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ARACHNOPHOBIA	By : Lances Category: +S to Z > Trigun Views: 4859 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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- 7
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- 9
A/N: Thank you for the reviews! I�m so happy you took the trouble of
commenting on my work.

Disclaimer: I won�t
even pretend to be Yasuhiro
Nightow.

WARNINGS: yaoi, twincest implied.
If you�re an innocent, uncorrupted soul, I wouldn�t advice you to read further.
You. Have. Been. Warned.

--

ARACHNOPHOBIA

pathological
fear or loathing of spiders

Chapter 8:
Meryl

--

Millions
Knives truly was brilliantly beautiful.

Meryl
looked at the twin brother of Vash the Stampede, eyes narrowed with jealousy.
Knives was leaning against the backseat of the open car they were currently
sitting in, smiling a weird smile that couldn't be placed anywhere. The twin
suns were radiating off his platinum blonde hair that was waving in the wind,
creating an amazing golden halo around the cold-hearted man�s face. Meryl
really, really hated the sight, especially when she noticed Vash was
also absorbed by it, and balled her fists with green-tinged anger.

Knives
�the bastard plant- was recovering alarmingly well from his injuries. It had
been two weeks now since the fateful day Vash had brought his dying brother
into the Tonim Town hospital. Only two weeks �two grisly weeks during which
Meryl had received more than her due share of angst, arguments, tears and
constantly cumulative jealousy- and Knives was already capable of travelling
with the others towards the Warrens City. The time had all but slithered
through Meryl's fingers like the finest sand of the desert, and she couldn't
quite understand how that had happened.

Meryl
gritted her teeth. If only Vash hadn't been sitting on the backseat between her
and the source of her irritation, she would most probably have poked Knives on
the injured thigh with one of her Derringers �accidentally, of course.

Oh,
Vash...

Meryl
glanced at the other twin, eyes filled with concern. Vash was so innocent, like
a true child of the nature, and so very easily manipulated. Even now, despite
all the evidence that proved Knives to be a ruthless and merciless killer,
Vash's right arm was leisurely and oh-so-casually resting around his evil
twin's wide shoulders. How could Vash forgive him so easily? How could he forget
so easily? Maybe it was because of this idiotic 'Love and Peace' �crap he
was constantly spreading around?

Not
that Meryl had always found this perfectionistic rule of life idiotic
-only after the love part of the slogan had been attached to a ravenous
lunatic who had absolutely nothing to do with peace at all.

Knives...

Meryl
watched with barely contained anger how Vash melted into a smile when gazing
deeply into his brother�s blue eyes.

--

It
was too hot. Too hot to be travelling, anyway. Vash squirmed in his tight,
black clothes. He wanted to take off his boots. He wanted to throw off his
shirt and let the desert wind steal it away. But, of course, he couldn�t do
that. Even if his brother and the girls had seen his awful scars, the driver
had not, and Vash wanted them to make a safe journey to Warrens City rather
than make the driver steer the car off the cliff in shock. Therefore, the only
thing Vash could do was to try and forget all about the torturous heat, and
concentrate on other things.

Vash
wiped some sweat out of his eyes and turned to look at Meryl, who was sitting
on his left-hand side in the car�s backseat. She had been oddly quiet the
entire journey. Of course, she had never been overly talkative anyway, but now
she seemed to be outright tetchy. And she was casting murderous glances at
Knives.

Was
Knives playing tricks with her mind, again? Surely he could not be so stupid,
what with Vash sitting right next to him?

Vash
turned to look sharply at his brother. However, Vash could not discern any
malicious intent at all behind Knives� relaxed smile. In fact, for the first
time in many days, Knives seemed to be enjoying himself. He had received quite
the dose of painkillers when they had left the hospital, and was consequently
capable of sitting relatively comfortably in his seat. Vash�s eyes melted, and
he traced his fingers gently along his brother�s long neck.

