Disclaimer: I don't own Trigun. I do own the character Heather.

Summary: The battle between Vash and Knives is finally over. But Vash is still worried because there are still people looking for him so that they can collect the bounty. So he decides to leaves. Trying to Forget

Chapter 1

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"Hey, mister. Hey, I'm talking to you." He looked around to see who it was and it was a girl in about her early twenties who had reminded him a lot of Meryl. He winced at the thought of her name. The girl continued to walk over to him, barely standing after who knows how many drinks. "Hey, she said again you look kinda depressed." "Yeah I am." " Is their any way that I ( hic ) can help?" " No. Not really." Oh come on how about I buy you another drink and we talk about it." "Sure. Why not."

"Here you go." "Thanks" " Now why don't we start by introducing ourselves" " Sure. My name is Vash" As soon as he said it he looked around and hoped that no one had heard what he had said. " Well. Its nice to meet you Vash. My name is Heather. I was startled when you said that your name was Vash thinking that you were the legendary Vash the Stampede but you don't fit the description of him.. So are you going to tell me why you are so depressed or not?" " Yeah. It all happened about a week ago."

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"Vash where are you going?" He turned around to see Meryl in her pajamas yawning. He didn't say anything he just turned around again and started walking out the door. "Vash. What's wrong." He didn't turn around because he didn't want to see the look on her face when he said it. " I'm leaving." "Why." That was all she could say even though she knew the answer. He was probably going to say that he didn't want to see me or Milly get hurt. " I..don't want to see you get hurt. I couldn't live with myself if something happens to you." "Vash." That's was all she could get out before he turned and looked at her and she saw the tears in eyes. " Meryl.I'm sorry " She stood there shocked by what he just said. She had no idea about how he had felt about her until now. Then tears started to form in her eyes. Vash saw and told her not to cry. He went over to her and hugged her goodbye. She started to cry even more while Vash was hushing her to stop.

They went to sit down and he let her cry until she had finally fallen asleep. He took her back to the room they rented for the night to find that Milly was still asleep. He defiantly didn't want to face Milly, who was snoring very loudly. He placed her carefully on the bed hoping not to wake her. He then pulled the covers over her and kissed her on the forehead while whispering the words I love you and I'm sorry. He hated to leave them again but with people still after the bounty he couldn't stay. He got up and walked out off the room not realizing that she was awake when he said that. She got up and sat down at the desk and cry again.

Just as he was walking out the door he started to hear someone cry. He realized quickly that it was Meryl. He wanted to go back and tell her that he was sorry again but he knew that it would only make things worse. So he continued on his way trying to forget.

* * End of Flashback* *

"Wow. No wonder you so down in the dumps. " "Yeah." That was the only thing that he could think of to say. Heather seeing that he still felt bad. Well who wouldn't I mean he just left the girl he loved. So she decided to get some more drinks to see if she could get the reason out of him as to why he left. "Hey, bartender. Two more drinks over here." Maybe this guy really is Vash the Stampede was all she could think about.

A/N: It turned out better than I thought it would. This is my first fic. ( If you couldn't already tell) Oh, and please review. I don't care good or bad