Greetings and salutations Fan fiction readers, I have come here today to bring you another chapter Kaleidoscope. I am happy to say that I am all better now. Thank you for your wishes of good health! You guys my have not found this so funny but I of course think the awful grammar and spelling in my last chapter was hilarious. See it was the night before (AKA morning) I posted that I wrote that chapter. I was really tired form being sick and not getting much rest and to make matter worse I was drugged up on sinus medication. I was lucky I could spell my own name, but so help me God I was going to get that chapter written if it killed me! So I got it done and didn't even look at it before I posted it. So I read it today and cracked up! The moral of the story is stay away from sinus medication, it not only makes you drowsy it makes you go loopy it you do stay awake. Ask any one who knows me. I did how ever check this chapter to the best of my ability to catch mistakes, but I'm sure there still are some.
I'm so happy that I got eight renews! You guys are wonderful!
Thank you!!!!
KelliKatt~* The Knives/Meryl moments are part strategic plan and part crap that I'm just making up as the story goes on. I knew from the beginning what all the character relationships would be and how they would interact with each other. As I get new Ideas I find a place to put tem that fits into my original game plan. Heck I know how the story ends right now, but I can't tell you it's a well-gardened secret.
Faery Goddyss ~* I can't wait for you to read My Ranma ½ story, if it ever gets posted. Looking back this story would probably not even have been posted if I hadn't had so many chapters already typed when I posted the first one. Now I have four other stories with no more than two post able chapters each. What have I gotten myself into?
Arika~* Your review made me laugh so hard that...well actually I started to cough from the laughter, and then that caused me to choke because I couldn't breath through my nose. I think I might have passed out at some point from the lack of oxygen, but it was all worth it! I think I rally like the use of the phrase "honey bun". I right have to put it in to on of my stories at random. So look for the up coming chapter to some story I might write or have already started called honey bun!
P.S Shoes can be a very dangerous weapon.
Mimic12355~* I plan on keep it up! If my computer doesn't die! It tried once last week.
Ujiji~* Yeah Knives has really stared to grow on me. I never even liked him till I really got in to this story. The emotions that I need to create for Meryl at first were ones of physical attraction to Vash's twin. I had to dig deep at the beginning but some other stories I've stumbled upon helped me see the sexier side of human loathing man. And If Emily annoys you and Anna seems cute I have done my job right. Emily is you typical spoiled brat who doesn't get enough attention from her busy parents so she seeks out any attention she can get by acting immature. There is actually a smart young woman who loves people underneath it all with giant sized heart.
Morlana~* With all those stupid M's and L's who wouldn't get confused? Note to self no character may have a name similar in spell in future stories, end note.
WW~* you love The Knives/ Meryl moment this chapter will knock your socks off!
Vain songbird of depth~* Yeah I apologize aging for the sinus medication induced haze that caused my grammar and spelling to actually get worse. I didn't even think that was possible as bad as it already is!
Than you to all eight of you that brighten my day today!
*******I really love this chapter! I even read through it when I was finished and got all emotional in parts like I had never seen it before. So I hope you enjoy it!
++Disclaimer: I don't own Trigun! But if I did I'd share it with all of you!++
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Kaleidoscope
Chapter 15: Kinds of Love
Vash walked alone along the long corridors of the up stairs. After the mornings episode with Marvel's gun she took off and he hadn't see her since. He was worried about her sudden disappearance of course but his stomach had other thoughts.
"Where is the kitchen in this place? I've been walking forever I and I can't even get down stairs! What I would give for a map right now."
"What would you give?" From what seemed like out of nowhere a small blond teenage girl popped out from behind him.
"Don't sneak up on a guy like that!" The full-grown man stood with his back pressed against a wall her had leapt over to in fear. Heart beating at full speed the panicked look on his face turned in to an all out scrawl.
"Soooorry, I didn't mean to scar you. What are you anyway man or mouse?" Emily grinned up at the now calm man standing before her.
"That depends if I say mouse can I get a peace of cheese or something? I'm starving!" His mid-section let out a large rumbling growl. "See what I mean? If I don't eat soon I think I'm going to die!"
"Well I was just on my way to get some breakfast. Would you like to join me?"
"Sure, lead the way." With breakneck speed the young woman took Vash by the hand and drug down the hallway like a rag doll.
