Trigun Fan Fiction ❯ To Understand ❯ The Juvenile ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Trigun and this fic has been nagging my brain for sometime now so please be nice! The timeline? Ten months after the final fight.

"Why are we still here?" Vince asked mildly upset. He went ignored by the only two other people in the waiting room. His brother was off in la-la land and wasn't tapping happily to whatever he was listening to and the violent female spider was staring into her cup of coffee snapping at anyone who bothered her… especially the male nurse from before who had an icepack to his face. The suns were beginning to rise and the female showed no signs of fatigue taking over. Then suddenly crashes from the room where Meryl was brought everyone to attention. Millie grabbed her gun and opened the door much to the dismay of several nurses.

"Meryl??" She question as an even shorter being clad in a doctor's outfit was standing in the corner looking over several papers. "Alright who are you?!?!" Millie demanded and the person lowered the clipboard. Both Vince and Eriks were astonished the person before them was like a mini Rem. Long black hair, a playful yet serious look to her… but she was short and had grey eyes.

"Well, it seems that your friend will be just fine. She should be waking up within two days!"

"Aren't you a bit young to be a doctor?" Eriks asked.

"Well, the doctor was pissing me off with all that poking and prodding at me. I mean a person appears form nowhere and suddenly I'm a guinea pig. So after some persuasion the doctor took a nap… in the closet."

"Appears from nowhere?" Millie asked but the young lady then pulled two derringers from inside the lab coat. She shot off two shots. "Grab Meryl!" She yelled and a body came crashing though the window.

"You…" Millie's frowned deepened. "You were the one to hurt Meryl." She readied her gun but the mini Rem shot at the guy.

"So you finally show what you can do…" He said.

"Whatever." The juvenile yelled shooting two bullets at the man. "Tall one, take Meryl out of here and somewhere safe... NOW!"

"But her wounds…"

"They'll sustain trust me!" She pulled two more Derringers but the guy only jumped back out of the window. "Oh great… he's going to make me run!" The mini Rem sighed and jumped out of the window.

"What was that?" Eriks asked.

"Mr. Vash… we have to take Meryl out of here. That man followed us and is trying to kill us both." Millie said.

"Finally! I was becoming tired of running!" The fourteen year old sighed watching the man stop. Without another moment's hesitation he raised his gun and aimed at her head. "Well that's not very nice. Aiming a gun at a fourteen year old how rude!" She pouted.

"What fourteen year-old carries guns?"

"Me!" She tilted her head to the side and grinned before sticking out her tongue! He watched her in curiosity but didn't lower his gun. "What is it that you want with me?"

"Your life…" He said firing the gun several time as his target moved. She kept moving till he finally ran out of bullets. He pulled another gun on her by time he managed to aim she had two Derringers to his head.

"Kill me I kill you…" She said raising an eyebrow at him while smirking. "Or we could make it fun and…" She looked carefully at his hand seeing the muscle twitch in his arm and pulled the trigger sending a bullet through his head. No sooner than she had a major migraine mad its way into her head as flashes of images… no memories made its way into her mind. "The bastard…" She groaned watching him drag himself away. "Stupid clones…" She muttered passing out herself.

"Is she okay, Mr. Vash?" Millie asked the blonde when he left his room to check up on the short Insurance girl. The double suns had already set making it night two the insurance girls had arrived in town. Vash nodded a sleepy nod and fell asleep on the couch of his home.

"You know it's very rude to tie up a young lady." The fourteen year old girl pouted.

"Well, until you start talking you'll just have to stay there." Millie held to spoon in front of her face.

"I…" She opened her mouth. "I'm on a time limit here I have a few days to figure out things myself!" She kicked about only to have the spoon shoved in her mouth by Millie.

"Start talking and we might let you go." Knives muttered from the corner. "…One less Spider to deal with." He added with disgust. She stuck her tongue out at him the same time Millie glared at him.

"Listen, it's going to sound insane… but I am Meryl Stryfe." She said knowing all eyes were on her. "I don't understand what's going on, neither does the full adult version of myself but… we do know that when she is out of commission I am around to make things right." She said lowering her head but then had her chin jerked up by Millie. Millie tucked her long hair behind her ears and saw indeed the face was the same as Meryl's.

"Explain!" She demanded.

"I… I can't." She whispered. "I remember an accident… and I remember a laboratory. I remember and something about Project AP." She whispered. "And voices… angry, violent voices."

"Project AP… That man was talking about it before you…"

"Killed him? No he's not dead… He'll be back to stop me from completing the holes in my memory."

"Say we do believe you…" Vash spoke from his spot on the couch surprising Millie who thought he had fallen asleep. "What happens to the insurance girl in there?"

"Well, I don't know… I told you there were holes in my memory. I'm not sure of anything, just that she wants to remember something bad and won't do it herself. Her injury just provided a door way for me." Meryl said slowly trying to hide the sadness that welled up inside of her but sniffles from the older, more mature and under control Meryl indicated the female was crying. The teenaged girl lowered her head.

"I see…" Vash sighed making knives send him a strange look before glancing back at the teenager.

"Mr. Knives you should eat something as well." Millie spoke to Knives, who looked at her then at the teenager

The girl looked like Rem so much… it was possible Vash became attached to the girl through the similarities. Then there was the tall spider, it was partly amusing to watch her become angry because it seems her nature is to be kind and naïve, but when she was mad she seemed unstoppable. Anger was something he wanted to coax out of her… and dammit he'll achieve that goal too!

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