Anyways, to the reader who emailed me and asked me
to do a remake of the episode "Mushroom Samba", I think I may but it will
have nothing to do with this story.. so it'll just be a out-of-the-series-segment.
^.^ Thanks for the idea.
WARNING::Shameless self promoting::
If you already don't know, I have made a new fic that's
also Cowboy Bebop called "Still sitting pretty with a pistol in hand" and
I just want to ask you to please reaaaaaaad it? ^_^; My summary sucks,
but I swear to the holy one that it is very good!
Here's a better summary of it: After the
Spike fought with Vicious, Spike ended up living from the whole scene and
coming out as the new Syndicate leader; forgetting his life on the Bebop.
Meanwhile, Faye runs from her life in search of a more fitting one, designed
so that she was reborn as someone else who had no past. Six years
later, Faye makes her moves and gets a bounty price on her head.
After Spike sees her bounty, he fetches the rest of the Bebop crew in hopes
to find the answers to their question; Why is Faye hiding from them, but
then again, why did she get herself a bounty on her head for what seems
like on purpose?
Suspenseful? It is!! Plus the pairing is between
Spike/Faye and Faye/someone else that I can't say right now or it'll give
it away ^^; So read it purty please, and I'll give you much
praise and obsession! ^_^ lol thanks!
Two Cowboys and the basic D.I.D Part two
He was angry at himself. Doing almost everything there is painful to himself in his mind. He had let her be captured, by a crazy man who plays with bombs no less. He couldn't take it, as he cursed out loud and slammed the his hand on his leg for the umpteenth time. With no clue to what kind of danger she was in, or if she wasn't abused in any way, Spike frustrated his anger, and deep within, he wondered why he had cared so much.
He wasn't like this to her a month ago, when she had ran to Jupiter where the whole population was men. Why was that? Then it occurred to him that it was because it was hinted that Julia was around the area. That had blocked out any care for Faye's health in a split second.
Now look at him, as he fought with himself inside. He was ripe and bursting with fury; looking almost very mental cased. And still, feeling overly guilty, he asked himself why.
Spike suddenly raised the thought, and he couldn't deny that maybe he did have some.. attraction. After the burning and too close of a kiss at that French shop, the sweet scene of her falling asleep drunk on his shoulder, the closeness with her at the night of her fever induced nightmare, the secret kiss he planted upon her peaceful and resting face, and the comfort of her hand the other night as she hummed him to sleep--all the events kept in his 'favor' spot in his brain. How it was even possible to have it place there was another mystery in the wait.
Faye was a wildcat, a woman who was a little high maintenance, a little overzealous and snappy, a pandora's box, and has a habit of losing extremely large amounts of money by gambling. Yet she's sexy, beautiful, alluring, mysterious, brave, surprising, and overall her characteristic can be quite attaching. A woman with an unusual personality such as hers was something Spike found very rare and very appealing.
Julia was never like Faye. Julia was always proper, gentle, and sometimes can be a little boring. She wasn't the type to 'dance-in-the-middle-of-a-hurricane', she was more like, 'I wouldn't because I'd catch a cold'. As far as the beauty, Julia was maybe a little more beautiful, but Spike wasn't really in it with loving her because of her beauty. Julia was his pedestal during his term with the Syndicate.
Then that day when she had lied to him, broken their trust,
and ran away, Spike didn't have a real pedestal for awhile, until he came
to the Bebop.
Zooming over the sea, spotting their usual spot where
they dock the Bebop, Spike hurriedly landed on the ships dock; his thoughts
still in its midst of understanding.
So, Faye was a hard woman, but interested him the most. As for Julia; she was his first true love but the memories of happy times with her were now dim.
Faye was with him--life became almost worth-while--he began to enjoy life around him--and she was still there with her contradicting personality, which drove him more towards finding interest on who she really was.
Julia was gone--haven't heard directly from her for 3
years--his once deep love blinking tiredly--and she continued to keep him
in the verge of confusion and frustration.
Stepping out of the dock and onto the Bebop's, Spike entered through the hanger doors with a weary face, faced down, and mumbling words that flew out from his mind when a noise caught his attention to an animal standing three feet away from his left.
His eye twitched once at the sight, before he grumbled loudly and ran in the Bebop.
~
The whole room jumped, as Spike stormed in with eyes darting wildly before setting themselves acidly to another tall, lanky man in the room.
"What is he doing here?!" Spike burst out, pointing a finger at the man on the couch, who looked back at him with smirk.
