I'm sick of saying the disclaimer. But I'll do it one-last-time: I DON'T own Trigun, and I'm NOT making money off this. :D Glad I got that off my chest.

PS: It gets kinda...sorta...really cheesey at some point, ok? I apoligize and all that crap and....oh forget it. Just read the dang story.

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Chapter Six: Andrea's Crush

Background Purposeless People: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

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Ummm...last chapter, they meet Wolfwood, Andrea drives him up the wall with her many confessions, and ends up with another guy staying with her. Andrea's "crush" on Vash seems to have sprouted a little more than just a leaf....whatever that means. o_o;

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"WOLFWOOD!" Andrea stormed around the hotel, looking for the priest.

"What's up?" Vash sat in Andrea's room at the table eating donuts and drinking black coffee.

"That stupid.....he saw....he saw me...in the shower.....just in a towel......stared...put his arm around me.....priest my pissed off ass!!" Andrea pulled on her cloak and left her hair down. Vash liked it like that, and after he said so, Andrea just stared at him for a moment, and then left without another word.

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"Er...Alex? What are you doing?"

"What do you mean, Andrea?"

"That's Fariante to you, moron. What the hell are you doing?"

"Just...hanging around."

"Oh, shut up."

Vash had been knocked out, and tied to the New July town sign by the neighborhood thugs by his ankles.

"Don't worry Alex, I won't let you down. I'll get some help." Andrea ran off.

--Three hours later.--

"SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!!" Vash was still tied to the sign.

Andrea walked up. "Uh, Miss, could you let me down?" Andrea sighed.

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Did that give you a good taste of Andrea's new everyday life? o_O; Let's hope so.

(By the way, chapter one is when she's wandering alone in the desert, she's thirteen. Chapter two skips to around this time, when she's 17. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. ^_^;)

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"Dum dee doo dee, dee dee dee, dee dee doo. Dum dee diddle dee do di, dee doo di, dee do di!" Andrea was a little too happy the next day. Bounty hunting for Vash had been such slow progress she wrote her father that she was giving up the chase. There were so many rumours that at this rate, she would be spending her whole life searching for someone she would probably never find. His answer came back, and he said it was ok. He even said that she could start her own life. This made Andrea very happy. For various reasons. *heheheh....*

"Alex, can you come here for a sec, I wanna talk." Andrea was sitting on the hotel's roof looking up at the dawn. Everyone was already up.

He froze in his tracks, about to go back downstairs for some drinks. Wolfwood lay curled up asleep in a corner of the roof, the stub of a cigarrette still in his mouth.

"Talk? But you never wanna talk. Are you suuuuure?"

"Did I stutter?"

Vash sighed. "No ma'am." he came back over and sat next to her, slightly nervous.

"Oh just relax, pleaaaase? I wanted to tell you that...." she started blushing furiously. Vash blinked, slightly oblivious. It took her a while to get her bearings.

Meanwhile, Legato has another attempt to make Vash destroy something with the Angel Arm.

(Yemmit this is SO random. x_x)

Vash suddenly looked up. "Andrea," he said. There was an unusual urgency in his voice. "What is it?" her head turned quickly and met his fearful eyes. "I need you to wake Wolfwood up and run. Tell everyone in the town to--" he suddenly broke off, trying to restrain something that was obviously paining him. Somewhere like in the arm.

Andrea stayed there, concerned. "Alex, what--" he looked up at her. "RUN!" he said. She ran over to Wolfwood and shook him awake. He didn't need telling when he saw Vash holding his right arm tightly and in so much pain. He stood up quickly, and yanked on Andrea's wrist. "C'mon, woman, we need to get as far away from here as possible." he started to half drag Andrea down the steps when she kicked him sharply in the kneecap. He withdrew. "What the hell are you doing? We have to leave now!"

Andrea stood there. "I'm not leaving him. I don't care. My intuition says something bad's gonna happen but like I said, I don't give a damn." she ran over to Vash.

"Alex I'm staying with you." he looked up at Andrea, pale and shaking. "N-no..." he said. "But Alex I--" he stopped her. "If you're going to call me something," it took great effort for him to speak, "call me Vash." she looked a little shocked but first love is blinding. Andrea put her arms around his back. "Its ok Vash...just breathe...you'll be ok..."

Wolfwood stood, watching, lit a cigarrette and took a drag on it. He puffed out a large bit of smoke and coughed out. "Legato." he said simply, and walked off the roof with the Cross Punisher over his right shoulder.

Neither Andrea nor Vash noticed. "Vash if you're arm's hurting...let it consume you. You'll pass out but holding it back makes it worse."

"Rem," he said simply, and his right arm suddenly started to twist like the growing of a tree suddenly sped up about 1,000 times. It was a horrific gunlike thing now, with an orb of light in the center. Shouts could be heard below as the people ran out of harm's way because of Wolfwood's warnings. Andrea stepped back, gaping. A blinding flash of light consumed them both, as the Angel Arm now aimed to the sky fired out into space.

As the roof began to crumble, Andrea lunched forward and held onto Vash's lower body. The debris exploded out from them and a rock hit her in the head. She knew no more.

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Oooooooo. I wanted to get this over with. The story's relatively short, hopefully, and it'll be about ten chapters, if I can handle this right. Any suggestions? Should Andrea wake up in a hospital? Wake up nowhere? Wake up in Vash's arms? All of the above? o_O; (makes that picture of Uncle Sam with the creepy expression on his face pointing at the readers. Author's voice is heard.) I want YOU to decide!! REVIEW OR ELSE. o_o; *coughs*