Disclaimer: I do not own Trigun or anything relating to Trigun. I only own Clover my original character and this story. This story is based off of the anime alone, not the manga.

Genre: Romance, Adventure, Tradegy, Drama and Supense, Angst, Frienship and Hurt/Comfort (not all are in every single chapter, this is an over all genre.)

Warnings: Spoilers of course but why are you reading fanfics if you haven't finished the anime, yet?

Rated: Mature for later chapters

Description: This story takes place in different universe. Where Knives wakes up a little green haired girl named Clover from cold sleep. She now spends the rest of the remaing trip with the crew on their journey... if only things had turned out that way.

Finding a Clover

Knives stood in front of the door leading to cold sleep chamber. The door slowly slide open as Knives quietly walked in. He nativigated the huge room well; he had snuck in here before. This was his favorite place on the whole ship; he couldn't explain why. Maybe it was because it was always so quiet? Aside from the low humming of the machines keeping the people in their chambers asleep. Another reason could be because no one but himself ever comes down here. Whatever the reason was, he found this place the most peaceful on the ship and the most interesting. Knives approached a cold sleep pod and stared at a middle-aged, fat, balding man with a red shirt on and matching pants.

"I wonder if they dream...?" the thought echoed in his mind as he walked to another row of sleepers.

He had a specific destination in mind. He walked a few rows down gazing at all the sleepers. He walked past two more rows of sleepers until he came upon the row he was searching for. Two pods from the left and four rows down slept a little girl. Knives wasn't sure of her age because the only ones who he had to compare with were him and Vash. Her hair was slightly wavy and dark green. Her age is what drew Knives to her every time he came down here. She was the only child of the many sleepers he'd seen. For a while now he'd wanted to speak to her; get to know her. There were so many questions he'd wanted to ask her. Someone his own age would be nice to talk to besides Vash. He didn't like anyone else. Rem was tolerable for the most part but he still wanted better company.

A thought or rather an idea popped into Knives mind. Steve was always drunk and passing out. It would be so easy to steal his key-card, why not do it? He'd put it right back anyway. Even if he didn't, it wasn't like Steve would notice.

Knives walked down the empty halls, his foot steps echoing behind him. He made his way over to the elevator and pressed the number one button where all the crew members bedrooms were located. He stood back and watched the numbers above the door pass by. He was on the very bottom floor so it would take a little while to get there. As he waited he wondered if Steve would be in his room or not. His mind also raced with possiblities about the green haired girl. What was her name? Why was she here? What color are her eyes? Those were just some of the many things racing through his mind. He barely realized the door opening he was getting so lost in thought. The brightness of the lights brought him out of his thoughts. He stepped out of the elevator and took a right. It was the three door on the right hand side. He'd spent his whole life on this ship. He knew the place inch from inch. The places he was allowed to go anyway. Of course he knew most of them as well.

Knives slowly stepped in front of Steve's door. The white door automatically slid open and Knives winced as he hoped that wouldn't wake Steve up if he was in there. He peered through the doorway to see Steve passed out with booze scattered around his bed and below it. Knives slowly crept through the room making sure not to kick any empty beer bottles that were scattered all through out the room. About a foot from Steve's bed became more of a challenge. Most of the beer bottles were laying around his bed. Knives stood in an awkward position between some beer bottles as he reached out to Steve's key chain that held his key card. Slowly, but surely he grabbed the key chain and unlatched the key card from it without waking Steve. Knives mentally sighed as he stepped away from the bed and steve. As he did so he accidentally kicked a beer bottle a few inches. It rolled to the side a bit before it collided with another bottle and made a small, "tink!" sound. Knives cringed expecting Steve to wake up from that but all her heard was a loud snore. He regained his composure and quickly walked out of the room in case Steve really did wake up.

He took the elevator all the way back down to the last level. He stepped out of the elevator and walked confidently to the cold sleep room. He made a bee-line to the chamber that held the little girl. Knives positioned the key card on the slot and slide it through. There was a beep, the light above the pod turned red and computer voice said, "Awaking sleeper number 42. Preparing to open chamber." There was a long pause that seemed to last forever before the door slide open. A cold blast of air greeted Knive's feet and ankles. He stared at the little girl who still hadn't opend her eyes yet. He stood still and waited once more for her to awake.

Moments turned into minutes and minutes turned into an hour. At this point Knives was now sitting on the floor of the cold sleep chamber still staring at the little girl who had not awoken. He was starting to get worried. Had he done something wrong? Maybe she was dead? This could be bad. What would happen if the crew found out about what he did? He was about to get up and try to close the sleeper pod when the girl suddenly fell out of her pod. She fell directly onto her face she made a pained sound but did nothing else. Her legs were still hanging inside the pod, while the rest of her body was outside of it. Knives grabbed her legs and pushed them out of the pod and turned her over onto her back.

