Fic name thanks to The Ataris' album.
Anywhere but Here
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When she heard his ship fly off, she slumped down against the wall and landed on the floor with a thud. She stayed like that for several hours. When she finally raised her head from its place hidden in her arms, the new dawn shined its light upon her through the window in the rec. room.
Fucking bastard.
She wondered if he even knew what she had basically confessed to him, not in words but in her actions. It shot at him in bullets and he never even looked back once. Not even a proper goodbye.
Faye took a deep breath and the new air reminded her that she was a strong woman now. She was not a pushover, not naive, not...in love.
Technically, I haven't lost anything...because I never gave anything up.
Sound with this new idea in her mind, she got up and groaned at the pain her muscles gave her. Staying on the ground huddled up for many hours is not a good idea, she noted to herself.
Still, standing up felt better and she walked into the rec. room. Faye had this feeling Jet was gone and after looking throughout the Bebop, realized she was right.
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"So where've you been?" Faye mumbled with her cigarette still in her mouth. She was lying on her sunbathing chair exposed on the hangar, except she wasn't sunbathing.
"I went looking for him." Jet told her gruffly.
Faye stopped breathing midway to process the thought and then released her smoke. "Is he dead?" The word caused her to cringe inwardly and in doing so, accidentally dropped her cigarette over the railing of the fishing ship. She watched it float on the water briefly and then the current taking it over.
"He wasn't there..." He replied hesitantly.
Jet was frowning and Faye felt uncomfortable with him staring off into the abyss like that. Then he spoke,
"I talked to that Laughing Bull guy, had some connections with Spike. He wouldn't give me a straight answer and I left."
He looked at her for a reaction and she shrugged. Then they both turned to look out at the rising sky.
After a while Faye said, "We can't stay here forever looking for him, Jet."
"I never said we were," he replied, beginning to walk across the stern into the Bebop.
She called out to him because he was already far from her. She doubted he would stay to listen if she took any longer. "All I'm saying is the past is the past. We should move on from here and now."
He turned back once, looking at Faye's uncombed hair and how it stuck to her face from not taking a shower. "We'll be leaving tomorrow." He entered the ship and left Faye to perfect her steady breathing.
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