-What Were We Waiting For-

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Regular POV

The sun was shining annoyingly through Faye's small window. She was a really light sleeper and she was sure it was way too early to be up yet. Faye slowly rose from her bed looking at a clock she dug up from somewhere; it said 7:43, yup way too early to be up. She got up and went to wash up then went to the bebop's main room. She saw jet was already up and wide awake sitting at the computer with coffee in his right hand. He looked up when he heard her walk in. "hey morning" he said in a low tone. She sat down and said "yeah back atcha. So why are you up so early?" he answered back "you know I'm always up early" "yeah I guess. You look like you barely got any sleep last night. It's not cuz of what I told you is it?" he slightly glanced at her and said "no.." she decided to drop the subject and asked "so what do you got there ? another bounty?" she leaned over to look and he replied "yup, name Jack Stevos. Wanted for drug trafficking . He's a small fry, only 5,000 w" "hmmm sounds easy enough" Jet sat up and said " yeah he should be, but we gatta track him down. I got no idea where he would be. It's been harder with Ed gone"

"yeah, but I'm sure I can find it. Just need to do a little homework." He got up as if he was gonna leave "alright you do that and I'm gonna go run some errands. He was last seen here on mars but I'm not sure if he's still here." "gattcha " she said. "k well see ya. Oh wait Faye! Before I forget you said you went for that interview yesterday. Did you get it?" she looked up thoughtfully for a second then said slightly excited "oh yeah! I did ! I start tomorrow." Jet looked a little surprised then asked "good pay?" "it's alright. It's a starters pay, 700 an hour" he thought about it for a second "that's not too bad. What was it called?" "Lola and Eric's" (AN: I know how original, but I couldn't think of anything so don't judge :b) "right" and with that he walked out. Faye set back to work knowing she wasn't going to have much spare time when her job started.

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Spike was sitting on one of the bar stools sipping some drink he didn't know the name to. 'I need to get out of this shit hole' "yo spike! I just called the guy I know who was working on your suit. He said it should be ready by tomorrow, and then you can stop wearing my clothes." Eric said a little too happy. "Great" spike muttered. "Hey common now spike! Why are you acting so lame right now huh?" "Lame?" 'Who the hell says that' spike thought. "yeah lame, that's what I said" oh leave him alone and get back to your job Eric" said Lola from behind them. They turned to look at her and she just smiled.

"I see someone isn't having a very good morning huh?" she said to spike pouring him coffee and swapping his drink with it. "Little early to be drinking isn't it?" she asked. Spike looked up at the clock above them. It read 9:56 "Not really…" he muttered. She just giggled a little and walked off. "Well I guess I better get back to work before she blows off my head. See ya. Get some air if you need to" Eric said then walked off. Spike sat there for a second then he heard the door. He waited a while then glanced to it but saw no one.

He raised an eyebrow then heard someone behind him say
"looking for me?" He recognized that voice he smirked and turned around. "Well what do you know? The shrew talked and here is the old man" Jet glared at spike 'shit. Why the hell am I getting that a lot lately' "well I guess she wasn't lying this time. You're really alive" jet looked at spike for a while still trying to believe what was before him. "Yeah? Well stop staring at me like that it's a little freaky Jet" spike said turning back around. Jet sat next to him and said "well what did you expect huh? I mean I just saw a guy I thought was dead" spike sighed and said "yeah, I was a little freaked out too."

They sat quiet for a while then spike spoke up "so how have you guys been this past month? I would have asked Faye but I didn't wanna start anything with her yet. She prally would have said something sarcastic and then lecture me about what an idiot I am." Jet chuckled a little then said "I guess we've been okay. We've been struggling with money and my damn leg won't let me hunt like I used to." Spike took a glance to his leg "still buggin ya huh?" Jet then said "just a little." "sorry. You know about…well… everything. Ever since I came on your ship I guess I have been nothing but trouble." Jet looked slightly surprised then said "Nah, I'm used to delinquents like you. Have you seen the other members of our ship?"

they shared a little laugh and then Jets communicator went off. Jet looked at it, it was Faye so he answered "yo, what's up" they both heard a small nervous chuckle and then she hesitantly said "Hey, uhh I may have gotten myself into some trouble again"

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You wanna know the first rule of combat?

