Dream To See You
Chapter 5
By: Rachel*
Rated: R
Genre: Romance/Supernatural
E-mail: PeachGirlKiley@aol.com
Web Address: www.DoujinshiAdoptions.cjb.net
For those who want a song to go along with this the song "Be My Angel" which is really "Possum Kingdom" by the Toadies works VERY well! It's ironic really. I have it playing on a radio in a later part of the fic. ^_^ Ha-ha, it'll show some irony and humor. ^_^ For those who were lost in the last chapter…YES…Spike was in Faye's past. When she walked through him he went into a deep dream-like state. When he spoke Faye couldn't see him, but could hear him when she was little. This is one of the reasons why she's contacting him. How long ago was it though? How far back in the past are we talking about? *-* ::cackles:: Don't worry this IS a romance fic between Spike/Faye. You'll get the gist of what's happening soon enough. +_+ For Shin fans, your boy is back! What will he think about Spike and him still having dreams and now seeing the girl? Will Shin think that he's lost it, or…not? What will Ed tell Spike? What is the truth behind the town of Doukutsu?
Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop.
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Spike hadn't heard from Faye in two weeks. The last thing she's left him with was a kiss on the cheek that he couldn't even feel, and that damned picture that he didn't dare touch. He'd practically checked Edward into a wall when she tried to pick it up and he'd been trying to think of where Faye could be if she indeed was still alive. Shin would be coming to his house. Ed had managed to clean the entire house and his wallet as well. She'd left him with the grand total of five dollars and seventeen cents.
He hadn't slept in a week. Literally. He didn't want to dream of the cave, to find out if Faye was really real, or if she was just a dream. He wanted to help her, but was afraid. He was scared of what his friends would think, what Shin would think, what everyone would think. "Spi-Spi, you look tired. Take a nap."
Spike eyed the pestering vermin before him as she wolfed down the last of his food. "Eat your food and go home." Spike yawned.
Spike narrowed her eyes. "Why is Ed in the picture?" Spike bowed his head.
He smirked and shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know." He sighed. "Come one, go on home now, I have to go pick up my cousin—"
The phone rang. Spike turned and sighed. He grabbed the yellow phone and turned off the grinning ladybug nightlight that he'd left off during the night. "Hey, yeah I'm heading down now…You brought who?" Spike barked. "No, it's just that I don't have a spare bed other than mine. I was going to send you to the cough or tell you to sleep in…" he trailed off. "No, it's okay. What's her name?" He smirked. "Does she work at my law firm?" Spike laughed. "Tell Kasadey Spike says hello." Spike looked over at Ed who had run outside.
"Faye-Faye!" she laughed as she closed the teahouse door and stepped outside. Spike's smile disappeared as he gazed out the open sliding door. "Come out and play Faye-Faye!" Spike's color drained and he ran outside dropping the phone to the ground. His heart was pounding. His eyes were bloodshot from loss of sleep.
"Edward!" Spike shouted. "Ed, where are you?" Spike shouted. She ran out from behind the tearoom.
She pouted and bowed her head. "You scared Faye-Faye away Spi-Spi." She winced as Spike shook her shoulders.
Spike's eyes were dark and pleading. "Where was she?!" he cried out. His voice echoed. "Tell me were she was Ed—"
Jet knocked on the sliding door. "Is everything alright?" Spike let go of Ed and he bowed his head.
Spike sighed. "It's fine."
Ed sighed. "She's everywhere Spi-Spi. You should know that if you can talk to her too." She smiled brightly.
Jet frowned. "I came to take Ed with me." Ed turned sharply, a pout plastered on her face. "Don't give me that look, I already told you that you'd be helping me with food shopping."
Spike's head was hurting him beyond all imagination. He nodded his head. "Thanks for the information Edward." Spike sighed and shook his head. Jet eyed him.
"You don't even know what the towns name is and you're already in a tizzy about finding that damned girl…" Jet sighed and pushed Ed inside.
Spike's brown eyes gazed towards the old man. His hands were shaking in anticipation. "What do you mean the meaning, what does it mean, tell me now Jet."
Jet took a deep breath as he leaned into the sliding door towards the kitchen. "Doukutsu, it means cave." He lit up a cigarette, something Spike hadn't done in a while and walked back inside. "Hope you don't mind me smoking while I cut through your house." Jet waved, taking Ed by the hand and guiding her towards their house.
