Beyond Reasoning
Chapter 22
Edited and Deleted Scenes!
Hey thanks for reading my story! This one got done in record time, I must say! Well even though this one got done in record time there where times where this was the hardest thing to write and actually there are a few chapters that I edited out or rewrote because I didn't like where they where going. Since there are so many of them in this story I decided to post them as well in a special features chapter, like on dvds. Well I'll explain the story behind each of these edited out chapters before you get the chance to read them.
First of all before I tell you about the first unused chapter I want to talk about the main characters name. We all know Vash's real name is Vash Knives, which means that Knives is using his last name instead of his first. This is a cultural thing more then anything(If you want more look up Japanese sir names and information on how first and last names are placed). If you didn't know Knives's real first name is Millions. Anyway on to Candy. Candy Rae was translated in the story as "Brightly White Spirit". This is only half true. Candy does mean "Brightly White" but the spelling of Rae used in the story means something along the lines of "Dim". I instead used the japanese translation with a japanese spelling of my middle name which is Rei which means "Spirit" (Cheers for Sailor Moon because without it I would have never knew that). I use it more then my natural form, the translation that is. It makes more sense then "Brightly White Dim". Also don't ask me what my real last name means (I used my middle name in this story as my last name to protect myself a bit, sorry just a bit paranoid) I've heard a lot of translations and still am confused about it. One of these days I'll find out what it means. In the english dictionary without a name translation it has a meaning as well...I guess it could go with the full thing but o well. I thought you might like that bit of information about Candy Rae. Anyway now on to the unused chapters....
Ok in the beginning of the story I had different idea when it came to the switching of the two narrators Candy and Vash. I thought it would be cool that instead of the next narrator picking up from where the other one left off that they retell sorta the events that happened in the chapter before and then tell what happened after in their point of view. This of course is still a cool idea but it made it so there was going to be a lot of repeating of old things word for word when speech is present and each chapter would inevitably get longer. Though I wouldn't mind writing long chapters it gets to be a bit and you readers might not like the wait so I went with the continue where the other narrator left off. Why I told you this is because the first chapter of Vash was suppose to be something completely different. I wrote this while writing the second chapter to the story, planning on this be where Vash takes over in narrating.
glance up at me for a second when she buried her face in my coat sobbing unconrolably. Looking down I glaced at the top of her head and sighed. If I had only protected her better...If she had stayed where I asked her to a few days ago then none of this would have happened and she wouldn't have actully shot a man...
Beyond Reasoning
Chapter (Didn't know it was going to be chapter 4 at the time so I left it blank)
Vash's Turn
Holding my brother upon my back I began to walk to the nearest town which happened to be October. First of all I had to have him checked to see if he was going to live though this, but I was pretty sure he was.
I mean I lived though a lot of crap so I figured he would to. Humming quietly I walked though the desert all day with him on my back breathing steadly. So with him finally hopefully going to listen to me and settle down I could go and meet Meryl and Milly back at the town one day. I'm sure Meryl would wait for me there. She seemed to have grown a crush on me.
But I didn't see her that way. When Rem died so long ago I had given up hope of ever finding someone to love mainly because in the end of it all I'd be watching them die like so many people I have grown to care about on this planet.
"...blasted spiders...." Knives's voice muttered on my back. Looking down I sighed seeing town in site. Maybe I shouldn't bring him there. He's not ready to be around humans full time but I couldn't just leave him with the bullet holes in him. This town was October, one of nicer towns around here. It was quit and peaceful here. Sure there where a lot of kids here but it just brought charm to this little town. Looking I headed toward the small clinic here. Walking in the nurse gasped looking at the bullet holes in my brothers legs which where visable.
"Hurry!" She shouted as a bunch of nurses came rushing out from the back with a bed to place him on. They all grabbed him from my shoulder and placed him on the bed and rushed back to start surgery. A nurse stayed behind with some forums.
"Relation to you?"
"Brother," I said looking back.
"Name?"
"Knives Millions."
"How did this happen?"
"...I don't know..." I lied. I didn't want to get into any more trouble. Knives wouldn't say anything to them about how he got the injury. "Also...he's not good around people so be careful ok?" The nurse looked up with a questioning eye probaby the way I said it but nodded writing something on the charts and heading back into the door the other nurses came out of. Now I just wait.
Though waiting is hard when my stomach began to growl so I left the clinic for a little bit and decided to go and eat my favorite food: donuts. Walking out of the bakery with one in my mouth I noticed all the kids around some girl in a white trench coat. That reminded me of the talk Rem and I had about colors that one day...
(Flashback)
"Hey Rem...if red means passion and love what does white mean?" I had asked her holding up a small white flower for her to see. She turned her head taking the flower from my grasp and chuckled lightly.
"White is usally associated with purity," Rem told me smelling the small flower. "Like the stories of Angel's Vash. Their white wings told everyone around them that they came from God..the most pure thing ever."
"O..that sounds cool," I told her looking beside me at the white flowers.
"White is always hard to keep clean...that's why its the easiest to tell if its been stained. That Vash is why white is considered the color of purity."
(End Flashback)
Looking at the girl I studied her face for a minute cuz I figured Knives operation still wouldn't be done. She held brown eyes to go with her long brown hair that was a mess because of the kids around her, grabbing at her, pulling her down. She just seemed to enjoy it all like I would if my mind wasn't so heavy on my brothers condition. A smile came upon my face as I watched the girl and kids. As I looked at her some things kept coming at me...like the color of her skin.
It was to light. Sure the girl looked as if she stayed out in the sun she could get a tan like everyone else on Gunsmoke quit easily but she didn't have one. I guess that struck me as odd because of how old she looked, the color of the childrens' skin, and the fact she looked like she wasn't from around here. October was surrounded by desert. To get here it took a day or two. In a car it was still about 12 hours to arrive here. The closest town to October was the town of Dakota. I shook it off as nothing and headed back to the clinic.
When I got there a nurse was there to greet me.
"The operation was finished about ten minutes ago sir," She responded.
"That's good," I said happily.
"But...their was a problem..."
"Problem...what problem?" I said getting worried. I had a reason to be worried. I inflicted those wounds on him! If anything did turn out because of it it would be all my fault!
"The operation went fine sir, that isn't the problem," She said raising her hands to me to say calm down.
"Ok...then what is it?" I responded.
"He awoke right after it and left." The nurse said.
"Left?!" I said looking at the nurse worried.
"We where as surprised as you that he could walk like that but he got up and left. We couldn't stop him in time."
"So...I just missed him..." I asked shocked. The nurse just nodded. I closed my eyes in pain...I was going to try to help my brother come around. I was going to show him how beautiful humans really where...that they weren't the spiders he called them."
"I'm sorry sir, we'll have someone go look for him. I'm sure he couldn't have gotten far,"
"Don't." I responded coldly looking out the window seeing the sky turning black. "I'll go find him. Like I said he isn't a people person..." The nurse nodded as I went to the door and opened it standing there for a moment. Walking out I decided to get a room at the hotel that I stayed at a lot. They knew who I was and still let me stay there, mainly because I saved the owners daughter.
