Hard To Love, Wanted! Elanora, 18, Brianna Brown

elanora mae ballanger

18, ranchers daughter, cowboy, great on horse back, she lives with her uncle, stands to inherit the ranch, super sweet, shy, always ready to smile

First off you can change her name. Everyone calls her Ellen or Ellie. Everyone except J.J. The new ranch foreman who refuses to call her Ellie and calls her Nora. Ellie's story began in Montana, her parents were very poor and her father was a drifting cowboy, Ellie's small family was forced to follow. Her father was a drunk, like most cowboys, and occasionally roughed her mother up. One year when she was 14 she had a very rich suitor. It was a new town and the man seemed to love her instantly. Ellie despised the man and he made her skin crawl, but her parents pushed her at him and finally at one of the charity dances the church threw he persued her. He tried to kiss her and she refused. So the man brutally attacked and raped her. Of course the man claimed that she had advanced him and that she was a filthy saloon girl. Her father went on a drinking binge and sent Ellie to her uncles. When she got there she instantly fell in love with the horses. Her uncle, being a bachelor and having no clue about kids, let the girl do what ever she wanted, despite the protests of the local ladies of the church. She rode like the men, not side saddle, and even once tried on trousers, but her uncle stopped her from that one. She is definitely an odd member of the community, she gets along great with the cowboys and has a hot head like most of them. She is never cruel to animals though she loses her temper. She is very smart and very good with the farm books, which is how she knows that her uncles ranch is in some trouble. They are quite a few payments away from paying off the mortgage and the profit is becoming less and less, and without proper funding the ranch, and her home, as she knows it, may soon be gone. This is when J.J. Parks comes in. J.J. Shows up in the middle of a wintry night, frozen over and robbed of what ever belongings he owned except for the shirt off his back. Ellie nurses the distraught man back to health while his faithful horse is taken to the barn. In his dilerious state he relives a few past memories, which she keeps secret. When J.J. comes to, he thanks the family and asks about a job. Ellie's uncle Bernard Ballanger just lost the foreman to his ranch and offers him the job, stating it would be a long term job. J.J agrees, on one condition. He gets Saturdays and Sundays off. The man greatly agrees, since his previous foreman had the same condition to his job. At first he seemed like just another cowboy, just another man. But to Ellie he was something more, she seemed to like him more and more, and soon she loved him, and then she became thoroughly besotted. She loved him to distraction, but J.J. seemed to hate her. He never said outright that he did in fact hate her, but he'd always call her little brother, or tomboy. He always remarked on how unladylike like she was or how uneducated she was. She'd return with something like how cowboys wouldn't know an education if it slapped them in the face, especially a bonified randy jack like him.

Every year around Christmas time he'd get raging drunk, which was extremely rare for J.J. considering he'd fired men at having just a flash of scotch with them on round up. One year, specifically three years, 1869, later he was raging drunk in the spare cabin that was his, when she walks in, giving him a small plate of Christmas dinner. J.J. comments on how she never wears anything pretty and always dressed like one of the old hags in church. Astonished at his language, and hurt by his words she says a few words, but when she calls him the biggest hypocrit in the world for drinking his brains out he jumps to his feet and.... Well things get messy, and not in a good way. J.J. hurts Ellie when he backs her to the wall and kisses her, and to Ellie's own surprise and joy, she kisses him back without thinking. But when things get too far he remembers the woman from long ago. He calls her nothing but a common saloon girl and says she can never have his money. Absolutely befuddled and astounded she runs off in tears and tells her uncle that she slipped on some ice and just wants to go to bed.  

J.J. is gone the next morning, and after that, and after that, apparently he left a letter for her uncle stating that he was going to a cattle auction in a nearby town for a few days, since the ranch man has had him go to auctions before for him. When he returns on a train with a prized hereford bull worth way more than they can afford, the uncle goes off on J.J., obviously distraught at the expense. J.J. claims that the bull will bring in three times what he bought for it in its first two years. Uncle Bernie and J.J. get in a riff for quite a few months, during this time J.J. and Ellie start getting closer, Ellie, who no longer trusts the formidable man, is still, despite everything, is in love with the man, and when J.J. goes to apologize to Ellie they end up back where they left off, against a wall and a hard place, J.J. but she refused to be called a fallen dove again and gets out of J.J.'s strong arms and toward the door. She calls him a randy or a rake or what have you, and storms out. J.J. Hated himself for how he treated her and manages to isolate Ellie to the house. Ellie refuses to ride and won't let herself near J.J.. When things get so bad on the ranch her father has no choice but to sign a partnership with some big farm in Texas, not knowing that it's actually J.J. farm who's the partner. They'd been after the land since before he'd shown up, which is funny that he showed up in the first place. When Ellie finds out secretly what he's doing when she follows him on. Sunday when she sees him in town, she's furious. She ends up getting caught by J.J. who sees her out of the corner of his eye and.... Eventually live happily, hopefully, ever after. Obviously some things won't be to dot and things can change in the plot but the end result should be the same. Also, the PB should be beautiful, which is how she attracted the rich man in the first place, I prefer the current Pb(BRIANNA BROWN), but if you must, you can change it, I really don't care xD.

Things you need to know: Ellie is 18 in 1868, Uncle Bernard Ballanger owns Rocking R Ranch which is going under. Uncle Bernie is a traditionalist and his ranch is going under and sells a partnership to the Texas ranch company owned by Jared Brannon, AKA J.J. Parks. Uncle Bernie is 56, which is really old back then, so he's close to passed life expectancy. That's about it. Any questions just PM me?!

TEMPLATE BY BREE OF ATF AND CAUTION!

Is this all things that might have happened in the past or is this the way you'd like the story for them to go? I might be interested if we were starting from the beginning. We could skip some time during it all if you like. Half the fun of these kinds of plots for me is the discovery between the characters that way the end result is just icing on the cake.

We are starting from the beginning for sure! And I agree about discovering the characters xD

Taking this one, it seems like a fun plot. I'll start working on the application tomorrow. I decided to register as Ellie, the name she prefers. She may even try ignoring him when he calls after her as Nora. We'll have to see.

I'm excited. I started writing on a Hatfield and McCoy board recently and once wrote on a western themed board a few years ago and have been looking for the opportunity to join one since.

Thanks for coming up with such an interesting story for them. I'll post a link to her bio her once I finish it to make sure she meets your expectations.

Meg

Here is her BIO. I hope you're happy with it. If you'd like anything added, I'd be happy to oblige. If possible, I'd like to play out their first meeting - to explain why I didn't reference JJ in the history.

Aww!!! I love it!!! You are really good! I like the defense mechanism explanations!! And yes I've started the thread here.

And I've replied. I'm not sure that all of them will be that wordy but I wanted to match your fantastic starter. I tried to not god mod him in any way, beyond what I felt was realistic given the situation in terms of treating him.

Aw it was great! Though Bernie isn't that old, he's only just four years older than Jared, so if she thinks he's old she better not say anything to J.J. xD hahah. Oh and I forgot the time got changed to something more permanent so the Admin moved it to the Flashbacks board for us(right above this board).

Oh, I thought you'd said Bernie was his fifties and that Jared/JJ was in his thirties? Or am I messing up characters, haha, I probably am! Isn't Bernie the (the elderly for the times) uncle?

Shoot you're right xD I'm getting plots mixed up in my mind. Sorry bout that, in just crazy! xD

you did see that the thread was moved right? We can still post in it. Just double checking that you know. xD

Link: http://z7.invisionfree.com/Buffalo_Creek_B...view=getnewpost