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(RW) Dutton Daughters Quarrel

Tumblr request - I have a request for Rip where reader is a Dutton daughter and has always had a thing for Rip. They've always been super close but he just never saw her that way and only had eyes for Beth. And then one day when Beth is being extra toxic towards him reader tries to comfort him and he realizes that he has feelings for reader as well. Maybe with a little sibling rivalry/bad blood between reader and Beth as well.

My friends that have siblings tell me that it is the greatest thing in the world.  I disagree with them.  My twin sister Beth and I have never gotten along since our mother died after she got paralyzed by her own horse during a ride with my sister and our youngest brother Kayce.  I knew one reason we never got along is because I was basically a mini version of our father, fully embracing the ranch lifestyle even after her death.

Riding through the main gate and up to the barn I followed behind my father and my mothers dead body that was laying on her horse.  Tugging on my reins I climbed down my horse heading inside the barn to see Rip cleaning one of the horse stalls until he saw me drop down onto the dirt.  "Y/n, is everything alright.  Why are you crying?"

"No! She's gone.  My moms dead." I sniffed back tears wrapping my arms around myself, sobbing on my knees before him.

Rip dropped his shovel and came over pulling me in for a hug that I truly needed.  He held onto me for a long time and I cried against his shirt until someone came inside the barn.  "It's going to be okay, Y/n.  You will get through this.  I'll always be here for you."

"She should have blamed you for her getting hurt, not me."

Rip and I turned our attention to the new voice that belonged to my sister Beth that was standing in the doorway death glaring at me.  "Beth, what are you talking about?"

"She always was easier on you.  She never made you go through what I did and now she's dead."

Wiping away tears from my face I walked past her when Rip walked over and pulled her in for a hug like he had done with me minutes ago.  "You can't hate me for what happened to her.  Her horse got spooked because of you."

"You always have to show off at everything.  You've always been a better horse rider than me.  If you hadn't been doing tricks I wouldn't have felt so nervous on my horse." Beth snapped at me before I turned on my heels and ran out of the barn.

Galloping across the field on horseback my eyes noticed Rip sitting up on the hillside that overlooked part of the ranch all by himself.  Riding over to him I dismounted my horse walking up to greet him.  "What are you doing up here all by yourself, Mr. Wheeler?"

"I'm waiting for your sister to show up for our date tonight."

Sitting down beside him in the grass once my horse had laid down behind us I spared him a glance.  "She wants you to take her out on a real date.  Hmm, maybe there is more women in her than I thought."

Rip looked at me softly.  "She once told me she thinks you were born with a more manly personality than a female one. Honestly I don't see how that's a bad thing."

"She says it as a dig to me because our mother supposedly liked me more than her when she would be tougher on her than she was me." Shaking my head I removed my tan cowgirl hat and ran a hand through my messy hair.  "I don't really understand how she can hate me so much for an accident that we had no control over.  She - she thinks I'm a monster for still riding horses on our seven generations family ranch."

"I'm sorry she made your life a living hell after losing your mother.  She shouldn't have taken her anger out on you." Rip responds to me placing his hand over mine softly.

Footsteps stomped up the hill where we turned our heads and I rolled my eyes seeing my sister coming straight over to us.  "I knew you'd run off to her out of pity soon enough.  You couldn't help yourself but start pretending to care for my sister."

"Is that such a horrible thing, Beth.  You haven't been too kind to her over the years that I have been working at your family's ranch." Rip got up from the ground and I shortly followed behind him.  He simply walked over to her with his arms crossed over his broad chest.

My twin sister snapped at the lead ranch hand.  "She got both of our parents' love and now apparently you're stupid enough to fall in love with her too.  So in the end I am left utterly alone."

"Hey! Don't talk to him that way." Stomping up to the pair I got up in my sister's face after pushing Rip behind me so I was in between them.

My sister spits in my face.  "I can talk to him however I want.  It's not like he is your boyfriend or anything. Although I doubt any man would choose you when they find out you are just like our father.  I mean you saw that Monica told Kayce to leave and he came back here.  She realized that he was turning into our father just like you have."

"Don't talk about her that way ever again, Bethany!" Right before my eyes I screamed when he made a fist and punched her in the face where she stumbled down onto the ground.  "I never should have started falling for you."

Rip held his wrist that was now scuffed up with some bruises where I slowly walked towards him examining his hand. "We should get this cleaned up." He nodded, allowing me to lead him over to my horse and he climbed on behind me where we rode to the large barn since there was some medical supplies inside of there.

Finding the box he leaned against one of the horse stalls letting me grab his hand and apply some alcohol to it.  He winced slightly but didn't mind it too much before I wiped some of the bruising and wrapped up his hand in some gauze just in case.  "You didn't have to defend me like that, Rip.  My sister and I have been butting heads like that since we were kids.  Her words aren't as harsh to me emotionally anymore."

"I'm sorry I didn't realize it sooner that she's not the one for me." He grabs my other hand in his, taking my attention up to his deep brown eyes.  "For years I only ever saw you as my friend but after today I realized that I love that you may act like your father.  Except in my eyes that isn't a bad thing cause I owe your father my life, plus he gave me you."

"Are you being serious because I have wanted to be more than your friend for a while now? I was just too scared that you'd never feel the same way I do about you."

Rip moved his hands up to cradle my face before he closed the gap and connected my lips with his own. Without thinking my hands flew to his hair and I was thankful he had removed his black hat while I deepened the kiss till we needed air to breath.  "We can't ever go back to being friends, Y/n Dutton." Grinning up at the lead cowboy I grabbed the front of his jacket bringing him in for another long kiss.

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