"Thank you again Y/n for helping me with the horses. I just can't seem to get them to listen to me anymore. Your taking control over them!" The stable master joked as we both laughed.

"Well, I don't mean to be taking your job sir, but I just seem to have this charm over horses. I don't think it works on people too well though. You can't sweeten people up on sugar cubes and pats. The only thing that people want anymore is money." I said as pulled out some brushes from Alea's stall and began to clean the large grey mare as she ate away at the hay in the stable.

"It's true, this country is changing, and fast. People are losing their honor and morales. Nowadays people are only driven by their lust and greed." He said as he tended to a golden horse.

"Sadly, I remember when I was much younger, people actually stopped to help one another and now it's every man for themselves. Plus you got those gangs that are still just trying to hang on by a thread to the old ways of living." I said as I finished grooming her and lead the shire out of her stable. "Well, I better get going now. I'll try to stop in tomorrow, but I doubt that I will have the chance. Mother's getting a little bit more picky when I go into town."

"It's no problem at all Y/n. Just be careful out there. I don't like that group of people that came in earlier and they are already causing some problems here in Valentine. The man you were talking about when you came in earlier took some mans horse and ran off with it. He gave the horse back to the owner but then he got in a bar fight a little bit ago, it went out into the streets as well." He said as he turned his attention away from the horse he was grooming and walked out of the stall and towards me with a small clip of money. "Here you go, for today's work."

"Thank you, see you again." I called as Alea trotted out of the stable and I was about to turn down onto the muddy path leading out of Valentine, when I heard two familiar voices, one much more than the other.

I turned Alea away from the path and down the main path of Valentine only to spot a small group of people huddled around a slightly bloody, and very muddy, Arthur Morgan.

"Well, well, well. I love what your doing Mr. Morgan. It seems like you really are blending in with us Southerns! Really getting down into the dirt and making yourself one with nature." I laughed as the small group looked over at me.

"Oh shut it kid. What the hell are you still doing here?" Arthur growled, obviously not liking the attention, nor jokes, that was circling around him. He was about to speak until a very familiar man, and voice appeared from next to her.

"Oh my Y/n. Look at you! How are you doing darling? How is your mother, Ms. L/n?" Trelawny said jumping out from next to a tall, dark-haired man. He stepped around the unknown man and stood next to me as he began to pet Alea.

"We are both doing fine Trelawny. I just finished up at the stables and got a couple of dollars, from working there." I said leaning down and gently rubbed Alea's thinning shoulders.

"Trelawny, who is this?" A Mexican asked, as he stood next to a darker man and Arthur.

"Ah apologies gentlemen! Everyone meet Y/n L/n! Y/n meet Dutch Van der Linde, Javier Escuella, Charles Smith, and you already know Arthur. Me and her have quite a bit of history in the short years she has been living here. Robbed quite a bit of places with her. She is excellent at about almost every single handheld weapon there is! Plus she is sneakier than a fox! She can be quite the opponent!" He said motioning his hands to me as I softly laughed.

"Well, I don't know about that Trelawny. I'm just good at my job, Robbing people and places is really the only thing that can keep me and mom going." I said, scratching the back of my neck.

"You know Dutch you should take her onto a job in the future!" Trelawny said as he patted Dutch's shoulder.

"Maybe. So Y/n, have you heard of any gangs or groups roaming around within the area?" Dutch asked as he came closer to me. I felt all of their eyes fall upon me as I felt my throat tighten slightly.

"I mean you have the usual Pinkerton group roaming around, but they are pretty easy to avoid, and just the other day I saw some a couple of O'driscolls passing through." I said trying to not make a fool out of myself as I looked down into his burning gaze.

"And what does your mother do for a living?" He asked as his gaze moved from me and onto Alea as he seemed to inspect the shire.

"She was a former Pinkerton. I was too. She worked on the case for several years, before I was born, but then she got pregnant with me and had to leave the agency for a couple years, before returning back to it. She managed to convince the head office to let me join a couple years ago and we both worked on the same case together. But then some evidence started coming in saying that my mother was affiliated with the leader of the gang, and she was put on office watch. I was able to stay out in the field, until Blackwater got robbed a couple months ago and now we are on the run from them, they think that were both are working with the gang to keep them hidden from the rest of the Pinkertons." I said absentmindedly as I brushed my fingers through Alea's mane.

"And your father?" Dutch asked as he watched my hands.

"Never met the bastard, but I'm looking for him, and I won't stop until I find him. But when I do, I'm shooting that bastard in the head for leaving me and my mother to survive alone in this hell-hole of a world. Now if you excuse me, I need to get going before our company comes over." I stated angrily as I leaned down and gripped Alea's reins tightly in my hands. "It was nice meeting you all. If you ever need help, Arthur knows where me and my mother lives." I added while I turned Alea away and spurred off. I looked back and saw as the group conversed with one another while Dutch followed me intently as I rode out of Valentine.