Hey I'm back. Sry it took so long but we've been moving into our new house! We're almost done and I'm getting my Internet fixed up now. We still have no phone though! Sucks huh!? I'm sick and bed-ridden! Not really, but I have a horrible cough, fever, hot/cold flashes, and to top it all off I'm on my period! I hate my life! Oh well I'll do my best to get a semi long chapter in and not die.

Sesshoumaru: Oh poor baby! You sick?

Jiro: Leave her alone, she doesn't need you hassling her

Me: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Jiro: Do you want soup? How bout some tea?

Sesshoumaru: Why are you babying her like this?

Jiro: Why not?

Sesshoumaru: She needs to toughen up!

Me: You try being a sick woman!

Sesshoumaru: What's so different from being a sick man?

Here's the chapter so if you want to know the rest read the end conversation.

~* Chapter 2: Heaven *~

Vash just stood and starred out into the barren land. He would stay strong for her. He would keep looking every where for her. He would never stop.

'I wonder if she's in heaven right now looking at me. Or maybe she's out there looking for me as I look for her.' Too many thoughts were racing through his mind to register who was next to him.

He turned his head and looked over at Milly who was standing next to him. "Hello Mr. Vash. Why are you all the way out here?" Milly's voice was soft and curious.

"Oh I'm just thinking." Vash's eyes, the eyes that usually held that loving twinkle, were now dull and lifeless.

"Oh... well, Meryl said for me to come and get you. We have doughnuts for breakfast."

"Ok I'll be right there."

Milly walked away and was soon followed by Vash. The rest of the day was like all the others except for the fact that Vash's eyes were not showing the happiness the rest of his face did.

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She walked through the doorway that led to his chamber. She was tired of being treated like a slave. She was forced to wear a very skimpy maid uniform. The black top and skirt with the white frilly apron. She was not to pleased with that.

"Here's your lunch, master." She mumbled under her breath and accented the last word with disgust.

"Why aren't you happy here? I give you food and a lavish room. I allow you to go outside in the sun. You eat lunch with me every day and yet you never waver in your feelings toward me. Why is that?"

"You took him away from me, why should I like you anymore than I already do?"

"We're twins you know. We look exactly alike, besides a few minor things. And yet you show no attraction toward me." Knives was smiling his evil little smirk. She sat down in the chair next to him at the large window. She set the food down on the small table that was between them.

"You don't have his heart or gentle touch. I don't care what you look like, I'll never love you." She turned her eyes to gaze out into the garden. The lilacs and lilies were blooming and it was sunny out.

"So you long for his touch, do you?" Knives was still ginning deviously. "You know, you could probably learn to love my touch as well." He moved his hand over to her leg, gently pushing up the already short skirt.

"I would appreciate you not touching me like this," she said pushing his hand away from her leg.

"Your skin is so smooth and delicate." She carefully stood up and proceeded to leave the room before he grabbed her by the wrist. "Don't leave just yet. How I would love to feel the softness of your skin against mine once again."

He pulled her back to him and held her in a tight embrace. He picked her up and proceeded to carry her over to his bed. She was struggling the whole time but his hold was too strong for her to wriggle out of. She had to admit though, she did like being held like this. She remembered how Vash used to hold her like this. She quickly snapped out of her daze and realized exactly who was holding her.

"Let me go! I swear if you don't stop---"

"You'll what? Kill me?" He was trying to qualm her struggling figure.

Tears were streaking her pale face, "Please don't. Please!"

"Why not? Vash isn't coming for you anytime soon." Knives slowly started to pull the black top over her head.

"Yes he is! Leave me alo----"

Just then, Knives closed his mouth over hers. She was almost suffocating from his hold on her. She struggled free and kneed him hard in the stomach. Knives now lay in a pile on the bed, clutching his stomach. She found his pressure point and pressed hard. Knives was now passed out.

She quickly pulled her top back on and ran down the hall to the locked room that held her regular clothes and weapons. She had grabbed the key that always hung around Knives' neck and unlocked the door. She grabbed all of her belongings from there and her room, and ran outside. She swiftly maneuvered around the security system and ran into the desert.

Once out of reach of the mansion and any other location, she changed into her regular clothes. Her long dark denim jeans with buckles all down the sides, Her black, tight, turtle-necked tank top with the large hole in the front and exact back. It looked like someone had punched a hole right through the shirt. Of course it showed off her cleavage and the slender curve of her back. Her silver and black combat boots shinning brightly in the sun.