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"Good morning Meryl." Rubbing her eyes the fuzzy picture she looked upon started to focus as her eyes adjusted to being awake. Meryl let out a small gasp as she saw Knives standing next to the bed she lay in. He must have just stepped out of the shower, his skin still coved in a light dusting of water. It dripped down his well-muscled chest and was caught by the blue pants the hung snugly around his waist just below his navel. Rubbing a towel over his short messy styled hair he smiled at her in only away he was capable of, beautiful but dangerous.
"Knives how are you feeling?" She sat up running her fingers through her own hair disheveled from sleep pondering how she had gotten from the chair she had fallen asleep in to the bed.
"Never better." The tone of his voice sent a nervous chill up her spine. If he was fully healed he was capable of all those thing he had done before. Knives could once again become the monster he had been in the past, the destroyer of human kind. He could kill her in the blink of an eye, sucking the life right out of her insufficient being.
"Do you fear me Meryl? Do I scare you?" He laughed at her crowdedness. He loved the power he had over this woman. She was a fly caught in his web waiting to be devoured by him. The feelings she gave him were intoxicating; he was drunk with on her emotions. Dropping the towel in his hand Knives approached her.
A shiver went through Meryl's whole body. Her did scare her, he terrified her, but there was something else about him. Knives had become like forbidden fruit. He looked so delectable on the outside, so ripe, she found herself wanting a taste. Even if she were to be dammed Meryl knew just one taste would be full a flavors she couldn't image.
An overflow of Meryl's emotions flooded Knives mind. He felt every one of them like they were his own as he tapped into the thoughts in her head. New feeling washed over him and for once her was confused by his own emotions. Ever since he had awoke weakened and in pain Meryl had been by his side. No matter how bad-tempered and nasty he had been to her she took it in stride and showed even know she was frightened she wouldn't give up on him. For once someone cared about him enough to look past their own fear and be true to him. She had been such a strong woman until she finally broke under the pressure of her own heart.
"If I admit it, if I tell you I'm scared you really will have won. But I don't know if I can fight you any more Knives. I just don't have the will to battle. I think its just time for me to give up." The pail skin under her eyes become moist. "It's over I don't want to fight you. So be happy, you've won." She was ready to be consumed by this predator to the human kind.
Pain he could feel it too as she radiated it. All those other feeling from before were gone and replaced by Meryl's hurt. Knives stood right there looking down at this woman and he realized something. The pain he felt was not hers but his own. Her pain caused him to feel the same and all he wanted to do was make it stop. Reaching down he wiped the tears away from her eyes with both his hand. Knives crouched down so he was at her level.
Stunted Meryl stared wide-eyed in to his face. He looked almost gentle cupping her face with his hands. Knives fingers lightly touching her skin was like something out of a dream. It was not because he was Vash's brother or that he resembled him, it was because he was Knives. That hard-hearted man made her feel, in a time when her own heart was cold. Even know he scared her she could see something else in his eyes.
All Knives wanted to do was stop her pain. The agony in her heart caused by his good for nothing brother. Vash didn't deserve such love and devotion from a woman like Meryl. He noticed her soft looking lips, he wanted nothing more then to touch them with his own just this once. So he did, leaning in he pulled her face to his and as soon as their lips met he knew one taste would never be enough. He released her and looked in to her eyes.
"Knives what are you doing?" Meryl was more than confused, how could such a cold man touch her like this. What was casing the armor that protected him to fall in a pile at his feet?
"Meryl my brother and that filth will pay dearly for how they made you feel. I promise that." Falling to his knees he wrapped his arms around her small frame and placed his head in her lap. "As long as you stay by my side like you have been you can grow strong again. Just stay with me and take care of me when I need you." He only wished Rem would have played him this kind of attention as a child. If so things might have turned out different. If only he hadn't felt so negated and hated by those people, so unloved.
At first Meryl went rigid under his touch, but she gave into the warm felling of his body and wrapped her own arms around the man in her lap. "I promise I'll stay by your side if you want me there." Kissing the top of his head she buried her face in his hair.
