Disclaimer:
Neither of us own the series Trigun or any characters (unfortunately) and are not making any money writing this. Please don't sue as it's said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Rea, Serenity Springs and the rest are ours though if you want to use them just ask okay?
(A) Okay Rysh and I did a phone consult and whipped this up between us in about an hour it's going to go with the story we have laboriously written down the hard way in a notebook during almost a month of nursing her mother's illness and I was tending to my father after his perforated ulcer. All I can say is THANK WHATEVER DIEITIES WERE INVOLVED IN CREATING THE PHONE! Not only did we get most of the story written (on paper) but we came up with this little slice as a back story for a romantic little tête-à-tête with poor lonely Knives that's not Legato centric (I never liked that idiot) and okay Rysh has a thing for Knives…
(R)GEESH it's his eyes I tell yah his eyes. All right he's almost as hot as Vash but he belongs to Nickie btw this is kind of after the end of the anime series and Nick is alive
Vash made Knives promise not to kill humans and left him after treating his wounds.
(A)Okay before everyone goes into the "but they're identical twins" thing. There is a precedent for twins to have one gay and one straight or at least bi twin. They're called Mirror Image Twins (I think) they're identical except they have slightly different traits like one's left-handed and one's right.
(R) I saw it on National Geographic channel while I was taking care of Mum I didn't pay much attention to the whole thing but hey I was on the phone calling Affie after I saw it. This is our way to clear up a loose end on how Rea knew stuff about Vash that wasn't in the rumor mill dontcha think.
Well enough rambling here's the first installment of our stories.
a/n (R) Aff and I put this on Adult a few months ago but found out about Knives day and decided to try to upload it. Due to computer problems (mostly caused by lightning) we don't have the rest of it… this was written after we started our other fic so that's why the rest of the foreword doesn't make sense I'll try to upload the second chapter here later in the week when I pry the disk out of the machine sigh
'Telepathic thoughts'
Regular thoughts
Rea didn't know where the feeling was coming from she only knew someone was in trouble. She'd followed her instincts before and found wounded animals as well as one of the children from the town that had fallen off a cliff but this time it was different. This time it was as if someone with the same sort of senses she had discovered in herself was in trouble and reaching out. She dropped the shields she had so painfully learned to build around her mind and called out.
'Where are you? What happened?' She threw the thought out to the other she sensed ahead.
'Vash? Is that you?' The thought came back to her fuzzy with pain but helping her pinpoint the location of the person she was going to help.
'No but I'm a friend, what happened how are you hurt' she sent back to him as she picked up the pace leading her Thomas and looking carefully for the person she knew was in trouble.
'I don't need help from humans!' The voice full of contempt said.
"To bad because I'm all you've got" she said coming around the corner and pulling out her medical kit. "Besides in case you've noticed I'm not your ordinary human and I'm not going to leave you out here to the elements." She said as she tied off the Thomas and then knelt beside him and began to clean and bandage the wounds cataloguing them under her breath. "Hmmm gunshot in the left thigh thru and thru missed the bone good. Cracked ribs most likely from falling off the rocks and hitting others on the way down." She hissed in sympathy wrapping them tightly. "Oh that's gotta hurt. Mostly bruises on the arms and chest and that hips gonna have a bone bruise if you landed on it and your gun other than that some minor cuts on your arms and neck." The prattle went on and on setting his teeth on edge but in a strange way reassuring him she knew what she was doing for vermin.
"Will you shut up I know what hurts and what doesn't bitch. AAAAAAAAUUUUUU
UGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!" he said in annoyance trying to reach for the gun or his knives but the pain stopped him. 'I guess you live for a while longer' he thought at her forgetting for a second she could hear him.
'Then so will you idiot didn't anyone ever tell you not to annoy the one that's tending your wounds?' She shot right back at him surprising him all over again. Then she continued using her voice "It's very rude to do that when others can't hear you so I'll thank you not to do that around me or I'll have to get nasty" she said as she tightened the last bandage around his upper arm. "And be grateful I wasn't doing the bandage around your neck. Now what name do you want to go by around here because I assure you the Sheriff will ask, and although I can and have lied to him directly I do like to keep my stories straight to make sure you aren't dragged to the gallows or shot on sight." She said with grim humor as she pulled the poles of a travois stretcher off the Thomas and started to set it up and move him onto it in preparation for transport. " I'm taking you to Serenity Springs"
"Bitch I don't want to go with you just leave me here with some supplies and I'll get by I don't want to be around you humans" Knives said as he weakly fought her. Muttering "Damndable vermin" under his breath
"Funny you don't look suicidal and I'm almost sure I don't look like a dog so SHUT IT OR I'LL KNOCK YOU OUT!" she said finally losing what's left of her temper. Argh if I didn't know better I'd swear he was just doing this to try my patience. Now where have I sensed energy like his before? She thought as she finally got him strapped into the transport stretcher. He almost reminds me of the Geoplant under the town I'll have to ask Katia tonight. "Now just enjoy the ride we'll be in town in an hour… now about that name. Do you want to tell me or should I just tell the sheriff you are a stranger and let him question you. He's corrupt and in the pay of the local bandits so don't think of shooting him on the spot." She said warningly then added with a mischievous glint in her eye knowing it would tick him off. "Besides blood is so hard to get out of the carpet and off the walls you know" then she snickered hearing his teeth grinding.
"Knives just call me Knives" he ground out.
"Nice to meet you Knives" She said sitting down next to him and measuring out some powders into a tin cup then mixing some water into it. "This is Linden, willow bark, and a few other herbs to help the pain and make you relax more." At his puzzled look she added, "I'm a healer I don't use drugs so I don't have anything stronger with me I'm sorry" Rea said as she held the cup to his lips. "Please drink it all." He drank the herbal mixture supprised at the taste. "I added some honey to make it easer to drink" She put the cup away and moved to lead the Thomas towards town.
"So if you're not an ordinary spider what are you" he asked sarcastically
"I'm… Complicated" she said with a sheepish look. "I don't want to talk about it… so if I'm a spider what does that make you little boy?" She said sarcastically trying to gage how aware he was of his surroundings, and how well the herbs were working.
"A butterfly " he said yawning. "You have to kill the spiders to save the butterflies" he drifted off into a doze then leaving her to think.
But if you kill the spiders to save the butterflies doesn't that make you a spider?
There are two references in this chappie. One is from a movie that came out a few years back. And one is paraphrased from an AMV I came across looking for more info on Millions Knives Grin We'll put the url for the AMV on the next chapter if we get any reviews asking for it. Oh and any flames that aren't constructive will be used to make tea for writing conferences between Affie and Rysh. Again we're sorry that this chappie is so short. We'll try to do better next time.