She brushed out her long, chestnut brown hair and pulled it up into a loose loop bun. She buckled her belt/holster so that it draped loosely around her hips. In the belt were her gun and daggers. Her silver gun was an almost exact copy of Vash's gun. It had an inscription on it. It said, "With Love, Kae." Her daggers were also silver and had black hilts. One daggers' inscription read, "Listen To Your Heart's Lullaby," and the other read, "Forget Me Not."

Then she proceeded to put on all of her accessories. Her blue gem studs in the second hole of her ear. A silver chain chocker that had a gun shaped charm on it. A larger silver chain that had a silver skeleton key on it. A silver promise ring. And last her long dangling earrings that were silver and ended in two little silver bells on each one.

Her shirt came just above the lower part of her back. Her make-up was dark blue eye-shadow, and brownish-dark red lip stick. Her aqua eyes shone brightly in the sun. She put all of her belongings and the 'uniform' in her traveling pack. She then set off toward the nearest city.

"Vash, I will find you one day I swear it." With that she began walking until the dust enveloped her and she couldn't be seen.

~* Flashback *~

"Who's Kae?"

"Oh, well... he's like a father figure really. He would play with me when I was a little girl. He was planning on giving these to me when I was older so he had then engraved. He was shot down in a quick-draw to defend his honor. Before he died, he gave them to me and I said I would always keep them with me. I sang him our lullaby just before he died."

"Oh... I had someone like that. Her name was Rem. She was killed by my brother, Knives."

"I'm sorry, Vash."

"It's okay, she would always sing a certain song when she was happy and now I sing it to remember her."

"Vash... Lets never leave each other okay?"

"Okay."

~* End Flashback *~

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"Vash? Are you okay?" Meryl was sitting next to him on the porch again.

"Yeah, of course." He plastered on a cheesy grin.

Meryl looked strait ahead for a long while then turned to him and said, "Why don't you go and look for her. We'll all be here waiting when you get back."

Vash looked at Meryl and shook his head. "No. I need to figure some things out and I won't leave all of you alone here. Especially with Milly in her current condition."

Milly was currently 8½ months pregnant with Wolfwood's baby. She was very moody, especially seeing Wolfwood come back to the house after we presumed him dead. He told us that God sent him back to take care of us.

"All right, but it's your choice." Meryl was happy to have him stay. She walked inside to tell the others and Vash just stayed and starred out into the dust. He remembered the warmth of her skin against his. How smooth and scar-less it was. It was so much unlike his own. That never mattered to her though. She would cuddle right up to him on cold nights. He remembered how they had wrapped themselves in his red trench coat when night fell. He was so upset when Knives took her. He tried to go get her, but woke up in a strange place he didn't know. Soon after that he meet Meryl and Milly. His insurance girls. But no one would ever know how much he was hurting.

Why did the nightmares start up? Why now?

"Come inside Vash, it's getting cold." Milly was wrapped up in a blanket with her head sticking out the door.

"All right, If it'll make you happy." Vash was happy to see her and was joking around with her, as was normal for him to do.

She sat down under an overhang and wrapped a small blanket around her. "Where are you Vash? Where are you with your warm body and red coat to keep me warm?"

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Well?

Sesshoumaru: I thought you were sick.

Me: I am sick, go away

Jiro: here, cover up.

Sesshoumaru: Don't baby her!

Me: Why not?! If you had to go through the amount of pain a woman goes through in her life you would DIE, DIE YOU HEAR ME DIE!

Sesshoumaru: How do you go through pain?

Me: cramps, child birth, raising a child... You know, all that stuff God granted to women because men were to wimpy for the job.

Sesshoumaru: Hey that's not nice!

Me: I can't help that my brain, which is bigger than yours, is evil and cruel.

Jiro: Ya know, she's got a point here. They do go through a lot of pain.

Sesshoumaru: YOU'RE TAKING HER SIDE? TRAITOR *points* TRAITOR!

Jiro: Well here lets put it this way. One, Would we really like to be cursed by having to have a child, which is like trying to push a watermelon down a sink drain, Two, would you like to bleed every month, Three, do we really want a sick Brianna mad at us?

Sesshoumaru: Well I guess so. I mean at least the third one was a good reason.

Me: I'm so cold and tired.

Jiro: Here lay with me.

Me: Ohhh warm...zzz *snores softly*

Sesshoumaru: you're afraid of her aren't you! *grinning*

Jiro: You're damn right I am!

Me: *still sleeping* Good answer.

Sesshoumaru: I need to find better friends.