For them all

I know everyone is thinking I am going to kill Vicious because of Julia. But Julia is only part of the reason. Anastasia, Chin and all the others that he has killed. Not just killed, but murdered.

I am going for Jet. I am going for Ed. I am going for Faye. I know that if I do not take of the head of the serpent now, his shadow will cast its cold hate on us all. He will hunt them down and destroy them in the slowest way he can think of. Just to get at me. They deserve a chance at life.

How could I have thought he was one of the good guys at one time? All of the lives we snuffed out, all of the pain we caused. What took me so long to see he was just a psychotic thug with overblown ambitions? Brothers, thats what we called each other. Always watching each other's back as we took more and more of what was not ours.

I have died a million deaths, lived a million lives. Do I get a chance at one more? Could I be happy with someone like Faye? Someone who always shows up when I need her? Could I live a normal life? Do I even deserve one more? Can I live long enough to have a new past to see?

When my hand reaches for the door, I know it will be all or nothing. I have to go get Vicious before he gets them.

I hope to be back on the Bebop tonight, eating 'Beef and peppers, without the beef.'