"Shirei"

By: Shi-chan

Rating: PG

Warnings: Faye getting really mad, Faye with a gun, written by psychotic fruitcake (Lina: No! That's Xelloss!)

Disclaimer: All credit to Cowboy Bebop goes to Hajime Yadate and co., I've only borrowed their concept and added two original characters, Shirei and Nekochi

Author's Corner!!

Shi-chan: Okies, I didn't get as many reviews as I would've liked to, but people still want me to continue it, so here goes!

Ed: Is Ed in this part?

Shi-chan: No, Ed! But if people like the story and leave me enough good reviews, I'll make a third chapter and you can be in that one!

Ed: Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =^o^=

Shi-chan: That's my face...

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"F-faye?" Spike asked, thoroughly shocked that the woman was standing in front of him for the first time since he left the Bebop. Faye pulled her gun out of her pocket and placed it to Spike's forehead. "The one and only. Now you've got a lot of explaining to do, Mr. Cowboy." She snapped. Spike closed his eyes and smiled. "Well, now I know it's really you. Just don't shoot me right now, I wouldn't want Shirei to hear. She's a really sweet little girl."

Faye didn't bother to take the gun off of his head. "Is she really your and Julia's daughter?" She questioned him. Spike nodded. "I didn't believe it at first, but yeah. Julia was found dead in time to save her. I'm glad. I probably really would've died after that battle with Julia had I not found Shirei." Faye knitted her eyebrows together angrily, and she pushed the gun harder against him. "Why didn't you come back?! Jet and I thought you were dead, and Ed and Ein had already left! Jet's the only one on the Bebop anymore! Doushite, Spike?!" She demanded in an interrogating manner.

Spike held his hand up and pushed the gun down a little, but Faye forced it right between his eyes. "Well, you're just as strong as you've been, Faye." She glared at the man, obviously annoyed. "Thanks to your daughter! Spike, I told you before you left, you and Jet and Ed and everyone were the only reasons I came back instead of staying with my old friends! Because I had you guys! Then Ed took off with Ein, and you hauled off to get your butt killed! Now, I find out you've been alive the whole darn time! What is your problem?! Why didn't you come back to the Bebop, Spike?!" She looked like she was really going to shoot him, and Spike was pretty scared. He didn't have anything within reach to protect himself with.

"Because... I couldn't face you. After I left to go kill Vicious, and completed my mission, I was sad that Julia died, so I went to her funeral, like you would naturally do for someone you love. Then, I began hearing rumors that she had a child before she died, and I set off to find out whether or not it was true. Of course, I found Shirei, and after a blood test, I discovered she was mine as well as passed-Julia. I had realized not long before that it wasn't Julia I was in love with anymore, but someone else, someone I was closer to. And I couldn't face that person knowing I had Shirei." Spike explained everything, looking Faye in the eyes as he did so, mentally telling her how he felt about her.

She glared harder at him, her finger on the trigger of the gun. The man could see her trembling, trying to decide whether or not she should shoot him. He knew she very well could and would if she came to the conclusion that she should. She never did have much of a conscience. Faye finally removed the gun from his forehead, and put it in her sweater.

Shirei's father looked up to see why she hadn't moved otherwise, and found that she was actually crying. "Faye?" He asked quietly, pulling her into an embrace as he stood up. "You should've come back. I'd have forgiven you... And it's impossible to be angry with Shirei; she's too sweet..." Faye trailed off and suddenly shoved Spike off of her, and wiped her tears away. "But I'm still mad at you, regardless." She declared. Spike smirked and laughed nervously. "You'll never change, Faye." Valentine leaned up and gave him a butterfly kiss on the cheek. "Pull another stunt like that, Mr. Cowboy, and I'm afraid it'll be off to jail for you." She told him, bringing out another smile from the usually emotionless man.

"Wow... Your father's a really nice man, Shirei. I used to think that he was a cruel, heartless jerk and you got all your good traits from your mother, but I guess I was wrong." Nekochi told the little girl teasingly from around the corner where they had been spying on the couple. Shirei shook her head and smiled at her caretaker. "No, Faye's my mommy. I got all my nice traits from my mommy." She announced proudly. Nekochi chuckled and hugged the little girl. "And she's a wonderful mommy."

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Author's Corner!!

Shi-chan: Sorry so short! If you guys want me to, I was thinking about writing another chapter about Faye settling in with them, and if you guys still like it, Ed, Ein, and Jet can return to! Would y'all like that? PLEASE GIVE ME FEEDBACK!!! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!

~Shi-Chan Meows~

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