"Well show them that you're a force to be reckoned with. No one messes with what is mine and gets away with it. Not even my own brother and his demon"
A loud knock at the door sent Meryl into a panic. She couldn't have Millie or Wolfwood see them like this. If they found out Knives had become better she knew Vash would be notified immediately even if Nicholas had to run all the way to the Taylor Family estate and tell him personally. She had to protect him.
"Knives you have to get in bed! We can't let them know your better. If they find out I don't know what I can do." She ushered the man back into the bed.
"Meryl are you in there? It's me Millie, I thought you might want some breakfast so I brought some up." The patient woman stood at the door waiting for her friend to open it.
"Just a second Millie I'm coming." Taking one last look at Knives to make sure he looked convincing Meryl went to open to door.
Knives lay motionless thinking to himself about what occurred. This was not really part of his plan. He had not though that Meryl would grow on him like she did. Nonetheless he knew the sight of her in his arms would terrify his brother. Vash may not love her as a lover but he did care about Meryl deeply. And turning the beautiful woman against him would break his heart.
*You should have taken her when you had the chance. Now she's mine Vash and I will make this place Eden for the just two of us. I don't need your company any more. Together we will we will start over rebuilding a stronger Gung-Ho guns and ripping the rest of the human race to pieces. *
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"Sit down Vash I'll get you something to eat." Vash knew that this was not the family's usual dining room. It was a smaller more intimate dinning area.
"Great this is all I need. A romantic breakfast with Emily, still it is better to be nice to the girl and let her down gently." The young lady reappeared in the archway with a large silver try filled with donuts.
"Marvel had the cook make theses before she left. She told me to make sure you got them for breakfast" The look on his face was classic Vash. His eyes lit up bright filled with stats and the biggest smile possible filled his entire face as she set the tray down on the table. "She went out to have some time to herself to think. She does that every once in a while." Before she could even say another word he was feasting upon as many round pastries as he could cram down his throat. "Well good thing I didn't want any!"
"Sorry would you like one?' He waved a shiny glazed on in front of her face.
"No that's ok, I just think I lost my appetite." She even said that with a happy attitude.
"Your loss, these are great!" He looked like he was in utter bliss as he stuffed his face.
"Now that you've filled you stomach let's talk."
"But I'm not done!" He didn't really want to sit have a conversation with Emily without Marvel around.
"Come on it'll be fun! So why don't you tell me about you and Marvel's relationship? Are you two an item? Have you been intimate?" The blossoming girl's brash statement caused Vash to choke on the donut he had swallowed whole. Coughing it up he looked at the youth strangely.
"Don't you think that's a little personal!?" His entire face broke out into a scarlet blush.
"Oh, so you have! She must really like you then. She's really picky about men you know. And that temper of Marvel's is a big turn off for guys." Emily went a mile a minute. It seemed she didn't even stop to take a breath.
Vash phased most of it out pretending to listen, till one sentence that gushed out of her mouth struck a cord.
"And I like you a whole lot better than that Legato guy."
"Wait stop right there and slow down would ya. Take a breath between sentences. Lets talks about Legato why don't we." While he didn't know if Marvel past relationship with the psychotic man who forced him to brake his morals, he needed to know how the good-hearted woman got caught up with that man.
"Well I only met the guy once and boy did he creep me out! It was about a year ago, one of the last times she ever saw him. I had gone to town with Marvel to stay with her for a few days." Emily remembered the sites and sounds of the small city. Her expression was a sad kind of happy. "I love to go to town and see all the people. I get lonely here."
"So Marvel takes you into town so you can interact with the people there." Vash smiled even though Marvel played the tough girls she had a heart of gold.
" I love people and she knows if I stay cooped up here I'll go crazy."
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"Hey Marvel wait up!" The top of a small blond head could be barley seen above two large brown paper grocery bags. " I can't see you know!"
"I told you I'd carry one, but you had to be the super girl and do all by yourself." Marvel laughed a bit at the small girls struggles
Suddenly Emily came to a halt when she crashed in to the solid body of Marvel in front of her. The young woman feel back trying to land in a way so she wouldn't be coved in the days shopping. "What'd you stop for!?" Then she saw him, the man stood with his body not even inches from Marvel's looking down at her, his oddly colored blue hair covering most of his face.
"Legato what are you doing here?" Marvel's voice was harsh. It appeared she wasn't thrilled by his arrival.
