Disclaimer: Okay all of you know that Trigun belongs to Yasihro Nightow and
anybody who says they do. Oh yeah and this fic is what I get for needing to
end the story some how…some way…So, Pull up a chair, relax, grab some
donuts, and enjoy. Spoilers: If you haven't seen it all then don't read
this! It'll mess it all up for you!
By: Fishguts
The Long Nights Wait
Part 9
Vash and Knives walked through the desert…still.
"Are we there yet?" Vash asked.
"Are we there yet?"
"Are we there yet?"
"Are we there yet?"
"Are we there yet?"
Vash kept on going. Knives was on the verge of killing of Vash and leaving his body there for the vultures. (Vash you are about to die!)
Vash walked behind Knives and whined and complained about the stupidest things. {I want to stop and eat. I'm so hungry! And Knives is walking to fast!} "Knives! Slow down…" Vash said in a whiny child-like voice.
"Vash unless you want to have a date with death, then I suggest shutting-up and walk along behind me or even better no where near me. Or else I shall be forced to rip your head off hang you by your feet let the blood drip down and watch as the vultures pick away at your flesh!" Knives was breathing hard. His eyes were glowing red. Vash backed away…slowly…and suddenly became quiet.
(Ah supreme bliss. Silence is wonderful, unless there are shrieks of pain.)
{I keep forgetting why Knives is so freaking scary! AGH!}
They walked for a couple more hours. Night was beginning to fall, but they had seen a sign that stated a town was not far away. "Knives how much longer? I'm really hungry!"
"Vash, shut-up and keep walking."
"But Knives!"
"Vash the more you talk the longer it will take!" Knives got that look again.
Vash shut-up again…quickly. {Man! Knives is to bossy!} "Hey Knives, are we there yet?"
"VASH!" Knives threw a large rock at Vash. It has hit him in the head.
"Ow! Knives! What did you do that for?" Vash grabbed his head.
"Think about it moron."
Vash walked along thinking really hard for a good reason.
"Knives I don't know why you would do that."
Knives walked in silence for a moment. "Vash you are really beginning to annoy me. Now will you please SHUT your damn MOUTH!"
Vash shut-up he hadn't forgotten Knives' evil, sick, demented, twisted, and gross plans for him, if he had continued to annoy him. {Maybe I should stop. I really don't want him to RIP my head off. That would really hurt.}
Vash and Knives could see the town. Vash sniffed the air. "Hey Knives. It smells like fresh paint."
"More like fresh debris and blood." Knives said smiling. "Danger is in the air brother. Be forewarned." Vash ran to the sign and looked at it.
"Hey Knives! We're in the town where I had left the Insurance Girls! Let's see if they are still here."
Knives hurried to the town entrance. "Vash. Let us rest for now. We shall search for your…Insurance Girls…in the morning."
"But Knives! Can't we even eat first?"
"That's what I'm talking about. We wait and eat and then rest. Then in the MORNING we look for them. It's not that hard now is it?"
Vash shook his head. "No Knives. They can let us eat and stay for free. Seeing how we have NO money."
"Oh yes. It seems it had slipped my mind. But you know, it is your fault we do not have any money."
Vash took off. "See I told you. Now lets go! Its almost dark…well, it is dark, so lets go!"
Knives ran to catch up with Vash. An old lady sat in her rocking chair out on her porch knitting something. Vash ran up to her. "Excuse me ma'am do you know if a Meryl Stryfe or a Millie Thompson live in this town?"
She sat down her knitting, looked up at Vash and said, "Yes they live here. That Millie is such a sweet girl, but who is this Meryl you speak of?"
Vash smiled at Knives. "Oh she is a friend."
"Your girlfriend young man?" {Meryl and me? Now that's scary!}
"Oh no ma'am she's just a very good friend."
Knives walked up to Vash, "Lady where do they live?"
Vash glanced from the lady to Knives. "Well you do not have to be so rude about it boy."
"Listen lady I am not a boy! And if you do not tell…" Vash ran in front of Knives and punched him in the stomach.
Knives bent over and grabbed his stomach. "Please excuse my brother, he forgets himself. Can you please tell us where they live?"
"Yes of course I can."
