*Genre: General/ None

*Rating: PG13

*Disclaimer: I don't own

***NOTE***: this is my FIRST Trigun fic! So please try to be gentle

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~`~: Stands for dream sequence

/./: Stands for thoughts

".": Stands for speaking

'.': Stands for quoting

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Chapter 1: Rude Awakening

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~`~ Meryl smiled sweetly at Vash. He smiled back. Everything was perfect. Wolfwood was alive, injured, but alive and was with Milly. Everyone was happy. Knives was defeated. Everything was perfect.

Meryl and Vash continued to look at each other with loving eyes. He leaned in, to kiss her, and then a pained look crossed his face. "Vash?" she asked worriedly. That's where she saw the dagger in his back. Standing behind him grinning psychotically was his twin brother. " ." Vash murmured while gasping for air. Knives took his gun out and aimed at his brothers back. Meryl then jumped in the way while he fired, she screamed. ~`~

Meryl screamed as she woke up. "VASH!" as soon as she screamed about twelve or more Doctors and Nurses rushed into the room. Meryl looked around. Why was she in a hospital? Where was Wolfwood and Milly? .. Where was Vash?

She watched numbly as doctors and nurse hurried all around her. "It's a miracle!" she heard one doctor chirp. Meryl looked up at the doctor who said it, and found herself staring into a pair of bright sky-blue eyes. The girl almost chocked, "Milly?" the room suddenly went quiet. Milly looked at her fellow doctors and nurses and ushered them to leave. Once they were gone, she closed the door and looked at Meryl. "How do you know my name Ms. Strife?" she asked the young woman. Meryl was now confused. How could she NOT know Milly's name? They've been working with each other for years. Meryl looked at the girl sadly and asked, "You don't know me?" Milly continued to look at her, "of course I know you!" the woman chirped. Meryl looked at her with a bite of hope, "really?" Milly nodded, "of course! I've been you're doctor while you were in your coma." "C-coma?" The blonde nodded then gave her a sad look, "you don't remember, do you? How you got here? How you got into a coma?" Meryl shook her head. "Would you like me to tell you then, Ms. Strife?" the shorthaired girl nodded.

"Well, to tell you the truth I'm not quite sure how it happened or why. However, a young man brought you in here about a year ago. He said that you were beaten by the Gung-ho gang. That he stopped them right before they were going to kill you. We believed him. The Gung-ho gang always assaulted the head the most when they jump some one. Because of your serious head injury and the loss of so much blood, you went into a coma. I think that you also had severe head trauma that also helped put you into a coma." Milly finished and smiled at the girl. "That's about it." Meryl nodded, "what about the young man? Did he ever give his name?" she asked the blonde. The other shook her head, "no. But the first few months that you were in here, he would come and visit every two weeks. Perhaps the nurse in the front, Jessica, would know." Meryl nodded. Milly watched her for a moment then asked, "How did you know my name again?" Meryl shrugged, "you were in a dream I had. And I was just wondering if it was really you." Milly nodded then stood up from where she was standing. "Well, I suggest that we get you to therapy immediately. You need to get your muscles moving again. They've been turned into mush over the past year. We need to get your body working properly again." Milly smiled, "I'll go get you registered for some appointments with Dr. Wolfwood every Monday through Thursday, ok?" Meryl nodded then asked in surprise, "Wolfwood? Nicholas D. Wolfwood?" Milly gave her a funny look, "yes. Do you know him?" Meryl nodded, "somewhat. He was in my dream too. You and him were a kind of item." Milly then smiled broadly, "well, I'll go get those appointment for you, alright? I'll be right back." With that, the blonde was gone.

Meryl looked down at the light blue sheets that were on the hospital bed. She had been in a coma for the past year? / Does that mean that Vash wasn't real? / But, from what she heard from Milly, everyone else was. Tears started to form in her gray eyes, what if he wasn't real. Only a figment of her imagination that she wishes was. Or what if he were dead? She sighed and wiped the tears away before letting them fall. /Meryl Strife NEVER cries! /Meryl sighed. She was beginning to wonder if everyone she knew worked in this hospital.

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*** PREVIEW FOR NEXT CHAPTER***

Therapy's going great, right? Well, it would be if Wolfwood weren't a complete idiotic ditz every time Milly were around. And that was half the time! How's Meryl suppose to learn to use her body limbs again if her therapy doctor doesn't act as if he knows how to use his own properly? Next chapter: A Doctor's Love

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*Sakura: I know that it's very short. But that's the beginning so far. How do you like? I cant believe that I made Milly a doctor! But it fits well. Anyways tell me what you think so far. Flames are welcomed. R+R.