In My Heart You Pay No Rent
Pairing: cowboy!gojo x reader
TW/CW: historical inaccuracies, smut, outdoor sex, first times, mention of guns, alcohol, MDNI
Too obstinate and infatuated with a dastardly outlaw to bend to the will of your father, you head to town to find the target of your distant affections, a sharp-tongued cowboy with a long list of charges decorating his reputation.
This work is part of the "Slow It Down, Cowboy" AU, a collaborative effort with @slutshamethesquirrels. Read its sister work, "All The Sweet Tea In Carolina" here.
The wild, wild west was aptly named, given the plethora of things bound to go awry in the massive stretches of empty land between each isolated township. Terrain, storms, animals, vagrants, vagabonds, money-hungry city folk swarming in droves to strike oil, and, of course, outlaws. Some days youâd see well-groomed, mild-mannered, decent gentlemen dressed to the nines strolling to the bank to make a deposit, and others youâd see sweat-soaked, sharp-tongued, wild cowboys dressed in grimy leather storming out of that bank with those gentlemenâs cash. Of course, the townshipâs staggering number of law enforcement officers (three)(including the sheriff) would chase after those slimy vandals, but that always ended in either a sprained ankle, a see-through hat, or a funeral.Â
However, as the surrounding communities began to flourish into cities, you began to see less and less of those outlaws. Daddy would mutter something about how itâs damn time, how sick to bastard death he was of those ruffians hanging around your good, decent town, how lucky you were that one of those good-for-nothinâs never thought to heave you up over his shoulder and ride off with you, because you still werenât married, and had no one but your old Daddy to keep you safe.Â
Suitors, courtship, marriage, suitors, courtship, marriage, babies, suitors, courtship, marriage, babies, lawfully wedded and married and holy matrimony and blah, blah, blah. He raised you right, you were ladylike enough, you looked just like your mother, why were you so hard to marry off? You were so damn tired of that conversation, and you had begun to make it known, remembering the first time you turned your nose up at a potential romantic proposition like it was yesterday. Your poor old Daddy called you to the porch, and you were sure heâd pop something by the way he turned so red.Â
âThe bankerâs sonâs coming from town tomorrow,â He mentioned, passive and gentle as he puffed on his cigarette.Â
âSo?â You said, hip jutted out to rest against the doorframe, arms crossed tightly over your chest. Daddy shot you a warning glare, but as his one and only little girl, you knew itâd only ever be just that: a warning.
âHe wants t'marry you. Heâs got a good daddy, a good mama. Some money. More money ân us if you can believe 'at,â Puff, âHe can take care of you.âÂ
âIâd rather wear a potato sack on m'head than marry that man.âÂ
It only took two more times for him to throw his hands up in defeat. There wasnât anything wrong with any of those men, they were decent enough, and they did have the means to take care of you, but it didnât matter. No, you werenât keen on marriage, or babies, or domesticity; what you were keen on was your every-other-monthly ride to town, snug in your nice go-to-town dress, much to Daddyâs dismay.Â
Technically, you werenât doing anything wrong when you went to town. What was so wrong about waiting at the edge of town by the dirt road, under the big southern live oak, nose faux-stuck in a book, aching for a glimpse of that white head of hair hidden under the brim of a black cowboy hat? Was it a sin to watch his tall, broad, strong frame saunter down the road and into the bar? Was it a sin to imagine what his sun-tanned, dirty, sweaty skin looked like beneath his grimy, baby blue cotton button up?Â
Sometimes it felt like a sin, given the way youâd hide your face in your unread book to bite your lip and blush when he looked in your direction. You still lie awake at night, face flushed pink and hands over the blankets, reminiscing about the time those dangerous blue eyes flicked up and down your figure before they gave you a wink. That was the only time you felt brave enough to push Daddyâs limits to let you ride back to town early the next morning, under the guise of helping one of the elderly ladies with her cleaning, when in reality you were scoping the outskirts of town for his shiny black horse. If you saw it, well, that meant he stayed in place for at least one night. Sure enough, around the backside of the homely little inn, that black stallion stood tied.Â
You werenât sure why you did it, at least not at the time, because it wasnât like youâd ever get the chance to do anything with that information. He was a stranger, named a troublemaker in the paper, too, and you were locked away in that ranch house 5 miles down the beaten trail like a knightless, wild-west princess.Â
⌠That is, until Daddyâs got overnight business to tend to. With a bad storm rolling over the endless sea of grassy prairie, and some pretty sleazy cowhands, he forbids you to travel the 150 mile round-trip alongside him to help drive a fellow rancherâs cattle further uphill. You tut, whine, roll your eyes, and stamp your foot in protest, but oh, no, itâs just no use, sweetheart, Daddy says. Itâs a miracle that little trick still works on him, or else he mightâve remembered itâs nearly time for your ride to town.Â
With a shotgun shoved in your hands and a kiss pressed to the top of your head, you watch Daddy ride off, standing barefoot on the porch. For the first time in forever, now grown and far braver than you were the last time, youâre by yourself; youâre freer than the summer breeze blowing through the trees, freer than a bird, freer than the water trickling in the crick at the other end of the pasture. Itâs a secret, sweet victory, and in your glee you almost go running off the porch before realizing itâs probably a good idea to put the gun down first.Â
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Itâs close to 10 oâclock when you trot into town on your dark bay horse, Ace, dressed in the prettiest non-fanciful dress you own. Compared to your usual attire, with bustles, corsets, undercoats galore, it almost feels like a nightgown once youâre in the realm of the rest of the town folk. You figured it was better to dress down than up, though; if anyone was to spot you riding into town, your go-to-town dress would be your first identifier.