Vash smiled with the look of victory at Knives. Knives only rolled his eyes. The old lady glanced at both of them suspiciously. "They live not to far from here. Their house is down that alley to the left go down the alley past the bar and take a left then a right and go down that road until it goes into a four way crossing. You'll see the Thomas stables to the left, the doctors to the right and if you go straight you'll reach their house. It's a small house and it sits in the shadows of two larger houses. You should be able to find it."
Vash and Knives walked off after they thanked the lady. "Knives, you are going to love these people you are going to meet. Now the short one, Meryl, she might at first come off mean and cruel, especially to me."
Knives just looked at Vash. "And Millie, well Millie may come off as 'not all there', but don't let her fool you, she knows stuff that even you may not pick up."
Knives nodded. They followed to directions the lady gave them, only taking a wrong turn once, then bypassing the house several times.
Vash walked onto the porch and let out a deep sigh. Knives stood at the bottom of the steps. Vash raised his arm and knocked on the door.
"Vash? What will we do if your plan fails?" Knives kicked at the dirt but stopped when they heard footsteps of someone coming.
The door swung open and hit Vash in the head. In the doorway stood a large brown-haired girl with big blue eyes searching the streets. Her attention went from Knives to Vash, who was crumpled in a pile on the ground holding his head.
Her face turned from a look of panic to s huge smile of relief and tears had begun to fill her eyes. "Mr. VASH!"
Vash looked up and smiled. "Hey Millie."
"Mr. Vash where have you been? Do you not know how worried we were, especially Senpai! Come in Mr.Vash. Oh who's that?" Millie looked down at Knives with very child-like eyes.
"Millie, this is my brother. Knives. Knives this is Millie, she's one of the people I've told you about."
Knives nodded. "Well are you two just going to stand there, or are you going to come in?"
"I guess we'll come in." Vash said as he rose to his feet. "Come on Knives."
Knives nodded again and followed Vash and Millie into the small house.
"Hey Millie, where's Meryl?" Vash said as he sat himself down at the table.
Millie got a worried look on her face. "I don't know Mr. Vash. She is usually home by now. And she doesn't have to work this late because the bar closes that she works at. And no one has seen her since she left work." Millie paused. "I'm worried about her Mr. Vash. She hasn't been the same lately."
"Millie, do you know where she might have went?"
She shook her head. "No Mr. Vash, not unless she finally snapped and ran off into the desert to find you."
Vash looked shocked. "To find me?"
Knives started to laugh. Millie and Vash looked at him oddly. "Who would go and be that stupid to go off and look for Vash?" Knives laughed some more.
Vash grabbed a spoon and chunked it at Knives. "Shut up! I swear I can't take you anywhere anymore!"
Millie giggled. "Mr. Vash, you and Mr. Knives are funny. You two remind me of the way you and Senpai used to act."
Knives and Vash looked at each other. "Millie…?" Vash asked breaking the awkward silence. "Would you happen to have anything to eat?"
She smiled. "You are in luck. Today I went shopping. So let me go and see what I can fix you two."
"Oh that's ok Millie. We can help ourselves."
"Speak for yourself." Knives said crossing his arms.
Vash gave him a harsh look. "Knives! Do not make Millie get your stuff for you. You have two perfectly good arms and legs."
Knives gave Vash a strange look. "Oh yeah, sure I do, even though I was SHOT several times by you. Then I was FORCED to journey across the desert putting up with your WHINEY behaviors."
Millie giggled. Knives and Vash stopped and looked at Millie, who had begun to laugh at them. "Uh…I think we'll go and get us something to eat, right Knives?"
"Right Vash." They hurried into the kitchen. "Now look what you've done Vash. You have embarrassed me."
"Oh well."
They walked into the kitchen. Vash opened up a cupboard that revealed shelves full of pudding cups. Vash's mouth fell to the floor.
"Dear God help us all."
"What is the matter brother? No donuts?"
"No not that…Pu-pu-pudding. Massive amounts of pudding."
Knives goes and opens the fridge. He to is shocked by the horror he had seen in the fridge. "What the hell is all of this? Does she expect me, Knives, to eat this, this…"
"Pudding." Vash quickly closed the cabinets. "Uh…Come on Knives, let's go and uh…talk to Millie…" Knives nodded and followed Vash, still trying to get over the massive amounts of pudding…
Vash sat down at the table. Knives sat across from him. Millie smiled. "Mr. Vash, Mr. Knives, what's wrong?"
