Disclaimer: I don't own Trigun or any of my friends. I barely own me. Scratch that, I don't own me.

For anyone who reads Vashluver1's fics, yes, I did copy her, but the idea sounded like fun. You can hate me for it if you want, but I just hope you enjoy it. Review, please!

Through the Closet

Chapter 1: Behind the Bush

Andie sat at home, thinking of what to do.

"I'm so bored..." she thought out loud. "I know!" she said as she jumped up and grabbed the phone. "I'll call Stephanie!"

She dialed the number and waited as it rang continuously. The message came on so she hung up and dialed again. This time there was an answer.

"Hello?" It was Stephanie.

"Hi," Andie said, going along with their usual joke of saying 'hi' over and over.

"Hey Andie. What's up?"

"Bored! What are you doing?"

"Absolutely nothing. You?"

"Same. Wanna come over?"

"Sure. I'll be there soon." They hung up and Stephanie put on her shoes. She rushed down the stairs and ran into her younger brother, Jacob.

"Watch where you're going, stupid," he said as he picked up the toys he'd dropped.

"Watch where you're going, stupid," she imitated as she walked into the garage. She pulled her bike out from the mess and rode to Andie's house.

They sat in Andie's room for almost an hour on the computer. They soon got tired of it and tried to think of something else to do.

"We're so bored..." they said together. They were lying on the floor listening to Andie's Simple Plan CD.

"We should call someone," Andie finally said.

"Like who?" Stephanie looked at her curiously.

"Uh... Chrissy?" she suggested.

"Fine. As long as we do something." Andie sat up and grabbed the phone. She dialed Chrissy's number and waited for her to answer.

"Hello?"

"Hey. Chrissy? It's Andie."

"Oh. Hi!"

"Hey. Steph and I were wondering if you wanted to come over. We're bored as- well, you get the idea," Andie said, remembering her friend's hatred of cursing.

"Sounds good. I'm bored too. Can I sleep over?"

"Sure."

"Okay. I'll come as soon as I get my stuff together."

"Seeya soon, then."

"Seeya." Andie turned to Stephanie.

"Chrissy's coming and she's sleeping over. Do you want to sleep over too?"

"Can't. My grandparents are coming from Ohio. I can't even stay for dinner." Andie gave her a sympathetic look.

"Maybe some other time then." Stephanie nodded and they waited for Chrissy to arrive.

Chrissy got there about twenty minutes later. She dropped her night stuff on Andie's bed and shook the other girls, who had fallen asleep while waiting. Andie looked startled and blinked a lot.

"How long have I been sleeping?" she asked Chrissy in a sleepy voice.

"Couldn't have been more than twenty minutes. I just got here." Andie looked relieved.

"Good. Sorry about falling asleep. We were so bored." She remembered Stephanie and looked at her. Her eyes were closed and she was snoring.

"Get up, Steph," she said and stood up. Steph opened her eyes and stood up.

"No wonder you're so bored! You're sitting inside being lazy! You should be outside doing something! Ever heard of exercise?"

"Well, I, uh, ugh, you win. Let's go be active," she said sarcastically as she put on a fake smile.

"It's better then sitting here," Stephanie said as she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes.

They all went down to the backyard. Andie and Stephanie turned to Chrissy.

"We're outside. Now what?" Stephanie said and looked expectantly at Chrissy.

"Why do I have to come up with something?"

"Because you're the one who told us to come out here in the first place!"

"Remember those games we used to play when we were little?" Andie said, interrupting their squabble. She could tell they were getting annoyed with each other. "Where we had adventures and there was magic and everything?"

"Yeah. So?" Stephanie and Chrissy said together and then glared at each other.

"Why don't we do that? A blast from the past. It'd be fun." Stephanie rolled her eyes.

"I'd rather watch Trigun. I still haven't seen all of the episodes." Chrissy just looked at her.

"You'd rather sit on your butt and watch that stupid show than do this?" She smiled at Andie. "I think it sounds like fun."

They both looked at Stephanie. She threw up her arms in surrender. "Fine. But if it's stupid, I quit." Andie grinned.

"Deal. Come on."

Time flew by as they became knights and wizards and defeated dragons and evil. Stephanie wanted to be evil, but they wouldn't let her.

It was almost dark and they had already ventured to the far corners of Andie's backyard (The Dark Jungle) when her mom called.

"Stephanie! Your mom's here!" They were all surprised that it had gotten so late.

