{"id":4511,"date":"2009-11-28T18:20:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T23:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:22:15","slug":"brotherly-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=4511","title":{"rendered":"Brotherly Love (by Storm)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary: \u00a0<\/span>This was written in answer to the Chaps and Spurs challenge. I really don’t know why the words led me to this. I guess it could have to do with the holiday coming up.<\/p>\n

Rated: K+ \u00a0WC \u00a02650<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Brotherly Love<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam again reined in Sport, his worry and agitation growing. \u201cCome on we\u2019ve been traveling across this mountain of slate for hours now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man who was in the lead turned back and faced his prey. \u201cCome on Cartwright, surely you\u2019ve got a stronger constitution than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe I do but I\u2019m beginning to fear you\u2019re leading me on some wild goose chase.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI may be but patience is a lesson we must all learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cListen are you going to take me to my brother or not?!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll get there.\u201d He\u2019d never known a man so anxious to get to his own perdition.<\/p>\n

Finally they arrived at a small but lively camp. Joe barely saw the men ride up and if not for the fact that one of the men he\u2019d been sitting with drew his attention to them he might not have even looked up. \u201cHey Adam! What you doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat am I doing here?! What are you doing here?!<\/p>\n

\u201cJust being friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow? By losing everything you have to them at poker?\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Joe may love his oldest brother but he hated his condescending attitude. \u201cSo I\u2019m on a losing streak right now. I\u2019ll win it back. I\u2019ve done it before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Something about this place was just rubbing Adam the wrong way. \u201cJoe why don\u2019t you quit while you\u2019re ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m not ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re still breathing aren\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAdam I don\u2019t think they\u2019d kill me for losing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo but I might, and once pa finds out he might as well, so for your own good mount up and lets get on home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on, let the kid stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cListen I don\u2019t even know your name.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s Stan Tirich.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlright Stan. Why should I let the kid stay? Is it because he still has five dollars left to lose?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAdam I only got three.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not helping your case any Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI got an idea. Why don\u2019t you play for it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Adam didn\u2019t like this man. Something about his eyes made Adam feel sick to his stomach. \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne hand. You win he goes with you no trouble. He wins you both stay and play.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHey that\u2019s a good idea Adam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why couldn\u2019t his brother see the danger in this man\u2019s smile? \u201cNO. Come on Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAh come on Adam.\u201d<\/p>\n

The longer they were in this camp the more uneasy Adam was becoming. Why did it seem as if the people surrounding them had doubled since he\u2019d arrived? Where could they have come from? The only way into the camp was the way Adam and Stan had come in and no one had ridden in that way because Adam had kept one eye on the only path of escape. \u201cMay I please speak with my brother?\u201d Adam wasn\u2019t sure why he was asking permission, it just seemed like the best thing to do.<\/p>\n

Stan smiled. This man could remain civil no mater what. \u201cSure. Go ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adam hurriedly pulled Joe aside and even though he was talking as quietly as his anger and fear would allow him he felt no mater how far away they stood or how quietly they spoke Stan would still hear what was being said. \u201cCome on Joe, lets just go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Adam it\u2019s just one hand. What are you afraid you\u2019ll lose?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe I don\u2019t like it here. There\u2019s something just not right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re starting to sound like Hop-Sing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFine. Now lets go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAdam, come on. I know I\u2019ve gotta\u2019 win soon. I\u2019ve never gone broke, sure I\u2019ve been down to a dollar or two but I always seem to win back enough to keep me in the game. Besides if I can\u2019t beat you I may as well give up, but once I do beat you it\u2019ll break my losing streak. Don\u2019t ya\u2019 see?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe please lets go. This place is really bothering me, and that Stan\u2026I just don\u2019t know but there\u2019s something about him I don\u2019t trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re acting like an old woman Adam.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFine I\u2019m an old woman. Lets get on home and you can tell pa and Hoss that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re serious?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes Joe I\u2019m serious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe knew for his brother to be so willing to accept the ribbing he knew would follow he was really distressed by something. \u201cOkay, lets go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adam let out a sigh of relief and headed for his horse. He turned around to ask Joe where Cochise was tied up but noticed his brother seemed to have been distracted by something. \u201cJOE!\u201d<\/p>\n