Daddyâs not the type of man to drain his money and life away in such a grimy place, and neither are his friends; well, maybe one, but heâs done so much money and life wasting in that saloon that you doubt heâll recognize you. Or, if he does, you doubt heâll remember. However, you find yourself hesitating to leave your horse, once heâs tied up next to the saloon.Â
The lively music playing from the shabby little building is so loud, loud enough for you to hear from where you stand⌠outside. Inside, people are yelling, laughing, singing, shouting, swearing, and you start getting the feeling that you really shouldnât be here.Â
âGod, âve gotta piss like a fuckinâ racehorse.â
You snap your head in the direction the voice came from, but itâs too little too late. In the dim moonlight, you watch the man stumble âround the corner of the saloon, drunk hands popping open the button of his thick, canvas pants. âDonât look, Blackjack, got my dick ouâ oh, shit!âÂ
âWhâ I-I, um,â Stammering, you whip around and squeeze your eyes shut (although itâs far too late for that to do anything), your legs immediately carrying you back to your horseâs side. Thereâs no mistaking the snow-white hair peeking out from underneath the brim of that black hat, and youâre utterly mortified.Â
âWoah, sweetheart. Hang fire,â The stranger drawls, the sound of fabric rustling behind you as he haphazardly tucks his shirt back into his now-buttoned pants. âYâlook awfully familiar, yâknow.âÂ
âI donât believe I do,â You mutter, your back still turned to the outlaw as you work at the knot securing your horse to the wooden hitching rail. If you werenât so flustered by the manâs presence, and the eyefull you got of whatâs hidden in his pants, maybe the knot wouldnât take so damn long to come loose.Â
âI said hold it, miss,â He emphasizes, hooking a finger into the ribbon at the back of your dress and tugging you away from the hitching rail. Without 100 feet of distance separating you, you realize just how much he towers over you, dwarfing you in comparison⌠However, youâre no regular, resigned, reverent little girl, and youâre not about to let a strangerâno matter how handsomeâragdoll you around. ââS no mistakinâ you.â
âYouâd better get your grimy hands off'a me, mister, or else,â you bite back, praying for his soul should his grip tear the bow off of your dress. Heâs not pulling on it anymore, but heâs still got his finger crooked into the baby blue silk.Â
âOoh, yer a mean âun, huh?â The man sneers, snorting at your pitiful attempts to wriggle away from him without ripping the shiny, delicate fabric. Bending down to meet your ear, he lowers his voice to something just above a whisper. âOr what?â
âYouâll find out, thatâs what. Let go'a me.â
âSay, yer thâgirl who sits under âat tree over there, ainât ya? Watchinâ me?â Pointing a long, deathly still finger at the live oak tree, he turns his head to look at your scowling face. âWell, ya donât usually look at me âat way, but yâsure are her. Iâd recognize âat hair anywhere, sweetheart.â
âIf you donât turn me loose m'gonna blow that finger clean off your hand, sir.â One final warning. He lets you go, not because of your threat, but because he wants to. Itâd be a shame if he spoiled his fun so soon. Plus, the only person capable of blowing a finger clean off of his hand is himself.Â
âThank you,â you mumble, glaring up at him when he returns upright, reaching behind you to make sure the ribbon is still tight, neat, and secure against your back. âIf youâll excuse me, Iâll be leavin' now.âÂ
âOh, câmon,â he says, his voice yet again a smooth drawl, grinning ear to ear as he follows each of your steps back to your horse. âYâcan watch me for months but ya canât gimme thâtime tâintroduce mâself?âÂ
âWill you stop with that?â Punctuating your question with a hand planted on your hip, you look at him incredulously, using your other hand to jab a finger into his chest. Although your cheeks are bright pink in embarrassment, the night sky acts as your ally and disguises the girlish glow. âYouâ If Iâdâve known you were such aâ a bastard Iâdâve saved m'self the trouble!â
âA bastard? Yâgot quite thâmouth on ya, huh?â He laughs, his hand coming up to pick the hat off of his head as the other smooths his sweaty white hair back, bringing his hat to his chest so it doesnât fall to the ground. âQuit yer caterwauling ân let me introduce mâself, please, maâam, or Iâll hafta show ya a real bastard.âÂ
From what you can tell, he is a real bastard, just the most charming bastard youâve ever had the privilege of running into. The outlaw holds out his rough, calloused hand for yours, which you hesitantly give.Â
âSix Eyes Satoru Gojo, maâam, âs a pleasure tâmeet ya,â Satoru greets, bowing to place a kiss on the soft skin of your knuckles, only serving as fuel to the flames burning on your cheeks. You quickly take your hand away from his and hold it close to yourself. âBut if yaâd like tâcall me bastard, atâs okay too.âÂ
You give him a once-over, humming in some semblance of approval at the newfound half-properness in Satoruâs behavior. That wonât last long, but youâre a lady after all, a lady who has been treated nothing but properly your entire life, which is exactly why you find yourself subconsciously wishing heâd get back to his dastardly act.Â
âWell, Six Eyes Satoru Gojo, Iâll be leavin' now,â You say flatly, trying to offset the fact that heâs got you wrapped around his finger already. Itâs no use giving into the idea of staying, things have already gone further than they should have, and if you stay any longer youâre not sure youâll know when to say when. Gathering a handful of your dress, you slip your foot into the stirrup at Aceâs side and heave yourself up into your saddle.Â
âOh, for thâlove ofâ After I introduced mâself sâ sweetly?âÂ
Clop, clop, clop, is all Satoru hears in response as you back your horse away from the hitching post, throwing your hair over your shoulders and out of your line of sight.Â
âAwww, donât leave mâlonely already, sweetheart! Câmon, I âonât bite,â he calls to you as you slowly start your way back in the direction of your house. The back way, the way you came, just for extra insurance that you wonât be seen leaving the saloon. âNot ânless ya want mâto, at least!âÂ
All he gets in response is a grin over your shoulder, and the same clop, clop, clop of Aceâs shoes against the dirt. Well, shit, Satoru thinks to himself as you ride away, almost walking back over to the doors of the saloon, but heâs found himself far too interested in the way your body shifts up and down in tandem with your horseâs steps. He takes one step towards the door, then swivels over to Blackjack, then the door, then Blackjackâ
âFuck, still gotta pee.âÂ
After relieving himself, this time without flashing anyone, Satoru makes quick work of the knot tying Blackjack to the hitching rail and slings himself up into his saddle. No mind is paid to the poor waitress still waiting for his return in the dingy saloon, whoâs eyeing the double-doors for his reappearance; no, heâs dead set on following your path into the horse-high grass, pulling Blackjack into a higher gear with the reins in his hands.Â
If you cared, youâd chastise yourself for walking the line of inappropriate behavior as an unwedded woman with a man you just met. If you cared, youâd scold yourself for taking your sweet time, for the slow trot youâve kept Ace at when you could have hauled ass home. But you donât care, not when you can hear Satoruâs horse almost pick up to a gallop behind you.Â
With one hand keeping his hat from flying off his head and one on the reins, Satoru races to close the gap between the two of you till heâs about 100 feet from you, slowing Blackjack to a trot. He hangs behind you once heâs caught up, matching your pace, watching you ride, pulling a cigarette and a match box from his stash in shirt pocket. Once itâs lit, he pinches out the match, tosses it over his shoulder, and pulls a drag from the cigarette between his lips.