"Hello Mr. Stampede," The clerk said looking up. "Going to stay the night tonight?"
"Yeah," I responded putting down the 50 I always paid. The man sighed going back and taking a key off the hook room 56.
"Just don't destroy the room this time," The clerk said eyeing me as I chuckled nervously looking out the door to see the rain starting to fall. The rain brought on the tears I was trying to fight back since I had learned Knives had left the clinic before I got there. Turning I headed back outside to stand in it. Maybe it was the fact like Gunsmoke was crying almost that I began to cry. God did he know what he put me though. It wasn't fair, brothers where sappose to love each other and Knives always did this to me...
Running off and leaving me there alone. That's when I heard it. Footsteps. Turning my head I saw a muddy white trench coat dressed woman who was soaked to the bone like I was. A shocked look on her face became visable as she stepped into the light more. Sighing I really wished I was still alone but the woman seemed worried about something.
"Are you ok Miss?" I asked her wiping the visable tears from my face.
"..I...I don't know..." She responded. What was that to mean?
"What do you mean?" I asked her turning fully to look at her. She didn't look sick but of course if we stood out in the rain long enough both of of us would get sick though she looked as if she had been slapped by something. Her right hand touched her forehead as if she had forgotten something at home or to check her temperature. That's when I saw her collapse.
What the heck?! Rushing over to the woman I checked her forehead. She felt fine. So why did she pass out? Quickly I dug through her pockets, finding a key and a envelope full of money.
Who carries that much money with them? Sighing I put the money back in her inside pocket and picked up the girl. Knives would have to wait. This woman seemed to have a bigger problem. Looking at the key again I realized it was from the same hotel as me so maybe I could get some idenification from them since she didn't carry any. Walking back I entered the hotel lobby to see the inn keeper looking up from his paper instantly frowning.
"What the heck did you do?" He said to me suspicious of me. Probaby thinking I did this to her.
"I did nothing!" I exclaimed. "Honest! I never laid a hand on the girl till after she passed out and that was just to pick her up." Walking up she pushed the wet hair of hers off her face and felt her forehead.
"She's not sick..." He muttered. "And when she came in she seemed well enough, almost sickningly cheerful." The last statement struck me as odd. I knew that act a little to well.
"What's her name?" I asked. The inn keeper went over to his room listing and read a small name he had scribbled on the page.
"The girl's name is Candy Rae," He said pushing the small glasses on his nose better.
"Did she tell you anything else?" I asked trying to figure this girl out. She was the same one who had been playing with the kids.
"...Honey.." A voice behind the desk called out as the inn keepers wife walked out of the doorway that led to his room. She had a robe on and her hands where stuffed in the pockets. "...are you coming to bed or not?" That's when she turned to me to say hi again but noticed the woman in my arms. "What the heck happened?!"
"I don't know..." I said again trying to sound convincing. The inn keepers wife who's name was Margery came from behind the desk and touched her forehead.
"We've got to get those clothes off of her," She said taking off the robe and wrapping it around her.
"Margery!" The inn keeper said angry. The robe was covering her pjs which didn't leave much to the imagination. I looked away as Margery turned to her husband.
"Danial did she have any luggage or anything when she checked in?" She asked completely ignoring her husband. When her husband shook his head no she ordered him to take her from his hand Walking up Danial, the inn keeper, took her from my arms.
"Wait here," He said as they entered the room behind the counter. What a night. I sighed falling back into the chair not caring if I was wet. Digging in my pocket I retreaved both of the keys.
"56,57. She was going to be right next to me..." I said putting the keys back in my pocket. Not to long after that Danial came out with the girl. She had on some pjs on. Margery came out with a new robe on.
"That's all I could find that would be approperate..." She chuckled rubbing her head nervously. I looked down and blushed looking at the outfit looking away quickly. The pink short shorts where small, you could call them underwear before short shorts and the tank top was cut quit low. She handed "I'll send her clothes to the cleaners." I nodded.
"Thanks Margery," I said. "I would have tucked her in wet if it hadn't been for you."
"No problem," She said grabbing Danial's hand. "Now honey let's get to bed." I watched as Margery drug her husband to their room as I chuckled. She was always like that. Deciding not to look down again I headed up the steps to her and my rooms. Digging in my pocket I retrieved unlocked the girl Candy's room and looked around. She hadn't even had been there. Walking over to the bed, balancing her with one of my arms I pulled the blankets back and laid her down placing the blankets up on her. Then I sat down a moment then thinking about my brother. What was Knives going to do now? He wasn't going to try to kill the humans again, was he? Could I possibly handle another attack upon them? A tear slid down my cheek as I thought of it.
"Stupid...magical...plushie..." A voice behind me said. Looking back I saw the girl turning her head and obviously sleep talking. That made me chuckle. Looking at the pale girl's face I thought back to when I saw her playing with the kids. The white trench coat. This girl seemed to intrige me as I looked back once again at her. Standing up I put the key of hers on the night stand. Looking inside I counted she was carring around.
"Whoah..." I said realizing how much she was really carring. Now why the heck would someone be carring that much. I carried a lot but that was because I had no where to put it and the only person who really could rob me would be my brother...
Knives...
I closed my eyes again. What is your plan brother exactly? Sighing I decided to head to bed. Putting the money on the table in the middle of the room I went to the door and looked back one more time at the Candy girl. Turning I shut the door and headed to my room.
This is still sorta how I planned his point of view and what happened while Candy was passed out so this could be like a scene edited out for time. Well what ever case may be I didn't use it in the story. Well I knew the case really. If I used it then it would set the bar for the rest of the 20 chapters and I really didn't want to write that much. Just take this chapter as a sneak peak into what he was thinking in the first chapter of the story.
This next chapter was an alternate chapter for chapter 3. This one was wrote first. After a while I realized again I didn't like where this was going. For one there was just to many dreams/visions and I didn't like that and another it was really hurring up the plot line which again I didn't want. And the fact that I made Vash in this chapter really suspisous about the girl which too I didn't like. This takes place while their walking to another town and get caught in a sand storm..
Chapter 3
Turning my head I looked at my traveling partner who was whisling to himself quietly. I chuckled quielty realizing he had a walkman on. Looking up I covered my eyes from the two suns rayes and sighed. I was from Minnesota...the land where we rarely hit 110 during the summer. It was also the land of 10,000 lakes. So even if I got hot, there was enough water to cool me down. These unnerving suns where getting to be to much and Vash probaby assumed I could handle it all; which wasn't true. Moving my jacket back and forth I tried to cool myself down with it. Deciding that wasn't going to help and the fact that there was endless sand everywhere around me I gave up hope of an oasis. Vash seemed to be able to keep his cool about this sun just humming away and kicking up a little sand here and there. Deciding the best way to fight the heat was what vash was doing I thought of one of my favorite songs and began to hum it quietly. It was the song that decribed me the best, Kind of a depressing song, unlike the way I acted. Looking down I kicked a pebble at my feet. This song reminded me what I was going through back at home, and how I had to grow strong from it.
