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Chapter 2

Long way home

1 Week Later

"Meryl, I'm going to go make some dinner, do you want me to bring anything up?" Milly finally stated, standing up from the tedious paper work she was trying to avoid.

"Are you done with your assignment?" Meryl inquired.

"Uh... Almost done, but if we have dinner I'm sure I'll finish sooner!" Milly assured happily.

"Nice excuse...no I'm fine, please remember that the stove is on . I don't want the house to go up in flames, the company won't pay for that..." Meryl gave in, not looking up from her own stack of unfinished paperwork.

"Sure thing Meryl" Milly promised and left the room.

Meryl sat trying to type the next report on the supposed humanoid typhoon. What can I say? 'The humanoid typhoon has proved that he is not really that, but a dorky, silly, broom-headed pacifist who is very capable of being nice. He, in fact, has saved the lives of countless humans that he has passed upon. He also doesn't believe in killing a single soul, human or animal. Vash the stampede was not responsible for the destruction of July, or any other town that was destroyed, it was his evil twin brother....' Yeah right, not exactly what the company wants to hear, not that they'd believe me in any case.... Meryl pushed the typewriter aside and instead drew out a pen and paper. Why did I have to get stuck to such a hopeless assignment anyway? Couldn't they have assigned someone more prepared to take care of that dork? Meryl had stopped trying to write something for her incomplete report, and found herself writing randomly...

Vash and Meryl....Meryl and Vash...True love?

Meryl stopped, realizing what she was doing. "Ahh!" she groaned and began to crumple up the paper with anger. This was beginning to happen more often, she would drift of and start writing senseless things of her and Vash. That's all it is... senseless crap.

"Meryl, I'm back! I put the stew on the stove, It's a special recipe! I am sure you will enjoy it!" Milly's voice drifted in, distracting Meryl from her own thoughts.

"That's great... We should get back on task now!" Meryl smiled up at the tall girl.

"Yes, I guess we should, Are you getting any reports done?" Milly asked.

"Yep, some, not all of them... the bad thing is we have to mail these in by next week, if not, we'll have to go to May city and explain our delays, that's why I want to get all this done today, so we won't have to worry about it later." Meryl admitted, throwing the crumpled paper to the trash can and missing.

"What was that?" Milly asked

"Some report I started and couldn't finish..." Meryl lied, she was now again on the typewriter starting on some other report that had nothing to do with Vash.

"Oh, I have a lot of those!" Milly happily proclaimed pointing out to her own missed shots.

Meryl couldn't help but laugh. Leave it up to Milly to cheer her up when she was stuck doing long work. Meryl continued her report...

Vash POV

Vash couldn't believe he was actually so close to the town all his friends were in... just a few more iles and he'd be there! He couldn't wait to see them all and tell them all that he was just fine. But most of all he couldn't wait to be somewhere where he could lay down his heavy twin.

He had resolved the problem with Knives, he was sure that his plan would work...

flashback

Vash looked ahead at the town that was looming closer. There it is...my destination before home! Sure hope she remembers me...

He strode to the familiar town, some people recognized him, and they smiled slightly as he passed by, remembering the goofball. Others peered at him, wondering who he was, and what was he doing in the mundane town.

Vash arrived to the all-too familiar house that he had not visited in three long years. He paused at the door, hoping his plan would work. He slowly raised his hand to knock...Here goes... If this doesn't work, it was at least a good idea right? His fist was about to touch the wood of the door when it sprang open to Vash's amazement.

"Vash! Is it really you?" A very exited house owner asked

"Yes, it' me!... Nice to see you again..." Vash trailed with a small smile.

"Oh dear! Is that a man your shoulder?"

"Eheheheheheheh, Yes actually it is... It's a long story..." Vash laughed

"Oh well, don't just stand there! Come in! I have plenty of time for a long story"

"Thanks, but you might regret this later" Vash warned with laughing aqua eyes.

"I'm sure I will, but oh well! Anything for my favorite outlaw! And besides, what are friends for?"

"I was hoping you'd say that..." Vash started as he entered the cool home he had been looking for.

End of Flashback

The meeting had gone very well, she had agreed to help him without any hesitation, something he was glad for. He just hoped she was enough. The hard thing was going to be explaining it to everyone else.

While he had been at his friend's house, he had menitoned the cross punisher, when he did, she had insisted in to finding and repairing it. Something Vash didn't mind one bit and agreed to have her find it. That was probably she would be joining him a while from now...but less then a month, by that time, he was sure Knives would be awake.

I'm coming guys! Hope you missed me!

OK well there it is! Hope it was a little longer then last chapter! I promise the next chapter will be longer then this. Please review, tell me anything you think should be changed, of if you think anyone is OOC ok? Suggestions are welcome! Oh by the way, I'm gonna change the summary, I don't think it's good enough! I might change the title too, because I discovered a story similarly titled. I was thinking Underneath it all or Hidden or something around those lines.! Suggestions are welcome!! Enough of me! Let's talk about you! Here are my thanks to all my lovely reviewers: