You've probably have all of heard this, but I don't own Cowboy Bebop. I wish I did, cause then I would have Spike become Faye's slave. Well let's get to the story...3...2...1...Let's Jam!
Faye held in her arms the tiny form of an infant baby, one that she knew is Spike's son and hers. She held him close to her heart knowing that this would be the only little piece of Spike that she would ever have. A small smile appeared on her face as she gently tried to smooth down his small wisps of bushy green hair. At the sight at him, she wondered if he would some day become as wild and carefree as his Father or would take a different path. The smile disappeared from her face at the memory of Spike, when he chose the path of death, the day he went to get revenge for Julia and free himself from the curse of Vicious. Her sad eyes stared at the face of her son and murmured, "Don't ever chose the path of the death, for I don't want to lose you... Like I did Spike." Her head quickly snapped around at the sound of knock at her door, she smiled knowing that it was someone who had been there for her. "Come in, for I know your anxious to meet my son." Fayegazed up at the door waiting for him to enter.
A tall man came walking in, with a right arm made out of metal, and a metal scar over his right eye. His thick black hair was starting to disappear from becoming bald. He wore that same jacket that he alwayshad with the bird on the back, and those same pants and boots. His deep dark brown eyesglanced at the little infant in Faye's arms, and could really see that it truly was Spike's son. He sighed ruefully and shook his head at the thought of him not being here. When he had asked Faye about the baby, and shehad told him that Spike was the Father, yet he didn't believe it one bit at that time.
"Faye, I really do believe you now, about him being Spike's son. But tell me, what name would fit his son?"
She looked up at him and smiled, "That's very easy Jet. His name is Hoshi (A/N: I know I changed his name, but one of my friends found and it and we both thought it better suited to the son of Spike.), meaning star. For he is the star in my life, and shall always be." Jet smiled at her, "Hoshi is a very fitting name for him. Since he is the son of Spike Spiegel." Jet walked over to her and stood before her, and gently took one of the infants hand in his and sighed, "Faye... What are you going to do with your life now? Keep on bounty hunting, or going to try and find some other job or something that just pays you money to get by?"
Faye looked up at him with her jade green eyes, "Now why are you asking me that? For you should know that I would want to raise Hoshi on the Bebop, for you would be a fatherly figure for him. So don't be trying to kick me off the ship now that I've had a kid." He shook his head at her, "I thought you really wouldn't want to raise him on a ship that will always remind you of his Father..." She looked away from him, knowing that he would always remember how she had been when Spike went after Vicious, and would always know that she loved him and that the Bebop brought back memories of him. "Thank you... For your concern, but I want him to be close to the place that his Father had lived at, for that will be the only way he can be close to him." Faye murmured.
Jet nodded down at her and smiled, "Well I better go out and let Edward see you and Hoshi, or she'll go crazy and probably start biting the chairs." She chuckled at that statement as she watched Jet walk out of the room and head towards the waiting room. Tilting her head she looked out the only window in her room. "Spike, wherever you're, I want you to know your son is the greatest gift you could ever give me besides your love..." With those few words, the infant's little eyes open and stared up at Faye with foggy grey red brown eyes. Her jade eyesgazing into those bottomless pits of wonder, "Your going to look so much like your Father..."
A young boy with wild green hair slowly crept through the ship, not wanting to wake his Mommy or his Uncle Jet, yet he wouldn't mind waking his adopted Sister Edward, but he had promised his Mommy that he wouldn't. He sighed and passed by a door that had been locked since the very day he had laid his eyes on it. Shaking his head he kept on walking and heading to a place that he loved, the cockpit of the ship. Where he could look out the windows and believe he could touch the stars. A crooked smile reached his face as heregarded the starsout the window, "Mommy had once told me that these stars held a great story of a Cowboy, who had two different colors of eyes."
Shepeered at him from the doorway as she heard him say those words, and shook her head. Not believing the fact that he would remember a story like that. Closing her jade green eyes she turned from the doorway and headed towards the so called living room, where sheogled the old yellow couch. That couch that would always seem to make the memories of Spike asleep on it come to mind. Faye shook her head at those memories, and then remembered the question Hoshi asked her about his Father.
"Mommy where's Daddy?" Hoshi asked her as he looked up at her with those great big amber brown eyes. "Your Daddy is on a very long vacation Hoshi, and says that he is sorry that he is not here for you." Faye replied to him as she leaned her head on top of his. "When is he coming back?" He asked her in a desperate sounding voice. "I don't think, Daddy is going to be able to come back." She replied with a sorrow filled voice. "Oh, okay Mommy. Well I'll be here for you forever." He looked up at her and gave her one of his crooked smiles. Faye's eyes filled with tears at the mention of those words, and hugged him close.
