Song: The Noose by A perfect Circle.
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Happily Ever After
"Look Meryl look, it is Mr. Vash! He's back Meryl!" Milly said enthusiastically. She ran from one end of the small town to the other, ignoring the spouting water and newly completed well. Once she reached Vash she hugged him a little to hard and dragged him and his brother to where a shocked Meryl still stood.
That was one week ago. A whole week. Now Vash was tending to his brother and Milly was still working with the team who had built the well. They had been contracted to build a well in the nearest town, that town was a days walk away. That left her alone with Vash, and an unconscious Knives, for a week at least. Alone with Vash.
"Make sure you tell him Meryl, before I get back."
Milly's words would repeat over and over in her head. They were the last words Milly had said to her before she had left yesterday. "I just don't know if I can Milly." She whispered to herself as she started to make dinner in the small kitchen.
"Is everything ok Meryl?" Asked the soft voice of Vash.
Meryl turned sharply, caught by surprise. "Fine, fine everything's is fine Vash, you know you should be resting. You must be tired, after all you have injuries of your own to look after and then there is your brother. You know what why don't I go out and get you donuts for after dinner." Meryl rambled nervously.
"WOW! Really?" Vash asked his crystal clear blue eyes lighting up in surprise and delight. Then his face dropped and became overly serious as he marched up to Meryl and placed a firm hand on her forehead.
"What are you doing you idiot?" Meryl asked rearing back for the warm flesh of his palm.
"Seeing if you're sick." Vash stated with a matter of fact tone. "You have to be sick to be acting this nice."
Meryl's left eye twitched as she slammed her fist into Vash's face. "Idiot." She said as she stomped off.
"Wait, Insurance girl." Vash called out after her. "We have to meet everyone at the saloon. "Milly and Wolfwood might be already waiting for us, and if Knives beats us there then there will be real trouble."
"What? Vash what are you talking about?" Meryl asked. "Milly won't be back till…"
"Don't be silly." Vash cut her off laughing. "They both got back today and knives said he would meet us there, now hurry up or we'll be late." Vash then grabbed her wrist and dragged her out of the small house and down the street.
Everone was in a saloon. Laughing drinking having fun, even she was having fun. The night was cool and bright with stars beyond the window and everything was how it was supposed to be. Vash was truly happy and at bounty free, Knives didn't desire humanity's desecration, Milly had pudding, Wolfwood was alive and flirting with Milly. Meryl's lips formed a soft relaxed smile. Everything was perfect. She slowly turned to the band that was setting up. She stared at them for a while. Wasn't the lead singer her boss? Wait no, he turned around to reveal a different person altogether, but he looked like someone. Meryl just couldn't put her finger on who he was. She stopped paying attention to everything around her and just stared at the band. Slowly and softly their music started.
So glad to see you well
That voice. Her heart stopped beating and her eyes widened.
"What is wrong Meryl?" Vash asked looking at her with worry in his eyes. She turned to face him but her voice had stopped working.
Overcome and completely silent now
Fear worked its way slowly up her spine. She knew she didn't want to recognise these people. They must be fore the time she didn't want to remember. It was a bad time when she was a bad person.
With heaven's help
You cast your
demons out
Suddenly everything went dark.
And not to pull your halo down
Around
your neck and tug you off your cloud
She turned to find everyone she knew looking at her their faces cast in shadow. Their stance screamed hostility and then they all turned their back, disgusted. The music still played soft and haunting.
But I'm more than just a little
curious
How you're planning to go about
Making your amends to
the dead
The darkness blurred. Meryl stood atop a building unable to move her body at her own will. She was dressed in a midnight blue set of clothes, weapons dug slightly into her skin from beneath her attire. The building was in the middle of a vast city, blood dripped freely from a cut on her left arm and blood stained her cheek. Meryl stared at the crumpled form at her feet, and then gave it a good kick before heading to a copper hovering in the air, waiting just for her.
...To the dead
She was in dark house of someone, someone important and greedy, someone full of hate and she felt the hatred she had for him. It bubbled inside of her, Meryl could feel flashes of facts and images from memories wiz past in her minds eye. Before she registered that her body had moved she noted she was covered in thick warm blood. She looked down and tried to scream, but her lips didn't open they were coiled into a sly smile.
Recall the deeds as if they're
all
Someone else's atrocious stories
Meryl breathing was heavy, and she clasped her rifle tightly. She nodded to her two masked companions as they moved into a stealthy run across the open grass between the ruined buildings. She found that her body would kill and move without her guidance. She slowly began to realise that she wasn't doing this she had done it before.
Now you stand reborn before us all
So
glad to see you well
Meryl stood before a large group of people she didn't know but knew she used to. She was dressed in her white travelling clothes and jacket.
And not to pull your halo down
Around
your neck and tug you to the ground
She looked at her hands, deep crimson stains formed on them. Her skin rippled as did her clothes. Changing to look a little younger, less beaten by the desert planet. Her white clothes shifted to her dark blue suit, parts her hair fell for the ground till it was even shorter, and slicked back, her long fringe flipped over to left side. Her boots sunk in the blood soaked ground. Corpses were scattered on the ground, men, women and children of every nationality you could name, death didn't, couldn't, and wouldn't discriminate.
But I'm more than just a little
curious
How you're planning to go about
Making your amends to
the dead
This time the music came from behind her; she turned to find Vash, Millie and Wolfwood looking at her as if she was some monster. She reached out to Vash but he flinched away from her touch.
...To the dead
Even Wolfwood seemed disgusted but the blood that she was drenched in and he himself was a willing and trained killer.
With your halo slipping down
Your
halo's slipping
The woman she knew as Kali walked up to her and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder, it too was blood covered, like Meryl's. That hand offered some strange form of understanding and comfort as her friends spat curses and hurtful sentences her way. It offered a form of protection from their disgusted looks and angry eyes, yet it wasn't enough.
Your halo's slipping down
Your
halo's slipping down
Your halo's slipping down
Meryl screamed herself awake. Shaking uncontrollably as she looked at her hands and watched the blood became nothing. She looked up to see the worried eyes of Vash and Milly "Meryl are you ok, you have been screaming for half an hour." Milly's soft soothing voiced asked. Meryl couldn't answer.
Your halo's slipping down to choke you now
Meryl passed out falling to the floor instead of her soft bed, saved from the fall by the fast relaxes of Vash.
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