If you are really wondering the song is called Weird and it's by my long time favorite group Hanson. If you've ever listened and not complained about it being Hanson the lyrics are written quit well and the song is beautiful. Looking over Vash was doing something strange...probaby trying to dance. I just laughed which made him glance over toward me. Quickly I looked up like nothing had happened but only to fall over with some dip in the path we where taking which made Vash burst out laughing at me. Getting up I shook off my clothes and picked up my glasses from the sand and glared at him.
"What?" He said with a grin upon his face. I stuck my tongue out at him walking ahead.
"Hey wait up!" He shouted running up to me. Sure the blond was still a head taller then me but it didn't bother me as much. I seemed to pick tall guys.
"Why should I?" I said sticking out my tongue again at him.
"Because for one if you didn't fall I wouldn't have laughed," He said coming up next to me.
"If your dance wasn't so weird I wouldn't have laughed to begin with," I responded. O goodness...the heat was really getting to me. I felt myself waver for a second standing there. Vash's eyes picked up the movement unlike most humans who probaby wouldn't have noticed it at all. That's what I get for traveling 3 days with a plant out in the sun.
"...Candy...are you ok?" He asked. My pride was setting in when he said that. I couldn't possibly tell him I wasn't or he might laugh at me and think of me as a weakling. Then the question of why I couldn't handle this heat might come up...so I lied.
"I'm fine doofus head," I said waving it off. It didn't seem to be working. I just said nothing.
"Maybe we should rest a bit," He said breaking the silence.
"Where?" I responded. "I mean there is nothing to really rest under." That's when Vash just put on a big toothy grin as he slammed his boot into the sand hitting something metal. Could this be that place in the episode with the sand robots and the underground lab? He bent down and opened a hatch which held a ladder below it.
It was.
"We could go down there," He responded. I nodded as he put his hand out as if to tell me to go first. Nodding I stepped down the ladder. He was right above me as I hopped off and raised my arms. It was quit cool down here, a nice little break from the suns. I twirled around enjoying the cool.
"Does this place have water or something?" I asked pointing down a hallway.
"Well it was used once by someone so there should be some sorta water source down here." Vash responded. Looking ahead of me I began to walk down the hallway. "HEY wait up!"
"What?" I said turning to him.
"Are you just going to walk down there? I mean arn't you worried about something that might be down there?" I eyed him funny. There was no machines left. Vash took care of that in that episode. So why was he acting all funny. Would a normal person just go wazing down a dark hallway though.
Man I did act suspicous...
"Your right," I said turning around. "After you." Shock washed over Vash's face as he sighed and walked ahead of me. If I kept on doing things like that he'll start asking questions which I won't be able to answer. I wasn't apart of this world. No matter how much I secret wished to be and acted like. Vash walked on glancing back and forth, not saying much turning down a hall which I followed him to. Then he stopped at a door swinging to door carefully glancing around and waved me in. There was a small fountain on the wall to my left. Walking over I went and took a while taking a drink. I didn't realize how much my body wanted it till the liquid touched my lips. After like 5 minutes of drinking I stopped and stood up looking at Vash who was looked at me curiously.
"What?" I said sounding slightly offended.
"..Nothing..." He said turning his head. I walked over and sat on a pile of wood. My body really wasn't used to the constant heat of the desert. I had to press on though...Vash would never believe me if I told him the truth but he seemed to be getting suspisious every hour. "We should get going." He broke the silence turning to me his face all lit up.
"O...OK..." I responded standing up slowly. I had to move on. I smiled looking at him. "Lets go." He moved out in front me as we headed to an exit. A few turns later we were back at where we started at. Vash climbed up before me opening the hatch only to see dark clouds above us.
"Crap.." He muttered closing it. Turning he gave me a smile from the ladder. I was still on the floor. "It's going to storm again. We best stay here for the night." I nodded thankful for the storm.
"So where is the best place to go here?" I asked. "I mean light and such. I don't really like being in a place that I'm not used to without light."
"Well there is a generator room but that's going to take some time..." Vash said to me looking worried. It was probaby because the way he stopped the assembly was to turn the whole place off.
"Well how about collecting some wood or something and going into a room or hall that won't catch fire then?" I said with a smile.
"Wood is hard to come by since this place is desert." Vash said his eyes slightly narrowing at me like it was sappose to be common sense to know that. I touched my forehead again. This was getting really frustrating! I couldn't even speak right.
"You're right," I said cheerfully clapping my hands together. "My brain must have flown out the window or something today. I can't think straight."
"We can just stay here," Vash said sitting down.
"Ok," I said going to the ladder and slipping my legs into one side and sitting on it while leaning on it poking my head though an upper bar. "You seem upset." I began. He didn't show his goofy persad much now. Something must be really bothering him.
"What?" He said looking up at me slightly startled.
"Well I'm just saying, you look like somethings on your mind," I responded with a smile. "Care to talk about it?"
"No," He responded. I made a pouty look on my face.
'I know you Vash...wither you know it or not...I've seen the pain you've gone through...I want to know what happened...Why your like this now...' A sigh I just let go from my mouth. I looked at him. Something really was bothering the guy. I had never seen him so depressed for so long. I slipped out of my seat since the bar was getting quit painful to sit on and layed against a wall tapping my fingers rytmicly upon the floor. "Vash?"
"Yeah?" He said turning his face toward me. It seemed to have lightened up looking at me as if to hide it a bit.
"Well if your not going to talk to me about what's wrong...what do you want to talk about? I mean it's boring...I get bored easily and all..." I said.
"Well then tell me about yourself," He said. "You have some idea of who I am but I know nothing about you besides you stopped a guy from robbing someone and play with kids." I flushed instantly...he had seen me playing with the children at the town? I had never seen him then.
"Well..." I said now becoming nervous. My past life had to fit the life of Gunsmoke somehow but be true. "I have three other siblings. I have a sister who is three years younger then me, and two brothers, one 15, the other 8. I live with my father when I'm not traveling around."
"That's nice," He said his face lightling up a bit.
"Yeah.." I chuckled. "I also have a few friends but they live a distance from where I do." After saying that the air went silent again. I laid my head back wishing I had something to do. I could hear the rain poaring already above our heads. That's when I saw it...chalk...a smile broaden across my face as I grabbed it. Looking over at Vash I decided to draw him. That would keep me busy for an hour or more. Smiling I quietly began to draw him with the white chalk coloring the light spots and leaving the dark for the steel floor.
After about an hour I looked up smiling feeling accomplished at what I had drawn. It looked like Vash and I would say it was one of my better drawings. Vash didn't look around much and I think he understood what I was doing and stopped moving as much. That's when I yawned as well. It was getting late now, I was sure of it. Taking off my coat I curled it up as a pillow and laid down.
"Good night Vash," I said turning to the wall and closing my eyes.
(dream)
His aqua blue eyes gazed at me angery.
"Why didn't you tell me?!" His accusing voice shouted as he drew his gun. Why would Vash draw his gun at me? I felt the bullet pierce my chest as I screamed falling forward. My hands hit the sand below as blood began to trail from the wound swirling around under and started to suck me in...
Then blue eyes...glaring at me.