Tears began to form in her eyes at that memory of her son, sounding so desperate to find out where his Father was at. Closing her eyes she sat down in the chair across from that old couch, and covered her face with her hands, and began to sob and tremble. "Oh, Spike, why did you ever go? Why? When you knew you would die at the hands of .. V-V-Vicious.. I just don't understand? I need you, your son needs you at this moment.. And your dead!" Faye screamed out and began to cry even more. Amber brown eyes opened wide at hearing those words.
"Dead? But Mommy, you told me that Daddy was on a vac.. That one thing you mentioned he was at. So what do you mean he is dead?"Hoshi spoke with a trembling voice. She looked up at him with a tear streaked face, and held her arms out towards him. He shook his head at her, "No.. no! You lied to me about Daddy! When he is dead!" With those few words he quickly turned away from her with tears running down his face, and went to go hiding, somewhere his Mommy wouldn't think to find him. Faye stared at him as he ran from her, "Hoshi... I'm so sorry..." Bowing her head she shake it in misery and began to cry even more.
Jet watched this all from his room, and sighed at the sight of a Mother and friend struggling, while her son feels betrayed and alone. Turning his attention away from the sight heglared at the locked door, or once known as Spike's room. With a ever cautious hand, he pressed his palm against the cold metal of the door, and sighed with deep regret. "Oh Spike, why did you have to die that day? Why? For you might not realize it or not but, Faye needs you, and especially your Son. You're his Father..." Jet muttered out with sympathy and deep sadness. Turning his head slightly and to stare out a window, "If your in heaven, then help them in some strange way, and if in hell well send a message or something. Just do anything that you can, Spike, from hell or heaven just help them."
A man with long dark blue hair, stared at the man in the glass container. A mask was over the man's mouth and nose, making him able to breath in the liquid that had healed his abdomen wound. His bushy wild green hair was floating around his face, while his body seemed to be in space. A deep sigh escaped him, and looked at the readings on the scanner, "The scanners read that he is healed, drain the liquid and get him into a isolated room, please."One of the nurses looked at him and nodded, "Yes, Dr. Gren, we'll take him to a isolated room once the liquid is drained." Gren smiled down at her, before turning and heading towards his office knowing that he needed to call up some old friends and see if Spike would be welcome home, or at least be able to stay there. Shaking his head and dialing a number that seemed weird to call, since he hadn't talked to two people since well he went into space in what he supposed would be his death in that ship.
A huge face of a girl appeared on the screen, she had large beautiful golden eyes, with goggles on her forehead, keeping wid fire red hair out of her face. "Can I help you?" She said in a bored tone of voice.
"Actually you can. I am looking for a Faye Valentine, or a Jet Black of the Bebop. For I need to talk to them concerning a important friend of theirs." Gren told her a semi-sympathetic voice. She raised a delicate brow, "Um.. Do I know this important friend of theirs? Oh and I am Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky the Fourth, of the Bebop. Or otherwise known as Radical Ed!" Gren coughed into his hand, "Nice to meet you, I am Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener, I am a Doctor at Cryogenic Hospital of Mars. Now could I please talk to either Faye Valentine or Jet Black." Edward just glared at him, "I'll get Jet, Faye is.. Uh... indisposed at the moment. So hold on, while I get Jet." She quickly got up from her chair and headed towards Jet's bonsai room, full of his precious little miniature trees.
Gren sighed and looked at the nurses that where passing by his office, with Spike in a Gurney heading towards his very own isolated room. He shook his head at the sight, and turned back to the screen to see that a very scary man was staring at him. "Um hum.. Are you by chance Jet Black?" Gren asked him with a small smile, and gulped. "Yes, I am. Now what I can help you with Doctor?" Jet asked him with a look that could kill. "Well, I have a friend here that you haven't see for oh, six years.. And he shall awake soon, and I wanted to know if he would have a place to stay at?" He asked him with a hopeful voice. Jet quickly sat up in his chair and raised a brow at that question, "What friend are we talking about? For I only know of one person that I haven't seen for six years, and he is dead." Gren shook his head sadly, "That friend Jet, is non-
other than Spike Spiegel. A man that I know was once apart of your crew on the Bebop. And he is alive, and shall soon wake up." Jet shook his head and glared at him, "This can't be true, he died in the battle against Vicious. So how can he be alive?"
