AN: Here's a new one… This chapter is all from Jett's POV of the circumstances and just life in general… I'm hoping to maybe do one from Ed's POV as well. I think I've decided to drag this out until the end of the series… I'm thinking this started taking place around ep 18 or so… This particular song was chosen, not for the lyrics fitting with the circumstances, but the lyrics fitting with the person who is seeing the circumstances.
Well, for those who enjoy reading these, I wouldn't mind some suggestions of songs for future chapters. ^_^ So go ahead and make suggestions and I'll see if I can get the songs to fit in.
Disclaimer: I don't own Cowboy Bebop or "Wanted Dead or Alive" which belongs to Bon Jovi. Shoo evil lawyers, I'm only a broke college student who's not making money of this, therefore not worth sueing.
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It's all the same, only the names will change
Everyday it seems we're wasting away
Another place where the faces are so cold
I'd drive all night
Just to get back home
*
We're almost to Venus. I think we missed the bounty though, so we'll probably end up on Mars before the week is out. Faye is awake. I saw her wander by my room looking somewhat dazed and… well… happy.
Speaking of Faye… Her and Spike have been acting strange lately. They actually haven't fought in over forty-eight hours. It's… a miracle, I think.
I guess it's nice not to have them at each other's throats constantly, but it's a bit unnerving… like they're plotting things behind my back. Both of them are sneaky little shits and I trust Faye about as far as I can throw her. At least we're almost to Venus. I was kinda tired of space, and VERY tired of Earth.
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I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive
*
I stood up slowly and stretched. Pretty much everyone else was asleep. I'd just been pruning some of my bonsai trees and day-dreaming about lots of food. Well, if Faye's up I guess I'll take a walk, talk to her about the bounty or something… It'll give me something to do.
I walked out of the room and stopped. I could see Spike and Faye sitting in the rec-room together. She was draped over the armchair and Spike was staring at her. Ed was asleep on the couch. I stayed in the shadows and watched them for a second. They were acting really strange, almost as if… Nah.
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Sometimes I sleep, sometimes it's not for days
And people I meet always go their separate way
Sometimes you tell the day
By the bottle that you drink
And times when you're all alone all you do is think
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I watched them for a second and then they got up and left, making their way toward the hanger. What was strange was that Spike offered his elbow to Faye… That was weird…
I wandered into the rec-room after they had left and sat down. Ed rolled off the couch and curled up on the floor. I'm tired, but not sleepy… You know that feeling? I wonder what's with Spike and Faye. I kinda feel left out I guess. They're all buddy-buddy right now and are ignoring me. Not that I'm lonely.
It's strange. I've been thinking a lot lately. Since there are more people on the ship now, I seem to find more time to do things that I normally couldn't do before. I find myself thinking about the past a lot. Mostly about the first time I met Spike… and the day I became a cowboy.
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I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive
*
Being a cowboy… It's the closest I can get to being a cop again without actually being a cop. The ISSP is so screwed up with power-hungry idiots I just had to get out. Here I am now, chasing down bad guys for money. It's a little annoying sometimes because Spike doesn't always want to go after the same guys I do. He always needs a challenge to keep his attention. So before Faye showed up, it was hard to make money cos I had to find some round-about way of talking him into chasing a bounty.
Spike… He's a strange one. He just kinda floated into my life on accident and I have a feeling someday he's going to leave the same way. I had been at this Jazz and Blues café on Mars, chasing down a small bounty. I was alone then. There he was, sitting a few tables away, watching me. Though I didn't know he was watching me. He's not a very obvious person, and I was too busy watching my bounty to notice. Then it happened.
The bounty stood up and started walking toward the bar. He stuck his hand in his coat to pull out a gun. The guy was a small-time thief who liked to hold up bars and cafés. Anyway, I went to intercept him, but just as he passed Spike's table… Spike stuck his leg out and the guy went flying. He did it so smoothly that I didn't even realise he had done it until the guy was sprawled on the floor with his gun spinning away.
Spike didn't even know the guy had a bounty on his head. So I took in the bounty and offered half to Spike… The rest, as they say, is history.
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I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive
*
I think too much. I wonder what Spike and Faye are doing…
I stood up and wandered slowly toward the hanger. I didn't hear any voices, as a matter of fact, I didn't hear anything at all. Just the engine of the Bebop. I glanced around and shrugged. I guess they're in the hanger. I decided that I should probably get to work on Faye's ship, she needed some upkeep after our last job.
I opened the hanger door and started to wander around one of the ships, but stopped in my tracks.
They were kissing.
Spike and Faye… were… KISSING.
I blinked and rubbed my eyes. I must be dreaming.
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I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back
I been everywhere, still I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces
And I've rocked them all
*
I took another look.
Nope, I wasn't dreaming.
They broke apart and Faye laid her head on Spike's chest and whispered something before falling asleep. Spike looked kinda surprised at her and furrowed his brow. I wasn't sure what to do, so I stepped back a little into the shadow of the ship and watched again… Just to make sure I really was awake. Spike seemed to slip into deep thought. At least, that's the way it looked. His eyes went all unfocused and he was staring at a spot just beyond the floor. Whatever Faye said to him, it didn't seem to have settled well on his mind.
Man, life is going to be so weird now…
Though I did say that Spike needs a challenge to keep his attention, and if Faye isn't a challenge, I dunno what is.
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I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
I'm a cowboy, I got the night on my side
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive
