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¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤
¤ Chapter One ¤
Faye laid on the couch in the living room. Spike had been in the hospital for over a week after the Vicious massacre. Jocelyn was out working for money. Their stash of cash was growing every day. It was hot in the ship with the air-conditioner broken. She groaned and sat up. Ein cried for attention and she wondered where Ed was. She patted his head and got up to find Jet.
He was fixing the ac controller as best he could but wiped the sweat off his brow. He was on his back and Ed had gone to see Spike again for the third time that day. It broke his heart to see Ed so sad. He continued working for a while and then realized that he had forgotten to bring a certain tool along. He reached around with his hand searching for it and someone placed it in his hand.
"Back so soon?" He guessed at the silence.
"Yeah hell's not too much cooler these days." Faye said and she looked down with her hands on her hips as he slide out from under the ac with surprise.
"Well out of all the faces to see I didn't think I would see this one." He muttered to her.
"I'm just full of surprises." She said and sat down next to him as he sat up.
She handed him a small piece of metal and he looked at her as if she were crazy.
"It's cold. To pass the heat." She said and he grinned when the coolness sank into his forehead.
"God it's so hot." She murmured.
"Well I'm trying to fix the ac." He said and she looked at him doubtfully. She pressed the metal to his forehead and they both relaxed. She fanned her chest as the sweat pour off of both of them. He couldn't help but look where she was fanning. It had been long since he had last had a woman.
"I have an idea." She said and grinned.
"To my benefit or yours?" He asked and she rolled her eyes at him.
"Mine of course." She reached over towards him.
"Of course." He watched as she grabbed his metal arm and placed it right about her left breast. He gulped.
"What are you doing?" He asked and flexed his fingers.
"Enjoying the cold." She said but soon dropped his arm. He was relieved because he was only three inches from the part that he wanted to touch badly.
"Hey Faye…"
"Hmmm?" She started to trace the collar of his vest with her finger.
"That day at the Twisted Lips…"
"What about it." She asked and stopped.
"Your song." He said and grabbed her wrist but she tugged free.
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"Spike…"
"And the king on that spot."
"SPIKE!"
"Huh?"
"Can I borrow your jet?" Fay was standing in the door way clothed in a long coat that reached her knees. They both looked up at her.
"No."
"Oh common Spike!" She wailed.
"…."
"Argh!" She stomped in.
"Where are you going anyway?" Jet asked her but never looked up from his deck.
"I am going to try and salvage some money for this god for saken ship. We can't stay docked forever." She started to turn but Spike held on to the edge of the coat.
"Oh and how do you plan to do that?" He smirked at her glare.
"That is none of your busines." She walked out of the room and Spike waved her away with his hand.
When she was gone Jet looked up from his cards almost missing the whole scene.
"You know she's going to take your ship anyway."
"Yeah I know." And with that they heard the engines of a jet zoom away fogging the window with smoke, "I wonder why she even asks."
"Hey now where do you suppose she's going for money?" He walked over and with his metal arms itched his chin and looked out the window to where the ship had departed.
"I dunno probably some bounty that she didn't tell us about."
"Ed knows where Faye Faye went." The little dumpling said with her goggles on and was laying on the floor typing away.
"Oh so is Ed going to tell us or what?" Jet growled and Spike looked at him and laughed.
"Let me guess… babysitting?" Ed turned around and showed them the computer screen.
"No… Faye Faye is striper for night." She laughed at their expressions and fell over as both men bounded over towards the screen.
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We make all your dreams come true
Tonight and only tonight
Felise Linley
Under the caption was a picture of a woman holding her head against a pole. It had been taken recently almost two days ago. Jet's eyes opened wide when he saw that the woman was Faye but with pink hair. They were the same.
Jet headed over to the closet and got a cloak that would cover his face with a hood. He started towards the door when Spike interrupted his thoughts, "Where are you going?" He scrolled down more to read.
"She's doing this for us Spike. No woman I know is going to be a hooker for money." He walked out the door and Spike sighed after his form.
Ein walked over to where he and Ed laid on the floor looking at the screen.
"Is Spike Spike sad?" Ed asked him.
"No, but Spike has a feeling that Jet has an itch for something."
"Something?"
"No someone."
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"Okay you get thirty percent of what the men give you, and then whatever I pay you." The woman named Golly said. She was the owner of the Twisted Lips strip bar and ugly at that.
"Only thirty?" She was shoved out onto the stage where three other women awaited along with a microphone. She removed her coat in the worst and slowest way imaginable. The men cheered along. She stepped up to the spot and the heat censored lights beemed at herself. She could barely see the audience.
She placed a finger to her lips as the little crowd cheered and at her request silenced.
You find yourself falling down
Your hopes in the sky
But you heart like grape gum on the ground
And you try to find yourself
In the abstractions of religion
And the cruelty of everyone else
And you wake up to realize
Your standard of living somehow got stuck on survive
When you're standing in deep water
And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
And when you're drowning in deep water
And you wake up making love to a wall
Well it's these little times that help to remind
It's nothing without love
You wake up to realize your only friend
Has never been yourself or anybody who cared in the end
That's when suddenly everything fades or falls away
'Cause the chains which once held us are only the chains which we've made
When you're standing in deep water
And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
And when you're drowning in deep water
And you wake up making love to a wall
Well it's these little times that help to remind
It's nothing without love, love, love
It's nothing without love
We've compromised our pride
And sacrificed out health
We have to demand more
Not of each other
But more from ourselves
"Cause when you're standing in deep water
And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
When you're drowning in deep water
And you wake up making love to a wall
Well it's these little times that help to remind
It's nothing without love, love, love
It's nothing without love
It's nothing without love
She sand the song from her childhood. The one her mother sang to her. She said it was her great great grandmother's song. But she was shaken out of her trance as the crowd clapped and cheered on for more. She bowed to almost fall out of her top. She heard another beat start up… faster and she got off the stage to dance for them with her companions. The walked around all singing and lap dancing to the beat for the money they were sure to receive. Each girl took turns during the song to fill separate jars with the cash that they received from dancing with almost no clothing. Faye walked over to where a couple of younger men were sitting and she walked up to them. But someone else caught her attention. He wasn't paying attention to her but to his beer. She passed the men and walked over to the figure in the red coat.
"Can I interest you in a lap dance?" She sighed and asked hoping for money.
"No."
"Oh well why not?" She pouted.
"Because I don't dance."
"Oh common Jet I'm sure you'll like it."
"How did you… oh never mind." Jet said. He was in his cloak but without the hood up. She plopped down next to him on the bench.
"Jet why are you here?" She said and sprayed a perfume spurt on her chest. He glanced where she sprayed but glanced away when she smiled.
"I wanted to see how you were making so much money and we weren't. But I have to tell you that I don't like your plan at all." That was a lie. He thought her voice was magnificent and her body even more tantalizing but he also saw the look on the other men's faces.
"Well you've seen so will you leave!" She whispered furiously.
"No I'm rather enjoying the show." He grinned and she glared.
"Faye Faye looks cute when she's mad." He hit the mark.
She swatted him with a magazine, "Damnit I am not cute."
"I think you are." But before she could reply with shock her manager came in the room with her jar and handed her an envelope.
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"I don't want to talk about it." She got up and left the room, he frowned after her.
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DISCLAIMER
All the characters appearing in Cowboy Beebop are copyright of someone else. No infringement of these copyrights is intended, and is not authorized by the copyright holder. All original characters not seen are the creations and the property of Telpelindewen. Even if they are out of character.
The song is Copyrighted to Jewel.
BLAH!!!!