"What are you?!" He shouted. It was Knives reaching out for me. I tried to run. Knives wasn't someone you wanted to run into. But his eyes...they weren't full of hate...I stopped looking back at him but when he touched my arm pain shot through it. Ebbing away making my knees buckle as I fell trying to get his hand off me. Looking up all I could see was a toothy twisted grin from him.
(end dream)
I shot up, hair flying everywhere around me as I breathed heavly. I was visably shaking. Looking over to Vash I saw he was sleeping. Frowning I stood up. I had to go to the bathroom. I dare not try to open the latch above. So I decided to head down the corador looking for one. I'm sure they had one if they had a fountain. Opening the door I found a toliet. Shutting it I sat down to go to the bathroom a head ache beginning to forum. I sat up turning and washed my hands slowly, Looking up in the mirror with the little light provided I looked in the mirror at myself. Eight hours of walking and I still looked as white as I did. I touched my cheek when something hit me...
(Vision)
"She'll be to strong.." A voice said. I was short, majorly short.
"What do you mean?" Another mans voice said.
"I think we should stick with the plants, keep evolving that source of power. She's an abodmination!" There was a silence.
"It was worth a try I guess. So what are your suggestions on "getting rid of the evidance?""
"I don't know but nobody would be ready for her or the kind that will develope because of this."
....
Wings...white feathers...blowing in the wind...a gunshot...pain...
(End Vision)
I awoke from it clutching my face looking at the mirror again. What was going on with me? That vision...the dream...it was as if...as if...
"Hey Candy...where are you?" A tired lazy voice called out from the hallway. Turning I was going to the door to call out to Vash but pain...I fell grasping the side of the sink. I looked up, my vision going hazy and was shocked at what I saw...
Blood...
Splattered all over the wall...oozing down on it. Just the site of it made me want to throw up. I couldn't control it...I barley made the toliet. Confusion seemed to fill my every sense.
"...In here Vash..." I called out leaning my head on the cool sink, my back to the door. I was so weak...The door opened...I could see his shadow from behind me. I turned my head seeing him smell the air and eye the room to see the blood upon the wall.
"What the hell..." He muttered turning his face back to me. That's when I felt his hand upon my back. I let out a yelp as he touched a very soar area. He quickly removed the hand from my back. I could feel his eyes upon me. What had exactly happened during that vision? Turning my head.
"What is it Vash?" I asked trying to pull myself but something on my back made it very painful to move.
"What happened?" He asked cooly.
"I...I don't know," I said standing up fully and turning slowly. "All I wanted was to go to the bathroom."
"You have two very large gashes on your back, you've got to know where they came from," He said accusinly at me. I looked at him startled. Was that why I couldn't stand well and the pain?
"I don't," I responded mimicing the tone he had used on me. I used the wall to steady myself as I made my way out of the room. I felt more tired now then when i woke up and it had only been ten minutes. It was probaby cuz of what ever caused the gashes...
Though I do like the whole blood spattered upon the walls. I didn't like them wondering the old seeds ship though, and looking for wood. It was a stupid idea to begin with.
This next chapter was what I first wrote after writing the new one for chapter 3. This was an alternate ending for 3 and a whole different chapter 4 where Vash takes over the story. I brought in the kids and parents again from the bus which I wish I could have done once more in the story but edited out because once again I didn't like where the story was going...
"See yah around Brother.." Knives said behind me. Vash's steps where hurried toward me.
"Candy...are you ok?" He asked kneeling beside me inspecting the cut. Tears where coming to my eyes. It hurt so much. Sure my back was itching on and off the past few days since I got here but...but this was to much. His hand came and touched one of the wounds which made me scream. I looked at Vash as best as I could as I slowly moved from kneeling with my hands on the ground till I was sitting with my back straight.
"We've got to get you to a doctor.." Vash said behind me. I closed my eyes.
"I can't move that well Vash..." I responded. "I don't dare trying to stand up." That's when Vash scooped me up in his arms and I screamed in pain.
"Sorry...I had to do it..." I looked at him hurt washed all over my face as I bit my lip trying to keep the tears that where forming from falling.
I don't remember getting to the doctor's office and I don't rememeber them patching me up but I do remember waking up laying on a bed someone pokeing me in the side. Turning my head I opened my eyes to see little brown haired Susie standing there in a flanial dress.
"Your awake!" She shouted flinging her hands up. Vash who was in the corner seemed to fall on the floor. I looked over to see him getting up from the floor. Susie just seemed happy chanting my awaking to everyone in the area. I couldn't help but smile at her flamboyance. I at times could be that way. Never seemed to grow out of it.
"Hey," He said with a half weak smile. Vash looked horrible like the walking dead.
"Are you ok?" I asked trying to read his face.
"Yeah yawn," He replied to me.
"Vash here was here like all the time!" Susie said. That's when Charley and their parents walked in. All of them looked as good as Susie; It seems that they had new clothes and had bathed.
"Hello Miss Candy," The woman said sitting down on the other side of me. "My father told us about an attack in front of his shop and when he described you I realized it was you. How are you feeling?"
"I hope better!" Charley said twirling with his littler sister in front of my bed. I just chuckled.
"Now Charley and Susie Miss Candy needs her quiet. She's been through a lot. I just hope the guy who did that is behind bars soon." Glancing over I noticed a twitch from Vash."
"It's ok guys, really." I said with a smile. "I survived that's all that matters."
"If you ever need anything Miss just tell us," Susie and Charley's father said as they all got up. "We'll help in any way possible."
"Thanks guys," I said as they nodded leaving the room. That is when my attention went to Vash in the corner. The pain in his eyes made me want to cry. I would too if my sister had decided to try and kill me at every opertunity.
"So how are you feeling?" He asked looking up at me. "I mean you never answered them."
"Fine," I said. There was a dull ach of my back but that didn't need to be said to him. It would only make him feel worse.
"I was sure...he had killed you..." He muttered twittling his thumbs looking down at them. "When I arrived here...you wern't moving and had lost a lot of blood." Tears began to form. I wanted to go and comfurt him. Every part of me wanted to gather the poor man in my arms and sooth him but that was my crush.
"I'm fine now," I said trying to sound like it was nothing. I had that ability to do that...make things sound less then they where really. "That's all that matters now."
"No...its not it..." Vash said. "That was the brother I mentioned...he hates people."
"I noticed when he called me a spider."
"I don't think we should travel together anymore, my brother is a dangerous person, as you have noticed first hand. He cares nothing about life and now he's after me. You could be hurt worse or killed if we stayed traveling together." I stared at him in shock. The first thing I wanted to do was tell him everything and say everything would be fine...but then again i couldn't. There was no way I could.
"You know what Knives told me Vash?" I started with him looking up. "He said that he should kill me then but...but something was different about me..."
"What do you mean?" Vash asked puzzled.
"To heck like I know," I lied. I was sure he ment that I was from Earth and Knives picked up on that. "The fact is is that he said he SHOULD kill me but he WON'T which means I'm safe for now."
"But attacking you like that isn't killing either and he knows that. I don't think it's safe."