Gren shook his head, "Look, he was brought to my hospital and well, he was cryogenically healed, not frozen though, just in the water part of it. That is how he is alive, look if you want to see him alive. Then come down to the Cryogenic Hospital of Mars. And just tell the receptionist that you're there to see Dr. Gren." Jet raised a brow at the mention of Gren, "I'll come. But tell me, do I know you?" Gren quickly shook his head, "Uh.. No I don't believe we've met before. Just come on by today if you can. For I'm sure you'll recognize Spike." Jet nodded, "I'll come down, but I won't make any promises that he will be coming home with me." Gren nodded and sighed in relief, "Well at least your coming, and I'll see you when you get here until then. Good bye." Gren quickly hit the button disconnecting him from the conversation. He sighed in relief, "Thank goodness he is coming.." Turning his head at the sound of footsteps hespotted one of his nurses panting before him.
"Dr. Gren, Mr. Spiegel is awakening!" The nurse panted out between breaths. Gren quickly shot out of his chair, using his legs as an advantage as he ran to Spike's room. Skidding into the room he stared at Spike as he opened his different colored set of eyes.
Spike looked around the room, not knowing where the hell he was at. He turned his head to see someone he thought dead, after helping him into space, "Gren? Is that you? God I must be in heaven to be seeing you." Gren shook his head at him, "No, I'm alive and so are you Spike. We where both saved and healed in this hospital. The Cryogenic Hospital of Mars." Spike quickly tried to sit up to only fall back down onto the bed that the nurses had placed him on. "Don't move Spike, your still pretty weak from being in the cryogenic liquid tank for so long." Gren said in a quiet voice tinged with happiness. "How long was I in that tank!" Spike asked quietly in a choked up voice. "You where in that tank, for six years Spike, six long years. Luckily though we saved you and healed that wound that could have killed you."Gren spoke with simple kindness.
"Why did you ever keep me alive? I went there knowing I was going to die! And I was looking forward to it, for I would be with Juli-" He was cut off with his ranting when Gren slapped him across the face. "Calm yourself down Spike! You're lucky to even be alive! Plus the fact is two people needed you to be alive more than anything!" Gren shouted down at him. "Who needs me! No one needs me Gren! I've known that, and glad of it. For I knew I was going to fight Vicious to the death, and I knew I would die. And when I died against him I would owe no one anything! Yet you saved me!" Spike roared back at him. Grenswayed his head from side to side, "Look, Jet is coming to see if you're alive. And if he wants to I will let him talk to you, and the fact is he will tell you why two people need you alive." With those few words he turned from Spike and stared at a nurse, "A man will be coming up looking for me, just bring him straight to my office please. So I can talk to him on the situation at hand. Now excuse me I must be off. Good bye for now Spike!" He quickly strode out of the room, leaving Spike to his own doings.
Spike raised a brow at his departure, wondering what the hell he meant by Jet would have to tell him why he is needed alive for two people. He shook his head and laid back against the bed, and tried to get comfortable. 'This bed is not as comfortable as the old yellow couch on the Bebop' He thought to himself, before closing his eyes, and going into a light doze. For he was high on alert ever since the conversation with Gren, for boy it gave him the creeps seeing him again when he thought he was dead. Yet what he really wanted to know is who are the two people that needed him? 'Who needs me, I mean it can't be Edward or Ein, those two can take care of themselves. And it can't be Faye... ah Faye, a woman with a major attitude, yet one I could say dug a path into my heart and now lurks there forever.' A smiled appeared on his face at his thoughts and opened his eyes to hear a voice he recognized very well, and sighed at the meeting that he knew would occur.
Gren stared at the man sitting across from him, and smiled, "Welcome Jet. I am glad that you did come." Jet growled under his breath and shook his head, "Look I came here to see if Spike is really alive with my very own eyes. Now let's cut the small talk and show me that he truly is alive." Gren nodded and stood, "Then follow me, Jet. And I shall show you Spike, and I do hope you will think about letting him stay with you on your ship." Jet shook his head and followed along behind Gren, wondering if it really was Spike or some clone. Gren turned a corner and stood before a window that looked upon Spike laying in his bed.
Jet came up behind him and looked over to see, "Damn! He really is alive!" Heglanced at the figure of Spike with his black eyes, and sighed. "I'm getting to damn old for stuff like this..." Jet muttered out. "So will you take him home or anything like that?" Gren asked him quietly. Jet looked up at him, "You know about his Son, don't you? And that's the reason why you really want me to take him home?" Gren nodded and looked down at him with his deep blue eyes, "That is the reason. But I will let you talk to him and tell him why he needs to be alive, for both Faye and their Son. I will lead you into his room now." Gren quickly turned from the window and opened a couple of doors to only walk into Spike's, "Spike! You have a visitor! And please do play nice." Jet came walking in behind Gren and stared at Spike, and sighed.
