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Second I must say…well type…
And on with the story…
Chapter 9: Waking and Arguing
Knives heard a soft groaning sound coming from the other side of the room, so, naturally, he ignored it. What did he care if the spider was waking up?
While Knives was reading, Meryl slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand.
(Meryl) What happened? How long was I out?
Then Meryl looked down at herself.
(Meryl) AND WHERE THE HELL IS MY SHIRT! Oh God someone is going to DIE!
She quickly scanned the room, and her eyes rested on Knives's form reading his book in the corner of the room. Now if he had not been ignoring her, and if he had keep his senses up, he would have noticed the pillow that went flying into the side of his head, but unfortunately for him (but to the amusement of everyone else) he didn't. The pillow hit him on the face quite hard, and Knives was more then just a little surprised that he and been hit, and fell straight off his chair with a load thud.
"YOU ARSE-HOLE! WHAT WERE YOU DOING TAKING MY TOP OFF!" Meryl screamed.
"If you would rather have died…" Knives attempted to interrupt the rather pissed off woman.
"IF IT WAS NESSACARY FOR BANDAGING YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT MILLIE TO DO IT!"
"I don't think she's…"
"I COULD KILL YOU FOR THIS!"
By now Knives was completely disgusted, he had actually been 'nice' to a human, and here was now he was being treated for it? He couldn't see why Vash was so into helping them.
"LOOK YOU VILE SPIDER, I ONLY REMOVED YOUR BLASTED TOP SO I COULD CLEAN YOUR FUCKING CUT, I DARE SAY YOUR FEMALE FRIEND COULDN'T HAVE DONE AS GOOD A JOB, AND I HAD NO WISH TO LOOK AT YOU DISGUSTING BODY, ALTHOUGH I WOULD SAY THERE ISN'T MUCH TO LOOK AT!" Knives yelled back, he knew he was lying about thinking her body was disgusting, but he didn't need her to know that.
For a short while he believed he had won, that she would not try to scream back at him after that, but then that's what you get of not having much interaction with women, you don't notice when they are about to explode.
Meryl threw herself across the room, taking Knives by surprise and punching him in the nose, hard. Knives quickly recovered, remembered that he was a plant, and should not be being beaten by a spider, but not just a spider, a female spider, a SHORT female spider, this just wasn't right. With a flick of his hand, he quickly sent Meryl flying to the other side of the room, where she crashed into her bed.
Knives quickly stood, and brushed himself down. Then he slowly walked over to Meryl who was semi-leaning against her bed, and not looking in the best mood. He grabbed the top of her right arm, just below the shoulder, and pulled her up so she was standing.
Because she had landed so close to the bed, when Knives had pulled her up, she was now standing rather close to him, too close for her liking. They were so close the Meryl's face was almost pushed against his chest, although this didn't seem to be bothering Knives, or he was just ignoring it, or he may not have even noticed.
In this case, it was the later, being so angery about the fact that she had hit him; he hadn't actually noticed how close they were.
"If you dare hit me again, I will kill you." Knives hissed at her. Unfortunately this didn't have the effect it was meant to.
"Oh goody, so if I do that again, you'll kill me now, instead of later? That's just great, well at least that way I won't have to watch you kill my entire species." She said this in a very sarcastic way.
Knives blinked, normally people pleaded when he threatened to kill them, they cried, they did lots of things, but they never spoke back like that.
"I will kill you."
"I know, and every other human that lives." Meryl replied.
With that Knives just threw Meryl onto her bed, and turned back to his chair and book.
"If you wouldn't mind putting a top on…" He said as he sat down.
She quickly put a top on, going slightly red in the face, then threw herself back onto her bed, and lay down and stared at the ceiling.
The only sounds in the room were of the turning off the pages from Knives books, and Meryl's breathing which was slightly heavy from the pain of moving her only half healed wounds.
Knives turned the page with a light noise.
And then the next.
And again.
And again.
And he continued to read his book, and turning the pages for the next hour, completely unaware of the fact that he was driving Meryl insane with the noise, or maybe he just didn't care.
"Can you stop that?" Meryl asked, she couldn't be bothered with another fight, she was far to tired for that.
"Stop what?"
"Turning the pages."
"And how am I meant to read then?" Knives looked up from his book then.
"I don't know, nor do I care."
Meryl closed her eyes and fell asleep again, Knives returned to reading.
After a short while she rolled over and off the bed, succeeding in semi-waking herself up. With a sigh of annoyance, Knives got up, and then placed her back on the bed. In her half-asleep state Meryl didn't realise anything another then the warm body next to hers when he picked her up, so she placed her arms around him and tried to use his chest as a pillow, this didn't work that well because he was still standing up.
Knives looked down at her in disgust, even if it was forced, and removed her arms from around him. Then he once again returned to his book. Trying to ignore the feels of regret, and longing that he didn't understand.
And downstairs with Millie and Vash…(finally)
Millie had just come back and took a seat across the table from Vash.
"So how was everything while I was gone Mr Vash?" Millie had gone to work shortly after her argument with Vash.
"Well there were some raised voices, and some loud bangs awhile ago, but everything is calm now."
"So Meryl finally woke up, I'm really glad, maybe now Mr Knives will let us look after her, because I don't trust him."
"Neither do I Millie, neither do I."
Yes, I have finished yet another chapter!
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