Wow!!! So much reviews in the day after i've updated!! Wow!! Let me say this: you are fantastic!!! Thank you to all who review my fic and also thank you to who read it too!!! And sorry: the new chapter took me a little long, but with the university, the driving licence, and the dance... well, it's difficult to find time to write, but the new chapter is here!! Happy?? Let's go to answer to the reviews:

Anonymous: well, here here's a little more action between Knives and Meryl, but in the next chapters... uh uh uh...(/evil grin)

Belletanimerose:thank you! I'm happy!!

I-luv-knives: I love the K/M pairing too!! I love it so much...!!!! But also the V/M is good. VERY good...

Elf3748: I'm glad you liked the slap. Uh uh, poor Knives... Well, when i wrote the last chapter i also felt bad for Vash if i must be sincere. Eh eh eh, YES! Knives is a very hot psychopath. Who is Vash going to marry? Isn't Dominique and isn't Rem... ah ah ah(/again an evil grin)

Pat: well, the program i use to write this fanfiction has only an italian spell chek, not an english one. Sorry... รงรง I tried to find a beta-reader, but nobody wrote me an e-mail so: if there is anyone who want to beta-readers my story please e-mail me at brin85libero.it . Thank you for the review!!

Shygurl: o yes! It got hot! Who Vash is going to marry? Who could be?? Uhm... i don't know... Here's the new chapter!

Now i leave you, enjoy the chapter!!! Kiss

Brinia

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Trigun... sigh... well, if you want to give me Vash or Knives as a present, you're welcome!! XD

CHAPTER 6: SOMETHING STRANGE

-MERYL'S POV-

We returned at midnight from the party. I hadn't seen Vash anymore from that time in the room, and luckyly nor his grandmother. Thanks God! That was the last thing i needed to crown an awful night. I don't know if Vash or the old woman had met the Blackmores, but honestly i had other things in mind.

I and Knives didn't speak etchother during the whole way home, and when we arrived he went to his room without even looking at me. He completly ignored me and this hurt me... well, only a little!! Let's say this annoyed me. I tried to avoid his sight many times, and he acted as if i wasn't there with him.

I went to my room where Milly was sleeping, and after being only in my slip i got under the blankets. It's a shame i wasn't able to fall asleep! I turned on the bed every five seconds, too much nervous to sleep. Other all, the feel of Knives'lips on mine and of his hands on my back wasn't helping. Damn, why wasn't i able to cancel him from my mind?! Why was he affecting me like this?!? Only for two stupid and meaningless kisses?!?

I sat up suddenly, looking the wall in front of me.

'It's better you go to the kitchen now, and get some water. No, milk: better than water!' i thought slapping me mentally for being so restless. I stood up and, tiptoeing, i went out of the room and walked barefooted toward the kitchen. I stopped on the door, at the sight of a well-known figure sitting on a chair with a glass on his hand.

Knives Saverem was drinking some sort of liqueur.

-KNIVES'POV-

I turned to see who was disturbing the damned peace of this tormented man. There she was. That annoying spider that tormented me so deeply was on the door.

Her little, short body was trembling.

"Why, little spider?" i murmured almost lost in thoughts.

She rose an eyebrown in surprise.

Maybe that was because of me? Of my presence there? Or was simply because she was cold...?

Now: i wasn't drunk enought to not notice how that slip caressed her body and how her heavy-dark hair fell on her breast almost reaching the thin waist. The alchool i'd drunk wasn't enought to dull my damned senses, and now i was totally conscious what i said this night wasn't the truth. She WAS charming. Woah, if she was charming! She was so tempting... so damn tempting... The memory of her wrapped on my arms was driving me crazy. Her soft, little body against mine felt so right... But the last thing i'd do would be telling her i was saying a lie. I'd never allow her to ruin my honour. I hoped only i was able to resist to the urge to touch her. I had to, because i knew i wouldn't be able to stop me if i'd touch her.

The spider was drinking. Damn, was i so lost in toughts of her to not even pay attention to what was happening around me?!

"Don't you think you've drunk enought tonight, Master?" she asked. I looked at her with the corner of my eyes.

"Spider... Tonight will happen something unpleasant if i don't drink now"

She sat in front of me. Her scent was intoxicating and was making difficult not to stand up and bring her upstairs, in my room.

'But she's only a servant...'

