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This chapter is quite rushed because I wanted to post what I had before I left to go home. My Mom uninstalled Word Processor so I didn't have a spell check. --;; I'm not doing thanks just yet, but I'll edit and replace this chapter when I get home and have some spare time. I dunno how the format will come out...I hope it comes out ok...

Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop

Thoughts are in italics






                                                                                        Island of Tranquility






"I can't believe that he just ran off!"

"Yea, and he didn't even leave Bebop-Bebop any soup!" chirped Ed.

"Rich kids. They can't handle it. I knew he was a fake. And what was up with that watch of his? I fought him the whole time without anything...he cheated. Yea, that's right," Spike went on, nodding to himself. "I thought that he was a samurai? What happened to that? Did he get tired of that too? Hey, Faye good thing you don't fall for guys like him. No solidarity," he rambled on with his feet up idly switching channels on the tube. "I mean he can't even figure out what to be! He's like a ten year old that says, 'Oh! I wanna be a fireman! No, I wanna be a race car driver! No..', I mean come on. He's a grown man!"

"You can't depend on men at all," she said matter-of-factly.

"What?" he said loudly. "You can depend on me!"

She snorted, "Depend on you to get in a fight that we have to pay for out of the bounty money!" she sauntered haughtily out of the room, as he stared at her back not seeing, her words echoed in his head. Julia could not depend on me...He started to shake his head not even wanting to let that image come to mind, but it was thinking itself in his head.

"Dependable, bendable!" Ed flipped down from one of the ducts near the ceiling and landed, wobbling, with one hand on the couch and one hand on the trunk. Her feet wiggled in the air, and slapped, soles together. Her mouth stretched into a long calm expression as she said, "Oohhmm. Oohhmm. Say it with me Spike-person. Oohhmm," she breathed in deeply and opened one large golden at him. He stared straight at her his eyebrows slightly up. He took a drag off his cigarette and let his hand fall weakly against his knee. Ed's one eye blinked and then the other opened to stare at him. "Do as Ed saaays!" she whined.

Spike rolled his eyes, and mouthed a 'Fine.' at her.

She closed her eyes and said, "Breath in."

"Do I have to shut my eyes?"

"If you wish."

He sighed and closed his eyes.

"Ed said Breath in."

He breathed in quickly.

"Good. Now say, Oohhmm, as you breath out. Go."

"Ed, I'm not saying, Oohhmm," he breathed out opening his eyes.

She opened one eye again. "Fine," she sang and flipped to her feet, bent low with her knees and frog jumped up to the duct.

As he watched her go, he felt a little guilty that he hadn't said Oohhmm. I mean it couldn't have hurt to do what the kid asked for once...He sighed again and noticed his cigarette was nearly gone. He snubbed it out next to the TV. He looked around carefully. Jet was in his bonsai room, and Faye was in her room, he hoped.

He sat up straight, closed his eyes, and breathed out, "Oohhmm," He stopped short after hearing his voice waver slightly in the silent room. He didn't want anyone to hear. He breathed deep and said, "Oohhmm."

Ed's child-like voice said softly right by his ear without surprising him, "Concentrate on breathing Spike-person."

He concentrated on how the air felt being pulled into his nose and filling his lungs, his chest expanding, and then moving back out. "Oohhmm."

He heard Ed's voice join his, and say, "Don't stop concentrating."

They sat that way, for a few minutes, breathing and oohhmming together. Until Spike felt a feel that he could stop now creep up in him. So he breathed out without saying Oohhmm and opened his eyes.

"Hey!" he shouted and jumped back surprised.

Faye was sitting right in front of him her knees inches from his own on the trunk, staring straight into his face. "Hi," she said smiling.

"Uh, hi," Oh damn.. He tried hard not to blush. He hadn't wanted anyone to catch him meditating with Ed.

Suddenly the ship lurched and tilted to one side and the lights flickered and then went out. Ein skittered across the floor and Ed fell down from the duct, bouncing off the couch and on the floor. Faye grabbed Spike who had held on to the couch, which slid down as well. Spike briefly thought that they might accidentally crush Ein.

"What happened?" Faye's voice seemed very loud in the sudden darkness and complete silence.

"I don't know-" He stopped short when they heard the sound of something big powering down, or shutting off. And they floated clear off the furniture. Then it was truly silent. There seemed to be no noise whatsoever coming from the ship itself. The gravity had always been light on the Bebop before, but now there was none.

"Why is there no gravity?" Faye hugged closer Spike, so that she couldn't float away.

