Author Notes: This is chapter 8! The story is nearly over… hang in there till' the end!

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

Lost and Found

Chapter 8: The Truth

"I can't believe it…"

Jet rubbed his forehead sleepily, and glanced over at Jacob. The boy was eating ramen, ignoring completely the conversation that was going on between Jet and Faye, and stood up to throw away his garbage, yawning loudly as he vanished into the kitchen.

"You mean to tell me," Jet sighed, looking up at Faye, "That Theodore Viper killed all those kids because one of them was a love child that he didn't want to exist?"

Faye nodded slowly, putting down her ramen on the table, and glanced over at Jacob, who was exiting the kitchen and walking towards the bathroom.

"He told me that his old girlfriend had birthed a kid by him, but she didn't tell him about it at all…" Faye sighed, looking somewhat older, "She put the kid in an orphanage, hoping Theodore wouldn't find out…but he did…"

Jet only sighed at this. He couldn't believe the cruelty that some people possessed.

"He told me that he 'killed the liar', and then he went after his kid." Faye smiled weakly, acting as if she were recalling a terrible dream, "He said he wanted to 'save the kid from the cruelty of living', and 'free him from the pain of life'… He didn't know which kid was his, so he took his gun and shot them all..." Faye sighed, putting her feet onto the table. "This guy is absolutely crazy. I don't know what happened to him when he was a kid, but whatever it was, it wasn't good."

Jet shook his head in disbelief. He scooted over as Jacob returned from the bathroom, and gazed at Faye sleepily, not knowing exactly what to make of the situation. Jacob sat on the sofa and yawned loudly again. He rested his head against Jet's shoulder, and closed his eyes slowly. Squeezing his teddy bear in his arms, he fell asleep almost instantly, breathing heavily and smiling about a dream.

"I managed to get all this info out of him because I got him slightly drunk…" Faye laughed, taking a puff of her cigarette, "He said that if I wasn't a liar he would like to go out with me tomorrow night… I thought it would be the perfect set-up, so I told him I would come…"

Jet chuckled lightly at this, and leaned his head against his hand. He closed his eyes in tiredness, since he had been running around like a maniac the entire day, and briefly thought of all the children, screaming and running… getting shot and slowly bleeding to death on the floor…"

"Jet, you ok?" said Faye, who was now two inches from his face.

"Yeah…" he sighed, gazing down at Jacob. "… just disgusted. That's all…"

"You know…" said Faye, looking over at the child, "We're supposed to be scaring the kid out of all this, but if I didn't know any better, I would say he enjoyed himself today…"

Jet nodded slowly, stroking the little boy's hair, and let out a little smile, wondering if he should move him somewhere or wake him up instead.

"You want to keep him, don't you?" said Jet, looking at Faye with a large bit of sympathy, "I can't blame you, though… he's a pretty good kid."

Faye looked a little shocked at this, but quickly chuckled knowing she couldn't lie.

"Why not?" she whispered, kissing the boy on the cheek, "I wouldn't mind having him around… It's your ship, though, so it's up to you if you want to let him stay."

Faye stood up and walked away. Jet looked down at the boy, thinking fleetingly of what it would be like if he would stay, but pushed the idea out of his head immediately. He had a mission to plan tonight, and he wasn't letting some kid get him sidetracked from 100 million wholongs.

The night came and went in a flash, and Faye shook Jet awake as she readied herself for her 'date'. Jet rubbed his eyes in disbelief at first, not knowing how he had let himself fall asleep like that, but was suddenly slapped back into reality as Faye spun around to show off her outfit.

She was wearing a white strapless dress, the skirt ending just before her knees. She had her hair made up in a simple looking bun, looking a lot like the bun that she had worn on other bounty hunting occasions, and had on her usual white heels, but that wasn't anything out of the ordinary.

"Well, lets hope I can chase him in this…" said Faye, clicking on the bracelet she used to call her jet 'The Redtail', "I already read you plan, and it seems pretty simple, but I don't think we should take this guy lightly… Look what he did to those kids, after all."

Jet looked over at his computer, which had his plan flashing readily on his screen, and stood up to go to the bathroom, completely forgetting that Jacob was leaning on his arm.

"Jet! Watch it!" said Faye, shoving him back down, "Move him over, or something… if you make him fall like that he'll wake up and cry."

Faye walked gracefully into the kitchen, mumbling something about the stupidity of men, and exited the room with a purse, waving good-bye as she walked out the door.

"Where the hell are you going?" asked Jet, looking over at his partner.

"Shopping, duh." said Faye, waving her purse in the air. "My date isn't until 8:00pm, so take the kid to a zoo, or something."

With that, Faye exited the Bebop. Jet let out a sigh, looking over at his battle plan again, and shook Jacob awake so he could give him something to eat.

"Huh… Where's Faye?" asked Jacob, rubbing his eyes sleepily.

"Shopping…" mumbled Jet, looking for some aspirin.

Well, that's the end of Chapter 8. Leave reviews!