"Child's Play"
Talking: " "
Thinking: ' '
Flashback:
"Vash..." a familiar voice whispered. Vash looked around the room on the seeds ship but could only see darkness. He knew what was coming, but from which direction? He heard foot steps, and turned his head towards the door. When did it get open? He got out of his hiding place in the corner and walked to the middle of the room. 'Concentrate Vash you know where he is, he'll move and you'll here him.' A dark figure crept up from behind him and pushed him to the floor. Vash let out a yelp as he hit his head on the ground.
"I've got you now." the dark figure said as he threw all his weight on Vash holding him to the ground. He leaned down close to Vash's face, the light from the hallway shown down on the attacker.
"Ok, ok Knives you got me now get off your hurting me." Knives gave a playful laugh as he got off his brother and sat next to him on the floor.
"You're not really good at this game are you?" asked Knives.
"No, guess not." Vash said as he rubbed his sore head. "Ow, that really hurt Knives"
"Stop being such a baby" Knives said. The light came on as the twins looked over at the door.
"Bed time you two" said a sweet voice. "What are you two doing in here anyway?" Rem asked as she smiled at Vash.
Vash smiled back. "We were just..." Knives put his hand on Vash's shoulder to push himself up.
"None of your business." He interrupted as he brushed himself off and walked pass Rem, stopping just outside the door.
Rem cocked her head at him "Knives that's not…" Knives looked back at Rem and gave her a hard look.
"Come on Vash, let's go to bed" Vash looked at Knives and then shifted his gaze to Rem. "Vash…" Knives said in a stern voice. Vash got up and silently walked passed Rem with his head down.
Rem looked at Vash and then back to Knives, he had a smug smile on his face. 'He's all mine bitch, and don't you forget it.' Knives thought to himself. The twins walked silently to there room and closed the door.
'When did knives gain such control over Vash' Rem asked her self. "Oh Knives" Rem sighed and shook her head.
As the two get ready for bed, Vash looked over to Knives and wandered if he should ask why he was so mean to Rem.
"Knives…"
Knives pulls his shirt over his head and throws it on the ground "Yea Vash?"
"Umm….never mind." 'It'd be best not to question him' Vash silently thought to himself.
Knives knew Vash was wondering why he was so nasty to Rem. He could see the questioning look in his eyes. "She doesn't need to know every move we make Vash."
"She was just asking what we were doing. We aren't aloud in the engine room anyway remember, Rem said so" Vash suddenly wished he hadn't said that.
"There you go again "Rem knows best" "Mustn't upset Rem" I'm tired of you always thinking she's a saint." Knives lay down on the bed with a sigh and threw the covers over him, back to Vash.
'Why is he like this' Vash thought. He took off his own shirt, throwing it by knives' then, walked over to his bed and got under the covers, back to Knives and turned out the lights.
"I'm sorry knives." He said when he heard his twin let out a deep breath of frustration. There was nothing but silence, he gave up and tried to go to sleep. He was not far from it when he felt strong arms wrap around him pulling him close. Vash stiffened a little, not sure why Knives was embracing him. 'He's never done this before.' Sure when Vash was scared he would hold him to make him feel safe or when he was happy he would give him a hug, but this... Well it felt different. He could feel knives' warm flesh touching his own. A tingling sensation ran over Vash's body. He didn't get up from the bed or push knives off of him, he feared that knives would be even madder at him, he just laid there and got used to knives' breath on his neck.
Knives had always had an attraction to Vash. He knew it was far beyond the feeling of a loving brother. But he never wanted to hurt Vash, especially not the way that Steven did to Knives. 'But than again Steven only meant to hurt me, so maybe its different….' Knives held onto his brother and eventually they fell asleep.