Spike squatted down and bowed his head. "It isn't true. They all knew, do they know where you are Faye? Am I the only one who doesn't know? Why didn't you have them help, or won't they help you?" Spike growled and shouted out. His voice echoed.
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He sat in his kitchen chair and stared over at the clock. He'd been doing so for the past two hours. He'd hardly blinked, his had bags under them, and his face was pale. He needed sleep, but didn't want to have another dream. He wanted to know more, but not from a dream, he wanted to know directly from her. He wanted his questions answered here and now. He'd scream and scare her if he needed to. He didn't care if he made her flinch, and try and run away, he needed to know where she was. It was going to be for her benefit after all, right? Spike looked at the clock. Standing he ran his hands over his face and rubbed the sleep that was forming in the corners of his eyes.
He needed to get going. Shin would be waiting for him and he didn't want to send him into another rant about pointless things that made no sense to him. "Faye, wait for me please." Spike walked outside, forgetting his coat and shut the door behind him. He was dressed in a white t-shirt and a pair of fading jeans that he'd used when he'd gotten on top of the roof three days ago. He patched the holes and ripped out the baby tree saplings.
He blindly drove down the mountain side and parked in the same parking spot in the lot when he'd first driven into town. He got out and with a tired yawn staggered towards the bus stop. Shin didn't own a car. It's not that he couldn't, just chose to save the atmosphere. So he used public transportation, and that ended when he got into town.
Shin stood staring down the two streets in awe. "It's so small…" he trailed off when he noticed Spike.
Spike narrowed his sleep lulled eyes and grunted a disgusted reply. "Looks like Julia was the only one who really wanted to live here."
Shin shook his head. "I didn't say I didn't like it, it's just…small, that's all." Shin looked at Spike and smiled before looking into his eyes. "What the hell happened to you? You drink yourself until you passed out or something, you look like—"
"I haven't slept for about a week." Spike turned and walked towards the food store. "Come on, I need to get something for dinner, and then it's off to the hardware store."
Straightened and picked up his duffle bag. "What do you mean; you haven't slept for a week?" Shin piped. "What about the sleeping pills?"
Spike shrugged his shoulders. "They made me feel weird. Like I had been dreaming, but when I woke up I couldn't remember anything, I just had this weird feeling left."
Shin grimaced and jogged into the store, ahead of Spike and shoved his duffle bag into a cart and glanced over at the old man who was sleeping. "Hey—" Spike whipped hand around Shin's mouth and silenced him from saying anything more.
"Not a word to him, he's…well, we aren't talking to the town's people, alright?" Spike eyes the sleeping man, wondering if he was awake or not.
Shin smirked. "Guess I shouldn't be talking to you either, right?" Spike shook his head.
"Why do I even bother with you?" Shin grinned even more and walked off towards the back of the store and looked at the rows of junk food. Spike rolled his eyes. "Grab what you want, I'll pay."
Shin ruffled his feathers. "I'm making more than you and Vicious combined and you want to pay for me? I'm not a little kid anymore." He tossed tree bags of candy into the cart along with a giant candy bar.
Spike gritted his teeth. "You'll always still be a little kid, fine. You can pay for everything that I buy while I'm in town then, how's that?"
Shin nodded and smiled with satisfaction. Spike shrugged his shoulders. "I'm going to the hardware store…" He trailed off and grabbed several other things and headed towards the counter. Leaning forward and grabbed the keys off the desk next to the old guy and walked towards the glass wall of cigarettes.
Shin wriggled his nose together. "They're gonna kill you." He mumbled. Spike glared back at him. "You're going to piss off the old guy too. What if he's the kind of guy who's got a shot gun next to him at all hours of the day?"
Spike sighed. "Cremate me then." He yawned and grabbed two cartons while he was at it. "Add everything up and leave the cash on the counter and then we're getting out of here. Spike locked the glass doors again and grabbed a piece of paper. He wrote down what he'd bought and signed his name. "Cave…" he scribbled down at the bottom of the paper.
Shin eyed him. "Cave?" he muttered.
Spike shook his head. "Leave the cash and let's go." He grabbed a lighter and opened up a pack of cigarettes and lit one up. He had tried quitting before, with Julia. She'd managed to stop the habit; he'd just lessened his addiction to nicotine. Shin pushed the cart outside and coughed as a cloud of smoke enveloped him.
