Hey people! I'm back! I can't believe I got two reviews! Thank you to both of them!!
AnonymousTrigunOtaku: Thank you soooo much for your kind words; I didn't think it was good at all and seriously hesitated to post this story. I don't know if the second chapter will be as good, but I hope you like it!
Magicsprite: Yay! Trigun rules! Yes, I do know that Wolf wood dies (tears) but he's one of my favorite characters, so I said what the hell and decided to bring him back! I thought of some lame excuse for him being alive, so I guess you could call it alternate reality. After I read your review I remembered that I forgot to put it in there. Sorry! (Bows at magic's feet) Forgive me!!! About Milly being pregnant, I've read several places that she is and my friend (MAJOR Trigun fan) said she was so I figured I'd throw it into the mix. Thanks for reading my vain attempt at coming close to the greatness that is Trigun.
Sakura: Now it's time for the next- (muffled shouting) –would you get him to shut up over there?!
Milly and Meryl: Sorry all-powerful authoress!
Sakura: We managed to catch Vash, and we're gonna torture him into telling where Nick is! Take off the gag!
Vash: He's dead stupid!!!
Meryl: * whack * No he's not!
Nick: Yeah! I'm not dead you stupid- (looks into the crazed face of the authoress) – oh shit! RUN!!
Sakura: Gah! Meryl, after him! Milly, read the disclaimer while I'm gone!
Milly: Okay! While the authoress may be all-powerful within this fanfic, in reality she can't control Trigun and owns none of us, no matter how much she wants to! On with the second chapter!
Liquid Sunlight
Chapter Two: Wolfwood's Story
~POV-Wolfwood~
I can tell Small Girl is strained and suffering, although she tries to hide it so Milly and I can be happy that we're together again. She succeeds in putting on that false face for Milly, but I tend to catch on to things that Big Girl misses. The sadness is apparent in her eyes, even when she's smiling at Milly's antics or laughing with her friend. She doesn't know what I found buried with my Cross-Punisher, and I'm not telling her until I'm sure that peace-loving idiot is coming back to us.
Sometimes I wonder, was how Milly felt? I hope not, because I never want to cause her pain. When I returned to her, the look in her eyes made up for my two months' trek across the desert, searching and walking in circles. If it were anyone else, they'd have to listen to me bitch about it for years to come.
That night, Milly and I made up for the long time we spent apart, Milly not worrying about the hows and whats connected to my reappearance. I knew they would have to be told, but for the time I just gave myself in to the euphoria of once again holding her in my arms. I'm sure Small Girl could hear us from Vash's old room, but she never complained or said a single word about it, which I was grateful for.
The next morning as the three of us sat around the kitchen table eating breakfast (or should I say Big Girl and I eating and Small Girl picking at her food), Milly asked the questions I knew I had to answer. I told her about my bloody and sinful past, meeting White Chapel and Knives, and my mission as a Gung Ho Gun. She accepted all these facts without a tear or a flinch, merely listening with a serious look on her normally smiling and cheerful face. When I finished, she threw her arms around me and buried her head in my neck.
"I understand Nicholas, you did some bad things, but you know you were wrong and feel sorry for what you did. I understand," she said tenderly. She pulled back and her face broke into that wonderful smile that always seemed to make my day brighter. "I'm just so glad you're back!" I smiled back at her, glad to see her genuinely happy demeanor return. But she screwed up her face as though working out a problem in her mind, and then asked the question that I'd hoped she'd overlook in her joy.
"But darling, how are you back? V-vash-san said you w-were…" She gulped hard and stared into my eyes, almost as if saying it would make me disappear once more.
I sighed. "I was dead, and I have no idea why I'm alive. The only thing I remember are voices shouting in my mind. Giving me orders and telling me to find Vash and kill him. When I woke up, I was standing in the middle of the desert, no idea of where I was or how I got there. It took me forever to find a town where I could get directions and find you two." I pulled out a bent cigarette and started to light it when Meryl of all people deftly removed it from my mouth.
"Smoking is bad for the baby, Wolfwood," she said absently, nearly repeating the words that Milly had said to me so long ago.
"What?!" Milly and I both shouted, jumping to our feet. "You're pregnant?!"
"I guess Tongari left his mark before leaving, ne?" I said with a smirk, earning myself a smack from the little dark-haired spitfire, who had turned a magnificent shade of red.
"I'm not pregnant you baka! Milly is!" she shouted at me.
"She is?" My hands fell to my sides.
"I am?" asked Milly, confusion on her sweet face. Meryl fell to the ground. I tried to collect myself as she hauled herself back up.
