Sanity
Chapter 2
By: Rachel*
Rated: PG-13
Gender: Romance/Suspense
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Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop
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Spike walked down a darkened hall. The floor boards creaked, and dust fell from the rafters above. "Faye?" he whispered, drawing his gun. He turned into a large room and scanned the surroundings, televisions, and bodies, all around. Spike felt very uneasy, how could she be in…he saw her. "Faye!" He yelped. Hurriedly Spike jogged over to her and checked her pulse, weak, but she was alive. He let out a small sigh.
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Faye was sitting in a white room with a white bed. The only color came from her green eyes, and violet hair. Jet walked in with a woman in a lab coat. "Faye, hi honey." He smiled, and sat on the corner of Faye's bed.
Her eyes darkened, and narrowed ever so slightly. "This is Dr. Kiga. She'll be taking care of you now." Dr. Kiga was tall with dark blue eyes, and ebony colored hair. Way to pretty to be a shrink.
"I think you'll really like it here, we have a recovery circle where you can meet people with all different problems, and help each other get better, together." She got down on her knees and took hold of Faye's hand smiling. "Would you like that?"
"I'd like it if you'd let go of me, and back off." Faye snarled. She shoved Dr. Kiga away and made her fall onto her back.
She flinched closing her eyes. "Well, I see we need to work on educate, and social skills, this is just the program you need to be in.
"I need to be out of here." Faye's glared over at Dr. Kiga.
"Faye, you have to be nice to Dr. Kiga. Now, I'm leaving, I'll visit you next month when I get back from my business trip in Venus, okay?" Faye turned and managed a nod.
"Mr. Valentine, can I talk to you out in the hall for a moment?" Jet nodded and kissed Faye on the forehead quickly before leaving the room with Dr. Kiga.
"Is there something wrong with Faye?" Jet leaned against her door and stared over at Dr. Kiga. His eyes scanned over her frame before he looked in the glass window looking at Faye again as she sighed rubbing her face with her hands.
"No, no. It seems very promising. Her aggression level has dropped dramatically since last year. Well, at least by what her files say and the way she acts now, she shouldn't be in here more than a year tops." She smiled and bowed her head. "It was very nice meeting you—"
Faye knocked on her door and stepped out as Jet moved. "I'm going to take a walk around here for awhile if you don't mind…" She snarled, and pushed past Dr. Kiga.
She pierced her lips together. "I'll have to work on getting her to trust me." Jet smirked and nodded his head. "Well, it was nice meeting the both of you, and I hope to see you soon." Dr. Kiga took Faye's chart and turned away walking towards her office. Faye slowed down and turned back to Jet who smiled and nodded.
"You have to get yourselves out of here. You're on your own from this point on…" He whispered. Faye nodded. "Good luck, and be careful."
Faye bit down on her lower lip and closed her emerald eyes as she headed towards the elevator. "Dr. Kiga!" Faye called. An idea ran through her mind. Jet sighed and turned whistling to a tune he'd once heard Spike sing. His one thought was for Faye, hoping that she'd find him.
She blinked and turned to Faye who jogged over to her. "Yes Faye, what it is it, is there something wrong?" She smiled again. Her pearly teeth glimmered, reaching from ear to ear.
"No, I wanted to know if I could walk around on all floors. It's just that I like to get acclimated to new surroundings, otherwise it'll be bothering me all night—"
"Sure-sure…You know what, I'll take you now. I don't have anything else to do now until after my lunch hour." Dr. Kiga smiled. Faye felt suddenly uneasy. She was very willing, maybe Faye was being too nice, and she did have an anger disorder after all.
Faye narrowed her eyes and shrugged her shoulders. "Whatever," she muttered and waited by the white elevators in the white hall, while standing on the white tiles in her white pajamas. "I hate this place already." She bit down on her lower lip. 'Where are you Spike?' She thought.
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"Jack, you'll never believe it! The new girl is talking to me, and even asked me to help her walk around!" She ran into her office and hurriedly put Faye's chart away.
Jack smirked. "Calm down, it's your second day here; pretty soon you'll be begging for the hours to go by faster."
She wrinkled her nose together and sat on the edge of Jack's desk. "You're just jealous because none of them trust you." She smiled brightly.
"Oh, darn… I really wanted to become friends with the psychopaths here too..." He rolled his eyes. "Hey Kate, I wanted to ask you if you wanted to have coffee with me when you go to lunch, how's it sound?"
"Sure, but you'll have to wait while I take the new girl around!" She laughed and ran out of the room with a wide grin on her pale lips.
"You haven't told her yet, have you Jack?" A man came out from behind a coat rack his hands in his pockets. The man was tall with dark red hair and brown eyes.
"She's too happy, I'll tell her tomorrow." He grimaced. Jack's face darkened, and a small smile crept onto his lips. "She doesn't know what she just got herself into."
