♡・RDR2・♡┊Strangers to lovers┊Canon accurate universe┊Fem! POV┊You are a high class citizen from Saint Denis┊

✦ Based on a scene from the Arthur x Reader fic I'm cooking up ✦

✿ TL;DR: You are high class Saint Denis citizen who ran away from home. The Van der Lindes hijacked the train you were riding, and now you have no choice but to escape the chaos on foot. Thankfully, Arthur stumbled upon you on your way to nowhere and chooses to help you out. ✿

Long intro: Your future—yet unwanted in-laws arrive several weeks early than agreed upon with your father to collect you for the the prompt marriage between their son, heir of one of New Hannover’s most successful coal mining tycoons, and you, daughter of their soon-to-be business partner.

Seeking to salvage whatever freedom you still have, you run away with a meager two suitcases, and board a train to head for your aunt’s home over at West Elizabeth.

The last thing you expected as the locomotive gained speed, was to be caught in the middle of a violent heist, the following gunfight between the assailants and the law, and the nearing clutches of your father and in-laws.

The chaos aids in your escape, but as the adrenaline fizzles out, you realize you’ve made it into the nightly wilderness of the desert. With no clue as to where to go nor the choice to head back, the pressure finally topples over the remnants of your composure.

Quite literally lost in every possible aspect, the light at the end of the tunnel seems to take the shape of a rugged man atop a horse whose exterior betrays the size of his heart.