Disclaimer: I don't own Trigun or any of the characters of Trigun.
A/N: Wow...I can't believe I'm actually writing chapter 28! I didn't think that I would actually make it this far. Anyways, the plot has thickened and it will continue to thicken in this chapter, I hope. This is the first chapter that I have not fully written out, so it's impromptu. Thanks for all the reviews! Now, on with chapter 28!
-------------------------------------
Knives drove slowly through Tonim Town, thinking of any abandoned places that Vash could be in. He sighed to himself as he remembered that Tonim Town had been deserted years ago.
Think, Knives think...where could Vash be?
He slowed the car down and looked around him, trying to remember something about this town that made it so unique.
What is it about this town that made it so unique? What is...I remember now! This town was involved with the Fondrique Caravan. There should be an old cargo hold around here somewhere...
Knives floored his car and sped through the deserted town, desperately trying to find an old cargo hold somewhere in the town, but he was unsuccessful. He again slowed his car and thought about the way the town was built.
There were many buildings scattered across a two hundred ile radius, but some major factories and refineries were located on the outskirts of the town. That was it.
Knives again floored his car and drove out of the heart of Tonim Town and to the outskirts, his heart pounding as he found the building he had been looking for; the old warehouse. Again he slowed his car, this time parking, and pulled his gun out from underneath his seat. He slowly opened the door and stepped out of the car, shutting the door and looking around, spotting another car in the distance.
Someone's here...maybe it's her...
Knives watched as a tall woman emerged from the warehouse, gripping his gun tighter and walking slowly towards her. The woman seemed to take notice of him and froze in place, staring at Knives as he approached her, leaving a 2 yar distance between them.
"It's all over now," said Knives, raising his gun and aiming at the woman.
"What are you talking about?" asked the woman, smirking and placing a hand on her hip.
"You left so many clues: the stealing of some information of mine, the way my brother disappeared without any sign of a struggle. Should I go on Saria, or should I say Lorelei?"
"You're not as dumb as I thought you were. Was that all that lead you to me?"
"Not quite. The phone call you made telling me that Vash was dead sounded completely fake and I saw right through it. I also knew that you had broken into my house the night of the break in because of the fact that the lock on the door wasn't broken and I knew that Vash had a key to my house. Earlier that day, when I mentioned that I was searching for Lorelei Baroque with my fiancé, you tensed up and began to ask questions about where I work at.
"I also found something of yours at the scene of the crime; your wedding band. I came to the conclusion that you had used gloves and taken your rings on, but when you heard me walking through the house, you panicked and ran away. I figured you out right from the beginning."
"You're right, Knives. I used your brother for a cover all of this time. I had been told that he was naïve and would be blinded by love, so when he asked me to marry him, I arranged our wedding, which was a complete fluke."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, a good friend of mine, Midvalley, changed his image and posed as a priest, and, quote unquote, married us in Japanese, the one language that Vash did not understand. He thought that we took wedding vows when all we said were some lame phrases in Japanese. It's a shame, though. He'll never know."
"What are you...?"
"I'm afraid that you are out of time my friend. Your brother is dead inside."
"That's what you think."
Lorelei turned around and dropped her jaw in horror as she saw Vash the Stampede and Nicholas D. Wolfwood standing side by side with the cross punisher behind them. Wolfwood smoked one of his crooked cigarettes while aiming one of his many guns at Lorelei while Vash stared down the woman in front of him. Lorelei laughed.
"Are you all planning on killing me?" she asked, pulling Vash's gun out from underneath her cloak. Knives raised his gun and prepared to fire, only to be thrown across the sand next to Vash by an unseen force, causing his gun to fire at the warehouse. Lorelei laughed again.
"You fools," she scoffed. "You all can't defeat us."
"Who's 'us'?" asked Vash.
"My husband and I."
"I'm your husband."
"Au contraire darling, didn't you pay any attention to what language we were married in? I had Midvalley, yes, Midvalley, marry us in Japanese, seeing as it is one of the only languages that you don't understand. We weren't married, Vash. Our vows were just some mumbo jumbo bull shit phrases. They meant nothing."
"Then, who are you married to?"
"She's married to me."
Vash remained silent as a familiar man stepped up to Lorelei's side, placing a hand on her arm. Vash studied the man and widened his eyes in horror as he remembered seeing him in the picture with Lorelei. The man had a bandage wrapped around his head and stood taller than Lorelei, wearing a white coat with a black turtle neck and brown slacks underneath. Vash immediately knew who he was.