"Must be dinner time. I'll see you guys later!" she said and jogged back to the house.

"Bye!" Andie and Stephanie called before returning to their game.

"Stephanie got eaten by one of the giant anacondas in the jungle then. We still have to find the portal." They were looking for a hidden portal that led to another world in the darkest depths of the jungle. Andie pointed to a tall, wide bush with a small amount of room behind it.

"It must be behind there!" she said and they walked towards the bush. She was first to slide against the fence behind it. Suddenly everything was completely dark. She couldn't see or feel the bush in front of her. She did feel Chrissy push her as she tried to get behind the bush and kept sliding along the fence behind her. Her side soon hit something wooden. She stuck her arms out in front of her but didn't feel any bush and the wood at her side wasn't bush. She turned to face it and ran her hands over it. She found a doorknob and turned it.

She was looking into a bar. It was lit by candles and wreaked of alcohol. There were men of all ages sitting at the many tables.

"You have a bar behind your bush?" Chrissy hissed in her ear as a door quietly closed. Andie whipped around. Chrissy was there, standing in front of a door.

"I don't think we're behind the bush anymore," Andie said. and Chrissy turned around and opened the door. It was only a small closet.

"But it was there. We went behind the bush? Where'd it go?" She turned to face Andie again. She was ghostly white.

Andie looked back at occupants of the bar. There were two in the corner that caught her eye. They looked like they were arguing.

"Chrissy! Look! Over there! Do you see them?" Andie squealed and pointed at the two men.

"It's two guys arguing." She started laughing. "The one with the shorter hair just hit the other one. What's with that guy's long hair anyways? It sticks straight up!"

One of the candles reflected off of something. Chrissy gasped.

"He has a gun!" She looked around. "They all have guns! We're going to get killed here, aren't we? We'll never make it out alive!"

"Calm down! They won't shoot us!"

"How do you know?"

"I know who that guy is. Just trust me, okay?" Chrissy looked confused, but nodded. She followed as Andie walked up to them, pulled a chair over, and sat down. The men stared at her.

"Do you want something?" the shorter-haired one said.

"We aren't familiar with these parts. We need to stay with you. You wouldn't want young children to be alone, would you?" She gave the longer-haired one puppy-dog eyes.

"Actually-"

"Of course we wouldn't," he said, glaring at the other one. "But we can't take you with us. We need all we have. We couldn't help you and you couldn't help us." He truly looked sorry, but Andie knew he was their only chance.

Smiling innocently, she grabbed his gun and cocked it, pointing it at him under the table. The two men and Chrissy's eyes widened in alarm.

"We could always collect the $$60,000,000,000 reward instead, Vash the Stampede," she whispered, still smiling.

She didn't think it was possible, but Vash's eyes got even wider. He looked at the other man.

"I think we can afford to take care of two extra girls, right?" He said, still keeping an eye on Andie.

"Personally, I think you'd deserve it if she shot you. But fine. It's only two insignificant humans." Vash nodded and smiled at Andie.

She smiled and gave him back his gun. Chrissy pulled a chair over.

"Wait a second, this is Vash?" she asked Andie, who nodded. Chrissy cracked up laughing. "This is Vash? This stupid, silly-haired coward is Vash? The guy that you and Heather love so much? This is him?"

Andie glared at her and Vash looked offended and scared at the same time.

"Don't insult his hair! Rem was the one who first styled it like that for him." She smiled softly at him, but he looked even more scared.

"Rem... I remember her. Didn't she die? Yeah. Knives killed her or something, right?" Andie and Vash looked at the other man, who smiled.

"That's true," he said. Chrissy realized who he was.

"Oh," she said quietly.

"How do you know all this?" Vash asked Andie.

"Uh, we, we just know." This seemed to satisfy Vash for now. He looked at Chrissy.

"What did you say about love earlier?" Chrissy smiled.

"Nothing!" Andie shouted. Knives laughed.

"I'm starting to like this girl," he said, nodding at Andie. She beamed with pride.

"I like this one better," Vash said, looking at Chrissy. "She seems safer." Andie rolled her eyes.

Knives stood up and stretched his arms. "Let's go find a hotel. I'm tired."

They found one and got Vash and Knives a room together and Andie and Chrissy a room together.

"Tomorrow I want to know more about you two," Vash said. "Goodnight!"

He went back to his room where Knives was already asleep. He got into bed and thought about the person he missed most, Meryl Stryfe, before drifting off to sleep.

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