Disclaimer: I don't own Cowboy Bebop,or any of the characters used in this fic. They all belong to Sunrise Studio. I only own any of my original characters that I choose to include, as well as any of my own original plot ideas.

Cowboy Blues

A/N: Post-series.


I have to remind myself, almost all the time, that I won't see you again. That we already made it to that moment, to that "one last time." And that you're really gone. Not running away, not lying to me.

Just gone.

I don't know what's worse. Daybreak, where I wake and think about what should have been, with you and me, or nightfall, where I lay here and remember that there's nothing that can take your place on this lonely bed. Not even that stupid dog.

"It's all a dream," you said, as you went, and I thought that maybe someday, I could understand.

But, even after all this time, I don't have dreams. Just nightmares.