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Chapter 4

It had now been three months since Faye left the Bebop and she had started to settle into her new life. She had finally gotten her house fixed up and had gotten a good job a big law firm under a perverted boss for 20,000 woolons a month.

She was walking home one day and a little girl ran into her, "I'm sorry ma'am." She apologized as she bowed.

"Where are you going so fast?" Faye inquired as she looked over this little girl. She was about 4'9" and she had long black hair and Faye was sure that, under all that dirt, she had violet eyes.

"Nowhere ma'am." She said in a small voice.

"You're very polite, what's you're name?"

"Lavender" She answered shyly.

"Well hello Lavender. My name is Romani."

"Hello Miss. Romani, it is very nice to meet you." She bowed again.

"Very nice to meet you too. Where are your parents?"

"I have no parents Miss. Romani."

"No parents? Who takes care of you?"

"I take care of myself." She said boldly.

"You take care f yourself? How?"

"Anyway I can Miss. Romani."

'Well, um . . . you look hungry. Are you hungry Lavender?"

She looked at the ground, "No, I am never hungry."
Faye looked at her, "Really? Well then I guess that I'm going to have to go home and eat all of the food that I bought earlier all by myself." She said slyly

Lavender looked up at her, 'Umm, well you don't have to go eat it all alone."

"I thought so. Well then, would you like to go to my house and eat some dinner then?" Faye asked kneeling down to her level.

Lavender's eyes lit up, "Yes please . . . I mean umm I would love to be able to join you for dinner." She recovered.

"Great Come on." Faye took Lavender's hand and they walked to Faye's house.

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Spike on the other hand had no such luck with life. He had been chasing after Reggie ever since the bounty went out. He had caught several Reggie look alkies, but no Reggie. Lucky for him though, those people all had bounties on their heads small bounties, but bounties none the less. "Hey Jet. It's been three months. I honestly thought she would be back by now or at least have called."

"Who? Faye?"

"No Jet the easer bunny, yes Faye!" Spike walked into the bonsai, "Man, you spend a long time in here don't you?"

"Oh shut up Spike!"

"Yeah, whatever you say Jet." Spike said as he leaned against the wall and stuck a cigarette in his mouth.

"Hey Spike, about Faye. I have already told you that she isn't coming back. Why do you care anyway?" He eyed Spike.

"I just want to talk to her . . . uh she uh owes me money."

"Yeah, whatever you say Spike." Jet laughed.

Spike glared as he realized that his own line had been used against him. "I'm going out." He said as he went to the door grabbing a picture as he went.

Jet watched him leave and Ein walked up to him. "Hey boy, I'm starting to worry about him. He has been going out every night and taken that picture with him. I mean, I know hat he is determined, but he needs to realize that she isn't coming back and he isn't going to find her. Especially if she doesn't want to be found." He patted Ein on the head and went back to taking care of his trees.

Spike was walking down the streets of Mars looking in all the places hat Faye would be, but none of the places that Romani would be. He checked bars, casinos, and even the occasional clothes store but no one had seen her.

He walked into the diner that he and Faye had eaten in the day before April Fools Day. (A/N: read April FOOLS Day to get it by me! It is VERY funny.) He sat down n the exact same booth that he and Faye had sat in earlier. He looked across the table and remembered the evil smirks that she gave him as, he didn't know it then, she planned her April Fool Day pranks. "Can I help ya?" the waitress asked as she snapped him out of memory lane and into Present Street.

He looked at her and then the menu, "Just coffee please." He said as he handed the menu back to the girl. She wrote it down and went ff to get a cup. Spike looked down at the picture that he had brought. It was a picture of Faye that he had secretly taken when she first came to the Bebop. 'She hasn't changed much since then' Spike noted as he looked at the photo. He sighed and laid it down on the table.

There was a big crowd outside and Spike could hardly tell one person one another but one figure caught his eye. He ran outside as fast as he could and grabbed the purple haired vixen by the wrist as she passed the café and turned her around to face him. "Faye, where have you been?"

Faye's eyes widened in fear as she saw the fluffy haired man before her. "You . . . no . . . let me go! Go catch some bounty Spiegel!" She yelled gripping onto something that she had in her hand.

Spike looked down only to see Lavender hiding behind Faye's legs. "Who's that?" He asked pointing to her.

"That is Lavender and she is coming home to eat dinner with me. Not like it's any of you're business." She said.

"Home? So you're coming back to the Bebop." Spike said.

"No, I'm going home, now I'm sure that she is quite hungry so goodbye!" She turned on her heel and started to walk away from Spike.

"Miss. Romani, who was that?" Lavender asked with that wide eyed innocence that reminded her of Spike.

"That, Sweetie, was a bad part of my past and no part of my future." Faye said as she put as much distance between her and Spike as possible

'Romani? Bad part of her past and not her future?' Spike herd those last few words before he lost the shrew in he crowd.

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