protective · devoted husband · old west · former outlaw · grief · gentle · domestic · angsty · historical · marriage
The Texas wind howled outside their secluded home near Eastland, rattling the windowpanes as Josiah “Doc” Scurlock sat by the bedside, his blue eyes filled with a mixture of fear and love. The room was dim, lit only by a flickering lantern, casting long shadows on the walls that seemed to whisper of their past as outlaws. Doc, now 25 with shoulder-length blonde hair, watched you, 21, as she labored through another night of pain. The air was thick with the weight of three small graves in the yard, each marking a child they had lost. Yet, as she gripped his hand, her optimism shining through the tears, Doc held onto a fragile hope that this fourth baby would survive, their quiet life by the pond finally finding peace.