"I don't care," I said getting frustrated. "You shouldn't be alone in this Vash. I even know that. I don't want to see you be alone in this. I don't care how many stiches I get because of him. This is about YOU not me and I say we stay traveling partners." It looked like he was about to say something but shut his mouth.
"You know your more outspoken about this then I am," He said chuckling lightly and weakly shaking his head. "You don't even know my past and yet you want to help. If you knew the whole story would you feel the same way?"
"I bet I would." I said. Of course I would win this bet since I knew his past.
"But I'm Vash the Stampede...the humanoid typhoon. The first guy declared the human disaster area. The one who blew up July and put that whole in the moon."
"So?" I said. "My name is Candy Rae, My father is an alcoholic and my mother never around. We all have a past and some of it we're ashamed of but that doesn't mean we can't look to the future and know we have some control over that."
For a while we sat there neither one of us speaking to the other. That's when he raised his head, tears seemed to flow down his cheeks.
"Who are you and where did you come from?" He asked. "...I don't think I've heard that saying come from someone in such a long while.." He wiped his eyes. "That means there's still hope.."
"There is always hope." I responded. "Never forget that and you can get through almost anything Vash." I turned my head and looked down.
I should tell him now. "...Vash...I have a confession." He looked up me this look of bewilderment was upon his face like what now.
"Well then..what is it?" He asked then leaning back in his chair.
"I'm not from Gunsmoke.." I said looking away. "Before we met up I lived on Earth Vash."
Chapter 4
Binking I stared at this woman. She called herself Candy Rae which ment Brightly White Spirit. At times I could swear I could see that spirit that whom ever named her saw when she was born.
I saw her for the first time playing with children near the clinic I had taken my brother to to treat the wounds on his arms and legs i had inflicted upon him. Not to long after my first incounter with the girl I had learned my brother had fled the hospital in October. No word was given why from him. It tore me up inside that he still wouldn't see it my way. While I cried out in the rain I met up with the girl again. That is how I spoke to the girl for the first time. Her eyes seemed full of uncertanty at that moment as she placed her hand on her forhead and fell passed out. Quickly I had rushed over to the girl and dug in her pockets of the white trench coat she wore for some idenification but none was given. Instead there was money and a key to a hotel I had just checked into. Rushing over there I found out the girls name then and it kind of shocked me then. The inn keepers wife changed her into something dry because she didn't seem to have any other clothes. They handed me the girl and the money from the coat since they where going to take it all to the dry cleaners to get it cleaned. Looking down even I felt something different about this girl but ignored it as I took her upstairs.
The next morning she was awake. Upon our first real meeting she had decided to let me be her bodyguard even though somehow she knew my name and didn't seem to care.
The next day while we waited on the bus I was being attacked by the local kids who attacked her the day before I noticed her go up and talk to the bus driver. She seemed to grab some money and hand it to him. The woman holding the baby was in tears as a smile came upon the womans face. I couldn't help but smile from under the dog pile. I figured what she had done.
I had decided we should go to Nevada so I could secretly look for my brother. He seemed to like that town for reasons unknown. Luckly Candy hadn't asked why we where. I didn't want anybody to know about my brother yet. He might have still been a threat to humanity. Candy didn't need to be scared. It wasn't long after we had entered Nevada that I had met my brother who seemed to have found Candy first. Even the girl seemed to know that he was bad news. After our bref conversation he proceeded to slice her back open in front of me. On the way to the hospital in Nevada she seemed to have passed out. I looked down franticly at her face as I stepped in the hospital. The nurses quickly took her from me. Looking down I noticed how red with her blood my suit had gotten. They needed a transfusion right away because of the bloodloss Candy seemed to have gone through.
"You said she was your sister, right?" The nurse said already grabbing my arm and shoving a needle in it to take a blood sample.
"...Yeah..." I had said nervously realizing that I shouldn't have lied like that but I was afraid that they wouldn't let me see her right away unless I was family.
"Well then you would be the perfect canidate for a blood transfusion but we're going to run some tests quickly." She rushed down the hallway leaving me there in shock. Of course I wouldn't be a good canidite for it. I wasn't even human. Would this girl I just met die because of me? It seemed like an eternity when she came running back grabbing my hand. "Come on...the blood tests only confermed that you can give blood to her." I looked at the woman in shock as I was dragged to her room and hooked up to her. Looking at the girl I was puzzled. Who was she exactly?!
She who could take a plants blood...
A little while after the blood transfustion door opened to the small family that had had taken a liking to the woman.
"Hello," The wife said bowing slightly at me. She then looked down at Candy who was laying there breathing heavly. "How is she?"
"Well she should be fine soon," I answered. Either she was going to die or recover quickly because of my blood. Little Susie came rushing in behind her father and hopped on the chair next to Candy,
"Is Candy going to be ok?" She asked looking up at her mother.
"I believe so," Her mother said picking up the child. "The devil doesn't like one of God's angels dear. They give people hope instead of letting them drown in their own misory."
"Candy really is an angel?" Charley asked poking his mother. "Cuz she said she wasn't..."
I couldn't help but chuckle.
"I don't think they mean it literaly," I said to the boy. "It means Candy really is a good person." The mother nodded in agreement with me setting Susie down who poked her.
So as I sat there and herd the worlds
"I'm not from Gunsmoke Vash," and "I'm from Earth." It all was a shock to me.
"Earth?" I asked eyeing her like she was crazy. Earth was the planet Rem told me about. How green and wonderful the place used to be till it slowly began to die. "There is no way you could have come from Earth. Earth is a dead planet."
"I know that." She responded clutching her blanket more. "I don't come from the Earth you know of. I don't even know why I'm telling you this. It looks like my hunch was right when I figured you wouldn't believe me." I stood up and walked up to her bed. What was she trying to pull? "I'm from Earth...not Gunsmoke. My sister bought me this plushie and the next thing I remember is waking up outside of October thinking this was all a dream." I walked to the window staring out and keeping an eye out for any of my brothers men around. What she said next caught me off guard though. "I know everything..." Turning I looked down at her. Her eyes where downcast and fittling with the blanket.
"What do you mean?" I asked her then leaning back on the part between the mirrors.
"I know about Rem, Vash. I know about Knives, the gun ho guns, Project Seeds, Wolfwood, Meryl, Milly, and the pain you constantly go through watching the people Rem died for going at their throats and killing each other..."
What the....I turned my head shock painted on my face. How could anybody possibly know that?! I knew all about that but that was cuz I'm over 150 years old. I was there when it happened. Knives is the only other person as well who could have seen that.
"Did Knives tell you all that in the alleyway?" I hissed down at her not believing her. Pain seemed to come into her eyes as she looked up at me.
"NO!" She shouted tears threating to fall from the sides of her brown eyes. "I have nothing to do with Knives, if that's what your thinking. Jeez Vash. You're better at telling who people truly are then this!! You knew Wolfwood was a good guy under all that. So why am I so different?"
"Because Wolfwood never was able to take a plants blood..." I said bending over her bed and looking her in the eyes. A small flush came to her cheeks as she looked baffled at me.