"I've just come to see the most stunning creature on gun smoke." With more grace than humanly possible he encircled her waist and capture Marvel's lips.
Emily couldn't even conjure up words as she watched her friend turn to jelly while the man pulled her deeper into their heated kiss. Marvel had this thing against men. How could she just let one come up and do this in public? What about her image as the slayer of men, hater of those full of testosterone, with a kiss like that, that image would be shot all to hell.
*This must be Legato. * She hadn't herd very much about the man from Marvel herself except he had been coming and going in her life for the last five years. One thing the sixteen-year-old did notice about him is he was gorgeous.
The two broke apart. Legato licked his lips. "You taste sweeter tan the last time."
"So like always you show up unannounced and expect me to let you share my bed with you tonight, don't you?" The wild brunet stood back and crossed her arm.
"Only if that is what of me." He smiled then glanced behind her at the girl who still sat on the ground shocked.
Emily clasped her hands over her mouth. The eerie golden color of the man's eyes caught the teen off guard. She used her hands to holds in the gasp that Marvel's sensitive ears could pick up in a heartbeat. If at all possible the small blond just wanted to fade into the background.
"Marvel why don't you introduce me to the young lady laying behind you" A slender finger pointed to Emily coved in their just bought produce.
Marvel didn't even turn around to look at her. "Emily go back to your room in the inn and stay there till I come get you. I need to talk to my friend alone." The voice that spoke to didn't even sound like Marvel's. It only had a chilling resemblance to hers.
"But what about your food? It's all over the ground and..."
"Did you here me?! I said go!" Marvel violently swung around to face the girl. Her emerald eyes became like two cats eye marbles, the dark pupils narrowed to vertical slits. With a growl she bared her fangs at the terrified young woman. Then all of a sudden she stopped. "Please Emily, I promise I wont be long. Trust me?"
Marvel offered her a hand to help the young woman off the ground and she took it. If there was one person who knew Marvel inside and out it was the good-temped blue-eyed girl who always had a smile on her face and she knew that beast was not Marvel.
"I trust you with all my heart it's that creep over there that I don't trust as far as I can throw him!"
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"No matter how angry Marvel gets she's always in control of the wildcat inside. When she lost it I knew something was wrong. That man was a tick sucking the humanity right out of her and she couldn't even see it. The look in her eyes when she realized what had happened was one I had never see before. She looked afraid, Marvel the Demon was afraid and of herself."
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Emily sat alone in the room across the hall from Marvel's. In her boredom she had flopped around in every position possible on her bed, taken a long bath, and even started a jigsaw puzzle.
"My God where could she be? It's been hours!" The girl laid her across the bed, her limbs speared out in every direction. "This sucks, I have to go find her. I mean she couldn't have left town so it should be easy to find her, right?"
Willing to face Marvel's wrath for leaving when she was told to stay here Emily put on a brave face and marched out of her room, down the stairs, and out of the inn. She walked the streets looking for some form of intelligent life but found little, until she passed by the town saloon.
"I should have known. Where else would she be this late at night?" Placing her hands on her hips like she was going to fly into action the cheery teen took a step toward the ale room. But was halted when she was grabbed from behind.
"Well look what I found boys. Aren't you glad we decided to stop in this town." A male voice slither out of the mouth of Emily's captor as she struggled in his arms.
"She a good one boss"
"Yeah I think we should take her with us."
The voices seemed to come from everywhere and in her panic the small woman couldn't even tell how many men surrounded her. The warm sweaty hand that coved her mouth tasted of salt and gin. In a last ditch effort to cry for help Emily bit down on the man's hand when he let go in pain she screamed as loud as her lungs would allow.
"You dirty little bitch you pay for that!' A hard fist came in contact with the side of face and her mouth began to fill with the metallic taste of blood
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Sorry I felt the need to talk to you all so much to night but the way this chapter turned out has put me in a really good mood.
Here is some food for thought. I've been helping my mother set up a garage sale she is having this weekend. By helping I mean going through boxes and saying "So that's where I put that!" I think I ended up with more on my family member discarded item then I got rid of myself. I do now own an original copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller on vinyl, Pokemon Monopoly, Monsters Inc Life, a Dragon Ball Z duffle bad and an action figure of Trunks. So all that space I cleared is now full of other people's junk. I also found my brothers Harry Potter costume from the last year he want trick or treating. So I threw on the robe (that had a tiny hood, or my head is huge!) And the glasses that didn't fit and became Harry Potter. Can you imagine a nineteen year old girl running around in a sort black robe and small glasses yelling "I'm Harry Potter, I'm Harry Potter" In a bad British accent. Fighting isn't it!
