NessacusGirl, Hehe, I'm glad you liked it so
much. ^__^ *hands her a lily* Kyra1, of course I still do! *glomp*
RySenkari, Thanks! And maybe it really WAS Andy's bounty. I mean I think he was
there first. :) Maybe more Andy…later…I dunno. I
think for now he's going to run from his family while having fun being a secret
agent man. First one from Bluefuzzyelf! Thanks
so much! My very first two from Silver Goddess1 as well! Thank you! Shari Hirtle, Shari, Shari, Shari, YAY! I of course I
missed you! Thank you thank you! Glad you liked Andy! Red-Tenko, Hehe, Lol. I did that too when I saw him. My brother was
sitting next to me and I jumped and turned to him and went, OMG Robert its
ANDY!! ANDY'S in the parade! Do you see, him did you see him?! He looked at me
and went ¬_¬
Ashley shut UP! Aritaka619, my first one from you. Thank you! I hope you like the
rest of the chapters, and I think they get longer as you go along.
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!