Her eyes were open now and they were the color of amethyst. Her eye lids were drooped over and she was breathing heavily still. Knives moved some hair away from her mouth and out of the way. He continued to stare at her silently before she spoke.

"W... wha-air... am I...?" Her voice was cracking and sounded like an old man on his death bed.

"You're aboard the S.E.E.D. My name is Knives." He replied to her, not even bothering to ask for her name.

"Wha-air are... my... parents?" She asked again, her voice was still brittle sounding and cracking.

"I don't know." Knives said honestly. "What is your name?"

She looked around at her surroundings for once instead of at him. After searching the room for a few moments her eyes landed on him again and she replied, "Clover."

He smiled for the first time that day before asking her, "Can you stand?"

"I don't... know..." She replied as Knives started to stand up with her.

She could barely stand on her own. She had to use Knives as support just to stand up. She looked around at her surrounding more as Knives helped her stand up. The last thing she remembered was stepping into a sleeper pod and being told she would wake up when they were at their destination.

"Are we there?" She asked, her voice becoming more clear and more feminine.

Before Knives had a chance to answer he heard foot steps coming their way. "You have to hide." He said to frantically. He helped her get behind her sleeper pod and sat her on the floor. After he did so he ran back around to the front of her pod. He swipped the card through the slot to try to close the pod back up. In all honestity he didn't know if that would work. However he guessed right and the pod door closed again and the light turned red. Not a moment too soon either because Steve was now in this row of sleepers.

"There you are! I knew you stole my key card you little monster!" Steve yelled at Knives, stomping over to him in a fit of rage. He saw the key card in his hand and looked to the side at the sleeper pod where a person should be. "What did you do?" Steve screamed at Knives, his blood boiling. Knives doesn't respond. He only stared at Steve with a defiant look. Of course this only angered Steve more and prompted him to say, "This room is off limts to your kind! You got that, monster?" Steve then proceeded to kick Knives in the forehead with the heel of his boot. Knives gave out a pained cry and was knocked backward into the control release for Clover's sleeper pod. Clover herself had been watching the exchange this whole time. She gasped at the sight of what this man had done in anger at a little boy.

"Where are they?" Steve screamed at Knives taking him by the shirt and lifting him up off the ground. Knives didn't say a word, he only looked at Steve through the blood running down his forehead.

"WHERE ARE THEY? WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?" Steve yelled almost at the top of his lungs at Knives. His eyes were blood-shot with anger.

Clover used all of her strength to stand up and walk over to the side of the big man, grab his arm and say, "I'm okay, see? Don't hurt him!" She pleaded him.

Steve stared at the little girl and softened up, letting Knives down. He took a step away before staring at her. "This is just great." Steve said exsaperated while face palming himself. "Well, let's go tell the rest of the crew what happened." Steve said through gritted teeth. "Don't think you aren't going unpunished for this, you little monster." Steve said throwing another remark back at Knives before marching both the children out the door.

They walked in silence the rest of the way to the elevator. Both of the children stood as far away from Steve as they could on the elevator ride. Once the elevator came to a stop, Steve grabbed a hold of Knive's shirt and dragged him along with him. They walked in a straight line to the observeration deck where most of the crew was. The beige door slide open slowly before Steve stepped in with Knives by the collar and Clover at his heel.

Rem, Rolin Joey and Vash all looked to the door as Steve entered. Rem immediately stood up as she saw Steve holding Knives by the collar, she looked as if she were about to walk over but stopped upon seeing Clover. Before anyone had a chance to ask any questions Steve was already speaking.

"I caught him in the cold sleep chamber. He stole my card and woke up this one." Steve said forcefully pointing his thumbing to his back side at Clover. Everyone was speechless for a moment. The first to speak was Rem.

"Let him go Steve." She said in her firm but gentle voice.

"Like hell I am! He woke up a S.E.E.D and you just expect him to go unpunished?" Steve shouted in anger.

"Let me handle this." Rem said said in a more serious demanding tone.

"I know you Rem. You'll let him get away with it and I'm not going to let that happen!" Steve turned away from Rem to a scared faced Knives.

"Hold on, now." Joey said speaking up. "Rem is the one raising these kids so she should be the one to punish them." Joey said trying to calm Steve down.

Steve looked from Joey to Rem and gave a glance at Rolin before releasing Knives and storming out the door angerily, clearly out-numbered. Rem seemed to relax as Steve left. She walked over to Knives and knelt down in front of him. "What you did was very wrong Knives. You need to stay in your room the rest of the day and think about you've done." Rem said looking at Knives sternly.

