I've gotten pretty good at being sneaky." Vash told Meryl. She held him to her softly.
"Knives is dead?" She asked staring straight into those beautiful orb eyes of his. His eyes clouded with melancholy.
"Hai, he got crushed and died right when I'm found them." Meryl could see his eyes clouding with tears. He cried and Meryl held him softly, as she should have held him when she first heard him crying. She was here now to let him cry on her and she softly ran his fingers through his at the moment, shoulder length hair. "It's my fault, I.." Vash shook his head.
"No, it's not. Knives did this to himself a long time ago. I'm just so thankful and lucky he didn't kill you. Meryl promise me one thing?" She looked up at him. "Nan?" He finished his sentence
"You'll never leave me?" He held her tighter in his strong arms.
"I'll never leave you Vash, as long as I live." With that he kissed her, it was a passionate and loving kiss; one Meryl wasn't opted to break very soon. One thing she always had held to her heart was how gentle and compassionate her beloved blonde-haired gunman was. She ran her fingers through his hair, something she'd been dying to do since she'd realized she'd fallen in love with him. He sighed in contentment as he fell asleep with his arms wrapped tightly around her waist. Meryl smiled and fell asleep, her head comfortably situated on his chest.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING PRAYING ON INNOCENT PATIENTS!" A very angry nurse began yelling at a very startled Vash as she walked in to find Meryl and Vash asleep together, broad grins permanently glued to both their faces.
"You pervert!" The nurse was now trying to hit Vash with a clipboard.
"I didn't do anything honest!" Vash whimpered as a very amused Nicholas chuckled.
"It's a little early to be getting into trouble isn't it?" Vash sighed.
"She makes it out like I did something when I didn't." Nicholas raised an eyebrow.
"Well, you've got to admit it looks like you two may have gotten a little friendly." Vash looked at Nicholas shell-shocked.
"Oh come on, I'm not hentai." Nicholas smirked.
"That's why you were always staring at Meryl's butt every time you got the chance." Vash opened his mouth to argue, but closed it again.
"Okay she's very pretty and has a nice figure, I can't argue with that."
Millie bustled into the hospital room looking like her usual cheery self.
"Konichiwa Mr.Vash! I knew you'd come back for Meryl!" She gave him one of her friendly bear hugs and went inside Meryl's room to place flowers on her table. She then started talking animatedly to Meryl.
"Nicholas and are getting married you know," she announced to Meryl proudly. "Oh, honto? Congratulations Millie." Millie beamed. Vash turned to Nicholas Wolfwood.
"You asked her to marry you?" Nick looked longingly at his Marlboro pack of cigarettes.
"Yep, she said she wanted to help me run an orphanage, and she's already trying to rope me into talking about kids." Even Vash had to laugh at that image. "How many does she want?" Vash asked.
"Too many," Nicholas replied. Meryl was fully able to recover from her wounds two weeks later. She decided she was staying with Vash. Meryl and Millie officially resigned from Bornedelli. Meryl took her first walk since she'd been out of the hospital. Vash, who took her hand into his own, joined her.
"Are you okay Meryl?" His aquamarine eyes shone with love and concern for him. She peered back into his beautiful eyes and said,
"I'm fine just not sure where I'm going now." He pulled her into his warm embrace. "I'm not sure either. But, wherever we go, we're going together." She nodded and smiled. They shared a tender kiss, the roses in full bloom all around them. Meryl and Vash watched Nicholas and Millie depart for the town where Nicholas had started his orphanage. They'd see the couple again soon, their wedding wasn't two far away. Meryl and Vash looked at each other and started walking towards the sunset, hands clasped together. It looked as if a desperado had finally come to his senses. He'd been out chasing fences for too long. But, he'd finally let somebody love him. The former desperado smiled and threw his usual yellow glasses to the wind, to be covered by the sands of time.
Mako's Notes: Bonjour! Another fanfiction finished! This one was strictly Trigun, no added characters. To the legal stuff, I do not own Trigun nor it's characters. I will admit I used the Eagles title and song lyrics at the very end of this fic. As in most of my fics I put the couples I want together, hence I am a M/V and Mi/W shipper! I love romance it is what I write! The events in the fic take place after Under the Sky So Blue. I shall never know what really happened since there's no more Trigun! Wails and gets teary-eyed I really loved working on this fic and when a brilliant idea strikes me I will write another one as well as finish those fics I have left hanging. On another note, I do not own the Gundam Wing title song, Just Communication.
Well that's my last bit of notes. Doomo arigato for reading! Oh yes, I used the animelyrics translation of Just Communication in my fic because I believe it is the true translation of the song! Ja-ne!