"What are you talking about?" She asked not liking the fact I was so close. I could tell it by the way she brought her arms around her waist and looked away at her blanket.
"You needed a blood Transfusion," I simply stated. "They thought we where siblings cuz I told them we where so I could keep an eye on you right after they patched yah up. A simple blood test proved we could give blood to one another. I thought Knives was the only other person here on Gunsmoke I could give blood to."
"I'm not from Gunsmoke!" She shouted. "Won't you even listen to me! I can't help it that your brother thinks we're spiders and as much as you try you can't convince him otherwise and it hurts you because of that. I can't help it that the whole human race landed on Gunsmoke because of your brothers medling. All I know is is that the past summer before all this happened I fell in love with a cartoon series at my aunts house called Trigun. I fell in love with the charaters in the show. I could even relate to one of them Vash..." She turned her head away wiping a few tears off her cheeks. I didn't know what to think of all that she was telling me. "...the in word pain of seeing all around you fail is horrid. To want to help others but can't because you realize you need help yourself. I know that feeling Vash. I also know the feeling of alienation from your peers. It's hard to deal with the fact that you could possibly be alone for the rest of your life because somehow...your different from the mass and they don't like it..."
I had had enough of that and stormed out of the room.
I wanted to leave what Candy was up in the air more then I did with the blood transfusion. That is the main reason why I edited this one out. Candy's origin is still up in the air from the story as well for a reason.
The next one takes place during the time in December, while they where at the restraunt that Candy starts to cry in. This was going to be where they first truly kissed..but I wanted the confession to be a little later in the story so I edited it out. Also chapter 17 starts off totally different from where I have it now.
I dropped my fork.
My eyes went wide as my brain had finally comprehended what was going on. Vash had leaned over the table and was kissing me! A ferce blush came to my face as my instints came flaring up and I pushed him off of me. I didn't know what to think...Sure I had wanted the kiss...but that was a total and complete surprise and my reflexes came about. Never in my life had I been kissed from someone I wanted them from. I had dated a man who almost forced himself upon me. My heart was racing in my chest as a blushing Vash sat across from me looking at me for some kind of response. I didn't know what to do...I wanted to cry..I wanted to yell at him for doing such a stupid thing without thinking of what I thought of him...I wanted to hug the guy...My mind was a mix of emotions that was giving me a headache.
"What..what just happened?" I asked him trying to figure out why it happened.
"...It looks as if I kissed you..." He said rubbing the back of his head chuckling nervously. "...I honestly didn't mean to. I wasn't thinking correctly." I looked down.
"O." Was all I could manage to get out. Something about that response rubbed me the wrong way. One of the swirling emotions in my brain took control. I had reached for my fork to try and continue eating but my hand began to shake as I tried to stop the tears. The kiss was an accedent...he didn't want it.
"...Candy..." He asked as I turned away from him setting my fork down realizing I couldn't eat anymore. Biting my lip I avoided looking at him.
"..What?"
"I'm really sorry, please...." He said.
"...It's ok....really it is..." I said standing up. "...I don't feel hungrey anymore." Reaching in my pocket I set down 10 double dollars and turned and stepped out of the booth.
"...Wait!" Vash said standing behind me.
"...It's ok Vash...Really it is..." I said wiping the few tears trickling down my face. "...I...I just got to go..." I quickly rushed out of the place leaving Vash there. I ran for a while, not knowing where I was going but soon I found myself at a bench, my shoulders heaving as I cried. It was the feeling of rejection that was so strong. I was shocked, that's why I pushed away but I did want that kiss. Why did he kiss me?! ...Nobody...
Nobody could possibly love me
Chapter 17
"Heh..." I "herd" a chuckle go. My eyes shot up to see him sitting not but a few booths away. "...pity how humans over react, don't you thing?"
"You made me do it...didn't you?" I sent to him glaring at him who only took a sip of tea with a smile upon his face.
"Of course. Now that you see the truth, forget about her." He responded back to me standing up and coming and sitting where the visably shaken Candy had been a few minutes ago.
"Forget?! It's not that simple..." I sent to him glaring at him. "..I guess with your centeries of living you've never been in love..."
"Love?!" He said, the first thing he verbaly stated. "You honsitly think your in love with that creature..." I blinked at him my face turning red.
"Yes Knives, I love her and you know that too. That's why you had me kiss her."
"Yeah I know that your feelings for the thing are more then understandable." Knives said.
"What do you want?"
"Nothing right now," Knives responded back to me touching his shoulder. "I'm still trying to recoperate from its attack at me."
"She does have a name," I spat. "You don't have to call her it or creature."
"O...yes...the things name is Candy, is it not? Yes I've overherd you call out to her in your sleep. Are you afraid of something?" Could this be any worse?! Knives knew things I did not know about this whole situation. "..I mean she's not human and all but I figured you would have realized that by now."
"What the hell are you saying?" I hissed narrowing my eyes at him earning some glances from the people who where eating in the restrant.
"The creature isn't human. You must be really blinded by your ideals not to see it." He picked up the glass of orange juice that she had been drinking before she left.
"Explain yourself Knives. You are personally attacking someone you know I love." That's when he reached under raising a hand and brought up a bag...a bag full of white feathers.
"This is one good clue," He said. "Everyday for the past few days she's been throwing them out her window before leaving the room. I've just picked them up before they could blow away. No human could create these feathers and their not from a sibling. Her hair gives away the fact she's not one of us. So what is this creature?"
"Stop it..." I said. "She is too human...she has to be.."
"Your going to lie to yourself again about things around you. This is why I must kill you Vash, my brother. You will never see them for what they really are. I can't having you stop me from saving our siblings from their threat. I will also be killing her, mainly because she shot me. Nothing human can shoot me and quit frankley I'm afraid of what she is. That creature Candy is a ticking time bomb Vash. We don't know the power she truely holds. What we do know is that she can out shoot me and most likely you with that last attack. Join me in this and I won't kill you."
"Never.." I said looking at the bag of feathers. "I don't care what she is. She deserves to live just like the humans. Even if what you say is true about her nothing changes about my feelings. Come Knives and stop this, join me. Come live peacefully."
"Your asking me to kill myself," Knives said calmy standing up and leaving the bag. "That's what you are doing dear brother. I almost died once because of your foolish ideals. I won't get caught in that again. The day I stop trying to wipe them out is the day I am dead." I watched him turn. "Good bye for now brother. Next time won't be a so peaceful meeting, I'll garentee it." I didn't move my eyes from the feathers. I didn't care about my brother right now. Truely I wanted to know if Candy knew about this. Sure I found a few feathers in her bandages and asked her about it. She seemed so clueless to it and now...
Now she was throwing all these out a window?! Why didn't she tell me about this? Frowning I grabbed the bag and left the restrant paying my bill on the way out. But there was also the situation with the kiss. My real hand came up to my mouth as I touched it. The feeling of her lips still tingled upon mine. When Knives did that for a second I thought I had done it. My heart raced at that very moment but feeling her push away and look at me so confused I felt it sink to my feet. I knew she didn't like me that way. Nobody could love an outlaw like me. I was really fooling myself if I believed that I would find someone like her who would look past everything. Looking down I saw all the feathers in the bag and sighed. Maybe I shouldn't bring this up till later. Till after I've somehow explained why I kissed her. O yes...how was I going to explain to her about that.
