Chapter Six: Forgotten love remembered
Angel's sleep was restless and half of that was because of how uncomfortable the bed was. She kept waking up and it bothered her that she was stuck in the small room with not so much as a sink for water.
When the door opened slowly and an unfamiliar face peaked in the pretended to be asleep. The young man with brown hair walked in and crept over to the bedside. He looked down at her and studied her features.
"So beautiful..."
"You really think so?"
He took a step back and his eyes widened slightly when Angel gave her response to his comment. She opened her eyes and leaned up, smiling at him.
"You're too kind, really."
The young man looked around then calmed down. "You must be hungry."
"Yeah." She nodded her head. "I'm starving. Not to mention dying of thirst."
"I'll be right back." He left with a smiled and came back after about five minutes with a sandwich in one hand and a glass of water in another. "We don't have very much on this ship since we're going to be making another switch soon."
"That's alright, anything will do." She didn't hesitate to eat the sandwich when he gave it to her.
It was gone within minutes and afterwards she drank the whole glass of water. He had been watching her eat with a smiled and when she was finished she looked at him.
"So that's your name?"
"Oh, I haven't introduced myself. I'm Lin."
"Lin... Oh that's right. Spike told me a little about you the other day. He just told me you and him worked together."
Lin nodded. "Yes. We were good friends back then."
"Why are you here with Viscious? He's a really bad man with a heart of stone."
"This is my job. I have no other choice. I don't want to end up like Spike, running from the past."
Angel laughed slightly and layed back down in the bed. "Spike running from the past. That's a hoot. He isn't running from anything. You shouldn't assume."
"I'm not assuming. I'm deducing. From what I've heard about Spike I can only deduce that he is running away from his past."
"Replace the word 'deduce' with 'assume' and it would make a lot more sense."
He smirked. "I was sent here to give you food and a message."
"Well now I'm excited." She leaned up. "Give it to me easy, doc."
"Viscious told me how much he cares about you..."
"Ha! Viscious? Care? That'll be the day."
"I'm serious. He get's very passionate when he talks about you. It is obvious that he still cares about you the same way after all these years."
She shook her head and layed down, closing her eyes. "That's some message."
"That isn't the message. Viscious wanted me to tell you that you are free to leave whenever you wish."
"That's great but seeing as my ship is on the Bebop I don't know how he plan's on me doing that."
"You are aloud to take one of the ships from the hanger on this one. He said that if you want to leave you have to do it soon because this is your only chance."
Angel nodded and waved him off as she turned on her side.
Before he left Lin put a small picture on the bed next to her. "He also wanted me to give you this as a reminder."
After he left and she heard the door close she picked up the picture and examined it. It was Viscious and her. She was holding a gun at him and he was pretending to be shot. Angel smiled slightly at the picture and began to cry as all the memories came back to her.
Visious and her taking walks, Viscious and her talking, Viscious and her staying up late. Back then he wasn't as cold as he was now. You could feel the warmth from his heart, but now all you felt was cold. She wanted the old Viscious back, but she knew that was impossible.
Angel put the picture down and walked to the door. She didn't hear it lock when Lin left, and sure enough, it wasn't. She walked down the hallway and into the hanger, starting up a ship and relaying the message to the cockpit that she was ready to take off.
"Open the doors, I'm leaving."
When Viscious heard Angel say this his heart dropped. He knew she would leave when he gave her the choice, but he thought the picture would make her want to stay. He said nothing as he pressed the button to open the hanger doors.
He glanced out the window and saw the ship Angel had taken fly past him and out of his veiw. He had lost her again and he was afraid that this time was for good.