"Beautiful Surprise"
Chapter Two
By: angelicm
Disclaimers: I DON'T OWN COWBOY BEBOP
Faye's eyes widened and filled with tears. She slowly moved to the other side of the bed, away from him.
She closed her eyes. Replaying the words over and over in her mind. She knew, that when it came to Spike, she was
always second place to his precious Julia. She turned to look at him once more, his serene face looking back at her.
She turned around wrapping her arms around her self and cried softly, her heart to the brink of shattering. Spike lay on
his side sleeping away, oblivious to the heartache he had caused his wife.
The sun's glare illuminated the bedroom. Faye's eyes fluttered open and squinted against the light.
Her eyes were puffy and red from night the before. She turned only to find that her husband was not there. She put her yellow bathrobe on walked towards the kitchen.
"Spike!? Where are you?"
No one answered her. A she turned her head, a piece of paper on the table caught her eye.
--Faye,
Went to work early. I'll call you later.
--Spike
Faye crumpled the paper and threw it in the garbage. She was tired of this. She couldn't even remember the last time they
ate breakfast together or the last time they went on a date. She closed her eyes, his words from the night before replaying itself
in her mind. Her body slid down to the floor, tears cascading to the floor, her cries echoing throughout the house.
It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening and Spike was still not home. Faye paced their house worriedly. She had cooked his
favorite dish and wanted to surprise him. She hoped that maybe having dinner together would help reconcile their relationship.
Faye was getting impatient and kept on looking back at the clock and then the door, hoping that any second Spike would walk inside.
As she turned to go inside their room, the ring of the telephone interrupted her. She picked up the phone.
"Hello? Spike is that you?" She clutched the phone closer to her, happy to hear his voice. "Yes its Spike, I'm just calling to tell
you that I won't be home anytime soon. I'll be home late. Don't wait up for me okay?" Faye rubbed her temples, attempting to
ease the pain that was beginning to form. "But I cooked your favorite dinner…." "Thanks Faye, but you shouldn't have. I promise
I'll make it up to you on the weekend. Look I have to go." Faye felt like crying once again. "Okay fine, but you promise, I love ……"
Before she could finish, Spike had already hanged up the phone. "…You"
Faye looked at the dinner that she had cooked, picked it up, and through it the garbage. She looked at her arm, which had been burned
while she was cooking the meal, and put the ointment on it. She dialed Jet's number hoping a talk with him would ease her soul.
"Hello, Jet?……….Yeah its Faye….No I'm not calling just to bother you…Although that does sound appealing… " She could hear him c
huckling on the other side. "Yes, it's about Spike….No his not beating me…" She heard him sigh. "But he is hurting me emotionally…….No, actually
I wouldn't mind visiting with you for awhile." Faye grabbed her jacket and her keys and headed out towards the Bebop.
Jet didn't know what was happening between those two. But he knew that whatever it was, it was killing Faye inside.
He held the sobbing girl against his chest.
"Jet, it's been two years, why hasn't he let go yet?" He didn't know what to tell her.
"Julia has been dead for two years and still I'm his replacement…I've been
his wife for two goddamn years and he still loves her." She continued to cry in his arms.
"Faye he does love you. One day he'll realize what a treasure you are." He patted her on the head. "I know he loves me Jet, I helped mend his soul,
it's just that every time we get closer to the anniversary of Vicious and Julia's death, he pushes me away." "Every time he looks through the window,
it seems as if his waiting for her to come back. It's like he still believes that shes alive." She drank the water he passed to her. "There is just a part
of me that's afraid that one day, she is going to come back, and when that day comes, Spike is going to leave me for her."
Jet felt sympathy for the young woman that had come to be like a daughter to him. After some comforting words, Faye, exhausted, and fallen
asleep in Jet's arms. "You are going to be the death of me, you know that?" He carried her to her old room and laid her on the bed.
"Sweet dreams Faye." He closed the lights and went back to his bonsais.
When Faye awoke, she was surprised to see herself on her old bed. She looked at her watch. It read 12:00. She fixed the bed and closed the
door. She found Jet sleeping on the couch. She kissed his check lightly and quietly left the Bebop.
When she arrived at her house, she was surprised that Spike was not home yet. She walked in their house and sat on the coach. The talk with Jet
really did ease her mind although the nagging feeling that she had been having was still there. A light knocking interrupted her thoughts.
"Who is it?" Faye repeated her question another time, but no one was answering. She opened her door only to find that no one was there.
Just as she was about to close the door, a white envelope on the doorstep caught her eye. She bent over and picked it up. She looked around to see
if the person who had left it was still there. She opened it, and read the letter.
--Dear Spike,
I know we haven't seen each other in a long time. But please, I've been searching for you, and now I've finally found you. I've been counting
the days until you and I are together. Just remember that I love you very much, I've always loved you and I haven't forgotten you, I hope you haven't
forgotten me as well. Meet me at our old meeting place tomorrow night when the moon is at its highest. I love you. I can't wait to see you again.
Love,
Julia
The letter dropped to the floor and Faye's knees collapsed to the floor. Her worst nightmare was coming true. She didn't know what to do.
Suddenly and idea popped in her head. Spike wouldn't leave her if he didn't know about the letter. She was going to burn it. Just as she was about to
pick the letter up, the front door opened.
"Faye, what are you doing on the floor?" Faye couldn't say anything. She was like a deer caught in the headlights.
Spike looked at her strangely. He looked at the piece of paper her hands were moving towards.
He picked it up just as her fingers touched it. He looked at Faye and then the paper.
"Faye, What's this?"
"It's nothing Spike, Just give it to me."
Spike looked at Faye and then the letter. He opened the letter and his eyes widening as he reached the bottom.
He couldn't breathe. His eyes glued to one thing at the bottom of the paper.
Love, Juliahehe…hoped you guys liked the second chapter = )….please review……