The Vengeance on Faye Valentine

By Fantasy Cat

Disclaimer: I own Sam and that's all ya need to know.

Chapter Twelve: Love Begins with Denial

Jet took down a couple of men immediately after the elevator doors opened and Spike banged down the large brass doors leading into a huge office much like his own. His Jericho pointed straight at a blond hair man in his 30s sitting at a desk. The man didn't bother to raise his head. "Are you Red Dragons always so bloody?" The man asked him.

"No more bloody than you are," said Spike. "You killed Roder Cray to cover up your identity, but I found you out. Now what do you got against me and Faye, huh? Why did you have to go after her for?!"

"Vicious was the only one in your syndicate who would find allies in myself. Of course he was the only Red Dragon to be that stupid."

"I thought so. You weren't his brother were you?"

"We could've been close had he not have gotten himself killed by his whore. She ruined my plans to take over all of eastern Mars' syndicates. I knew that the Red Dragons was the only other powerful syndicate in the region."

The man heard a click from Spike's Jericho. "Faye is nobody's whore." Jet was watching everything by the door when more men came up. He was unprepared and the men grabbed Jet by the arm. "Bring him in," said the man at the desk." Then even more men came in and they had to two more hostages…Ed and Sam. Sam looked up and recognized the man.

"So you're Wang Star eh?" said Sam. "Vicious was the blindest fool in the world to have ever trusted you."

"Indeed," he said. "But now I have everything. Miss Valentine is awaiting execution and I had a wonderful time raiding your headquarters to find followers. Well, I didn't find many so I killed whoever was still present. And since you're here…"

Spike jerked his gun pressing it even harder into Wang's head.

"Do you find that a bit wise, Spike? My men are fast killers. They'll allow it so that you may see your friends killed before you can fire that Jericho." Spike looked back and forth between Wang and the threesome pinned to the floor. Wang motioned the men behind the captives to pull out their guns. "Still want to go through with this?"

"How do I know you are not lying?" asked Spike.

"Because you were never able to kill Vicious were you? Yet he was never able to kill you. Everyone knows that I am much smarter than he was. I made it my own skill to stay in the dark and come out at the Red Dragons' weakest point. When the Van died, I knew it was time."

Faye was speeding the ISSP cruiser through Mars. She had to get to the Gold Lions headquarters before the ISSP caught up with her. The radio already announced that Faye had escaped. Then a big jerk shook the ship. Faye nearly jumped out of her seat. She looked in her rear view mirror. There was smoke coming out of the back of the ship. Faye could barely control it. "Oh great!" she said. But looking at her navigator, she saw that she was heading straight for the headquarters. "Oh great," she said again.

She was getting closer by the second when her worst fear was happening…the ship was losing control. She began to sweat and panic. Visions were flashing before her eye and she knew what it was. It was the memories of the shuttle explosion from more than 50 years ago.

"Boss, there's a crazy police ship heading our way!" said one of the men. Everyone turned to the window. "What the hell?!" said Wang.

Faye was fortunate for one moment, before crashing straight through the window. She took the controller of the ship and managed to pull herself upward slightly. The ship finally hit the side of the building and flipped onto the roof. Faye had covered her eyes with her arms the whole time. She felt a large hit in the head and soon her world was replaced by more memories: the shuttle explosion - waking up - the BETA tape - finding her home gone - Spike leaving - her capture and rape - Sam - Spike in a straight jacket - killing Vicious - the baby - "I love you".

Opening her eyes, she discovered that the ship had crashed on its back and was upside down. She squirmed her way out of the damaged cruiser. As soon as she got out, the men in their brown trench coats came onto the roof to stop Faye. With her own Glock and fists, she fought them all…all the way to the office. Something inside of her had no doubt erupted and gave her the energy she needed to do this. All of the few memories she possessed provided her two motives. Pain and anger. She became a raging fury all the way to Wang's office.

