I bet I got an angry mob yelling at me because I took so long to respond back. I'm SO sorry! I hope you forgive me!

Here's what happened. I had major writer's block, and then I went on vacation for a week. My Microsoft Word program started acting weird and so I had to fix it and yeah I hope you guys forgive me! I'll respond to comments in the next chappie, ciao ciao for now!

Chapter 11:
Spoilin'

Zeke walked into the lounge. Faye was dead asleep with drool hanging from her mouth, and Spike kept tossing on another couch, trying to get to get some sleep. Zeke walked towards the fridge. "I need a beer." He huffed. While opening, Spike sat up. He looked at the mechanic, blinking, at first, to try to "wake up."

"Hey, you wanna beer?" Zeke asked as he opened his can. Spike shook his head.

"Naw, I have to fly my starship. All I need now is to fly into another ship. That would suck." Spike said.

"Hey, suit yourself." He said as he took a chug of his beer. "You know your ship isn't going to be finished today. It got damaged pretty badly. I would explore around town if I were you, Lee." After that said, he gulped more beer down his throat.

Spike grumbled. "When is going to be finished?" he stood up and yawned. "I need it badly."

"Tomorrow. I've been working on it all night. That ship needs special equipment, so... yeah. You should take your girl to the mall or something." Zeke suggested. He threw the can away, and started heading back to the door. "Get 'er somethin' fancy." He winked and then walked out of the lounge.

'My girl..." Spike thought. "Yeah... right." Spike was surprised to hear Faye's voice.

"We're going to the mall?!" she said happily, and quickly jumped up. Spike stuck his pinky in his ear.

"Just because there isn't anything better to do, Faye. It's not a date you know." He made clear and then popped his finger out of his ear.

"I know that much, stupid lunkhead." She stated. "Well, come on! Let's go!" she shouted in glee. She grabbed Spike's arm and started to go ask Zeke where it was located and if they could borrow his truck again.

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His silver hair glowed in the darkness of outer space. He sat in his zipcraft, constantly looking on the map. "Where are you, my rival? My hatred? You stole Julia from me, and began to sleep with her! You always got the fame and compliments from Mao Yenrai while I stood in the shadows. You finally pierced me with one of your pathetic bullets and my life "ended." Vicious said to himself with complete loathe in his voice. "I despise you, Spike Spiegel. I will make your friends pay for my despair! I will make you pay."

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"I think the stupid gun crew left." Jet spat. "They would have shot me by now."

"Well, let's be careful. I don't want you guys to die." Shana suggested.

Ein sat down by Ed's side. He whimpered and Ed spoke to him in a whisper. "Everything will be alright, Ein. Spike-person and Faye-Faye will rescue us!" she whispered in high hopes. Ein nuzzled her side and then rested his furry caramel and white body next to Edward.

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"My stupid ship is taking too long to fix." Spike grumbled. He drove the truck Zeke had leant them again. "All I need now is more guilt on my shoulders." Faye looked at Spike's two-toned eyes. They were filled with anger. She sighed quietly.

"Spike. Didn't you once tell me everything will be alright?" she said in a concerned voice. Spike didn't take his eyes off of the road.

"Yeah, I guess." He replied in his regular laid-back tone. Faye smiled lightly. She didn't take off her emerald eyes that were shining at Spike's eyes. Spike started to realize that Faye was still looking at him. "What Faye?"

Faye quickly averted her eyes to the road the truck was currently driving on. "Nothing, sorry... I just started thinking about some things." She lied. A blush grew on her cheeks. Spike smirked.

The truck pulled up into a parking lot. Spike searched for a spot to park. "There's one!" Faye shouted. Spike saw the spot she was talking about and quickly moved the truck there, and set the gear onto "parking."

After they had gotten out of the car, they started walking towards the Galactic Mall. "Parking spots are hard to get, these days." Faye sighed.

"We never park our ships anyway." Spike said with a smirk. He opened the door to the mall and held it open for Faye.

"Someone learn some manners while he wasn't with us?" Faye ginned.

