"What do we do, Kevin?" Michelle said frantically. Kevin put an arm around her. She calmed down a little.

"We'll find her. This isn't the first time she's done this." Kevin said with a smirk. Michelle nuzzled him under his chin. Then she looked at the blood on the floor.

"She apparently was bleeding though.. Do you think she's okay?"

"I bet she is. She doesn't die easy." He said. Michelle nodded lightly, still looking concerned. Kevin leaned down and kissed her deeply.

"Don't worry, koibito, she'll turn up." He said. Michelle blushed and smiled. She leaned in and kissed him again. Pulled away and smiled.

"Love you.."





Spike saw something out of the corner of his eye. Kaitlin! He dropped him gun in shock as he saw her run across the field, obviously running away from them. Gray grinned and took advantage of his puzzlement, and gripped him around the neck, holding him harshly, choking him slightly, but not enough to kill him right away, but a slow and torturous death. Spike gasped for air.

"You moron. Kait' was right, you do play dirty." Spike got one of those evil grins and elbowed Gray straight in the gut. Gray's grip lessened.. but.. he fired the gun.







Kaitlin heard the gun fire and gasped, looking over at the two fighting. She saw spots of blood sparkling in the sun coming from Spike. She immediately broke from her limp and went running out there.

"Spike!!!"







Spike's head was bleeding, but lucky for him it wasn't that he had been shot in the brain, just grazed where the hair meets your head so he wasn't to badly injured. Gray's eyes widened when he saw Kaitlin running to them. He stood up and stared as he saw her run towards Spike and jump into his arms.

"Spike.. Are you okay? Oh, why didn't you listen to me?!" She said. She felt warm tears jetting down her face. Spike seemed to be in shock. He eventually regained his composure and held her in his arms.

"Kaitlin, I'm fine. Heh, talk about a hairline fracture." He joked. Kaitlin softly beat her fist on his shoulder.

"Listen to me next time you baka, don't run off like that!" She said, holding him close. He smiled and held her. Gray just stared at them, then lifted up his gun aiming it at Kaitlin. Spike saw the gun aim at her and his eyes widened. Gray's eyes were watering. He closed them fiercely and shot the gun, but at the last second moved it out of the way and just shooting at the sky. Kaitlin didn't move at all. Spike was glaring at him.

"You trying to kill her now?" Spike snapped. Kaitlin tugged on his shirt to get him to calm down. Spike blinked.

"Replacing me already?" Gray said. Shaking a little, anger burning deeply in his eyes. "You guys don't trust each other but you choose him over me?!"

"Who said I don't trust him?" Kaitlin snapped. Gray blinked.

"What? You do? Tch, how can you?! It took you months to trust me!" He snapped. Spike was getting angry again and was holding Kaitlin so hard it was starting to hurt her but she didn't seem to pay attention.

"That's because you weren't trustworthy! I did eventually trust you and guess where that got me!" She snapped at him back. Spike blinked. He didn't think she could get that ticked. "You tried to frickin' kill my family for letting me lead! I objected so you wanted to kill me! Why do you think I left?!" Gray was silent, then his eyes averted at the ground.

"...This isn't over.." He said, sighed and ran. Taking a glance back at Spike and Kaitlin, anger flashing in his eyes and he disappeared in the distance. Kaitlin collapsed in Spikes arms.

"I'm sorry about all this Spike.. I didn't want you involved.." She said. Spike held her tightly.

"If you didn't want me to get involved, you shouldn't have saved my life." He said and grinned. Kaitlin had stopped crying by now and was snuggling up against him.

"Spike.." She smoothed a hand across his hair. "You shouldn't have fought him, he really does play dirty."

"Duh." Spike said and grinned. "He tried to choke me when I saw you running off." Kaitlin hugged him tightly.

"Spike.. You're a big stubborn lunkhead, you know that?" She said smiling. Spike grinned again and kissed her on the cheek.

"That's what I'm known for." He said. Kaitlin stared into his eyes.

"Do you think there's a place for me on the Bebop?" She said. Spike smiled.

"Always." He said and leaned in and kissed her. She kissed back and held him close. Maybe things would be alright after all.



Michelle was walking around outside looking for Kaitlin again.

"She can't be to far off. She had a hurt leg.." She said. Kevin shook his head.

"I told you she'll be fine, believe me for once." He said and grinned. Michelle didn't grin back. She was to worried. Then she saw Spike standing there kissing Kaitlin. She blinked.

"Found her." She said and laughed. "That just figures." Kevin came up from behind her and wrapped his arms around her.

"Told you she'd be fine." He said and leaned down and kissed her on the cheek. Michelle leaned against him and watched ahead to Spike and Kaitlin.





Spike pulled away after a few minutes and stared into her eyes for a second, pondering to himself.

"Kaitlin?"

"Yeah, Spike?"

"...Next time you have a past boyfriend come and try to obliterate me, let me know first instead of keeping it to yourself." He said and let go of her and grinned. Kaitlin blinked.

"...Huh? How'd you figure that out, Spike?" She said. Spike smirked.

"'Replacing me' was a keyword that Gray said." He said. Kaitlin looked at the ground.

"I suppose.." She rubbed the back of her head. Spike put his arm around.

"Let's head back to the hospital. We'll take care of bill and get you on the Bebop." He said. Kaitlin grinned and lay her head on his shoulder. Everything would be alright after all.





Happy ending! ^^..Of the chap I mean. o.o No! The Fic isn't over! DON'T STOP READING! T.T....Er.... ^^; In fact I got half of chapter 10 done! Honest! I'll post it soon, BUT PLEASE REVIEW! I ONLY HAVE REVIEWS FROM 2 DIFFERENT PEOPLE! REVIEW NOW OR NO MORE FIC! IT'LL BE TAKEN OFF OF FF.NET NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN!....Or to be on again a few days later ^^; Who knows? Please review though! I COMMAND IT XD