"I ask you to forgive me for what i said at the party..." she seemed truly sorry. I was surprised. That annoying, intollerable spider was giving me her apologies??

"Why are you apologizing?!" i snorted, and i saw her eyes darkening dangerously.

"I was apologizing and you ask me why?!" i deduced from her voice that she was pissed off again. That spider was very noisy. Too much noisy in truth. I wasn't prepare to a verbal fight, and all i wanted now was being left here alone with the only company of a bottle of wiskey, but this annoying, stupid and tempting spider was making me angry. I drunk a sip of wiskey, sending her an intense look.

"Be careful, spider. Be careful"

Her eyes narrowed as she stood up.

"What is this?! A threat?!" she squeaked in determination. I doidn't pay her attention, studying the bottle of weasky on the table, smelling the liqueur in my glass.

-MERYL'S POV-

I felt anger rose in my body. That asshole!! That... He was ignoring me!! How i hated him!! How i hated the way he acted, so full of himself!! In an impulse of anger i throw the bottle down the table, and it broke into thousand pieces on the floor. Finally Knives looked at me, but i desired he didn't: his look scared me deeply. He looked me as if he was going to kill me. Maybe this time i had gone too far.

In less than one second i found myself against the table, with my face on it and Knives pressed against me grasping my right arm roughly on my back. His face was beside mine, and i could feel his breath. He moved my hair to be able to look me in the eyes.

"Why are you always so disobedient?!" he whispered in my ear. My heart went faster, feeling him so close. What was he going to do now? What?!

"Answer me, spider" he almost ordered.

I felt his noise on my hair and... he was smelling them!!

"Stop that!!" i yelled, fighting to get free but he quickly turned me so that he could look my face. I studied him and what i saw shocked me.

Hunger. Deep hunger.

"You're right spider. Hunger" he murmured with husky voice, nearing his lips to mine, but i was too schoked to notice that. How did he know what i tought? How was that possible?? I let him kiss me without offer resistance even when his tongue invaded my mouth fierly. His hands traveled up and down my body frantically and than he runned his hands on my hair, pressing even more my head against his, devouring my lips. Only when his mouth left mine to devote to my neck i gave an account on what was happening. Suddenly i pushed him away, breathing feverishly. He looked in my eyes with desire and i felt naked.

'Please, don't look at me like that...' i prayed him mentally and he shocked me again. He went up toward me, caresisng my neck and my collarbone with the back of his hand.

"Then you'll be satisfyed" he murmured licking where his hand was before. I closed my eyes, fighting against the pleasure especially when i felt him sucking near the collarbone. Pushing roughly him away i excaped from the kitchen, leaving my master alone again to shelter in my room, running noisily.

I close the door, staying for a moment with the back leant against it, breathing feverishly maybe for having run or maybe for what was just happened.

A dark figure stood up from the bed near mine, yawning.

"What's happened?" Milly asked me sleepy. I smiled nervously.

"Please, don't tell anybody!" i prayed her sitting in front of her on her bed. She rubbed her eyes suppressing another yawn.

"Don't worry!" she smiled.

I looked at her, not knowing how tell Milly what Knives did but, sighing, i decided to just go to the point.

"Mr. count kissed me"

All the sleep disappeared from Milly's eyes, that went wide.

"What??" she exclamed excited and i put and hand on her mouth.

"Put your voice down, Milly"

She nodded, murmuring then a few sorry's. She expected me to tell something. I lifted an eyebrown.

"What?"

"... And?" she asked candidly. I looked her in confusion.

"'And' what?"

"What was it!" she exclamed as if that was an obvious question "Did you like it? Did you replied?"

"Milly, that's not important! He was Knives! Do you understand? Knives!!"

Milly looked me gesticulating like a fool, confusion in her brown eyes.

"No. Sorry..."

I sighed defeated.

"It doesn't matter. Besides, what do you know about him?"

Milly was more in confusion now than before.

"Why? Did he acted strange?"

"No. He'd be strange if he'd be normal, like all the other man..."

My friend looked me without saying anything and i began doubting she was too much sleepy to follow what i was saying.

"I'm going to say a stupid thing, but... Do you know if he has some strange gift?" my look was suspicious. Milly yawned, scratching her head.

"Uh?"

"Nothing" i went up toward my bed. It was a lost battle: that was the only thing i understood.

"Good night Milly"

"Good night Meryl"

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