Oh this was so perfect. You nailed their characters. Milly being soft and caring and perceptive, Vash being apologetic, distant, and reluctant to open up. The part about her not understanding the mystery inside Vash, yet still taking care of him and looking after him! And oh man, this exchange:
"What if they do something you can't forgive?"
"Then I guess you love them anyway."
Made me tear up. And aaaaa the line about family bonded by love! I love this so much ;-;

Oh Milly, I love Milly, she's a good girl.

One of the saddest thing about Trigun is the rife between Vash and Knives. They were twins AND they were two of a kind, and they didn't start out badly - Knives wanted to protect the butterflies, and he wanted to protect his brother in the beginning, and then it just got so twisted.

This is so cute I can barely stand it ;w;

Love x3

(There's gotta be more of this! And if there's not, I'll be pestering you to write more! :D Cause you're good at it)

It's so SWEAT! I love how you made Milly the mother figure, I alwas pictured her that way.

Aw. _ Go Milly! Vash needs hugs very badly. Thanks for giving him one in this fic. _

Hi,

Wow, is this really your first (published) fanfiction? Cool. I'm a big fan of Night, and Twilight, Walking Out, Walking In . . . and I've read a couple others, I just can't remember them.

I still say that this is awesome for a first time, awesome for anytime, actually. Most of your stories usually are. I gotta go now, so I'll se you next time you write, or I read another one of your older ones . . .

Bye!

So cute. _ Very sweet wording.

"Johnny, my oldest brother, he works on the rigs along with George, my fourth brother. Betty and Sue – they’re twins – they’re both married. Well, not to the same person, of course, different people, and they stay at home with their kids. Robbie, my second brother, writes for the newspaper and he just had the most darling little boy last June. I mean, his wife did, with the actual birth bit. If my brother had, he’d be my sister, I guess." *laughs* I can so easily picture Millie saying this. Kudos for portraying her believably (slightly scatterbrained, but perceptive and caring) as opposed to the dumb & giggly caricature so many fics feature.

Great job with Vash as well. I really started to sniffle when he and Millie were discussing Knives.

*sniff* wonderful!

(group hug! well maybe just a Vash-sama hug or even a Milly-san hug)

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...(ending in high pitched squeaky sort of noise that could be something emanating from ChuChu, unless you don't know Utena, and then, of course, that reference is useless, but you know what I mean.) Good job. ..

Aw, that was so cute! Very well written and you succeeded in what you intended to do. Great interaction and conversation. I love it. It made me all teary-eyed.

After much thought and quite a few re-reads, I think it's safe for me to say that this is one of my favorite Trigun fics. Why? It's not some sweeping epic or stupidly romantic V/M fic...but it is very real. The characters as you present them here are completely in-character, so much so that I can easily see this happening in the series, without making it AU at all. And you're not just parroting back character stuff we already know-you're offering honest-to-goodness introspection.

Milly really does need more fics. She may not know it, but she's got her own brand of wisdom. "You love them anyway." Very true. And that *is* the problem. And it just *works* and is great to read and dammit, I really like this story.

Write more?

mmmmmMMMMEEEEPPP! THAT WAS SO AWESOME! i'm smiling so wide right now, i'm getting funny looks from my sister. but i'm smiling so big! *hugs self* that fic totally described the relationship between Vash and Millie, without making it romantic in the least! and those last two paragraphs! SQUEE! i love fics that can make me smile and feel all squishy inside, so this is definitely gonna find its way to my favorites!

That was so sweet! Family talk is always so touching. Very good job!