"Yo Jet." Spike called to him lightly. "Yo, Spike." Jet replied in a deep voice tinged with some hope. Jet came forward and sat in a chair next to the bed, "I guess I need to tell you some things, that might be able to help you out if you do stay on the Bebop." Spike looked up at him with his sad amber brown eyes, "Alright then Jet, talk. For I have two ears to listen to you with." Jet sighed and closed his eyes, "When you left Spike, we found out that Faye was pregnant and with your child." Spikebeamed him alook full of shock, "My child! But.. I.. How come she never told me?" Jet gave him a sad smile, "She tried to make you stay, but not for that reason at the time. She tried to make you stay then because she loves you, and didn't want you to die. We didn't find out she was pregnant until I checked her into a hospital from collapsing from her grief over your death. That's when we found out and why she didn't tell you."
Spikehung his head and stared at Jet in denial, "There is no way I am a Father, I mean hello, me the guy who hates kids has one now?" Jet nodded and sighed, "Yes, you have a child or should I say Son, named Hoshi, meaning star. And you can tell it's your Son, here let me show you a picture of him."He muttered out as he grabbed a picture out of his jacket pocket and handed it to Spike. Spikegazed at the picture in shock and knew, really knew that was his Son, "Hoshi... That's a nice name... But tell me Jet, what is he like? What is my Son like? And how is Faye?" He nodded at the outcome of this conversation, "He is actually pretty calm except for when he is being mischievous. Hoshi is a really good kid, and Faye she is doing okay. Except for the fact, that she needs help raising Hoshi, and it needs to be his Father that helps raise him. Not me and Ed, for I'm not his Father and Ed, well I know she isn't. I'm just his Uncle and Ed his adopted Sister." Spikesighed, "Jet, I would give anything to go back onto the Bebop and see Hoshi. And just help raise him, and be a Father to him. Well to also see Faye, the one woman who gave me a Son." Jet smiled and looked up to see Gren staring at them through the window, and beckoned him into the room.
Gren came running in with a grin, "Can I help you two with anything?" Spike looked up at him and sighed, "Yeah, get me out of here!" Jetglanced at Spike and shook his head, "Yes, Dr. Gren. Could you tell me when he will be able to leave the hospital? For I am going to take him back to the Bebop to live on." Gren beamed them both a huge smile, "Spike can leave her sometime this afternoon. We just need the paperwork to come in to see if he is in the clear in health now. And then he can go, if he is in the clear that is." Spike nodded and sighed, "That's good for I think I would like to go home, and meet Hoshi and see Faye..." Jet saw that look flash through his eyes, knowing that there was a deeper reason as to why he wanted to see Faye, but didn't mention anything, "Why don't you go check on those papers Dr. Gren, so I can talk more to Spike." Gren shrugged and turned from them both and left the room.
"Spike, I think I need to tell you some things about Faye, before you even step onto the Bebop."Jet said in a quiet voice. "What do you need to tell me about Faye, Jet?" Spike asked with a questioning look. "Spike, when you supposedly died. Faye broke down and was in a deep depression. She tried to do suicide and almost had a couple of successes, but Ein was watching her and he got Ed to stop it. So she is alive, and she had a even better reason to live when she found out she was pregnant. But there is one thing though, when you show up on that ship, she will hate you very much and with a passion. Your son might also hate you, but please just stay out of both of their ways. And let Faye heal on her own." Jet told him in his most serious voice ever. Spike nodded and closed his eyes, "So it still might be awhile before I really even get to spend some real quality time with my Son or even Faye." Jet nodded, "It might be awhile but at least you get to see them Spike..." Spike nodded in some what of regret and happiness, he turned his head at the sound of footsteps.
"I have the papers! And your all clear Spike! So get the hell out of my hospital!" Gren shouted at him. "Shut up, once boob-man!" Spike shouted back at him. Jet turned his head in surprise, "I thought I knew you. You're the saxophone player that tied up Faye in your apartment so she wouldn't follow you when you met up with Vicious!" Gren sighed and stared at Jet, "I hate being found out... Anyways just take Spike and go. I have other patients to take care of too you know." Spike glared at him, "Fine I'll leave but I demand to be wheeled down to the Hammerhead. For I don't think I can walk that far without falling over." Gren laughed and poked his head out the door and called for a wheel chair. Jet stared at Spike, "Boy have you sure gotten out of shape. For you could have a broken leg have it heal and be up real quick. But now you can barely walk..." Spike shrugged at him and quickly sat up at the sight of the wheelchair, "Gren your pushing me!" Gren glared at him, and sighed, "I'll push you.. Just for the sake of being friend's with you. Well let's get you going, Jet go on ahead and get the ship right outside the front entrance so we can get him in there." Jet nodded and quickly got up and headed down towards where the Hammerhead is parked at.
