Only When The Time Came
By: Why should I tell you who wrote it?

Faye walked out of the sliding glass doors and into her yard. The sprinklers were going, and her paper was all wet.
"Damn paperboy" She grumbled as she walked through the stream of water to get her paper. She had never liked the paperboy, but this morning she would have given anything to catch him.
She got the paper and dodged the spray and ran into her house. She looked down and sighed. It was the twentieth year after Spike's death today. She had forgotten all about that.
"I can't believe that it's only been twenty years." She whispered to herself.
Spike had been a huge part of her life for what seemed forever. After his death she fell into a deep depression, she even contemplated suicide, but after a while life got better. She and Jet found Ed and informed her of his death. Ed had lost that little innocence in her soul that day. They agreed that twenty years later they would get together and visit Spike's grave.
That was the last the companions had ever seen each other. Faye had no plans of ditching her plans, but she had work to do. She sighed again and walked to her room, she had to get ready.

Jet got in his ship, named the Bebop, and took off. He had an appointment to keep, and he wouldn't miss it no matter what. Spike had been his best friend, more like a brother, for over two years. Then he had run off and died. Jet understood why he went off, but he still didn't like the fact that it happened.
He quit chasing after bounties a week after Faye left. Jet left Mars and decided to live on Venus, there he met a woman and married her. He had never told her the story of Spike's death, until today.
He put the ship on autopilot and went back to his bedroom. He fell asleep to the soft humming of the ship. Slowly he prodded on, he was going to finish unfinished business.

They got to the gravesite at the same time, but nobody remarked on the strange coincidence. They just stood there for what seemed like forever. Faye had flowers in her hand, roses. They looked down at the ground where he slept in an e, a small plot of earth unlike any other. His tombstone had only his birth date, his death, and his name. Below was an empty space where they would decide what words would go there.
Ed knelt down and put down a strange device. Faye looked at it and realized that it was the picture of her father Faye had helped her get. Faye dropped the roses, and Jet left a little soup container with the word 'BEEF' on it. They looked at each other and realized finally what they would put on the tombstone.

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