Sanity
Chapter 14
Lose Her
By: Rachel*
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Drama
E-mail: PeachGirlKiley@aol.com
Web Address: www.Spike-Faye-Shrine.cjb.net
Look my writers block went away! I've got great ideas for this, so I'm working on chapter 14 instead of Push You off a Cloud… -_-' heh. I know, but I couldn't help it. When you gotta write, you gotta write! Anyway, be sure to R+R and tell me what you think! Also for random talk…I don't know if I've said this in a past fic or not…someone had once told me that Spike never cries…EVER…yet in the preview for episode 5 "balled of fallen angels" Spike says that he sometimes wakes up at night, as if he was peeling an onion… (That means that he wakes up crying +_+) Just some added food for thought. ^_^'
Disclaimer: I don't own Cowboy Bebop.
The car ride was silent the whole way there. A deadly tension loomed over Spike and Jack, who on occasion would glance over at the other one. Jack tapped on the car door, a nervous reaction that sent Spike into an even more fowl mood. "Will you stop that already?" Spike muttered breaking the silence. Kate looked up and peered over at Jack. He tensed and took a deep breath before releasing his tension.
"Turn left up here, the exit will be on the left." Spike didn't say a word, and only followed Jack's instructions.
"I swear to God, if you trick me into something I'll send you straight to hell laughing the entire—"
Jack smirked and started to chuckle holding his face with his left hand. "Well, I'll be with friends at least." He sighed and rolled his head back, resting against the back of the seat. "I deserve to go there when I die anyway…same as you." Spike's face remained the pinnacle to a blank expression. Flawless in every way…
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"So they finally killed off the old bastard? About damn time, so Jack is running now too…how ironic." He was tall with steel colored eyes. Two women assisted in helping him pull on a white doctors' coat. "Too bad Jack forgot about the tracking system in his car." The three of them laughed. "Do make sure my patients make here safe and sound will you? I don't want anyone dying on me before I get to have my fun." The one girl laughed and he smiled coyly kissing her.
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"This woman needs to see a doctor right away, it's an emergency." Jack pointed over to Faye who was being held in Spike's arm. The woman at the desk and dyed blue hair, her blonde roots showed through. She was dressed in green scrubs and her eyes were blue. A very colorful person, however, her personality lacked the peppy character she tried to portray.
"You've got to wait like everybody else, so just fill out this form for her and I'll call you when someone can see you." She looked up from her magazine momentarily to hand Jack a form and then went back to reading.
Jack blinked, appalled by her behavior. "Excuse me, but this woman needs help now and if you're not even going to move your stringy looking head of hair to glance at her I'm going to report you and get your ass fired!" Jack's voice echoed in the hospital lobby. Kate blinked and pierced her lips as everyone around them fell silent.
"Excuse him, he hasn't had much sleep." Kate pulled out her tag. "I'm Dr. Kiga…from Speer Psychiatric Hospital. Those two are the ones we've been hunting down for the day or so, and we've finally found them by the lake. Now, if you would be so kind as to let—"
"Dr. Yor can take care of them." A nurse piped from around the corner. Kate glanced at the girl and then nodded. "What do you need?"
"Faye just needs her leg look at, and a few stitches maybe." Spike sighed closing his eyes for a minute. Things were starting to go his way again; maybe Jack wasn't such a bad guy.
"Right this way." She escorted them towards the doctor's room.
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An old steel eye was sitting at his desk tapping his pen into the cherry wood. It glistened with what had to be thousands of layers of lacquer slapped onto it. He glanced down at the bottle in front of him. "Spike," His lips rolled up and his eyes squinted. A devil in disguise was what he was. He shivered with delight. "I had fun playing this little game, but all games need to come to an end. This time we've got some new players I want to test out too." He chuckled. His voice was deep and maliciously mellow, give him gray hair, a beard and a few hundred pounds and he would have pulled off as some freak horror movie Santa.
"They're on their way Dr. Yor." His smile faded and with a long blink of his piercing eyes he nodded towards the pale woman. "We'll send Faye and the other woman in, will that be alright?" He arched an eyebrow and with a light hearted grin nodded.
"Yes, very good, thank you." She smiled brightly and bowed.