"She's got a great background though, she'll be a big help." The man yawned. "How's he doing?"
Jack scuffed. "Which him?" he growled. "If you mean Spike, he's not as bad as Shin."
The man's eyes narrowed. "Spike isn't a vegetable either Jack. Spike's suffering from shock, and Shin is on full life-support and will be the rest of his life. He'll never regain consciousness…I don't even know why we bother keeping him alive; he's a waist of electricity."
"Spike is awake, his eyes are open, and he won't speak or react to anyone." Jack sighed. "He's still on the tube feeding, and we've stopped the sedation, he won't be a threat anymore, as long as we keep people he knows away, myself included." He smirked. "When he does, well, if he does snap out of it, he'll most likely lash out at the person because of the tarmac state he was thrown into to begin with…"
The man shrugged his shoulders. "All the better to have the nurse's watch over him. I mean what do you expect, he left his home, his lover was killed before his very eyes, and he killed the very man he trusted, well, used to trust that is…then we put him through all of the testing and…" He coughed. "I'm surprised we were able to keep him alive, the man went through enough blood transfusions…" He walked towards the door. "I'm going home now; I'll talk to you in the morning."
"Yeah," Jack sighed, and leaned back in his office chair. "I just hope Miss. Valentine doesn't notice he's here." Jack's eyes narrowed. "Who knew she was insane…" He chewed on his thumbnail and peered up at his ceiling and glared at the piece of paper taped up. 'You should be working!' It read. His eyes narrowed into tiny little slits. "I need a new job…"
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Faye half listened as Dr. Kiga talked endlessly smiling, saying the kindest of words. Faye was mentally kicking her ass. She felt sorry for the woman, she did, but she couldn't stand how conceited they all were. She couldn't wait to just see Spike, her one grasp to reality in this hellhole. She just wanted to lock her arms around his neck and squeeze the life out of him. She fought to hold back a smirk, to see his face when she did so.
"This is floor seven; this is mainly for our intensive care patients, also for those who aren't conscious with the real world. Do you understand that Faye?"
Faye turned. "Like a catatonic state?" She bit down on her lower lip.
Dr. Kiga nodded, surprised by her response. "Is there something wrong, Faye?" She paused at the water fountain. "You can talk to me, that's what I'm here for."
Faye didn't know why, but she said it. "I think I know someone in this hospital." The words rolled off her tongue like she'd known Dr. Kiga her whole life.
Kate blinked. "How, it's your first day here." She shook her head; maybe she should have put Faye on medications.
"I think he was in one of my previous hospitals, I saw his name on the admissions list. It'd be nice to see if I was right." She looked back over to Dr. Kiga who stared at her blankly for a moment.
"What's his name?" She sighed, and took a drink of water.
"Spike, do you have anyone in here by that name?" She walked over and pushed Dr. Kiga away and got a drink herself.
She blinked again. "Well, yes. Actually, he's on this floor, I don't know if it's your Spike, but by all means I think we should find out!" She smiled brightly and took hold of Faye's hand.
"Let go." She hissed, and jerked away from Dr. Kiga's grip. She nodded and whispered her apologies. Faye's heart was aching more than ever before, he wasn't dead, but then again he was. He was conscious, but then he wasn't, why couldn't she have fallen in love with someone else? "Can I see him if we find him?"
Dr. Kiga eyed her. "If you really want to see him, yes I'll allow it. Just don't do anything; he's not in my care." She winked and walked along the left side of the hall, the men's side of the hall. "Steve, Mike, Shin—" Faye's eyes widened, wasn't that one of Spike's friends? She hurriedly walked up to the window and peered inside. She frowned and looked away, monitors, tubes, and needles surrounded him. She closed her eyes. "Eric, and…here you are Faye, Spike."
Faye's eyes opened and her head jerked forward. She stumbled, and walked down two doors and looked in. Faye's heart caught in her throat, her chest began to pound, the only thing between them was a door, and, a few feet. She gritted her teeth and hid the tears. "It's him," she uttered.
Dr. Kiga smiled brightly. "Oh, that's great. You might even be able to help us with his condition if you feel like it."
"I'd like to say hello to him alone doctor." Faye spat, narrowing her eyes. "You're nice, but it's just an act…please go for now, I'll find you when I'm ready to talk, okay?"
She frowned and nodded. "If you need anything, just ask one of the nurse's I'm here until seven, but if you really need me any other time, I can come in to see you on request, okay?"
Faye nodded and waited for her to walk around the corner. She let out a gasp, and held her left hand to her mouth, and let the right run over the glass. "Spike," her heart was tearing out of her chest. He lay there lifelessly, his face was pale, and his eyes were open, occasionally blinking. Slowly she turned the handle of the door, and walked inside. "You're alive." She breathed.
Soo…? LoL R+R