Stan seemed to appear out of nowhere at Adam\u2019s side. \u201cHe\u2019s already mine, but you are free to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adam knew he had a name but for some reason it didn\u2019t seem to ring true anymore, if it ever had. \u201cWho are you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, even if you don\u2019t want to believe it. I promise you if you leave by the time you\u2019ve ridden a mile you\u2019ll convince yourself you had to be wrong because it\u2019s just not possible. I swear the only time it will seem believable is in your dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m leaving and I\u2019m taking my brother with me.\u201d It was the first time Adam sounded demanding since meeting up with Stan.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know the only way that\u2019s going to happen is to play him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Stan expected him to run to his horse and ride out at break neck speed as so many men before him had when given the choice between saving themselves or someone they loved, but Adam turned and headed back into camp without a moments hesitation. That\u2019s when Stan began to worry that this might not go quite as he had planned.<\/p>\n

Stan ran after Adam and caught up with him hoping again to scare him into running. \u201cYou do know what this could cost you?\u201d<\/p>\n

For the first time Adam felt he was gaining the edge. There was a slight change in Stan\u2019s demeanor. He\u2019d gone from sounding so certain he\u2019d get what he wanted to sounding not quite so sure that things would go his way. \u201cI know what leaving here without him will cost me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI suppose your father would be upset. So you fear him more then you do me?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has nothing to do with my father. JOE, come on we have a game to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe didn\u2019t know what had brought about this change in Adam. Only seconds ago he was all fired ready to leave. \u201cHey that\u2019s great! Come on everyone, come and watch me beat my big brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brother sat facing brother as the crowd gathered around them. Adam glanced only once at the faces in that crowd and swore he saw familiar faces. He only took that one glance because he knew they were faces he couldn\u2019t be seeing, ones he didn\u2019t want to see again.<\/p>\n

********<\/p>\n

The cards had been dealt and the bets placed. Joe again looked at the cards before him. Had there ever been a more beautiful hand? Joe looked at his brother and smiled. There were few things Joe felt he could beat Adam at but poker was one of them, but even at that he couldn\u2019t always win.<\/p>\n

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Joe kept looking at his brother and he felt his smile slowly fade to be replaced by a feeling of guilt. As he studied his brother\u2019s face he could see in it a man who\u2019d sacrificed a lot. Joe knew he was the reason for some of those sacrifices. Sure he and Adam butted heads a lot but that didn\u2019t mean they didn\u2019t love each other. He knew even in the most heated battles that had taken place between them the brotherly love they shared always won out in the end. Joe thought would it be so terrible to let him win just this once? It seemed so important to Adam that they leave and if he let him win they could do so without any trouble. For some reason Joe believed if he beat Adam there would be nothing but trouble if they tried to leave. So he decided he\u2019d let his brother win. He\u2019d know he\u2019d let him wouldn\u2019t he? And he was sure some day he\u2019d be sure to let Adam know it as well.<\/p>\n

Adam had been watching his brother\u2019s face and he knew he was beat. Sure the kid had a good enough poker face with strangers but Adam could always easily read his youngest brother. No sense in delaying it any longer. \u201cJoe are you playing or not?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joe gave is brother one last smile. \u201cI fold.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adam couldn\u2019t believe his ears. \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI said I fold big brother. You going deaf?\u201d<\/p>\n

Stan couldn\u2019t believe his ears either. \u201cFOLD!? You can\u2019t fold!\u201d<\/p>\n

Adam felt a relief wash over him. \u201cYou never said he couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he\u2019s got you beat!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd how would you know that Stan? Have you been cheating him? Have you cheated everyone else that\u2019s here as well?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust look around Cartwright. You know they all belong here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we don\u2019t. Come on Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suddenly Joe was as anxious to leave as Adam. When he had first saw the fire and rode into this camp he\u2019d seen nothing but friendly faces. Now when he looked around he could only see desperate ones. He only saw people who wanted to hold him and keep him here, perhaps as some reminder as to what life was like. Kind of like a man who has been locked away will strain for the slightest glimpse of the sun and sky or any other reminder of freedom.<\/p>\n

Adam and Joe mounted up and left camp.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDid you really think you\u2019d get a Cartwright?\u201d<\/p>\n

Stan looked at the man who dared to question him but he was too tired to do anything but admit defeat. \u201cIt was worth the try. I almost had the little one. I would have too if he other one hadn\u2019t come looking for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDidn\u2019t you make a try of him once? You failed there too didn\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNext time I\u2019ll get the middle one. I won\u2019t leave any room for failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh you\u2019ll fail because you can be sure they will come looking for him. See they got something most of us never had. Something that keeps them together even when they are miles apart. Something that helps them to find each other no matter how lost they become. I believe it\u2019s called family.\u201d<\/p>\n

