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The Telltale Heart

Chapter 3

Ages:

Vash- 124

Kat- 8

Kat sneezed as a grain of sand tickled the inside of her nose. Vash looked up at her, "Not catching a cold are you?"

Kat rubbed her nose, "I don't think so…"

Vash watched her through his orange tinted glasses, "How's your shoulder doing?"

Kat yawned, "It still hurts."

There was another pause and Kat continued to stare into the flames of their small fire wondering who her companion was. He was unlike anyone else she had met and this only interested her more. Kat was pulled from her thoughts when she caught the movement of Vash's arm.

"Are you hungry?" he asked holding out some sort of power bar.

"Yes, thanks…" the issue of who he was came up again, "You still haven't told me your name." Her voice came out jokingly, "Perhaps you don't have one?" A smile pulled at the corners of his mouth and he glanced at her. He was sitting in an odd position, with his knees pulled up to his chest, and his head resting on his legs. "I still don't see how our car broke down," Kat commented. "It really sucks to be stuck out in the desert." They had made a small camp in the shelter of some rocks and had been fortunate to find enough weeds to start a fire.

A cold wind blew through their camp and Kat shivered. She already had a blanket covering her but it was thin and small. Kat frowned as she became slightly warmer. She looked up to see that Vash had draped his blanket over her. She was happy that she was warmer but felt sorry that she had taken his only form or warmth, "Are you sure you'll be ok without your blanket?"

"Fine," he replied with a reassuring smile.

Kat didn't believe him for one minute. She scooted across the sand and draped both blankets over them. Vash stiffened a bit, not used to sitting so close to someone.

He frowned. His arm was resting against Kat's coat and it felt really puffy. He wondered how thick it was since Kat didn't look overweight.

She began to hum then whisper some tunes of a song she once heard, "… From somewhere out of nowhere drops upon the dreaming night. So… On the second celestial evening, all the children of the pebble join hands and-" Kat paused thinking that she had heard a second voice singing with her.

Vash finished the line, "…composed a waltz."  His mood shifted a bit, "Where did you hear that song?"

Kat caught a hint of anger in his voice and she cringed, "I-I don't remember. I think Meryl taught it to me…"

"Where did Meryl learn it from?" he asked.

"Our grandmother…" Kat wondered why he was so interested in the song. "She died before I was born though."

"Do you remember what your grandmother's name was?" Vash asked.

"It was something like Rim Savarem or no… it was Rem Saverem," Kat said, "And she wasn't really our grandmother, we just called her that. Rem was actually our great grandmother." 

An eerie silence drifted over them. 'She's related to Rem?!' Vash shifted to look at the person sitting next to him. It was true that she looked a bit like Rem. Kat's brown hair and golden eyes resembled her but was it true that she was related to Rem?

Vash wanted to ask Kat more questions but hadn't noticed that she had drifted to sleep. Her head was resting on his shoulder and he just now noticed that Kat had one black and one white lock of hair framing the sides of her face. He studied her features and noticed that she had a double tear tattoo under her left eye. What unnerved him (other than the fact that she could be related to Rem) was that when sleeping, Kat appeared to be no more than ten years old.

'Who is this girl?'

(A/N: So dead… I'm so tired! Finals coming up soon too, if you don't haven em, be grateful damn it! PLEASE REVIEW!!!)