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1910 – When Eleanor and Dutch miss out on the opportunity to buy the neighboring land, Dutch proposes a simple solution: they rob the bank in Rhodes.
Next time they won't miss out.
One last job, and they'll finally have everything they need.
While Part 1 (Distance from Tall Trees) provides additional background for Eleanor's story, it is not required reading for the later installments. However, readers are strongly encouraged to read Part 2 (Along the Kamassa River) before continuing with Part 3.
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- Part 3 of By Your Own Free Will
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- 5/5
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1909 – Ten years after encountering the Van der Linde gang, Eleanor Calloway has built a life of her own in Lemoyne.
When an opportunity arises to purchase the abandoned Kamassa Ranch, Eleanor finally has the chance to build a life of her own. Then Dutch van der Linde returns, and the future she planned for herself begins to look very different.
Working side-by-side, an unexpected partnership grows between the hay bales and quiet evenings on the porch. But can two people with such different ideas of freedom ever truly build a life together?
While Part 1 (Distance from Tall Trees) provides additional background for Eleanor's story, it is not required reading for the later installments.
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- Part 2 of By Your Own Free Will
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- English
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- 12,376
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- 4/4
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Even as the sun rises for another day, Dutch can't stop thinking about his past. He spirals endlessly until he can't recognise himself anymore.
Remembering their faces gets harder every day.
He doesn't know who he is anymore.
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finished the epilogue of red dead redemption 2 lately and i haven't been well since. deer arthur be upon ye
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When a delivery coach is ambushed by the Del Lobo gang, Bill Williamson and his new posse seize the opportunity to take out the enemy and take over Fort Mercer. But then a familiar face appears amidst the gunfire. A face he never thought he’d see again, after that fateful night at Mayor Lemieux’s garden party.
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Still mine, after all these years by RobberBaroness
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
07 Apr 2025
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Years after the gang's dissolution, Dutch pays Mary-Beth a visit.
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“Oh hush now!’ John gulps as he looks up at her exasperated expression as she scoffs at his antics. Nimble fingers already unbuttoning her blouse and shrugging it off her shoulders as she continues, “I didn’t take you for such a prude when I married you, John Marston.” She wears a smirk on her lips as she continues to undress, now untying her skirts as John’s voice is lost in his throat and his mouth dry. “Now you big baby, strip and get in while it’s warm.”
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What started as a mindless joke turns into Abigail and John sharing a bath
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In 1908, John Marston ventures down to Tumbleweed in want of a good horse. What he finds there shatters the hard won life he'd spent all these years coming to grips with.
In 1885, John Marston caught Arthur Morgan making time with a man, and true to form, he just couldn't leave well enough alone.
Or, Arthur has been John's weakness for longer than he can properly remember. For better or for worse, that ain't likely to change no matter how many years he got under his belt.
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Where John Marston notices some scars on the back of Abigail. Scars that he’s never seen before.
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now we're just liars by WillowsCreek_DevilHill
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
03 Jun 2024
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Dutch tells Hosea the truth about Arthur's death.
(RDR1 AU where Hosea never died in the Saint Denis Bank robbery. Takes place after American Venom)
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- Part 1 of RDR1 Vandermatthews
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A Chance Encounter by whichstoodonrockyshores
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
21 Feb 2024
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Javier Escuella could never see John Marston as much of a betrayer, anyway.
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Javier’s turning thirty-six.
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- Part 15 of Javier Escuella & Bill Williamson
- Part 11 of Post-Chapter Six: Beaver Hollow
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The Snakes & The People They Bite by whichstoodonrockyshores for AutisticWriter
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
27 Feb 2023
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During an impromptu hunting trip, Boaz is spooked by a snake.
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- Part 13 of Javier Escuella & Bill Williamson
- Part 9 of Post-Chapter Six: Beaver Hollow
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a good man (better alive than dead) by eldritchopossum
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
23 Feb 2023
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"He stares up at the orange sky, and then turns his head so his face can soak in the setting sun’s warmth. He drinks in the sight of a beautiful sunset, when his eyes should be unseeing."
Or: Arthur wakes up in the year 1910 with no idea as to how or why. He doesn't know what to do, until he learns John is, once again, in trouble.
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By 1906, Javier and Bill had accepted the fact that Dutch wouldn’t be returning to their side. Until an awfully familiar poster appears in town, that is.
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- Part 16 of Javier Escuella & Bill Williamson
- Part 12 of Post-Chapter Six: Beaver Hollow
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Life's settled and things are calm now that Micah Bell's been dealt with and Dutch has disappeared. The Marston family has Beecher's Hope and seems that they might close that chapter of their life without qualm. Only there's one question that keeps pestering Abigail and it's high time she addresses it with her husband. A question about a romantic night in Blackwater and the way in which he asked The Question.
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“Why’s it you went with a boat?”
Abigail turned around, leaned against the counter and gestured at him with her knife as she asked the question that’d been chasing her thoughts for weeks now.
Across the room, where he stood admiring that danged taxidermy piece of art (by his insistence) that spoiled the good humours of the parlour, John started, whipped his head around to look at her. “What about a boat?” he asked, confusion and wariness rife in the expression. Unexpected questions from her often meant he’d done something what angered her and so, rightly, he had learned to be cautious when they cropped up.
“When you proposed, John,” she shot back. “Why’d you insist on that boat?”
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'He’s still staring at the card, hands trembling, thoughts racing – he’d heard some of the stories about Marston too – apparently, he’d shot half the law in New Haven in a grand shootout in Valentine. He dwells on the line about how Marston met Van Der Linde, and thinks of the decades-old strangulation scar that hides under his bandanna. Tries to piece together the quiet man who hung nervously near the back at barn dances before his wife pulled him onto the floor to dance with her, with the list of crimes on the little card.'
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Johns attempts to lay low are foiled by a new line of premium cigarette trading cards.
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Arthur offers John some well needed advice. He never was good at giving speeches.
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"Arthur had learned this dance over the past decade. It was much more delicate than the ugly tumble it took to start a fight. Finding out if someone was itching for violence was simple, the signs often plain and in the open. It was expected of men to have the urge sometimes, as if they had a build-in affinity towards bloodied knuckles and bruised skin.
But the other dance was more complicated. It worked through small gestures, lingering gazes, fleeting touches. It had taken Arthur years to learn the intricacies of it.
He had also learned the prize for any misstep."
A look at Arthur's life, 1877-1898.
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Pre-Blackwater by at least 10 years. Arthur is 26 years old, reader is 20, and John Marston is 16. Arthur has just broken off his engagement with Mary. Instead of the one-night stand with Eliza, Arthur sleeps with the reader with similar consequences.
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- Part 1 of Mistakes