#frontierverse

6. A drunken kiss

The last several months had been hard - The work was hard, and their hearts still ached, not knowing what had become of their friends… Though Caleb had intended to fight until he walked himself to the gallows, head held high, he still remembered Ben’s parting words to him clear as day -

“Take Anna and go. Make sure she’s safe. Make sure you’re both safe.”

He didn’t care about himself so much, but Annie… He’d die for Anna, just as he’d die for Ben, and if it meant not dying on a British rope and instead stealing across into the frontier with her, then so be it. And so they did, and here they found themselves, settled in their little self-made cabin out in the wilds of the frontier, a day’s ride from the nearest pitiful settlement.

They were lucky to have settled in the early spring, and so they were able to plant their crops with enough time to let them grow. Now, with winter approaching, they’d had a more than bountiful harvest and it would certainly last them through the harsh months to come.

As the last of their harvest was tucked away in the cellar, Caleb produced the nicest bottle of rum he had been saving (a well-hidden purchase from the last time he’d been in town, nearly a month previous) intent on splitting it with Anna. They deserved the reward, after all!

A few hours passed with drinking and singing and laughter, and it just seemed… Natural that, when she got close like that with her brown eyes shining, she should receive a kiss. Just a little one, mind, but Caleb withdrew from it with mirth shining in his own eyes.

Send me ♫ and I’ll post a song I think fits our muses’ relationship

Bunkerverse: (New stuff) “When You’re Gone” by The Cranberries, “Wonderwall” by Oasis, “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure, “Somebody to Love” by Jefferson Airplane, (Old stuff) “To the Moon and Back” by Savage Garden, "Love You Madly" by Cake, “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None The Richer, “Here With Me” by Dido, “When You Say Nothing At All” by Allison Krauss, “I’ll Stand By You” by The Pretenders & “Wire to Wire” by Razorlight

This is the End: “As the World Falls Down” by David Bowie

A Home at the End of the World: (You have to share these with Rc ;) ) “Luna” by Smashing Pumpkins, “It’s All Been Done Before” by Barenaked Ladies, “When I See You Smile” by Bad English, “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith, “Foolish Heart” by Journey, “Simultaneous Lovin” by Chef, I’m sure I’ll add to the list.

Frontierland/1840s: “I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls” and “Dark Eyes”

Send me ♫ and I’ll post a song I think fits our muses’ relationship

Bunkerverse: “You’re Not the Boss of Me” by The Vandals

This is the End: “What Were You Expecting” by Halestorm

Frontierland/1840s: “Give Me My Arrows and Give Me My Bow” because I think it fits them both, especially here lately.