Until next time! See ya,
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Review!
I'm so happy that I got eight renews! You guys are wonderful!
Thank you!!!!
KelliKatt~* The Knives/Meryl moments are part strategic plan and part crap that I'm just making up as the story goes on. I knew from the beginning what all the character relationships would be and how they would interact with each other. As I get new Ideas I find a place to put tem that fits into my original game plan. Heck I know how the story ends right now, but I can't tell you it's a well-gardened secret.
Faery Goddyss ~* I can't wait for you to read My Ranma ½ story, if it ever gets posted. Looking back this story would probably not even have been posted if I hadn't had so many chapters already typed when I posted the first one. Now I have four other stories with no more than two post able chapters each. What have I gotten myself into?
Arika~* Your review made me laugh so hard that...well actually I started to cough from the laughter, and then that caused me to choke because I couldn't breath through my nose. I think I might have passed out at some point from the lack of oxygen, but it was all worth it! I think I rally like the use of the phrase "honey bun". I right have to put it in to on of my stories at random. So look for the up coming chapter to some story I might write or have already started called honey bun!
P.S Shoes can be a very dangerous weapon.
Mimic12355~* I plan on keep it up! If my computer doesn't die! It tried once last week.
Ujiji~* Yeah Knives has really stared to grow on me. I never even liked him till I really got in to this story. The emotions that I need to create for Meryl at first were ones of physical attraction to Vash's twin. I had to dig deep at the beginning but some other stories I've stumbled upon helped me see the sexier side of human loathing man. And If Emily annoys you and Anna seems cute I have done my job right. Emily is you typical spoiled brat who doesn't get enough attention from her busy parents so she seeks out any attention she can get by acting immature. There is actually a smart young woman who loves people underneath it all with giant sized heart.
Morlana~* With all those stupid M's and L's who wouldn't get confused? Note to self no character may have a name similar in spell in future stories, end note.
WW~* you love The Knives/ Meryl moment this chapter will knock your socks off!
Vain songbird of depth~* Yeah I apologize aging for the sinus medication induced haze that caused my grammar and spelling to actually get worse. I didn't even think that was possible as bad as it already is!
Than you to all eight of you that brighten my day today!
*******I really love this chapter! I even read through it when I was finished and got all emotional in parts like I had never seen it before. So I hope you enjoy it!
++Disclaimer: I don't own Trigun! But if I did I'd share it with all of you!++
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Kaleidoscope
Chapter 15: Kinds of Love
Vash walked alone along the long corridors of the up stairs. After the mornings episode with Marvel's gun she took off and he hadn't see her since. He was worried about her sudden disappearance of course but his stomach had other thoughts.
"Where is the kitchen in this place? I've been walking forever I and I can't even get down stairs! What I would give for a map right now."
"What would you give?" From what seemed like out of nowhere a small blond teenage girl popped out from behind him.
"Don't sneak up on a guy like that!" The full-grown man stood with his back pressed against a wall her had leapt over to in fear. Heart beating at full speed the panicked look on his face turned in to an all out scrawl.
"Soooorry, I didn't mean to scar you. What are you anyway man or mouse?" Emily grinned up at the now calm man standing before her.
"That depends if I say mouse can I get a peace of cheese or something? I'm starving!" His mid-section let out a large rumbling growl. "See what I mean? If I don't eat soon I think I'm going to die!"
"Well I was just on my way to get some breakfast. Would you like to join me?"
"Sure, lead the way." With breakneck speed the young woman took Vash by the hand and drug down the hallway like a rag doll.
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"Good morning Meryl." Rubbing her eyes the fuzzy picture she looked upon started to focus as her eyes adjusted to being awake. Meryl let out a small gasp as she saw Knives standing next to the bed she lay in. He must have just stepped out of the shower, his skin still coved in a light dusting of water. It dripped down his well-muscled chest and was caught by the blue pants the hung snugly around his waist just below his navel. Rubbing a towel over his short messy styled hair he smiled at her in only away he was capable of, beautiful but dangerous.