Tipping his hat once, Andy stood up and walked in front of Spike's face, "Hello there, space boy. So where's Faye? Don't tell me you didn't save her. Tch.. I knew you couldn't." he rambled straightly, not waiting for Spike's incoming replies.
Spike's nose flared, "Yeah, no thanks to you, you ass!"
"No thanks to me? You're the one shooting at the damn car with that machine of yours." Andy spat back, "You could have shot the gas tank, and the car could've blown up!" he clapped his hands together and pretend to wipe an invisible tear from his eye, "And poor Faye would have burned in that tight-hipped dress that she wore."
Spike hiked up his left sleeve and slit his eyes, "I wouldn't have! Besides, what were you going to do?! Try to out run it with that donkey of yours?!"
Andy opened his mouth, appalled, and balled a fist in front of him, "Don't you give Onyx any disrespect! Onyx is a fine horse, much more relevant that your damn craft!"
"Relevant my ass! One shot from my Swordfish II on your donkey, and BOOM! you'll have to go to the kiddie-corals for a new one!" Spike bemused, giving his most triumphant smirk.
"You wanna go?!" Andy threatened, shoving his face right in front of Spike. He lifted a finger and pointed it to Spike's chest mockingly, "You think you can take me on; you've got to be kidding. I could beat the be-jesus out of you in one move. You'll be kissing the floor in no-time."
Without warning, Spike threw a punch at Andy's face, knocking him to the floor. Stepping over him, Spike diverted his gaze over to Jet who sat still the whole time, stacking a bunch of triangular cans into a box.
"Jet, what the hell is this ass doing here?" Spike gritted through his teeth as he pointed over to the other cowboy who was now sitting on the floor holding his nose in pain.
Jet shrugged carelessly and held up one of the triangular cans, "He traded a whole bunch of food for getting to stay here and help get Faye back."
Spike sputtered in disbelief. He frantically began to wave his hands around his side in agitation, "Jet?! Are you nuts?! The guy is poseur, not to mention a big asshole!"
"That's not the point... we need the food. And like it or not, we do need his help to get Faye and that bomber." Jet raised an eyebrow at the fumed Spike, and watched as the man's face contort slightly.
Meanwhile, Andy had already stood back up and was now more interested as what the lovely Faye's role was in the ship. Rubbing his nose, he glanced over to Jet, "So, Ms. Faye... does she stay here with all of you?"
"Yeah." Jet answered truthfully.
"Does this beautiful Faye have a last name?" Andy began to question.
"Shut up!" Spike had swirled around to him once more, looking very much agitated than before.
Andy glared at the man and pursed his lips at him, "What's your problem? I'm only getting information that I might need in order to get her back you know!"
"Who said you're getting her back?" Spike returned his glare, then thought a while about what Andy had replied him with, "And you don't need her last name to get her back!"
Getting annoyed of the little fight between the two, Jet blurted out Faye's last name in hopes of getting them to stop.
"Valentine."
Andy's eyes quickly turned to Jet, and started to (what it looked like) sparkle dreamily, "Faye Valentine... even her name features a goddess unique."
At that Jet began to laugh, while Spike gazed at the man pathetically.
"Faye? A goddess?" Spike mocked, showing a great disagreement in his tone.
Andy peered at his rival sneeringly, "Yes, a goddess. If you can't see that, then obviously you take beautiful creatures, such as her, for granted."
Spike crossed his arms across his chest and eyed the man as if he was a fool, "Faye isn't anywhere near goddess material. I should know because I put up with her everyday." he felt a small tug in his throat, the little mental gesture for his mind to tell him to stop while he was ahead. Talking about Faye like she was some annoying little thing (not that she was sometimes), that he didn't like to be around with, was a lie deep within.
But being the kind of arrogant guy he was, Spike managed to brush it off and continued, "You should see her eat up all the food in the ship, take all the hot water, and bicker on and on."
"Considering she lives in a run-down place like this, and with people like you around, I would have to guess she really had no choice to in order to survive." Andy backed up, also crossing his arms in front him.
Jet had managed to catch the little insight about his ship and stood up also, "You want to stay here, you better not call this place run-down, rich boy, or I'll kick you out."
Andy scratched the back of his head and swallowed a sudden lump in his throat from looking at the gruff man eyeing him, "Uh.. no offense.. it's a fine ship."
Jet grumbled and made his way to the kitchen as so he wouldn't get into the fight that he knew, by how Spike's glaring, would about to occur.
Spike, who was now ready to strangle Andy to death from his annoying comebacks, continued to name down all the things Faye did that was more crude than normal. And Andy, who was more willing to learn about Faye, only stood and listened, and often backed up some of the bad things he said about her.
