Tag to the episode, 'Prey of the Cat'. Bart has been through hell, and needs to find Bret.
Follow-up to my story Three for Tragedy. Several months after the shooting, the emotional wounds still cut deep.
Beau is shot while protecting Bart and Bart can't deal with it. Bret fears that Bart may try to enact his own brand of justice on the murderer. And Beau can't move on as long as that is the case.
Beau Maverick may have asked his sons not to drink but he'd never been very forthcoming with a reason as to why. And when a young Bart starts to feel that he may be blending in a little too well he can't help but test the limits...just a little.
A previously unknown Maverick Aunt Leaves Bret, Bart and Beau a saloon and trouble soon follows
Bart gets the shock of his life when he unexpectedly finds, of all things, a baby. Where did it come from, and who is its mother? Bart takes the baby to the closest town, assuming that it's in danger...and he's right. The trouble is, the danger finds its way to him, too.
When Momma leaves her youngest son an irreplaceable gift, Bart has a hard time holding on to it.
With Bart critically wounded and three new enemies on their trail, Beau takes refuge with his cousin in an old stable during a rainstorm. He wasn't expecting to be plunged right into a local crime boss's territory, nor for said crime boss to show them some apparent mercy. But is the man genuine, or have the Maverick boys left the frying pan for the fire?
Because of a promise, Bart finds himself in marital hot water
Bart and Bret go to San Francisco to join a poker competition, but Bart is sick and can't play. If they'd known what was going to happen next, they would never have gone, even at the chance of winning a fortune...