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<blockquote data-quote="orchid blossom" data-source="post: 2764774" data-attributes="member: 12815"><p>Ruby wipes her eyes again then pulls Jake's hat off his head. She sinks to her knees, leaning on the railing for support. She twists the hat in her hands for a bit, "Your lucky hat, it's been pretty lucky for you." </p><p></p><p>She looks up at Jake sheepishly, "I had another bad dream."</p><p></p><p>"I told you before, the hat is just for show. The real luck comes from a lady I know." Jake sits cross legged on the platform as the train continues to clack on down the tracks. "Want to talk about your dream?"</p><p></p><p>Even through the tears Ruby lips can't help but turn up at Jake's comment. She twists it a few more times before hugging the hat tightly against her chest. </p><p></p><p>"The dream?" she gulps, "The dream was horrible. I was wearing the nice dress. I was lost but I wasn't scared. Then he was there. He gave me jewels and I liked it. But then Colin he... he... made me like him. But I had to die first. But before I did you..." her voice trails off. A few more large tears roll down her cheeks before she looks up at Jake, "You put a stake through my heart." She looks down at the hat, sobbing again.</p><p></p><p> "I did that?" He is quiet and and let's her cry for a the span of several of his carefully controlled breaths. "I don't blame you for being upset, that is horrible." </p><p></p><p>"Y-yes it was, is, is horrible." She looks up at Jake again with wide, red eyes. She says softly, "Would you do that to me?" </p><p></p><p>Jake's face goes pale. "I...." He wants to look away but forces himself to look into her eyes. "In your dream he made you into one of those... blood monsters?" Ruby nods. Jake takes a long slow breath before he answers, "I don't know." There is another pause. "Would I do that to you? Or would it be for you? Ruby, I don't know if I could be strong enough to do that." </p><p></p><p>Ruby breaks Jake's stare and looks down at his hat held tightly against her. Her damp hair covers her face but the wind lifts it back every few seconds. "I think you would do it, you would kill me. I think any of the others would do it. Because you think I'd be a monster too." Jake can see the tears fall off Ruby's face and land on his hat. "I'm so ashamed Jake," Ruby sobs, "I don't want to kill him. In my dream, I wasn't afraid. Maybe I even liked it. And I know telling you this, you won't understand, you'll think I'm crazier than ever." Then Ruby is quiet. She doesn't make any moves towards Jake; she stays unnaturally still, still as a statue except for the tears falling. </p><p></p><p>"You liked it?" </p><p></p><p>Ruby slams the hat down on the ground, "That's not the point!" Surprised at her own outburst, she quietly returns the hat to its spot against her chest. "I'm sorry Jake." She wipes more tears off her face. "In my dream, it was like I was actually experiencing it. It was like... er... it hurt at first... and then it didn't." </p><p></p><p>"Ruby, I... what are you telling me?" There is no poker face; the confusion is clear on Jake's face. </p><p></p><p>Ruby leans her forehead up against the back railing of the train. Looking out over the landscape moving quickly away from her, she sighs as the wind continues to whip her hair and dress around her. Every rock and tree they past brought them closer to<em> him.</em> Without taking her gaze off the passing lands she says softly, "I don't know what I'm telling you. You asked about the dream. This is why I didn't tell you about the other one. I don't know what is going on; I don't know what to say. I think I'm going mad." A couple of fresh tears fall into the wind and are carried away. </p><p></p><p>"So tell me all about it and we'll go mad together." He tries to give a reassuring smile but doesn't quite get it right. </p><p></p><p>She turns her head to face him but continues to lean on the railing, "Tell you all about what, the dream?" </p><p></p><p>Jake sighs. "Ruby, I want to understand. I want to help. I don't know what to do. You need to help me help you. If I can't figure out what is going on, I won't feel safe with you in Thomaswell. You won't get off the train in Albuquerque. I won't pretend to you that I am doing this to save the world from Turner. Maybe the others are saving the world, but not me. I am doing this to save YOU from Turner. To save you for me. Now, explain it to me as best you can." Jake reaches out and touches her hand. </p><p></p><p>Ruby forces herself not to pull away