A/N: Hey, all! ~HUGS~ U are the BEST! U helped me 2 reach my goal of 100 reviews, which I never would've even DREAMED of having, what w/ my terrible writing skills & all, so thank u SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!! ^_______^ O, btw, just so that u don't get terribly confused on me, or n-e-thing, this chappie starts off w/ Spike having a nightmare, lol. It's not "real", if that makes n-e sense, haha. O, & another thing.....ALL of my reviewers seemed 2 remember that Spike babysat Ed, so there4 he should know where he lives xcept~gasp!~ME!!! ~Falls 2 the floor~NIYAAAA!!!! I am sooooo slow, but thanx 4 pointing that out! Just pretend that Faye nevr gave him direction, okiez? Okiez! N-e-who, pleaze R&R and of course....ENJOY!!! ^,~
Reaching out frantically towards the surface with both hands, Spike let out a garbled cry as he realized that, to his absolute horror, he was sinking deeper and deeper within the glossy blue abyss.
Kicking feverishly in hopes of going upward, Spike felt as if adverse effects were taking place as he continued to sink like a large rock, his lungs feeling as if they would burst at any given moment as he gazed upward and noticed a distorted image of a beautiful young woman before him.
"Faye!," he cried out, only to inhale swallowfuls of water. "FAYE!!! DON'T LEAVE ME!!! PLEASE!!!"
As if she were denying his frantic plea, the image of his love shattered just as quickly as it had been formed, Spike's deep russet-colored irises reflecting vast pain and confusion as he reached out towards the abundant nothingness that now surrounded him.
Just when he began to give up and stop fighting the current that kept pulling him downward all-together, an arm cut sharply through the ocean's surface and seized him by the hair, pulling him up roughly in order to-
"GET UP, YOU WORTHLESS SONOFABITCH!!!"
Crying out, Spike shot up in bed in an instant, only to realize that his father had a nice little fistful of his hair resting snugly within his taut fist, completely ready to pull it at any moment in order to make his son even more miserable than he already was.
"What the fuck do you think you were doing last night?!," Mr. Spiegel demanded, his irate facial features reddening as he impatiently awaited his son's response. "Don't even THINK about denying anything, you rotten little rat, cuz I just sent your whore home about 15 minutes ago!!!"
"She is NOT a whore!!!," Spike growled in retaliation, thus causing his father to pull his hair in order to silence him.
"Don't you DARE contradict me! When I say that she's a whore, that means that she IS a whore!!!," Mr. Spiegel argued as he gave Spike a rough push in the chest. "How ELSE could you get a girl to sleep with you?! I mean, my God, just look at you! Did you DRUG her, or something?!!"
"NO!!!," Spike hollered, tears stinging along his lashes as he held his head up high. "We LOVE each other, dad! We have something very special....something that you and mom NEVER had!!!"
That did it.
Mr. Spiegel reared back, then struck his son clear across the face, a light hint of scarlet streaming forth from Spike's left nostril as he tried his best to give his father a look of sheer nonchalance.
"Don't you DARE bring you mother into this, you piss-drinking fuck!!!," Mr. Spiegel roared before connecting his fist with his son's face once more. "I should've NEVER listened to that bitch whenever she begged me to start a family, and I mean NEVER!!! You weren't a bundle of joy like sons SHOULD be, Spike! You were a bundle of HELL!!!"
"Mom is NOT a bitch and Faye is NOT a whore!," Spike growled, his deep, two-toned irises blazing over with a fire that consumed him with a deep hatred unlike any that he had ever experienced. "Stop talking shit about the women that I love, you bastard! I'VE HAD IT!!! I'm 18 years old and I am not ABOUT to put up with your shit anymore! Disown me, for all I care! I just wanna be free!!!"
Seething like a kettle about to burst, Mr. Spiegel clenched and unclenched his fists by his sides in order to control himself, then roared at the top of his lungs, "FINE! GET OUT OF HERE, YOU WORTHLESS PRICK!!! JUST SO YOU KNOW, I'VE FORBIDDEN YOU TO SEE THAT WHORE, SO YOU CAN'T JUST RUN TO HER AND FUCK AROUND THE CLOCK!!!"
Outraged, Spike gripped his blanket in order to prevent himself from lashing out at his father, his deep inner ire bubbling within his churning soul as he acknowledged tartly, "Be that as it may, I'll find a way to get to my love..............just you wait and see."
Without waiting for a reply, Spike wrapped his blanket securely about his naked body and headed over to egress the bedroom door, not even looking back as his father continued to rant and rave behind him about having respect for his elders.
"Ha! Where's MY respect?," Spike wondered scornfully as he locked himself in the bathroom and reached for the pair of clothes that he had worn a couple of days ago from off of the floor. "If anything, I should be the one getting an apology! He deserved what he got! No one DARES talk about the women that I love and expect an apology in return, and I mean fuckin' NO ONE!!!"
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"Well?"
Gazing back at the Wong's through tearful ebony lashes, Faye briefly looked down at the fertility test and announced shakily, "I-I-I'm not pregnant."