Gren quickly helped Spike up and into the wheelchair, "Are you all set to go home? And meet your Son, Hoshi?" Spike looked up at him and glared, "You knew my Son's name?" Gren nodded, "I did, but I wanted Jet to tell you about him. Now are you ready?" Spike mumbled a few choice words out and nodded at him, "Let's just go!" Gren chuckled lightly and pushed him out towards the waiting Hammerhead.
Faye stared at Hoshi as he silently slept in the cot next to her bed, reaching out a hand she combed her hand through his wild bushy green hair. A tender smile came to her face as shefocusedon him, "My little star alright..." Bending down she gently picked him up into her arms and sat down on her bed and held him against her. Her head leaning down on top of his, tears welling in her eyes, "Oh Hoshi, why do you have to resemble Spike so much?" With upmost care she gently laid him down on her bed, and covered him up with some blankets, that has a great picture of Swordfish II on it. Smiling in spite of her latest thoughts, she quietly left her room and headed towards the living room. Her smile grew bigger at seeing Edward once again hacking on her little computer, while Ein laid by her side.
"Find anything interesting Ed?"Faye asked her quietly. Edward looked up at hearing a voice and shook her head.
"No! No! No! Edward has not found anything interesting, Faye-Faye!"Edward shouted out in her joyous voice as she turned back to hacking. "I am not Faye-Faye, it's just Faye." She muttered out her usual answer to Edward when she called her 'Faye-Faye'. "Whatever Faye-Faye!"Edward replied in once again her joyous voice. Faye shook her head and headed into the kitchen where she grabbed herself a cup of coffee, she turned her head slightly at hearing the hanger open. "I see that Jet has finally returned from wherever he went..."Faye mumbled to herself with a shrug. A smile appeared on her face as she heard footsteps and turned mumbling out a greeting, "Hi-.. Spike!" She dropped her coffee mug and gaped at him, "No it can't be! You died in the battle against Vicious! My mind must be playing tricks on me! For you're dead!"
"Faye, no it's not true. I am alive! Gren saved me, he healed me at the Cryogenic Hospital of Mars. So please don't be frightened..." Spike murmured out to her. "I'm not frightened for you're not here! For Gren is dead! And so are you!"She shouted out at him. Jet appeared then and looked at Faye shaking his head.
"He is alive Faye, and so is Gren."
"No! Never! They're both dead!"
"Faye! Listen to me, Spike is standing her before you alive!"
"He was killed by Vicious! Both of them! But especially Spike.. Please Jet tell me he is dead! I can't take this!"
Jet calmly stepped forward and took her into his arms, "Faye... He is alive, and he has returned to you and Hoshi. Please Faye, believe he is alive for he is." Faye looked up at him and then over to Spike, she quickly got out of his arms and walked over to Spike andogled at him for a few moments. Before quickly slapping him across the face, "You might be alive! But to me you died the day you left to face Vicious, Spike Spiegel!" She quickly turned from them both and walked back into her room, where she quickly closed and locked the door. Quietly shelaid down next to Hoshi and took him into her arms, and trembled from the shock at seeing Spike alive.
Spike raised his hand to his cheek, and knew he had lost the Faye in heart and soul from when she slapped him. "Come on Spike, Edward will at least be glad to see you." With a grim nod, Spike walked out into the living room and stared at Edward and Ein for a moment. "Hey Ed did you find anything useful?" Spike called out to her. Edward quickly jumped up and turned to regard him, before her golden eyes opened wide, and ran over to him and hugged him around the waist. "Spike-Person has returned!"Edward shouted out as she hugged him. Spike smiled down at her and patted her shoulder, he then noticed that Ein was running around him barking at him. "Yeah, I'm back Ed and Ein, and plan on staying this time." Spike murmured as he ruffled her hair lightly. Yet he looked out of the corner of his eyes andglanced at Faye's room, and sighed knowing that it would really be along way until things could be the way that they once where between them.
Well fans I hope this story was better than the way it was originally written the first time. For most of my friends really like how this one was written, and I know most of the senses where just sight. But I will be concentrating more on smell and hearing in the next up coming chapters. Well thank you for being patient with me, and I hope this makes things better between some of my reviewers.
-AngelsWarmth