from Jake's touch. He notices her flinch and she looks at him sadly, "Believe me, I'd rather be in your arms right now but given the circumstances, that I don't know what's wrong with me... it might be better..." </p><p></p><p>He pushes his hand against hers and holds it there. "No, I don't give up that easy." </p><p></p><p>Ruby grips Jake's hand in hers. She sighs and then tells Jake about the dream. She looks pained at some parts and embarrassed at others but she does tell him the whole thing. "I don't want to die Jake. And I don't want to not be able to... get rid...of Colin Turner. But what if I'm the one in his place when he's gone?" </p><p></p><p>"I will not let that happen. I won't believe anything else." </p><p></p><p>"Well then Silver Jake Cook, you are a fool to not prepare for a likely scenario. It's not like you to not consider all the odds." Ruby goes back to looking off the back of the train. </p><p></p><p>Seeing Ruby like this was hard enough. Knowing the danger she was in was worse still. Jake's precarious control of himself was nearly destroyed by her words; they felt like a physical blow. <em>How can I consider that I would fail you again?</em> The thoughts echo loudly in his mind. An image of him standing over Ruby with a wooden stake forces its way into his consciousness. He shudders and forces it away. </p><p></p><p>"I don't know why or how, it started after the first dream I guess. I can understand what it's like to be him, I can <em>feel</em> it. He was just a man, just like you. It's not his fault the way he is. And even though he wants to take me," she shudders, "It's because he's lonely, not because he's evil." Her eyes slowly meet Jake's, so afraid of his reaction. "I'm trying to be honest and tell you the truth. I don't know why I feel that way. And don't get the wrong idea, I don't want him to take me," she starts to break down again, "I don't want him to take me away from you. But I don't know that you can stop him." </p><p></p><p>Jake swallows hard. He unconsciously pulls his free hand towards himself in his lap. It is clenched tight. He finally says in a quiet and unthreatening way, "It will have to be enough for both of us that I know I will stop him." </p><p></p><p>She pauses, afraid to continue. "There is something else. In the midst of all this it seems stupid..." An even more pained look comes to Ruby's face and she grips Jake's hand tighter in hers but she doesn't look at him. The tears had lightened but now they fall more steadily. "Are you going to leave me now? Because you don't want to marry me? I mean because we're never going to get married?" She gulps hard and waits for the answer nervously. She whispers, "I need to know." </p><p></p><p>"No, I'm not leaving you. I was afr..." </p><p></p><p>A sudden explosion of words comes from Ruby as she continues to cry. "Minerva says you adore me, that we're already married, that Venus says it's so. That I'm being unfair to you." Ruby shakes her head, her hair still flying about in the wind. "She's right. I told you a long time ago I don't know how to be a girlfriend. Definitely not someone's wife. I have rarely trusted anyone in my life and I'm finding it hard to let that go. I trust you but those distrustful thoughts keep coming back. I don't want to run away from you but those panicky feelings keep coming back. It's not YOU it's ME. I stupidly thought getting married would free me from those feelings I don't want to feel anymore. They make me so unhappy now." She wipes at her face again, smearing the tears across her cheeks. "But most importantly that I love you and want to be with you forever, to wake up with you next to me every morning and go to bed with you every night. I was foolish to think a silly promise would change things for me or make me feel more secure." </p><p></p><p>Ruby gives Jake a small smile as she finally looks back at him, "You're great Jacob Cook, you're perfect. You do everything right. You spoil me, you know exactly what to do and say to make me happy. You ARE my knight in shining armor. It's not fair to you that I'm such a mess. I shouldn't have said anything but I did and like you said, you can't put the cat back in the bag." Ruby gulps, "I ruined us." Jake opens his mouth to speak but Ruby doesn't let him interrupt. "You can argue all you want. I know it's the truth. Besides, you weren't so sure about us anyway, not with not knowing how we work, with us both being lightening and you waiting for the dynamite to go off, and not in a good way." </p><p></p><p>Ruby looks weary as she continues to speak. "So