Imagination
"I'm really sorry for kissing you Candy...but...but I'm madly in love with you. Please marry me and bare my children." I mumbled in this first imagining of her reaction. I guess she seemed really positive in this light.
"Ok." Was all she stated. No Candy would never say that...so what would be her reaction.
"Go to hell Vash. I hate you and the only reason I hang out with you is because I have know where else to go..." Her voice echoed in my brain. No...Candy wasn't that harsh. And besides I would never ask her to marry me or bare my children. I wouldn't tell her my feelings either in fear of a closer to the second reaction I imagined reaction. How in the world would I appolize to her without having the question of why I did it come up.
"Yeah Candy Knives forced me to kiss you, not my fault." I would mumble
"Yeah right, thats the lamest excuse I've ever herd." She would say
"Yeah Vash is that way, isn't he?" Meryl's voice popped in. "HOW DARE YOU LIE ABOUT SUCH A THING." And there would be a bat that would appear out of know where and her and Candy would beat me senselsy..
No that wouldn't happen either. Meryl seemed to want Candy to like me that way. If Meryl was in the picture.
"...O come on Candy...I'm sure you liked the kiss. I bet he likes you too. I mean its only logical that the only reason he kissed you was because he was madely in love with you...." No. Meryl wasn't that way. That sounded something like Milly would say. My eyes went to the floor as I sighed. I didn't want Candy mad at me..
End of imagination
After I was done imaginating what would happen I decided to play it by ear. Candy wasn't the type to yell but then again she wasn't the type to just let it go...Looking up I saw her standign there by the door talking to Meryl and Milly about something I couldn't hear and Matt standing a few yards from them along with Wolfwood. Walking up I looked slightly at them.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"No clue.." Matt said. "Did you and Candy get into some sorta fight?"
"Well..not exactly but also yeah..." I muttered.
"Ouch." Matt said. "You really do like her, don't you?"
"Well I've been hanging around with her for two weeks, I've got to like her at least a little bit..."
"No," He cut me off. "I mean you LIKE her." It was quite obvious, wasn't it?! I sighed hanging my head down. "No...Meryl told me whom got it from Milly who said she could tell."
"O," I said. "Yeah I guess I do."
"Well its a good thing we've paired you up for the wedding and all." Then a nervous chuckle came. "...Or a bad thing...she looks quite upset. What happened?"
"...I I kissed her.." I said looking down. "She wasn't expecting it odveosly."
"Heh, needle noggen steeling kisses from a woman. Not to mention one that you seem to like."
Matt grinned. "Well I just hope she doesn't kill you for doing such a thing or stop talking to you. I remember when I kissed Meryl for the first time. This was a kiss stolden like yours with her. Meryl let me have it across the face and stormed away. This was before she left to follow you for the first time. This last time she came back and asked me for a date. You've really changed her."
"Millie kissed me for the first time," Wolfwood said beside laughing. "We where on a sorta date at that camp before the whole dancing girl thing and she and I kissed for the first time."
Looking up I saw Millie look up at me glancing a glance of simpathy my way as Meryl led her back to her house. Millie came walking up to me.
"You really need to tell her Mr. Vash," She said rubbing the side of her head. "She obviously feels rejection. I don't know what you said to her after the kiss but she feels you don't mean the kiss."
"..What?!" I almost fell down in shock.
"I'm guessing what the tall girl is saying Vash is that Candy seems to like you as well," Wolfwood said. "FINALLY you've doped someone into falling for you." He slapped my back as I blinked looking ahead.
"You guys are pulling my leg.." I muttered. "Candy could never possibly..."
"Well she does Mr. Vash," Millie said. "She said it herself to us and is shaken and feeling lower then dirt right now. I guess she's never been attracted to someone and have them return the feelings. She seems to believe that she was ment to be alone in life. I don't understand it. She seems really nice and I'm sure people around her love her as well.." Wolfwood went and placed an arm around Millies waist and smiled at me.
"...It's not that simple..." I said again. "Knives knows of my feelings to her and I'm sure if Candy feels the same way he knows it as well. If I tell her, he'll kill her."
"You can't be serious..." Matt said. "Who is this Knives?"
"Vash's brother," Wolfwood said. "He's not a good person to meet in a dark alley with." Nodding I hung my head. Could she though? Did what Millie said was true. It had to be because Millie said it came from the girls own mouth that she cared for me that much. How in the world in the two weeks we've traveled around together did we not notice that we loved each other. Maybe I didn't have to go looking for the love I wanted and needed. Maybe through all the gun smoke and dust somehow she found me.
"Well anyway I guess I should be heading in. I really do need to explain myself to her, in one form or another." I said.
"Your not going to lie about it Mr. Vash, are you?" Millie said stopping me in half stride.
"...Of course not..." I lied turning back to her.
"Because not telling the truth now will only make it harder for you later to," Millie said.
"Millie's right you know. Knives or no Knives you should tell her Vash," Wolfwood said. "Because if you don't and he does do something to her you'll regreat it for the rest of your ageless life." Nodding I sighed and began to walk in. Meryl was standing at the top of the steps looking at me.
"So..what are you going to do?" Meryl asked.
"She needs her bandages changed.." Looking toward her door I said. "I forgot to change them this morning for her."
"I'm talking about the situation pea brain..." Meryl hissed out as veins started popping out of the side of her face.
"Well I'll just see when it gets there." I responded walking over and knocking on her door quietly.
"Who is it?" Her quiet hurt filled voice called out from behind it.
"..It's me..." I said swallowing.
"Ok..." She said and I opened the door.
Candy sat on the side of the bed looking at the floor or her feet, what ever her eyes to seem to dance to. A pained expression was upon her normally calm features. My heart ached at that very moment knowing I was the reason they weren't lite up like her smile normally was. I wanted to rush over there and gather her in my arms, rubbing my hand through her hair and whispering how much she truly ment to me. How because of her realized I needed love and that I wanted to give everything to her but I stood there looking down at her trying to think of something to break the silence.
"...We forgot to rebandage your stitches this morning..." I said.
"...O..." She said motioning to the bag. "If you still want to.."
"Well of course I do.." I said walking over and digging through the front pocket to find the bandage materials and crawling up on her bed behind her as she lifted her shirt once again. I slowly tore off the old bandage and replaced it with the new one I had cut and taped it on there. She lowered her shirt as I stared at her back trying to think of what to say. I knew she would understand if I told her of Knives because she saw the show about me...but the acquired kiss would still be upon both of our lips, even if it wasn't my actions. Reaching out I brought my hands around her waist.
"..Vash?!" An alarmed Candy rang out as I drug her onto my lap grinning lightly.
"..What?" I said looking down at her to see her glaring and flushed at what I had just done and still holding her there. She looked really cute at that moment.
"..What is the meaning of this?!" She said.
