I would like to thank everyone who read this story and loved it, even my evil bratty sister 'Nuri Valentine'. Yes, the last chapter was very long so I decided to spend three hours last night to write till the end. It was great. Sorry that this took 8 months to write when 'Destiny' only took 5 1/2 months to write. Now I can get back to 'Fellowship'.

The Vengeance on Faye Valentine

By Fantasy Cat

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

Epilogue: Ed's Surprise Present

"Don't worry," she said. "This won't be the first time I kill someone, remember?" Wang was dead quickly. His blood was now one with the rainwater on the concrete surface. "I had to make this quick…my family needs me." Faye was finally back inside the building when she saw Sam, Jet, and Ed in a low huddle. She ran over and saw Spike lying in the center. He was still breathing, he was conscious, and he was barely bleeding.

"Spike?" she whispered to him. "You're not dying?"

"Did you wanted me to?"

"No, I mean. How can it be?"

"Faye, I've always managed to survive when I had a strong reason to live. And I have never wanted to be alive more than I do now."

Faye instantly went to kissing him. She wanted to be Spike's will to live more than anything and now that has come true. Then she stopped. "What about that time you went to fight Vicious yourself?"

"That was just luck." Jet, Ed and Sam were looking on in awe, but now the arrival of paramedics and the ISSP would change that.

Yes, Faye was taken back to jail. Faye was fortunately given a new trial before her set execution date. Ed had been working day and night to gather all of the evidence that the tipster who tried to do Faye in gave false information, Faye was found innocent. However, she would still have to spend a year in jail for escaping with a cruiser. Ed's hacking work got her out of prison a lot earlier…she was only in their for a week! Since syndicates were beyond the ISSP's control, they ignored whatever went on at the Gold Lions headquarters and who was found dead.

Spike picked Faye up from prison. "How was it, honey?" he asked her. "I was dying everyday," Faye said. "By the way, I thought of something when I was in prison. Now that Wang's gone, what's gonna happen to the Red Dragons?"

"Faye, there is no Red Dragons anymore. Sam and I went back to check it out. Everyone is either dead or not planning on coming back to create a syndicate."

The two happily came back to their Bebop floating in space. Sam was playing stuff animals with Ed. 'He must've told her, already,' she thought. Jet was cooking dinner and Ein was being Ein. Things were back to normal...

…except…she was hearing a strange noise coming from down the hallway. She went to go check it out while Spike followed close behind. "Ugh, it sounds like a dying animal," said Spike. Faye opened the door to her room. A small crib stood in the center of the room and inside it was a baby!

"Whoa Faye, I swear to you. Neither Jet nor I had anything to do with this!" said Spike. Then that leaves…

"ED ARE YOU CRAZY?!!!" Jet yelled at her. "You can't just steal a baby and bring it onto the Bebop!!!"

"But this is Faye's baby," said Ed.

"Oh, I understand," said Faye. It seems Ed was also someone who enjoyed cheering up others. "But it's Cade-person!" said Ed. Faye's eyes widened. "There's no possible way that can be him, Ed. All babies look alike." Now Jet's head was swelling from panic. "Now we're all gonna have bounties on our heads for baby snatching!"

"But Ed got baby papers and then Ed found baby at the police station, matching baby ID and then Ed went back and erased all of baby's adoption files. Ed have copies." Ed gave Faye the papers and she looked them over. Faye walked back to her room where the baby was still lying in the crib. Spike and Jet could finally see the papers themselves. Faye picked the baby up to have a look-over. "It really is you…Cade." She brought Cade back into the living room. The happiness in Faye's eyes showed that she really was holding her son again.

"Hold it," said Spike. "I don't buy the fact that Ed went to the police station and got the baby all by herself and buy a crib." All eyes were on Sam. "Okay, so I helped her out, but I did it because I was so impressed with her hacking skills that I knew we could get away with it. I mean we did, didn't we."

"Look, I'm tired of having to get away with things," said Jet. "From this moment on, whatever we get, we haveta had earn it, understand?"

Everyone was silent. Ed scratched her back. Spike shrugged.

With new people on the Bebop, it didn't mean that things would change. Bounty hunting pays were still the same. Sam filled in for Faye on bounty hunts so she could take care of Cade. And sometimes, Faye would even leave her son in the incapable hands of Ed and Ein for a quick trip to the ponies.

And yes, there was still bell peppers with no beef. Baby food seemed more satisfying to everyone's stomachs.

Although things did not change, the people sure did. Faye and Spike became new people after all they had been through the past few years. They loved each other and now they had many reasons to live. Their remaining family was larger than they thought. Jet spoiled things by telling them, "you can sleep with each other all you want, but there's no way we're gonna spend money on a wedding!" Well, they were on a tight budget. Looks like it'll be a while before Sam could become Samantha again.

"I hope Cade likes being a bounty hunter," said Faye.

"Or else he'll be begging you to tag along to the ponies with you," said Spike.

No matter what the future hold, or how much food and money was still in existence. Everyone would do his or her part to make Cade's future a happy one.

After all, it takes a mother, two bounty hunters, a transsexual, a teen hacker, and a Welsh Corgi to take care of a baby, right?

…GOOD LUCK, SPACE COWBOY CADE