Blood Rose Chapter 12:
Vash and company were sitting at home watching T.V. Meryl quickly got bored and soon started changing the channels.
"There's nothing good on t.v. right now." Vash whined.
"Aw can it, you dumbass, there should at least be something on." Wolfwood said.
Meryl kept on flipping the channels until she saw something on the news.
"Tonight on NBC Nightly News, Agusta suffers from the biggest financial loss in history since President Bush was in the White House, Calvary officials have finally caught the Popcorn Bandit as he was trying to solicit sex from a gay underage male gigolo, but first we have breaking news from New Vegas as the Blood Rose Bounty Crisis Continues." The reporter said.
"Turn it up Meryl." Vash quickly said.
Meryl turned up the volume as everyone leaned closer to watch what was going on.
"Thanks Diane, the situation continues to get even more tense as the New Vegas officials report that Blood Rose, the infamous daughter of Vash the Stampede, has escaped their grasp along with a group of people, who officials believe to be hostages. Officials can't say exactly who they are, but I can say right now that I feel so bad for their families right now. Why anyone would want to hang out with a sadistic young woman is beyond me. Eyewitness accounts say that the last time they were seen was in the Hard Rock Cafe where Calvary Officials tried to take her in and rescue the three hostages that were present with her at the time. The two men were injured but should be expected out of the hospital in at least three days. As for Blood Rose, there has been no sign of her and the Calvary suspects that she and the hostages will be heading out for the airport in the morning and because of this, the police and the Calvary have the airport entrance and the turnpikes on patrol to spot any suspicious persons or activities. That is all that is going on right now as we continue to recieve more news and coverage of the Crisis, back to you Diane." The reporter said.
Meryl turned off the T.V. while everyone else sat there in silence. Then it happened.
"OUR BABIES ARE IN TROUBLE AND ARE RUNNING FROM THE LAW!!!" The four of them screamed.
The the phone rang. Wolfwood walked over to pick up the phone.
"Hey dad!" Grey said on the other line.
"Hey, let me put you guys on speaker phone." he said as he was pushing the button.
Grey gave Rose the phone.
"Um, hi dad, I bet you saw the report on T.V." She said.
"Yeah, we saw it, all of us." Vash replied.
"What is going on there, I thought your Uncle was responsible for anything that goes wrong in this family!" Meryl said.
"See the thing is that he didn't do anything wrong and neither did we," Lenn explained.
"There were these two dickholes who tried to kill me and Rose at the restaurant. We didn't kill them or anything, we were fighting back in self-defense and then we ran out of the restaurant. We didn't know they were undercover cops, I swear!" Grey said.
"It's okay, but do you think you could watch your language next time?" Milly said.
"Mom, don't you believe us, we did nothing wrong, it's Mayo Franco that's doing all of this shit!" Grey said.
"It's Mayor Franco, not Mayo, kid." Wolfwood corrected.
"Yeah but he smells like mayonayse, ok." Lenn said.
"True, this is true." Wolfwood said.
"We're worried about you guys, I think we should be there and help you." Meryl said.
"Everything's ok, mom Uncle Knives and Remus will get us out of this situation in no time." Rose said.
Oh no, Remus is back! The parents thought.
"If you say so, I believe that all of you are old enough to solve your problems." Vash said.
"But they're going to be in danger can't we at least help them darling?" Milly said.
"Vash has a point, if we help them too much they won't be able to learn how to take care of themselves." Wolfwood concured.
"Take care of yourselves sweetie, and I hate to ask you kids to babysit your uncle a little bit more, ok?" Meryl said.
"Don't worry mom, he's fine, really." Rose said.
"Bye sweetie." Meryl said.
"Bye momma." Rose said.
"Bye mom bye dad." Lenn and Grey said.
"Bye." Wolfwood dryly said.
"My babies." Milly said.
Wolfwood turned off the speaker phone and sat down on the couch.
"Well if Remus is with them we have nothing to worry about then." Wolfwood said.
"That's true, but he is just as much of a trouble maker as Mr. Knives is when he is drunk, except all Remus needs is a car to cause trouble." Milly added.
"Either way, I'm not gonna sit here and let my daughter get hurt! If it weren't for your kids she wouldn't be in this mess!" Meryl shouted.
"Hey Shortie! This is the Mayor's fault, not ours! Our kids had nothing to do with any of this and your daughter or any of their friends had nothing to do with the Crisis either and don't even think about blaming this on your brother-in-law! Sure he's really troublesome when he's drunk, but he's a responsible man and he nothing to do with this either." Wolfwood explained.
"Meryl, the kids will be fine as long as Knives and Remus are looking out for them. All we have to worry about for now is the Mayor, it's the best we can do for now." Vash said.
"You're right, we have to figure out how to stop the Mayor from making false accusations about us and our family." Meryl said.
"Well we can't right now, we need some sleep come on Honey." Wolfwood said.
"Coming Darling, good night you two!" Milly said.
The both of them went upstairs to their rooms to sleep. Meryl and Vash sat on the couch, watching the T.V. for any more developments of the situation. Their pet cat jumped up on the couch and curled up on Vash's lap.