Hey peoples! Ok, thanks to all the people who have reviewed and thanks to
Deathdragon for being my "suspense" coach on this. Couldn't have done it
without you man! Anyway, here it is, the next chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own Cowboy Bebop, poor, Alaska, you know the story.
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"Wha-what did you say?" Faye asked, fear showing plainly on her face.
"Obsession thinks that you're, I don't know, my girlfriend or something. That yell proves it," Spike said, running his hand through his hair and rubbing his eyes. "Oh this day just keeps getting better!"
"But I'm not your girlfriend, I'M NOT!" she began yelling it repeatedly at the ceiling, shaking all over. Spike grabbed her by the shoulders and put one of his hands over her mouth.
"What's going on out there you lunk-heads?!" Jet called with an agitated voice from the kitchen.
"Oh nothing, just a brief encounter with the stow-away," Spike called casually from the living room, earning a muffled whine from Faye.
"What'd you say?" Jet said, coming out of the kitchen and walking into the living room. As he entered, he saw Spike holding onto Faye with one hand over her mouth and Faye on the edge of tears. "What's going on here?"
"Well . . . ." Spike said. "It's kind of complicated. Spike then let out a yell, taking his hand away from Faye's mouth revealing her bared teeth. Blood began seeping slowly from the bite mark on Spike's hand.
"There's nothing complicated about it!" Faye yelled, slipping slowly onto the floor and hugging her legs to herself. "Obsession's on the ship and he's going to kill me."
"What?" Jet asked, a confused look dominating his features. "Obsession's after Spike, not YOU Faye."
"I was shooting at him, Faye didn't know and ran in to stop me, Obsession saw her tackle me, and to cut a long story short now thinks that Faye and I are . . . ." Spike said.
"Involved?" Jet finished, doing air quotes as he said it. Spike and Faye solemnly nodded and Jet let out a huge sigh. He went over and helped Faye up onto the couch and sat down next to her. "So what're we going to do now?"
"Well, since it's two out of three people on this ship's problem, the answer should be fairly obvious. We have to go through the ship and find Obsession." Spike said, showing unusual calmness.
"You sure that's not just what Obsession wants?" Jet asked.
"Hey, if I'm going down then I'd mush rather go down fighting then waiting for him to come get me," Spike said staring up at the ceiling viewing his marksmanship.
"You would say that," Jet said with a smile. "Ok then, let's do this. Spike, you start on the lower decks, I'll start in the control room, and Faye you just stay here and try to keep calm."
"What about breakfast?" Spike asked in a whiney voice.
"Weren't you the one who was all 'on edge' before about this?" Jet said. "We're going to go find this guy and stop him before he kills somebody! How can you think of your stomach at a rime like this?!"
"Ok, ok, no need to bite my head off!"
"It's called payback little buddy!" Jet said still smiling.
"So are you going then?" Faye asked, having gotten over her tears.
"Yah, ok Faye, you stay here. Set Ein on patrol or something. If he starts barking you take this gun and you run ok? Run like hell and yell for us," Spike said, setting a gun on the table. Faye gave a short nod and picked up the gun. "Alright then Jet, let's get going." Spike got up and went over to the hallway door.
"You sure that you'll be okay Faye?" Jet asked, going over to the staircase. HE had a generally worried look on his face, he and Faye didn't get along the best but that didn't mean that he wanted her dead.
"Yah, I'll be fine," Faye said with another short nod. "Just catch the bastard and give him hell."
"Will do," Spike said with a thumbs-up heading through the door. Jet gave a thumbs-up too and headed off upstairs. Now Faye was left all alone except for Ein, and to tell the truth that didn't make her feel much better. Ein would be able to signal if Obsession was coming sure, but his worth pretty much ended there. Faye patted the couch cushion next to her and the little Welsh corgi jumped up and into her lap.
"You can't by any chance turn into a Doberman pincher can ya?" Faye asked the little dog, giving him a scratch behind the ears. Ein's ears drooped and he lay down in Faye's lap. "Guess I'll take that as a no. Ok Ein, can you go off and patrol the halls for me?" To Faye's surprise, Ein seemed to understand perfectly. He gave her a little lick on the face and headed off down the hallway.