They quickly looked at each other giving each other looks that would frighten small children.
"There was nothing but-but-but…" Knives sat there staring into an empty abyss mouthing the word 'pudding.'
"Millie is there anything in here to eat besides pudding?"
Millie shook her head. "No."
"Why?"
"Well you see, this morning I had made pancakes, my homemade kind, the ones with blueberries and pudding. Well I had used up all of my pudding and I needed more. So I told Meryl that I would do the grocery shopping. Well I did and bought all the necessary things just like Meryl said to…" she began to sniff and tears filled her eyes.
"Oh Mr. Vash please don't tell Senpai what I did. She'll get mad at me again." She bawled.
Knives turned his attention from the abyss to Millie. He cocked his head and raised his eyebrow. Then he shook it off and returned to the real world only for a moment.
"Don't worry Millie, don't forget we don't know where Meryl is right now."
Her bawling grew even louder when he mentioned that. Knives shook his head at the annoying sounds he was hearing. "Now look what you've done you idiot! Now fix it! I'm trying to concentrate!"
Vash began to panic. {What do I do? All I wanted was a donut, or food. Anything but this…and pudding.}
Knives stood up. "Vash if you don't fix this, I will be forced to hurt you! And this time I will! Those last times were merely threats, but this time I SHALL keep my word. And don't think I won't do it."
Vash began to cry and Millie was still crying. (ARG!) Knives walked into the kitchen. He opened the fridge grabbed a pudding cup. He opened the freezer and grabbed the tray of ice. He walked back to where the two blubbering morons sat. He handed Millie the pudding cup. She quickly became silent. Vash still cried. Knives calmly walked over to him. He took the ice tray and dumped it down Vash's back. Vash jumped up and screamed like a little girl.
"AAHH! KNIVES! What did you do that for?"
"To shut you up."
"Yeah, well you didn't have to do it like that. You could have at least brought me a donut."
"Shut up Vash."
Millie sat there and smiled as she ate her pudding.
Vash stood up. "Millie, where's the bathroom?"
Millie swallowed her mouthful of pudding. "It's down the hall, but you can only get to it either by mine or Senpai's room."
"Thanks Millie." Vash said as he walked down the hall.
Knives walked outside. Millie sat there and ate her pudding.
Vash reached the two doors. He chose the one on the left. He opened the door. The room was dark and a little messy. A lone typewriter sat on a very small desk. The bed neatly made sat there unoccupied. {I take it this is Meryl's room.} He noticed a paper was still in the typewriter, he walked over to it. It read 'Vash the Stampede, the infamous humanoid typhoon is' and it stopped. It wasn't finished. He looked around the room. In a corner was a piled of crumpled papers. He walked over to them and picked one up. He uncrumpled it. It said 'Vash the Stampede, the infamous humanoid typhoon, has not been seen from or heard from in the past 7 months. No reports of property damage or anything of the sort has been reported. I Meryl Stryfe hereby state that I can no longer pursue a career at the Bernardelli Insurance Company. I hereby give my work area and job to Millie Thompson, she will be the one to carry out further pursuit needed on Vash the Stampede.' A small torn paper laid next to the typewriter. He picked it up. 'I am starting a journal, why I don't know, maybe it's for support. But do I deserve what I am going through? Is this just another test in my life? I can't hang on any longer. I can't just go and drop all of my burdens on poor Millie either. She's been through so much all ready. Just one more time I'd like to see Vash before I have to go back. If I don't I have no idea what will happen to me…' It stopped there and had some scribbled marks, but Vash couldn't make them out. {Meryl hang on, I'll save you.}
Vash walked out of Meryl's room. Millie still sat at the table; she had finished her pudding. Knives was nowhere to be seen. "Uh…Millie, where's Knives?"
"Um…he was on the porch, why?"
"Because, he's still an egotistical maniac, you can't leave him alone!"
"I am not you worm, and yes I can be alone!" Knives yelled from outside.
"Boys…Can you two control yourselves for just one moment while I go and get another pudding?" She stood up from the table.
"I can, but I'm not to sure about Knives…" Knives walked into the house.
"Vash shut-up."
Millie went and got her pudding, when she came back Vash and Knives were sitting at the table, silent. "Can we figure out how to get Senpai back?"
"That's just what I was going to talk about."
