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¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤
¤ Chapter Two ¤
She avoided him for the next two days, talking to everyone else as much as possible. She went out to work some of the time, and then other times she actually took Ein out for a walk. She sighed not wanting anyone to know about her song, but she wanted to share it with Jet more than anything.
She grabbed the nearby control and whistled to Ein who came willingly. She clicked the button to tract the invisible leash. She walked with him outside.
"Where ya off ta?" Jocelyn said.
"Walk." Faye waved and went on her way. Jo frowned at her form. She was quite silent lately.
"Hey where's Faye?" Jet walked into the room with grease painted on one of his cheeks.
"She went for a walk with Ein." Jo pointed at the door.
"And Ed?" He asked.
"Spike." He headed to the fridge. It had only been a couple of hours since he had last seen his friend as well. He cringed at the thought of his friend with metal on him like himself. When he looked into the fridge he thanked god that they had taken Jocelyn aboard for she kept them well clean and fed.
After a few minutes he sat on the couch and she stood before him, "Jet?" She asked softly. He looked up at her and she frowned sadly, "Do you think… well… do you…well… I mean about Spike." He patted the sofa besides him and hugged her when she sat down.
"Don't worry Jo." He tried to convince himself of it as well.
She smiled weakly and Faye walked in with Ein. It had been raining and she was soaked unprepared. She looked at Jet on the couch with Jo and he patted the woman's hand and looked up at Faye who quickly looked away from them and hesitated before heading to the fridge.
"Hey if you want Faye I'll get you a towel, you're soaked!" Jo called to her but Faye walked back with an apple in her mouth and she did everything in her power not to look at them.
"No thanks Jo, I can see that you're busy." She walked out of the room and Jet glared at her with a sigh.
That woman. He shook his head and Jo went to feed Ein. Just as he stood up Ed walked in the room with her computer, and looking tired as hell. "Hey kiddo!" Jet tried cheerfully, but Ed didn't respond. Jo bit her lip and walked over with some sugar candies.
"Here Ed. These are for you." Ed smiled weakly and set up her computer to work by herself.
Jet frowned and looked down at Ein who turned over for a belly scratch. He picked him up and placed him besides Ed who pet him quietly. Then he went off in search of Faye.
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Jet walked down the spinning tunnel of the backwards of their ship. He sighed when he thought of Spike. He leaned against the wall and looked around. He could see him grinning with a glass of gin and singing about Julia. Who was now frozen, although no one thought that there was anything for her.
He walked on towards where Faye's room was and stood outside the door.
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God damnit, Faye thought she would scream. She had turned on her bath water to take an early bath but then her sink didn't work and she couldn't figure out why. She banged on the pipes with one of her shoes a couple of times and then turned the faucet again. To her angry disbelief the pipe cringed and water started to pour out. It flooded all over the bathroom floor and headed towards the bedroom, she cursed it.
Jet knocked three times and Faye rushed to the door but not opening it. "What?"
"Faye we gotta talk. Open the damn door." Jet growled from the other side. But she didn't heed. She shoved a towel by the doors crack as the water poured in more fluently.
"Just a minute!" She said and then when everything looked peaceful she opened the door, "Okay what do you want?"
He heard the water running, "I wanna talk to you." And something creaked. He looked towards the bathroom.
"Okay so talk." She placed herself in front of him but he peered over her shoulder.
"Well about what I said I'm sorry…" He trailed off as he heard the noise again. Faye pushed his shoulder.
"OH! Hey don't worry about it! Now I'm heading to take a bath so I need you to scram." She tried to move him away but he just went by her to the door.
"Jet!" She said and slide in between him and the door. He looked down at her and arched an eyebrow.
"Hey move aside… some things wrong in there."
She looked at him sheepishly, "Jet you don't want to go in there."
He moved her aside and opened the door. A flood of water came rushing out and soaked the bedroom floor. Jet's eyes opened at this for it was just another thing to fix.
He turned towards her and finally noticed that she was only clad in a towel and he went rigid, "What have you done now?!" He asked and turned away trying to hide his desire.