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Meanwhile about 5 floors down, Spike was exploring one of the many storage rooms of the Bebop's lower decks. While he was trying to keep calm, he couldn't help feeling like he was in some sort of a horror movie. (A/N: Which he is . . . . .) All around the room were different shaped items covered in white sheets. "No wonder Obsession came on the Bebop, there are more places to hide then you can count," Spike thought out loud, shinning his flashlight around. Worse still, the old ship was so rickety that in those bottom decks everywhere that you stepped was squeaky. Spike was totally on edge, sweat dripping from his forehead and all, and then he felt something rush past his leg. He pulled out his gun but in his haste he ended up loosing his balance.
He fell over into a hard body underneath a sheet behind him. "You'll never take me alive bitch!" he yelled, struggling to get up out of the tangle of sheets. As he stood up he pulled off the sheet, ready to shoot to kill. However, it turned out to be nothing more then an old modeling dummy, like the kind that are used in store windows. Spike shuddered when he noticed that the dummy had no head. "Ok Spike, you're just freaking yourself out here," he whispered to himself. He re-erected the dummy, putting the sheet back over it. "One room down, countless numbers to go."
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Back up on the main deck, Jet was pounding furiously on a control panel. The panel had a series of black screens in front of it and this seemed to be driving Jet's fury. "C'mon you piece of shit! Work!!" Jet yelled, slamming both fists down on the panel, pressing random buttons as he did. All of a sudden, all the screens lit up with different pictures. "Yes! Genius at work!" Back when Spike and Jet had first teamed up, one of their first bounties had managed to escape after robbing their ship. To make sure that that would never happen again, Jet had installed security cameras all over the place. Store rooms, ventilation, hallways, living room, everywhere but the bathroom. Jet looked around on the cameras; Obsession was nowhere to be seen. Spike was downstairs freaking out over a store-window dummy, Faye was lying down in the living room, and Ein was busy sniffing around in the hallway. "Good, everything seems to be okay here." With that, Jet walked out of the room towards one of the upper-deck storage rooms.
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Ein had been walking up and down hallways on the living room floor for a few hours now and he hadn't sensed and thing. He knew Obsession's scent and it hung to the hallways, but it was old. As the little dog came to a stop at another dead-end hallway, he perked up his ears and sniffed wildly in the air. Again, no scent and no noises from the man who'd been standing over Spike. Ein didn't understand this at all, why was that man on the ship? He'd been watching over Spike as he slept with a protective look in his eye . . . maybe he was Spike's bodyguard! Yah, that's it! And everybody's looking for him because he was patrolling the halls like he was! Ein walked around a little bit more still not finding the man, so he decided to go back to Faye to see if he could comfort her anymore.
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As Ein walked down the hall, Faye heard him coming. She turned towards him, eyes wide, but her expression went back to normal when she saw that it was just the dog. Ein came at her a bit faster, but just as he passed the kitchen he stopped suddenly. His nose went up in the air and he began sniffing wildly, turning to look into the kitchen. He smelt it, the scent that clung to that man, blood and rotten meat. He made a move to step into the kitchen, but then he saw something move in the darkness.
From inside the kitchen, Obsession stepped out of the blackness. He wore a blue trench coat over street clothes and his hair was over his eyes. He stepped out into the middle of the hallway still facing the opposing wall, and then he turned his head towards Faye . . . and smiled. Faye stared in horror at that smile. She began moving her mouth but no sound would come out. She tried to scream, but she couldn't even whisper. He began walking towards her and she got up, backing away slowly.
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Ein didn't understand this, why was it so quiet? He began barking, trying to get the attention of someone who'd explain this to him.
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Faye looked from the barking Ein to Obsession and Obsession's smile broadened. Faye turned to take off running like the Devil was at her heels, but that stupid living room table tripped her. Obsession walked over to her and in one fluid motion she was on her back with him on top of her and his hands around her neck. "What's the matter little bitch?" Obsession asked her tauntingly, leaning in and putting more weight on her neck. "Are you only strong when you're forcing yourself on something that's not yours?!" Tears began streaming down the sides of Faye's face, she was going to die. "Oh don't waste your tears; I have no compassion for you! You're nothing but a whore, an obstacle in my way to Spike. I won't let you have him, he's MINE!"
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Jet had been searching around upstairs when he heard Ein begin barking. He didn't hear Faye though and he thought if Obsession was around she'd be screaming her head off. So he made his way down to the living room, but he was in no particular hurry. He wasn't in a hurry that is, until he started coming down the stairs into the living room. A man with brown hair had Faye pinned to the ground and was strangling her. His 'black dog' instincts kicked in and he sprinted the rest of the way down the stairs. Obsession heard him and looked over his shoulder, but hearing wouldn't do him any good.
