Disclaimer: I don't own Cowboy Bebop. I only own the stories I write about it.

A/N: I suggest you don't read this if you haven't seen the last episode of Cowboy
Bebop. This chapter semi spoils it and if you did see it, then by all means read
you're little heart away. ^__^;

*...* = Thinking
"...." = Speaking

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It Wasn't the End After All

[Chapter 1]

Julia looked up at the sky and tried to sit up. A sharp pain ripped through
her side. She whinced and grabbed her side immediately feeling a sticky
substance. She pulled back her hand to see it covered in blood. She looked
down to see a wet spot on her black shirt.

"Kuso!," she loudly cursed.

Getting up she looked around and noticed she was on top of a roof.

*But how...?* she thought as she slowly remembered what had
happened.

"Spike!," she shouted looking around.

He was nowhere in sight, only blood and dead bodies. She somehow
managed to climb off the roof and hobble to an abandon car. She
hot-wired it and drove off hoping to find Spike's spacecraft or at
least the ship he was always on.

She drove for maybe an hour before she finally found his spacecraft. No
sign of Spike though. She hobbled to the craft and tried to get in contact
with the ship. After about 5 trys she finally got the right connection. Faye
answered the call hoping it was Spike but instead she saw the nearly dead
Julia.

"Julia...!," Faye choked out.
"Please...help me...," Julia managed to say before passing out from all the
blood she had lost.
"Julia!," Faye shouted and ran to find Jet.

"Jet! Quick we have to go get Julia!"
"Huh? Julia?," he asked scratching his head.
"Yes, Julia. Come on!"
"Faye I can't go anywhere in my present condition and the ship is all shot
up. I can't take off without doing some major repairs to the ship."

Faye's angered turned into tears as she shouted, "Fine then I'll go get her
myself !"

Turning she ran as fast she could to her spacecraft and flew off before Jet
could say anything else. She tracked the signal of Spike's craft to an airlot,
like the one where she had gotten her craft shot up a bit. Spotting the pink
craft, she landed in an open area and ran towards Spike's craft. Upon
seeing a trial of blood, she slowed down and followed the trail with her
eyes. Her eyes widen when she saw Julia, who by this point was barely
breathing.

"Julia...?," she said softly as she moved closer to the woman.

At first she heard nothing and saw nothing move.

"Julia?," she asked a little louder.

No movement was made, nothing was heard but a faint moan. Faye walked over
to Julia and gave a sigh of relief when she realized she was still alive. Before
moving her she looked to see that the blood was coming from a wound in
her side. She pulled off the shirt she half wore and tied it around Julia's
waist.

"Thank you...," Julia said weakly.
"Shh...Don't speak. I'm going to take you to a hospital."
"No...No hospital...Someone might recognize me and try to kill me again."
"Fine. I'll take you back to the ship."

Julia's eyes watered as Faye managed to fit the both of them in her small
craft. *Why is she doing this for me? For all she knows I could be one of
the bad guys.*

Faye gave Julia a reassuring smile as she took off towards the ship. They
flew in silence except for the low moans that escaped Julia as she really
began to feel the pain of the gunshot wound.

Julia tried to ask a question but she blanked out again.

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"Spike...," Julia moaned from her sleep.

She opened her eyes and met the soft soft eyes of Faye. She tried to sit up
and another sharp pain ripped through her side. She whinced remembering
her wound.

"I wouldn't recommend moving," a man's voice said.
"You must be Jet, right?," Julia asked turning her head to look at him.

He nodded his head, surprised that she knew his name. Faye saw this and
smiled.

"She has a way of knowing who we are before we even tell her. Isn't that
right Julia?"

Julia nodded and smiled gently. She feel asleep again before she could say
a word. Faye sighed and walked over to where Jet was at. Standing next to
him, she lit a cigeratte.

"Thanks for helping Julia," she said not looking at him.
"I had to."
"Why?"
"Because she meant alot to Spike," he said walking off.

She looked at him as he walked away. *So this was the woman he risked
everything for?* she wondered as she looked at the sleeping blonde.

Her eyes moved down the seemily innocent face and rested at her rising
chest. She blushed as a hentai thought went through her head. She looked
back at Julia's face. *Such innocence. Yet such sadness.*

Faye walked out of the room after putting out her cigeratte. She felt different
somehow but couldn't figure out why.

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A/N: That's the end of this chapter. So Julia survived that gunshot. But why did
Spike think she was dead? And what's going on with Faye? Why does she care
so much about Julia? Read the next chapter to find out! Ja ne!