"Well duh," I said. Bending down I placed a light kiss on the girls cheek as she sat there flustered beyond belief. I saw her stop after that and her hand reached up to touch the cheek I had kissed only to have me take her hand into my own and kiss that as well. "..You would think that after I kissed you you would put one and one together to realize something."
"..Have you gone insaine?!" Candy said eyeing me with her head turned.
"...Maybe but I blame you." I said.
"And why is that?" She frowned still not getting what all of this was about. She really was like millie in that sense, wasn't she?
"Because you stold my sainity."
"Wha..." The look on her face was so priceless.
"...and pretty much everything else Candy along with my heart." That's when all confusion and anger washed away from her face. Instead she seemed to be crying again. "...Gah...I can't win with you...can I?"
"...No..." She said with a half chuckle wiping an eye with her free hand. "...Its not that...Its just..I thought it would be only a dream...to hear YOU of all people say that to me when two weeks ago you where just a cartoon."
"..Well I'm not." I stated fermly. "And though the kiss from this morning was not of my own actions what I said to you just now was."
"..Vash.." She said wiping another tear away.
That's when I herd a group of giggles as I looked up to see everyone standing in the doorway as best as they could looking at us. We both turned bright red at that very moment.
See? I didn't want the confession at that time and with the kiss where it was I had to practically put in the confession. Also as you noticed about the feather thing I used it later with Candy. Though I love his little imagination thing during the whole ordeal. I had a blast writing that part of it. It was just to bad I couldn't use it. Maybe I should have incorperated it in somewhere in the story later.
Ok this last one is a chapter I wrote when I wanted to write the confession when I was writing the forth chapter to the story. I'm a big sappy person so I wanted to write the confession way at the beginning to be placed when it was time, though I never used this confession. It also gives me an idea of where the confession would be and what would happen during the story. At that time I hadn't planned on meeting up with Meryl having this wedding. This chapter was the one that made me plan it because I liked the idea.
Chapter ????
It was about 5 in the morning when I woke up. Yawning I sat up rubbing the back of my head. Visions of yesterday where clear in my head. The girl who was a mystory to me, my brother. Looking up I herd a knock at the door.
"I wonder who that is..." I muttered I looked at Candy...had she just said the words I had wanted to hear for quit some time? The angel that stood before me, with tears in her eyes had confessed.
"...Vash...I love you..." Echoed through my head. Her cheeks where flushed as her brown eyes gazed at me, pleading with me to respond to what she had just said. My heart began to beat faster as I couldn't find the words to say to her. I was too visabley flustered at it. My cheeks as red as hers.
"...Candy..." I managed to get out placing my hand on her shoulder. How could such a beautiful creature, one of God's creatures have fallen in love with me? With scarred up, plant me who envoked fear in the hearts of the humans she was sworn to protect on Gunsmoke. That is why I stood slightly in shock, not really wanting to believe but hoping it was true. She then turned her face to the ground, her hand on her face.
"...I never DREAMED of seeing you for real Vash. When I watched Trigun I secretly wished for a guy like you, fun loving, blundering ideot who couldn't stand to see anyone hurt, and now here I am in front of the guy who I wanted my husband one day to be modeled after. You took my heart even in cartoon form. I know it sounds strange to say it but it's true, believe me." Her gentle hand clasping my other arm as if to plead to me the ergancy of it all. I looked down at the hand, it looked new as I was consern with the centries I had been on Gunsmoke helping the humans in her place.
"...I believe you," I said finally looking down at her face.
Those eyes...
O god those eyes...she was truely a wonder, wasn't she? "...I just don't understand how you could choose me out of everyone else on Gunsmoke, I know any guy would go with you if given half the chance if they saw the beauty I saw in you Candy. I'm just a plant who's seen my better days. I'm nothing compared to you Candy, nothing. Just a scarred up plant who has destroyied as many lives as he's tried to save."
"...No Vash, your wrong." Her determand voice rang allowed as I looked down and saw the fearce look upon her face. "You've got a beautiful soul Vash, and that is why so many people love you. Hey Meryl who hated you eventully as well fell in love with the blonde doofas who has two left feet and yet you can calculate what's going to happen and make it happen like a dance. Vash if we had more people like you on Earth humanity might not have ended up on Gunsmoke. Earth would have been saved. Rem wouldn't have had to die and everything would be ok." A tear slid down her cheek cleaning away and leaving a trail through the fine dust that was on her face. "That is why I love you Vash, even through what has happened, you are still what you set out to be...
The protector of humanity." I couldn't take it anymore. Quickly I embraced her tears flowing from my eyes. She actully understood me..somehow. This woman had done the one thing no other woman on Gunsmoke could.
See my soul. Was this my gift from God? Did Wolfwood set this up? That I wouldn't be alone anymore?
"Thanks old friend..." I whispered to the wind looking down at her head. "...I love you too Candy." Was all I could say to her. The words I had been wanting to say for quit a while finally out.
"Really?" A almost crying but to happy to do so voice came from her as she looked up at me. The look she held was just wonderful. I nodded my head.
"Of course Whitey, I do. You think your the only one that has developed a crush upon a beautiful person now, did you? Because your going to be terrorobly dissappointed." I chuckled letting out a smile as her face just began to radiate joy. She hugged me tight laughing and crying on my coat. "Now now...calm down."
"I..I can't, I'm just so happy!" She exclaimed looking up at me. "I mean I thought for sure you only thought of me as a friend and nothing more. It was Millys pestering after Meryls wedding that gave me the courage to tell you."
"Yeah, I'll have to thank that blonde some day," I laughed. Did Milly pick up my fondness for Candy too? Was she the only one who didn't realize how much I was liking her. I guess that could go for the same with me. I also thought she thought of me as a friend till when she bleed those tears. When she looked back at me, her wings out and blood dripping from her back I realized just how much she care for me. I had always been second guessing that feeling though. I could have never thought that Candy would actully love me the way I love her. "Well you know what that means."
"What?: She asked.
"We've got to go out
Also as you noticed at that point and time I didn't have plans to bring Wolfwood back from the dead. A lot was determined by this chapter actually.
Well there you have it, the lost chapters of Beyond Reasoning! I do hope you enjoyed the little extra that I added in for you and maybe it lets you understand a bit more about the story. I thank you for taking a whole lot of your time to read the entire story of mine and leave reviews, it made me quite happy to read them. Well till next time this is your loveable author saying thank you and see you real soon!
Candy
Hey you found the secret preview (Which actually isn't that hard considering the scroll bar to your right tells you there is more :P)!
From the author and creator of stories like "The Mars Saga", "May the truth be Revealed", "Trigun Sprite of Fire", "Lost to a Gunshot", and "Beyond Reasoning" comes the epic sequel of one of the most wonderful stories ever. With Vash and Candy's wedding soon at hand will the gang be able to handle such an event as the one lumming in the darkness. Shadows begin to invade the young woman's mind whispering things that scare and frighten the young bride. The secret of Candy's origin is finally revealed as people from her long ancient past come back to take her life. With them threating our gang Knives in his former evil can only seem like child's play compared to the new threat. Will the gang get though this new evil keeping their lives in the new story "Beyond Hope".
...We can only hope..