Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop.

Thank you to all of those who bothered to review, hope you like it. I did use a few suggestions, but also manipulated them to my liking a bit. Thanks again! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Spike wearily opened his eyes and took a minute to register his surroundings. "Ohh, my head" he groaned.

His head was still throbbing from all the information the doctor had told him. Apparently he was going to need a lot of physical therapy, but Spike honestly thought different. There was no way she was going to spend months of 'slow painful recovery', as the doctor had called it. Spike was ready to leave NOW; this recovery process was a bunch of bullshit. He laid there, looking at the tile ceiling, and listening to the sound of the people in the hallway. He suddenly found himself thinking about the Bebop. 'Wonder if Jets leg is any better, old man can't take much more stress. I bet Faye is driving him nuts, if she hasn't left with all his money already. Faye.

Spike sighed and closed his eyes, that woman, he couldn't get her out of his mind sometimes. His head hurt sometimes trying to figure out why she had acted the way she did when he left. Then another part of him actually missed the crew, even though they drove him to the edge of insanity. Damn people- damn woman.

Spike stopped, he heard someone outside his door, he closed his eyes and tried to look asleep. He didn't want to have to deal with Somoane, Spike had known the girl all of 1 day and he was already sick of her overly happy mood. Somoane had said something about an assigned nurse, but apparently she had run out the other day, 'great, I get some slacker nurse.'

Spike kept his eyes closed when he heard the door finally open and close. The nurse slowly walked over and immediately he noticed something wrong, she seemed hesitant to walk and he could hear what sounded like her teeth chattering. She came 'til she was standing right next to the bed. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

JET-PESON, JET-PESON!!!! Yelled Ed rather urgently. "What is it Ed, where's the fire?" Said Jet.

"Look what I found!!" She squealed. "The Dragons have a new leader-person and their looking for Spike -person!! Big woolong bounty!"

"What?" asked Jet, attempting to read the tomato atop the twitchy Edward.

"Yup yup, top secret bounty." said Ed.

"Oh shit" said Jet wide eyed. He looked at the screen, sure enough, 20million bounty for capture of one, Spike Spiegel. "Hey, Ed, can you find a picture of this new leader?"

"Right away" she said giving him a salute and then running off with Ein.

"Damn it, now I gotta tell Faye, she'll freak, why do I put up with all this.." he trailed off, still talking to no one in particular.

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Spike felt her stand next to the bed, but all of a sudden he felt very tired, before he knew it he fell asleep.

Faye stood over him and watched him sleep, 'he's been in a coma for 5 months and yet he still sleeps, Lunkhead.

She pulled up a chair from the corner and sat down next to him, might as well stay for awhile, she had a crapload of paper work given to her by the administrators. 'This is why I'm a bounty hunter' she thought angrily, starting to fill out the forms.

After sitting there for 10 minutes she started to hum absent-mindedly. She was almost happy, sitting there, filling out paperwork, with Spike next to her, he was probably the only reason she was 'happy'.

Faye was shuffling through all the papers when a dozen slipped off her lap. "Fuck" she mumbled to herself. as she bent down picking them all up she came across a unfamiliar one. It said in bold print-

Patient talks in sleep, most words seem to be talked about in distressed or angry manner, but some were said while relaxed. Words said-

Vicious
Shin
Julia

Faye choked a little, figures, but despite herself she kept reading.

Jet
Kid
Mutt
Faye

S he almost fell over in her chair, 'wha, I don't understand' Faye just shook her head and picked up the rest of the papers, but not before folding up the names paper and putting it in her pocket.

She went back to the forms, trying to push all the other things out of her mind, eventually she did and began humming again.

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Back on Bebop, Jet had given up on his trees, not wanting to continue the carnage he was inflicting on the poor trees. He was now in the control room, looking over his half done game of shogi. 'Who would take over the syndicate? They want revenge on Spike for killing Vicious, but I thought nobody knew Spike was alive. oh shit, that means somebody knows he's alive. Hell, that might mean somebody at the hospital, that could drag Faye into this too.'

As he was thinking, he didn't hear Ed and Ein coming up behind him. "Jet- person!!!" she yelled, Jet yelped and jumped out of his seat. "Ed would you not do that?!" he yelled rather harshly. Ed flinched and backed away, Ein whimpering behind her. Jet immediately felt bad, "Sorry, I really didn't mean to snap at you, you just scared me." he said putting his arm on her shoulder. Ed perked right back up as if nothing had happened.

"Ed found picture of new scaaarrrryy leader person, like Jet -person asked!", she said shoving the tomato screen in his face. Jet tilted his head to the side, this gut looked a little familiar, but he couldn't place his finger on it. The name looked familiar too, but he couldn't figure that out either.

"Ed don't lose this, we have to show it to Faye." said Jet

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Faye was looking at more forms, she had been there for 2 hours and he still didn't wake up. 'Lunkhead, if he doesn't wake up soon, I'm just gonna it him, I don't care if he's hurt or not!'

She began to hum again when she heard "You sing off key"

Hey all! Thanks for reviewing! Not much I can say for this chapter, but anybody have any ideas on the new 'leader?

I do want to recommend to 'Cowboy Bebop Movie' it is so cool!! I just bought it like, 2 days ago, they have the same voices and everything, kick- ass fighting scenes too.

Anyway please review!