"That's nice to know," Mrs. Wong acknowledged stiffly as she and her husband exchanged glances full of firm disapproval. "You do know what this means now, don't you, Faye?"
She shook her head, her shimmering jade eyes deep and imploring.
"It means that we can't have you around Ed anymore," Mr. Wong spoke up as he placed a heavy hand upon his spry daughter's wild head of flaming red hair. "I'm sorry, Faye, I really am, but you are no longer welcome in this household due to your scandalous shenanigans with the Spiegel boy the other day. It has a terrible influence on our precious darling daughter and you know that! She worships the very ground that you walk on, so of course she will emulate what you do in every shape or form! If she sees you screwing around, she'll automatically think that it's ok to do so, too!"
Faye blinked back tears of vast pain and confusion, averting her gaze down to her white boots as she asked timidly, "W-what do you mean, sir? I'm afraid that I'm not fully understanding what you're trying to get across."
Returning her intent gaze with a sternness unlike Faye had ever seen in Mr. Wong before, he returned firmly, "We're disowning you, my dear. You're on your own now."
"What?!," she shrieked, about to go hysterical. "Where will I go.......who will I live with?!"
Giving her a cold look, Mrs. Wong replied icily, "Frankly, honey, we don't really give a damn. Just go and go now."
"NOOOO!!! Bad, ad, cad!," Edward wailed, detatching herself from her father's pantleg before throwing herself into her beloved step-sister's arms in an instant. "Ed doesn't want Faye-Faye to leave, mother-person! Ed loves Faye-Faye.....she shares food with Ed!"
"Edward Francoise, go to your room right this instant!," Mrs. Wong bellowed, placing her hands on her broad hips as she watched her daughter shake her head rebelliously. "NOW!!!"
"Mama, pleeeease!," Edward begged, hiccuping as rivers of hot tears began to stream down her cheeks in salty torrents, her embrace about her step-sister only tightening due to her headstrong defiance. "Please let Faye-Faye stay........pleeeeeeease!!!"
"I said NO!"
Looking down at her step-sister through warm, unshed tears, Faye urged softly, "Go on, honey.....I promise that we'll see each other again soon. Just be a good girl and go upstairs, ok? Do it for me.........please?"
Edward glanced up at her step-sister with big, bleary yellow eyes and nodded, acknowledging a half-hearted "ok" before miserably cartwheeling up the staircase as Faye turned to face Mr. and Mrs. Wong in shame.
"I'm so very sorry for what I've done, but I can't help the fact that I'm in love," she began softly as a single tear rolled down her pale, silky cheek and died on her sleeveless top in a single blotch of sorrow. "My love, however, has cost me yet another thing that I love, and that's my foster family. Please.....oh, please at least let me come back to visit Ed! Please!"
Mr. Wong shook his head. "No.....that I cannot allow. Pretty soon she'll be asking about the birds and the bees and if you're the one that'll be explaining it to her, we'll be raising a demonic floozie!"
"Ed is not demonic!," Faye argued, tears streaming down her cheeks in hot torrents as she clenched and unclenched her fists by her sides. "I love that little girl, sir, and I resent the fact that you regard her so poorly! I mean, if you'd actually take the time to just listen to her, you'd-"
"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!," Mr. Wong barked, immediately seizing her by the arm and showing her to the door. "Out, out, OUT!!!"
"B-but my things-"
"We'll mail them to you when you get a new address!," he growled in response as his wife tearfully took him by the arm in order to comfort him. "And another thing......I absolutely FORBID you to continue dating that Spiegel boy!"
Faye gasped. "Oh, but sir.....I love-"
"I don't care!," Mr. Wong interrupted venemously, waggling his finger back and forth at her as he gave her a look full of sheer menace. "Mr. Spiegel called to let us know that he forbade his son to see you, so we're forbidding you to see him, as well!"
A wretched sob racked its way out of Faye's throat as she wailed a tearful "good-bye" and tore off across the lawn to anywhere that her legs would carry her, her surroundings seeming to blur together in one great big mass of ugliness as she felt as if her walls were caving in.
"Just run to the ends of the earth for all I care!," Faye instructed herself inwardly as she began to choke on her salty tears. "After all, what kind of a life is worth living without sweet little Ed.......without my dear, beloved Spike?!!"
A/N: ~Cries~I am SOOO sorry 4 doing that, but I promise that it's needed in order 4 my future story lines 2 work! . lol, please don't flame me! heh. Also, I should letcha know that this story izn't like most high skool fics if ya haven't quite already figured that out, lol. ^^ I like 2 b different, so yay! hahaha. I told my friend the future storylines, & she wuz shocked, lol, so maybe I shouldn't have ruined it 4 her. I DO like 2 shock ppl, after all. ^_^ N-e-who, pleeeeease R&R??? ~Gets down on knees & begs~PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE???? lol, let's try 2 make it 200 reviews! ^^ ~cough~ Like THAT'LL ever happen....I mean, seriously, lol.....bad writer=not very many reviews, lol. ^^ Welp, pleaze R&R!!!! PLEASE???? Ttyl, luv ya bunches! ^,~
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