Remember Vash Chapter 3
By Siona Ward (Blue Daemon)
I did this one as quick as I could (hopefully) without ruining the story. Just For You! See what you make me do!? Well whatever. I like all them pretty reviews! Enjoy some more Trigunny goodness! ^_^
"How did you come to be here?" Tama enquired to the apparently gentleman-like criminal before her.
"I walked." He replied with a smile. Tama sweat-dropped.
"You know what I mean!"
"Ok…I remember being captured from…somewhere. My memory's all hazy. If it weren't for that poster, I wouldn't even know my name. I do remember escaping though. Some strange people were experimenting on me at some point. I think it was a while ago. It could have been months ago I suppose…So one day I escaped."
"Is that why those bikers were chasing you?"
"I guess that would make sense." Vash ate another doughnut. He had made a quick detour before they had reached Tama's home to buy a large supply of them from a stall. Tama's mother and brother were out shopping and would be home soon. Tama hadn't decided to hide Vash or not…but where could you hide a full-grown man in a small house? Vash continued his story,
"I was walking for a long time before those guys found me. I really wish I didn't have to shoot them…Oh, these doughnuts are yummy!"
Tama was slightly unimpressed with this guy. She had expected him to be daring and heroic, but he was a bit of an idiot. She didn't mind too much though. She found him kinda sweet; it was the only adult she knew that she could speak casually to. He didn't mind talking normally to a child, and she respected that.
"I seem to be remembering more than I did before though. I'm pretty sure this amnesia is only temporary." He suddenly got up and knelt down to look her in the eyes, "Thank you, Tama. You're the first person I've spoken to in all my memory!" he smiled at this, and then stood up once more to leave.
"Please don't go, Vash!" Tama called, "Can't you stay here and be my friend?" Vash smiled a wonderful, caring smile. He seemed to be good at that.
"Come on then, squirt. Show me out of this town." Tama grinned and grabbed his hand as she led him out of the house. As they walked out of the doorway, they were confronted by Tama's mother and Daisuke. He mother gasped at the strange man.
"Who are you? Get out! Tama! Come here!"
"Mum! It's alright!" Tama explained, "This is Vash. He just got a bit lost and h-"
"Vash!? Daisuke, call the sheriff! Tama, come here now!"
Vash was confused. Was he really such a horrible criminal to strike such fear at the mention of his name? He decided that this woman would not be persuaded to calm down and instead slipped out of the door for a quick exit. He was too late. There was already a crowd gathering at the shouts of Tama's mother outside the door. He was surrounded.
"It's the Humanoid Typhoon!" cried a man.
"Lock him up and claim the reward!" a drunken young man called.
'Bugger.' thought Vash.
The crowd grew. Several men were grabbing his arms to restrain him. There was no way he could simply run now. Tama was desperately trying to calm down her mother and explain the situation, but her voice was not heard.
It looked like their sheriff was coming. Vash felt so confused and frustrated; it was almost like he was a new, innocent person who had taken the body of a criminal, and now he was being captured for crimes he couldn't remember committing. He clenched his teeth at the unfairness of it all, and was about to shove his way through to freedom, when a voice cut above the taunting crowd.
"Leave him alone! Out of my way!" it was a woman, and by the way the crowd immediately subsided, a very dominating woman. Then Vash saw her. She was fairly young and petite with short hair and a tall companion followed her holding a baby. A flash of a recognition told him he may have formerly known these women but try as he might, he couldn't even get a name from his memory.
"Vash! It's us!" the larger woman called, dragging him from the crowd. "Let's get out of here!"
The first woman with dark hair seemed to be negotiating with the sheriff whilst they slipped away from the crowd.
"Alright." Relented the sheriff, a tall man with a beard. "You say he'll cause us no harm, and I know you've been with him before. I give you 12 hours and then you must be gone from here!"
"Thank you so much." Replied the dark-haired woman, looking even smaller compared to the large man. "I promise everything will be fine."
The crowd, looking rather disappointed, now dispersed. Vash was about to thank these helpful women when the woman holding the baby threw her arms around him, nearly dropping the boy in the process.
"Oh Vash! We were so worried about you! Where have you been!?"
Vash didn't know what to say.
Meryl didn't know what to say.
The four were sitting under the windmill overlooking the town that Tama had shown them, away from the accusing eyes of the villagers. Vash had told them his story. 'Memory loss?' she thought. This was just too strange. Milly looked close to tears. Nicholas was sleeping.
"So you really don't remember us?" Milly asked sounding hurt.
"You make it sound like it's my fault!" Vash cried. "And no. I can't remember you. I'm sorry." Meryl tried to make sense of all this.
"So all you can remember is being experimented on by someone somewhere and then escaping and coming here. And you don't know how long you've been walking and subsequently how far away the place you were is?" Vash took a while to understand this before answering,
"Yes." Feeling awkward, he put a hand behind his head, "So…what have you guys been up to?"
The insurance workers sweat-dropped. Milly decided to humour him.
"Well, (I'm Milly if you don't remember) after you defeated your evil twin brother Knives, you brought him back to the town where we you to care for him until he got better, which was a silly thing to do since he tried to kill you…and us, and…his men…killed…" she couldn't say her father of her son's name. Meryl continued while she held back tears.
"And then, (Oh and I'm Meryl) some weeks later Knives escaped and then a little while after that you got all jumpy and went too. Since then, we moved to Karsted City near Lina and Grandma Sheryl. You didn't tell us where you were going or when you'd be back, just that you had something to do."
"And that sounded very suspicious!" interrupted Milly, suddenly feeling better. "You couldn't just leave us with no information! You even left before you saw Nicky!" she held up her son proudly as he vomited everywhere.
"Oh man!" she moaned as she grabbed a cloth from her bag. Meryl took Nicholas and sat him down.
Vash smiled at the baby boy. He too held a glimmer of a memory that he just couldn't tap.
"Can you…" he mumbled. Milly looked up. "Can you two-uh three help me get my memory back? You know more than me." Meryl smiled almost sadly.
"Of course we'll help you. We're friends."
"But first!" cried Milly, "We have to go visit the geo-plant! We've got to leave by tonight so this is our last chance remember?"
More tense moments to cone soon! And hopefully a bit of actual plot too! ^_^ Please review!