"Alright, who did this to my ship?!" Jet yelled angrily as he slid down the corridor from his bonsai room holding on to the track. He had a flash light and waved it about the room. He spotted Faye gripping Spike's waist, Ed with her arms wrapped around her duct, feet waving in the air. Ein dog paddled to Jet barking.

The emergency lights came on flooding the darkness and lighting up the slightly eerie inside. Random objects floated in the air. Cups, the remote, Tomato, a shoe that looked like it belonged to Spike, anything that wasn't held in place. Jets trees were all secured to their spots in his room so they were safe. The ships computer said, "Intruder detected, aft of the gravity well."

Faye almost let go of Spike, "What's that mean, Jet?"

"It means that someone is trying to get in the ship somewhere behind the rotating tunnel," Spike looked down at her.

She scowled at him. "Shit," Jet swore. He pulled back on the track and he sailed back down the hallway.

Spike tried to follow, but is way was impeded by Faye wrapped around his waist. "If you have to hold on to me then hold on to my back. You could let go if you really wanted." She looked up at him and shook her head. As she maneuvered around, he remembered that last time the gravity had been out Faye had been unconscious and infected, and that the lights had been on. He shrugged to himself and looked for somewhere to push off of. He reached down with one foot and pressed his toe against the inside of the arm of the couch. He swung forward that way staying mostly upright and tried to aim them at the track. When he pushed off he felt Faye's arms tighten around his waist.

They reached the track and he pressed the button, and suddenly the track slid down to them. He grabbed the handle and pulled back and they were pulled forward. He let go when the got to Jet's bonsai room to see Jet rummaging around in a box. There were several flashlights floating around him, on, creating an odd looking prison of light beams, and something dark shapeless. "Someone go get Ed. Spike here's your suit, " Jet chucked the dark shapeless thing at Spike, "And yours Faye," another one launched out of the box at Spike who caught it too and handed it to Spike. "Put those on, and then come up to the control room."

"Faye go back and get Ed and Ein," Spike said before turning to take off his jacket.

"But I-" she started when the track handle whizzed away back down the hall. There was a bark and a loud 'Whheeeee!' as Ed sailed toward them Ein under one arm. Spike grabbed her hand before she could let go of the handle and sail off.

"Go up to the control room with Jet," he ordered.

"Aye, Aye, Cap'in!" she saluted and pulled back on the handle and sailed off towards the control room.

He had slipped his pants off and Faye was just staring off down the hall after Ed when Spike interrupted her thoughts,"Faye turn around and put your suit on."

"Why should I turn around?"

"Because you were going to tell me to anyways."

"Why do we have to put these on?"

"Because someone is trying to get in from the outside of the ship, and someone probably has to go out after him."

She grumbled and carefully used the door frame to push off of and sailed over Jet's bonsai and pushed on the ceiling to get down to where Jet had been rummaging around. She looked around inside and found her underclothes that she kept just for her spacesuit. She positioned the flashlights around over her head and took off her yellow outfit and put on her thin white tank top and tight black biker shorts.

Spike, in his boxers and under shirt with his legs in the suit only half way zipped up, leaned in and said, "Faye, are you done yet? Can you toss me a flashlight?" She was trying to get her legs into her suit and pull it up and she was floating upside down. Faye gave a hard yank on her suit pant and kicked her right leg and hit one of the flashlights sending it into the ceiling where it broke and flickered off.

She stopped looking up at here the flashlight and its pieces were floating. "Uh, sure hold on," she used the wall and righted herself and grabbed a working flashlight and lobbed it carefully at Spike. She saw their helmets and said, "Wait a second..." she bent over and grabbed the edge of the box and pulled herself down. She looked closely at both the helmets, and picked up one in each hand. When she got back up she lobbed the helmet in her right hand at Spike.

"Good work," he set it carefully within arms reach continued slipping into his suit.

Faye slipped her arms in and zipped up all the way up to her neck. She checked to make sure that the different systems were working properly. She engaged the magnet boots and was pulled hard to the floor. Faye reached up for a flashlight, but they were all several feet above her reach. She sighed disengaged the boots and got a flashlight. She floated over the bonsai with her helmet and flashlight towards Spike who was just zipping his suit up.

Spike looked at her before grabbing the handle, Faye quickly hooked her arm through his left one as he pulled back on the handle and they were pulled up towards the control room. There was a loud explosion and they slammed into the wall.


"Jesus, what was that?" Spike looked around frowning. Faye wasn't really paying attention to the explosions. Spike looked really, really good in that suit and that's what she was thinking about.




NFA: Next part coming later! Now...off to pack! I hope everyone had a great 4th of July!