Knives
turned to look at him. �What was that
for?�

�I�m just happy to see that you�re
behaving yourself so nicely again.�

�I can�t bother to waste my energy
on these pesky mortals at the moment.� Knives
smiled at his brother. �Besides, I feel
pretty damn drugged. All the medicine they made me swallow before we left...
it�s a miracle I�m still coherent.�

�Do you feel pain?�

Knives
shrugged, and looked at the horizon again. �Not
really.�

�Vash!�
Meryl�s eyes were blazing fire and sulphur. �How can you possibly be this inattentive?�

Vash
flinched, looking confused. �What do you mean?�

�May
I remind you that this man, sitting right next to you, is a murdered and a
madman who should be locked up in the deepest dungeon on this planet!� Meryl
all but screamed, gesturing wildly at Knives. �But no! Here you are, letting
him travel with us freely, when in fact he should be under the strictest surveillance
possible �and you�re not even bothering to control the constant, evil tricks
he�s playing on us others!�

�What
are you trying to say, Meryl?� Vash frowned. �What has he done now?�

�He
tried to make me jump out of the car just now.�

Knives
let out a derisive snort. �If that were true, spider, you wouldn�t be here to
complain about it, anymore.�

�Excuse
me!� Meryl was shaking with fury. �You have the cheek to call me a liar, do you?�

�Oh,
but I would never call you a liar,
little spider. At least not to your face.� A wicked smile was tugging the
corners of Knives� mouth upwards. �I was just merely implying that your
disrespectful insinuations about me mightn�t entirely be true.�

�Cut
the crap, Knives. I could feel you in
my head, and you tried to make me jump out of this car!�

�No,
I rather think you wanted to do that all on your own.� Knives smirked. �Right
after seeing how Vash was giving me his
whole attention instead of you.�

�That�s
outrageous! Vash, you must believe me! He tried to kill me, and you�re just
sitting there and doing nothing at all about it!�

�Knives?�
Vash�s voice was quivering.

Knives
sighed, and then locked his eyes with Vash�s. �I didn�t do anything, brother. You must realise we were having our
wordless conversation right before that woman went crazy. I couldn�t have
controlled her and talked to you at the same time.�

Vash
felt a lump form in his throat, and he swallowed it quickly. It was true �his
brother coulnd�t have played with Meryl�s mind. Not this time. But when had
Meryl become a liar? This wasn�t typical of her at all, and Vash was concerned.

�I�m telling you.� Knives
was serious, as he laid his hand gently on Vash�s thigh. �She�s a jealous, two-faced bitch who wants nothing more than to jump
your dick at the first moment possible.�

�Vash,
he�s manipulating you! Can�t you
see?� Meryl shrieked. �At least you two could speak out loud so I could hear
what dirty things that monster is saying about me!�

�Sempai?�
Milly yawned, and turned to look at the three arguing persons in the backseat.
She was sitting in the front with the driver herself, and had promptly fallen
asleep just after fifteen minutes into the journey. Now, it seemed, she had
awoken to the loud commotion. �Is everything all right?�

�Everything�s
just fine.� Vash managed to sound so resolute that both Meryl and Knives were
taken aback. �Hear, Milly, would you mind asking our dear chauffeur how long
it�ll be until we reach the city?�

�Of
course, Mr. Vash!� Milly beamed, and turned to talk to the driver.

Vash
smiled at her. She truly was a nice girl; always so kind, always so happy. Even
Knives seemed to tolerate her better than any other human, for some curious
reason.

�Vash?�
Meryl touched his arm, timidly. �I just... I�m sorry. I think I made a mistake.
I... I guess I�m just tired.�

Vash
smoothly ignored her pleading expression. �It�s all right. You�ll get a good
night�s sleep in the Warrens City. We�ll be there in no time, I promise.�

Meryl
sighed, and leaned her face into her hands. �Yeah. Whatever.�

Vash
closed his eyes against the merciless beams of the twin suns again, and tugged
his collar a bit more open. It was still hot. Unbearably hot. Besides, he was now angry.

Despite
what the shorter insurance girl might think of him, Vash was not stupid. He knew what games Knives was trying to
play with him. Oh, yes, he knew, even if he let his brother and the girls think
otherwise for the time being.

Knives
was sly. Knives was testing a new method on Vash: he was trying to claim his
trust, sympathy and love, in order to control him without being so completely
obvious about it. Furthermore, he was trying to do all this by making Vash feel
confused, guilty and affectionate at the same time �not to mention sexually
aroused on more than several occasions.

Vash
grinned. What an interesting way to approach their inflamed relationship. And,
what was the best of it all: Knives had not yet realised that there were
actually two of them who could play
the very same game �with the very same rules.

Vash
closed his fingers over Knives� hand that was still resting on his thigh, and his
grin widened into a smirk.

�To
Be Continued...
- 7
- 8
- 9
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