To be continued…
Ok it's done…I need to end it I think. I am having a very hard time trying to figure out how to end it…but, hey it's getting there and I have come to the conclusion that I wont be able to end it at 10 like I had wanted…or maybe just maybe I still can….
By: Fishguts
The Long Nights Wait
Part 9
Vash and Knives walked through the desert…still.
"Are we there yet?" Vash asked.
"Are we there yet?"
"Are we there yet?"
"Are we there yet?"
"Are we there yet?"
Vash kept on going. Knives was on the verge of killing of Vash and leaving his body there for the vultures. (Vash you are about to die!)
Vash walked behind Knives and whined and complained about the stupidest things. {I want to stop and eat. I'm so hungry! And Knives is walking to fast!} "Knives! Slow down…" Vash said in a whiny child-like voice.
"Vash unless you want to have a date with death, then I suggest shutting-up and walk along behind me or even better no where near me. Or else I shall be forced to rip your head off hang you by your feet let the blood drip down and watch as the vultures pick away at your flesh!" Knives was breathing hard. His eyes were glowing red. Vash backed away…slowly…and suddenly became quiet.
(Ah supreme bliss. Silence is wonderful, unless there are shrieks of pain.)
{I keep forgetting why Knives is so freaking scary! AGH!}
They walked for a couple more hours. Night was beginning to fall, but they had seen a sign that stated a town was not far away. "Knives how much longer? I'm really hungry!"
"Vash, shut-up and keep walking."
"But Knives!"
"Vash the more you talk the longer it will take!" Knives got that look again.
Vash shut-up again…quickly. {Man! Knives is to bossy!} "Hey Knives, are we there yet?"
"VASH!" Knives threw a large rock at Vash. It has hit him in the head.
"Ow! Knives! What did you do that for?" Vash grabbed his head.
"Think about it moron."
Vash walked along thinking really hard for a good reason.
"Knives I don't know why you would do that."
Knives walked in silence for a moment. "Vash you are really beginning to annoy me. Now will you please SHUT your damn MOUTH!"
Vash shut-up he hadn't forgotten Knives' evil, sick, demented, twisted, and gross plans for him, if he had continued to annoy him. {Maybe I should stop. I really don't want him to RIP my head off. That would really hurt.}
Vash and Knives could see the town. Vash sniffed the air. "Hey Knives. It smells like fresh paint."
"More like fresh debris and blood." Knives said smiling. "Danger is in the air brother. Be forewarned." Vash ran to the sign and looked at it.
"Hey Knives! We're in the town where I had left the Insurance Girls! Let's see if they are still here."
Knives hurried to the town entrance. "Vash. Let us rest for now. We shall search for your…Insurance Girls…in the morning."
"But Knives! Can't we even eat first?"
"That's what I'm talking about. We wait and eat and then rest. Then in the MORNING we look for them. It's not that hard now is it?"
Vash shook his head. "No Knives. They can let us eat and stay for free. Seeing how we have NO money."
"Oh yes. It seems it had slipped my mind. But you know, it is your fault we do not have any money."
Vash took off. "See I told you. Now lets go! Its almost dark…well, it is dark, so lets go!"
Knives ran to catch up with Vash. An old lady sat in her rocking chair out on her porch knitting something. Vash ran up to her. "Excuse me ma'am do you know if a Meryl Stryfe or a Millie Thompson live in this town?"
She sat down her knitting, looked up at Vash and said, "Yes they live here. That Millie is such a sweet girl, but who is this Meryl you speak of?"
Vash smiled at Knives. "Oh she is a friend."
"Your girlfriend young man?" {Meryl and me? Now that's scary!}
"Oh no ma'am she's just a very good friend."
Knives walked up to Vash, "Lady where do they live?"
Vash glanced from the lady to Knives. "Well you do not have to be so rude about it boy."
"Listen lady I am not a boy! And if you do not tell…" Vash ran in front of Knives and punched him in the stomach.
Knives bent over and grabbed his stomach. "Please excuse my brother, he forgets himself. Can you please tell us where they live?"
"Yes of course I can."
Vash smiled with the look of victory at Knives. Knives only rolled his eyes. The old lady glanced at both of them suspiciously. "They live not to far from here. Their house is down that alley to the left go down the alley past the bar and take a left then a right and go down that road until it goes into a four way crossing. You'll see the Thomas stables to the left, the doctors to the right and if you go straight you'll reach their house. It's a small house and it sits in the shadows of two larger houses. You should be able to find it."
