Wynonna's Curse

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"Is it really necessary that these are so tight?" Wynonna struggled against the ropes binding her hands over her head. She was hanging, dangling really, by her wrists from a tree, rope burning bloody cuts into her hands as she seethed.

The walk here had been strange; Willa, her sister Willa, pressing a gun to her back and marching her through the woods amidst the howl of wolves and Willa's own taunts. Wynonna's head had spun for awhile- the last time she'd seen Willa, the last time anyone had, Revenants had dragged her off the Homestead, Wynonna shot, screamed, cried out, and tried to help but- when she saw their Daddy go slack, gun in her hand, Wynonna knew she truly was cursed. Beyond the realm of Earp curse, beyond being the …show more content…

But Wynonna would've walked another thousand acres if she knew what was waiting for her when they finally stopped. It was like remembering a dream; she knew she'd been here before, as a young child, with her father and Willa- the day their daddy had told them about the Earp curse. Now, a man with a toothy-smile and ringed fingers introduced himself as Bobo del Rey, the resident Big Shit Revenant (as Wynonna was calling him), and she was being tied to a tree just a little ways away from a makeshift …show more content…

We can't have you trying to get away. And you're so much more beautiful when you squirm." Bobo ran his knuckles up against her cheek, having her angling to get away from him. Hoots and snarls from the audience of demons simmered, and Bobo laughed. "Generations of your family, dying at my hands, and now I'll finally be rid of you Earps. Wouldn't your daddy be proud of how his little Wynonna held her own just days as the Heir? I hope the world knows they'll have you to thank for unleashing us, finally, upon the world."

He stepped back from her, smiling at how even yards above the ground, now her feet stilled and she barely twitched a muscle; but her eyes never left his face.

"Remember when you were little, Wynonna? Just a small child, scared of shadow, who didn't think she'd ever matter?" His lips curved into a deeper smile, vexing her even more virulently. "Well, now you can finally have a place in the world. Of course, that place is in ending it; but you matter, don't you? Don't we all?" Shouts surrounded Wynonna from all sides; he was whipping them up. The end of the world was going to start with the end of her, she struggled against the ropes at her wrists again, shoulders and arms aching at the

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