we go and find Colin Turner and take care of that problem. And if I make it back then I guess we have to decide what to do from there. I was thinking of taking a trip. A vacation, so to speak." </p><p></p><p>The words that he had said in his panic came back to him twisted and misunderstood. It gave him a tangible pain in his chest that his words had caused her so much discomfort and distress, especially now that she so much needed and deserved solace and reassurance. "Yes, we go and take care of Turner. WHEN we make it back, WE will entertain ourselves without a care in the world. Nothing but you and I. Then you will look me in the eye and know that there is no one else for me. You will see that and you will know." </p><p></p><p>A sudden rush of love and passion overcomes Ruby and she drops Jake’s hat to the ground. She moves rapidly towards him and taking his face in her hands kisses him passionately. Then she wraps her arms tightly around his neck. She puts her nose to his neck, and sobs, letting her tears fall until they can’t fall anymore. “I’m s-so s-sorry, s-sorry about all of t-this. I wish I-I could make things better.” </p><p></p><p>Jake holds her quietly for a while, just letting her cry. "I know. It is not your fault. We will make it better. All of us." He continues to hold her and stroke her hair. The train continues to clatter down the tracks. "Ruby," Jake keeps his hold on her so she does not look up at his face, "I'm not leaving you during or after this. Do not worry about that. If I can't bring you safely into Thomaswell, if you would provide aid to him in taking Ruby West away from me then we would need to part briefly while I deal with him. I know you said you don't think of him as evil, but he kills people for food! He forces his will on others, transforms their lives to darkness to suit his own needs. He seeks to soothe his loneliness with marionettes that were once living, breathing people. I can only see him as my enemy. It is no different than how I came to see Ringo. I'm sure there was a girl somewhere who loved Johnny Ringo. I'm sure Ringo had a family that had high aspirations for him. Not to me, he threatened harm to you and therefore was a monster." A brief flash of the moment when Jake read Ringo's thoughts and saw him fire the round with Ruby's name on it races through Jake's mind and his speaking falters. "You called me a fool for not having taken the odds into consideration. You are wrong because I have. You see, if somehow he did manage to get to you and turn you into... into something like him..." Jake swallows hard, "I would not be there to end your suffering. Don't you understand Ruby, that he will have to kill me to get to you?" Still holding her tight to himself, Jake takes a couple of long breaths before finishing, "I am looking forward to living and to enjoying life with you when we are through in Thomaswell. That is why I need to be absolutely certain of what my lover is capable of doing before we get on the stage out of Albuquerque." </p><p></p><p>“Oh Jake…” Ruby holds on to him as tight as she can. The thought of Colin getting her was one thing, but of him killing Jake to get to her, that she couldn’t bare. Ruby knew she could and would do anything to make sure that didn’t happen. “I won't let him hurt you, I couldn't live with myself.” She uses the back of her hand to wipe her nose. “I’m not letting you go without me.” She keeps her arms around Jake’s neck but pulls her head back to look at him. “What do you want to know, what do you need me to do?” </p><p></p><p>"I do want you with me. I want you near me and I need your support. Let me think some more." He looks down into her eyes finally. "If you are willing to confront this with me, if you can trust enough to share whatever I need to know then for now let us go back to the others and rest. We'll all get off together in Albuquerque. You and I will resolve this before we board the stage." He wipes her cheeks with his shirt sleeve. </p><p></p><p>Ruby sniffles and shakes her head up and down in agreement. She closes her eyes as Jake wipes her cheeks, any touch from him comforting. She was exhausted and afraid to sleep but felt surer of Jake than she had in a while. And she wasn’t going to let anything happen to him if she could help it. Through her tears her eyes shone with adoration for him, he was trying so hard to not let her slip away and in that moment she saw it clearly. Ruby again looks out over the landscape, her hair, and Jake’s, completely wind blown and messy. She enjoys the breeze on her face for long, quiet moments before kissing Jake gently then standing. She picks up his hat, then offers her hand to him, helping him up. She places the hat back on his head, tilted just the way he likes it, then takes his hand and they head back inside.