"This is my husband," said Lorelei. "Legato Bluesummers."
Legato moved from behind Lorelei and stood by her side, smirking at the trio in front of him. Knives studied Legato diligently, remembering the night he had seen him in the diner and thought nothing of it, thinking that he was another man.
How could a man who had been shot straight through the head live?
"I'll tell you, Master," said Legato, bowing before Knives. "Or should I call you by your name seeing as I was freed by your incessant brother's bullet to my head? Yes, your brother did indeed shoot me, but by some luck, this beautiful woman found me and somehow healed me in my most critical condition.
"She removed the bullet and tried to fix what damage had been done, and luckily there wasn't anything too severe that couldn't be fixed. I found out through Midvalley, whom completely faked his death, that Nicholas D. Wolfwood had been healed by you and I became furious. I then longed for revenge against you. You left me for dead and healed a man whom you hated with everything that you had. So, Lorelei and I decided to make him suffer.
"Sure, she had her reasons for doing what she did to Millie Thompson, but we both did it out of revenge against you. So what are you going to do now? Are you going to kill us?"
Knives placed his finger on the trigger of his gun once more, but something was wrong. He couldn't pull the trigger. Legato laughed as he tossed Knives once again into the air and against the warehouse.
"It's pointless to try and shoot me," scoffed Legato, walking closer to Vash and Wolfwood, both ready to kill Legato and Lorelei. "All of you will be dead in a matter of moments, but first, let's have some fun, shall we...what the hell was that?"
Legato was forced backwards and slid across the sand to where Lorelei stood, pain searing through his left arm. He attempted to kill the person whom had shot him with his telekinesis, but he had lost the ability to do so.
"Who the hell just shot me?!" yelled Legato, pulling the strange object off of his arm.
"I did."
A woman emerged from the warehouse and walked past Vash and Wolfwood, holding a strange type of gun at her side. The woman had long brown hair, bright blue eyes, and was almost as tall as Vash. Lorelei froze and stared at the woman in front of her.
"How is this possible?" she asked, aiming Vash's gun at the woman. "How are you alive? YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD MILLIE THOMPSON!"
"Why don't you ask your husband?" retorted Millie.
"What the hell is she talking about Legato?"
"I..." said Legato, trailing off, shame in his voice.
"Answer me now damnit!"
"I kept her alive," answered Legato.
"Why the hell did you do that?"
"I...couldn't let her die. Lorelei, when my awful parents died and I was fending for myself out on the streets, I was taken in by a family who called me their own despite my oddities. This family was the Thompson family. They cared for me until I was old enough to go out on my own. Millie was like my sister, and, actually she is."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I had a little sister when I was with my parents. She was the apple of their eye and I loved her, despite how well she was treated. When they died, she was put up for adoption and I just ran away. It was fate that brought us back together those years ago. Lorelei, I couldn't kill my own sister!" "You fucking told me that you hated humans!"
"I do Lorelei, but I wasn't going to kill my own sister!"
"Everyone just shut up!" yelled Millie, raising her gun and aiming at Lorelei and Legato. "I don't care what either of you have to say. You were both wrong and you both kept me from my children. I'm so mad I could...I could..."
"Kill them?" interjected Wolfwood, snapping the straps that bound the cloth on his cross punisher.
"I'm afraid that the both of you are 'out of time' as Lorelei so nicely put it," said Knives, raising his gun once more.
"Not if I can help it," sneered Lorelei, shooting at Vash.
Vash rolled out of the way and shot at Lorelei with his concealed gun, knocking his gun out of her hands and onto the ground. Knives shot Lorelei in the side and aimed at Legato, ready to shoot him.
Wolfwood aimed his punisher at Legato and pulled the trigger, shooting him in the heart. Legato fell into a bloody heap on the sand, clutching his heart and gasping for air. Lorelei grabbed Legato's arm and dropped down to his side, pulling a gun from under her cloak and aiming at Wolfwood.
"You bastard!" she yelled, pulling the trigger and shooting Wolfwood in the arm.
"Lorelei..." Legato trailed off and what was left of his torn and tattered soul left him, leaving him dead on the sand. Lorelei's face drained of all color as she stared at the lifeless heap that was Legato Bluesummers.
"You killed him," whispered Lorelei, beating her fists on Legato's dead body and sobbing.
"Wow, you actually have compassion," said Vash, approaching Lorelei and aiming his gun at her head.
"Please Vash, have some mercy," she pleaded. "Don't kill me. I'm with child!"
