YOU to Carol M. for the wonderful graphic!

SIZE: Approx. 360K

Prologue

Four Corners could barely be described as a town. Located in an area of the western portion of the new United States, the land had, until recently, been inhabited by Indians and buffalo. The infringement of the white man had driven the wild creatures away and led to the placement of rough wooden buildings on a hard packed dirt path that alternated, depending on the weather, between treacherous mud or flying dirt that could blind anyone unfortunate enough to be around when a wagon or horseman passed. No, Four Corners wasn't a place to attract the higher echelons of society but it was home to those who had landed there.
Until recently, these mostly unwilling pioneers in the wild west lived in fear of the cattleman and drovers who used the town, rough as it was, to celebrate the end of their drives, and the outlaws who weren't too choosy about what they stole, just so long and it was worth something and it belonged to somebody else. Some of the fear had been alleviated by the formation of a seemingly unlikely band of peace keepers. Most were unsure of what bond had pulled these men together; the gunslinger, the tracker, the healer, the ladies man, the preacher, the gambler, and a kid from back east. Some feared them, some gave grudging respect and many didn't trust them as much as they would trust a rattlesnake. But almost all deferred to their power and unity.
That is, until late one chilly fall night when a woman's terrified scream shattered the quiet....

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