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orchid blossom, post: 2764774, member: 12815"] Ruby wipes her eyes again then pulls Jake's hat off his head. She sinks to her knees, leaning on the railing for support. She twists the hat in her hands for a bit, "Your lucky hat, it's been pretty lucky for you." She looks up at Jake sheepishly, "I had another bad dream." "I told you before, the hat is just for show. The real luck comes from a lady I know." Jake sits cross legged on the platform as the train continues to clack on down the tracks. "Want to talk about your dream?" Even through the tears Ruby lips can't help but turn up at Jake's comment. She twists it a few more times before hugging the hat tightly against her chest. "The dream?" she gulps, "The dream was horrible. I was wearing the nice dress. I was lost but I wasn't scared. Then he was there. He gave me jewels and I liked it. But then Colin he... he... made me like him. But I had to die first. But before I did you..." her voice trails off. A few more large tears roll down her cheeks before she looks up at Jake, "You put a stake through my heart." She looks down at the hat, sobbing again. "I did that?" He is quiet and and let's her cry for a the span of several of his carefully controlled breaths. "I don't blame you for being upset, that is horrible." "Y-yes it was, is, is horrible." She looks up at Jake again with wide, red eyes. She says softly, "Would you do that to me?" Jake's face goes pale. "I...." He wants to look away but forces himself to look into her eyes. "In your dream he made you into one of those... blood monsters?" Ruby nods. Jake takes a long slow breath before he answers, "I don't know." There is another pause. "Would I do that to you? Or would it be for you? Ruby, I don't know if I could be strong enough to do that." Ruby breaks Jake's stare and looks down at his hat held tightly against her. Her damp hair covers her face but the wind lifts it back every few seconds. "I think you would do it, you would kill me. I think any of the others would do it. Because you think I'd be a monster too." Jake can see the tears fall off Ruby's face and land on his hat. "I'm so ashamed Jake," Ruby sobs, "I don't want to kill him. In my dream, I wasn't afraid. Maybe I even liked it. And I know telling you this, you won't understand, you'll think I'm crazier than ever." Then Ruby is quiet. She doesn't make any moves towards Jake; she stays unnaturally still, still as a statue except for the tears falling. "You liked it?" Ruby slams the hat down on the ground, "That's not the point!" Surprised at her own outburst, she quietly returns the hat to its spot against her chest. "I'm sorry Jake." She wipes more tears off her face. "In my dream, it was like I was actually experiencing it. It was like... er... it hurt at first... and then it didn't." "Ruby, I... what are you telling me?" There is no poker face; the confusion is clear on Jake's face. Ruby leans her forehead up against the back railing of the train. Looking out over the landscape moving quickly away from her, she sighs as the wind continues to whip her hair and dress around her. Every rock and tree they past brought them closer to[i] him.[/i] Without taking her gaze off the passing lands she says softly, "I don't know what I'm telling you. You asked about the dream. This is why I didn't tell you about the other one. I don't know what is going on; I don't know what to say. I think I'm going mad." A couple of fresh tears fall into the wind and are carried away. "So tell me all about it and we'll go mad together." He tries to give a reassuring smile but doesn't quite get it right. She turns her head to face him but continues to lean on the railing, "Tell you all about what, the dream?" Jake sighs. "Ruby, I want to understand. I want to help. I don't know what to do. You need to help me help you. If I can't figure out what is going on, I won't feel safe with you in Thomaswell. You won't get off the train in Albuquerque. I won't pretend to you that I am doing this to save the world from Turner. Maybe the others are saving the world, but not me. I am doing this to save YOU from Turner. To save you for me. Now, explain it to me as best you can." Jake reaches out and touches her hand. Ruby forces herself not to pull away from Jake's touch. He notices her flinch and