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"Get away! I don't want to hurt you."
"Hurt us!" They were smiling, with snarled mouths and dirty teeth. They reeked of dead animals and dirty clothes.
Jane Ann cried from the tree she was playing under and they looked up to see her.
Seeing Jane Ann was white, they moved back a little. "Who the hell are you lady?" the older one asked as he stared at Jane Ann.
"My name is Eve…"
"Take her George…," the oldest man hollered.
The younger man moved toward her and she reached out with the knife and struck him in the chest. "Leave me alone," she cried plunging the knife into his lower stomach.
"Just want a little lovin' is all?" The other man hollered now. He kept moving toward Fawn now.
Fawn screamed and Eve turned toward him.
The older man saw the knife and started toward her now. She ran toward him with the knife and stabbed him too.
Fawn stood very still, Jane Ann cried in the distance.
Eve was shaking. What had she done?
"Oh my God! I've killed them…" she shouted.
Fawn looked at her and took her into her arms.
Eve cried, she was shaking so hard she couldn't think. "I've killed them both…"
She looked down at her hands and blood was all over them. She shook with some unknown fear now.
"You had no choice…they would have taken you…maybe even hurt your baby. And me too. You protected me. I will be grateful all my life to you."
Eve nodded, and threw the knife down in the dirt.
Fawn bent down to check the men, they were both dead. Blood oozed from their wounds.
"I've killed them both…" she cried, hysteria setting in.
About that time, Hawk and the others came back.
When he saw the men at her feet, and the blood, he took Eve in his arms.
"Tell me what happened." He said softly at her ear.
Eve couldn't talk; all she could do was sit there on the porch, shaking.
Matthew saw it and his eyes got huge.
Hawk and Bended Knee took action. They carried the bodies far away, and they made it look as though the Comanche's might have done it. They scalped the two men and dumped them in the forest so that it looked very much as though it was an Indian attack.
They came back to camp and Eve was still not talking.
Fawn explained what happened to them. "If she had not killed them, they would have raped us both…"
Hawk took Eve in his arms and consoled her. However, Matthew was very quiet, as though he didn't know what to make of the situation.
Later, Hawk talked to Matthew.