âFor beinâ sâhellbent on gettinâ away from me, yâainât very fast,â Satoru comments, smug as ever that heâs caught youâas if you werenât trying to be caughtâ blowing smoke from the side of his mouth. Heâs still watching the up down up down up down of your body in the saddle. âYâgot a name?âÂ
âNot one y'need t'know,â you reply coolly. Somehow you can feel the weight of his blue gaze on your back, a type of audacity youâve never experienced in all your born days, and it makes you blush. Youâre glad heâs watching you from behind, not just to satisfy your itch for his attention, but also so he canât see the girlish grin you canât seem to fight off.Â
âStubborn,â he tuts around his rolled cigarette, only tearing his eyes away from your backside to shake his head. âSweetheartâll work, then. Howâs âat?â
âInappropriate, really.â Another cool reply. Both of you know your feigned unaffectedness isnât going to shoo him away; if anything, itâs pulling him in closer, making him more interested in getting you to drop that nonchalant act with each short, clipped comment.
âWhere we goinâ, sweetheart?â Satoru asks, tugging the reins till Blackjack gets him right beside you. He pulls another drag from the cigarette dangling between his lips before leaning over to you, pointedly blowing the smoke in your face.Â
You fake cough, bringing a hand up to erratically wave that damned cloud of cigarette smoke away from your mouth and nose as he laughs. Satoru shakes his head as his laughter subsides, freeing a hand to wipe at his teary eyes.Â
âWe are not goin' anywhere. I am goin' home, Six Eyes,â you sass, punctuating your words with a hmph. All that serves to do is wind his laughter back up and lean back in the saddle, making Blackjack stop in his tracks. Ace keeps on trotting. âWhatâs that even mean? Why do people call ya that?âÂ
âWhew, âs fun tâwind yâup, yâknow âat?â Satoru says once he gets Blackjack to catch up to you again, killing the smoldering end of his cigarette before flicking it away. âIâll tell ya thâstory when we get tâwhere weâre goinâ.âÂ
Huffing at the way he overlooks your I, not We statement yet again, you instead focus on the view of your ride. Bright, silvery light of the near-full moon shines off of the smooth live oak leaves, illuminates the wide expanse of tall grass where the trees donât grow, and kisses every square inch of the crop fields in sight. The clear sky seems to go on forever, wrapping its dark arms across the horizon and on, highlighting each star in the sky. Itâs warm, humid from the system of storms not too far off, the epitome of a perfect mid-July night.Â
A perfect mid-July night that you just had to take advantage of. Despite the serenity of the view, internally, youâve spent the last three miles flip flopping between excitement and anxiety. On one hand, youâve taken action, and thatâs something to be proud of; on the other, youâve taken action to do this, with him, whoâs enough a bastard without the criminal record to make any good ladyâs father bust a few vessels. God, you think about your poor father, how he loosened his reins after keeping you on a tight, protective leash, and you wonder how heâd feel if he found out. His one and only daughter alone with an outlaw, a dirty, grimy, criminal cowboy, in the face of all the kindhearted, decent suitors you turned your nose up at.Â
âYouâre nothin' but trouble,â You say, softer than anything else youâve said to the man beside you. Anxiety has outweighed your excitement, and itâs written all over you in big, red, capital letters. Satoru could sense it before he saw it, and heâs getting the feeling youâve never done so much as come home late.Â
âAww, âatâs not true,â He says, feigning hurt with a pout, his pink bottom lip pushed out. Maybe, he thinks to himself, he can tease the nerves out of you. Playing with you is far too fun to give up. Itâs a shame you didnât come up to him earlier, maybe you wouldnât be so nervous if you had. âWant me tâshow ya how good I can be, sweetheart? Yâgot a lilâ sneak peek earlier.â
âYouâre gonna get me in trouble! This 's hardly appropriate, and I hardly know ya outside of your charges listed in th'paper, and if my daddy finds out heâheâll have me arrested, or somethin' like that. Heâll put a hole right through your head!âÂ
Now, that just makes him laugh, which he knows will do nothing to soothe you. âIâd love tâsee âem try,â Satoru snorts. However, knowing a sliver of your temperament from experience, he doesnât want to push you too far yet. Heâs got a secret weapon in his saddle bag, and it isnât another gun to aid the two on his hips. âYâknow what, I got somethinâ âatâll help calm those boil over nervesâa yours. Evâr been down southâa the border, sweetheart?â
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Cold iron warms in the heat of your drunken hands, the shiny metal revolver gleaming in the moonlight heavy in your inexperienced grip.Â
âAtta girlâ now, look right down the topâa the barrel ân line âat iron sight up,â Satoru instructs at your side, knees bent so he can see what you see. The scent of gunpowder, cigarettes, tequila, and sweat floods your senses with him so close, the amalgamation sure to stick to your dress, but you canât bring yourself to find it anything but good. From the corner of your eyes, you take a lingering look at his face, and notice a dimple on his cheek you hadnât before. The gun. Right.Â
âThe metal things? Iâm nervous,â You mutter, fingers adjusting and readjusting their position before realizing itâll take a while to feel comfortable wielding such a weapon.Â
âThe metal things, yep. Ainât nothinâ tâbe scared of, sweetheart. Yâgot it?â Moving behind you, Satoru now has his strong chest pressed to your back, muscular arms wrapped around you, his hands covering yours just as he warned you he would to make up for the recoil of the shot.
