A/N: Welcome to chapter two of The Telltale Heart. I'm happy to report that I have found the perfect ending for this story! So I will be finishing this. I don't think it will be anywhere near as long as the Hearts Sceries (the sequels I've done)… but I could be wrong… (though I highly doubt it…).

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The Telltale Heart

 

Chapter 2

Ages:

Vash- 124

Kat- 8

"Well, thanks to you; she got here just in time. What I just can't figure out is how she managed to get hurt this badly in the first place. She's not your daughter is she?" the doctor spoke to the blonde from earlier.

"No, she's not my daughter…" the blonde paused confused. "When will she be able to get out of here?"

The doctor took a quick glance at Kat before nodding to himself, "I'd say she needs at least three more days. We need to make sure she doesn't have an infection."

The blonde grunted his thanks and walked back into the hospital room Kat was in. He sank into the only chair in the room located in the corner at the end of the bed. He sighed and rubbed his temples.

"You look tired," a voice drifted to him from the bed.

He looked up to see the golden eyed burnet staring at him. She had one black and one white lock of hair on either side of her face. He was surprised to notice just now that she had a tattoo of tear drops, one inside the other, on her right cheek under her eye. He closed his eyes, "I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't." 

"How'd we manage to escape?" Kat asked him.

The blonde looked up at her, "Very blunt now are we?"

Kat sneered, "Just a little. By the way, I still didn't catch the name of my 'hero.'"

Vash opened his eyes to look at her when he spied something long shoot across the room. His hand flew out and snatched the item that had been shot at them.

Kat watched stunned as the man caught and shattered the shaft of the arrow, "Is everyone after you?!"

Vash stood and hurriedly tapped her pressure point.

Kat sat there with a confused and mildly angry expression on her face.

The blonde grinned sheepishly before snatching her up and taking off out of the room and down the hall.  Doctors screamed at them to stop as they flew passed but it was apparent that that was the last thing on the two's minds.

Kat was aware that the blonde was shoving and knocking everyone they passed to the floor. Arrows would sail over the heads of the people pushed and Kat wondered if he knew what he was doing.

She was carried out onto the streets where guns began to fire at them. She and the man that was carrying her seemed to somehow manage to dodge every bullet fired at them. The blonde ran for the nearest car and was delighted to see that the keys had been left in the ignition.

He dumped Kat in the back seat and hopped into the driver's. The car roared to life and he yelled to Kat, "Keep your head down!" Just as he commanded her to do so, a bullet passed through the windshield to prove his point. Glass spilled over them and Kat wished that the cars on this desert planet had roofs. The blonde absently brushed some glass off his lap and Kat noticed that a shard had gotten wedged into his hand. Once they had gotten far enough away from the firing, Kat leaned over the passenger seat. Her shoulder screamed in pain but she was amazed that the man hadn't noticed the glass shard.

"Doesn't it hurt?" Kat asked him.

He glanced at his hand and hurriedly pulled the glass shard out, hoping she hadn't seen. Kat caught site of the shard before he threw it away and frowned. There had been no blood on it. 'Perhaps there's more to him than meets the eye?'

A/N: Chapter three will be up soon! Hope you like how this is coming along! If you have any comments (that have nothing to do with spelling or grammar *coughs*) please leave them in a review. PLEASE REVIEW!!!