When she came in, there were still a few men holding down Jet, Ed and Sam. They turned to fire at Faye. With the men distracted, the three on the floor were able to roll away and hide under tables. Spike shot a few of the men aiming at Faye to help her out. And Wang…well, he disappeared. Jet and Sam armed themselves and came jumped into the chaos to help. Ed was still covering under the table.

Finally, Spike saw the familiar blond man escaping through the torn apart brass door, and immediately he followed him. He chased him down the back stairwell. Halfway, he stopped. He could get him if he had a prepared aim. Spike's Jericho was set and was pointing down at the stairs waiting for the perfect moment. But something exploded behind him. A time bomb had been placed right behind him and Spike jumped over the stairs to avoid impact with the explosion.

As Spike jumped over, he heard a bang and he knew then that he had made a mistake…and that it would cost him. He crashed onto the ground floor, level with Wang. Wang disposed his bomb remote.

"SPIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Faye stopped running down the stairs when she could clearly see Spike on the floor. Wang looked up and gave a smirk, much like the one she was familiar with on Vicious. Her arm reached for her Glock and instantly began firing downward. They were bad aims at Wang. Thank god, she didn't hit the bleeding Spike. She jumped over the stairs as soon as she got close enough and began chase after Wang on the first floor. She found herself momentarily in the back alley of the building. He was near and she knew it.

"Is this how you want this to end Faye? By becoming a killer? Who will love you now when Spike is gone? You've lost everything and you've deserved nothing except misery. You wanted a family more than anything in the world, but your desire had been rejected because you have committed too many wrong doings.

Wang's voice seemed to echo through the alley and straight into her own mind. She couldn't deny that this wasn't true. Spike was all she had left and then what…~~~

~I won't leave you again Faye…You're my family.~

'Oh God!' She was going to lose him, if not now then someday. And it wasn't until now that she realized how wrong she was about Spike. She thought he never cared about her but he did. She remembered him saying how he once was too ignorant to see for himself. But Faye had always loved him, no mistake about that. Would he forgive her? Would he still be alive to?

Faye didn't realize how astray her mind was and instead of running away or aiming for a shot, Wang stayed in his hiding place and watched amusingly as Faye began to mentally and emotionally suffer. Now as she thought about forgiveness, Faye wondered if Sam had told Ed about being her mother yet. Ed never knew true pain. Without regret, she was the most forgiving person in Faye's life. She might have considered Faye as unselfish. Ha! She paused suddenly. She heard that word 'unselfish' spoken to her before. But when and where?~~~

~It's not in the personality or the experience. Your son may never know that what you are doing is the most unselfish act of love for any mother in your position.~

Had she forgotten already? She had a son, herself. And it wasn't Sam's fault that Ed hadn't seen her mother in so long. As soon as he got his memory back, as soon as he was free, Sam went searching for her. As soon as Faye got her memory back she went looking for her own family. Only, Sam was lucky to still have had one. And Ed, she would love him…no matter how long she hadn't seen her or the possibly frightening fact that she would see her own mother again as a man.

And what about Faye's son? Was it someone else's fault that she was that baby's only true living blood relative? As much as she might have wanted to keep him, it wasn't worth him seeing Faye like this. Yet she went through with the nine months, the birth pains, the parting, the depression afterwards…instead of going through the cheaper quick fix abortion.

Why?

She didn't want the baby, she thought. No wait…she did. So she could have a family? So he could have the chance to have a family.

Faye eyes finally opened up and she felt her face wet of tears…and rain. But those tears of sorrow had now turned into tears of realization. She loved her son. She loved Cade. Faye smirked as she saw how much she really was like Spike. She was too ignorant to realize that she did care about her own son. And now she understood Sam's words…that she loved him enough to suffer through everything while he would be given his own deserved family.

Her vision came to and she saw Wang's shadow. She fired at the crates that were hiding him. Wang was caught off-guard. He was not expecting this sudden change in Faye. The crates fell in his direction and as he tried to run away, he tripped and lost his gun. A soaking wet Faye came and kicked Wang's gun even farther away from him. Her Glock was pointed straight at Wang's head…