âMmmm.. mhm. Now fire?â Focused eyes line up the metal fin at the end of the barrel with the âOâ on the âNo Trespassingâ sign posted in the grassy field at edge of your fatherâs property, all the while youâre mentally preparing yourself for the explosive force and deafening noise of your upcoming shot. The physical contact, so foreign to your previously untouchable body, doesnât help your preparation in the least, proving infinitely more distracting than the tequila.Â
âGo âhead, sweetheart. I gotcha.â
Deep breaths. All you have to do is put your finger on the trigger. Before you can move your index finger, Satoru gasps dramatically and grabs your sides, making you flinch and squeal in fear. Youâre cowed down, hunched over with a hand slapped over your eyes and another still aiming the gun at the sign in fear when you not only hear, but also feel him start laughing. That bastard.Â
Ramming an elbow back and hitting him square in the ribs is all you can do in this position other than throwing him a scolding glare. âDonât scare me when Iâve got a gun in my hands!â
âSorry, sorryâ Had tâdo it.â Glare. âI ainât gonna do it again, I promise!â Squint. âI swear I wonât.â
Resuming the position, chest pressed closely to your back, hands clasped tightly over yours, chin comfortably rested on your shoulder, Satoru hushes his laughter in favor of letting you gather your bearings. He watches the way you squint one eye as you realign the iron sight, and the way you stick the tip of your tongue out of the side of your mouth to focus, and the way you visibly go through a mental checklist before you put your finger back on the trigger, and heâd be eternally damned if he said it wasnât the cutest thing heâs ever seen. Something so common to him was so foreign to you, and that sentiment could be held for more than guns.Â
When the gun fires, you squeeze both of your eyes shut, lean back into the solid body behind you, and the world goes silent. Your eyes only open when your ears start ringing, Satoruâs impressed whistle filtering through the muffled sound snapping you to attention.
âWell, Iâll be damned. âAt was a damn good shot, sweetheart, almost âs good âs me,â he praises proudly, standing tall as he examines the bullet hole in the sign, almost emptying out the âOâ entirely. âYâgot five more bullets. Wanna try yer hand at five more shots?â
The next five shots take over an hour to fire, and the last two leave no trace other than a knick in the side of the otherwise swiss-cheese sign. Each shot was sandwiched between mouthfuls of tequila from the bottle and drunken fits of laughter, both overshadowing your target practice in the end, leaving the decorative glass and revolver empty.Â
Raising your wobbly frame up onto your tiptoes, you snatch the black cowboy hat off of Satoruâs oddly compliant head and place it gently atop yours. Itâs a little big, and itâs hot, and it smells like campfire smoke, but you wear it all the same. With the hat settled on your head, you clumsily spin his pearl-grip six shooter around your finger and strike a pose. âWhoâs Six Eyes Satoru Gojo now, hm?â
For the first time tonight, Satoru says nothing. Instead, heâs just looking at you, strong arms crossed over his strong chest, expression unreadable if not for the smirk tugging at the corner of his lips.Â
âWell, how do I look?â
âReal pretty, sweetheart⌠real, real pretty. Yâwanna know what they say âbout takinâ a cowboyâs hat? Puttinâ it on like yâgot mine on âat pretty little headâa yours?â Satoru drawls, his low voice dripping a sweet, dangerous kind of venom that sounds like the gospel to your drunk ears. Slow, sauntering steps kill the distance between you, till heâs so close you can feel the body heat radiating off of him. Eyes growing wide as you tip your head back to look up at him, your hand holding the cowboy hat on your head so it doesnât fall off, you finally decipher why he looked like he caught you earlier. When he answers his own question, he drops his voice to a smug, deadly whisper. âYâwear the hat, yâride the cowboy.â
Sober, it would be hard enough to gather yourself to say anything at all, much less something so on par with Satoruâs energy, but drunk? That liquid courage, drank by the messy mouthful, is aptly named, coursing through your veins stronger than the deep-rooted conventions of the world around you. With scanning, studying eyes, you further analyze the look etched into Satoruâs suntanned face, and you figure that this is why you havenât left the thought of him alone since you first saw him. You donât cower away from his blue haze, not this time. This time, your eyes meet his, locked on them in a manner akin to a standoff.Â
âRide the cowboy, huh? Do they say that?â You whisper back, slipping the six shooter in the black leather belt hanging off of Satoruâs hips, letting your hand drag against the holster one second too long. It makes him shift, his baby blue shirt barely concealing the hints of moving muscle beneath.Â
âMmmmmhm. Donât tell me âs yer first rodeo, sweetheart,â he teases, his euphemism enough to make you blush if not for your already flush-drunk cheeks.Â
âI bet ya wish it was, Satoru. It ain't my first rodeo.â Oh, but it is. And if he were talking about kissing you, itâd still be your first rodeo, save for the sweet cheek-kisses youâd given a boy when you were six years old. However, youâre no longer in the realm of backing down, and you wonât give him the benefit of knowing heâs deflowering you.Â
âOh?â Satoru doesnât believe that for a single secondâ not when you were tripping over yourself about all the trouble youâd be in if anyone found out about you doing so much as riding alongside him. That devilish set of dimples dip so deep as he grins down at you that youâre sure itâs hurting him. âYânot evân a little scared tâget bucked off?âÂ
âI ain't scared at all,â You muse, initiating your first touch of the night by placing a flat palm against his clothed stomach. Satoruâs heavyweight cotton shirt offers little padding between your hand and his skin; he might as well be shirtless, because you can feel every contour of his impressive abdominal muscles.Â
Something shifts in the air when you touch him, as if that single action changed the charted course of your world in an instant. The change is palpable, itâs audible, itâs visible, itâs so refreshingly different from all youâve known and youâre going to chase it, even if it kills you, and it very well might should your father find out. Screaming cicadas and chirping crickets, trickling water and whistling breeze, all of which buzz around you in the night air seem to drown in the noise of Six Eyes Satoru Gojo.Â
âYeah? Call my bluff, then. Prove it.âÂ
Itâs a dare, an invitation to dance with the blue eyed devil himself, and youâre taking it without a second thought. In the blink of an eye you take hold of his shirt collar, yanking him down to crash your inexperienced lips into his, and the world around you as you know it comes down crashing and burning with him. Satoru uncrosses his arms and plants two firm, rope-worn, calloused hands on your waist, pulling your eager frame flush against his.Â
