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but that would be awesome if I did. :)
~Summary~ The Bebop crew stumbles upon another bounty and Spike and Faye go to catch it. In turn, Faye winds up injured...
When It's Over Chapter 1: Poison?
Spike was lying on the couch, bandaged up after his last encounter with a crazed convict with a short temper and endless ammunition.
He attempted to sit up when Faye pushed him back down as she walked by.
"Hey!" Spike groaned in pain, and was forced to lie back down.
"Well, you shouldn't be up anyways." Faye sat down across from him.
"I couldn't get comfortable."
"You expected to get comfortable in your condition?" She asked as she lit up a cigarette and offered one to Spike.
"Will you get me a drink?" Spike asked, taking a cigarette.
Faye stopped and raised an eyebrow at him. "I have stayed here with you for two straight days. That is more than enough compassion than you deserve from me. I am not about to become your servant."
Edward 'flew' into the room with Ein on her heels. "Heeey Spike- person!! You're finally awake, you're late, but you are great!"
Spike put his head in his hands as Faye lit the cigarette that was hanging out of his mouth. "Too bad." He groaned.
"Smoke, smoke, Faye Faye. Huff, puff, Faye Faye." Ed said, marching around the chair.
Faye blow out smoke. "Ed, how many times have I told you-"
"Yes, Faye Faye?" Ed stopped and looked at her.
Faye sighed, "Why do I even bother?" She leaned her head back. "Hey, Jet, what's for dinner?"
"Nothing, unless you would like to go out and buy something." Jet replied, sitting down in a chair.
Faye groaned. "Don't you have to have money to buy stuff?"
Jet pulled a wad of bills out of his pocket and held them up.
Faye practically ran over to him, and gaped at the wad of bills. "Where did you get that from?"
"I saved some from the last bounty. Unlike you and Spike, who immediately blew your share. I always save some in case we run out of food, which we always do."
"What would Faye Faye do without Jet-person?" Edward smiled.
Faye glared at Ed and took the money from Jet's hand as he walked down the hall to tend to his bonsai trees. Then she walked off toward the garage. Ed leaned over in Spike's face and stared at him.
"Spike-person, sleepy, sleepy? Sleep...sleep...sleep..." Ed babbled.
Spike managed to stand up rather quickly.
"Faye, wait." he said.
She stopped and turned around. "What do you want?"
"I'm coming with you." He said as he put his shirt on over his bandages.
"Why? I don't need you to-"
"Shut up, Faye. Don't flatter yourself; I need to get off this ship." He turned around to see Ein watching Ed as she danced in a circle around the TV.
Faye rolled her eyes, and then smiled as Spike cringed in pain as he put his jacket. Faye turned to him and put her hands on her hips. "Are you sure you can handle it?" She smirked.
Spike stared at her.
"Fine. Let's go."
"Spike-person and Faye Faye, wait, paleese." Said Ed, who was now typing on her computer, Tomato.
"What is it, Ed?" Spike asked.
"Edward has found a new bounty, bounty, bounteeee."
Spike and Faye walked back over to the screen.
"He's cute." Faye said.
Spike looked at her.
She shrugged. "He is."
Spike read the screen. "Marco Junsei. Wanted for multiple murders, robbery and illegal substance possession-"
"Twenty million woolong?!" Faye exclaimed. "Sounds like my kind of guy, and he's here on Mars. Come on."
"What about Jet?"
Faye shrugged. "Fifty-fifty."
Jet walked into the room with a paper in his hands. "Hey, you guys, my sources say that Marco is going for a pick-up at that bar 'The Brass Ring' this evening." Jet said. "Check it out."
Faye dropped her head.
"Fifty-fifty, huh, Faye?" Spike said.
"All right, three ways." Faye gave in.
"Hey, what about Edward? Edward found the bounty, Faye Faye." Edward said, standing on her hands.
"Don't look so disappointed, Faye. You could always take Ein's share." Spike smiled at her and Ein growled.
"Let's go, Spike."
Spike and Faye were walking downtown on their way to The Brass Ring, when Spike stopped walking for a second.
Faye noticed and asked, "What's your deal?"
He started walking again. "There is someone behind us." He said, keeping his gaze casually ahead.
"Well, duh, Spike, this is the city. There are people behind us and in front of us." Faye said.
"But there is a certain person following us." Spike said as they turned onto a deserted street.
As the footsteps behind them got faster and closer, Faye put her hand on her gun.
