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The Kid: "What is that you've got on?"
Lou: "It's a dress, Kid. Ladies wear 'em."
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Jan. 10th, 2008 @ 12:07 am [info]voicesinmyhead 023 - Do you believe in an afterlife?
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An afterlife?

I don't know, I mean, I guess it could exist.

I've never been much for religion or anything like that. Emma talks about Heaven sometimes and I guess that could be the same thing as an afterlife. But from what I've heard, you have to practically be a saint to get in there -- and we all know that I ain't even close to being a saint.

If there is some place like that, then I guess if I somehow made it there, I'd be hoping to find my ma. She was a good lady and did her best to take care of us and keep us hidden and safe from our pa.

I don't rightly know if there is such a thing, but it makes for a pretty dream.


Muse: Lou McCloud
Fandom: "Young Riders"
Words: 132
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Oct. 27th, 2007 @ 06:03 am [info]voicesinmyhead Prompt 9 : Laugh?
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Jimmy.

Jimmy always knows how to make me laugh and how to cheer me up. It doesn't matter what has me hurting or upset, Jimmy Hickok is right there with an arm and a smile. Alright, and a gun that he's ready to threaten anyone that made me frown with.

Is it any surprise that the first person I seek out when I'm hurting is Jimmy?

He's my best friend and...

He's my best friend.


Muse: Lou McCloud
Fandom: "Young Riders"
Word Count: 75
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Jul. 29th, 2007 @ 10:25 am Alone In The Crowd ([info]30_somethings)
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Fandom: The Young Riders
Title: Alone In The Crowd
Author: [info]ladieswearthem
Theme: Angts; Prompt #1 Alone
Character: Lou McCloud
Words: 350
Rating: G
Disclaimer/claimer: I do not own anything Young Riders related and I do not own the character of Louise McCloud. The story, however, is indeed mine.
Critiques: Yes
Summary: Even in the crowd, Lou feels alone

( Alone in the Crowd )
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Jun. 26th, 2007 @ 10:23 pm [info]voicesinmyhead Prompt 3 : Love?
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[[Locked From Jimmy and Kid]]


Love is one of those things that I just do not understand. It makes no real sense to me, and of course, asking Teaspoon about it only serves to confuse one. He believes that if a girl and a guy become happy with each other and know each other completely... well he calls that freak of nature.

*sighs* Ever tried talking to your closest friends about love without there being teasing or fights -- especially when most of them think you got everything figured out because one of them has already started acting like you belong to him?

Talking to Emma, though, that has helped me make some sense out of some things where love and caring is concerned. I think she may be the only one that knows where my heart is pulling me to. Though, love is really not about sense or intelligence. It's emotion and instinct. Love is not thought, it's reaction.

Love?

Love is Jimmy Hickok.

No, he has no idea how I feel about him. I do have my pride you know. I am not about to confess my heart to someone who doesn't fell the same way about me. He only sees me as one of the boys -- or at most, like a sister.

We're best friends, but that's about as far as his feelings for me go. 'Sides, I'm not the type of woman that he likes, I guess. I'm one of the boys and most of the boys prefer their girls to look like girls.


[[Unlocked]]

Love is just way too confusing to try to understand.


Muse: Lou McCloud
Fandom: "The Young Riders"
Words: 265
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Jun. 26th, 2007 @ 09:23 pm [info]voicesinmyhead Prompt 2 : Family
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Family?

Family is one of those words that can have so many meanings -- and some of them don't even resemble the truth.

My Pa? He was an evil man and my Ma ran away with me and my brother and sister in order to hide us from him. Marie Louise McCloud was a strong woman -- and a good woman -- and she was willing to do anything for her kids. She died, trying to keep us together and keep us safe from him. Jeremiah, Theresa and I went to an orphange in St. Cloud, and as soon as I was old enough, I left the orphanage. I needed to get a job and buy a place so I could go back and get my sister and brother.

But the murderer and gunrunner Boggs found them first and he took them. Yeah, Boggs was my Pa, but my Ma made me promise I would never tell the little ones that. She had told them that our father had been a good man who had died a very long time ago. I was ready to ride away from the Express and never look back in order to get my sister and brother away from him.

Things didn't go as smoothly as I had planned and I ended up tied to a chair with Boggs and his henchman beating the hell out of me. I refused to break, though. And Boggs... he never even recognized that the cowboy he was beating the hell out of was his own daughter.

Course, I should have known that the boys weren't just going to let me ride away and do nothing about it. They all came after me, using Red as a turncoat in order to find out how to get into Bogg's place alive and get me out.

However, even after Boggs found out that it was me... his daughter, he was still going to kill me to keep me from taking the kids out of there. Thankfully, Jimmy was there and he got Boggs before Boggs got me.

That just proved even more that, to me, family is the Sweetwater Pony Express station. Teaspoon. Emma. Sam. Jimmy. Cody. Buck. Ike. Kid.

Them people are my true family and I can count on them to always be there for me no matter what. We may fight among ourselves from time to time, but that's just us.

No outsider is allowed to mess with us because if you mess with one of us, you take on all of us.

That's family.


Muse: Lou McCloud
Fandom: "The Young Riders"
Words: 428
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Jun. 25th, 2007 @ 08:56 pm [info]30_somethings
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( Angsts Table )
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Jun. 11th, 2007 @ 09:48 pm [info]voicesinmyhead Prompt #1 Who Am I?
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I'm not exactly good at talking, you know. Jimmy is so much better at stuff like this than I am.

You would think that would be one of the easiest questions to answer, wouldn't ya?

Well, I could start and tell you my name. I'm Lou, Lou McCloud. Lou, not Louise. Don't call me Louise, because then I'm liable to punch you in the mouth -- or a certain couple of cowboys I know may very well shoot ya. The boys are a mite protective -- Jimmy even more so than the others.

I ride for the Pony Express. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. A girl can't ride for the Pony Express. The hell you say. I can ride just as well as any of the guys and I could shoot better than any of them except for one. I can't outshoot Jimmy. They know I'ma girl and they are okay with that. In fact, the boys are the only ones of the Riders that know my secret and they help to keep my secret.

Now, who am I?

There are times that I don't rightly know. It's hard sometimes because I'm a girl who has to pretend to be a boy to make my way. There's not many jobs a girl can get to make money that don' include her being flat on her back and working in one of the more lower class saloons. The Pony Express pays me what I need to so I can try and save enough to get a place for my sister and brother. I know I can't pretend to be a boy forever, but right now, my sister and brother are counting on me to come get them out of that orphanage and give them a real home like we had before our mama died.

When you have to be a girl and a boy at the same time sometimes, it gets a little difficult to keep track of who you are. I have to pretend to be a boy so often that it can get pretty hard to know who I am. I don't actually forget I'm a girl, but there are times that even in a dress I'm not sure who I am.

I'm lucky, though. When it seems to get to the point that I might be losing my self a little bit, one of the boys gets me away somewhere where I can be a girl for a little while. 'Course, I'm really bad at being the lady. I just don't have the practice at being a lady... and I hate not having my gun.

Who am I?

I'm Lou.



Muse: Lou McCloud
Fandom: "The Young Riders"
Words: 444
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