"Get off her you monster!" Jet yelled, leaping at Obsession. He ended up on top of him on the ground and he began punching Obsession's face. Obsession kneed Jet in the stomach and kicked at him to get him off. He began standing up but Jet pushed him up against the wall. Obsession tried to punch Jet in the face and Jet punched him in the stomach with his cybernetic arm. Obsession slumped forward and fell to the ground.
Jet ran over to Faye after giving Obsession a swift kick in the groin, her eyes were closed and he feared the worst. He grabbed her by the shoulders and began shaking her. "Faye! Get up! Come on Faye, don't be dead! Open your eyes!!" he screamed. Faye's eyes fluttered open and her lower lip started to tremble. She sat up and cried into his chest, shaking as the sobs came. Jet put his arms around her like a father comforting his daughter who'd just woken up from a nightmare. "Sh-h-h, it's ok. You're safe now," Jet whispered. Just then, Spike burst through the door, breathing hard from running.
"I-I heard Ein, and then you started yelling. Is everything ok?!" Spike asked.
"Obsession was trying to strangle Faye; I managed to kno-" Jet started, looking over at the wall where the scuffle had ended . . . . Obsession was gone.
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Dream: Ok, before you say it, NO! THERE WILL BE NO JET/FAYE IN THIS STORY!!
Spike: Yah, if there's anything it'll be SPIKE/Faye!
Dream: *hits head on computer desk* Shut it Spike! I'm not SURE where this is going! What makes you think that there'll be any romance at all?
Spike: Well you're not going to let Obsession get me are you?!
Dream: *strokes chin* I had considered it . . .
Spike: *jaw drop* YOU WOULDN'T!
Obsession: *poofs in in chibi form* SPIIIIIKE! *runs at Spike*
Spike: Holy God, Holy Jeebus, Holy Crap, NOOOOO! *runs away*
Dream: Greeeat, now I have to go catch him! See ya'll when I write the next chapter! ^_^
~*~ In *Dream*s, I disappear to where no one can find me . . . ~*~
Disclaimer: I don't own Cowboy Bebop, poor, Alaska, you know the story.
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"Wha-what did you say?" Faye asked, fear showing plainly on her face.
"Obsession thinks that you're, I don't know, my girlfriend or something. That yell proves it," Spike said, running his hand through his hair and rubbing his eyes. "Oh this day just keeps getting better!"
"But I'm not your girlfriend, I'M NOT!" she began yelling it repeatedly at the ceiling, shaking all over. Spike grabbed her by the shoulders and put one of his hands over her mouth.
"What's going on out there you lunk-heads?!" Jet called with an agitated voice from the kitchen.
"Oh nothing, just a brief encounter with the stow-away," Spike called casually from the living room, earning a muffled whine from Faye.
"What'd you say?" Jet said, coming out of the kitchen and walking into the living room. As he entered, he saw Spike holding onto Faye with one hand over her mouth and Faye on the edge of tears. "What's going on here?"
"Well . . . ." Spike said. "It's kind of complicated. Spike then let out a yell, taking his hand away from Faye's mouth revealing her bared teeth. Blood began seeping slowly from the bite mark on Spike's hand.
"There's nothing complicated about it!" Faye yelled, slipping slowly onto the floor and hugging her legs to herself. "Obsession's on the ship and he's going to kill me."
"What?" Jet asked, a confused look dominating his features. "Obsession's after Spike, not YOU Faye."
"I was shooting at him, Faye didn't know and ran in to stop me, Obsession saw her tackle me, and to cut a long story short now thinks that Faye and I are . . . ." Spike said.
"Involved?" Jet finished, doing air quotes as he said it. Spike and Faye solemnly nodded and Jet let out a huge sigh. He went over and helped Faye up onto the couch and sat down next to her. "So what're we going to do now?"
"Well, since it's two out of three people on this ship's problem, the answer should be fairly obvious. We have to go through the ship and find Obsession." Spike said, showing unusual calmness.
"You sure that's not just what Obsession wants?" Jet asked.
"Hey, if I'm going down then I'd mush rather go down fighting then waiting for him to come get me," Spike said staring up at the ceiling viewing his marksmanship.