"Oh, I see now. Duck." She said to Spike and he ducked as she swung around and aimed. But as their follower ran back into the crowd, two shots rang out behind Faye, and she fell to the ground as the bullets hit her in the upper back and shoulder. Spike had had his gun pulled and aimed at the target, but he had also hesitated when he saw the golden blonde hair under the hood of the black jacket. The shooter ran off soon after the shots had been fired.
"Faye!" Spike lowered his gun and kneeled to the ground, where Faye was curled up in a ball.
"You couldn't have warned me?" She asked.
Despite his previous injuries, Spike easily got Faye back to the Bebop, but by the time they arrived, Faye had lost great amounts of blood.
Jet walked into the room where Spike had just laid Faye on the couch.
"What happened?" he asked.
"Hey...Jet," Faye said groggily, "it wasn't my fault this time." Faye said barely managing to stay conscious.
"She was shot on our way to that bar." Spike said.
"Did you see who it was?" asked Jet.
Spike didn't respond.
"And you couldn't stop it?"
Spike looked away.
"Spike!"
Spike walked back toward the hanger and Jet followed.
"Spike, where are you going?!"
"Just take care of Faye." Spike said as he got into the Swordfish and took off.
Back in the 'living room', Ed was attempting to bandage Faye's shoulder. Jet came into the room and sighed as he ran his hand over his head. Bandages were flying in the air and there were hardly any on Faye's shoulder.
"Ed, what are you doing?" He asked.
"Fixing Faye Faye!" Ed said as Ein ran around with gauze around his nose.
"Please, get her off me." Faye said.
"Edward, just see what Marco is up to. Let me handle the bandaging."
"Oookay, Jet-person!" Edward rolled over to Tomato and started typing. "Marco, larco, Marco, where did you go?" She sang as she hacked away.
Jet sat down in front of Faye as he bandaged her up.
Faye opened her eyes and looked at Jet. "...Jet?"
"Faye, what did you get yourself into this time?"
Faye managed to glare at him. "I didn't do anything except cover my comrade, which was something he decided not to do this time." She sat up and stretched painfully. "Oww!"
"Faye Faye, Ed cannot work with you yelling." Ed said.
"Shut up, Ed!" Faye put her hand on her head as dizziness overtook her and she fell back on the couch. Then she started to lose consciousness.
"Faye! Hey, you have to stay awake!" Jet said, but Faye passed out. He walked over and checked her pulse. "We have to get those bullets removed."
Spike parked his ship near an apartment building and got out. He sat on the edge of his ship and lit a cigarette. When he saw the black-hooded figure walk into the building, he stomped his cigarette and followed a ways behind. The figure walked up to a door and stopped.
"You shouldn't be here, Spike." Julia said, still facing the door.
"I couldn't stay away." He said, still a few feet away.
Julia unlocked the door and walked in, and Spike followed and closed the door behind him. Julia took off her coat and laid it down on the couch.
"Vicious could have been here."
"So, how did you do it?" Spike asked.
"Do what?"
"How did you get Vicious to leave?" He asked as he put his arms around her waist.
Julia shrugged. "When he has business to take care of, he just leaves. I was just waiting for you to come back." She linked her arms around Spike's neck as he brought his lips to hers. Then she ran her hand down his arm and over the bandages.
"What happened?" she asked.
He shrugged. "Another bounty."
"That seems to be more dangerous than working with the Syndicate." Julia said.
Jet was sitting in the office of the Right Doctor, the man who cured without asking questions. Faye was lying on the table as the doctor searched for the bullet in her shoulder.
Faye yelled in pain as the doctor began the process of pulling the bullet out. She grabbed the doctor's shirt and pulled him towards her. "Can't you make it less painful?!"
"It is sort of hard for me to make your shoulder any less painful while you are holding me like that."
"Faye, let the man go." Jet said, from his seat at the window. "Faye!"
Faye let go of the doctor's shirt and laid down on the table again.
"She will probably be very fatigued afterwards. So rest is recommended." The doctor said to Jet.
"Rest, who has time for rest?" Faye said.
After the doctor finished, and with the help of Jet, Faye managed to walk back onboard the Bebop. As soon as she laid down on the couch, she fell asleep. Jet went back to working with his trees and Ed and Ein were somewhere on the ship sleeping.
On the advice of the doctor, Jet had brought one of the bullets home to analyze. The doctor had noticed that the bullets had caused abnormal swelling and discoloration on Faye, but didn't have the time or equipment to spend on the matter.
The next morning, Spike sat up and pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it. He looked out the window and then down at Julia, who had her head resting on his chest.
"Vicious will be back today." Julia said.
"That's not really the first thing I want to hear in the morning." Spike said, looking away.
Julia ran her hand down his face and kissed him. "I'm sorry, Spike, I- "
"Was Faye a part of his 'business'?"