"You know, I can't imagine why you would say such things. You are the asshole here and I can't believe you don't know that." Andy interrupted Spike's little confession about Faye, and looked at him skeptically.
Halting his speech, Spike venomously stared back at the him, "What?"
"You are an asshole." Andy repeated, "You talk about that woman as if that is all she is. I'm surprised to find her still staying with the likes of you, when all you notice from her is all the negative actions she has ever done. I mean, what kind of comrade are you? What I'm wondering the most is that, how come she hasn't left this place yet? Maybe she has more feeling as to what this place really meant to her other than a place to stay. I'm sure that's the only reason how she can manage to stand being around you."
For once, Spike didn't have any words to speak back. It was a little odd how Andy's words hit so close to home, and how scary it was that he spoke a fact.
"Now that I find out that she puts up with this kind of thing everyday, and even behind her back, I greatly respect that woman more. To you she is just some sort of drama queen around the ship; to me she is a beautiful goddess. All women are." Andy haughtily turned around to walk towards the hanger, "And I didn't need to know her that long to find that out. All I needed was for you to speak about her. Tch.. and you call yourself a cowboy?"
Spike watched in silence as his rival disappeared in the corridor. As much as he hated to admit it, Andy was right. He felt the tugging in his throat stop, and was now replaced by a slight churning in his stomach.
~
"I hate that man, Jet. I hate him because he's
right."
"What's he right about?"
"--And you know, you're right too. But I don't hate you."
"What are you spewing about?"
"--Is it my fault I act like that? I mean, I'm only trying to act like the exact 'Spike' everyone knows me by."
"Okay, what the hell?" Jet whirled a curious eye to his friend's face, letting it known that he couldn't follow him.
Spike was getting his Swordfish II ready for another flight as he spoke. Cocking his head to the man who's coo-ing his horse several feet away from him, he gave a low grumble before answering Jet, "He basically says I treat Faye like shit."
Jet thought over for a minute on what his friend's point was, "Yeah...?"
Turning his head to Jet, Spike's eyebrows rose, "Yeah what?"
"Yeah, you do." Jet cleared as he began to load bags of guns and ammunition into his Hammerhead. "You treat Faye like shit most of the time."
Spike's eyebrows were now knitted down to the top of his eyes, "I do not!"
Jet looked at at his friend with skeptic, and with a mocking tone, began to prove his point, "Faye! You're always screwing up our bounties! Faye! You're always using up all the hot water! Faye! Why don't you bring home the food for once! Faye! Why don't you--blah blah!'. Need I say more?"
"Wait, that's not treating her like shit! That's trying to get her to act reasonable because she's usually so damn bit-"
Jet gave a low 'ahem'.
"...-chy..."
Raising eyes to him and grinning like a little show-off, Jet nodded his head, "Like shit, Spike, like shit. No matter how much you deny it, there wasn't a day when you have to make fun of her or bring her down." Jet rested the last bag of ammunition into his cargo and began to get in his ship. Before sitting down, he looked over to Spike again, finishing what he left out, "Even when you confessed to like her, you still haven't really proved that all this little emotion of yours is real. Sure you helped her, stayed with her, and actually get along with her alone. But when you're around others... I dunno Spike, it really doesn't look like you care. Usually you just show off how much you can make her mad around people."
Spike couldn't believe what his friend just told him, and finding that he was the guilty one of all this, he began to grow a temper, "Well what about you Jet? I don't see you acting like you care for her either."
Jet sighed and plopped down on his seat, "You don't see me treating her like shit either. I let her stay, I don't ask her for much, I advise her to stay." Riveting up his engine, Jet leaned over the edge of his window to advise Spike of one more fact.
"Besides.. I'm not the one in love with her, Spike."
~
The slight throbbing pain entered her brain and in an
instant she woke, only to find herself tied on a cement pole on top of
a tall building. She could feel herself sweaty and sticky, and looking
down she found herself in a large, brown, cotton suit that covered her
up to her neck, arms and legs and all.
Trying to think straight, figuring out how she got in this mess, she immediately noticed a big teddy bear mask on the floor in front of her.
She grumbled at her situation and at the same time her eyebrow twitched, "Oh shit.."
Suddenly, the man she knew would be around, appeared from the shadows with a smirk on his face and about 10 wrist watches on his arms.
"Well, well, the lovely lady has awoken from her beautiful sleep." he let out a maniacal laugh, "Oh yes, I hope you didn't mind wearing your new costume."
