30 minutes later

In the middle of them walking they had started running and they reached the place where Vash and Vicky where staying at. Knives instantly putt Elizabeth in one of the rooms and started saying orders to Vicky and Vash. Knives started taking Elizabeth clothes off to see her wounds but as he was taking her shirt of Victoria came in.

" What the hell do you think your doing" Screamed Vicky at Knives while she pushed him away from Elizabeth's unconscious body.

" Well woman, I was taking her clothes of to see if she had wounds." Knives said in a grumpy manner to her but worry showed heavily n his eyes.

" Well of course she had wounds you moron, she is bleeding and all! Now I will take her clothes of and clean her wounds and after I do that and put her in new clothes, the you can check her other wounds okay?" Vicky said now more calmly and even managed to give a sad smile to a glaring Knives.

" Fine" Knives responded but he still did not leave the room and it looked like he had no intention of leaving it either..

" Eh could you maybe leave?" Vicky growled impatiently and Knives turned and left the room but not before giving another look at the body laying in the bed.

As Vicky took Beth's clothing of and left her on her undergarments, a pain shot trough her. Beth's body was completely covered with bruises and small cuts , some old and some new. Tears fell from Vicky's face at seeing her sister like this, but also because of the scars in her body.

" Oh Beth who could do this to you?" Vicky caressed her sister's cheek. " This is so strange normally it would be me getting hurt and you always there to take care of me." A small chuckle came but sounded strained as more tears fell. " Why did we even separate Beht? Can you believe it? I have forgotten why we separated."

Victoria's eyes widened when she felt Beth's body stir under her touch. " Vicky? Where are you?" Cam the soft murmur from Elizabeth's lips. " I am here Beth, I am right here" Victoria said desperately but it seemed as if Elizabeth could not hear her.

" Don't leave me Vicky, I am sorry!" as she murmured this she whimpered in pain." I am sorry, so sorry" Rapidly Vicky took her by her hand as to give some comfort to Beth and even to let her know that she was there, but this made Beth wince in pain and some tears fell from her closed eyelids " Please don't hurt me, please don't…" The next words that came out of Beth's mouth made Vicky drop the base of water she was using to clean her wounds "Jake…"

Vash came running in to the room when he heard the vase crash on the floor. " What is it? What happened?" He said in an alarmed voice. Victoria turned her head to him and Vash saw the horror in her eyes.

At that moment Knives came in " What was that noise?" He said in a cold voice as he observed Victoria and Vash, but he instantly diverted his attention to Elizabeth who was tossing and turning in the bed.

" I-I'm sorry I was surprised Beth… she said something" Vicky said stuttering as tears fell from her eyes. Vash went over to her and hugged her while he whispered soothing words to her. Meanwhile Knives went over to Elizabeth's side to hear what she was muttering.

" Not her, take me not her!" Beth mumbled as she tossed and turned, Knives tried to calm her. " What is she saying?" Asked Knives looking at Victoria now. As Victoria was going to answer Beth screamed " Jake NO! Don't touch her! NO Victoria!" Knives was surprised and at the same time distressed by her screams, wanting to know what was causing her to scream like that.

Victoria heard her sister scream and she started to cry harder, Vash made his hold on her tighter when he felt her try to get out of his embrace. Soon Beth went more calm and just whimpered the same thing over again " Jake no…" Knives felt impotent for he could not take this pain away from his Elizabeth Wait when did I start thinking of her as MY Elizabeth? But that did not matter now. All he wanted to know is who was this Jake.

Knives stood up from the bed and walked toward Vicky. He took hold of her arm and forcefully took her out of Vash arms and started shaking her while yelling at her. "WHO IS JAKE? AND WHY THE HELL DOES SHE SEEM SO SCARED" Victoria just whimpered and kept crying " TELL ME DAMIT!"

Something inside Victoria broke and she forced herself out of Knives grasp "You want to know who JAKE is well I will tell you who he is!" She started yelling to an angry Knives.

"THE NAME JAKE BELONGS TO THE BIGGEST SCUM IN THE EARTH! HE WAS THE ONE WHO RAPED HER, OK!" she dropped to the floor but kept talking " We where so young . . . H-he locked me and Beth in a room for sometime. At first he would only come to taunt us, to torture us, but one night . . . he came for something else. Elizabeth tried to save me… he had started to touch me but Beth…" She stopped as another sob came

" She begged him to take her and not me. And in the end he accepted. Elizabeth exchanged her freedom and body so I could be spared." She had a faraway look on her face and she had stopped crying as if she had no tears left the guilt of that night finally coming out. Vash mouth was opened in disbelieve and Knives was stunned; they could not believe it. But then she started to talk again "The next morning I was woken up by someone touching my hair, when I look up it was her, she had cuts and bruises and there was blood in her legs. This went on until the third night for some reason he left us free…I knew Elizabeth knew but I never asked her and she never volunteered to tell me."

Vash walked over to her and held her trying to bring comfort to Victoria, she hugged him back, but they where taken out of there embrace by the sound of the door closing . Victoria looked around and noticed that Knives was gone. They both stared at the door, not knowing what to do. Vash sighed and turned his gaze to Vicky. They both new what he had to do, but in his heart, he couldn't find the strength to leave what has become a very important part of his life.

"Vash…" She whispered and tears began to come down her face. "Victoria, don't cry. Everything will be alright. Trust me." He whispered, looking into her teary eyes and she gave him a sad smile. Tears started falling down her face as she lowered it so Vash would not get even more worried. But more tears came when she felt his soft touch on her chin as he raised her head to stair in to her eyes and dry the tears from it.

"Just go. . ." Was her whispered but the answer was something she never expected, it was a kiss.

A feeling she had been longing for, the sweet and soft touch of his lips on hers, which brought a whirlwind of emotions.

"Now that I know how sweet you are there is no way I would not kiss you again so don't be worried Victoria I may have to go but I swear I will come back to you to taste those sweet lips again." he told her before he gave her another kiss this one was more urgent and showed all the feelings inside of him, but soon it ended and he stood up taking away the warm embrace in which Vicky had been. With one last look at Elizabeth on the bed and the tear stricken Victoria on the floor, he left the room leaving the two broken sisters behind.