Julia looked at him confused. "What?"
"Yesterday you said that Vicious had 'business to take care of'. How was Faye a part of that?"
It was Julia's turn to look away.
"I didn't want to do it, Spike. Vicious said that she had caused trouble for him before and he didn't have time to take care of it. So he told me to. I'm sorry, Spike, I knew she was your friend-"
"Comrade." Spike corrected. "I mean Faye is annoying and a number of other things, but even she didn't deserve that."
"I'm sorry."
Spike hesitated, and then looked up at her. "Why won't you stay away from him, Julia? Why do you do that to yourself?"
"When you left for all that time, Vicious came back to me and he begged me to take him back. He seemed so sincere and so needy. I was really lonely...so I took him back."
"Julia, you might have been lonely, but you know that Vicious cries tears of stone."
"I really think he was serious this time, Spike, I was just-"
He sighed. "I know." Spike tightened his arms around her and kissed her.
Later that day, Spike was messing with his gun when Julia's phone came on. Spike turned and glared when he heard the voice on the speaker.
"Julia. It turns out that I will be away from you longer than I would like, my love. Things are not going quite as I expected. There have to be some changes made in my plans." Vicious said. "Nevertheless, did you take care of it? Even if the shots were not fatal, the poison from the bullets should take care of it soon enough..."
Spike grabbed his coat and ran out of the door.
"Spike!" Julia said, but when she saw that he was already out of the door, she ran her fingers through her hair and sighed.
That evening, Spike returned to the Bebop and walked past Jet's bonsai room.
"Where the hell have you been, Spike?" Jet asked, joining Spike in the hallway.
"I had something to take care of." They walked into the sitting room where Faye was still lying on the couch. "How's the broad?" Spike asked, sitting down.
"She's been out since yesterday. Hasn't woken up once." Jet informed him.
"Knowing Faye, she's probably using that as an excuse to sleep." Spike said.
"Took her to get the bullets removed yesterday. Her wounds aren't healing correctly." Jet crossed his arms. "She's been poisoned. The bullets contained poison."
Spike pulled out a cigarette. "Have you figured out what kind of poison?" He asked, lighting it.
Jet shook his head. "I have no idea. I haven't found any matches anywhere on the database."
~Hope you liked it so far! More to come!~
~Summary~ The Bebop crew stumbles upon another bounty and Spike and Faye go to catch it. In turn, Faye winds up injured...
When It's Over Chapter 1: Poison?
Spike was lying on the couch, bandaged up after his last encounter with a crazed convict with a short temper and endless ammunition.
He attempted to sit up when Faye pushed him back down as she walked by.
"Hey!" Spike groaned in pain, and was forced to lie back down.
"Well, you shouldn't be up anyways." Faye sat down across from him.
"I couldn't get comfortable."
"You expected to get comfortable in your condition?" She asked as she lit up a cigarette and offered one to Spike.
"Will you get me a drink?" Spike asked, taking a cigarette.
Faye stopped and raised an eyebrow at him. "I have stayed here with you for two straight days. That is more than enough compassion than you deserve from me. I am not about to become your servant."
Edward 'flew' into the room with Ein on her heels. "Heeey Spike- person!! You're finally awake, you're late, but you are great!"
Spike put his head in his hands as Faye lit the cigarette that was hanging out of his mouth. "Too bad." He groaned.
"Smoke, smoke, Faye Faye. Huff, puff, Faye Faye." Ed said, marching around the chair.
Faye blow out smoke. "Ed, how many times have I told you-"
"Yes, Faye Faye?" Ed stopped and looked at her.
Faye sighed, "Why do I even bother?" She leaned her head back. "Hey, Jet, what's for dinner?"
"Nothing, unless you would like to go out and buy something." Jet replied, sitting down in a chair.
Faye groaned. "Don't you have to have money to buy stuff?"
Jet pulled a wad of bills out of his pocket and held them up.
Faye practically ran over to him, and gaped at the wad of bills. "Where did you get that from?"
"I saved some from the last bounty. Unlike you and Spike, who immediately blew your share. I always save some in case we run out of food, which we always do."
"What would Faye Faye do without Jet-person?" Edward smiled.
Faye glared at Ed and took the money from Jet's hand as he walked down the hall to tend to his bonsai trees. Then she walked off toward the garage. Ed leaned over in Spike's face and stared at him.
"Spike-person, sleepy, sleepy? Sleep...sleep...sleep..." Ed babbled.
Spike managed to stand up rather quickly.
"Faye, wait." he said.
She stopped and turned around. "What do you want?"