"You would say that," Jet said with a smile. "Ok then, let's do this. Spike, you start on the lower decks, I'll start in the control room, and Faye you just stay here and try to keep calm."
"What about breakfast?" Spike asked in a whiney voice.
"Weren't you the one who was all 'on edge' before about this?" Jet said. "We're going to go find this guy and stop him before he kills somebody! How can you think of your stomach at a rime like this?!"
"Ok, ok, no need to bite my head off!"
"It's called payback little buddy!" Jet said still smiling.
"So are you going then?" Faye asked, having gotten over her tears.
"Yah, ok Faye, you stay here. Set Ein on patrol or something. If he starts barking you take this gun and you run ok? Run like hell and yell for us," Spike said, setting a gun on the table. Faye gave a short nod and picked up the gun. "Alright then Jet, let's get going." Spike got up and went over to the hallway door.
"You sure that you'll be okay Faye?" Jet asked, going over to the staircase. HE had a generally worried look on his face, he and Faye didn't get along the best but that didn't mean that he wanted her dead.
"Yah, I'll be fine," Faye said with another short nod. "Just catch the bastard and give him hell."
"Will do," Spike said with a thumbs-up heading through the door. Jet gave a thumbs-up too and headed off upstairs. Now Faye was left all alone except for Ein, and to tell the truth that didn't make her feel much better. Ein would be able to signal if Obsession was coming sure, but his worth pretty much ended there. Faye patted the couch cushion next to her and the little Welsh corgi jumped up and into her lap.
"You can't by any chance turn into a Doberman pincher can ya?" Faye asked the little dog, giving him a scratch behind the ears. Ein's ears drooped and he lay down in Faye's lap. "Guess I'll take that as a no. Ok Ein, can you go off and patrol the halls for me?" To Faye's surprise, Ein seemed to understand perfectly. He gave her a little lick on the face and headed off down the hallway.
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Meanwhile about 5 floors down, Spike was exploring one of the many storage rooms of the Bebop's lower decks. While he was trying to keep calm, he couldn't help feeling like he was in some sort of a horror movie. (A/N: Which he is . . . . .) All around the room were different shaped items covered in white sheets. "No wonder Obsession came on the Bebop, there are more places to hide then you can count," Spike thought out loud, shinning his flashlight around. Worse still, the old ship was so rickety that in those bottom decks everywhere that you stepped was squeaky. Spike was totally on edge, sweat dripping from his forehead and all, and then he felt something rush past his leg. He pulled out his gun but in his haste he ended up loosing his balance.
He fell over into a hard body underneath a sheet behind him. "You'll never take me alive bitch!" he yelled, struggling to get up out of the tangle of sheets. As he stood up he pulled off the sheet, ready to shoot to kill. However, it turned out to be nothing more then an old modeling dummy, like the kind that are used in store windows. Spike shuddered when he noticed that the dummy had no head. "Ok Spike, you're just freaking yourself out here," he whispered to himself. He re-erected the dummy, putting the sheet back over it. "One room down, countless numbers to go."
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Back up on the main deck, Jet was pounding furiously on a control panel. The panel had a series of black screens in front of it and this seemed to be driving Jet's fury. "C'mon you piece of shit! Work!!" Jet yelled, slamming both fists down on the panel, pressing random buttons as he did. All of a sudden, all the screens lit up with different pictures. "Yes! Genius at work!" Back when Spike and Jet had first teamed up, one of their first bounties had managed to escape after robbing their ship. To make sure that that would never happen again, Jet had installed security cameras all over the place. Store rooms, ventilation, hallways, living room, everywhere but the bathroom. Jet looked around on the cameras; Obsession was nowhere to be seen. Spike was downstairs freaking out over a store-window dummy, Faye was lying down in the living room, and Ein was busy sniffing around in the hallway. "Good, everything seems to be okay here." With that, Jet walked out of the room towards one of the upper-deck storage rooms.
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Ein had been walking up and down hallways on the living room floor for a few hours now and he hadn't sensed and thing. He knew Obsession's scent and it hung to the hallways, but it was old. As the little dog came to a stop at another dead-end hallway, he perked up his ears and sniffed wildly in the air. Again, no scent and no noises from the man who'd been standing over Spike. Ein didn't understand this at all, why was that man on the ship? He'd been watching over Spike as he slept with a protective look in his eye . . . maybe he was Spike's bodyguard! Yah, that's it! And everybody's looking for him because he was patrolling the halls like he was! Ein walked around a little bit more still not finding the man, so he decided to go back to Faye to see if he could comfort her anymore.
