The ladies liked stripping off pieces of them, some thin slices, some not so thin but for all of what both Raylan and Doc were used to, the up side to this was that they didn't have to suffer those wounds alone. Neither of them had to really talk about how their ex's affected them; it only took a retelling for the other to parse out how deep it went. But Henry had more patience for taking their bullshit now than Raylan did. The Marshal had given them their time to get to grips with it.
Smirking into his rapidly emptying plate, Raylan kept to himself how fucking cute Henry was with the girls. There was a warmth and lightness to the man's face that Raylan had rarely seen outside the glances and gazes he got behind closed doors, sometimes even when Henry thought he didn't notice. No, it was easy to see that those little girls had wrapped themselves securely around the gunslinger's heart. Raylan wouldn't have it any other way - the girls were going to be a little wild underneath their mother's attempts to 'manners' the cheekiest bits of their fathers out of them but he'd knew and had seen what Winona's manners and stiffness turned out.
There was no taking the country out of their girls.
His eyebrows lifted a little at the tell, head bobbing to one side before smiling crookedly. "Considerin' how many nasty things that go bump in the night, I'm honestly surprised to hear that. I mean, I know her daddy was kinda an asshole about teachin' her and the reasons why but.. Can't have the daughter of gunslingers not carryin' on that legacy. I'm sure the sting of what she was saddled with will ease in a few decades."
Raylan paused, watching his partner with a serious, however soft, expression. It was almost a little sad that Doc hadn't been able to build anything over the past hundred fifty years but they were scraping together what they could to hand over in what years were left.
"You could always fall back on dentistry," he said, lips curling. "You're leavin' behind more than your guns and a hat. Hell, look how far the Earp line's gotten, and now you got a Holliday? That little girl loves you. Nothing better you could leave in the world behind ya.
.. Though we might have to consider paddin' the corners again if either of them keep up this clumsy phase they're in."
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Smirking into his rapidly emptying plate, Raylan kept to himself how fucking cute Henry was with the girls. There was a warmth and lightness to the man's face that Raylan had rarely seen outside the glances and gazes he got behind closed doors, sometimes even when Henry thought he didn't notice. No, it was easy to see that those little girls had wrapped themselves securely around the gunslinger's heart. Raylan wouldn't have it any other way - the girls were going to be a little wild underneath their mother's attempts to 'manners' the cheekiest bits of their fathers out of them but he'd knew and had seen what Winona's manners and stiffness turned out.
There was no taking the country out of their girls.
His eyebrows lifted a little at the tell, head bobbing to one side before smiling crookedly. "Considerin' how many nasty things that go bump in the night, I'm honestly surprised to hear that. I mean, I know her daddy was kinda an asshole about teachin' her and the reasons why but.. Can't have the daughter of gunslingers not carryin' on that legacy. I'm sure the sting of what she was saddled with will ease in a few decades."
Raylan paused, watching his partner with a serious, however soft, expression. It was almost a little sad that Doc hadn't been able to build anything over the past hundred fifty years but they were scraping together what they could to hand over in what years were left.
"You could always fall back on dentistry," he said, lips curling. "You're leavin' behind more than your guns and a hat. Hell, look how far the Earp line's gotten, and now you got a Holliday? That little girl loves you. Nothing better you could leave in the world behind ya.
.. Though we might have to consider paddin' the corners again if either of them keep up this clumsy phase they're in."