Vash and Knives walked off after they thanked the lady. "Knives, you are going to love these people you are going to meet. Now the short one, Meryl, she might at first come off mean and cruel, especially to me."
Knives just looked at Vash. "And Millie, well Millie may come off as 'not all there', but don't let her fool you, she knows stuff that even you may not pick up."
Knives nodded. They followed to directions the lady gave them, only taking a wrong turn once, then bypassing the house several times.
Vash walked onto the porch and let out a deep sigh. Knives stood at the bottom of the steps. Vash raised his arm and knocked on the door.
"Vash? What will we do if your plan fails?" Knives kicked at the dirt but stopped when they heard footsteps of someone coming.
The door swung open and hit Vash in the head. In the doorway stood a large brown-haired girl with big blue eyes searching the streets. Her attention went from Knives to Vash, who was crumpled in a pile on the ground holding his head.
Her face turned from a look of panic to s huge smile of relief and tears had begun to fill her eyes. "Mr. VASH!"
Vash looked up and smiled. "Hey Millie."
"Mr. Vash where have you been? Do you not know how worried we were, especially Senpai! Come in Mr.Vash. Oh who's that?" Millie looked down at Knives with very child-like eyes.
"Millie, this is my brother. Knives. Knives this is Millie, she's one of the people I've told you about."
Knives nodded. "Well are you two just going to stand there, or are you going to come in?"
"I guess we'll come in." Vash said as he rose to his feet. "Come on Knives."
Knives nodded again and followed Vash and Millie into the small house.
"Hey Millie, where's Meryl?" Vash said as he sat himself down at the table.
Millie got a worried look on her face. "I don't know Mr. Vash. She is usually home by now. And she doesn't have to work this late because the bar closes that she works at. And no one has seen her since she left work." Millie paused. "I'm worried about her Mr. Vash. She hasn't been the same lately."
"Millie, do you know where she might have went?"
She shook her head. "No Mr. Vash, not unless she finally snapped and ran off into the desert to find you."
Vash looked shocked. "To find me?"
Knives started to laugh. Millie and Vash looked at him oddly. "Who would go and be that stupid to go off and look for Vash?" Knives laughed some more.
Vash grabbed a spoon and chunked it at Knives. "Shut up! I swear I can't take you anywhere anymore!"
Millie giggled. "Mr. Vash, you and Mr. Knives are funny. You two remind me of the way you and Senpai used to act."
Knives and Vash looked at each other. "Millie…?" Vash asked breaking the awkward silence. "Would you happen to have anything to eat?"
She smiled. "You are in luck. Today I went shopping. So let me go and see what I can fix you two."
"Oh that's ok Millie. We can help ourselves."
"Speak for yourself." Knives said crossing his arms.
Vash gave him a harsh look. "Knives! Do not make Millie get your stuff for you. You have two perfectly good arms and legs."
Knives gave Vash a strange look. "Oh yeah, sure I do, even though I was SHOT several times by you. Then I was FORCED to journey across the desert putting up with your WHINEY behaviors."
Millie giggled. Knives and Vash stopped and looked at Millie, who had begun to laugh at them. "Uh…I think we'll go and get us something to eat, right Knives?"
"Right Vash." They hurried into the kitchen. "Now look what you've done Vash. You have embarrassed me."
"Oh well."
They walked into the kitchen. Vash opened up a cupboard that revealed shelves full of pudding cups. Vash's mouth fell to the floor.
"Dear God help us all."
"What is the matter brother? No donuts?"
"No not that…Pu-pu-pudding. Massive amounts of pudding."
Knives goes and opens the fridge. He to is shocked by the horror he had seen in the fridge. "What the hell is all of this? Does she expect me, Knives, to eat this, this…"
"Pudding." Vash quickly closed the cabinets. "Uh…Come on Knives, let's go and uh…talk to Millie…" Knives nodded and followed Vash, still trying to get over the massive amounts of pudding…
Vash sat down at the table. Knives sat across from him. Millie smiled. "Mr. Vash, Mr. Knives, what's wrong?"
They quickly looked at each other giving each other looks that would frighten small children.
"There was nothing but-but-but…" Knives sat there staring into an empty abyss mouthing the word 'pudding.'
