#goodnightbilly

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30081645

“Like us.”

“Like us,” Goodnight agreed. 

His family would never approve of Billy. They could have maybe tolerated him if Goodnight swiftly followed up the introduction with a marriage to one lady or another, keeping Billy as a well known secret. A lifetime of biting comments, of feeling lesser just because of where he came from, seeing Goodnight only under the cover of night? What kind of a life would that be? 

Billy would go with him, would accept the yoke willingly, because it was Goodnight putting it around his neck. But it would kill him, would crush his soul with every breath he took, and Goodnight would die alongside him.

Billy and Goodnight have been riding together for six months, and together for four of them. Goodnight tries not to think that it’s too good to be true. Meanwhile what does Billy do every month on his own?