********<\/p>\n

Joe couldn\u2019t take the silence any longer. \u201cAdam.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Joe you let me win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Someday Joe would have to ask Adam what gave him away. \u201cWell yeah but I think if I had won we would have both lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah I got that feeling too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again a silence fell as brothers rode side by side. They weren\u2019t riding particularly fast because as Stan had said the ominous feeling the camp had evoked in Adam was fading with every hoof beat until the camp was just a camp filled with people. They were people who would haunt both brothers for some time, at least in their dreams.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdam why didn\u2019t you go?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Stan gave you the chance to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wanted me to leave without you? Pa would have had my hide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah I guess so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe sounded so forlorn that that would be the only reason for his brother\u2019s refusal to leave without him and, for some reason, right now that bothered Adam. \u201cJoe, you\u2019re my brother and I\u2019d suffer anything, go anywhere I had to, to bring you home safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah but why Adam?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe are you saying you wouldn\u2019t do the same for me?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I would.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess\u2026well\u2026well because pa would have my hide if I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cExactly little brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

********<\/p>\n

Ben heard the horses ride up and all the worry he had been feeling was quickly turned to anger by his relief in finding out that they were alright. \u201cSo you two finally made it home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry pa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry Joseph? Do you know how worried your brother and I have been?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPa it\u2019s late. Can we please talk about this tomorrow?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re right Adam, it is late, it is very late and\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoss had often said that Joe and Adam were more alike then either would admit but one look at the expressions on their faces would make it tough for even them to argue it wasn\u2019t true. Hoss couldn\u2019t put a name to it exactly but it was an odd one. \u201cPa I think we all need some rest. If we try to talk about it now we may all say things we might regret later.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess you\u2019re right Hoss. Let\u2019s all get to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n

********<\/p>\n

Everyone quickly fell asleep but there were two who didn\u2019t stay that way for long.<\/p>\n

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Joe quietly crept downstairs. For some reason he wanted to get a fire going. It would shed more light then the lamp. He saw that someone had beaten him to it though. \u201cAdam? What you doin\u2019 up?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSame thing you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou mean you kept dreamin\u2019 bout those people too and how they all reminded you of someone else?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone else?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah someone who had no right to be there. At least not above ground any way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got that feeling too did you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah.\u201d Joe was a little shaken by Adam\u2019s willingness to admit something that made no sense might be true. \u201cAdam did you ever meet Stan before? He sure seemed to know you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe I know this is going foolish because he didn\u2019t look like him or talk like him but, those eyes, I\u2019ll never forget those eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were Kane\u2019s. I guess that\u2019s fitting though because if I were to consider anyone the devil it would be him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDevil?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSure. He said his name was Stan Tirich right?<\/p>\n

\u201cWell yeah but what has that got to do with the devil?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been sitting here trying to keep my mind occupied and I\u2019ve stumbled across something. If you rearrange the letters in Stan Tirich you can make them spell Anti-Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAw come on Adam you don\u2019t really believe\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe not but some things are just easier to believe at night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe and Adam sat and watched the fire. They both dozed off and when they woke up they both realized dawn would be upon them soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on little brother. It won\u2019t bode well for us if pa finds us sleeping huddled together like two frightened rabbits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe went to follow after his brother still haunted by what Adam had been implying last night. Maybe it was because the sun hadn\u2019t yet begun it ascent in the east.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdam you don\u2019t really believe that\u2026well that\u2026come on Adam the devil? I mean you\u2019re only saying that to scare me. You figure if I even half believe it\u2019ll keep me in line right?\u201d<\/p>\n

As the sun began to lighten the sky their moods lightened as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe Joe. The way I see it the devil will get you soon enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh and I suppose you\u2019re some kind of a saint.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo but with you as a brother I\u2019m being put through my hell right here on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHA HA.\u201d<\/p>\n

They had finally reached the top of the staircase and Adam turned to go to his room and Joe to his.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood night Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNight Adam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just before he entered his bedroom Adam had one more observation to make. \u201cJoe you will have to admit one thing. That campfire did burn hotter then any you\u2019ve ever felt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe stared at his brother\u2019s closed door and as he reached for his door knob he thought to himself, it sure did.<\/p>\n

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Summary: \u00a0This was written in answer to the Chaps and Spurs challenge. I really don’t know why the words led me to this. I guess it could have to do with the holiday coming up. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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