Shin stopped. "Tell me what's going on, now." Spike shook his head and walked towards the hardware store.
"What the hell are you getting?" Shin piped after they'd gotten inside and grabbed a new cart, leaving the food by the front door.
"Not sure." Spike mumbled. He grabbed two waterproof flashlights and some rope. Spike placed them in the cart and walked to the front desk. "Yes, do you have those window gripper things?" Spike looked at the man who narrowed his eyes. Spike felt like an idiot, you could tell that he didn't do his own house construction normally. "Also, do you have wedges that are strong, but not too heavy?"
The man blinked and pointed to the far right of the store. "Over there." Spike nodded and jogged over. He smiled when he found the wedges and the grabbed four boxes filled with the window grippers.
Shin blinked. "I don't have that much cash on me Spike!" Shin barked.
He scuffed. "Charge it; you've got the money after all." He pushed his cart to the front of the store after grabbing a first aid kit and hammer.
Shin's lips parted and his eyebrows arched upwards. "Spike, what the hell are you doing?"
Spike smirked. "If she's real, we've got to be ready to save her." He handed his things to the man who rang him up. He was tall and thin, but still shorter than Spike.
Shin was starting to get worried. "I'm driving us to your place, there's no way in hell I'm getting in a car with you hallucinating." Spike shrugged his shoulders. He could almost feel her leaning into him and kissing him on the cheek. He was an obsession, like a drug, he needed to help her. Whether he wanted to or not, this voice in the back of his mind was screaming for him to help. Maybe he was hallucinating.
"Don't give me something for sleep either. I don't want to sleep, sleep is bad. I don't want to dream, I just want to see you." He mumbled as they walked out of the store. Everything barely fit into the small trunk and back seats of the car. Shin grabbed Spike's keys out of his left hand and waited for instruction.
Shin got in the car as Spike did. "Spike, who do you want to see?" He looked over in question.
Spike looked over at Shin. "When I hurt my hands and leg, she was the one talking to me. She wants my help." Spike shook his head and bent forward holding his head in his hands.
Shin nodded. "She told you to hurt yourself because you didn't help her?" Spike looked over as Shin as if he'd been betrayed.
He sat up and shook his head. "You've known me all your life, I'd never do something like that, let alone start losing it to the point where I was…" he suddenly realized how insane he sounded. "Maybe I should sleep."
Shin frowned as he turned around the bend in the road. "How much further is it?" He looked around ready to make a turned at any second.
Spike shook his head. "Not for another fifteen minutes, it's the drive to the right of the fork in the road." He tried to keep his eyes opened. He shivered, it was freezing outside, and he'd forgotten his coat.
Shin shook his head. "Stupid." He winced as Spike struck him in the shoulder with his fist. "Well, you are, and don't tell me that you aren't."
Spike growled as he leaned against the car door and let his eyes slide shut. "Faye…" he whispered.
Shin looked over at Spike worriedly. Had he really cheated on Julia, or is this all in his mind to keep her off of his mind? He turned on the radio and turned the channels. "Static…?" he mumbled. That wasn't good. He liked listening to the talk shows. He very rarely drove anywhere himself, but when he did, he had control of the radio, whether the other person liked it or not.
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Spike was lightly snoring as Shin pulled into the driveway and parked the car. "I'd get nightmares and being seeing things if I lived in this place. A chill washed over him. "Spi-Spi!" Shin leapt into the air and whacked his head into the roof of the car.
He shouted out in pain. "God, damn it..." He turned to his left to see a little girl with fluffy red hair. "Can I help you kid?" He mumbled. He knew he shouldn't be so mean towards the girl, but his head was really hurting him.
"You're not Spi-Spi…" She wrinkled her nose up as he rolled down the car window. She smiled. "There he is." She ran around the car and darted over to knock on the window as Spike snorted abruptly before sitting up. Ed laughed and tapped on the glass, and pressed her face into the window.
Spike let out a muttered hello and turned to see Shin looking him and the little girl over. "Is this, Faye?" He questioned.
Spike let out a quick puff of air and held back his laugh. "No, no this is Edward—"
"Ed for short!" she danced and twirled. "I'm going to the tearoom Spi-Spi!" She laughed. "Bye-bye Spi-Spi's friend!" she shouted. Shin arched an eyebrow up at the girl and waved lightly.
Shin nodded slowly. He tuned and looked as Spike. "Is she okay?" He razed his hands to his head and moved them in circles.
