I'm guessing that thoughts aren't italicized in this story… I get so confused @_@
Sorry it took me so long to update! I had already written this chapter but I didn't know if I liked it or not… I still don't care much for it…
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The Telltale Heart
Chapter 13
Ages:
Vash- 131
Kat- 16
Kat woke up the next morning to a strange but comforting sight. She couldn't remember what had happened the night before but she really didn't care. That's when Kat noticed that she was wearing nothing but his coat and covered in slime. 'What the hell?!' She sat up and pulled the coat closer to her. 'What happened last night?! I can't remember! Was I drunk?!' Kat noticed that Vash looked slightly different than she remembered him being. 'His hair… It's black on the sides. Did he dye it? It makes him look… sexy.' Kat blushed and tried to stand. Her muscles gave way and she squeaked as she flopped back onto the mattress.
Vash stirred a bit and noticed that something was shifting next to him. He wrapped an arm around what ever it was. 'Damn blankets…'
Kat froze when she felt his arm wrap around her. 'Oh god…' She began to squirm some more to get free. 'Let go!'
'Stop squirming!' Vash tightened his grip on the struggling thing and moved his hands to get a better grip. He noticed that what ever the thing was, it was warm and sticky.
Kat stiffened and reddened when she felt Vash's hand lock securely around her chest. 'Don't wake up! Don't wake up! Don't wake-'
Vash opened his eyes when his foggy morning mind registered what he was gripping. His gaze met with Kat's for a brief moment and he could tell she was just as embarrassed as he was. He let go and scooted away in shock.
Kat watched him as he slid off the side of the bed. She heard him connect with the metal floor and let out a startled yelp. "You always this graceful?" Kat asked as she leaned over the edge of the bed.
"Only when I need to be," Vash answered as he stood up and attempted to regain his composure.
"What happened last night?" Kat asked slowly dreading the answer.
"Nothing!" Vash said a little too quickly.
"We didn't have-" Kat tried to ask.
"NO!" Vash said as he began to freak out. Then a little more calmly, "No, nothing happened. There was just nowhere else for me to sleep."
"Oh the twisted webs you spiders weave," Knives mocked as he waltzed down the hallway. "There's a spare clothing storage room on the fifth floor," he threw over his shoulder then decided to add, "I don't EVER want to see a spider without clothing ever again!"
Kat gasped when she noticed that Vash's coat had slipped down to her waist. She quickly pulled it back up and blushed as red as the coat.
"I'll go look for the storage room. There's a waterfall in the rec. room two floors down," Vash said as he took off.
'A waterfall? What's that?'
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"Knives, how old are you and Vash?" Kat asked as she wrapped a towel around herself. She had needed Knives' help to find the waterfall since Vash had disappeared.
He sat with his back to her, "I'm 132 and Vash will be 132 tomorrow."
Kat continued to wring out her hair until her mind finally registered what he had said, "What?! You mean thirty-two don't you?" Her mind registered that she had no scars from her incident. 'Strange…'
Knives turned around to face her, "I mean one hundred and thirty-two spider."
'Ok yeah sure.' Kat went back to towel drying her hair. "So tomorrow is his birthday," Kat said allowed.
"Not truly his birthday. Just the day Rem took us from the pod. I was taken out five days before him. Rem came back for Vash later on," he explained.
'Why the hell did he insist to hang around while I bathed?' "Do you ever celebrate?" Kat asked as she sat next to the older plant.
Knives shorted, "The only time we ever did that was our first year. Rem insisted on doing so."
"You keep mentioning my great grandmother, what was so important about her? And how could you have possibly have known her? You'd really have to be over one hundred to know her…" Kat watched as the expression on his face changed to sorrow and anger. 'Perhaps there's more to my grandmother than meets the eye?'
"I told you spider, all the plants here are over one hundred years old," Knives snapped.
'I wish he'd stop calling me spider… I wonder why he does that.' "What about Rem?" Kat pressed.
"You say you're related to her?" Knives asked.
Kat nodded, "I was."
"She died in the great fall," Knives said.
"The great fall? I don't remember her dying like that. She died of old age. I went to her funeral. She was a strange woman though. Never stayed in one place. It was as if she was searching for someone," Kat commented.
"She didn't die in the great fall," Knives thought allowed. "Wouldn't Vash be surprised to hear that?"
"Surprised to hear what?" Vash asked as he came up to them. "I got you some spare clothes. Took me a while to find them though."
"What's the great fall?" Kat asked him.
Vash almost dropped the clothes he was carrying, "Uh…"
"I caused it to kill off the rest of the humans. That bitch Rem stopped me though and supposedly escaped in an extra pod. Hear that Vash? She died of old age," Knives sneered and stood to leave.
"Are you really one hundred and thirty?" Kat asked as Vash set her clothes down then turned to leave.
"One hundred and thirty-one. I come from earth and Rem was like a mother to us. She is the reason why you and everyone else on this planet are still alive. Knives is the reason we're all stuck on this miserable planet."
'Oh I feel a migraine coming on, yes major migraine.' Kat thought to herself as she changed.
(A/N: *falls over* Me no likkie this chappie! I should rewrite it… key word: should… PLEASE REVIEW!!!)
