He had fallen asleep by the time Nickolas showed up.Nickolas walked over to Vash and shook him awake.He could see that the gun man's eyes were swolen from crying."She's all settled in by now.You don't have to worry,"Nickolas said trying to confort Vash and putting on a smile he knew looked fake.

Vash sat in a dark corner of the bar with his back against the wall.This was a new habit of his,sense his brother had sent Legato after him.He was still fighting the tears of his loss.

Nickolas was watching him from the bar."Hey barkeep, give me two bottles of wiskey,"he shouted .He paid for the drinks and brought them to the table.He sat down as his friend started to drink down the wiskey, and took a good look at the bar. It was filled with the usual scattering of people with the ocasional prostitute mixed in , but there in the corner sat a lone man.To Nickolas's amazement he looked alot like Vash."Hey Vash,do you have any family?"he asked.

"Ya, I have a twin brother.If you see him tell me,"Vash said the last part very sarcasticly.

Nickolas pointed to the corner not looking at it,"Is that him?"

"Is who him? I don't see anyone,"Vash then grinned,the wiskey starting to take affect,"How many drinks have you had today?"

"I tell you there was a man sitting in the corner over there and he looked like you!" Nickolas realy stressed this last part,but Vash was now too drunk to care."Great now he'll never believe me," Nickolas sighed to himself as he stole a bottle off the table so that he could at least have one drink.

As soon as he set the bottle down Vash snatches it ans starts chugging," Now ,Now, Nick ,we need a designated driver!" he exclaimed happly as he staggered off to go start a song with anyone who would sing.

"That stupid drunk, now I'll have to clean puke all night,"Nick grummbled angrly.He had seen Vash drunk before and he knew what was comeing.He still could not get his mind off that man in the corner.He looked over at Vash he at least was putting on a happy face now.All of a sudden Nickolas watches him pass out."Now I have to drag him to a room! This just keeps getting better and better,"he complained loudly.

He walked over to Vash and grabbed him by the arms and started dragging him out of the bar." Damn you're heavy! You need to lay off the donuts,"Nickolas complained to his passed out friend.They finaly made it to the hotel and Nick got them each a room."Can someone help me drag him upsatirs?Please?Anyone!" but no one wanted to help,so up the stairs they went, with Vash's head getting knocked on each stair on the way up.They walkeda little way up the hall,"Well, this is your stop, thank God,"he unlocked the door and drug him in.Without putting him on the bed he closes the door and locks it.

"Now to get some sleep,"he said as he went to his room.He put the key in the lock ,and opened the door to see that someone else was in the room.He crept over to the sleeping person to see that it was the psychotic woman that chased him before.He quickly snuck back out the room and relocked the door."No fucking way in hell am I sleeping in there,"he said thoughtfully,"well it looks like I'm bunking with Vash.

He unlocked the door to Vash's room and opened it only to find Vash's gun pointing at his head,"It's me you idiot!"Nickolas squeeked,"They put me in a room with psycho bitch from earlier,and I'm not going to sleep in thst same room as her."

Vash lowered his gun,"You should have knocked."

"I thought you were still passed out!"

"The bed next to the batroom is mine.You sleep by the window,"Vash told Nickolas and then jumped into his bed and went to sleep.He dreamed of the little girl and how he had found her abandoned,dirty,and hungry.He was in bad shape when he found her but not as bad as her.He missed her already.