.You cannot love. part 3

Don't own Trigun (wish I did though) streal my idea and I'll … TAKE AWAY ALL YOUR CANDY! And punish you severely cracks whip …anyway, all named characters (aside from poor dear Mannas) and all of Gunsmoke belong to Mr. Nightow. Mannas belongs to me and it will stay that way! won't share her golden eyed slash boy even though he doesn't get slashed with anyone in this story… R&R or I WILL steal your toothbrush!
Yeah that's about it.

QUICK RECAP
Vash Meryl and Millie have travelled via bus to a small country town after the last small town they visited was entirely slaughtered leaving all three of them slightly traumatised. After that, Vash has discovered a strange girl, Meryl and Millie found out about the findings of another strange mutilated body. They soon (after that) met Mannas Halthorin shortly after he got a table thrown at him so they are taking him to hospital to fix/heal his injuries.
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Millie had slumped over onto Meryl's shoulder as they sat on chairs in the waiting room of the hospital. Meryl tried to keep her mind of things by watching Vash, this was very entertaining and had long proven itself the most entertaining thing to do on a long bus ride .

It seemed like he just couldn't sit still. He took all his rings off them put them back on. He crossed his leg, then got bored and crossed the other leg. Then he stood up and leant casually against the hospital wall. Then he sat down and twiddled his thumbs while watching something Meryl couldn't see out the window.

She blinked slowly then yawned. Millie had began to snore by the time a nurse came out to greet them. Meryl looked up at the young woman with brown hair, she was rather pretty and Vash seemed to have noticed this.

"Oh hello, you're the people waiting for Mr.Halthorin aren't you?" she inquired primly.

"Yes, that's us" said Meryl quickly before Vash could make a fool of himself and scare the young girl away.

"Well he's under an anaesthetic and wont wake up for at least another three hours." Explained the nurse. "I suggest you go out and get yourselves some lunch because He wont be going anywhere for a while and he'll be fine here with me."

"Lucky devil" joked Vash.

The nurse looked down bashfully. "Thankyou sir, I have to go tend to other patients now, goodbye" she mumbled shyly and rushed off down the hall.

Meryl rolled her eyes and stood up slowly. Millie had woken up when the nurse arrived and was already up stretching her arms high over her head.

"I feel much better now" exclaimed Millie to anyone who would listen.

The three made their way back to the bar pushing through the tiny traditional bar double doors which swang wildly behind them.

They strolled up to the bar and puled up some barstools. The barman ambled over slowly and placed his hands down heavily on the greasy bench trying to stare all three of them in the eye.

"Watd'ya want? Girls?" he said flicking his piggy eyes over to Vash and smirking.

"I don't suppose you have Ceylon Tea do you…" mumbled Meryl smiling slightly.

"Of course not, this isn't a café little missy" accused the barman slightly offended.

"Well I'll have a…" and so all three of them ordered their drinks and sat on there barstools in the bar drinking and occasionally, one would say something.

"There are arrows sticking out of the wall over there!" pointed out Millie suddenly and so there was, about seven arrows jutting out of the smoke-stained wood in a sort of line up the wall.

"They look like the arrows from Mr.Halthorin's weapon" mused Meryl aloud.

"That's because they are" said Vash unexpectedly. "He shot them at the girl before she threw the table at him…"

"He was shooting at a girl?" Said Meryl who's opinion of Mannas just dropped sharply.

Vash looked up at her with an exasperated 'weren't you listening?' look on his face.

Meryl and Millie silently finished their third or fourth beverage now feeling a lot more relaxed they paid and left through the swinging doors once again, Vash staying behind to finish his beer. He looked at the yellow foamy liquid before draining the glass right down to the last drop. He thanked and paid the barman and left.

As soon as he stepped out he felt the rapid temperature change, it was now icy cold outside away from the bar with its merry little fireplace.

He shivered slightly and smiled at the thought of Gunsmoke trying to eradicate the humans on her by facing them with her most extreme weather. It wasn't working. Thankyou Rem. He thought to himself as he ambled down the street.

The Sun had finished setting and the lights where shining brightly out of most of the houses. Vash headed down the road across to the Hospital. On his way he passed his Hotel although he was walking on the other side of the road, away from it, when someone dropped down right in front of him. His hand slipped to his gun instinctively but he didn't draw it.