Taking her leave she shut the door behind her. Dr. Yor, as the girl named him leaned back in his chair with his arms behind his head. "My-my…lets get the tables turning." He took a long deep breath and rolled his shoulders in before there was a knock on the door. Emotionless, he glanced at the large wooded door. "Come in!" He called and sat up. He proceeded to tap the pen against his desk.
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Spike and Jack were as alert as prairie dogs. They turned heel and looked behind them every few seconds, while the other kept close watch of the people around them. Faye rolled her eyes as she hobbled towards the large office door. Kate's shoes echoed as they clapped against the white tile floor, dotted with black. The walls were a pale blue, littered with papers for fundraisers, many already expired. "Kate and Faye if you'll just follow me…" She trailed off as Jack and Spike stood side to side, stiff as boards. She smiled shaking her head. "Sorry boys, the waiting room is right around the corner."
Jack looked at Kate who nodded. Spike however was the more wary of the bunch. "Who's this doctor? I don't remember hearing his name…" He glared as Jack stood down and rubbed the back of his neck.
"Dr. Yor…" She mumbled knocking on the door. "Sir, if you'll take your seat please, we won't be long."
Spike narrowed his eyes, and kept his gaze firm. "How long has he—"
"Come in!" The voice called. Spike's heart reeled. That voice for some reason sent an instant shiver down his spine. The kind that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Jack placed a firm hold on Spike's shoulder and shook his head.
"Come on, I'll buy you a soda or something." Faye locked eyes with Spike and nodded.
"I can take care of myself Spike." She mumbled.
Spike rolled his lips together like he'd just taken a bite out of a sandwich that was two weeks old. "That's what you said to before you were shot." He grumbled. Faye glared as she stepped inside with Kate and the nurse by her side.
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Ten minutes had passed. Spike paced back and forth in the waiting room he was disgusted as Jack yawned and picked up a newspaper and flipped to the sports section. "Bastard, how the hell can you read the sports at a time like this?!" Spike's voice echoed as an older woman in a wheelchair hurriedly passed by the waiting room to get away from the enraged man.
Jack bit his tongue and peered up at Spike with distaste and then peered back to the newspaper. "Very easily Spike, what's there to worry about? It's a hospital—"
"You know damn well that there is a whole hell of a lot to be worrying about right now, especially since you've joined the most wanted list on the Red Dragon's hit list for runaways." Jack gritted his teeth and placed the newspaper in his lap and peeled back the wrapper of his Twix he'd bought. He nibbled lightly putting the icing on the cake. The veins in Spike's neck began to bulge. "I'm trying to get past the tension and resist the urge to kill you." He sighed; a wide, factitious grin plastered itself across his face as he turned his head to the side and gaped at Spike.
Spike reached his right hand out and with locked joints rolled his fingers inward and shouted out freely, his voice echoing in the room. "Is that so?" He shrugged his shoulders. "Don't see why you hold back? I mean, I did try to kill you and Faye." He looked up at Spike with a blank face. Spike's left eye twitched as Jack finished off his Twix.
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Faye stumbled into the wooden chair with a yelp of pain. "Hello," Dr. Yor beamed a wide grin across his face as Kate sat beside Faye. "So, what can I do for…?" He looked at Kate and then to Faye and nodded. "You," He pointed to Faye. "That looks like a lovely little wound you've got." He shook his head and stood walking towards them. He extended his hand to both Faye and Kate.
Hesitantly they both grasped his hand and shook it. "Faye," she mumbled as he started to pull back the bandages. Kate frowned.
"Kate Kiga, she's my patient at Speer." Dr. Yor looked up at her and nodded.
"Yes, we've heard about her on the news, is that other—"
"Spike's in the waiting room…" Faye cut him off and bowed her head. Steel eyes, arched and eyebrow and nodded.
Standing he cracked his neck and sighed. "Very well, you two will be asleep shortly anyway, so either way it doesn't matter…" He smirked as Kate and Faye's faces paled. "What's wrong, you two act like you've just seen a ghost?" He sighed walking towards the door and locking it. First the deadbolt, then he took a key from his pocket and locked the doorknob. Sighing he walked back to his desk and taking out a pear of tweezers pulled off a thin layer of skin from either hand and tossed it in the trashcan.
Kate looked in disgust. "The new skin treatments for burn victims…you used it to transfer something to us?!"
