Blu: …damn you are all persistent.
TK: just say it, Blu-Chan
Blu: fine, that last chapter DIDN'T suck ass
TK: good girl
Hustino-That has to be the longest review I have ever gotten. It just plain made my day! THANKIES!
KittyHakubi- YAY! –eats the cookie- ok, so it didn't suck. Thankies for liking it
Chaotic Pink Chocobo- I will take your word for it, hun
Wolf-Woman54- YAY! MY FIRST FLAME! I knew you would hate the mush…
Ali10- Chapter one: Didn't mean to weird you out XD I am glad you liked it ^^
Chapter two: YAY! Now you LOVE it XD…disclaimers are fun
Chapter three: I think that is a great idea. I want everyone to sing the Genocide song in their reviews! Thanks, babe!
Chapter four: Well, another person loves that scene too, eh? Well, maybe I'm not as nuts as I thought I was…no, I'm still nuts
BatBabe1- I am glad you liked the…spin…thingy…wtf?! I think I am lost…
Thanks all! I would like to warn you though, this chapter is how the title suggests, not much will happen.
Read, Review, and Wait, the three things that happen on this site.
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Chapter Five: Boldly Going Nowhere
Stepping out into the twin sunlight, I let out a sigh. All the weight of hiding myself has just been lifted off my shoulders. It's a wonderful feeling. Sauntering down the steps, I sit next to Millie. She smiles gently and wraps a hand around my waist. The kids run about, playing tag with each other. It's funny how in a ruined city like this, kids go on playing. It makes me miss it…
"Whatcha thinking about, Wolfie?"
I jump slightly before smacking Vash over the head. "STOP DOING THAT!" I screech.
"Ow…"
"Nicholas," Millie says, "play nice." I think about this for a second…is she treating me like her kid!? …couldn't be…
"Yeah, Nick," the Stampede says with a grin. "Listen to your mother-I mean girlfriend." Ok, that's the last straw. Tackling the big oaf, he and I fly down (mostly over) the porch steps and land in the sand. Pinning him to the ground, I roll up my sleeve, ready to punch his lights out. Suddenly two other kids are there, at his legs. Soon more kids stop their games and are making the Humanoid Typhoon their play thing. Vash tries to get up, catching me off guard. I tumble off just as all the kids dog pile.
Staggering backwards to the steps, I stare at the horror before me. "Jeez-um-crow…" I mumble, collapsing next to Millie, who of course is smiling like nothing is wrong. "Its like watching piranhas…" There goes a shoe…bye bye button. "Millie," I say, turning to her. "What's a piranha?"
"I don't know, Nicky."
"…"
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Meryl smiles to herself as she climbs the creaking stairway. Reaching the hall, she turns in the direction of Wolfwood's room. She smiles again, finding the door open. "I am going to make sense of this if it kills me," she mutters, stepping inside.
The open window swings in the breeze, smacking its frame. The messy bed, the covers scattered here and there, the discarded clothing, Meryl takes all these in. A little voice in the back of her head tells her calmly to turn around and go outside to save Vash, who's screams are drifting in from the window. Of course, she never listens to that voice, let alone knows she has it, seeing as a louder voice is screaming at her to take matters into her own hands. Diving for the nearest mess of covers, the insurance girl shakes the fabric violently. When nothing falls out, she moves on to the next clump. Passing by Millie's discarded pack, a flash of brown catches the short woman's eye. Meryl looks harder, seeing the brown is really a leather book.
"Where did Millie get this?" Meryl asks, standing up with the book in hand. As she does so, a page falls out and drifts to the ground. After retrieving it, Meryl's eyes widen. "It's a note," she says to herself, opening it. She instantly recognizes the priest's Thomas-scratch handwriting.
'Millie,
This bible is yours if my promise is broken.
I love you,
Wolfwood.'
"Meryl! What are you doing?!"
Jumping ten feet in the air, Meryl spins around to see little Wolfwood at the door. His eyes hit the book in her hands and widen. "I…was getting the sheets to clean," Meryl says weakly, "and this book was on the floor."
"That's my…Millie's bible," Nick stutters. "I came up here to…give it to her personally…"
"Rather then leave it to her as her only link to you?" Meryl finishes, unsteady. Wolfwood shakes his head.
"I left something for her she will love longer then my memory in the Father's word."
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"Nicky! Where have you been?"
Returning to the steps, I plop down next to Big Girl, bible in hand. "Here," I say, handing it to her. "A gift."
"What's this?" she asks, taking it from me gently. She looks down at it in awe. "It's so big…"
"It's my Bible, Millie," I say weakly. What a lame gift this is. Millie doesn't want a book. Dammit. Sheepishly, I rub the back of my neck. "It was mine…and now it's yours and…"
"THANK YOU MISTER PRIEST!" Pulling me into a monster hug, Millie giggles. "I've never gotten a book for a gift! Thank you!" Even the kids pulling Vash limb from limb stop to stare at Big Girl's screaming. Letting me out of the death hold, she races upstairs, yelling something like 'Igonnagoreaditrightnow!' over her shoulder.
"I think…she liked it.
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Blu: twas a short chapter, sorry
TK: had to be done
Blu: the next one will be longer, I promise.
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Wolfwood: Mistakes. Everyone makes them, for everyone is human. It is the size of the mistakes the can change the course of one's future. Chess is a game of wits and strategy. It is not some simple game of chance, leaving you life up to the luck of the draw. No. In chess, you rely on yourself. There is no other element then your own choices. One wrong move, and the king is lost. Big mistakes on a little black and white board. I learned the hard way, the world is not black and white.
Next Chapter: Forgive and Forget or Regret