Spike shook his head. "As far as I know she's fine. She's just very enthusiastic; you can do those test things that you do on her. Just say it's a game and she'll go along with it." Spike grinned and Shin's jaw dropped shocked at his words. "She sees Faye too."
Shin frowned. "Come on; help get the food and other crap out of the car, will ya?" He muttered. The last thing he wanted to do was to spend a long weekend with an overly depressed Spike and a dysfunctional little girl.
Spike nodded and with a lulled yawn grabbed two bags and trudged inside. He didn't dream of the cave, and Faye still wasn't talking to him. Was she too weak? What was wrong, had he said something wrong, had he overlooked something? He covered his mouth and looked out through the sliding door as he watched Ed dive into the Tearoom. "Faye-Faye, where are you?!" Spike's lips parted and his heart wrenched. He swallowed and let the bags drop to the ground. The milk cracked open and spilled onto the door. Shin cursed and looked up as Spike stumbled towards the door. "Faye-Faye…" Ed's voice was fading, but she was still in the tearoom.
Spike jogged towards the room in silence. "Spike, Spike where are you going?" Shin followed behind, still worried about the spilled milk. "God, don't you dare think for a second that I'm going to be—" Spike covered his mouth and stepped slowly towards the room.
"Where'd she go?" Spike whispered. He could hear her quiet mumbling from somewhere inside, but where? He opened the door and she wasn't inside.
Shin blinked. "Some kind of trick Spike?" he mumbled. Spike shook his head. "You're not funny." He muttered.
Spike stepped inside. "I'm not joking around. Where'd the hell she go?" He looked around the room. There was only the one door. No others. "Edward!" Spike shouted. He heard a yelp and felt the floor underneath him jolt upwards.
"Spi-Spi, you're stepping on the door!" She wailed. Spike jumped back and she pushed open one of the floor tiles and grinned. "Want to play? It's Faye-Faye's old room." She grinned wickedly. "There's so many toys and stuff…"
Shin blinked and he looked down weakly. "This your basement Spike?" He frowned. "That's odd, having one away from the main part of the house."
Spike shook his head. "Not even the realtor knew about this when it was placed in the market, no one did." He covered his mouth and stared down at the room in disbelief. "You must have been so scared." He shut his eyes and slowly climbed down the ladder. He knew now for sure, without a doubt in his mind, that Faye was indeed real.
"Me?" Shin piped. "Why am I scared, it's just a basement." Shin grimaced and followed behind, jumping down when he got half way down the ladder.
Spike eyed him and shook his head. "No you, idiot…Faye." He bowed his head as Ed turned on her flashlight and handed it to Spike.
"Spi-Spi, Faye-Faye's going to be happy to see you here!" She laughed and skipped over to the small area rug and started to draw on a piece of paper.
Shin blocked the name from his mind. "That's nice of you, turning this room into a play area for the kid." He pointed towards Ed. She turned and hissed at him. He crinkled his face together in a distasteful way. "Are you sure this kid doesn't have any problems? I'd do a test for her parents—"
"Uncle," Spike answered quickly. "His name's Jet. He's nice, she's just like that, you'll get used to it." He sighed and walked towards the corner Faye had been crotched down in. "Do you believe me now, Shin?"
Shine scuffed, and shook his head. "It just looks like a play area that you made for the little one." He arched his eyebrows up. "Get some sleep, and try and forget about this Faye," he swallowed. "Stuff."
Spike rolled his eyes. "I wish I could, but I can't. I know she's real now Shin. I know for sure, this was the room she showed me, in my dreams. I was able to talk to her when she was little. I need to save her Shin, she wants my help, and she's been begging me to help." He stared down at the picture Ed was drawing. It was a picture of Faye and her together. He smirked. "You see, she's the same girl I see." Spike grabbed Ed's picture and shoved it into Shin's hands.
"Hey!" Ed cried out. "Give it back!" She wailed. Spike turned back quickly only to find himself and Shin thrown backwards. The picture left Shin's hands and floated over into Ed's grasp.
Spike stared up at the ceiling. "That's something new." He muttered and sat up. Ed shook and looked towards Spike; she started to run up the ladder. Spike shook his head and grabbed onto her. "Ed, stop!" he held onto her tightly and fell back. She kicked violently and cried out. "Ed, I'm not going to hurt you! I know Faye can do that too, so stop!" he pleated.