The kiss is rushed, open mouthed and sloppy, and if not for your plush lips it might hurt. Each passing second against your lips is chock full of proof that you have no clue where to start or where to stop, proof that youâre running on nothing but instinct to both satiate yourself and call Satoruâs bluff. Headstrong and obstinate as ever, you urge him backwards, back, back, back in sloppy, tripping steps till thereâs enough of a rise in the terrain to stop him from moving without taking a step up.Â
Satoru takes the reins from your imperious hold to ease the two of you to the ground, bending and hinging one joint at a time till youâre both close enough to fall to your knees in the dry grass. Heâs still got one hand on your waist, traveling until it finds purchase on your hip, while the other flings the bulletless gun from the right holster away with reckless abandon. The other revolver lays aside within armâs reach, just in case, but Satoruâs more focused on getting as far as youâll let him go. Without the possibility of being poked, prodded, or shot, he shifts from his knees to sit flat, hauling you into his lap with a single arm wrapped around your waist.Â
By the time youâre in his lap, youâve pried his shirt off, but thereâs not much of the night left to waste for you to sit and admire him as youâd like to, the two of you instead working overtime at getting you undressed. Youâre breathless, heâs panting between each kiss of your lips, so soft, so sweet against his that he has to fight the urge to rip off the remaining clothes youâve got on, consisting of nothing more than your linen chemise and cotton underwear. Itâs only now, almost exposed under the silver moonlight in this cowboyâs lap, that your nerves start to get the better of you; itâs not that you want to stop, because youâd rather die than stop him from just touching you, but itâs all so fast that your head is spinning and youâre shaking like a leaf.Â
Beneath you, where your hips sit atop his, you can feel how hard he is through the thick, rough canvas of his pants. Itâs not smart to take them offâ not outside, anywayâ but thereâs a part of you that craves to have your bare skin against his. Maybe thatâs naive, but tequila doesnât care about naivety.Â
After all the teasing and taunting heâs put you through tonight, Satoru wonât make you say it. He wonât make you admit that this is your first time, nor will he ignore the fact. Instead, Satoruâs strong hands slide up the sides of your thighs, under that thin, white underdress, settling on your hips with a soft squeeze before pulling you down to grind against him. The friction, the drag against that wet, sensitive, aching place between your legs makes your breath hitch in your throat and cling to him, arms thrown around his neck.Â
 His black cowboy hat is back on his head where it belongs, tipped back enough to let you see his face, and those blue eyes youâve come to know seem to glow up at you. Theyâre lidded, heavy in a way youâve never seen before from anyone else, and now that heâs looking at you like this youâre not sure youâd want anyone else to. Another roll of his narrow hips and youâre whimpering, nothing more than putty in his hands for him to mold and shape however heâd like.Â
âYâokay, sweetheart?â Satoru whispers, placing a searing kiss at the junction of your neck and shoulder, scattering goosebumps across your sensitive skin. You can feel his cock twitch from its confinement beneath you, and although your ability to gauge his size is obscured, heâs big. Heâs a big man, with big hands and big shoulders, but you didnât expect all of him to be so big. âFeels like yer shakinâ ân I ainât evân done anythinâ yet.âÂ
The right words seem impossible to find, much less to say, all of them so vulgar and explicit that they make your face burn with such a vibrant shade of red itâs visible even in the low light of the moonbeams. He grins against your skin at your inability to speak, knowing such phrases have never left your pretty plush lips, relishing in the fact that your headstrong nature has been reduced to nothing by his touch. In a bashful whisper, you manage to whimper out your incomplete request. âI⌠um, I want you toâŚâ
More tempting words than those have never graced his ears in all his born days.Â
âYeah? Yâwant me tâdo somethinâ, baby?â Satoru murmurs, continuing to chip away at your resolve with his open mouthed kisses to your neck, his low voice rumbling against your skin, each action setting you aflame with every precious, passing second. You moan when he calls you baby, and again when his lips reach that place just under your jaw, and you want so badly to claw at his back but your hands feel so weak.Â
âDo yâwant me tâtouch you? RightâŚâ As he trails off, so does his bruised, nicked, calloused hand from your hip, stopping when his palm is pressed smooth against your lower stomach. Barely, feather-light, his thumb grazes your clothed clit. â⌠Here?âÂ
âYesâ yes, please,â You plead, your hips pushing into his touch, your eyes squeezing shut to splay your lashes over your cheeks, your body tensing at the touch; itâs so foreign, so forbidden, but youâd trade your spot in heaven for more of it.Â
Satoru doesnât make you beg, no, but he stops touching you to hang his fingertips on the waistband of your offensive underwear and slide them down your legs. Only after theyâre discarded in the dry grass does he offer his merciful touch again, spreading your soaked folds to gather your slick on the pad of his thumb before slowly circling your clit. Each circled swipe over that shiveringly sensitive bud pulls a shaky, breathy moan from your throat, a sound so rewarding that all he wants to do is flip the two of you over and take you right there.Â
âRelax, sweetheart. Feels good?â He asks, hungry eyes dropping to watch the way your teeth sink into your lower lip, then lower to watch the way you chase his touch with your hips, and then lower to watch you toy with the buttons of his pants, your hands just brushing against his solid cock. Itâs not on purpose, but it feels like teasing nonetheless, making his cock jump against the thick canvas restraining it. Itâs starting to ache.Â
The strength to speak is so hard to gather, even more so when one slick, thick finger dips past your entrance, slowly sinking into you one sweet centimeter at a time. Your pride, your ego, your purity, all the aspects of your mind that have been built up like walls to protect you come crumbling down instantaneously, rendering you defenseless against Satoruâs masterful touch as he curls that finger inside of you. Pure electric bliss radiates through your shaking body from the gentle pressure against that newfound spongy spot, and again when you feel him slip second finger into you, the new addition offering a slight stretching sensation to the pleasure. Something in the pit of your stomach feels like itâs coiling up, warm, tense, tight, and youâre unsure whether you should run to it or from it.
Each curl of his fingers pulls winds that coil up further, pulls you closer to that feeling, and overtakes your control, leaving you feeling close to tears and on the brink of something unknown. All of your pride has been stripped away, finding yourself no longer above begging and taking.
