*yadda yadda don't own Cowboy bebop and all that Jazz*
Light sleeper
Chapter 1: if your heart was broken, you would be dead.
I was well aware of what I had gotten into. I knew that once I started it I had to stick with it till it was over and done with. I knew that once I walked away from Jet and Faye and the Bebop I wasn't going to come back to the same old same old. I knew Faye was pregnant, considering the kind of stress relieving that we did it was expected after some time though she, herself had debts with the whole being frozen thing she thought that her body was literally frozen in time but she was wrong. I knew she might not want me back into her life after this but she knew what she did when she told me that Julia was waiting for me. I knew what I was possibly giving up and taking away if I flew off out of that hanger, but I had to. I hope that they would eventually understand why I acted the way I did. Why I dropped everything I had done for myself in the last three years to chase down my past. I had to, I had to really had to relive my past if there was any hope that I could one day put it pass me and look into the future with both eyes. I had to prove that this life wasn't just a dream I couldn't wake up from.
There was something beeping and buzzing near me and it was annoying the shit out of me. Was that the computer? Was Edward back? Was it her? I couldn't open my eyes, they felt way too heavy. I tried to move my arms and legs but nothing. Could I speak? Was there someone here me if I do?
"Ugh," I managed to crook out.
"Holy shit," heard someone reply as I used up all my energy and opened my eyes.
"Oh, it's you Faye"
"Is that how we say hello?" She got up from the chair on the foot of my bed and came to stand next
To me.
"How are you feeling?"
"Okay, I guess" I started to get the feeling back of my extremities and with that started wiggling
And twisting everything making sure it was all working as it should. I looked up and couldn't help to smile at the relief in Faye's face.
"Do you know where you are?"
"In the hospital?" I looked around, "yeah everything pretty much screams out hospital."
"Do you remember anything of how you got here or who brought you here?" she sat on the bed where my feet were hanging off the railing. I had to think about it for a second then the flood gates were opened and Faye couldn't help but flinch at the horrid expression I must have had on my face.
"I remember fighting with Vicious but not much afterwards."
"That's good at least you remembered most of it, spike." she stopped as if she where trying to find the words.
"Yeah?"
"The remaining members of the Red dragon where the ones that brought you here and are the ones that are paying for everything. They said since you brought down Vicious that you are their new leader."
"You're fucking joking!"
She just shuck her head "No"
It took me sometime to adjust to this idea. The very thing I feared and ran away from is now under my rule.
"Do they come here? Have they asked you anything?"
"Some guy named Kelvin comes from time to time to check up on your progress but other than that I told them to make themselves as scares as possible." she smiled I knew exactly how that would have worked out and am surprised that security still lets her come in.
"So how long was I out for? A week, two, three?"
"Try I don't know about 28 weeks." a sad gleam mirrored her eyes
"Damn, fuck man, but why? How?"
"The doctors put you in a medically induced coma to help your body repair it's self and adjust to your new kidney."
"Kidney? Was that all." She gave me a look but choose not to act upon it.
"Yep, you had such an extensive laundry list of injuries that it took them a month to decide what they were going to repair first. You are very lucky you didn't have any broken bones. You were under for more than expected but the doctors said that we couldn't force you to wake up, you had to do it by yourself, believe me I tried."
I let out a laugh that was such a Faye thing to do. Then it hit me I was out for the better part of seven months. The baby?
"What happened to the baby?" I looked up at her with confusion set in my eyes but all she did was smile and kiss me on the forehead.
"Babies"
"Babies? Plural, like more than one? You have got to be kidding me." My mouth hung wide open making her laugh out loud and then grabbed my hand.
"Spike you are the father of two beautiful baby girls."
"Twins?" I still couldn't grasp my head around that.
"Two? Girls?" she just laughed at me again.
"Yes, lunk head two girls." I looked up at her with an awe that reflected off her soften eyes.
"But wait you were only three months before this whole thing happened and you weren't even showing yet," she scooted closer.
"It turns out that I was more far along that we both thought I was I was more like four months when you left. They were growing more inward than usual. I really didn't start showing until I was 5 months, that's when I blew up" she laughed and I smiled she seemed so happy I felt envious of that happiness.
"When were they born?" I looked at her always perfectly flat stomach.
"Two months ago, they'll turn three months on the 23rd."
"Where are they now?"
"They're with uncle Jet right know."
"Wow," I lay back on the bed trying to take it all in.
I couldn't help but sit up at pull her closer by her hands and give her a kiss on the cheek.
"I can't believe they'd let people like us have kids," That made us both laugh.
"I can't believe it either."
"So what's been going on while I've been sleeping?"
"Nothing much really, I moved out of the Bebop and got a nice apartment around here. Jet's been staying with me but you know him he needs his time alone. He just came back from Venus, seems like he met someone special there when we stopped by there to catch a bounty head a few months back."
"Wait, you were still catching bounty's while pregnant?"
"Yeah, why shouldn't I? Of course when I got too big and heavy I did most of the behind the scene work and Jet caught them but other than that it was I perfect cover."
"But you were pregnant!"
"Like that stopped me from carrying on with my life as usual, after I stopped drinking and quit smoking I did as I normally do."
"You would forever be narcissistic and hard headed."
"Yep, why would anything change that? You're stupid for thinking otherwise."
"I am stupid" we both laughed.
Forever stupid.
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Yay, ewww, whatever that was chap 1 many more to come it feels like a long one⦠not too long I'm sure but decently long.
This is my first time attempting to write anything of the sort so feel free on going all out with it I honesty don't mind. I have like 4 or 5 more chapters to put up but I would like to hear some suggestions and comment and or concerns before I do so.