"Yeah, thanks." Faye let out sarcastically, squirming her bounded limbs; frantically trying to loosen the rope around them.
Teddy hopped towards her and lightly touched her nose, "Hey now, you'll never be able to get free. You see, if you look down on your stomach you'll see a very nice surprise in case you ever do." he grinned like a kid before shifting his eyes to her stomach.
As Faye followed his gaze, she gasped out as she saw what seemed like a C4 pack tied around with duck tape around the stomach area of her teddy bear costume, "You sick bastard!. I swear I'll fu-"
Interrupting her, Teddy stuck a good piece of duck tape around her mouth to cover up her annoying shouts, "No one leaves before your little boyfriends get here. No one will go boom! until they're here, alright?" he gave another laugh and merrily skipped to the laptop a few feet across from him, "Now we'll just contact them and let them know where we are and..." he turned to the gagged Faye and looked at her curiously, "Do you think we should make up some dramatic scene? Make them more angry? Hmm.. any ideas?"
'Fucker...' Faye commented in her mind as she stood still, refusing to interact with her kidnapper.
"Okay! Let's say I beat....you....up," Teddy read out while he typed up his letter, "mercilessly.... and.... you... are... bleeding.." he began to enjoy the ideas that flared in his mind of ways to intimidate the two cowboys who ignored him, all the while Faye rolled her eyes, "Heh, and if they can't get here in time... I'll just kill ya'!" with that, he quickly clicked on the button 'Send'.
Standing up and dancing around, Teddy chuckled as he picked up the teddy bear mask and came in front of Faye, "Okay girlie; to complete your costume!" he then plopped the teddy bear mask on her head, ignoring her grunts and groans from behind the duck tape around her mouth.
He stood back a good three feet, viewing the odd view of a teddy bear tied to a pole, grunting, "Oh I am such a genius!" he replied thickly .
The trapped Faye under the mask was now limited to what she can see. It was all dark inside except for the two little eye holes in front of her that helped her view what was outside. Though the mask was a fair distance from her face, she couldn't help but feel that they were starting to get closer to her until finally she felt that they were only half an inch from her eyes. She knew she was going to start getting claustrophobic and her brain would soon go to panic mode, so to block out the illusion of the walls of the mask going closer to her, she shut her eyes tight.
'Somebody get me out of here!'
~
Ed watched from the catwalk of the hanger as the men
below her were fixing their crafts with the exception of the 'Land Cowboy'
and his horse. Clicking away for any clues as to where Faye was,
it wasn't soon after that the Bebop received an anonymous email.
"Oooh... Bebop Mail.." Ed squealed softly and with one button, opened the email to the front of the screen. Reading it slowly, Ed let out a yell, which instantly brought the attention of the three men below, "Faye-Faye!!"
Spike's worried voice was the first to speak, "What? Ed what's going on?!"
Ed in a very dangerous mode of panic, had grabbed her 'Tomato' and began to run back and forth on the catwalk, "Bad man email!! Bad man email!!" she stopped as soon as Jet yelled for her. Facing the men down below, she thrashed her computer above her head, "Bad man emailed Bebop! Bad man hurt Faye-Faye!!" she began to sway glumly side-to-side, "Bad man is going to kill Faye-Faye!" she mourned.
Without one more word, the two cowboys in the room took a quick glance at each other; a quick glance with the time expandicy enough to declare a challenge. And within seconds, the two raced to their craft (or animal for Andy's sake) and headed off.
While Jet, scratched his bald top thinking of what fools the two cowboys were and how they had so much in common as the small information they so badly need quickly passed their minds.
"Ed.." Jet sighed pathetically, "Tell me where Teddy's at before those two morons come back blaming each other."
Ed gave a big sniff, "Jet-person, promise Ed that Faye-Faye will come back?"
Looking up to the girl on the catwalk, he gave a sincere smile, "Don't worry, either I will or the other two will. She'll be ok."
Nodding, Ed checked back at the email as to where Faye's kidnapper held her hostage, "Bad man only says 'Two Towers where the two idiots met him'."
Jet quickly got in his ship with the information, and started off to find the two cowboys, "Thanks Ed." he called back to the girl and left the docked Bebop.
~
"Okay pretty girl, your little boyfriends will be here
soon enough." Teddy pranced around his victim, detonators held up high
in the air above him, "Ha-ha! You think those pathetic morons can get past
this
act.
Ha! No way!"
Faye, who quietly listened to the annoying bounty laugh about his not-that-impressive plan, only gave a soft grunt under the teddy bear mask.
