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Chapter fourteen: pain-pale jade
"Ha ha ha, knowing that shrew is finally gonna pay off, soon we will have ten million woolongs, plus the ones we get from selling the Red Tail. I will be living on easy street." Spike cheered himself on as he tracked down the blue ship that captured Faye
:: Faye...::
Spike sighed "Cheer up Spike, you're finally gonna get rich of that girl and your not even happy?"
::It must not be a good sign that I'm talking to myself. I don't know why I'm still so glum. Julia is
dead, nothing in power there is I can do to change that. My love, my only love is gone. Faye, hmph,
Faye can never, never, replace Julia. Faye is just some selfish shrew who never cared about
anything or anyone but money or gambling.::
Spike almost crashed the ship when he thought that.
"Or… is it the other way around?" Spike concluded
"Is it possibly me who is the one who is selfish and all he cared about was his, his life?" Spike jaw dropped and his eyes widened
"Dammit why do these thoughts come in my head, Faye is a bounty and I'm turning her in. end of story." Spike grinned
"There is nothing anyone can do to stop me either!" Spike yelled into the air, his words heavy with anger, and whips of anguish.
"Ha, and Jet, ha right when I get that reward I'm getting my share of the cash for the Red Tail too, and I'm out of there. I'll sell this piece of crap ship. I'll buy the best one the have on the market, and live by myself." Spike erratically chanted as he flew faster to the blue ship hat was already in sight
Spike fired the machine guns at the large blue ship. The guns zipped and zinged as the came out of the barrels. The bullets cracked like bones against stone when they collided with the hull.
"Joey, Joey we are bein' fired upon by some fool in a Swordfish!" Omar yelled and tried to stabilize the ship, but it was too late the guns disabled the engine and the ship crashed to the ground with a deafening bang. The ship skidded across the road, ricocheted off of buildings and finally came to a stop on the outskirts of Soderta.
Faye's shoulder banged against the floor hard and she regained conciousness.
"uhhgg can't those fools drive? Man, It's harder to die than I thought. Well now with this new added injury nothing will stop me. I have no past and now I have no future once they turn me in. I'm tired of living, I need to just let go, and die so I can just stop this chain of suffering I must endure. Goodbye world I beat the system, death." Faye feebly wheezed. Then Faye collapsed to the floor dying.
Spike carefully boarded the grounded ship. He took out his gun and stepped around fallen debris and looked for the pilots. He saw them unconscious on the floor in the cockpit.
::Oh no if they were knocked out by that then Faye who was already severely injured, could she be, dead?::
He ran through the ship and went in the corridors. He felt frantic, and worried just like when he was looking for Faye earlier, when she was kidnaped.
::please, please, Faye be alive.::
Then Spike found Faye she was chained to a pipe, crumpled on the floor. Her body was still, and there was blood all around her
"Faye." Spike softly called. There was no answer.
Spike ran to her and lifted her in his lap. Her body was cold, lifeless, and stiff, like a board. Her whole body was very badly bruised and sliced. Spike could tell that some of the bones in her body were broken. Spike was amazed at the extent of her injuries. He was surprised, if she was alive, how she survived that long. Spike desperately looked for a pulse, hoping it wasn't just a futile gesture.
::c'mon Faye don't be dead. Please, Please don't, be dead. Faye please.::
He put his head on her chest trying to hear a heartbeat. Even her large breasts felt cold under his head.
"Faye no, no, please be alive." Spike prayed
"Spike, I'm not dead, you can take your head off my tits now." Faye weakly smiled
:: I can't believe it Spike is holding me, he is here.::
Spike turned his head and his auburn eyes seeped into her pain-pale jade eyes.
"That's good, because bounties are no good when they are dead." Spike grinned and cradled her gently as if she were a porcelain doll about to crack
Faye's eyes narrowed and with all seriousness she whispered. "If your gonna turn me in I'll die right now."
::Faye, don't you dare even think about killing yourself, I won't allow it.::
"I'll think about it, how's that for an answer you little shrew." Spike spoke softly his auburn eyes seeping into Faye's jade ones
"lughead." Faye wrinkled her nose, and laughed, then wheezed, it was harder to breathe now, than it was to when she was not so severely injured.
Spikes eyes widened slightly. Spike was alarmed by her condition, he hoped she'd make it. Spike took his hand and stroked her cheek gently, then his fingers moved over her scarlet, velvet lips, and closed them.
::Faye, just hang on some more, don't worry everything will be alright.::
"It would be better if you saved your energy and not talk anymore, don't worry, we're going home." Spike smiled at her with his fingers still pressed lightly on her lips, and began to stand up slowly.
::Spike cares about me, I wish I didn't have to be in this weakened state, or I'd at least return the same feelings::
Faye's jade eyes glistened; she softly, and swiftly kissed his fingers once. An overwhelming sense of security covered Faye like a blanket. Faye nodded and stared longingly in his eyes. She slowly closed her eyes and rested her head up against his chest. Hearing the rhythmic beating of his heart, and the warmth of his body, she fell unconscious.
::I might not have a good past, but my future is looking up, Spike, you may not love me, but I love you::
Spike lifted his fingers from her lips and looked at them, amazed.
:: Did she just kiss me? She did, Faye Valentine just kissed me. Not lustrously, but lovingly. Well, I think she likes me, even after all that grief I put her through. Damn shrew, you just can't get rid of them can you. They just keep coming back.::
Spike watched her sleep in his arms. He never before felt this way about anyone or anything. He didn't know what to do. He walked out of the remains of the ship and managed to get in the tiny cockpit of the Swordfish II with Faye unmoved in his arms. She already began to feel warm and relaxed in his arms. She felt like she was alive. He knew psychically that she would make it. When he found Faye that she was cold and clammy like as if on a block of ice, and her eyes were pale, and somber, bruises cuts and lumps, covered her body. Spike dually noted when she realized that he was there for her that her body began to soften up; her skin seemed to be made of milky white rose petals, even though none of her wounds disappeared. Faye's eyes also turned that deep liquid jade, the kind that if you stared into it long enough you felt hypnotized by her.
Spike slowly and gently propped Faye up so that she more sitting on his lap. Her breast was pressed against his chest. Her head resting on his shoulder blade tilted into his neck. Her delicate cheek pressed against the base of his neck. Her plum hair enveloped her head like a veil of lace.
::Today, I found my place in this world, I figured out that our past doesn't always have to effect everything you do. Sometimes you have to throw caution to the wind and try something. Faye isn't a selfish shrew; well she is a shrew. I was being the selfish one, I guess. Only caring about my life, and past. Not having any concern at all for the people who meant the most to me; the people right under my nose. At the time I was so blinded by Julia's radiance and mystery, that I emotionally and mentally blocked everyone, especially Faye. My past controlled my life both consciously, and sub-consciously, I don't even see how they could stand to be around me. It's a wonder with me chasing after Julia, and hunting down Vicious that I didn't drive Faye away.
"Mihn you were right, It was a foolish tragic love story that only brought about pain and sorrow. Faye, she is the key, I wont let her die, In honor of you, and your brother killed." Spike concluded as he tried his best to start the engine with Faye in his lap.
Spike started up the engine and blasted back to bebop. Spike even though loved that Faye was in his arms, he found it very difficult to pilot the swordfish.
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aaaawww she kissed him -_-, this is a beginning of a beautiful thing! ^^ I think, who knows what might happen knowing those two and especially me XD
