Chapter 10: Shopping Trip
(No one's POV)
A week passed. It was the day for Faye and Ed's shopping trip. Faye decided to take her ship. Since the Bebop was on Mars at this time, it wasn't all that necessary to take the Red Tail but she didn't want to carry the items she would buy all around. Faye decided to first go to a teenager store to get things for Ed. When they walked into the Teen Place and Ed saw all the clothes and accessories she started to hop up and down. Faye took a hold of her hand and began to lead her around the store. Ed went crazy when she saw the jeans.
"Ed wants all of them!" she squealed.
Faye chuckled. "I don't know Ed, maybe only 5 or six will do."
"Okie-dokie Faye-Faye! Ed wants these and these and these..." Ed began pulling jeans off the rack.
"Hold on Ed" Faye said laughing and throwing her hands up. "For starters let's get you three pairs of blue jeans, two pairs of beige, and one pair of black." She began to search. "Here they are, all in your size" she said after several minutes. She handed Ed the pile of jeans. "Okay Ed, to the shirts!" Faye said to Ed. Ed stood up straight and saluted Faye then marched with Faye leading the way.
At the shirts Faye expertly found some shirts in Ed's size that were coordinated with the jeans. She handed about ten shirts to Ed and Ed fell over. "Oops," Faye said. "I think I'll get a cart." She came back and put all the clothes in it. "Let's go look at the shoes." For shoes Ed got three pairs of flip-flops, one pair of fashion boots that went almost up to her knees, a pair of white boots in similar style, and tan clog-like-things. Lastly they went to accessories. Ed got a black cab hat, black sunglasses, and a belt with a gold star in the front and a plain braided black belt. They paid for all these items then put all the bags in the Red Tail.
Now it was time to shop for Faye. They went to a group of stores that were strictly for older teens and young adults. In the first store, Leather Essentials, Faye bought a pair of black leather low cut pants, a black leather jacket, and black boots just like Ed's.
In the next store, Simply Satins, she bought three brightly colored skirts with shirts to match. She also bought beige high-heeled sandals with tied around her upper ankle.
In the third store, Comfortable Cottons, she bought five shirts: one black, one white, one blue, one red and one green. They were cotton (duh) but had five percent spandex in them so they clung to her. She also bought two blue jean short-shorts and one pair of very low cut jeans.
After she purchased all her items, which included a black cab hat and sunglasses to match Ed's, they left for the Red Tail. There they changed into some of the clothes that they had bought. Ed changed into low cut beige pants with the braided belt, a black shirt, the knee high boots, the black hat and the sunglasses. Faye changed into the black leather pants, the white shirt, the black leather jacket, the black boots, the hat and sunglasses. She also pulled her hair back so some loose strands framed her face.
"Okay Ed, as soon as we start of to find some where to eat, I want you to put this half-smile on your face. Yes that's good." she said after Ed did that. "And when you walk, swing your hips a little. Let's fool around with the men around here." Ed gave a nod and the half-grin turned into a smirk. Faye started laughing. We're quite a pair, she thought, and a smirk found its way to her face as well.
They set out, swinging their hips with half-smiles on their faces. Men noticed them and sent whistles their way. Faye looked out the corner of her eye and saw Ed was enjoying this very much. Faye smiled to herself and thought about spending more time with her. Ed and Faye were passing places that were serving lunch. Faye spotted a nice place at the same time that Ed spotted it. There were tables outside with wicker chairs and umbrellas on the tables. They sat down. Presently a waiter came over. Faye and Ed placed their orders than sat back.
"Well Ed what do you think of your new look?"
Ed grinned. "Ed likes," she said.
Faye started laughing and that got Ed started, too. They were laughing when a guy came up and started hitting on them. Ed frowned and said "Ed thinks Mr. Loser-person should go away." "Who's Ed?" the guy asked.
Ed whipped her glasses off so the man could see her flaming eyes. "I'm Ed and I think you should go away!" The man quickly left.
Faye looked at Ed in astonishment. "Ed, you said 'I'!"
"Yeah, well he was being very annoying so Ed decided to tell him to go away."
Faye laughed again. Their food came out then and because of all their shopping, they were very hungry. There was no talking between them for ten minutes until they were done. The bill was paid for and they left. They started walking back to the Red Tail. At an intersection some guy ran into them.
"Uh excuse me," he said and kept running. They thought nothing of it until they saw a certain red ship following him.
Faye and Ed recognized the Swordfish immediately and began pursuit. They found themselves running down alleys. At a dead end they encountered the same man. He saw them and said, "Oh my God, you have to help me! Some guy is after me!"