Teddy began to walk towards the edge of the tall tower's roof, and peered below catching only civilians of the building walking about the streets; no horses, no space crafts, no guys with afros.
Noticing the missing admitance of his main subjects, he grumble irritatingly as he let out his frustration to woman bounded to the pole, "Where are they?! I don't see them anywhere!"
Under the thick mask, Faye grumbled incoherent words that held the tone of anger mixed with annoyance.
"Ah! I swear that I will seriously blow you to bits if they don't get here!" Teddy ranted on, angrily peering over the edge, hoping to scope the two men entering the building.
Faye on the other hand only shook her head from within the mask pathetically.
--whistling tune *dut-dut-dut-tuuuuut*-- (you knew it was coming.. heh)
The tune was whisply carried in the air, and with keen ears Teddy recognized the tune quickly and let out a small shriek as his eyes darted about the roof of the building. It was no mistake that he had heard it, for Faye also picked up the odd tune and with it began to kick about for attention.
Teddy, who had not expected the visitors to enter the building unnoticed by him, began to sweat beads from the tops of his brows and choke for air as his throat dried up.
--whistling tune *dut-dut-da-dutttttt*--
He let out another shriek of fright and jumped to his side, scanning the premises for the visitor he expects to see. But around him, no living thing was in sight except for the kicking woman tied on the pole.
His anger rose as he felt that the cowboy on horse was playing a little game on him. Quickly recovering his composure, he stuck out a brown detonator with a small teddy bear face on its front; the bear's nose used as a detonating switch.
"Alright, man! You better come out slowly before this girl here gets it!" Teddy gestured the teddy bear detonator over to Faye's body.
--whistling tune *dut-dut-dut-tuuuuut*--
"Would you quit whistling!!" Teddy shouted hysterically around him. He then pressed the pre-switch on the detonator, charging up the signal to pull the real switch on the teddy bear's nose, "Do that one more time and I will press it!"
--humming noise *hummm....hummmmmm...vrrrhhhhmmm*--
Teddy blinked a couple of times at the new sound, "What the hell..?!" He was surprised to find the sound to be very loud and close to him, in fact right behind him. And slowly turning around to face whatever it was, he was greeted by a large gun barrel of a red zip-craft.
Instantly, he dropped the detonator in his hand to the floor as he let out a girlish shriek at the figure through the cockpit window.
"Hello Teddy!" Spike greeted through the intercom with his spiteful smirk.
In front of him, Teddy whined as the barrel began to charge a bright blue color.
"See this barrel fires plasma energy," Spike informed, "Now if you take off all those detonators on your arms.. we'll just say you won't get crispy at this second."
Whimpering like a puppy with his tail between his legs, Teddy began to unstrap the detonators along his arms, abidingly dropping them to the floor, "There! Please don't shoot!"
--whistling tune *dut-dut-dut-tuuuuut*--
The sound came from no where again, and this time both Spike and Teddy looked up near the tied up Faye to see the blond cowboy quickly helping the victim escape from the pole. At this, Spike began to yell through his speaker.
"Hey! I had this Andy!" Spike gritted his teeth, "What are you trying to do?!"
Andy kept a smug smirk on his face as he freed Faye and hastily pulled the mask off of her, revealing her moistened but relieved face, "Hey there beautiful." he huskily spoke.
Faye eyed him with large eyes and smiled toothly, "Wow.. my hero."
The act was clearly noticed by the man in the red ship, "H-Hey! Faye I'm the hero! I'm the one who caught Teddy Bommer!"
Glancing over his way, Andy furrowed his eyebrows, "Didn't you see? I was the one who rescued the damsel."
"Well if I hadn't got Teddy, then you wouldn't have been able to get to Faye!"
Faye stood there watching the quarreling unimpressively, when suddenly she felt a slight tug behind her and a brown detonator was soon placed before her face. She sighed wearily before complying to her kidnapper.
As the two still fought over the title of 'hero', they were certainly plenty occupied to not notice Teddy simply slide over to the side with Faye as once again his hostage.
"Hey.. whooo-hoo.. damsel in distress.." Faye called out uncaringly as she found the whole thing pathetically juvenile. She even found it more immature as the two men seem to not hear her call.
--"Teddy would have killed her!"
--"He wouldn't have if I had released her, so I'm the
hero!"
--"If it wasn't for me, Teddy would still have her!"
--"And if I hadn't taken her out, she would have been
blown up by a bomb!"
"Hey.. guys.. You know there's a bomb on me right? And, yeah, Teddy's got me again." Faye muttered loudly, and it surprised her that actually caught their attention.