"Yes you are! First there's the morning sickness. Then I thought you were getting fat from the pudding, but then I realized that you've always eaten that much and never gained an ounce! I'll bet your period was late and you didn't even notice." She calmly dusted off her skirt. "All you have to do is go to the doctor to confirm it."
"I-I'm gonna be a father?" I stuttered out.
Meryl crossed her arms. "Yes." Milly let out a whoop and leapt into my arms, dragging Meryl into the group hug.
That afternoon, I went out and bought a simple diamond ring and proposed to Milly over dinner (I hid the ring in a bowl of pudding and she almost choked on it). She was ecstatic, but we both agreed to wait until Vash came back to have the wedding. When Small Girl made it back to the house after disappearing for a few hours (on my orders) Milly nearly killed by jumping on her while screaming like a banshee. Meryl cried and hugged both of us, but retreated into her room after a while. I think Big Girl missed the sadness mixed in the joy in her eyes that I saw, and I knew exactly who she was thinking of.
~Normal POV~
"Wait up senpai!"
Meryl turned around at the sound of her partner's voice and saw Milly sprinting towards her, Wolfwood walking along behind. She sighed before putting on her best angry face.
"Stop running Milly!" she shouted, feeling as though she were addressing a disobedient child. "You're not supposed to put any stress on yourself, remember?" Milly immediately slowed to a walk, looking guilty, and Meryl waited for her to catch up. When Wolfwood ambled up, Milly locked arms with him and the three headed into town.
"I need to stop at the bank first," Meryl said, leading the way towards the guarded building. At the door, they submitted to a quick search for weapons before they were granted permission to enter. While Meryl and Milly walked to the counter closest to the door, Wolfwood went to examine some artwork on the other side of the room.
"Hello," said the young woman behind the counter.
"Hi," said Meryl, "I need to make a withdrawal."
"Okay. What's your ac-" Gunshots rang outside, cutting her off. The doors were thrown open, revealing five men with bandanas tied around their faces, all carrying guns.
The tallest man, wearing a red bandana and obviously the leader of the group, shouted the classic "Freeze!" and "Hand over all your money!" lines while shoving Milly and Meryl aside. The robbers produced bags that they began to fill with the money they could get to. Wolfwood tried to get to Milly, but froze in his tracks when a gun was trained on his forehead. As others tried to move, a shot was fired and Meryl shut her eyes and shielded herself and Milly from the falling glass that was once a chandelier. When she opened her eyes, glass littered the floor but there was no blood and she breathed a sigh of relief. When Milly stood up with that look on her face, Meryl's breath caught in her throat.
"Stealing is really bad, you know!" she said huffily, arms crossed.
The leading gunman blinked twice at her with a look bordering between disbelief and anger before asking dangerously, "What did you just say little lady?!"
"I said, stealing is bad!" shouted Milly. "If you take all the money, the townspeople won't have any for food or water! And senpai can't buy the pudding!"
All the men began laughing heartily at this statement and the shortest man looked at Milly with amusement and asked, "Are you insane or just stupid?"
"I'm not stupid you jerk!" yelled Milly, pulling her stun gun from nowhere and aiming at the man in the re bandana. She was too slow on the draw however, and the man knocked her in the head with the butt of his pistol and she slumped to the floor, unconscious. Meryl gasped as a trickle of blood ran down the side of her head.
" I said freeze, dammit!" shouted the robber with his gun still aimed at Wolfwood.
"Milly!" cried Meryl, moving towards her. Grabbing her shoulder, the man roughly swung her back around and put his gun to her chest.
"Just give me a reason," he whispered, and silent tension filled the air for a few seconds. Meryl silently prayed that Milly and Wolfwood would be okay and prepared to make her move whenever he became distracted. She didn't have to wait long, as the door swung open again, giving her captor the distraction she had pleaded for. The next few seconds felt like minutes to Meryl, as she tried in vain to knock the gun away. The explosion of the gun echoed several times in Meryl's ears while she fell to the ground, pain and a strange warmth spreading across her chest. As she lay on the ground, her eyes focused on the ceiling she heard yells, gunshots, and the thuds of bodies hitting the ground. Vaguely, she heard shouts in Wolfwood's rumbling voice, and over him, in a strangled, she heard someone else shout her name.
"Meryl!"
A flash of red, and then she lost consciousness.
Well, how was it? Exciting? Scary? Don't worry, the voices are telling me that the next chapter will explain a lot of things and maybe a plot will develop out of this mess. Please review and tell me what you think, but please don't flame me. I might cry or destroy public property.
^-^Sakura