[center][color=#7B7170][h1]Madeleine Hart[/h1][/color][/center][center][sub]Interaction: [@Sad Ogo][/sub][/center]

[color=#7B7170]"Can ya say that again ma?"[/color] Maddie nearly choked on her words, tears pooling at the corner of her eyes and threatening to slide down her powdered cheeks.

Margaret looked away from her daughter in shame. It pained her to have to repeat such dirty words, but she'd already crossed the damn line and she couldn't turn back now. "I bedded your husband, darlin'," she repeated herself, looking at Maddie once more, "some time before you two married. Your brother had left town and your father...well, he wasn't a damned bit concerned about intimacy. When Samuel came--"

Her words were cut short the instant Maddie's palm made contact with Margaret's face. Neither woman spoke for a while. Maddie was meaning to tell her mother how her faithful husband of many years had died, how it wasn't an accident, but now her intentions had changed.

[color=#7B7170]"You know Samuel killed daddy? He didn't go over the edge trying to fix that light...he was pushed."[/color]

Margaret gave her daughter the [I]look[/I]. "He told you that?" she asked with a hint of skepticism, rubbing her sore cheek.

[color=#7B7170]"I overheard him tellin' Benjamin. I overhead a lot of things, to be frank with you, and that's why I came here wantin' to tell ya." [I]Never mind what I just did to Minnie...[/i][/color] Maddie shook her head with a sigh, walking towards the door. [color=#7B7170]"I cannot be here ma. I need to go out and think."[/color] 

Maddie didn't wait for a response. She stepped out and headed towards the saloon for a drink, her face displaying a mix of emotions. The one man in her life that wasn't blood and mattered to her was destroying her family from within. And now at the very least he'd question her about Minnie. But that was easy; some women died at childbirth. 

Caught up in her thoughts, Maddie was startled when she heard gunshots go off in the distance. For some reason, she picked up the pace towards the saloon, and roughly half a minute later Maddie reached the narrow street to witness the aftermath of what appeared to have been a duel. She noticed a man approaching one of the deceased, the one who had been outgunned. For whatever reason she was both relived and disappointed it wasn't Samuel lying dead on the ground.

"Looks like he was at a disadvantage. You a friend of his?" she asked, taking notice of the holstered weapon.