DAMN FINALS!!! Had math (yahoo! *is smartest in the stupidest class*) and science (DAMN BIO!). Today was also a short day so this explains why I'm home so early. No school Friday or Monday! Anyways, I haven't finished writing this story yet since I'm unhappy with the ending, but I promise to finish it as soon as I can!
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The Telltale Heart
Chapter 7
*five years later*
Ages:
Vash- 129
Kat- 13
'It's the fifth year anniversary of him leaving me behind…' Kat thought to herself as she wandered the city streets. 'I wonder if he'll ever come back for me.'
"I have the flier you're looking for Kat," the sheriff said as he saw the girl pass by, "I must warn you about this one though. No one can have a sixty billion double dollar bounty for doing squat."
"Mark, you don't need to remind me," Kat said getting tired of people warning her about safety.
"Pete would be angry if I didn't," the sheriff replied, "We wouldn't want to see the mayor's daughter killed now would we?"
Kat laughed, "Thanks again for the flier! See you Mark!" Kat waved to him and continued on her way.
She read the flier to herself, "Emergency… blah… blah… sixty billion bounty… I've heard it all before!" She shredded the wanted poster and let the pieces float out of her fingers on the rare breeze that drifted through town that day. Kat looked up surprised to find herself at the plant facility. 'I haven't visited the plants in a while… I guess it wouldn't hurt to check it out. I'm the mayor's daughter; they don't call me 'the key to the city' for nothing! I can get into anyplace in the city since everyone knows who I am.'
She paused at the entrance to the plant and told the guards who she was and what she was doing there. They let her pass and Kat took the stairway to her right that lead to the giant bulbs.
She had loved the massive bulbs ever since she was a child. There was just something about them that she found fascinating. When ever Kat felt lonely or sad she would come up to just be near the bulbs.
'I should probably be hunting for Vash.' Kat told herself. 'I can't believe he's in our town! What would he be doing here?'
Kat came out of the stair well to see someone already there with the bulbs. Feeling as if her space had been intruded she pulled out the gun at her hip and barked, "Who are you and what's your business being here?" The person turned to face her and her gun slipped through her fingers. It clattered to the floor and the barrel opened to scatter her bullets across the floor.
The man was officially freaked out by now. He had been scared shitless having a gun drawn on him and now the woman in front of him was starting to cry.
Kat ran up to him and threw her arms around his neck, she was taller and was surprised that he seemed to be shorter than the last time she had met him. It wasn't that he was shorter; it was that she had grown and he had remained the same.
"Welcome back mystery man. Or should I say my hero? I never did catch your name…" Kat whispered.
Vash pried the woman off him to look at her face his expression changed from confused to recognition, "Katsura? My little squirt?"
"I'm not a squirt," Kat muttered.
"Well you certainly aren't anymore!" Vash smiled.
Kat looked him over, "You haven't changed a bit! You're still almost the exact same as I remember!" Kat fingered the black parts of his hair. 'I don't remember this.' "What were you doing here anyways?"
Vash lead her over to a small patch next to the bulb where they could sit, "I always loved the bulbs. I suppose you like them just as much as I do?" Kat nodded. "How have you been doing?"
"Fine I guess. Pete's been really nice to me and so has Terri. Nicolas knows that I live with them since I insisted that I be able to write to him," Kat replied.
"Why were you carrying a gun?" Vash asked as he watched Kat collect her gun and bullets.
"I'm a bounty hunter," she caught the look Vash pulled. "I usually only hunt the small fry that pass through town but I heard a rumor that Vash the Stampede was passing through so I'm currently looking for him. Would you mind helping me look for this guy?"
Vash continued to stare at her strangely. Kat ignored the look and continued to rattle off, "Why did it take you so long to come back?"
Vash's mood shifted, "I couldn't bear the thought of coming back. I thought that next time I saw you I wouldn't be able to resist your pleas not to leave you behind. You have to understand though that I couldn't have taken you with me. I couldn't risk having you killed."
"I understand but it would have been nice to see you earlier. You have no idea how much I've missed you…" Kat hugged him again and closed her eyes taking in his scent. He still smelled like sand and alcohol. Kat could feel a wave of happiness pulse over her and she opened her eyes to see a large pink being with yellow eyes staring at them. Her grip on Vash tightened in fear and she looked up so see Vash staring intently at the being in the bulb.
Vash seemed to nod then introduced the being, "This is my sister. To you she's known as 'the beings who exist out of time' but among us we're known as plants. She, as well as every other plant is my sister. There is also Knives and, like me, we are the only male plants. We are also the only plants who live outside of the bulb. That pulse of happiness you felt came from my sister, she thinks we're a couple."
"Who are you?" Kat asked the man sitting next to her.
Vash ignored her question. He placed his forehead and palms against the glass and the angel inside mirrored his movements. "Can I speak with her the way you can?" Kat asked him.
"You're already speaking to her through your emotions. Everything you feel she can also feel," Vash replied.
Kat didn't care much for the answer she was given so she copied Vash and rested her head and palms against the glass. Kat could immediately feel some sort of connection link between her and the angel.
'I'm happy for you two,' the angel spoke to Kat.
'What do you mean?' Kat asked, 'I'm not marring him.'
'But you love him,' the angel stated.
"Kat!" Vash growled as he pulled her from the glass of the bulb. A wave of concern and confusion came from Vash's sister as she wanted to know why the connection was cut short. "How are you able to talk to my sisters if you're not one of us?!"
"I-I don't know!" Kat whimpered as Vash handled her a bit roughly.
"We're going back to Pete's house!" Vash growled.
"Why?!" Kat asked bewildered. The angel they had been talking to earlier stared after them sending out waves of confusion.
"Why are you after Vash?" he asked her.
"I'm a bounty hunter!" Kat replied.
"Bull shit! There's another reason you're after him isn't there?" Vash snarled.
"Yes there is…" Kat whispered.
"Then what is it? Why are you after him?" Vash asked.
"He killed my parents," Kat whispered.
"What?" Vash asked he let go of her arm in surprise.
"When July was destroyed… I was just a baby. My parents were killed," Kat explained in a small voice.
Waves of anger came from the female plant. She was angry that Vash had made Kat, the only person who visited her, sad.
"I hate Vash the Stampede…" Kat growled, "And it will be I who kill him!"
(A/N: Hehe… *runs away* Um, off to study? *ducks behind desk* I'll have the next chapter up as soon as I can! PLEASE REVIEW!!!)