"Knives how are you feeling?" She sat up running her fingers through her own hair disheveled from sleep pondering how she had gotten from the chair she had fallen asleep in to the bed.
"Never better." The tone of his voice sent a nervous chill up her spine. If he was fully healed he was capable of all those thing he had done before. Knives could once again become the monster he had been in the past, the destroyer of human kind. He could kill her in the blink of an eye, sucking the life right out of her insufficient being.
"Do you fear me Meryl? Do I scare you?" He laughed at her crowdedness. He loved the power he had over this woman. She was a fly caught in his web waiting to be devoured by him. The feelings she gave him were intoxicating; he was drunk with on her emotions. Dropping the towel in his hand Knives approached her.
A shiver went through Meryl's whole body. Her did scare her, he terrified her, but there was something else about him. Knives had become like forbidden fruit. He looked so delectable on the outside, so ripe, she found herself wanting a taste. Even if she were to be dammed Meryl knew just one taste would be full a flavors she couldn't image.
An overflow of Meryl's emotions flooded Knives mind. He felt every one of them like they were his own as he tapped into the thoughts in her head. New feeling washed over him and for once her was confused by his own emotions. Ever since he had awoke weakened and in pain Meryl had been by his side. No matter how bad-tempered and nasty he had been to her she took it in stride and showed even know she was frightened she wouldn't give up on him. For once someone cared about him enough to look past their own fear and be true to him. She had been such a strong woman until she finally broke under the pressure of her own heart.
"If I admit it, if I tell you I'm scared you really will have won. But I don't know if I can fight you any more Knives. I just don't have the will to battle. I think its just time for me to give up." The pail skin under her eyes become moist. "It's over I don't want to fight you. So be happy, you've won." She was ready to be consumed by this predator to the human kind.
Pain he could feel it too as she radiated it. All those other feeling from before were gone and replaced by Meryl's hurt. Knives stood right there looking down at this woman and he realized something. The pain he felt was not hers but his own. Her pain caused him to feel the same and all he wanted to do was make it stop. Reaching down he wiped the tears away from her eyes with both his hand. Knives crouched down so he was at her level.
Stunted Meryl stared wide-eyed in to his face. He looked almost gentle cupping her face with his hands. Knives fingers lightly touching her skin was like something out of a dream. It was not because he was Vash's brother or that he resembled him, it was because he was Knives. That hard-hearted man made her feel, in a time when her own heart was cold. Even know he scared her she could see something else in his eyes.
All Knives wanted to do was stop her pain. The agony in her heart caused by his good for nothing brother. Vash didn't deserve such love and devotion from a woman like Meryl. He noticed her soft looking lips, he wanted nothing more then to touch them with his own just this once. So he did, leaning in he pulled her face to his and as soon as their lips met he knew one taste would never be enough. He released her and looked in to her eyes.
"Knives what are you doing?" Meryl was more than confused, how could such a cold man touch her like this. What was casing the armor that protected him to fall in a pile at his feet?
"Meryl my brother and that filth will pay dearly for how they made you feel. I promise that." Falling to his knees he wrapped his arms around her small frame and placed his head in her lap. "As long as you stay by my side like you have been you can grow strong again. Just stay with me and take care of me when I need you." He only wished Rem would have played him this kind of attention as a child. If so things might have turned out different. If only he hadn't felt so negated and hated by those people, so unloved.
At first Meryl went rigid under his touch, but she gave into the warm felling of his body and wrapped her own arms around the man in her lap. "I promise I'll stay by your side if you want me there." Kissing the top of his head she buried her face in his hair.
"Well show them that you're a force to be reckoned with. No one messes with what is mine and gets away with it. Not even my own brother and his demon"
A loud knock at the door sent Meryl into a panic. She couldn't have Millie or Wolfwood see them like this. If they found out Knives had become better she knew Vash would be notified immediately even if Nicholas had to run all the way to the Taylor Family estate and tell him personally. She had to protect him.
"Knives you have to get in bed! We can't let them know your better. If they find out I don't know what I can do." She ushered the man back into the bed.
"Meryl are you in there? It's me Millie, I thought you might want some breakfast so I brought some up." The patient woman stood at the door waiting for her friend to open it.
