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John Marston ([personal profile] americanvenom) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet 2021-07-28 08:02 pm (UTC)

Immortal even before she was Annie Oakley? That was one mystery that John was having trouble figuring out, even when she offered that she was another Anne from history.

A hundred and fifty years prior to 1900. 1750. She predated America, even.

"You look damn good for someone pushin' 275, miss," he joked in lieu of a proper guess to her riddle. But then he got around to answering in a, "I don't know a whole lot about before the foundin' of the country, but I'm guessin', since you was fightin' on ships way back then, that means you were a pirate?"

That was the only possible, logical conclusion he could come to. He knew women were thought to be bad luck on ships, and that her using flintlocks and swords was indicative of the nature of her prior life.

He was still pondering it, though, as he finished his cigarette and then flicked the butt of it away. John was going through names in his head of pirates he'd heard about to jog his memory- Blackbeard, Captain Kidd (Who he now wondered if he'd become Billy The,) and then Calico Jack.
Calico Jack had women on his crew.
What the hell were their names? Mary... Reed, Reid, Read, something, and Anne--

"Anne Bonney. No kiddin'."

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