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"We passed Laura riding like thunder and wondered. "What happened?"
"She tried to take Elan!" Clay looked down at her in his arms. "We gotta get her to the doctor."
Cora was right behind and shrieked. "Oh my God!"
Elan was crying. Charlie picked him up off the floor. He handed him to Cora. Cora held him close.
"The wagon is right outside. Put her in the back and we'll take her to doc's."
Clay nodded.
"Laura did this?" Cora shouted.
"Yes!" Clay grit his teeth.
There was no time to waste as Willa had passed out and Clay and Charlie got her situated in the wagon. Cora brought Elan and they all hightailed it into town.
Everyone that saw them seemed to follow along.
"What happened?" one man asked.
"Laura shot Willa." Clay told them.
More people joined them and stood in front of the docs when they took Willa inside. Haywood was among them. "Laura did this?" Haywood asked.
"Yeah," Cora told him as she sat on the wagon seat.
"Why?" Haywood demanded.
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She tried to take Willa's baby from her." Cora cried, as tears rolled down her cheek and she cuddled Elan to her.
Haywood frowned. "What the hell did she want with her baby?"
"Vengeance, I suppose."
Haywood seemed to think on that for a while. Then suddenly he ran off.
Clay and Charlie waited for the doc to tell them how bad off Willa was.
"The bullet is lodged in her back, close to the spine. I'll have to try to take it out. If I can, she'll mend in time, but, I gotta have permission to operate."
"You have it," Clay told him.
"You don’t understand, if I move that bullet half an inch closer, she'll be paralyzed for the rest of her life and in a wheelchair or worse."
"What do you mean, worse?" Clay shouted.
"I mean, it might kill her."
Charlie shook his head and turned away.
"Can you do it, doc?" Clay stared at him, then when he didn't answer he came up to him and grabbed him by the shirt collar. "Can you?"
"I'll do my best son, that's all I can tell you." The doc wasn't afraid.
"And the baby?" Clay asked.
