A/N: Yes, I know these forums are dead, but I don't care.
Obviously, I do not own any of these characters.
I couldn't kill him. He was the only one I ever cared about, and I couldn't kill him. Instead, I subdued him and with my powers knocked him out, and took him into the house I had built for myself in a green place far away from any humans and waited for him to wake up. I couldn't wait for him to wake up. I would try to convince him that the humans had to die, and this time, I would succeed...I wasn't sure how - so unlike me, usually I had a plan for doing anything and everything I did - but I would finally have him as my own. For two days, I spent most of my time sitting beside his bed. I wanted to be there when he woke up.
Two days, seventeen hours, and three minutes after he had attacked me and I had bested him, his eyes fluttered open. I waited for him to speak. It could be he was still too out of it to think straight, and I didn't want to rush him. We had all the time we needed; what was left of the humans I had hired to take out the rest of their race I had sent out on tasks of merciful destruction throughout Gunsmoke, so they wouldn't bother us.
"Knives?"
"Yes, brother?"
"What are you going to do to me?"
"Nothing, really."
"Knives?"
"Yes, brother?"
"Don't hurt them..."
He meant humans. Stupid, awful, cruel humans. He meant the girls especially.
"Too late, brother..." I whispered as he fell back into unconsciousness.
He woke the second time an hour later and didn't fall asleep again. "What do you mean too late?!" It was as if our conversation had never been interrupted.
"I sent the Nebraska family to destroy that little town you celebrated your first kill in. They did quite a good job. There were no survivors."
His face paled. "Wh-what?"
"Those girls are history, brother. Soon there will be no humans left, and we can live in peace with the other plants. We can make this a green world instead of a barren one." I smiled widely. "Doesn't that sound good, Vash?"
He didn't share my enthusiasm. He closed his eyes and turned away from me. "You're lying."
"You know I'm not."
He didn't want to cry in front of me, but he did. It hurt so bad hearing his breath catch. I didn't mind killing the spiders, but I didn't want Vash to be sad. I don't understand how he could love them so much. All they do as a species is destroy the defenseless. And I won't let them take my Vash.