Teddy, who gayly watched the scene of shock unfold from the two morons' face as they realized they were once again at the place they started, gave a loud laugh, "C4, enough to blow 10 floors down from this rooftop! Thanks to you.. irritating little boys, I've got control of this situation again."
"Faye!" the two cowboys let out in unison, which only led to another showdown with eye-contact before revving up to another arguement.
Faye, who was now giving up all hope as the two men collided words against one another, sighed depressingly and took hold of Teddy's hand holding the detonator in front of her, placing it right to her forehead as a plead of instant death.
Teddy on the other hand became angrily appalled that once again the two cowboys were not paying attention to him. He let out a frustrating howl before stomping his feet in agitation.
--"Look what you did! You had to get up there and free
Faye and screw my whole plan up!"
--"What I did?! You weren't actually watching over
Teddy were you?!!"
--"I would have been if you weren't there!"
It was around this time that Teddy began to crumple up on the floor and cry, "No one payes any attention to me!! No one!"
Faye was obviously freed but unnoticed, casually picked up the fallen rope that held her before and stood over Teddy's sobbing body, arresting him then and there with Teddy not bothering to fight her.
Once finished, she quickly pulled the man up and with one brow twitching, she shoved the man in the space between the Land Cowboy and the Space Cowboy.
"There," she stated simply before walking away grumbling about the suit she's in as she left the two cowboys speechless behind her.
One minute and a cold breeze had passed before the two men glared back at each other in silence and parted; Andy escorting the bounty downstairs, and Spike landing down and contacting Jet.
~
It had been a night to sourly reminisce, as the two lanky
cowboys sat in the long couch inside the Bebop. The woman who remained
agitated with the two sat cross ways on the single couch, sitting down
in a manner of a child throwing a silent fit.
Faye had made it clear to them five minutes ago that if she hears them argue about what had happened that day, or about some petty thing, she had threatened to rip the Swordfish II and eat the horse that was both placed in the hanger of the ship.
And so, the silence spoke the reason why tension in the room was rising fast.
One of the men, who was taking the whole day seriously in his point of view, crossed his arms in front of him after sticking a cig in his lips and finding that his lighter laid mockingly on the table to the side of the other cowboy beside him.
Faye watched as Spike quietly fought in his mind whether or not to reach the lighter that was placed on the edge of the table within closer reach of Andy. Her eyes seemed to have caught the man's attention.
"Hey Faye, can you get me my lighter?" he spoke the words cooly.
Shaking her head, Faye pursed her lips, "Why don't you get it, Spike? It's right there."
The green-haired man grumbled sternly, "Come on, Faye."
Shaking her head again, Faye lifted her eyebrows at him in speculation, "It's not that hard to reach over there and grab it."
"Why would I want to reach over there?" Spike said coldly, his eyes stealing a quick glare to the man beside him.
"Don't flatter yourself," Andy retorted after picking up the sneering tone of Spike, "Like I want you anywhere near me."
Spike, who was determined to let out come-back, decided otherwise as Faye's steely gaze shifted into a menacing squint. Taking a short and tempered breath, Spike fell back to his spot, giving up on smoking his cancer stick, and completely brushing off his urge to lift his knuckles into Andy's face.
Faye, who sat across the two, gave a brief smile at Spike's action and reached for the lighter, lightly throwing it to the green-haired cowboy.
Picking up the object from the side of his vision, he pulled a hand up to catch it and fixed his eyes to the smiling woman across him.
"Good job," Faye exclaimed.
The quick difference in her expression surprised Spike, "Uh.. thanks."
Noticing the change in Faye's attitude to the mere action of Spike giving up on talking back to him, Andy pouted to Faye's direction, "It still doesn't make him a hero.. you said I was your hero!"
"Did you hear me just say that he was?" Faye snapped back at once.
"What?! So I'm not the hero?!" Spike began, almost biting through the cigarette in his mouth.
"I didn't say that! I--" it wasn't long before she was interrupted and once again another arguement erupted between the two cowboys.
"Give it up, Spike! She said I was the hero!" Andy stood up.
Spike followed right away, "Well I should be given credit too 'cause I'm the one who distracted Teddy!"
--"Why are you such a glory hog?!"
--"Why are you so damn annoying?!"
--"Annoying?! You should talk!"
--"Annoying and pig-headed!"
--"Oh I'm sorry, are you talking about me? Because
it sounded like you were talking about yourself!"
--"Smartass!"
--"Dick!"
--"Asshole!"
"Asshole?!" Andy fumed, "You want to talk about assholes, why don't we tell Faye what you thought of her?!"