Ed stopped struggling and curled into a tight ball. She elbowed him until he let go. "Don't tell Uncle Jet, please…Spike." He sat up and eyed her. She'd never called him Spike, not ever. "He'll be upset that I got that angry…" She whimpered and covered her face with her hands.
Shin was still on his back and rolled his head to the side and looked at the girl. He'd heard of medical conditions where people thought that they had forms of telepathy, but he'd never known of physical evidence that there really was someone in the universe that had it. He stared towards Spike who looked back at him with an arched eyebrow.
"I'll look into this with open eyes…I'm still not going to believe anything until I see it." He crossed his arms.
Spike nodded. He figured as much. He rubbed Ed's back lightly until her cries subsided. "Ed, I need you to talk to me." She looked up and rubbed her eyes with her hands. "How long have you had these powers, and does anyone else have them? I won't tell, I have them too…I think, at least to a point I think I do." He chewed on the side of his cheek in thought.
She shook her head. "I can't. They'll hurt Uncle Jet and Ed." Spike narrowed his eyes and forwarded his eyebrows in question. He shook his head.
"It's okay, they aren't here, and they aren't going to hear a word you say." He messed up her hair. "Please Ed; this will help us find Faye." Shin snorted and Spike jabbed him in the side sharply with his left leg. "You know she was kept here too, don't you?"
She started to cry again and nodded. She rubbed her eyes violently and shuddered, letting out a hiccup. "It's not just Faye, Spike, and I." She bowed her head. "It's the entire town of Doukutsu has the power." She shook and started to run up the stairs. "Now, let me go!" She was talking like a normal person again.
"Edward, stop running!" He grabbed her leg. She turned back in anger, her eyes black, teeth gritted. Spike let go and her eyes turned back to their golden brown and she scrambled up the ladder and ran out of the tearoom and back to her house.
Spike fell back and covered his mouth. He shook his head. "Cave," he mumbled. "The town's name means cave. Faye's in a cave, where is the damned cave?" He shut his eyes and gritted his teeth. "Damn it, Annie, Faye, someone give me an answer!"
Shin sat up. "What the hell is going on?" He stood up and looked around. "It was the light right, and we fell back, from a fan rushing air into the room—"
Spike punched him in the face and sent him to the ground. "Shut up, don't do that analyzing shit on this situation, you know it was real." He gritted his teeth. He looked over at Shin. "If everyone in this town has the power, and our family used to live here, the power is in our blood, right? That means you have some kind of power too." He shook his head. "No, maybe not." He paced back and forth. "Annie said that only one person would be the one, the one for what though? To save, Faye?" he looked back at Shin, waiting for an answer.
"How the hell should I know, I'm the shrink, remember?" He spat dryly.
Spike muttered his words, mocking him. "You give advice, don't you? You're smarter than I am, so give me an answer that's not stupid."
He wet his lips and stuck his hands into his pockets and leaned against the ladder. "Honestly?" he looked at Spike who gave him stinging gaze. "I don't know." He nodded. "I really don't know." He started up the ladder. "Come on, the snow's going to start soon, let's get that fireplace up and running." He grinned and left Spike with his thoughts.
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His eyes widened as he heard a quiet humming coming from behind him. He shut his eyes and held his breath. "Row, row, row your boat…" The voice whispered. "Gently down the stream." Spike jumped back and opened his eyes. Faye stared at him, long and hard. Her eyes were black. He shook his head.
"Faye, what's wrong? Why are you so upset? It's me…" She narrowed her eyes, her hair began to rise into the air and move as if a strong gust of wind was whirling around her.
"The cave…" She hissed. Spike swallowed the ball that was forming in the back of his throat.
"Is it because I made Edward cry?" He stepped closer and her finger's flexed out and closed shut tightly. "Faye, stop!" he shouted and ran forward and in his frustration sent her falling back. He blinked and looked down at her in shock. He'd knocked her down. He'd toughed her, as if she were real.
Faye looked up and smiled, nodding her head. "You're learning." She smiled and walked up to him, placing a hand on his cheek. "You have two days before I'm gone. Forever." she kissed him on the cheek and faded away, humming the words to the song once more.
Shorter…yes, but I got it to space out, so it'll be easier on the eyes, and for those who like spacing when they're trying to gather the details of the story, this is for you guys! ^.^
ENJOY!
- Rachel*
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