Author's Note: I love writing about Faye, her background is so interesting. This can be taken as slight SpikeFaye if you want to see it that way. Hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Cowboy Bebop

Chasing A Life

Spike

Each person on the Bebop has a morning routine. Spike thinks Faye's is the most peculiar. Each morning he sits and watches her trying to figure out what it means.

Faye will stumble into the kitchen still in her sleeping clothes. Then she'll shuffle through the cupboards looking for the coffee they don't have. She'll walk to the fridge to pull out a can of soda. "Caffeine's caffeine, right?" she'll mutter before putting it back. Soon after she leaves the shower starts.

Spike's figured out she's extremely tired but from what? Passing by her room you can tell she's sleeping, either she's snoring or mumbling. Each morning there are bags under her eyes that she'll conceal after her shower. Doesn't she know he sees them? If she knows she doesn't say anything and he pretends not to care.

Faye

At night Faye dreams of her past. Memories of a time when her life had been better. Someone's smile and her sixteenth birthday party. The memories are there yet she has to chase them. Once she begins to grasp onto them they leave. Every morning she wakes up tired.

Each morning she goes through the same routine. She looks for coffee she knows isn't going to be there but hopes someone will get a clue and buy some. She just can't bring herself to drink soda that early. She knows Spike watches her. It's far too early for make-up. When your life is lost to you who cares about appearances?

In the shower she tries to grab the fleeting memories of her subconscious. Faye also tries to figure out why Spike watches her routine. He's never cared before but that doesn't really mean anything. When she puts on her make-up she tries not to think about the friends at her birthday party she just can't remember.

Some would say that she awoke to a nightmare. She knows nothing of this world yet she lives in it. Sleeping Beauty got her prince and didn't have to sleep fifty years to get him. All Faye's got is the lunkhead that she'll never really have. It's thoughts like these that make her wish she was still in deep sleep.

Faye will always be tired, whether it's physical or emotional. In her dreams she chases memories that she never reaches. Sometimes she wakes up more lost than tired.

Author's Note: I know that's really depressing but that's how I see Faye. I also know this is crap, maybe if I have time I'll come back to it one day. I hope you enjoyed this and please review. Thanks!