"Just a second Millie I'm coming." Taking one last look at Knives to make sure he looked convincing Meryl went to open to door.
Knives lay motionless thinking to himself about what occurred. This was not really part of his plan. He had not though that Meryl would grow on him like she did. Nonetheless he knew the sight of her in his arms would terrify his brother. Vash may not love her as a lover but he did care about Meryl deeply. And turning the beautiful woman against him would break his heart.
*You should have taken her when you had the chance. Now she's mine Vash and I will make this place Eden for the just two of us. I don't need your company any more. Together we will we will start over rebuilding a stronger Gung-Ho guns and ripping the rest of the human race to pieces. *
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"Sit down Vash I'll get you something to eat." Vash knew that this was not the family's usual dining room. It was a smaller more intimate dinning area.
"Great this is all I need. A romantic breakfast with Emily, still it is better to be nice to the girl and let her down gently." The young lady reappeared in the archway with a large silver try filled with donuts.
"Marvel had the cook make theses before she left. She told me to make sure you got them for breakfast" The look on his face was classic Vash. His eyes lit up bright filled with stats and the biggest smile possible filled his entire face as she set the tray down on the table. "She went out to have some time to herself to think. She does that every once in a while." Before she could even say another word he was feasting upon as many round pastries as he could cram down his throat. "Well good thing I didn't want any!"
"Sorry would you like one?' He waved a shiny glazed on in front of her face.
"No that's ok, I just think I lost my appetite." She even said that with a happy attitude.
"Your loss, these are great!" He looked like he was in utter bliss as he stuffed his face.
"Now that you've filled you stomach let's talk."
"But I'm not done!" He didn't really want to sit have a conversation with Emily without Marvel around.
"Come on it'll be fun! So why don't you tell me about you and Marvel's relationship? Are you two an item? Have you been intimate?" The blossoming girl's brash statement caused Vash to choke on the donut he had swallowed whole. Coughing it up he looked at the youth strangely.
"Don't you think that's a little personal!?" His entire face broke out into a scarlet blush.
"Oh, so you have! She must really like you then. She's really picky about men you know. And that temper of Marvel's is a big turn off for guys." Emily went a mile a minute. It seemed she didn't even stop to take a breath.
Vash phased most of it out pretending to listen, till one sentence that gushed out of her mouth struck a cord.
"And I like you a whole lot better than that Legato guy."
"Wait stop right there and slow down would ya. Take a breath between sentences. Lets talks about Legato why don't we." While he didn't know if Marvel past relationship with the psychotic man who forced him to brake his morals, he needed to know how the good-hearted woman got caught up with that man.
"Well I only met the guy once and boy did he creep me out! It was about a year ago, one of the last times she ever saw him. I had gone to town with Marvel to stay with her for a few days." Emily remembered the sites and sounds of the small city. Her expression was a sad kind of happy. "I love to go to town and see all the people. I get lonely here."
"So Marvel takes you into town so you can interact with the people there." Vash smiled even though Marvel played the tough girls she had a heart of gold.
" I love people and she knows if I stay cooped up here I'll go crazy."
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"Hey Marvel wait up!" The top of a small blond head could be barley seen above two large brown paper grocery bags. " I can't see you know!"
"I told you I'd carry one, but you had to be the super girl and do all by yourself." Marvel laughed a bit at the small girls struggles
Suddenly Emily came to a halt when she crashed in to the solid body of Marvel in front of her. The young woman feel back trying to land in a way so she wouldn't be coved in the days shopping. "What'd you stop for!?" Then she saw him, the man stood with his body not even inches from Marvel's looking down at her, his oddly colored blue hair covering most of his face.
"Legato what are you doing here?" Marvel's voice was harsh. It appeared she wasn't thrilled by his arrival.
"I've just come to see the most stunning creature on gun smoke." With more grace than humanly possible he encircled her waist and capture Marvel's lips.
Emily couldn't even conjure up words as she watched her friend turn to jelly while the man pulled her deeper into their heated kiss. Marvel had this thing against men. How could she just let one come up and do this in public? What about her image as the slayer of men, hater of those full of testosterone, with a kiss like that, that image would be shot all to hell.
