Author Notes: This is chapter 6! Wasn't that cliffhanger on chapter 5 killing you? If not, read anyway.

Disclaimer: I don't own Cowboy Bebop, or any of the characters. Therefore, I remain poor and unemployed.

Lost and Found

Chapter 6: Uncle Jet

"Ok, kid. Spill the beans."

Jet and Faye sat opposite the boy, both crossing their arms in anger, and both staring at the boy as if he had three arms and a blemish. The boy sat quietly, looking up nervously every once and a while, and wiped his nose on his sleeve, exhaling sadly as he finally decided to answer.

"I-I didn't wanna' go back…" said the boy, looking at Jet with his pathetic weeping face. "I don't wanna' be in an orphanage anymore… I wanna' be a cowboy like you."

Jet let out a groan, running his hand down the front of his face, and glanced over at Faye, who was tapping her foot repeatedly, looking as though she were bored with the whole ordeal.

"I thought you were a cowboy… and you said you had a ship…" continued the boy, "…so I got Boo from the truck and followed you down the street…"

Jet cocked an eyebrow, figuring that 'Boo' was the name of his teddy bear, and leaned forward towards the boy, trying exceptionally hard not to lose his temper.

"Look, kid…" Jet began, speaking heavily threw clenched teeth, "I don't really care what you're planning to do with your future, but following someone and sneaking aboard their ship is not only illegal, but totally stupid."

Faye jabbed Jet in the arm, giving him a 'you're being insensitive' face, and leaned forward to talk to the boy herself. What good this would do, Jet couldn't tell, but the boy seemed to be a lot less scared of Faye then he was of Jet. This made Jet feel a whole lot better. At least the kid respected his elders.

"So, you don't want to be in an orphanage anymore, right?" asked Faye, giving the boy a weak smile.

"No… I hate it." said the boy, looking a little disgruntled.

"So you ran away and now you want to be a cowboy, am I right?" Faye repeated, pinching him on the cheek.

"Yes." said the boy, giving her a smile.

"How about you sit here, then, and I'll go talk to Uncle Jet about it?" Faye cooed.

Jet flinched at being called "Uncle Jet", but was suddenly grabbed and forcefully lead into the kitchen. Faye peeked around the corner, making sure the boy wasn't listening, and turned back to Jet, leaning against the counter and grinning as she did.

"Jet, maybe we should let him stay for a while." Faye whispered.

"What?! Why?!" bellowed Jet.

"Because, Jet, we could scare him out of it…" Faye grinned, pulling Jet's ear to make him speak a bit quieter.

"If we let him stay a while, and let him see how much bounty hunting sucks, he'll be begging us to bring him back to the orphanage…" Faye said, peeking around the corner for the second time that conversation.

"If we just dump him off somewhere, I'll have a guilty conscious for the rest of the week." Faye continued, tapping the top of her head. "Besides, Jet, Edward was a kid, too. I'm sure this kid can't be half as much trouble as she was..."

Jet let out a sigh. Faye was right, as hard as it was to admit, and dropping the kid off at an orphanage would make Jet feel guilty as well. He had been through a lot in the past few days, and disappointing him even further would certainly leave a scar.

Jet sighed in defeat, cursing himself for being born with sympathy, and exited the kitchen with the biggest fake smile he could possibly muster.

"Hey… uh… What's your name, anyway?" asked Faye, kneeling down on the floor next to him. "We've talked to you a lot already, but we don't even know what your name is."

Jet sat down on the sofa roughly. Having spent so much time with Edward, and due to the fact that he was in such a bad mood, Jet half expected the boy's name to be 'Sally', or something that wasn't related to human beings.

"My name is Jacob." said the boy, looking at Faye rather proudly, "My bear's name is Boo. I named him myself!"

The little boy held up his bear, and Faye stood up to move next to Jet.

"Well, Jacob, my name is Faye Valentine." she told him, jabbing herself with her finger. "You'll do well to remember that name, kid, cuz' I'm bound to be universally famous one of these days."

Jet rolled his eyes. The boy nodded happily.

"Anyway, kid…" Jet interjected, successfully managing to piss Faye off again, "Faye and I have decided to let you stay on the ship for a while. If you behave yourself, and don't bother me in anyway, we'll let you stay on the Bebop forever and ever. Got it?"

The boy bounced on the sofa with excitement. Between bounces he managed to holler "Thank you! Yes! Thank you! Yes! Thank you!", but Jet wasn't listening. He scratched his nose absentmindedly, wondering why he didn't call the ISSP right away, and made a mental note never to give that kid any sugar, seeing as he had plenty of energy already.

"Ok, that's settled, then!" Faye grinned, clapping her hands together enthusiastically. "We're almost at the ginza district, right? You can help us look for information. The guy we're after killed all your friends and that Mandy girl, right? So if you work really hard, Jacob, we can put him into jail."

Jet sighed heavily. Babysitting wasn't exactly a favorite hobby of his, but at the same time he was reluctantly impressed. Not only with Faye's terrific acting, but also with the boy's positive attitude. If Jet had gone threw something like that, he would have never been smiling the very next day. Jacob was only 5 years old, but for a kid his age, he was a pretty good fighter.

"I'll work really, really hard!" Jacob sang, still bouncing around with absolute glee, "I'll be a good boy, too! Really, really good!"

Jet let out a grin, standing up to head to the control room, and patted Jacob on the head as he passed, causing him to bounce even more, and causing Jet to suddenly dislike him all over again.

Jet sat in the pilot's chair, suddenly realizing that the ginza district was directly below them, and clicked the controls onto manual mode, letting out a sigh as he looked for a place to land.

"Well, at least he finally stopped crying." said Faye, entering the control room without the kid. "Who knows… maybe he might actually do something useful?"

Jet huffed at this, preparing the ship to land on the water, and turned to Faye as he pulled back the controls to steer the ship downward.

"Lets just hope we find out where Theodore is." Jet grumbled, "That 100 million wholong reward is hard enough to get already… now we have a kid to look after."

Well, that's the end of Chapter 6. Leave reviews!