Uninvited Departure
I never really fell asleep, but I felt my self wake up. I awake from something that almost killed me made me lose sight of everything, Faye. I have to find her, I have to apologize, I have to make up for all the things I have done wrong. I got up and went to my room in a determined pace, grabbing my Jericho and changing clothes in my room. I look at my self in the mirror, and half-grin.
I see a full reflection.
I walk into the main room to see Ed and Ein chasing each other, and much to my surprise biting each other. Jet was valiantly trying to ignore them, but he seemed to be losing it. I smirked as I walk past them to the hangar, they already know where I'm going.
"Hey Spike where do you think you're going?" Jets deep voice boomed from the echoing hall behind me.
"I'm going to go rescue the part of me that I threw away." I responded, turning back smirking my cocky grin as I go from the rotating hallway into the hangar.
"Faye, are you going after Faye?" He asked in utter disbelief that made me laugh sadness
"I owe her one remember?" I said simply as I went to my trusty, and no it isn't pink, it's red, Swordfish. As I hopped in the cockpit and took off as I realized what I was really doing.
The whole emotionless thing didn't last long, I guess it really isn't for me. I wonder how Vicious kept it up so long...May be he has no one to love... Love Faye?, I do, I mean, what else could it be that made me leave the Bebop after I was in such a sour mood? I don't feel the same way I do around Faye as I did Julia. I feel as if I am weightless, I am free and elated, I am peaceful yet yearning for her at the same time. I never felt like that around Julia, I never really felt at peace with her, I felt, well I don't know, pressured almost. Like if I didn't do something it would displease her and she would leave me, but yet we ended up apart anyway. I never feel that way around Faye, it's like she will be by my side, always...even though I have never really been there for her.
I will find her. Faye and I have a chance, for once in my life, I am at least going to try to make something work out for the best. Faye, as senseless and ironic as it may sound, I love you, I'm sorry I was never there for you, I'm just praying that I can be now.
I will soon be whole…
"Ok Spike, let do this." I tried to encourage myself as my Swordfish unfolded gracefully and propelled itself across the clouded horizon.
I flew off into still clouded cityscape, damn when will this weather turn? I longed to see the sun once more, that glowing sphere of saffron fire, warms up even the darkest of towns, and people. The sun and Faye are more alike than I realize, only the sun isn't nearly as much as a spit fire that Faye is.
I laugh…
For the first time in a long time, I laughed, ha Julia, take that. I never thought I would say that, but I let her go the moment I woke up from that god-awful dream. So has Vicious. You are alone now Julia, what will you do now, where will you turn? I guess it doesn't matter 'cause you're dead. I smile as I blow it all away, down to that dismal city, that dismal dank city that reminds me so much of you.
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"Damnit all!!" I curse into the empty shot glass, taunting me because I am an idiot.
I searched through countless casinos, race tracks, bars and god knows what, but no Faye anywhere. Where could she have gone? She didn't have her communicator, so I couldn't track her Redtail. I'm beginning to get worried, where on earth could that little shrew get to? I look up at the bartender asking for another drink instead he asked me some questions, I forgot how much I hate talking to people I don't know.
"Hey there buddy, why the long face?" He asked as he cleaned out his glass with a cloth
"Some people are just born with long faces, have you ever thought of that?" I asked him back
"Nope, but you don't seem like one of um. Why just they other day I saw the cutest couple, ya know of love birds…..blah….ramble…yapyap." I yawn as I look at the door, wait, there is something familiar about that door. I know this bar this is the bar I met Julia in, the Blessed Devil. Something about this place, besides the idiot bartender, makes me wanna leave.
But just then the bell on the door ringed and there stepped in Faye, her eyes glued to the floor, and it looks like she has already had a drink or two by the less-than graceful way she entered the bar. I saw her emerald eyes flit upwards and snag on me, a short wave of emotion blew through her eyes as I looked at her and grinned. Her velvet black hair swung lightly as she walked to me and sat down beside me, sighing heavily.
"Hey there Faye." I managed to get out before she frowned at me.
"Let me guess you came to look for me." She said in a sarcastic tone that made me grin even more.
"Yeah actually I did, I came to, well, thank you for ya know, saving me, and to say sorry for the way I acted around you, you didn't deserve it." I said in a light yet serious tone, I gazed into her entrancing emerald eyes as a surge of unexpected emotion slipped through me, warming my heart and putting me at ease.
"You mean it?" She asked, still looking into her eyes, I looked over her features, her porcelain skin, her full scarlet covered pink lips, and who could forget those pools of liquid emerald that melted you if you looked into them just right.
Melted all over…
Instead of answering her with words I leant in and kissed on her lightly lips that I hidden desired for since I met her. She returned the kiss and strengthened it as I felt her lace fingers run through my curly mop of green hair. I wanted this moment to last forever, I want to hold her in my arms and never let her go, not for all the woolongs in the galaxy, and not…not…not even for a million Julias. I feared that after I kissed her the feeling would subside, but it didn't it got stronger, and stronger still. All I wanted to do was kiss her beautiful neck and collar bone. I wanted something more than lust, more deep more substantial than anything I felt before. Love. We pulled away slowly; together, as one.
One…
"Spike, I don't want to get mixed up in this. I know about Julia, Jet told me when you were asleep and-" Faye looked at me through a kaleidoscope of emotions, not really knowing which one to focus on and pinpoint. "That's why I left Spike, I thought that I would only make matters worse with you mad at me."
"Faye, I woke up from that dream. Julia, she is now no more than a memory, actually a memory I'd like to forget, don't worry yourself shrew you're not getting yourself mixed up in anything-" something out of the corner of my eye caught my attention, realizing what it was almost too late, I grabbed Faye in a hasty embrace and I flung us both to the floor as a barrage of bullets collided with the wall and bar we were just sitting at. Splinters of wood and glass from the bottles flew around us.