"I haven't done anything!" She yelled right back at him, "Well what now?" She changed at once trying to be nice while he scratched his chin.
"Well I can't fix that today and the water won't dry for a while."
"But Jet!" She wined, "Where am I supposed to sleep? My bed is soaked!" She looked at him.
"On the couch."
"No privacy!"
"Um…"
"Spike's room is locked, Jo is staying with Ein and Ed, and you…" He watched as her face lit up in an evil grin.
"What?" He asked and then it sunk in, "No way! Faye!" He said and she grabbed some clothes. He walked over and she walked past and into the hall with him following.
They were making a racket wandering down the hallways and Faye walked past Ein and past Jocelyn.
"What's going on?" Jocelyn asked when Jet stormed past.
"I'm moving in." Faye grinned and walked into Jet's room closing the door behind her just as Jet stormed up.
"FAYE!" Ein looked up confused at Jocelyn and she shrugged.
"Hey I'm out!" She called but no one looked up at her chocolate hair retreat.
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"Excuse me miss?" Jocelyn turned around to someone tapping her shoulder.
"Yes?" She smiled at the kind nurse.
"If you're visiting you'd better hurry up… visiting hours are almost over." The nurse patted her arm and walked towards a nursing station.
Jocelyn walked towards the fifth floor to where she would find Spike resting in an overly large water tank with monitors all around. His hair was floating in the water and six wires were not attached to him but the tank surrounding him. He had a special necklace attached to his neck which allowed all patients to breath under water. She sighed at the peaceful content on his face. He had not yet awaken from the surgery where they removed three bullets. Two from his left upper shoulder… close to his heart… and another by his left knee. She could see the glint of metal under the water. She bit her lip in what Spike would do when he saw himself. He and Jet were more a like now then ever. Jocelyn had only been with the crew for a week or so… but she was already fond of them all. Especially Spike.
She walked up to the glass and pressed her hand against it. It felt cold. She sang a song that she had heard Faye singing that night at the bar. She had researched it and found it to be written by a woman named Jewel, a late singer in the twenty-first century.
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
She placed her hand on the glass and looked at Spike. A tear slipped down her cheek. "I'm sorry about everything Spike. About your Julia." She looked up as a nurse with an all to cheery attitude came over.
"Visiting hours are over miss." Jo's hand slipped off the glass at the nurses request and nodded sadly. She looked up in the tank and as soon as she was about to walk away with the nurse waiting impatiently Spike's eyes twitched. She gasped and turned back towards the tank and knocked on it.
"Spike! Spike!" The nurse came over towards her in a rush.
"Miss, please, stop that at once! Visiting hours are over! Miss!" She tried to grab Jocelyn without any luck while she stared in the tank and yelled. The nurse ran out and came back with two overly large men.
"Spike, please, It's me Jo!" The men grabbed her arms and started to pull her out while she fought them. She placed her hands on the door frame as they pried her from the room. She saw Spike's eyes flicker open and a new eagerness came abroad her.
"Jesus christ! Spike!" She yelled but they pried her through the door as onlookers saw.. She headed over towards Jocelyn who was literally screaming.
"How can you do this, how can you do this to me! My friend just wakes up after a coma and you drag me away like some rag doll!" Some other nurse ran past and placed a highlight bar over Jo's face causing her to close her eyes and stop fighting. It was a modern highlight bar which when the light passed over some ones face they would be sedated.
"Damn that one was a fighter." The nurse sighed as the men placed her in a chair.
"Hey! What did you do to her?" Someone came up and asked.
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In the next room where Spike was staying in the tank his eyes flickered. He had heard the song. The song that he had heard many times. Faye had sung it, and so had… Julia! He opened his eyes to see someone being dragged out of the room through water.
"Julia." He tried to gasp but water filled his lungs and he choked and headed upwards to the top of the water tank where he grasped air. He held on to the edge as he breathed and wondered if he had been sent to hell.
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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!!!!