âSatoru, please,â You gasp, in an attempt to fill your pleading lungs with air as he just keeps on pulling you apart. Desperate, shaking fingers start grasping at the buttons keeping you from what you want, clumsily popping them open till you can dip your hand past them and free his cock in one swift motion. Itâs thick, so hot to the touch, tip red and weeping from watching you fall to pieces in his hands. âI-I want more, please, I really want it ân I feel so⌠s-so good, please.âÂ
With no clue what to do, you just do what feels right, swiping at the mess of precum gathered at the tip of his cock with the pad of your thumb before letting your grip drag slowly down his length. Satoru swears under his breath, words so vulgar youâd only heard them once or twice before, but from his mouth they sound like the damn gospel. His head drops back in awe of the relief your soft, soft touch offers, only snapping back up to watch your hands slow strokes up and down his aching cock. The glorious sight is enough to violently rip the thought of enjoying this from his head and kick him into a higher gear.
âIâll give yâwhatever ya want, sweetheart, yâdonât hafta beg me,â Satoru says, his voice low, breathy, laden with lust and hymnal in your ears. Slowly, he slips his digits from your cunt, his palm and fingers coated with your slick and shining in the silver light. Thereâs no time to waste, not when you just begged him for more, not when nights donât last forever, but he wants to taste you so bad that he brings his soaked fingers to his lips and licks them clean, savoring the sweet, sweet flavor of you. Watching him lick his fingers clean of you is enough to make you whimper.Â
In no time heâs pushing up your chemise to rest on your hips, reaching around to find purchase of a handful of your ass to steady you as he pulls you higher on your knees. Youâre hovering over his hips now, the tip of his cock nestling against your slick-coated folds, your shaking hands resting on his broad shoulders, and you are so completely overcome with anticipation that it hurts.Â
âPromiseâll be gentle, sweetheart. Yâainât gots tâworry over âat, I swear,â He whispers against your lips, pulling your body flush against his own. Mumbling pleads for him to hurry, you want him, you want this, you beg him to make his move, and Satoru canât deny such a pretty girl asking him so nicely. Mercifully, he lines himself up with your weeping entrance, and allows you to take control.Â
With shaking legs, you lower yourself down just until the tip of his cock is snug inside of you, suddenly halting. It hurtsâŚÂ but it feels so, so, so good. You lift yourself up to try again entirely, staring down to where the two of you meet, and lower yourself again. This time, you donât stop for that burn, that intrusion, that stretch, wincing while sinking down so slowly that you can feel every single inch of Satoruâs hot, fat cock drag against your walls until youâre so full you canât go down any further. Once youâre still, youâre panting, whimpering, and clawing at the lifestyle-built muscles of Satoruâs expansive shoulders.Â
Below you, Satoruâs in awe, his grip on the flesh of your ass so tight that his knuckles are white, his breath tortured, ragged, desperate. If he could manage to focus on something other than maintaining his self-control heâd let every nasty, vulgar, explicit thought of his at the sight of you pour from his lips, but he canât. Inside of you, you can feel him twitch, a non-verbal, involuntary request to move from your position flush against his hips, but now that youâre so full of him youâre not sure you can. Whimpering, you open your hazy, pleasure-stricken eyes and meet his, finding them busy drinking every inch of you in his lap.Â
Thatâs all he needs to take the reins, he knows what youâre saying with nothing more than the way you look down at him: you want him to move, you want him to help you. On the brink of losing all composure, he pays no mind at all to the snarky little comments he could be making about so much for the rules being âyou ride the cowboy.â Satoru wraps an arm all the way around your waist, one hand holding your side and the other still holding a handful of your ass, and he pulls you to rest against his chest so he can take care of you. Itâs a small change in position, but it makes you gasp nonetheless, eyes batting shut once again and jaw falling slack around a pretty little whimper. With you tucked so sweetly against him, head between his jaw and shoulder, Satoru slowly draws himself out of you and so shallowly pushes back in.Â
ââS âat alright, sweetheart?â The outlaw murmurs, your whine of a response swiftly hushing his concern and care and making him go that much more crazy. Another gentle drag of his cock out, another slow thrust of it in, the bliss of the disappearing burn making way for the delicious stretch seeping into your muscles. Then, as Satoru finds a nice, shallow, beginner-friendly pace, the tip of his cock catches on that wonderful spongy spot decorating your walls and you moan, loud and involuntary, his name leaving your lips like some sort of praise. You canât help the sound spilling from your mouth when he finds it again, and you want to beg, plead, cry, anything to chase that feeling, anything to get Satoru to fuck you like he means it; youâre so stripped of your defenses and your self-control that you donât realize that you are begging, pleading, crying for him to go deeper, harder, more more more.Â
Such filthy words leaving lips as precious as yours should be a punishable offense, he thinks, especially when they sound so good that the sweet nothings heâs whispering into your hair are cracking off at the end into broken, wanton whines. Satoruâs grip on you grows impossibly tighter, entranced by your words, your warmth, the otherworldly grip your cuntâs got around him, and if he focuses, the soft squelch of how sopping wet you are each time he pushes up into you. He keeps his pace despite your pleas, he doesnât want to hurt you, he doesnât want to push you too far, because although heâs a grimy, sorry sleazebag of a cowboy, and youâre a hotheaded, ornery brat, you feel like a china doll in his arms. Breakable.Â
âPlease, for th'love of God, Satoru, justâ just fuck me, already!â You cry out, desperation kicking your respectability out the door, almost reduced to tears as you cling to him like youâre going to fall off the face of the earth if you donât. Where was the bastard who grabbed you by the bow? The outlaw with a pistol on each hip, a cigarette in his mouth, blood splatter on his shirt? Six Eyes Satoru Gojo? Thatâs who you wanted now, thatâs who you needed, and you appreciate the sweetness, the care, but by God it wasnât sweet anymore. It was torture.Â