she looks at him sadly, "Believe me, I'd rather be in your arms right now but given the circumstances, that I don't know what's wrong with me... it might be better..." He pushes his hand against hers and holds it there. "No, I don't give up that easy." Ruby grips Jake's hand in hers. She sighs and then tells Jake about the dream. She looks pained at some parts and embarrassed at others but she does tell him the whole thing. "I don't want to die Jake. And I don't want to not be able to... get rid...of Colin Turner. But what if I'm the one in his place when he's gone?" "I will not let that happen. I won't believe anything else." "Well then Silver Jake Cook, you are a fool to not prepare for a likely scenario. It's not like you to not consider all the odds." Ruby goes back to looking off the back of the train. Seeing Ruby like this was hard enough. Knowing the danger she was in was worse still. Jake's precarious control of himself was nearly destroyed by her words; they felt like a physical blow. [i]How can I consider that I would fail you again?[/i] The thoughts echo loudly in his mind. An image of him standing over Ruby with a wooden stake forces its way into his consciousness. He shudders and forces it away. "I don't know why or how, it started after the first dream I guess. I can understand what it's like to be him, I can [i]feel[/i] it. He was just a man, just like you. It's not his fault the way he is. And even though he wants to take me," she shudders, "It's because he's lonely, not because he's evil." Her eyes slowly meet Jake's, so afraid of his reaction. "I'm trying to be honest and tell you the truth. I don't know why I feel that way. And don't get the wrong idea, I don't want him to take me," she starts to break down again, "I don't want him to take me away from you. But I don't know that you can stop him." Jake swallows hard. He unconsciously pulls his free hand towards himself in his lap. It is clenched tight. He finally says in a quiet and unthreatening way, "It will have to be enough for both of us that I know I will stop him." She pauses, afraid to continue. "There is something else. In the midst of all this it seems stupid..." An even more pained look comes to Ruby's face and she grips Jake's hand tighter in hers but she doesn't look at him. The tears had lightened but now they fall more steadily. "Are you going to leave me now? Because you don't want to marry me? I mean because we're never going to get married?" She gulps hard and waits for the answer nervously. She whispers, "I need to know." "No, I'm not leaving you. I was afr..." A sudden explosion of words comes from Ruby as she continues to cry. "Minerva says you adore me, that we're already married, that Venus says it's so. That I'm being unfair to you." Ruby shakes her head, her hair still flying about in the wind. "She's right. I told you a long time ago I don't know how to be a girlfriend. Definitely not someone's wife. I have rarely trusted anyone in my life and I'm finding it hard to let that go. I trust you but those distrustful thoughts keep coming back. I don't want to run away from you but those panicky feelings keep coming back. It's not YOU it's ME. I stupidly thought getting married would free me from those feelings I don't want to feel anymore. They make me so unhappy now." She wipes at her face again, smearing the tears across her cheeks. "But most importantly that I love you and want to be with you forever, to wake up with you next to me every morning and go to bed with you every night. I was foolish to think a silly promise would change things for me or make me feel more secure." Ruby gives Jake a small smile as she finally looks back at him, "You're great Jacob Cook, you're perfect. You do everything right. You spoil me, you know exactly what to do and say to make me happy. You ARE my knight in shining armor. It's not fair to you that I'm such a mess. I shouldn't have said anything but I did and like you said, you can't put the cat back in the bag." Ruby gulps, "I ruined us." Jake opens his mouth to speak but Ruby doesn't let him interrupt. "You can argue all you want. I know it's the truth. Besides, you weren't so sure about us anyway, not with not knowing how we work, with us both being lightening and you waiting for the dynamite to go off, and not in a good way." Ruby looks weary as she continues to speak. "So we go and find Colin Turner and take care of that problem. And if I make it back then I guess we have to decide what to do from there. I was thinking of taking a trip. A vacation, so to speak." The words that he