"I'm coming with you." He said as he put his shirt on over his bandages.
"Why? I don't need you to-"
"Shut up, Faye. Don't flatter yourself; I need to get off this ship." He turned around to see Ein watching Ed as she danced in a circle around the TV.
Faye rolled her eyes, and then smiled as Spike cringed in pain as he put his jacket. Faye turned to him and put her hands on her hips. "Are you sure you can handle it?" She smirked.
Spike stared at her.
"Fine. Let's go."
"Spike-person and Faye Faye, wait, paleese." Said Ed, who was now typing on her computer, Tomato.
"What is it, Ed?" Spike asked.
"Edward has found a new bounty, bounty, bounteeee."
Spike and Faye walked back over to the screen.
"He's cute." Faye said.
Spike looked at her.
She shrugged. "He is."
Spike read the screen. "Marco Junsei. Wanted for multiple murders, robbery and illegal substance possession-"
"Twenty million woolong?!" Faye exclaimed. "Sounds like my kind of guy, and he's here on Mars. Come on."
"What about Jet?"
Faye shrugged. "Fifty-fifty."
Jet walked into the room with a paper in his hands. "Hey, you guys, my sources say that Marco is going for a pick-up at that bar 'The Brass Ring' this evening." Jet said. "Check it out."
Faye dropped her head.
"Fifty-fifty, huh, Faye?" Spike said.
"All right, three ways." Faye gave in.
"Hey, what about Edward? Edward found the bounty, Faye Faye." Edward said, standing on her hands.
"Don't look so disappointed, Faye. You could always take Ein's share." Spike smiled at her and Ein growled.
"Let's go, Spike."
Spike and Faye were walking downtown on their way to The Brass Ring, when Spike stopped walking for a second.
Faye noticed and asked, "What's your deal?"
He started walking again. "There is someone behind us." He said, keeping his gaze casually ahead.
"Well, duh, Spike, this is the city. There are people behind us and in front of us." Faye said.
"But there is a certain person following us." Spike said as they turned onto a deserted street.
As the footsteps behind them got faster and closer, Faye put her hand on her gun.
"Oh, I see now. Duck." She said to Spike and he ducked as she swung around and aimed. But as their follower ran back into the crowd, two shots rang out behind Faye, and she fell to the ground as the bullets hit her in the upper back and shoulder. Spike had had his gun pulled and aimed at the target, but he had also hesitated when he saw the golden blonde hair under the hood of the black jacket. The shooter ran off soon after the shots had been fired.
"Faye!" Spike lowered his gun and kneeled to the ground, where Faye was curled up in a ball.
"You couldn't have warned me?" She asked.
Despite his previous injuries, Spike easily got Faye back to the Bebop, but by the time they arrived, Faye had lost great amounts of blood.
Jet walked into the room where Spike had just laid Faye on the couch.
"What happened?" he asked.
"Hey...Jet," Faye said groggily, "it wasn't my fault this time." Faye said barely managing to stay conscious.
"She was shot on our way to that bar." Spike said.
"Did you see who it was?" asked Jet.
Spike didn't respond.
"And you couldn't stop it?"
Spike looked away.
"Spike!"
Spike walked back toward the hanger and Jet followed.
"Spike, where are you going?!"
"Just take care of Faye." Spike said as he got into the Swordfish and took off.
Back in the 'living room', Ed was attempting to bandage Faye's shoulder. Jet came into the room and sighed as he ran his hand over his head. Bandages were flying in the air and there were hardly any on Faye's shoulder.
"Ed, what are you doing?" He asked.
"Fixing Faye Faye!" Ed said as Ein ran around with gauze around his nose.
"Please, get her off me." Faye said.
"Edward, just see what Marco is up to. Let me handle the bandaging."
"Oookay, Jet-person!" Edward rolled over to Tomato and started typing. "Marco, larco, Marco, where did you go?" She sang as she hacked away.
Jet sat down in front of Faye as he bandaged her up.
Faye opened her eyes and looked at Jet. "...Jet?"
"Faye, what did you get yourself into this time?"
Faye managed to glare at him. "I didn't do anything except cover my comrade, which was something he decided not to do this time." She sat up and stretched painfully. "Oww!"
"Faye Faye, Ed cannot work with you yelling." Ed said.
"Shut up, Ed!" Faye put her hand on her head as dizziness overtook her and she fell back on the couch. Then she started to lose consciousness.
"Faye! Hey, you have to stay awake!" Jet said, but Faye passed out. He walked over and checked her pulse. "We have to get those bullets removed."