Knives stared at her, suprised that she was actually punishing him. He gave a glance at Vash and Clover before walking out the door to go to his bedroom. After he left Rem turned her attention to Clover. She gave her a smile and asked, "What's your name?"

"Clover." She replied timidly.

"That's a lovely name." Rem said giving her a closed-eyed smile. She stood up and lead Clover over to Joey. "What do you think we should do?" Rem asked him concerned.

"That's easy. Just put her back to sleep." Rolin chimed in pushing his glasses up his nose further.

"We can't just put her back to now can we?" Rem asked unsure if that was the best course of action.

Joey folded his hands together and rested his chin on in them a pondering method before speaking. "I'd like to look up information on Clover before I make any decisions."

Rolin seemed displeased by this answer but wasn't in any place to disagree with him. Joey started typing away on a keyboard in front of him. "What's your last name?" Joey asked Clover glancing over at her.

"Teegan." Clover said nervously, having no clue where she was or who any of these people were. She watched the man type at the keyboard more before there was a small 'bleep' sound.

"It says here that Clover is 5 years old was born in the former United States of America and there aren't any other Teegans abroad."

"My parent's aren't here?" Clover asked horrified. "They told me they were coming to!" Clover started to son uncontrollably where she was standing. The whole crew looked at her in sadness as they guessed what might have happened.

Joey and Rem exchanged silent looks before Joey went on to say, "I think we should find Mary and Steve and discuss this with them further." Rem stared at Clover and was reluctant to leave Clover in this state but this wasn't something that could wait.

Rem looked at Vash before saying, "We need to talk alone. Keep her company while we're gone okay?" Rem gave a friendly smile at Clover before going out the door with Joey and Rolin.

Vash stared at Clover worriedly. "If it makes you feel any better, Knives and I don't know our parents but Rem is like our mother. Maybe she can be your mother to?" Vash asked her trying to cheer her up.

"I already have a mom!" Clover cried out at him. "I want my mom and dad!" Clover said as tearing kept running down her face. Her parents were suppose to be here as well. They promised her but they're not... Clover didn't know what to do with herself without her parents. They were her care-givers and she kne nothing without them.

Vash stared at Clover for a moment before saying "I really like your name." He grinned at her to make her feel more welcomed and cheer her up.

Clover looked at him through teary eyes and said hoarsely through sobs, "Th-ank yo-you."

"What's your name?" Clover asked despite herself.

"My name is Vash." He replied to Clover unsure of what to do to make her feel better.

"You have a... funny name." Clover said to Vash calming down as best as she could. Even at the age of 5 she knew that crying wasn't going to solve anything.

"Rem gave it to me. She says she really likes the name." Vash said smiling slightly at her. "Can I ask you a question?"

"What?" Clover replied wiping the tears away with her hands and sleeves.

"What's cold sleep like?" Vash asked excitedly.

"I don't know. I remember getting into the chamer and then falling asleep. Then I woke up and fell on the ground and that's when I saw Knives."

Vash's smile dropped slightly. He'd hope that she might know something about it but unfortunately she didn't. "What was Earth like then?" Vash asked hoping she at least knew about that.

Clover stared at him questioningly. He didn't know about Earth? She was starting to wonder if Rem was his mother and if he was born on the space ship. "Where you born here?" Clover asked him without answering his question.

"No, Rem says Knives and I were born in something called a plant." After that explaination Vash sat down on a booth-like seat and signaled for Clover to sit with him. Clover walked over to the seat and sat down beside him. She stared out at the blankness of space through the huge window for a few moments before Vash said, "You never answered my question."

"What question?" Clover asked completely forgetting about it; being in a new enviroment.

"The one about Earth! What's it like?" Vash asked his light green eyes stared at Clover with curuousity. Clover thought about it, there was so much to tell...

After about 20 minutes of answering questions and explaining things to Vash, the door to the observation deck slide open and the crew walked in a single file line in. Joey was in the lead, followed by Rem, Mary, Rolin and finally Steve. They all walked over to Clover and Vash they looked to an from the children for a bit before Joey spoke up.

"We've decided that..." Joey paused for dramatic effect. "since you've been awakened early. It wouldn't be fair to force you go back to cold sleep. You're now an offical member of the S.E.E.D.S crew. Welcome aboard, Clover!" Joey said with a big smile that was formed quickly by all the crew members except for Rolin who had wanted to put her back in cold sleep..

"Hey, you're going to be with us now! That's great!" Vash said excitedly with a big smile on his face.

Clover stared at everyone, unable to comperhand so much in such a short amount of time. She forced a smile back at everyone regardless of that. She knew this was going to be her new home for the forseeable future. Wouldn't this be better then cold sleep, anyway?

End Chapter One