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Their Night

Vash & Meryl

Meryl led Vash quickly up the stairs to the room that she shared with Millie. Once inside she closed the door and locked it. She pressed her back up against the wood and sighed. Did they really have to do that in front of them? Really how uncouth was Stella? Meryl thought she had been taught better manners then that.

Vash watched silently as Meryl shuddered with the thoughts going through her mind. She seemed to cringe with these thoughts, Vash wanted to change that. He left Meryl at the door and sat down on her bed.

"Meryl, come here. Knives isn't going to leave Stella anytime soon. Come here." he patted the spot beside him on the bed and looked imploringly at her.

Meryl looking up and bit her lower lip, she was never good at this. She was always so abrasive that no one would even want to look her way. And she feared what Vash had to say. She doubted that he wanted anything sexual to do with her despite what he had said. But she did as he asked and sat beside him, her body ridged and stressed.

Vash smiled softly. Even now she feared what he had to say. Well that was going to stop here and how. "Meryl, look at me Meryl. I feel nervous without you looking at me."

Meryl clenched her jaw and stiffly turned her head. Her grey eyes were steady but fearful.

"Meryl." Vash purred while cupping her face. "Meryl I love you so much, but I know there are things that are hard for you. I'll help you anyway I can, your happiness is my happiness. Please Meryl, let me help you."

Meryl swallowed though her mouth was bone dry. Vash was right in so many ways. She had to get all of this off her chest so she breathed deeply and began. "Vash, do I remind you of Rem? Is that why you love me?"

Vash stiffened, his sea green eyes going wide. Meryl panicked and sprung up from the bed and started to the door intent on leaving whither or not Stella and Knives were doing something. She had to get out of the room in case her heart really would break.

Vash blinked out of his stupor to see Meryl trying to leave. Just as she reached the door he got hold of her. He wrapped his arms around her and buried his face in her hair, sufficiently putting an end to her escape. "No Meryl I don't love you because you remind me of Rem. Rem was my mother, I wanted nothing more then to protect her, and since I wasn't able to do that I have beat myself up for over a hundred years. You my dear insurance girl are the woman that I love, no one else. You and you alone are the one that I intend to spend the rest of my life with."

Meryl shook and held back her tears. "Oh Vash, I thought that I would be nothing in comparison to you. You who has lived such a virtuous life and myself... who has only gone from one name to the next in an attempt to forget."

"Meryl by any name you are still the same person, and no matter what we can't forget what we did. I killed Legato to save you. I can't forgive myself for that, but I have the one that I love in my arms right now, and that's all that matters. You killed Alvin because he threatened and killed the ones you love. Just use this as a stepping-stone for a life where you will never have to do that again."

Vash moved back to the bed and sat down pulling Meryl into his lap. "Come Meryl. I have waited long enough to kiss you."

Meryl smiled softly and moved further up on Vash's chest. "You've waited? What about me? I knew long before you what you were to me."

Vash's smile broadened into a grin and said, "Ah right. So why don't you?"

Meryl glared but kissed Vash anyway. It was merely a brush of the lips but Vash was taken away. In that moment he felt his heart speed up, he could taste her, and she was better then any donut that he had ever tasted. She tasted of sunshine and sugar, everything that he loved.

Meryl pulled away to see Vash's reaction to find him with closed eyes and a look of euphoria on his face. She blinked not understanding, and then it hit her like a ton of bricks. Vash really was as pure as he acted. He was a virgin. Meryl pushed off Vash and down to the foot of the bed.

Vash blinked awake and looked at Meryl. "Meryl? What's wrong? Do I taste bad? Do I smell bad? Do you…really not want to be with me?" a torrent of reasons for Meryl's sudden aversion came flooding through his mind. None of it had to do with his sexual status.

"Vash you…you're…you're a virgin…" croaked Meryl, the words seeming to burn their way from her mouth.

Vash blinked, and then it dawned on him. "You…you've done this before Meryl?" It had never occurred to Vash that Meryl was untouched. Truthfully he had never thought of it.

Meryl nodded her head mutely. What the hell was she doing? How could Vash not have had sex before? And what the hell was she? She looked like some sort of a tramp. Meryl began inching further into the corner trying to get away from Vash.

Vash didn't know what to do. Never had the thought of chastity come up between them. Vash never assumed anything but neither had Meryl and it seemed that this new information was throwing her for a loop. "Meryl it doesn't matter. We have each other now and you're the only one that I want." Vash reached out for Meryl but she 'eeped' and further backed away.

Vash was getting rather upset, first Meryl was taking charge and now she was trying to hide from him. "Look it Meryl, I may not have had sex before but that doesn't mean that I don't know what I'm doing. Please, let me touch you."

"No Vash. Everything about you is pure, what the hell are you doing with me?"

Vash sighed and rolled his eyes as though it were obvious. "What do you think? I'm going to make love to the woman that I love."

"But…"

"But nothing Meryl, I don't care whither you've had sex before. All I care about is that I'm the only one that you will ever sleep with from now on." And with that Vash pulled Meryl into his lap and kissed her. It wasn't the chaste kiss that she had bestowed upon him moments before but rather it spoke of the passion and love that Vash had for Meryl.

Pulling back, breathless, the two looked at each other. They blinked, and then smiled broadly. Forgetting everything else they stripped each other of clothes and nestled themselves under the blankets.

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They stayed in bed long after Knives and Stella had left that morning. Vash being a newly popped virgin was suddenly addicted to the feel, taste and touch of his mate and would not let her out of arms reach until he had been stated, not that Meryl minded. Vash was a quick study and being the inquisitive man that he was, continually found new ways to provoke her to groan and moan his name.

They hid under the blankets when Millie came to see what had happened to them. Their smiles could be seen even in the darkness under the sheets. Even years, centuries later they would think back to those days and nights where they could not get enough of each other.