"Let me be" whispered a feminine voice right by his ear. There was a rustling of material and a girl drew back and walked away past Vash, down the side of the road. Vash watched after her dumbfounded. And He looked up. He was right under the top left apartment, where the girl was.

So that was her. Thought Vash watching after her. It took him a moment to shake himself into heading back down to the hospital.

Meryl sat in the chair and looked up at the roof. She smiled as Vash walked in.

"Finally" she teased. He looked back at her seriously. She was quite taken aback but before she could say something the pretty Nurse came out again.

"You may see him now" she said in that tone that all nurses use. Vash Millie and Meryl all trailed down the hall of the sick and dying to Mannas's room. He smiled weakly at them propped up by pillows with a plaster cast on his arm. He was also wearing a long blue moo-moo, the kind all hospital patients receive. It nearly matched his pale blue hair.

"Thankyou very much for helping me here, erm… all of you" Said Mannas gently as the nurse snuck out of the room.

"Oh, How rude we didn't introduce ourselves!" blurted out Meryl suddenly.

"Not surprising under your circumstances" said Mannas sweatdropping.

"Well I am Meryl Strife, pleased to meet you" beamed Meryl. "And this is Millie Thompson and this is Vash"

Mannas smiled pleasantly. "This is Vash the stampede, the Humanoid Typhoon?" he inquired politely.

"The very same." Said Meryl brightly.

"Pleased to meet you Vash" said Mannas shaking hands with Vash with his good arm. "I have much respect for your skills in marksmanship"

"Well Thanks" mumbled Vash sweatdropping bashfully.

"Erm, excuse me Mr.Halthorin-" started Meryl.

"Miss Strife, please call me Mannas."

"Well… Mannas, we wanted to know why you where shooting at a girl in the bar earlier on today…" Asked Meryl unsure.

Mannas smiled. "Because I was paid to by the parents of the son she slaughtered"

Millie gasped. "That's horrible!"

"It is miss Thompson but she does need to eat" Explained Mannas casually.

"WHAT!" exclaimed all three of them at the same time.

"She's a vampire, drinking the blood of the living and hiding from the light of the sun." said Mannas.

Somewhere in Vash's brain, something ticked.

"What does she look like?" he asked suddenly very serious.

"She's pale, thin and short with flicky raven coloured hair…" Described Mannas as if he was reading from a list "Why? Have you seen her?"

"No its, just in case I do…" lied Vash. "I don't really want to run into a bloodsucker hahah"

Millie and Meryl continued on to interrogate Mannas further.

It turned out He was a young boy born in July but leaving shortly before it was reduced to rubble, he moved to a smaller village where he grew up and joined an elite fighting group specifically devised to slay vampires.

"But why do you hate them so much?" asked Millie.

"Miss Thompson I'm not sure I want to tell you that…" muttered Mannas uncomfortably.

"Go on tell us" reassured Meryl. "I promise we wont think any less of you, Mannas."

"Well then I suppose so… It was My lover, a vampire slaughtered… him" Mannas looked sheepish.

"Oh" said Millie, because there wasn't much else to say.

"Well" said Vash standing up very quickly with a deadpan expression. "I'm off to bed goodnight" and with that he walked out the door.

"I don't think any less of you Mr.Mannas!" said Millie brightly. "Because you're a good person!"

Mannas smiled. "Thankyou miss Thompson."

"Your welcome"

"I don't think any less of you either, actually, I'll probably think more of you but we have to go now, we've had rather a long day. Take care Mannas" said Meryl standing up from the uncomfortable visitor chair she had been seated on.

"Goodbye Miss Thompson and Miss Strife" smiled Mannas waving them off.

Vash sat in his window frame feeling the chilly breeze sweep through his blonde hair. He found it hard to remove the girl from his mind. He wasn't sitting and musing in this fashion long before he heard a distraught scream down the road that chilled his bones.

Then he saw it, it was the girl once again, she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and entered the door to her hotel room he watched the top lefty apartment window for her to walked past. The light turned on and she moved towards the window leaning out.

Then, suddenly, her pale face snapped upwards and her eyes fixed on him.

He stood frozen by her pale eyes and cold sharp glare. It wasn't long before she looked away and moved swiftly out of view. After she disappeared suddenly a moment later, a mattress was shoved in front of the window.

"Why do I have no luck with women?" Vash asked the world as he flopped back onto the bed, his hands behind his head.