"How do I know that that isn't a lie? You told me that you were infertile."
"I lied."
"I'm sick of all of your lies Lorelei. Tell me, did you lie about Rem too?"
"Yes, I did. I knew that if I told you that I had a past with her you would fall right into my trap."
"I should have figured you out when you first told me that. Rem lived over a hundred years ago and there would have been no possible way that you could have lived with her and still be alive and young today."
"Please give me a chance."
"I'VE HEARD ENOUGH!"
Vash pushed his gun harder against Lorelei's forehead as she sobbed and pleaded for her life, finding it hard to pull the trigger. He would feel terrible about killing her if she were indeed with child, but he couldn't let her run free, not after everything that she has done.
Vash closed his eyes as he lowered his gun and turned around, staring at the ground as tears began to roll down his cheeks.
I can't do it...I know that I should, but it's wrong to take the life of another...Rem, help...
Vash, do it...end it now...
Vash looked up at Knives and nodded, turning around once again and facing Lorelei, kicking the gun out of her hand and thrusting his once again to her forehead. Lorelei closed her eyes and ceased her sobbing, preparing for her demise.
"I know that you hate me," she whispered. "But, I did love you."
"Don't toy with me anymore," said Vash through clenched teeth.
"We could have been great if you wouldn't have..."
Vash pulled the trigger and shot Lorelei through the head, instantly killing her. Lorelei's lifeless body fell into a bloody heap next to Legato and Vash turned away, pushing his glasses up his nose and walking towards Knives, Wolfwood, and Millie.
"I shouldn't have killed her," whispered Vash. "But, I had no other alternative."
"This whole ordeal is over," said Knives, throwing his arm around his brother's neck. "Let's go home."
Vash nodded and the four of them walked to Knives' car and piled in, driving away from Tonim Town and back to December, leaving behind the lifeless forms of Lorelei and Legato Bluesummers.
A/N: Sorry that chapter took so long...like I said, it wasn't written out, so it may not be as well written as the others and it took longer to type. Now, it's time to review. Oh, and I will be making one last chapter, an epilogue type chapter. Will update again soon...I promise!!! One more thing...sorry about the OOCness of Legato and Vash at some parts of the chapter, but I had to do it to make it flow! Don't flame me please!!!
A/N: Wow...I can't believe I'm actually writing chapter 28! I didn't think that I would actually make it this far. Anyways, the plot has thickened and it will continue to thicken in this chapter, I hope. This is the first chapter that I have not fully written out, so it's impromptu. Thanks for all the reviews! Now, on with chapter 28!
-------------------------------------
Knives drove slowly through Tonim Town, thinking of any abandoned places that Vash could be in. He sighed to himself as he remembered that Tonim Town had been deserted years ago.
Think, Knives think...where could Vash be?
He slowed the car down and looked around him, trying to remember something about this town that made it so unique.
What is it about this town that made it so unique? What is...I remember now! This town was involved with the Fondrique Caravan. There should be an old cargo hold around here somewhere...
Knives floored his car and sped through the deserted town, desperately trying to find an old cargo hold somewhere in the town, but he was unsuccessful. He again slowed his car and thought about the way the town was built.
There were many buildings scattered across a two hundred ile radius, but some major factories and refineries were located on the outskirts of the town. That was it.
Knives again floored his car and drove out of the heart of Tonim Town and to the outskirts, his heart pounding as he found the building he had been looking for; the old warehouse. Again he slowed his car, this time parking, and pulled his gun out from underneath his seat. He slowly opened the door and stepped out of the car, shutting the door and looking around, spotting another car in the distance.
Someone's here...maybe it's her...
Knives watched as a tall woman emerged from the warehouse, gripping his gun tighter and walking slowly towards her. The woman seemed to take notice of him and froze in place, staring at Knives as he approached her, leaving a 2 yar distance between them.
"It's all over now," said Knives, raising his gun and aiming at the woman.
"What are you talking about?" asked the woman, smirking and placing a hand on her hip.
"You left so many clues: the stealing of some information of mine, the way my brother disappeared without any sign of a struggle. Should I go on Saria, or should I say Lorelei?"
"You're not as dumb as I thought you were. Was that all that lead you to me?"
"Not quite. The phone call you made telling me that Vash was dead sounded completely fake and I saw right through it. I also knew that you had broken into my house the night of the break in because of the fact that the lock on the door wasn't broken and I knew that Vash had a key to my house. Earlier that day, when I mentioned that I was searching for Lorelei Baroque with my fiancé, you tensed up and began to ask questions about where I work at.
