The wonders of fake identities

WARNING! Due to the lack of backstories for the bounties I'm making my own stories in order to make interactions with my oc a little bit more interesting. Call me crazy but my way of seeing Etta history was that she offered her "services" as a lady of the night to the soldiers in the civil war. ONWARD WITH THE STORY ALREADY!

Etta Doyle. Given my past experiences with pursued ladies, the sheriff sent with me two officers to watch my back in both ways, making sure I did my job and literally defending me. The idea is not my favorite but it shoud be enough people to stop her and her gang, gosh that sounded so disrespectful, they told me that the best way to catch her was by waiting at the train station and when she would show up all we needed to do was catching her and bring her to the police.

Like usual one of the officers screwed it up by being spotted by one of the girls of Etta, bullets flew through the air and those two young boys were dead before they knew it. As always it was time for "dear ol' Jonah" to take the bad guys to the justice.

The good thing was that my arm decided to not shake as much as it always does and I managed to reduce the numbers of the gang quite easily actually. From what I realized the problem of catching this lady was not the act of tying her up, but rather the complicated part was in how the hell you caught her. She was fast, she had good handling of a revolver and she had a shocking resemblance with two other women who acted as her double, believe me, I discovered it the bad way Charlotte, you would probably laugh if things were different. When I finally got my hands on her, the REAL Etta, she told me something odd:

"Oh my gosh....they sent you after me?" She said shocked

"What are you talking about I dont know you!"

"Does the name 'Madame Le Perle' brings you any memories?"

"Yes why-?"

"Well it's been a long time...and you were always the kind of man that wants to forget about the things he has done"

"Wait...are you-?"

"Rest oh dear, for your lady is here, there's no need to act as a tough man now, take your pride off your shoulders and say whatever you want, for your Perle is here" She started to sing a melody that I never thought to hear again

"It cant be! You always said that you would find another job or flee to another country when the war ended!" I was in a tackle position, stunned for what I just witnessed

"Such a massive coincidence right? I couldn't believe it until I saw you up close...then everything came back" I never saw her so sentimental

"What....I cant come back with nobody arrested....they are going to kill me probably"

"They never forgot Rhodes huh"

"You are surprised?"

"No I guess I shouldn't be" - She said sighing - "Take one of my double girls, let me talk to them and they will replace me in the...y'know what I mean"

"They will found out about it"

"So what? You didn't know" I moved out of the way and she stand up while lighting a cigarette

"You need to get out of here, possible flee to Mexico...I heard they make good food there"- I said smiling - "But you need to go for real now, not disappear for a few years, no...flee for real now"

"Yeah yeah sure" she wasn't looking at me

"I'm not kidding"

"I can take care of myself"

"If an old man with pneumonia found you and killed half of your gang imagine what a young guy can do"

"Dont be so hard on yourself Jonah"

"Of course I'm not! I didn't talked about the old times for a few hours"

"That's good. Now make it for a day" She smiled and giggled

"I never thought a hunt would end like this"

"Life can surprise us like this, gotta be prepared"

"Hey I always wanted to ask you something"

"Shoot....metaphorically of course"

"Of course" - I giggled - "Why did you treated me differently when we were in the war? Hell I you stabbed a boy in the leg for touching you before paying!"

"Goodbye Jonah" - she said before kissing me in the cheek - "Now you know why"

I dont nothing about tying one of her girls and bringing her to the sheriff....I guess I was too stunned by that kiss....Do I have a chance at love again Charlotte? Is that what you wanted to say to me by putting me in that situation?