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Faye had finally gotten more info on this Stevos guy. It turned out he was a little more than just a drug dealer. Apparently he worked for this big time drug dealer who was bad news. They were an underground type thing so messing with him is messing with them. But of course Faye being the stubborn hard headed person she was decided she could handle it all on her own. She found out he was stationed at this sleezzy corner by the beach. What you would say is a bed are on this side of mars.

Faye walked up to the corner it was already maybe 9:15 am but there he was standing there open for business. Faye was noticing the looks she was getting from men and women. The women wanting her off their corner and the guys well, you can guess what they wanted. Although some of the women were giving her looks that were really starting to scare her. She pulled down her shirt and tightened her jacket around her but did lift up her shorts just a bit more. ( I mean come on now, she still had to do her job.) As she got closer he spoke up.

"Hey, what's a pretty thing like you doing here all alone? You know for women like you it's not that safe around here" she gave a smile and said "well girls like me live for danger." At this he raised his eyebrows then got closer in interest. "so I hear you go the good stuff. Are the rumors true or will I be disappointed?" Faye said leaning in a little bit. He chuckled "well that depends which good stuff you'r talking about. Cuz if you want the drugs that's pretty good, but if you want the action, well baby I'll rock your world." She grabbed him by his shirt and started walking towards a darker part of the street a little more hidden. "well why don't you show me in a place a little more private.

He smiled and followed her. She pushed him against the wall and whispered in his ear. "now now jack, I don't think that big bad boss of yours would like to know you were bad mouthing his business compared to your abilities in bed. Now would he?" he raised and eyebrow at her and said "ahh, so you did your homework hmm? What are you this time? an undercover agent, low down bounty hunter?" Faye was a little surprised that he was expecting her. Noticing this he said "people like you come after me all the time, so I'm not even shocked anymore" she quickly pulled out her gun but he grabbed her wrist "not a good idea honey. You see I got eyes all around and if you wanna live you gatta obey the rules baby" he said with a sleezzy smile.

She smirked and said "well sorry but I don't like being told what to do, and I hate being called "baby" " with that she brought up her leg to kick him off her and knock him on the floor. With a grunt he fell and brought out his gun as well but she shot it out of his hand. She set out a few shots towards him but was thrown off by some random guy who came out of nowhere and grabbed her from behind. She kicked him in the groin and sent him to the floor too, but soon more and more came and she knew she couldn't take them all. Eventually she was grabbed by three guys at once and held back and had her gun taken away.

Then she saw Stevos come up to her with a bloody nose that she must have given him when she kicked him. She sighed when he started to talk. He grabbed her chin and said "well BABY looks live you will be listening now huh?" she stayed quiet not wanting to take the situation further. She knew she had a big mouth but she knew when it was time to shut up. "Take her to miles room In Funda (yes a city in mars that I just made up) leave her there for now" with that they put her in a nearby car and took her to some apartment looking place. They threw her in one of the rooms and locked the door.

When she was sure she they were gone she took out her communicator. 'ha you think those bastards would check me for this stuff huh?' she called Jet and was thankful she had paid attention to where they were going in the car. Really they made it way too easy to escape. She sat on the bed that was there and dialed Jet. "hello" she heard on the other end of the line. "Hey, uhh I may have gotten myself into some trouble again"

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Shoot them before they shoot you.

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Jet groaned when he heard Faye speak. "ahh shit faye. What the hell did you do now?" he heard her sigh "it wasn't all my fault! You gave me miss information!" he groaned again and rubbed his temples with his free hand. He heard spike chuckle next to him and glared. "so what do you need? Where are you?" when she spoke he noticed she got quiet "I'm on marker street in funda in some apartment building that starts with an m." an apartment building that starts with an m? wait, how the hell did you get in fauna!? And how is the m supposed to help! There are a lot of apartments with m's on marker!"

