Warning: There's some cussin' in this, mostly not too bad, but some words are racial slurs - please, please understand that they are to be taken in context. In no way do they reflect my own views.

Notes: My thanks, as always, to Melody for her patience and advice.

This story is set approximately ten years before the Seven finally meet up together on that fateful day in Four Corners.

It's pretty well understood that Josiah and Nathan have known each other for some time, but their original meeting was not documented in the series canon. This is my 'take' on that meeting. (Plenty of H/C for the Jezebelles, too …) It ain't got much of a plot - but hey, who cares.