"Faye stay down." I yelled as I try my best to make sure I was between her and the torrent of bullets. What in the hell was this? I don't even know who is shooting at me! Wood and metal and glass erupt from all around as if someone set off a bomb. Pieces of glass slice my cheek, legs and chest, but at least I know that Faye is ok, that is all that matters.
I whip out my Jericho and shoot at the once glassed, now completely glassless window trying to shoot the gunman. I feel the sickening thud of a bullet tear though my left shoulder as I finally see the masked man and shot at him. I hear the man yell and crumple to the ground in a kneeling position, I make my move and leap through the shattered window and point my Jericho menacingly at his head.
"Spike are you ok?" I hear Faye yell as she ran through the door, once solid, now riveted with bullets. She had a few scratches, but seemed fine. I could tell she was worried by the look in her eyes, that look made me never want to look away. She came up from behind me and put her smooth arms around me.
" I'll be fine as soon as I figure out who in the hell this is!" I yank the mask off the guy to reveal Shin, his sharp green eyes peered at me in disbelief.
"Shin! What in the hell where you doing?!" I'm astounded I thought that Shin was my ally. I pull my gun away and look upon him with confusion and anger.
"Sorry Spike, I wasn't here to kill you, I was sent to kill Julia." Shin clutched his side as he stood up, apparently confused. "but I guess she isn't here." He looked around with a serious and panicking expression on his face as it turned pale.
"Shin, Julia is dead, Vicious killed her." I told him, tiring of going over this over and over and why does Shin think she'd be here?
"No, that's not possible, Spike you have to come with me fast, god dammit!" Shin grabbed my left arm, ouch!
"Hold on kid, Spike isn't going anywhere, look, he's hurt and you are too." Faye's ruby lips enclosed in a tight circle, and she held her gun to his head.
"Hold on Shin, what do you mean that isn't possible, what is going on?" I grit my teeth, something is happening with the Syndicate.
"I found a note addressed to Vicious a day ago, Vicious was out so took it and read it." He handed me the note and I studied it, only one name came to mind, Julia.
A snake may have its venom, but the cat has its claws
And with them I will cut you both down.
Snakes and dreams can't live together
So let us end this where we last, departure.
And lets see which one prevails.
"I don't get it, lets end this where they last met, I thought that meant here at the bar, but obviously it means someplace else." Shins brows furrowed as he eased his hand at his side.
My heart skipped a beat as a wave of nausea of past swept over me like a wet blanket. Departure was a name, the very name of Julia's old apartment building, right here, right here in this very dingy city. Julia was alive, that is where she would liked to have ended it all, right where it began, she was always known for tying up loose ends. I thought I was out of this dream, but it looks like I have more to do.
"Shin, Depature complex, it's an apartment building on the outskirts of this very city, that apartment building is where Julia used to live." Julia's name rolled off my tongue with a sickened sneer, it felt unnatural, but Julia was over now. I am awakened, by an angel, not a demon.
"Julia, Im going after her, she will pay for what she has done." Shin scowled, I remember even as a small child he didn't like Julia, there was, back then, no reason to hate her or not to even like her, but lin and shin saw something buried so deep inside of her that only they could see.
I turned to Faye and held her close. I don't even know why, I just had to hold her in my arms and feel her never ending warmth radiate onto me like an addictive candy. I love her.
"Faye I want you out of here, I want to go far away I need to end this and I want you to be there when I come back." I whisper in her ear almost inaudibly, I kissed her on her full red lips and looked into those spherical emerald eyes. I truly loved her, I could tell by the way I touched her it was as if a current of warmth surged through me putting me at ease and filling me with a elated emotion that I could only describe as love.
"Spike I'm not leaving you, no, I don't want to be alone!" Faye narrowed her eyes at me before she cried into my chest, she knew as well as I that Julia would not be alone in that apartment building, that it was a trap, nothing got by Faye.
"You wont be, I'll come back, don't you worry, I love you too much to die now." I looked into her eyes with honesty, if I was not able to return I wanted her to know that I did love her and there was no questioning it. She looked up and gazed into my eyes in a entrancing stare
"I love you lunkhead, come back or I'll give you hell at your funeral." She smirked her coy smile as I kissed her again.
"Shin we better get going." I reloaded my Jericho with a few clips and so did shin, in spite of his injury and mine we both ran and hopped in Shin's zip craft. I called out the window at Faye one last thing. "Make sure to tell Jet that he needs some beef on his grocery list!" I smirked back as I saw Faye laugh in spite of herself.
A candle beckoning...
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wow *^^*;; I definitely wrote too much in this chapter, I think I over analyzed Spike too much and made it too mushy, I have had writers block and I am really sorry if this whole apartment thing doesn't really match with the actual CB. If it doesn't well, sorry but I'm much too happy with this fic to change it.
Don't be surprised if Vicious makes his debut in this again!! *^^* Vicious is too cool to be left out of the action, I mean cmon the katana totally kicks ass, and It has to be hard to fight a gun with a sword.
Oh I was thinking of some new fic ideas and there aren't many Vicious ones out there so ya know I'm thinking after I finish this one ill start up a VF one. Comments? I just have to do at least one VF one considering the fact that I have only read like three. And two of which were a fic and sequel. blood and amnesia, and blood and remembrance, are definitely 2 you should check out, yeah no spike but it is still very good. I give it an A. So if I do write a VF you guys will at least read it right O___o?
Well I have to get some beauty sleep for homecoming! (I need it)
~your ff buddy L.O.H.