âYâwant me to fuck you, huh? âAtâs what yâwant, sweetheart?â God, there he was. Compared to those sweet nothings he was whispering, it sounds like a threat, his low growl of a voice rumbling through his chest while you babble yesyesyesyespleaseyesyes. Satoru almost pulls out of you entirely, leaving only the tip to nudge into your messy cunt before snapping his hips up, burying his cock inside of you in one fell swoop, slamming into you so deep that it feels like heâs trying to bruise your insides. It hurts, it elevates the drool worthy stretch of your cunt around his cock, it makes you sob his name in a way that Satoruâs sure will burn into his brain and haunt him forever. âAll âat talk earlier, now look at ya. Begginâ me tâfuck you,â He tuts, but his near-scolding words are draped in adoration. ââM gonâ fuck you sâgood ya wonât want ânyone else to.â
Not the second time, or the third, but on the fourth vicious ram of his cock into you, you find yourself trying to match his pace, rocking yourself up when he drags himself out, sinking yourself down when he slams himself in, all with shaking legs and pitifully weak knees. The sound of skin hitting skin, the gushing sound of how wet your pussy was for him, the pleasured, guttural swears moaned from the man beneath you, all of it in tandem with the way his impossibly thick cock abused each and every tender spot inside you was addictive. Everything he offered, you took, and you took more, and he watched as your manners, your upbringing, and your conditioning flew out of the window with reckless abandon, entranced by the way heâs unraveled you to reveal a woman of pure need.Â
Both of Satoruâs hands are settled on your ass, now, his white-knuckle grip sure to leave itâs mark when this is all over, but you donât care. Youâre too busy pushing yourself off of him, planting both hands on his strong chest, riding his cock like itâs the last thing youâll ever do in this world. Itâs sinful, he thinks, the way your hips meet his in the middle, the way you cry out his name, the way your jaw has fallen slack around each of your filthy babbles of how good you feel.Â
âAtta fuckinâ girl, sweetheart! Look at ya,â He praises, something primal, something venomous, something paradoxically needy coating his gruff voice. Inside you, that coil from before is wound so tight that youâve got tears in your eyes, but you want it, you want whatever feeling comes after so bad that youâre begging for it. Satoruâs praises only serve to urge you on, his ragged, tortured moans only pulling you closer, and closer, and his fat cock slams into you one more time and youâre done. âLet go, sweetheart, yâcan do it, jusâ let go, alright? Atta girl.â
Your orgasm tears through you like bullets; hot, forceful, sudden, and searing, those tears falling down your cheeks as you cry out, desperately grinding your hips down into him so you can chase the pleasure radiating from that sweet spot inside of you. Satoru tips you forward to crash his lips into yours, swallowing your beautiful cries of bliss, still fucking into you so brutally through your orgasm in pursuit of his own fast-approaching climax. The gush of your cunt around him, the way you clench down so tight, so rhythmically, god, itâs too much, and heâs swearing as he pulls out of you swiftly at the very last minute, his hand flying to his freed cock to catch the cum spilling from the tip before it can stain your linen underdress.Â
As the two of you still, panting against each otherâs lips, a pile of sweaty, strengthless bodies, the sounds of the night around you fill the world again. Your sense has yet to return, because you should be gathering yourself and your clothes, but instead you rest atop the outlawâs heaving chest.Â
Satoru takes care of getting you back home, despite a nagging voice in the back of his head reminding him he doesnât do this, itâs not smart, itâs something a sap would do, not a travelinâ man. But youâre tired, and heâs tired, and all he wants is a nice, warm bed to lay his head down for the night. By the time the two of you lay down between your linen sheets, your dress and all its fixings are laid over the chair in the corner of your room, his grimy ones are thrown on the floor in another, and his boots are hidden beneath your bed. One strong arm is trapped beneath your head, and your sleepy, mumbled half-protests are met with one thing before your lights are out:Â
âCainât leave ya out here byân yer lonesome, Iâll stay till yer Daddy gets back.âÂ
And he does.Â
The next day starts wrapped up in each other in the golden, pink-painted morning light, a sobering repeat of the love made a few hours before out in the grassy field. Any thoughts of your daddy, what heâd say, or what heâd think are nowhere to be seen when youâre in the presence of Satoru, the bastard cowboy whoâs taken your affections hostage. You wash his filthy clothes and yours, hang them out to dry, and stow Blackjack in the luxury of the barn next to Ace till Satoru needs him. You sweep away the dirty footprints his boots left on the porch. You rinse his smoke-soaked cowboy hat till it smells new again.Â
Satoru feeds the horses, the chickens, and the cows, all of which were your chores to do while your daddy was gone to drive cattle. He helps heave you up onto Blackjackâs back, the black stallion far taller than your own horse, and he lets you sit in front of him to take the reins. None without the fair amount of teasing, which didnât seem like a fair amount to you; at several points in the day, youâd hop off Blackjackâs back and try to storm back to the house, but somehow the outlaw always reeled you back to ease you up into the saddle again.Â
When the sun starts to hang heavy in the west side of the sky, you draw him a bath, to which he doesnât protest. Nice baths are hard to come by when you donât stay in one place for very long, and when you spend most of your time on the run, in places so wild, so untouched as the West, theyâre a godsend. Warm water and soap washes him clean, soothes his sore muscles, and makes him new again, but he doesnât want to leave the bliss of the tub so soon. As he soaks in the suds, you enter the bathroom in your dressing robe to sit on the lip of the tub, simultaneously admiring him and admonishing him as the two of you bicker back and forth.Â
âI think your clothesâre dry, bastard,â You tease, head resting on your shoulder as you balance yourself to sit on the edge of the tub. Itâs a little urge for him to get out, because you feel youâre just as filthy as he was and you need to bathe. Satoru keeps your eyes with his, sinking lower in the tub till his shoulders are submerged and knees are poking out over the suds, reaching a wet hand to the string keeping your dressing robe shut. He draws it slowly, eyes still locked on yours, till the knot comes loose and each side falls open to expose your bare body beneath. It makes you fluster, wanting to slouch and hide yourself, but he grabs your hand as if to say donât. You huff. âCome on, youâre hogginâ it. Iâm filthy.âÂ
âGet in,â Is all he says at first. Before you can protest, he speaks again. âCâmon. Get in.âÂ
You hesitate, but stand nonetheless, slowly letting the robe slip off of your shoulders and into a heap on the floor. Not once does he stop staring at you, not even when you canât meet his eyes, not even when youâre stepping into the tub. All he does is grab your arm and yank you to rest against his chest, back to front, not caring about the water splashing over the sides as a result of his forceful repositioning. If not for the way he settles his strong arms around you, youâd scold him for wetting your hair, but you canât bring yourself to get onto him.Â