At that, Spike's mouth opened slightly before hastily closing back shut.
Faye, who had been the whole time rubbing her temples in stress, lifted her head to the two battling cowboys as she recognized her name being brought into the conversation, "What?"
Simultaneously, both eyes of the men turned to her. One man with an angry look, and the other one seemed to have paled slightly in color.
"That's right! Let's tell her and let her determine who's the asshole here!" Andy announced, simply proud of the facade Spike now held in his expression.
Her face shifting to pure wonder, Faye turned to Andy and waited for the explanation.
"Did you know, Faye, that Spike thinks you're a bother around this place?" Andy let out proudly, smiling toothly at her as he told, "I simply stated that you were a goddess, and off this guy goes about you eating up all the food, taking all the hot water, being an annoying tenant, and laughing! Get me? Laughing! About why I thought you were a goddess."
Faye shifted in her seat uncomfortably, taking in all the things Andy had told her. She turned to Spike, who had now looked away to the left, looking down and guilty.
"I mean, this guy doesn't even respect you!" Andy went on, thoroughly enjoying Spike's discomfort in the subject, "And the fact of the matter is, you don't have to put up with any of this Faye." instantly he caught her eyes again, "You can stay with me and you don't have to put up with any of this." he gave a kind smile to her, inviting her into his life which lead a far more pampered life that what she lived in now.
Stretching out in her seat, Faye pondered on the idea before a wide smile played across her lips, "That would be nice..."
Spike turned to her quickly, noting that her voice carried a certain interest in Andy's offer; Andy anticipatingly waiting of the 'OK' in Faye's words.
"But.."
Andy's face quickly turned glum; there was always a 'but'.
"The Bebop wouldn't be the same without me." Faye replied, "You see.. that's my job here. To be the annoying tenant who wastes the ship's resources and does nothing for the team. That's my role in this ship, and playing as that character in this ship gives me a homey feeling."
"But..but!" Andy stuttered and pointed a finger to the shocked Spike, "He called you all those mean things!"
Faye shrugged, "That's Spike's role in this ship. 'Make fun of the annoying tenant'. Besides, he talks like that 'cause he's such a softy inside." she said sarcastically and rolled her eyes to the silent Spike who in turn let out a playful 'shaddup' to her while lighting up his cig with a grin.
Switching his eyes to Faye, then to Spike, then to Faye again, Andy gave a childish huff, "I don't understand!"
Sighing, Faye got up to her feet and cocked her head to the side, "Come on, Andy, let's talk okay?" She reached for his shoulder and led him to the dark corridors without any hesitation from him.
She turned to Spike abruptly, "You stay here."
Nodding, Spike sat back down on the long couch, pausing to think of had just went on in the room, still feeling the sick twisting in his stomach when Faye showed even little interest with Andy's proposal. He thought for a minute there that she was going to accept. It certainly surprised him that she had such a calm reply. She actually didn't go ballistic hearing about talking trash to her behind her back. It almost seemed as if she knew it was coming all along.
Thinking that, a new thought arose from his mind. Was he that mean to her that she almost suspects that everything I say about her is and will always be something demeaning. A new wave of guilt washed through him and words spoken by Andy came back to his mind.
"You talk about that woman as if that is all she is. I'm surprised to find her still staying with the likes of you, when all you notice from her is all the negative actions she has ever done."
It struck him that maybe he needed to change his attitude around Faye, especially when he claims to have a feeling for her. It wasn't fair for Faye to still act as if she was nothing in public; it wasn't right at all. And so, vowing in his mind, Spike will form his new persona towards Faye.
"Ugh.. dammit." he grumbled out as he just realized how almost impossible it would seem.
Heavy footfalls and the hanger doors opening and closing made Spike turn his attention towards the direction of the hanger itself. Upon hearing the abrupt noises, he got the idea in his mind that maybe Faye accepted Andy's proposal afterall and that was them just then leaving in a rush. Not caring to think it over, Spike sped towards the hanger quickly, only to find the violet-haired woman leaning against the doorframe, watching as the other cowboy and his horse sped away from the hanger opening.
As Faye noticed Spike curiously eyeing her and Andy's retreating form, she gave a long sigh, "Glad that's over."
"What.. what the hell did you do?" Spike asked slowly, thoroughly confused as to why Andy had made a quick dash for it.
Faye shrugged uncaringly, "I told him I liked Samurais better." an entertained tone bounced along her words, "I told him Samurais were.. sexy."
Staring at her dully, Spike hung his mouth wide open, "And? ..He believed you?!"
