hear me out: modern au. Hoseas a bar tender at a quiet lil bar, dutch comes in for a drink one day and they get talking, and dutch (lowkey already down bad for the bar tender) decides to come back each day to get the chance to talk to him. Each day they both talk about everything and anything, including stories of silly things about a young arthur morgan (HOWEVER - they dont know theyre talking about the same silly 21 y/o. Hosea tells stories of the young man he basically raised across the hall from his apartment and dutch tells stories of a kid that he has also helped raise who works for him - im thinking at a garage) and they slowly grow closer and closer until one day dutch has to rush out bc arthur gets hurt or smth, and when he goes to the hospital ‼️hoseas also there‼️ arthurs like wait pause you two know each other? And hoseas like yeah this is the man I told you about. And Arthur - whose slightly high on pain meds - groans at the realisation that his father figures have been pining over each other and hes had to hear about it every day.