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As Ein walked down the hall, Faye heard him coming. She turned towards him, eyes wide, but her expression went back to normal when she saw that it was just the dog. Ein came at her a bit faster, but just as he passed the kitchen he stopped suddenly. His nose went up in the air and he began sniffing wildly, turning to look into the kitchen. He smelt it, the scent that clung to that man, blood and rotten meat. He made a move to step into the kitchen, but then he saw something move in the darkness.
From inside the kitchen, Obsession stepped out of the blackness. He wore a blue trench coat over street clothes and his hair was over his eyes. He stepped out into the middle of the hallway still facing the opposing wall, and then he turned his head towards Faye . . . and smiled. Faye stared in horror at that smile. She began moving her mouth but no sound would come out. She tried to scream, but she couldn't even whisper. He began walking towards her and she got up, backing away slowly.
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Ein didn't understand this, why was it so quiet? He began barking, trying to get the attention of someone who'd explain this to him.
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Faye looked from the barking Ein to Obsession and Obsession's smile broadened. Faye turned to take off running like the Devil was at her heels, but that stupid living room table tripped her. Obsession walked over to her and in one fluid motion she was on her back with him on top of her and his hands around her neck. "What's the matter little bitch?" Obsession asked her tauntingly, leaning in and putting more weight on her neck. "Are you only strong when you're forcing yourself on something that's not yours?!" Tears began streaming down the sides of Faye's face, she was going to die. "Oh don't waste your tears; I have no compassion for you! You're nothing but a whore, an obstacle in my way to Spike. I won't let you have him, he's MINE!"
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Jet had been searching around upstairs when he heard Ein begin barking. He didn't hear Faye though and he thought if Obsession was around she'd be screaming her head off. So he made his way down to the living room, but he was in no particular hurry. He wasn't in a hurry that is, until he started coming down the stairs into the living room. A man with brown hair had Faye pinned to the ground and was strangling her. His 'black dog' instincts kicked in and he sprinted the rest of the way down the stairs. Obsession heard him and looked over his shoulder, but hearing wouldn't do him any good.
"Get off her you monster!" Jet yelled, leaping at Obsession. He ended up on top of him on the ground and he began punching Obsession's face. Obsession kneed Jet in the stomach and kicked at him to get him off. He began standing up but Jet pushed him up against the wall. Obsession tried to punch Jet in the face and Jet punched him in the stomach with his cybernetic arm. Obsession slumped forward and fell to the ground.
Jet ran over to Faye after giving Obsession a swift kick in the groin, her eyes were closed and he feared the worst. He grabbed her by the shoulders and began shaking her. "Faye! Get up! Come on Faye, don't be dead! Open your eyes!!" he screamed. Faye's eyes fluttered open and her lower lip started to tremble. She sat up and cried into his chest, shaking as the sobs came. Jet put his arms around her like a father comforting his daughter who'd just woken up from a nightmare. "Sh-h-h, it's ok. You're safe now," Jet whispered. Just then, Spike burst through the door, breathing hard from running.
"I-I heard Ein, and then you started yelling. Is everything ok?!" Spike asked.
"Obsession was trying to strangle Faye; I managed to kno-" Jet started, looking over at the wall where the scuffle had ended . . . . Obsession was gone.
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Dream: Ok, before you say it, NO! THERE WILL BE NO JET/FAYE IN THIS STORY!!
Spike: Yah, if there's anything it'll be SPIKE/Faye!
Dream: *hits head on computer desk* Shut it Spike! I'm not SURE where this is going! What makes you think that there'll be any romance at all?
Spike: Well you're not going to let Obsession get me are you?!
Dream: *strokes chin* I had considered it . . .
Spike: *jaw drop* YOU WOULDN'T!
Obsession: *poofs in in chibi form* SPIIIIIKE! *runs at Spike*
Spike: Holy God, Holy Jeebus, Holy Crap, NOOOOO! *runs away*
Dream: Greeeat, now I have to go catch him! See ya'll when I write the next chapter! ^_^
~*~ In *Dream*s, I disappear to where no one can find me . . . ~*~