Katsuki Michiru: All standard disclaimers apply.

Kerena Haruka: Now, lets get on to Chapter 3 of A Sick Day For Vash

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"Knives... please... no... stop, take me instead!" (Meryl doesn't yet know who Knives is) Meryl knew whoever this Knives-person was, he was an enemy. "MERYL!"

"Vash? Vash... wake up." Meryl paused. Vash awoke, looked around and let out a sigh of relief.

"Meryl... y-you're still alive." He tensed. "Where's Milly?"

Meryl handed him the glass of water. "Downstairs."

Vash's hoarse voice let out a gruff sigh.

"Vash, who's Knives?" Meryl asked, wanting the know who was the star of the nightmare.

"My brother, Knives, he's evil, he killed Rem and the others. The ones on the S.E.E.D.S ship... he loves killing. Killing humans." Vash explained.

"Don't tell me, please don't tell me you are going after him. Please, Vash, don't tell me that. And who's this Rem, who are you, really?"

"Okay then... I won't tell you I'm going after Knives." He replied. Meryl didn't know what to say to him.

"Oh Vash... you risk your life for the people on Gunsmoke, and they still hate you." She paused. "You risk your life not knowing if you'll survive, Milly and I wouldn't know what to do if you died. You're such a jerk, Vash."

"I'm... sorry."

"Don't apologize!"

"I'm sorry..."

"I said not to apologize!"

"I'm... sorry?" Vash was very confuse, he thought apologizing was a good thing to do.

"Sometimes you're just so stupid." Meryl said. He only cracked a grin and laid back down. "Vash, give me your coat."

"Why?"

"You've ripped it, stupid." Vash only smiled and said,

"Oh." Meryl told him to go back to sleep while she sewed it for him. She walked downstairs and sat at the table with the coat. She hugged the coat and buried her face in it. 'It smells of him.' she thought. She began stitching the coat while singing 'Sound Life'. After about a half an hour passed, she had the coat stitched. She got up and began toward then up the stairs to Vash's room. He rolled over in bed and shivered in his sleep.

"So cold." He muttered involuntarily. Meryl pulled the blankets up over him and set this coat on the chair next to his bed.

"Goodnight, Stampede." She whispered, turning and leaving.

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Katsuki Michiru: Sorry for the wait folks, you've all been good. I'm not gonna keep you here with all my halfhearted and half-assed excuses. So, I'll try to update quicker. Thank you for all your support guys!