Spike parked his ship near an apartment building and got out. He sat on the edge of his ship and lit a cigarette. When he saw the black-hooded figure walk into the building, he stomped his cigarette and followed a ways behind. The figure walked up to a door and stopped.
"You shouldn't be here, Spike." Julia said, still facing the door.
"I couldn't stay away." He said, still a few feet away.
Julia unlocked the door and walked in, and Spike followed and closed the door behind him. Julia took off her coat and laid it down on the couch.
"Vicious could have been here."
"So, how did you do it?" Spike asked.
"Do what?"
"How did you get Vicious to leave?" He asked as he put his arms around her waist.
Julia shrugged. "When he has business to take care of, he just leaves. I was just waiting for you to come back." She linked her arms around Spike's neck as he brought his lips to hers. Then she ran her hand down his arm and over the bandages.
"What happened?" she asked.
He shrugged. "Another bounty."
"That seems to be more dangerous than working with the Syndicate." Julia said.
Jet was sitting in the office of the Right Doctor, the man who cured without asking questions. Faye was lying on the table as the doctor searched for the bullet in her shoulder.
Faye yelled in pain as the doctor began the process of pulling the bullet out. She grabbed the doctor's shirt and pulled him towards her. "Can't you make it less painful?!"
"It is sort of hard for me to make your shoulder any less painful while you are holding me like that."
"Faye, let the man go." Jet said, from his seat at the window. "Faye!"
Faye let go of the doctor's shirt and laid down on the table again.
"She will probably be very fatigued afterwards. So rest is recommended." The doctor said to Jet.
"Rest, who has time for rest?" Faye said.
After the doctor finished, and with the help of Jet, Faye managed to walk back onboard the Bebop. As soon as she laid down on the couch, she fell asleep. Jet went back to working with his trees and Ed and Ein were somewhere on the ship sleeping.
On the advice of the doctor, Jet had brought one of the bullets home to analyze. The doctor had noticed that the bullets had caused abnormal swelling and discoloration on Faye, but didn't have the time or equipment to spend on the matter.
The next morning, Spike sat up and pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it. He looked out the window and then down at Julia, who had her head resting on his chest.
"Vicious will be back today." Julia said.
"That's not really the first thing I want to hear in the morning." Spike said, looking away.
Julia ran her hand down his face and kissed him. "I'm sorry, Spike, I- "
"Was Faye a part of his 'business'?"
Julia looked at him confused. "What?"
"Yesterday you said that Vicious had 'business to take care of'. How was Faye a part of that?"
It was Julia's turn to look away.
"I didn't want to do it, Spike. Vicious said that she had caused trouble for him before and he didn't have time to take care of it. So he told me to. I'm sorry, Spike, I knew she was your friend-"
"Comrade." Spike corrected. "I mean Faye is annoying and a number of other things, but even she didn't deserve that."
"I'm sorry."
Spike hesitated, and then looked up at her. "Why won't you stay away from him, Julia? Why do you do that to yourself?"
"When you left for all that time, Vicious came back to me and he begged me to take him back. He seemed so sincere and so needy. I was really lonely...so I took him back."
"Julia, you might have been lonely, but you know that Vicious cries tears of stone."
"I really think he was serious this time, Spike, I was just-"
He sighed. "I know." Spike tightened his arms around her and kissed her.
Later that day, Spike was messing with his gun when Julia's phone came on. Spike turned and glared when he heard the voice on the speaker.
"Julia. It turns out that I will be away from you longer than I would like, my love. Things are not going quite as I expected. There have to be some changes made in my plans." Vicious said. "Nevertheless, did you take care of it? Even if the shots were not fatal, the poison from the bullets should take care of it soon enough..."
Spike grabbed his coat and ran out of the door.
"Spike!" Julia said, but when she saw that he was already out of the door, she ran her fingers through her hair and sighed.
That evening, Spike returned to the Bebop and walked past Jet's bonsai room.
"Where the hell have you been, Spike?" Jet asked, joining Spike in the hallway.
"I had something to take care of." They walked into the sitting room where Faye was still lying on the couch. "How's the broad?" Spike asked, sitting down.
"She's been out since yesterday. Hasn't woken up once." Jet informed him.
"Knowing Faye, she's probably using that as an excuse to sleep." Spike said.
"Took her to get the bullets removed yesterday. Her wounds aren't healing correctly." Jet crossed his arms. "She's been poisoned. The bullets contained poison."
Spike pulled out a cigarette. "Have you figured out what kind of poison?" He asked, lighting it.
Jet shook his head. "I have no idea. I haven't found any matches anywhere on the database."
~Hope you liked it so far! More to come!~