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Chapter 2:

Kicked Out

Meryl POV

"I'm sorry Miss Stryfe, but this is the last straw. The customers are afraid to come in anymore. I'm really going to have to fire you." The owner of the bar said.

I nodded, and felt my shoulders go limp, why fight it? Another one of the bar's patrons had thought it a good idea

to grope me, and had ended up with a serving tray molded around his head.

That was the third time this week.

I sighed, grabbed my bag and headed out the door for home.

"Wonderful," I muttered, "Just wonderful."

The town was busy today, everyone seemed excited about something, Every group of people I passed were talking

hurriedly to each other.

I wondered if a Trade Sand steamer was coming to town. The more and more people I passed the more I noticed

that their faces weren't excited-happy, but excited/horrified.

I stopped in front of a Thomas stable and touched my chin in thought. The only thing that made people this

agitated, was when they found out Vash the Stampede was in town. But everyone in town already knew he was

here and had accepted him as long as he didn't cause trouble.

I continued walking, listening the catches of conversations I could hear.

"... close to 400 iles..."

"...bright light..."

"... destroyed everything..."

"...charred for iles..."

My eyes widened, and I ran for home, something had happened.

Something big.

I was nearly home, when I saw them. A large crowd had gathered out side of the small square building.

One of the men was banging on the door, yelling, "Vash the Stampede, come out now! We know you're in there!"

I came up behind the man, "What's going on?!"

He turned towards me angrily his fist in the air, "That devil's helper had done it again! He has to die!"

Cold shock hit my body. Not again, please, not again, "No! No, he hasn't done anything!"

"Oh, yeah?" said the man, his face red with anger, "Then how do you explain January?"

I blinked, "January? What happened in January?"

"The whole city in nothing but scorched ground." Said a woman from the crowd.

"Witnesses saw a bright light on the horizon three days ago! And just like with Augusta everything was

gone!"

Another person cried, "Who else could accomplish such a feat?"

I snorted, "How could he have gotten to January, and back in such a small amount of time? It's a two week

journey to January by sand steamer. He just got back last week and hasn't left the house since!"

"I don't know how he managed to do it, but no one else on the godforsaken planet can do it, so it leaves only

him as the culprit!" The first man continued.

"No, you're wrong!" I cried, "Vash hasn't--"

SLAP!

I stumbled back, and touched my stinging cheek. The man lowered his hand and hissed, "You dare! I had

family in January!"

"Josef!" an older man's voice called out from the crowd, "Calm yourself, Josef."

A stooped over old man, stepped out of the crowd, "Miss Meryl, I am sorry for Josef's behavior, but I demand that Vash the Stampede leave. He may have not destroyed January, but we have our families to protect. It's is better safe then sorry. Please do not resist this, please, leave our town, we want no trouble, from him or

anyone else."

The old man looked out at the crowd, nodded, and turned back to me, "You have till morning."

The silent resounding 'or else' echoed in my ears as the crowd dissipated. Some of them shooting me vicious

looks. Others looking around nervously like Vash was going to jump out and shoot them all on the spot.

"Ma'am! Meryl!" Milly ran up behind me, a worried look on her face, "Did you hear? About January?"

I nodded still cupping my cheek, "Yes, Milly, I heard."

"Oh! What are we going to do?" Milly stepped in front of me and looked like she was about to cry.

I let my hand drop to my side and clenched both fists, "I guess we have no choice but to go."

Milly clutched her hands in front of her face, "But what about Mr. Knives? He shouldn't be moved around."

"We'll think of something, but right now we have to find Vash, and talk to him."

Vash

"There." I sighed from the exertion it had taken to just accomplish that.

Now when he woke he wouldn't be able to-

A knock on the bedroom door made me jump.

"Vash?!" Meryl's worried voice filtered through the door.

"Yes?" I opened the door, and saw both Meryl and Milly, both looked extremely worried, and Meryl's cheek was red, "Did someone hit you?"

Meryl touched her cheek and then shook her head violently, "Yes, but we have more pressing matters!"

Someone hurt Meryl... I grabbed Meryl's wrists, "Who!? Who hit you, tell me!"

"Vash, let go you're hurting me." Meryl said quietly, and I let go immediately.

"I'm sorry Meryl, but if someone hurt you--"

"Vash, January was destroyed!" Meryl's voice breaking off my train of thought. She looked up at me, her eyes

asking me to listen.

"What?"

Meryl's eyes softened to almost a sad look, "The town's people want us out of town by morning."

"What? But wait, go back a second, what do you mean January was destroyed?"

For the next few minutes both Meryl and Milly explained to me what they knew.

January and 400 iles around it were destroyed, everyone but one man was killed, nothing was left except for a big piece of charred land.

I was being blamed, even though it was impossible for me to have gotten there and back in less than two weeks.

"You did try to explain to them, right?" I asked, closing the bedroom door behind me and leading the two women out into the kitchen.

"Yes, but they wouldn't listen, and that it was better safe then sorry. They want us out." Meryl took a seat at the kitchen table and buried her face in her hands.

I took the seat across from her, Milly went into the kitchen and began to fix some tea.

"Well we should respect their wishes and leave. Resisting will only cause more trouble than we need."

I pulled the glasses off my face and cleaned the lenses with the end of my shirt.

I slid them back on, "Don't worry Meryl, it was probably time to go anyway."

Milly came back with some tea and set in front of us.

"Milly?"

She glanced down at me, "Yes, Mr. Vash?"

"Do you know if the Taylor's have sold that flatbed truck yet?"

Milly blinked in thought for a moment then shook her head, "No, I don't think so Mr. Vash. It's still out in front of their house."

I nodded, "Good, go buy it from them, we'll need something to transport Knives. And Meryl, go pack your

stuff."

She nodded, "Ok." She stood, then looked back, "What are you going to do?"

I grinned, and a box of doughnuts materialized in my hand, "Enjoy a box of doughnuts!"

Meryl's mouth dropped, in shock, "Vash! Can't you be serious for an HOUR!?"

I stuffed a doughnut in my mouth, "Nobe."

She sighed and slapped her hand to her forehead, "Same old Vash," then she said in a low voice that she must

not have thought I would hear, "Wouldn't have it any other way."

Milly laughed, "I'll be right back."

Meryl on the other hand shook her head and left for her and Milly's shared room, muttering about idiot men.

I laughed and set the box on the table. God, I loved

that woman.

Much thank to foo(Don't worry about being late.)

Jaina: Thanks, and much thanks for reviewing!

AnonymousTrigunOtaku: Thank you, I hope it will continue to interest you.

Rosebud: Yes as a matter of fact, I do believe that Milly is pregnant. She's going to find out in a later chapter. And don't worry about Knives I have a little surprise in store for him. And speaking of Wolfwood, I was thinking that after I finish this I might do a Wolfwood centered fic. Maybe something like Wolfwood: A life Relived. Wouldn't that be cool?

And now for something completely different... sort of. Heh.

I went ahead and made a Yahoo!Groups thingy

Web site as follows == http :// groups. yahoo .com/group/Magnet-Rose

You know the drill, remove the spaces an so on.

I actually made it while I was writing Rem: A Life Relived. But I didn't really have enough to really warrant advertising it.

So far all I've got on it just some desktop wallpapers I made from screenshots form Trigun.

So if you want to help me get some more stuff on it I'd be greatly obliged.

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