âWhenâs yer daddy meant tâbe back, sweetheart?âÂ
âTomorrow night.âÂ
âAlright.â
The two of you sit in that water so long that itâs ice cold by the time you step out.Â
You find yourself wishing the sun would stay still in the sky, but it doesnât; it just keeps on moving westward, like the unusually quiet outlaw dressed in a pair of your daddyâs nightclothes at the end of your bed. As the last few hours of daylight passed over the plains, Satoru became gentler, quieter, more tender than his usual dastardly manner. It struck you normally, if not pleasantly, knowing that such a wild, sharp-tongued man spoke to you so softly, so sweetly. It wasnât lost on you that this would be your last night in his arms for a while, but you let yourself daydream that heâd be back in another month, and maybe heâd even knock on your window in the dead of night to make love to you again.Â
At the end of the bed, dressed in your oblivious daddyâs nightclothes, Satoru finds himself unpleasantly surprised at how bad he feels. Feeling bad wasnât something he felt often, having seen so much death, violence, crime, and corruption, not to mention having committed those acts with his own hands. It was a rotten feeling, knowing that heâd been your first, that heâd taken you in a field, in your bed, in your kitchen, and in your bathroom, and it was a rotten feeling, knowing that he was about to shatter any semblance of faith you placed in him. Your obstinacy, your petulance, your temperament, none of these things about you changed the fact that you were too naive to realize the fact of the matter, which was that you were just another girl to him, and he would be gone before you knew it.Â
The guilt was unsettling. It was eating at him. It was blooming under the soft touch of your warm hand on his arm, urging him to come up to lay beside you in your stark white nightdress. Satoru looks back at you with a halfhearted grin, traversing the soft expanse of your bed until his head meets the pillows and he can slip under your covers, tangled up in you again. Your soft laugh, your hair on the pillows, your keen eyes; all of you will be different soon, so he drinks it in while he can. Maybe itâs a fucked up thing to think, but you have been one of his favorites.Â
âWill y'wake me up in the morninâ? Before you go?â You whisper, sleepy and warm from where you lay your head on his chest. The outlaw has you gathered in his arms, pulled halfway over his body, holding you so comfortably while you fight the tiredness that threatens to lull you into sleep. If he wasnât preparing himself to go, heâd notice how you fit against his side like two pieces of a puzzle, a perfect fit. His voice rumbles through his chest when he replies.Â
âSure, sweetheart,â Satoru whispers back.Â
âYouâd better, you bastard. âM gonna be cross âf you donâtâŚâÂ
As sleep takes over, you trail off, the blow of your threat softened by your rhythmic breaths. Through your window shines the silvery light of the moon, creating a soft glow around your peaceful, sleeping form, and Satoru looks away.Â
Itâs four awake, dragging, guilty hours before he moves you off of his chest. Heâd stay all night if he didnât get a move on now, when youâre sleeping so deeply that you donât react to the loss of warmth or his weight shifting the bed as he stands up. Satoru shimmies out of your fatherâs nightclothes and folds them as best he can, laying them on the surface of the mahogany nightstand beside your bed before dressing himself in his washed, pressed, clean clothes. Grabbing his spurred boots from beneath your bed, his leather belt holster, and his pitch black cowboy hat, he quietly makes his way out of your bedroom, but he stops in the middle of the doorway.Â
One last look. Thatâs all he lets himself have.
One last look at your sleeping face that he kissed countless times in the past two days, that he blew smoke at, that he admired when you didnât look and even when you did. Your sleeping body that he viewed, touched, held. Your hair, your hands, your breathing⌠Soon enough, itâll hopefully all melt into the sea of women he canât remember the names or faces of. Itâll be a while before he sees you again, and he plans to forget you before he does. You still hadnât told him your name. Maybe that will help.Â
Satoru slips out of the front door silently, slipping on his hat, boots, and belt, but before he makes it to the stables he realizes heâs only got one gun holstered on his hip. Heâs not one to misplace his guns of all things, not when theyâre the driving force of his survival given the path heâs chosen, so he books it to the stables and tries to retrace his steps.Â
âBar⌠No, definitely hadâm then⌠not thâride out hereân either. Hadâm both in thâpastureâŚâ Ding ding ding. Satoru purses his lips, and Blackjack huffs beneath him. Of course, now he remembers throwing the revolver into the grass, far too busy with you all pretty and pliant in his lap to take care of his own belongings. Sighing, he gives his horse a gentle spur to get him on the move.Â
Once heâs far enough from your house to know you wonât hear him, even though youâre curled up dead asleep, he picks up to a gallop till he reaches that fated field of grass. The spot where Satoru had taken you was flat, but other than that there was little differentiating where he would have thrown the damn thing. Moonbeams would shine off of the smooth metal surface if the grass was shorter, but itâs no dice trying to find it that way. He finds it his next best course of action to hop down off of Blackjackâs back and search for it that way, but all he finds in the hour he takes is the empty bottle of tequila and that pretty, baby blue ribbon you had been so protective of. They donât call him Six Eyes for nothing, so the fact that he canât find the goddamned-piece-a-shit-good-fer-nothinâ revolver, mounted on top of the disgusting feeling of guilt eating at his insides, has his temper a building to a height he canât control.Â
Satoru shoves the ribbon in his saddle bag and launches the bottle at the âNo Trespassingâ sign you used as target practice. Milky white and blue glass shatters against the wooden sign, falling in a heap of shards beneath it, the broken, jagged pieces shining like diamonds in the light of the big, white moon. The clatter of the impact makes him curse, itâs too loud, it cuts through the peaceful sounds of the night, and itâs not as cathartic as he thought itâd be. Not at all.Â
Nights donât last forever, though, and the way a soft blue decorates the eastern horizon lets him know itâs time to go whether heâs got two guns, one, or none. Defeated, pissed, and swimming in guilt, Satoru hops back into the saddle and gives three gentle pats to Blackjackâs neck before spurring him on again. Itâs shorter to cut through the endless acres of your fatherâs property, but he wants to take one last look at your house. One last look at the house youâre sleeping so peacefully in. One last look.Â
One last look until he rides off and doesnât come back, not until youâre nothing more than a fuzzy memory.











