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Author's notes: this is going to be a mixing of the anime and the manga, more manga then anything, so please don't be too confused. This will start at episode 23 where the group is beginning to break up, and I'll be bouncing about after that. Main pairings will be Vash and Meryl, Millie and Nick, Knives and an OC. Also I have seen in other FF that has Meryl with violet eyes as well as grey. I personally like grey so I'm going to have her with grey. So please be kind and thank you.
Lost Lovers
Millie sat on the floor of the dirty hotel room while the sound of gunfire echoed throughout the once still town. The high noon sun beat in through the filthy glass, faintly illuminating the darkened room. Millie's head was cradled on her knees, fear holding her still.
Meryl reached out for her friend but found that nothing she could possibly say would help her. She had awoken to find Millie had spent the night with Wolfwood and she could guess what had occurred between the two. Meryl was never one to know how to aid someone in their time of need so she sat by her friend trying to be a physical comfort if not an emotional one.
She was frightened as well, neither of them knew what was going to happen, but there was blood being shed and it could be that of Vash or Wolfwood, no one knew.
Just as suddenly as the rain of gunfire began it ended. Meryl looked to the window, her mind half expecting a victory sign to come floating by, expressing the winning side. Looking back at Millie and seeing the larger woman still frozen, Meryl rose. She slowly crept to the window taking a quick glance and seeing no gung-ho-guns entering the hotel; she opened the window and leaned her head out.
She glanced back at Millie expecting her to come and look as well, but found that the poor woman would not budge from her position on the floor. Looking back out she closed her eyes, reaching out with her mind - trying to sense that things were all well. She took a sharp intake of breath as her eyes flew open, something was wrong - someone was fading. She looked back at Millie, and stifling a call to her friend she climbed out the window. The action caught Millie's attention and she rushed to the window that Meryl had just vacated.
"Sempai!" she yelled as she watched Meryl jump from rooftop to rooftop, wonderment in her eyes, she hadn't know Meryl was able to do that. Dismissing her amazement, Millie turned and raced after her friend, her fear suddenly forgotten.
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Meryl looked from one building to another as she leaped nimbly from each roof. She came within four houses of where Vash was and noticed the faint blood trail that would lead her to the fading life. She ran past Vash across the roof behind him, at top speed, hoping that he wasn't really paying attention to his surroundings and would not notice her shadow.
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Vash sat, while his mind spun in turmoil. He knew where Nick was going, the church was close and he needed to be near to his god if he was to die. Vash had seen it when Nick had walked by him only moments ago. Nick knew he was dying and he wanted to be somewhere he felt content, and who was to argue with that. Vash sighed thinking that he should go get Nick's body soon when he noticed a shadow pass him. The sun was to his back and his own shadow lay upon the hard desert ground. He was on his feet instantly, turning and looking above him, but there was no one there. Vash scratched his head; he swore the shadow that he had seen was that of the insurance girl, Meryl. But how could it be? She was in the room with Millie. Millie…how was he going to tell her about Nick? He knew they had spent the night together; his death was going to tear her apart.
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Meryl sighed thankful that Vash had not followed her. She made her way slowly into the church. The door was ajar and the moment that she entered she was greeted with the cool air that had been kept in the stone building. There at the end of the walkway was Wolfwood, his body before the alter as if in prayer. His head was bent low on his chest and his Cross Punisher was leaning against his shoulder. Meryl sprinted to him her hands reaching, looking for a pulse. Finding a faint one she pushed aside the Punisher and let it fall heavily to the stone floor. She took Wolfwood's weight and lay him down. Blood still continued to seep from his wounds. Meryl pulled a small pocketknife from her boot and slit a deep cut into the palm of her left hand, allowing the bright red fluid to run from her wound onto the numerous wounds that littered Wolfwood's body. She set her hand over his chest and closed her eyes. The light that emanated from the church would have rivalled that of the suns, but there was no one to see it.
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Vash was still standing wondering what and how to tell Millie when she came running towards him. Grief and fear etched on her features.
"Mr Vash! Mr Vash have you seen sempai? She ran out of the room and I can't find her…Mr Vash…where's Nick?" her voice shook, she looked about ready to collapse but her need to find her 'sempai' out weighted her body's desire to feel grief.
Vash shook his head and looked to the dirt, his eyes far away.
It was then that Millie noticed the blood trail and began to follow it. Vash reached out to stop her but she was running full tilt looking for her precious priest. They made it to the church and Millie burst inside, Vash right on her tail. They stood in the doorway their eyes focused on the Cross Punisher that was laid on the floor, the large pool of blood beside it the only evidence that there was a dying priest that had once sat there. Millie's eyes filled up with tears and she finally collapsed to the floor. Vash stood still, his eyes glazed over. He never noticed Meryl come up behind them and hold Millie close to her. Neither of them noticed the blood that stained her cloak nor the fading cut on her palm.