"Well sorry that I couldn't look at the name of the apartment Jet! I was a little busy trying not to get groped by the guys who brought me here!" she whisper yelled. Jet stiffened a little at that and said alight alright I'm on my way. Just stay put" then he hung up. She stared at the phone and said "yeah like I have a choice." Then threw it on the bed. Jet stood from the stool and started to put his jacket on. "well you heard that. I gotta go, chatcha later spike." He was about to walk out when spike stopped him by grabbing his arm. "wait jet, I wanna go." Jet raised an eyebrow "you wanna what!? Spike I don't know, I mean you're not fully healed yet and…" he was cut off by spike. "I'm coming jet and you know you can't say anything to convince me otherwise." Jet looked at him then grumbled "fine, but I'm piloting the hammer head. I'm guessing your ship isn't exactly ready yet huh?" " you're right, but I got a ship." Jet looked up "how?" "don't worry about it just get a head start" "alright" Jet said and walked out. Spike went to the counter in the back and wrote a note to eric and lola.

-Eric,

Went with an old friend somewhere. Oh and don't worry I'll bring it back. Thanks

-spike

With that spike walked out with a pair of keys.

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Faye had been sitting in the room for nearly 5 hours now. She looked at the clock and it was already gonna be 5:00pm. Ugh! She hated life right now. After a few moments she heard footsteps coming towards the door. She sat up and waited. Then she saw Jack come through with maybe 5 of his goons. "well look at that pretty face. So you've been waiting for me all this time huh? How bout we have some fun?" she spat and said "not likely ass hole" he raised a single brow and said. "Oh so we have a mouth now huh? Well how bout we put it to use" Faye got a little intimidated when he started to walk towards her until one of the goons stopped him.

"hey boss. I don't think we have time for that. You know the big guy is gonna be mad if we're late." "yeah, we just be done with her and have some fun with another one. Besides I saw a hotter one In mikes room." Said a different goon. Jack sighed and said "alright alright take her to the roof." Faye was a little relieved that she had time to kill so Jet could get there In time. Two guys grabbed her and they went about 5 flights of stairs still they reached the roof. They held her back as jack raised his gun to her head. "okay BABY, this will show you what not to mess with." She closed her eyes just as he was about to shoot. But when she heard the shot she felt nothing except a heavy weight on her.

She looked up to see the steov's body slumped against hers. Then she saw what she expected to be jet standing in the doorway with a gun, but then noticed it was…spike. She looked surprised and said "spike?" he twirled his gun and looked at her. Just before he blew on it he said "yo" then she felt a guy be kicked off of her by who she guessed was jet.

Then she took the other guy while he was distracted. As soon as they were all out spike grabbed faye by the arm and started to run with Jet close behind. "If you don't wanna get caught by the big guy we better go" he said. She was following till she remembered something and stopped. "wait!" she said "I forgot something!" then she ran back. They both groaned "faye ! this isn't the time!" yelled jet. Then she came back with her gun in hand. "oh there is always time for my baby!"

They all went for their ships and looked down a the boddies, then Jet spoke from the communication part of the ships. "alright faye, you owe me and we got the guy at least" she smiled and said. "yeah, except one problem Jet" "what?" he answered. Then spike came on "let me guess. He's worth nothing dead" he stated more than asked. She sat back in her chair and said "yup, right on the spot cowboy" and with that they went to the bebop.

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Who said life was easy?

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They all sat around the table in the main room. "well, nothing has really changed around here at least." Spike said to Jet. "Well what did you expect? It's only been a month. Not much can change" 'so much already has' spike said in him head. He leaned back and sighed. "Well at least this couch is the same too" spike said with a smirk. Faye finally spoke up. "So what the hell were you thinking today Spiegel ? Your no fully healed and you still look like shit, why did you come?" spike looked at her and shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe I just needed the good adrenalin rush. It actually really helped." She stood up and said "so does this mean you're staying?" she said somewhat quietly. He looked at jet and said "well that all depends on old man black here" jet gave him a glare and said "That's Mr. back to you and I actually don't mind. "spike raised a brow In half mock and half serious questioning. "Really? Even if I'm a delinquent?" Jet just chuckled and said "well it wouldn't be the same if you weren't" then with that they started to laugh. Faye just looked at them like they were crazy and said to herself more than anyone else. "I'll never understand them." Then walked off with a final thought 'time to shower!'

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Welcome home space cowboy.

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Okay ! all done with that chapter! So please R&R and thanks to the people that have! Sayonara!

-animestarz96