By Fantasy Cat
Disclaimer: I own nothing, but Sam cuz Sam rocks!!!!!
Epilogue
Waking up…it felt almost as if she had been frozen once again to be brought into a new strange world as lonely as she was in the world before. Then her eyes met those like a cat staring back at her.
"AHHHH!" They both screamed.
"YAY! Edward wake Faye-Faye!"
"ED?!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"
"I think I should be asking you that, but I won't," another familiar
face entered the hospital room.
"Jet…I can explain…" said Faye feeling as if she was in trouble with
him. After all, she had mysteriously disappeared from the Bebop for
several months.
"You can spare me the details, woman. Maybe save them for a bedtime story,"
"Faye tell Edward 'bedtime story'?" Edward jumped on the bed again in excitement.
"Uh, yeah. Sure. Say Jet? Where'd you pick her up?"
"Went after a small bounty on Earth and we ran into each other. In fact she basically caught the guy for me," Jet laughed insanely. Ed giggled along with him. "It's a long story. I'll tell ya some time."
"So the Bebop's running again?"
"Yeah. Took me a month to get the thing out of that stinking place. I found some guys to help me move the thing for cheap."
"And I see your leg's getting better."
"Oh yeah. Ed and I caught a few more bounties after we saw each other."
'Jet and Ed working together?' Faye shuddered at the thought. 'Weird'
"Come on, Ed. Let Faye get some rest."
"Resty-rest Faye-Faye." Ed hopped away out of the room.
"By the way. We found your Red Tail, but don't count on it being as neat as it was when you left it."
"What? Hey!"
Jet and Ed had already left the room by this time. Faye took her blanket and lie back down on her pillow again till she heard the door creak. She was too tired to get up again. She then sniffed the air. It was filling with a familiar tobacco smoke. She looked up; it had to be the green puffy hair lunkhead with his cigarette
"Spike? Of all people? What's your business here?'
"I've come to say goodbye'
"Typical of you to disappear in and out of the world eh?
"It won't be like that. After all, I have a destiny to complete too. I have to take over the Red Dragons. Just like you had to kill Vicious. I'm still shocked and confused about that."
"Good," said Faye cheerfully.
Spike pulls out a cigarette. "But I guess I cant play favorites with life. Anyway...um...thanks,"
"You're thanking me? You had to drag me to this hospital, I bet. By the way, where's Sam?"
"He's doin' some cleanup at headquarters."
"I can't believe it's still standing or thet you're still standing."
"It's hard to kill, just like me," Spike paused as he disposed his cigarette.
"Faye I never got to apologize for what I put you through. I
mean I lost my sanity for three months in that place every attempt at suicide
was impossible. They made sure it was. Anyway, being there
also had me thinking too. All I wanted was to get rid of a past that
was mine no matter what. It was a torn decision, Faye I thought
I was protecting you guys and myself by meeting my end. But I've
come to realize things. I cant explain it though."
"I won't be the same on the Bebop," said Faye.
"You're going back?" asked Spike.
"It's all I have. At least you still have the Syndicate."
"Yeah, I told Jet that if he avoided Red Dragon bounties, I can send him some money. After all, when I come to visit I want to be able to have beef with my bell peppers."
"Visit? Then who'll watch the place?"
"Sam can. He's next in line and good a shooter as me." Spike began to walk out the door throwing to Faye a new pack of cigarettes.
"Cant remember the last you smoked, eh?"
"Nope"
"Enjoy it then. You'll feel alot better around people."
Spike dissappeared from the room.
Faye put the cigarettes aside for when she would get out of the hospital.
She turned her head to the window and saw the sky brightening up.
Change was a part of life and Faye would always have more than enough share
of change. Still she wished that she hadn't have to be so pursuant
of the past. But now, at least there's a family she can go back to
when she got out.
"Come back soon, Spike," she whispered and she lied down again.
THE END
AN: okay that's it! I got some kickass reviewers! By the
way I know that I said that I was gonna have a big surprise. However,
I'm submitting this story to another fanfic contest so the surprise will
have to come into play at the opening of the sequel. And the name
of that sequel shall be...:
"The Vengeance on Faye Valentine"
Coming this Summer 2003!
See ya then!