"Millie is there anything in here to eat besides pudding?"
Millie shook her head. "No."
"Why?"
"Well you see, this morning I had made pancakes, my homemade kind, the ones with blueberries and pudding. Well I had used up all of my pudding and I needed more. So I told Meryl that I would do the grocery shopping. Well I did and bought all the necessary things just like Meryl said to…" she began to sniff and tears filled her eyes.
"Oh Mr. Vash please don't tell Senpai what I did. She'll get mad at me again." She bawled.
Knives turned his attention from the abyss to Millie. He cocked his head and raised his eyebrow. Then he shook it off and returned to the real world only for a moment.
"Don't worry Millie, don't forget we don't know where Meryl is right now."
Her bawling grew even louder when he mentioned that. Knives shook his head at the annoying sounds he was hearing. "Now look what you've done you idiot! Now fix it! I'm trying to concentrate!"
Vash began to panic. {What do I do? All I wanted was a donut, or food. Anything but this…and pudding.}
Knives stood up. "Vash if you don't fix this, I will be forced to hurt you! And this time I will! Those last times were merely threats, but this time I SHALL keep my word. And don't think I won't do it."
Vash began to cry and Millie was still crying. (ARG!) Knives walked into the kitchen. He opened the fridge grabbed a pudding cup. He opened the freezer and grabbed the tray of ice. He walked back to where the two blubbering morons sat. He handed Millie the pudding cup. She quickly became silent. Vash still cried. Knives calmly walked over to him. He took the ice tray and dumped it down Vash's back. Vash jumped up and screamed like a little girl.
"AAHH! KNIVES! What did you do that for?"
"To shut you up."
"Yeah, well you didn't have to do it like that. You could have at least brought me a donut."
"Shut up Vash."
Millie sat there and smiled as she ate her pudding.
Vash stood up. "Millie, where's the bathroom?"
Millie swallowed her mouthful of pudding. "It's down the hall, but you can only get to it either by mine or Senpai's room."
"Thanks Millie." Vash said as he walked down the hall.
Knives walked outside. Millie sat there and ate her pudding.
Vash reached the two doors. He chose the one on the left. He opened the door. The room was dark and a little messy. A lone typewriter sat on a very small desk. The bed neatly made sat there unoccupied. {I take it this is Meryl's room.} He noticed a paper was still in the typewriter, he walked over to it. It read 'Vash the Stampede, the infamous humanoid typhoon is' and it stopped. It wasn't finished. He looked around the room. In a corner was a piled of crumpled papers. He walked over to them and picked one up. He uncrumpled it. It said 'Vash the Stampede, the infamous humanoid typhoon, has not been seen from or heard from in the past 7 months. No reports of property damage or anything of the sort has been reported. I Meryl Stryfe hereby state that I can no longer pursue a career at the Bernardelli Insurance Company. I hereby give my work area and job to Millie Thompson, she will be the one to carry out further pursuit needed on Vash the Stampede.' A small torn paper laid next to the typewriter. He picked it up. 'I am starting a journal, why I don't know, maybe it's for support. But do I deserve what I am going through? Is this just another test in my life? I can't hang on any longer. I can't just go and drop all of my burdens on poor Millie either. She's been through so much all ready. Just one more time I'd like to see Vash before I have to go back. If I don't I have no idea what will happen to me…' It stopped there and had some scribbled marks, but Vash couldn't make them out. {Meryl hang on, I'll save you.}
Vash walked out of Meryl's room. Millie still sat at the table; she had finished her pudding. Knives was nowhere to be seen. "Uh…Millie, where's Knives?"
"Um…he was on the porch, why?"
"Because, he's still an egotistical maniac, you can't leave him alone!"
"I am not you worm, and yes I can be alone!" Knives yelled from outside.
"Boys…Can you two control yourselves for just one moment while I go and get another pudding?" She stood up from the table.
"I can, but I'm not to sure about Knives…" Knives walked into the house.
"Vash shut-up."
Millie went and got her pudding, when she came back Vash and Knives were sitting at the table, silent. "Can we figure out how to get Senpai back?"
"That's just what I was going to talk about."
To be continued…
Ok it's done…I need to end it I think. I am having a very hard time trying to figure out how to end it…but, hey it's getting there and I have come to the conclusion that I wont be able to end it at 10 like I had wanted…or maybe just maybe I still can….