"I also found something of yours at the scene of the crime; your wedding band. I came to the conclusion that you had used gloves and taken your rings on, but when you heard me walking through the house, you panicked and ran away. I figured you out right from the beginning."
"You're right, Knives. I used your brother for a cover all of this time. I had been told that he was naïve and would be blinded by love, so when he asked me to marry him, I arranged our wedding, which was a complete fluke."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, a good friend of mine, Midvalley, changed his image and posed as a priest, and, quote unquote, married us in Japanese, the one language that Vash did not understand. He thought that we took wedding vows when all we said were some lame phrases in Japanese. It's a shame, though. He'll never know."
"What are you...?"
"I'm afraid that you are out of time my friend. Your brother is dead inside."
"That's what you think."
Lorelei turned around and dropped her jaw in horror as she saw Vash the Stampede and Nicholas D. Wolfwood standing side by side with the cross punisher behind them. Wolfwood smoked one of his crooked cigarettes while aiming one of his many guns at Lorelei while Vash stared down the woman in front of him. Lorelei laughed.
"Are you all planning on killing me?" she asked, pulling Vash's gun out from underneath her cloak. Knives raised his gun and prepared to fire, only to be thrown across the sand next to Vash by an unseen force, causing his gun to fire at the warehouse. Lorelei laughed again.
"You fools," she scoffed. "You all can't defeat us."
"Who's 'us'?" asked Vash.
"My husband and I."
"I'm your husband."
"Au contraire darling, didn't you pay any attention to what language we were married in? I had Midvalley, yes, Midvalley, marry us in Japanese, seeing as it is one of the only languages that you don't understand. We weren't married, Vash. Our vows were just some mumbo jumbo bull shit phrases. They meant nothing."
"Then, who are you married to?"
"She's married to me."
Vash remained silent as a familiar man stepped up to Lorelei's side, placing a hand on her arm. Vash studied the man and widened his eyes in horror as he remembered seeing him in the picture with Lorelei. The man had a bandage wrapped around his head and stood taller than Lorelei, wearing a white coat with a black turtle neck and brown slacks underneath. Vash immediately knew who he was.
"This is my husband," said Lorelei. "Legato Bluesummers."
Legato moved from behind Lorelei and stood by her side, smirking at the trio in front of him. Knives studied Legato diligently, remembering the night he had seen him in the diner and thought nothing of it, thinking that he was another man.
How could a man who had been shot straight through the head live?
"I'll tell you, Master," said Legato, bowing before Knives. "Or should I call you by your name seeing as I was freed by your incessant brother's bullet to my head? Yes, your brother did indeed shoot me, but by some luck, this beautiful woman found me and somehow healed me in my most critical condition.
"She removed the bullet and tried to fix what damage had been done, and luckily there wasn't anything too severe that couldn't be fixed. I found out through Midvalley, whom completely faked his death, that Nicholas D. Wolfwood had been healed by you and I became furious. I then longed for revenge against you. You left me for dead and healed a man whom you hated with everything that you had. So, Lorelei and I decided to make him suffer.
"Sure, she had her reasons for doing what she did to Millie Thompson, but we both did it out of revenge against you. So what are you going to do now? Are you going to kill us?"
Knives placed his finger on the trigger of his gun once more, but something was wrong. He couldn't pull the trigger. Legato laughed as he tossed Knives once again into the air and against the warehouse.
"It's pointless to try and shoot me," scoffed Legato, walking closer to Vash and Wolfwood, both ready to kill Legato and Lorelei. "All of you will be dead in a matter of moments, but first, let's have some fun, shall we...what the hell was that?"
Legato was forced backwards and slid across the sand to where Lorelei stood, pain searing through his left arm. He attempted to kill the person whom had shot him with his telekinesis, but he had lost the ability to do so.
"Who the hell just shot me?!" yelled Legato, pulling the strange object off of his arm.
"I did."
A woman emerged from the warehouse and walked past Vash and Wolfwood, holding a strange type of gun at her side. The woman had long brown hair, bright blue eyes, and was almost as tall as Vash. Lorelei froze and stared at the woman in front of her.
"How is this possible?" she asked, aiming Vash's gun at the woman. "How are you alive? YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD MILLIE THOMPSON!"
"Why don't you ask your husband?" retorted Millie.
"What the hell is she talking about Legato?"
"I..." said Legato, trailing off, shame in his voice.