*This must be Legato. * She hadn't herd very much about the man from Marvel herself except he had been coming and going in her life for the last five years. One thing the sixteen-year-old did notice about him is he was gorgeous.
The two broke apart. Legato licked his lips. "You taste sweeter tan the last time."
"So like always you show up unannounced and expect me to let you share my bed with you tonight, don't you?" The wild brunet stood back and crossed her arm.
"Only if that is what of me." He smiled then glanced behind her at the girl who still sat on the ground shocked.
Emily clasped her hands over her mouth. The eerie golden color of the man's eyes caught the teen off guard. She used her hands to holds in the gasp that Marvel's sensitive ears could pick up in a heartbeat. If at all possible the small blond just wanted to fade into the background.
"Marvel why don't you introduce me to the young lady laying behind you" A slender finger pointed to Emily coved in their just bought produce.
Marvel didn't even turn around to look at her. "Emily go back to your room in the inn and stay there till I come get you. I need to talk to my friend alone." The voice that spoke to didn't even sound like Marvel's. It only had a chilling resemblance to hers.
"But what about your food? It's all over the ground and..."
"Did you here me?! I said go!" Marvel violently swung around to face the girl. Her emerald eyes became like two cats eye marbles, the dark pupils narrowed to vertical slits. With a growl she bared her fangs at the terrified young woman. Then all of a sudden she stopped. "Please Emily, I promise I wont be long. Trust me?"
Marvel offered her a hand to help the young woman off the ground and she took it. If there was one person who knew Marvel inside and out it was the good-temped blue-eyed girl who always had a smile on her face and she knew that beast was not Marvel.
"I trust you with all my heart it's that creep over there that I don't trust as far as I can throw him!"
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"No matter how angry Marvel gets she's always in control of the wildcat inside. When she lost it I knew something was wrong. That man was a tick sucking the humanity right out of her and she couldn't even see it. The look in her eyes when she realized what had happened was one I had never see before. She looked afraid, Marvel the Demon was afraid and of herself."
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Emily sat alone in the room across the hall from Marvel's. In her boredom she had flopped around in every position possible on her bed, taken a long bath, and even started a jigsaw puzzle.
"My God where could she be? It's been hours!" The girl laid her across the bed, her limbs speared out in every direction. "This sucks, I have to go find her. I mean she couldn't have left town so it should be easy to find her, right?"
Willing to face Marvel's wrath for leaving when she was told to stay here Emily put on a brave face and marched out of her room, down the stairs, and out of the inn. She walked the streets looking for some form of intelligent life but found little, until she passed by the town saloon.
"I should have known. Where else would she be this late at night?" Placing her hands on her hips like she was going to fly into action the cheery teen took a step toward the ale room. But was halted when she was grabbed from behind.
"Well look what I found boys. Aren't you glad we decided to stop in this town." A male voice slither out of the mouth of Emily's captor as she struggled in his arms.
"She a good one boss"
"Yeah I think we should take her with us."
The voices seemed to come from everywhere and in her panic the small woman couldn't even tell how many men surrounded her. The warm sweaty hand that coved her mouth tasted of salt and gin. In a last ditch effort to cry for help Emily bit down on the man's hand when he let go in pain she screamed as loud as her lungs would allow.
"You dirty little bitch you pay for that!' A hard fist came in contact with the side of face and her mouth began to fill with the metallic taste of blood
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Sorry I felt the need to talk to you all so much to night but the way this chapter turned out has put me in a really good mood.
Here is some food for thought. I've been helping my mother set up a garage sale she is having this weekend. By helping I mean going through boxes and saying "So that's where I put that!" I think I ended up with more on my family member discarded item then I got rid of myself. I do now own an original copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller on vinyl, Pokemon Monopoly, Monsters Inc Life, a Dragon Ball Z duffle bad and an action figure of Trunks. So all that space I cleared is now full of other people's junk. I also found my brothers Harry Potter costume from the last year he want trick or treating. So I threw on the robe (that had a tiny hood, or my head is huge!) And the glasses that didn't fit and became Harry Potter. Can you imagine a nineteen year old girl running around in a sort black robe and small glasses yelling "I'm Harry Potter, I'm Harry Potter" In a bad British accent. Fighting isn't it!
Until next time! See ya,
Nova
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