[Thorny-Blondie was saying something, and for a second, he was distracted, his brow furrowing as he tried to make sense of it, but then footsteps were thudding through the sand behind him and Other-Blondie was screaming, and he spun to find a gun aiming at the crazy son of a bitch right through his own face, and he screamed to.
Before he reached up, slapping the top-break loading mechanism so that it would pop open and eject any bullets that might have been in the barrel before they could be fired.]
KIDS! NICHOLAS, HE'S GROWING KIDS INSIDE OF HIM! BABIES, HE WAS SCARED I'D HURT THE BABIES! STAND DOWN, WE DON'T WANT 'IM GOIN' BERZERKER MODE AGAIN!
[Did he know that would happen? No. But if the thought of hurting innocent children wasn't enough to make the other Wolfwood stop, maybe the threat of making Vash go back on his murdering bullshit again if they were threatened would.]
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Before he reached up, slapping the top-break loading mechanism so that it would pop open and eject any bullets that might have been in the barrel before they could be fired.]
KIDS! NICHOLAS, HE'S GROWING KIDS INSIDE OF HIM! BABIES, HE WAS SCARED I'D HURT THE BABIES! STAND DOWN, WE DON'T WANT 'IM GOIN' BERZERKER MODE AGAIN!
[Did he know that would happen? No. But if the thought of hurting innocent children wasn't enough to make the other Wolfwood stop, maybe the threat of making Vash go back on his murdering bullshit again if they were threatened would.]