"....You're real nice, Faye." He responded. "Which store do you want to go to first?"

The Galactic Mall was huge. It's design throughout it was a roof that had lights creating shooting starts and planets. The floor turned red as soon as you stepped on it. It would imitate your footprints. Stores were everywhere, it was impossible to find a store you didn't like. This mall is one of the biggest out there.

Faye looked around the mall. "I wanna go there." She pointed her finger at the L'ss Fashion Shoppe.

Spike sighed. "Fine." They walked to the store and went inside. Faye was going to have a ball, that's for sure.

"Welcome to the L'ss Fashion Shoppe. Do you need any help?" the worker asked.

"Oh, no thanks, I'm just looking at the moment, thanks anyway." Faye responded. The woman nodded and then went to the cashier's counter.

Spike sighed and followed Faye around like a shadow. "There's no guys clothes here."

"Deal with it, lunkhead. I've always wanted to go to this store, and now guess what? Here I am!" she said happily as she clapped her hands and then ran off and found a dress she liked.

Spike grumbled and imitated her voice. "Deal with it." He sat down in one of the chairs. "Seriously..."

Faye got a dress she ended up liking a lot and then when to the changing rooms to try it on. Spike waited and still sat in the same chair he plopped himself into earlier. But when Faye came out of the dressing room, Spike stared at her as if he had found a real treasure.

Faye had a midnight blue dress on with a black, see-through Shaw around her arms. It had no straps and started around the chest, with a diamond in the center of the top. The dress had a silver zip in the back and ended above her knees. After where the blue dress ended, a sparkled black see-through was like a cape around her legs. Her dark blue shoes matched perfectly with the dress. She looked magnificent.

"Wow." Spike managed to spit out, still in awe.

"You like it?" she looked at the sales tag dangling from her hip. "I bet it's really expensive." She looked at the price and sighed. "I guess I was right."

Spike walked over and saw the tag. "one hundred-thousand woolongs..." he thought for awhile. "you know..." Faye looked at him. "I think I have two hundred-thousand left from the last bounty and I was going to save that for food." He grinned. "Okay, go change back into your normal clothes, Spike has a deal for ya."

Faye was surprised, and then followed his orders. After that, she came out with her usual get-up and walked by Spike. "So, what's the deal?"

Spike took the dress and then walked with it to the front of the store where the cashier's desk was. "I'll get this for you only because you helped me with my Swordfish problem." He smirked. Faye's eyes went wide from the surprise and then she jumped to him and hugged him tightly.

"Thank you!" she said happily. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Spike smiled. "Not a problem."

After shopping around the mall for a bit, Spike found an arcade. "Wanna go play something?" Spike asked Faye.

"Nah, you can though if you want." She said as she followed Spike with her L'ss sack in her hand.

Spike nodded and then went to the dance machine they had. He put in ten woolongs and got on the iron dance stage with arrows in four directions. He chose a song, ((we'll just make it Tank! X3)) and then stood in the middle. The song began to play, and Spike began to dance.

Faye was surprised, she never seen Spike play an arcade game, nor was he ever that good. But, he hit every arrow, and always got a great or perfect on one of the hardest levels there was! "Wow..."

A crowd began to gather around the green-haired man and they were amazed on how he could do such a hard level and act as if it were a breeze. They began cheering.

After the song ended, Spike got off of the dance stage. Everyone asked him questions as if he were some kind of star. Spike just nodded to their questions and then came back to Faye.

"Wow! How the hell did you do that?!" Faye said in shock.

Spike put a hand behind his neck. "I went to an arcade after I was done bounty hunting, and just started playing. That's why I'm a little slow at coming back sometimes."

Faye grinned. "You've just been amazing me all day, Spike Spiegel."

Spike grinned back, and then got out his cell phone. He called Zeke to see if his Swordfish II was done yet.

"Well, yeah. It is now, you called at the right time!" he responded. "You can come back now, if you want." Spike nodded and then hung up.

"Well, let's head back." Spike said. Faye ran up to him and followed.

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well, i promise that there will be a lot of SxF stuff next chappie, by the way