Dr. Yor rolled his menacing eyes. "Don't be stupid, this is a much more advanced process than the new skin treatments…"
Faye was sickened. "Jack tricked us…Kate did you know about this?" Faye turned her head and looked Kate over.
Kate's lips parted and she shook her head. "No, Jack and Kate here didn't trick you. We tricked Jack…that lovely little thing called a tracking devise came in handy for once." Dr. Yor snapped. His eyes sparkled in delight.
Faye leaned back in her seat suddenly, her arms fell to her sides as the room became hazed and started to spin. "What's wrong with her?!" Kate screamed. Soon she however began to react in the same way.
Faye's head rolled back along with her eyes as her mouth hung agape. "Spike, help me…" She whispered.
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Spike bowed his head as his heart wrenched. Something didn't feel right. "I'm going to check on them." Jack rolled his eyes.
"Please, you don't have to announce your every action to me…" Jack sighed and rubbed his forehead as Spike stormed down the hall in a huff. "God, what am I doing?" He questioned himself.
Spike's breathing quickened, and his heart raced. Something was wrong, it had to be. He grasped the doorknob and turned the handle. His eyes blazed, it wouldn't budge. "Jack! Jack it's locked, the damn door is locked!" Spike's hands shook and in a furry forcefully jiggled the handle several times. "Faye, Faye, are you okay?!" He shouted, banging on the door. He gritted his teeth and let out an angered cry. "Someone get this door open now!" He had power; he was the head of a syndicate, a syndicate that was bound to see him fall.
A nurse from before came up to him. "Do you want some help sir? They're right inside, no need to worry." She smirked as she heard the tiny click of the deadbolt and she unlocked the door with the key around her neck.
"Ladies first…" Spike muttered and taking a deep breath stood inside. "Faye…?" he trialed off as he stepped into an empty room, no lights were on, the place was dark.
"Hello Spike…ready to face your nightmares again?" The chuckle pierced through Spike's heart and he turned sharply to his right. A sharp blow to the head sent Spike to his knees. "Stupid boy…" With a sharp kick in the stomach Spike was defenseless.
"You…" He whispered and soon fell silent as a cloud of black consumed him.
Dr. Yor snickered. "Get Jack in here. Tell him that Spike passed out, and I'll get him from behind. Have two of the nurses carry them to my van and take them to the warehouse. It's time to have some fun…" His grin crossed from ear to ear…
Hope you guys liked this chapter!! It's going to being coming down to the wire now. ^_^' Be ready for some edge of your seat stuff in chapter 15 +_+ ::evil cackle::
- Also, I thought I'd tell you all about Kimi wa Pet. Kimi wa pet, also known as You're My Pet in English is a manga series running in Kiss Magazine, by Yayoi Ogawa. (No, not yaoi, that's m/m coupling…Yayoi is her name…) Anyway, any Bebop fans that I've shown this series to have gotten into the manga as much as I have. You can download the manga in English off of Ushi's site. I also placed my link below so you can check out the series some. (all images are just from volumes 1 and 2 so far)
Sumire walks home from work, tired and stress. Seeing a box by her front step she looks in to see a guy passed out inside…frightened she takes him in and gets him cleaned up. The guy tells her he was running away from the place he was living at. The manager said that he'd forget the payments he owed him if he slept with him…::cough:: Needless to say our lead guy isn't gay and he ran away. With an injured hand, Sumire decides to let him stay for the night.
The next day the guy is still living in her apartment and begs her to let him stay, for fear that the people he was running from would come after him… Smirking she tells him that he can only stay if he becomes her pet. Not knowing that he would agree she stares in shock. Dubbing him "Momo" after her old dog that his hair reminds her of Takeshi Goda finds himself falling in love with Sumire, even if she only considers him as "her pet"… staying strictly as a pet/owner relationship, will Takeshi let it stay that way forever? Will Sumire notice how Takeshi feels…?
Yeah, the series is REALLY-REALLY GOOD!! (they kiss in the first chapter and everything, that's got to tell ya something ¬_¬' Heh…
www.ushi.cjb.net (It's towards the bottom of the page! YOU MUST TRY IT OUT!)
www.KimiDreams.cjb.net (Check it out, and tell me what you think!)