"Answer me now damnit!"
"I kept her alive," answered Legato.
"Why the hell did you do that?"
"I...couldn't let her die. Lorelei, when my awful parents died and I was fending for myself out on the streets, I was taken in by a family who called me their own despite my oddities. This family was the Thompson family. They cared for me until I was old enough to go out on my own. Millie was like my sister, and, actually she is."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I had a little sister when I was with my parents. She was the apple of their eye and I loved her, despite how well she was treated. When they died, she was put up for adoption and I just ran away. It was fate that brought us back together those years ago. Lorelei, I couldn't kill my own sister!" "You fucking told me that you hated humans!"
"I do Lorelei, but I wasn't going to kill my own sister!"
"Everyone just shut up!" yelled Millie, raising her gun and aiming at Lorelei and Legato. "I don't care what either of you have to say. You were both wrong and you both kept me from my children. I'm so mad I could...I could..."
"Kill them?" interjected Wolfwood, snapping the straps that bound the cloth on his cross punisher.
"I'm afraid that the both of you are 'out of time' as Lorelei so nicely put it," said Knives, raising his gun once more.
"Not if I can help it," sneered Lorelei, shooting at Vash.
Vash rolled out of the way and shot at Lorelei with his concealed gun, knocking his gun out of her hands and onto the ground. Knives shot Lorelei in the side and aimed at Legato, ready to shoot him.
Wolfwood aimed his punisher at Legato and pulled the trigger, shooting him in the heart. Legato fell into a bloody heap on the sand, clutching his heart and gasping for air. Lorelei grabbed Legato's arm and dropped down to his side, pulling a gun from under her cloak and aiming at Wolfwood.
"You bastard!" she yelled, pulling the trigger and shooting Wolfwood in the arm.
"Lorelei..." Legato trailed off and what was left of his torn and tattered soul left him, leaving him dead on the sand. Lorelei's face drained of all color as she stared at the lifeless heap that was Legato Bluesummers.
"You killed him," whispered Lorelei, beating her fists on Legato's dead body and sobbing.
"Wow, you actually have compassion," said Vash, approaching Lorelei and aiming his gun at her head.
"Please Vash, have some mercy," she pleaded. "Don't kill me. I'm with child!"
"How do I know that that isn't a lie? You told me that you were infertile."
"I lied."
"I'm sick of all of your lies Lorelei. Tell me, did you lie about Rem too?"
"Yes, I did. I knew that if I told you that I had a past with her you would fall right into my trap."
"I should have figured you out when you first told me that. Rem lived over a hundred years ago and there would have been no possible way that you could have lived with her and still be alive and young today."
"Please give me a chance."
"I'VE HEARD ENOUGH!"
Vash pushed his gun harder against Lorelei's forehead as she sobbed and pleaded for her life, finding it hard to pull the trigger. He would feel terrible about killing her if she were indeed with child, but he couldn't let her run free, not after everything that she has done.
Vash closed his eyes as he lowered his gun and turned around, staring at the ground as tears began to roll down his cheeks.
I can't do it...I know that I should, but it's wrong to take the life of another...Rem, help...
Vash, do it...end it now...
Vash looked up at Knives and nodded, turning around once again and facing Lorelei, kicking the gun out of her hand and thrusting his once again to her forehead. Lorelei closed her eyes and ceased her sobbing, preparing for her demise.
"I know that you hate me," she whispered. "But, I did love you."
"Don't toy with me anymore," said Vash through clenched teeth.
"We could have been great if you wouldn't have..."
Vash pulled the trigger and shot Lorelei through the head, instantly killing her. Lorelei's lifeless body fell into a bloody heap next to Legato and Vash turned away, pushing his glasses up his nose and walking towards Knives, Wolfwood, and Millie.
"I shouldn't have killed her," whispered Vash. "But, I had no other alternative."
"This whole ordeal is over," said Knives, throwing his arm around his brother's neck. "Let's go home."
Vash nodded and the four of them walked to Knives' car and piled in, driving away from Tonim Town and back to December, leaving behind the lifeless forms of Lorelei and Legato Bluesummers.
A/N: Sorry that chapter took so long...like I said, it wasn't written out, so it may not be as well written as the others and it took longer to type. Now, it's time to review. Oh, and I will be making one last chapter, an epilogue type chapter. Will update again soon...I promise!!! One more thing...sorry about the OOCness of Legato and Vash at some parts of the chapter, but I had to do it to make it flow! Don't flame me please!!!