"Yeah. And he's going off to become a Samurai." Faye replied, slightly amused.
Also finding the situation amusing, Spike gave a chuckle and credited her for ingenius way of manipulating the guy with her charms, "Heh.. good work."
Letting her arms fall to her hips, Faye eyed the man back with a frown, "Hey.. why did you say all those mean things about me?!"
His nervousness rising, Spike let out a strangled laugh, "I-I dunno! I was just trying to get him to hate you!"
With a little 'hmph' Faye turned her face away from him, "Why did you have to do that?!"
"So he wouldn't try anything funny with you! It's not like I want to see him and-and.. you.. to-to..with each other!" Spike answered honestly, his voice getting defensive but at the same time weakening into a slight whine.
After a brief pause and a quick thought, Faye turned her eyes back to Spike and lightly smiled,
"Wow.. my hero."
~review pleaze~
On the next chapter:
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Spike: Oh mah lordy, lordy! She has updated
once again!
Strife21: ~.~ ...shaddup..
Spike: Finally! The 'Oh mighty Strife21' has finally updated after.. four months!
Strife21: ..shut it Fro-boy..
Spike: *not listening* `'`.'` I wonder..what took her SO long..hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!?!
Strife21:.. That's it! This story's ending is going to be so devastating, everyone will cry!!! ..EVERYONE!
Spike: `'`o.x'` ...whu?
Strife21: ~_~ ....
Spike: `'`o.o;;;'` ..come on Strife.. you don't mean that! I was just kiddin' around...
Strife21: ~_~ ...try me
Spike: `'`._.'` ..BACK UP!!
::Faye, Ed, Jet, and Ein comes in::
Faye: Ugh..what now??
Spike: `'`._.'` I made Strifey mad...
Strife21: *suddenly shouts* You're all dead to me!!
Faye: ||!.!|| what?! Spike you stupid fu-!
Jet: O]o; hwar! hwar! I ain't got nuttin' to do with this! *leaves*
Ed: ```^-^`` Strifey so angry!! Faye-Faye and Spike-person better watch out~ hoooheeehee hwaaa! *leaves*
Ein: *angry that he has to keep doing his 'doggy' act* Ugh.. woof. *scampers off*
Strife21: *shakes her fist in the air* The world will fear my name when this story is over!! I will be recorded as the one who has placed the most cruel ending in the Cowboy Bebop section of ffnet!!
Spike: `'`;.;'` *starts praying* ..god.. if there is a god..
Faye: || >_>|| *threatens Spike* You did this to me you stupid ass! You're gonna make me have a horrible ending!
Spike: `'`x_x'` *goes ballistic in his prayer* I didn't mean it!! I swear!! *sob*
Faye: ||._.|| All I wanted.. was some shoes.. a new skirt.. and maybe a little luvin' now and then...
Spike: `'`x_x'` *still going crazy* --Please!!! Please!!! I'll pray everyday to you!! I'll quit smoking! I'll stop thinking of JULIA!!!
Strife21: o.o?
Faye: ||_||
Strife21: .. o.o You mean you still think about her..?!
Spike: `'`o.o;'` Well..yes...
Faye: ||!_!|| ..what?!
Strife21: ~_~ ...
Spike: `'`x_x;;'` No more though! I will never, no more!
Faye: ||!_!||
Strife21: *pretends Spike doesn't exist*
Spike: `'`x_x;;'` ..I'm going to die aren't I?
Strife21: *still pretending* Next chapter will contain *leans over to Spike, and loudly phrases the next words* BETRAYAL! DISRESPECT! AND ANTI-LUVIN' STUFF!!!!
Spike: `'`._.'` *deaf*
Strife21: ..all thanks to you, puffball..
Spike: ..whatcha' say?
Faye: ||#_#|| Why do I deserve such cruel punishment such as living in a world of no luvin'?!!
Strife21: "All mind and no heart"-- is next chapter.. see you then.
Faye: ||c_c|| Somebody... hold me~
~laterz, cowboy...~
Another note: The next chapter is the revised version of the episode..uh.. eh.. *thinks*... I forget the name.. but you know, it's that episode with the wierd guy in the tv who brainwash people into joining his cult and then kills them. And Faye, ya know, she tries to get him herself. Yeah.. revised chapter based on that episode..yeah... ah you get me don't you?
Also, you know that song by Wyclef and Claudette Ortiz--"Two Wrongs" ..isn't that just a Faye/Spike song?! I dunno.. I think I'm going to use that song in a chapter soon.. hoooo~