"What does he look like?" Faye asked.
"Green hair and blue suit, I think."
"Okay we'll help," she said pulling out her Glock. She turned to him, dropped to the ground and swept his feet from underneath him. She stood up, placed a foot on him and pointed her gun at his head. "Don't move," she ordered.
"Bounty hunters?" he asked.
She nodded.
"Shit," he muttered.
At that moment Faye heard a voice behind her. "Here you are. Why'd you make me chase you? It would've been easier if you'd just given up in the beginning." It was Spike. Faye lowered her gun, pulled the guy to his feet and pushed him towards Spike. Spike handcuffed him and began to lead him away when he remembered the two girls behind him. He turned to them. "Uhh, thanks" he said uncertainly, turned and began to leave.
Faye spoke out. "Since when does the great Spike Spiegel say thank you?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
Spike froze, turned to Faye and smirked. "How did you think I'd recognize you when you're dressed so..." he looked her up and down and whistled appreciatively. "...differently, Faye?"
"Lunkhead," she muttered but grinned all the while. "If you like my change, what do you think of Ed?" she asked. Spike looked at Ed and his jaw dropped.
"Ed will take that look as 'wow'," Ed said moving her sunglasses to the end of her nose and winking.
Spike smirked. "She's turning into you, Faye." Faye moved her sunglasses to the end of her nose and winked. He shook his head and turned and started to walk away.
Faye turned to Ed. "Come on, let's go home." Ed nodded and they set off for the Red Tail. In the ship, they set off for the Bebop. They set down in the hangar. They got their clothes and walked in.
They encountered Jet sitting on the couch. He glanced at them and looked back at the TV then did a double take. Instead of the shrew woman and the kid he saw two very sophisticated women.
"Wow, what happened to you two?" he asked.
"We went shopping. I told you that before we left Jet." Faye said. "How do we look?" Jet looked at them again and had to look away so they wouldn't see him blush.
"You look fine," he replied gruffly.
Faye was grinning from ear to ear and started to walk away with Ed when he spoke again.
"Faye, did you guys hear from Spike? I haven't been able to get contact with him."
"Yeah, we did see him. Actually we helped him take down a bounty. No big deal." She shrugged and walked away with Ed to her room. In the room, Ed sat down on Faye's bed.
Faye started to put her new clothes away when she noticed Ed looking at all the bottles of vitamins on her dresser.
"Faye-Faye, why do you have so many pretty colored pills?" she asked taking off her sunglasses.
Faye sighed and sat down on the bed next to Ed. "Ed, can you keep a secret?" Ed nodded. "Okay Ed, I'll tell you a secret but you can't tell ANYONE. Unless of course I get sick or something and then you can tell a doctor. But no one else, not even Spike or Jet, okay?" Ed nodded again. Faye took a deep breath. "I'm pregnant Ed."
"Faye-Faye is going to be mommy? Is Spike-person going to be daddy?" Ed asked. Faye nodded and Ed jumped up and shouted "Yay!"
"Shh Ed. No one can know about this until I say otherwise. I don't know how Spike would feel about a baby. We aren't even married yet. Will you keep my secret?" When Ed nodded, Faye sighed in relief then said, "Why don't you go to your room and unpack?" Ed left and at that moment Faye heard the Swordfish 2 landing.
She walked out of her room after putting her clothes and vitamins away in her drawers. She always put her vitamins away each morning so no one would see them. She'd forgotten to put them away before the shopping trip. She got as far as the living room and she found Spike stretched out on the couch smoking.
She walked over and stretched her hand out to where he could see it. He took a look at her hand and reached into his pocket. When he withdrew a cigarette, Faye growled. "That's not what I want. Where's my half of the bounty?"
Spike put the new cigarette in his mouth and lit it for the other one was done. He then crossed his arms in front of him and closed his eyes. "Well?" Faye asked.
He opened one eye to look at her and said, "I spent it."
"ALL of it? How much was there?"
"500,000."
"I caught the bounty, I did half the work and you spend it all?!"
"Who said I spent it all on me. I think I spent some on you. Remember we are engaged."
"Oh, well, that's different, I guess. Well see ya." Faye blew him a kiss then walked away leaving Spike to mutter, "Women," then he fell asleep.
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A/N: well against all odds i'm able to update but don't expect much over the next two weeks. i'm away camping at some little crap hole in the woods. oh well i guess it could be worse.
i'd like to thank my readers, esp. my reviewers: you guys ROCK!