DISCLAIMER- Talina, that's it. Umm… I also own Whatchamacalliton. But you can swipe that. No own Trigun, though I wish I did. ^_^
A/N- This is gonna be pre-eppie-16, since that's all I've seen! ^_^
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CHAPTER TWO-TALINA SAVEREM
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Morning came and Vash still wasn't asleep. A knock came on his door and it creaked open enough to let an eye peek in.
"Vash?" Meryl asked, "Are you awake?"
"I never fell asleep, Meryl," the grumbling and tired voice of Vash said.
"Well, serves you right!" She said and earned a glare from Vash, who, for the first time ever, wasn't cheery when he woke up and had no hangover. Meryl was a little scared, but not enough to let show.
"I'm hungry."
"At least he's normal," Meryl thought and said, "Well, there's a restaurant down the street. It's small, but the people in the room next to Milly and I say it's the best. So get dressed!" With that, she closed the door and Vash stood up, grabbing his coat and pulling it on. He placed his gun in one of the many folds of his coat and stretched, remembering what he heard last night.
"I must be suffering from hunger… lack of sleep… or something." Vash shook his head, "It just… couldn't be…"
Milly, Meryl and Vash were walking to the restaurant, lovingly dubbed 'Julyton'.
"It's obviously a tribute to the fallen city!" Milly said, very cheerful, as usual. Meryl gave Vash a look, who was staring blankly ahead. "… What's his problem?" Milly asked Meryl.
"No sleep, I think. I don't know why," Meryl said and shrugged it off, as if it didn't bug her. But it did. Vash was Meryl's best friend, after Milly, of course. Oh well. Something was wrong, and Meryl was going to find out eventually.
As they walked in, the bells over the door let out a satisfying jingle, and the woman crouched near the sink stood up, a pot in hand.
"Hi there, and welcome to Julyton! Have a seat and I'll get there in a bit, okay?" The woman said.
"Okay!" Milly said, sounding almost just like the woman in the cheer filling her voice. The woman bent over again, as the three sat at a table close to the counter. There was a rattling of pans, and then the girl stood up, walking out and grabbing three menus from a rack. She placed a menu before each of the three people, and then leaned against the counter.
"So, is this that good place everyone was talking about?" Milly asked the woman.
"I hope so!" She giggled and said, "I believe so, because I haven't had a single complaint in my twenty years of running this place."
"Why twenty? And what's up with the name?" Milly asked and Meryl looked at the woman over her menu.
"Well, it's called Julyton because July City was my hometown. That was a long time ago, about twenty-three years ago, that it was destroyed. I lost my boyfriend, all my friends and all my family. So, I basically wandered for three years, and then I came here, and decided to found a restaurant. That's all I've wanted to do. So I named it after my home city, and I've been running it more or less alone for twenty years," She finished her story and smiled, "But I'm glad I like being alone. Because if I wasn't used to it, boy howdy, I'd be dead by now!" She laughed again, and then pushed a lock of hair hanging on the right side of her face behind her ear. There was another lock of black hair on the other side of her face, and the rest was pulled into a bun, resting on the middle of her head. She wore a red tank-top and cut-off jean shorts, underneath a white apron. She wore a necklace, but the pendant was hidden under her apron.
"What do you mean; you'd be dead by now?" Milly asked.
"I would've committed suicide by now! Think about it. I've been alone for twenty-three years and I lost everything I had to a big explosion."
"Oh." Milly shut up.
"Do you have any questions?" The woman asked.
"Yeah. What's your name?" Meryl asked.
"My name is Talina Saverem. Nice to meet you," She said with a smile, then walked behind the counter again, rubbing down the counters with a rag. Meryl smiled and said to Milly:
"What a nice girl."
"Tell me about it. What do you think, Vash?" Milly asked. No response from Vash, who's menu was held up over his face. "Vash?" Meryl noticed Vash's hands trembling slightly.
"Vash?" Meryl and Milly asked together. Meryl pushed Vash's menu down and he was crying silently.
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Hehe. I WOULD'VE stopped after she said her name was Talina SAVEREM, but I didn't. I have a plan stored up in my head, and hugs to Catgirl Ayane, who said it sounded like an eppie. ^_^ Thanks!!
And pardon if I got the July City stuff wrong. I've only seen eppies 3-16, thank you very much. And why can't Cartoon Network air Rem Saverem SOONER!!?!?!?!?!? –Rocks back and forth impatiently-