had said in his panic came back to him twisted and misunderstood. It gave him a tangible pain in his chest that his words had caused her so much discomfort and distress, especially now that she so much needed and deserved solace and reassurance. "Yes, we go and take care of Turner. WHEN we make it back, WE will entertain ourselves without a care in the world. Nothing but you and I. Then you will look me in the eye and know that there is no one else for me. You will see that and you will know." A sudden rush of love and passion overcomes Ruby and she drops Jake’s hat to the ground. She moves rapidly towards him and taking his face in her hands kisses him passionately. Then she wraps her arms tightly around his neck. She puts her nose to his neck, and sobs, letting her tears fall until they can’t fall anymore. “I’m s-so s-sorry, s-sorry about all of t-this. I wish I-I could make things better.” Jake holds her quietly for a while, just letting her cry. "I know. It is not your fault. We will make it better. All of us." He continues to hold her and stroke her hair. The train continues to clatter down the tracks. "Ruby," Jake keeps his hold on her so she does not look up at his face, "I'm not leaving you during or after this. Do not worry about that. If I can't bring you safely into Thomaswell, if you would provide aid to him in taking Ruby West away from me then we would need to part briefly while I deal with him. I know you said you don't think of him as evil, but he kills people for food! He forces his will on others, transforms their lives to darkness to suit his own needs. He seeks to soothe his loneliness with marionettes that were once living, breathing people. I can only see him as my enemy. It is no different than how I came to see Ringo. I'm sure there was a girl somewhere who loved Johnny Ringo. I'm sure Ringo had a family that had high aspirations for him. Not to me, he threatened harm to you and therefore was a monster." A brief flash of the moment when Jake read Ringo's thoughts and saw him fire the round with Ruby's name on it races through Jake's mind and his speaking falters. "You called me a fool for not having taken the odds into consideration. You are wrong because I have. You see, if somehow he did manage to get to you and turn you into... into something like him..." Jake swallows hard, "I would not be there to end your suffering. Don't you understand Ruby, that he will have to kill me to get to you?" Still holding her tight to himself, Jake takes a couple of long breaths before finishing, "I am looking forward to living and to enjoying life with you when we are through in Thomaswell. That is why I need to be absolutely certain of what my lover is capable of doing before we get on the stage out of Albuquerque." “Oh Jake…” Ruby holds on to him as tight as she can. The thought of Colin getting her was one thing, but of him killing Jake to get to her, that she couldn’t bare. Ruby knew she could and would do anything to make sure that didn’t happen. “I won't let him hurt you, I couldn't live with myself.” She uses the back of her hand to wipe her nose. “I’m not letting you go without me.” She keeps her arms around Jake’s neck but pulls her head back to look at him. “What do you want to know, what do you need me to do?” "I do want you with me. I want you near me and I need your support. Let me think some more." He looks down into her eyes finally. "If you are willing to confront this with me, if you can trust enough to share whatever I need to know then for now let us go back to the others and rest. We'll all get off together in Albuquerque. You and I will resolve this before we board the stage." He wipes her cheeks with his shirt sleeve. Ruby sniffles and shakes her head up and down in agreement. She closes her eyes as Jake wipes her cheeks, any touch from him comforting. She was exhausted and afraid to sleep but felt surer of Jake than she had in a while. And she wasn’t going to let anything happen to him if she could help it. Through her tears her eyes shone with adoration for him, he was trying so hard to not let her slip away and in that moment she saw it clearly. Ruby again looks out over the landscape, her hair, and Jake’s, completely wind blown and messy. She enjoys the breeze on her face for long, quiet moments before kissing Jake gently then standing. She picks up his hat, then offers her hand to him, helping him up. She places the hat back on his head, tilted just the way he likes it, then takes his hand and they head back inside. [/QUOTE]
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