They walked or rather she limped and he held her as they made their way towards giant double doors. The door had a carving of an animal. She sighed in both irritation and a little fear "don't get kill" he looked down at her "diddo" he said sarcastically. She playfully punched him "hey I'm supposed to be the sarcastic one here" they both chuckled and using their strength they pushed the doors opened. They were surrounded immediately by twenty men and in the center of the room stood Julia and Sony smiling.
"Welcome friend what took you so long?" sony looked at Faye "I'm impressed miss valentine you managed to get out of the room I'm surrounded by weaklings" he smirked "but once I'm done with vicious I'll move to you next" Julia put a hand on his shoulder and she walked towards the duo.
She stopped in front of them and had a scowl on her face. She looked at Faye and then looked at Vicious her glaring eyes softening at the sight of him. He looked a lot more beautiful than what she remembered. She raised a hand to his cheek but was slapped away by Faye. The men pulled their triggers ready to shoot. Julia dismissed them "not yet" she ignored Faye and moved closer to him pressing her body and kissing him passionately. Faye wanted to rip her head, but calmed her nerves down. Julia finally pulled away and looked at him "I have missed you so much my love....I know you have missed me" he smiled at her and she shivered.
He raised a slender hand to his lips and wiped them clean in front of her face "to me your kisses are poison" she slapped him and he looked at her dangerously "then again you yourself are poison". She turned around "kill the bitch leave him here to me" the men made a move towards Faye but Vicious pulled her closer to him "you wanted to make me pay Julia then here I am, but let her go" Faye grabbed his hand and gripped it "no vicious it's obvious that she can't handle me herself, I always knew julia was all talk and no game. I used to eat whores like you for breakfast a long time ago julia nothing but chicken shit" Julia tensed it was obvious. Sony was laughing inwardly he enjoyed it when someone made julia tense.
Julia turned around "fine faye will prove who's the better woman here" Faye laughed "honey I've already proven that" without warning julia had ran back to faye and grabbed her by the neck. Both women tumble to the floor and struggle for the top position. Sony laughed away and vicious took that as his opportunity. He began to slash some men "get him shoot, shoot now" sony ordered as he began to retreat from the room through another door. The gun shots rang through the room, julia pulled away from faye and searched for her gun. Faye groaned in pain since her foot still hurt and struggled to get to her feet. She saw julia looking for her gun and crawled all the way up to her and pulled her down "this ends here julia" julia kicked her on the face and faye stumbled back but continued to pull on julia. Vicious got shot on the left shoulder by one of the men, he angrily slashed him across the neck. Only two men stood before him and they were shaking.
Vicious gave them that creepy smiled "if you don't want to die here then leave now" they nodded their heads just as he was passing them and heading for the door where sony had run to. The men dropped their rifles and began to run to the exit instead of following after vicious. Vicious ran to the door and pulled it opened only to reveal a long narrow hallway and at the end stood sony with something in his hands "Sony" sony smiled "nice of you to follow me"
In the room Julia and Faye still went at it. Julia had the upper hand. She kicked faye's swollen ankle and faye screamed in pain, but she was not going down like that. She used her other leg and kicked julia making her lose her balance. Faye got up and with strength that even surprised her ran to julia and kicked her on the stomach "bitch this is for hurting spike, this is for playing with him, this is for hurting my vicious and turning him into that monster that he was, and this is for all of the shit that you are putting us through" julia was screaming in pain and coughing up blood.
Sony threw the device in his hands to vicious "catch" vicious grabbed the small device and looked at it "One minute vicious" and with that he ran away. The device was a clock counting down. It read 40 seconds and his eyes widened "that bastard" he ran back to the other room and found Faye kicking Julia mercilessly. He ran to her and grabbed her , the device said 20 seconds. He began to pull her "there is a bomb let's go" she gasped but tried to run with him, their hands clasped together. Julia moaned in pain and watched as they left. She scowled and looked around for her gun. She found it and dragged herself towards it. She raised it as best as she could and pointed.
BANG.
Faye's world was spinning. Everything was surreal. The man she learned to love was slipping from her hands. She looked at him as he clutched his side in pain. The blood oozing "vicious you are hurt" she tried to stop and help him but he kept pulling. The device read 8 seconds. He cursed and without thinking threw her on the floor and he got on top of her. Before she could protest there was a loud bang and the building shook. Everything went black
Light....there was light and her head was spinning still. She heard voices none familiar. She tried to feel that familiar weight on her but there was none. Then she heard a familiar voice call out to her "faye" she moaned in pain and put her hand to her forehead "faye wake your ass up" she tried to speak "it's me faye damn it can't you recognize me" she nodded "Jet" she whispered. He smiled "hey there I knew you would pull through" she blinked away the light in her eyes until they focused correctly "jet?" he sighed "you scared us you know" she looked around and found herself in a hospital room "how did I" he smiled "vicious he had called me about five hours ago saying that you had been kidnaped and that he wished for me to look after little alex" she tried to make sense of thing
"Alex? You have him?" he nodded and faye continued "where is vicious?" jet frowned and looked at the window trying to avoid fayes eyes "he is...some of the red dragons brought you and him here, he is in critical condition faye I'm really sorry" the tears surfaced way before he even said anything, but they increased when he told her "I want to see him" she sat up and regretted that "take it easy you just went through hell and back" she refused to lay back down and let her legs fall to the floor "I want to see him damn it" he help her up "he is in ICU faye they wont let you see him" she shook her head "I don't care I love him jet and he is my baby's father" he shook his head "you don't need to tell me I already know he told me" she looked at him "he did?" "Yeah I think he had too since I wouldn't let him off the hook" she giggled a little "what happed to julia?" jet looked down at the woman he was helping out of the room "she's dead and for real this time" they walked down the corridors neither saying a word. They stopped at the elevators and waited. Once inside he pressed ten.
Her breathing became heavy. The thought of seeing him like he was almost dead scared her. Jet felt her uneasiness and held her hand tightly. She looked up at him and he smiled "he will pull through faye" she nodded. The reached the ICU area and she looked through the glass doors too look inside. Many patients were there. She moved around trying to find him "there he is faye the last one on the right" she looked to the right and sure enough there he was. He seemed paler than usual and his face looked like he was in pain. The tubes on him made him seem even more sickly. She put her hands on the glass doors "please pull through please Sujiro" Jet looked at her surprised "Sujiro?" she didn't take her eyes off of him "his real name" he understood
of course Vicious was just his nick name. I can't believe that this same guy is the one that killed spike and is now in love with faye. Geez this is better than a soap opera.
The doors slid open and faye stood to the side. A nurse came out "can I help you with anything?" she looked at faye up and down "miss valentine what are you doing out of bed?" faye gave her a weak smile "I came to see him" she pointed to vicious "oh the poor man he is in such a bad shape I only hope his family comes to see him before anything else happens....oh are you family?" faye nodded "I'm his wife" she said smiling the nurse bowed "I'm sorry I should have been more sensitive about" faye raised a hand "it's okay I'm glad you were honest" the nurse nodded "please let me make it up to you" "how?"
The nurse looked to the left then to the right "okay noone is in sight....here it goes what if I let you stay with him for a few hours at a time?" faye loved that idea and took the nurse's hand "oh that would be so great I just want to hold him and tell him that I love him" the nurse opened the doors "go on" faye nodded and walked into the ICU unit. The nurse smiled at Jet "that was nice of you" she giggled "well she's a woman in love I just can't help it if I'm a romantic" jet raised an eyebrow "how tragic in a hospital I find myself with a nurse who's a romantic and with Faye who is just trying to find her happiness while surrounded by the dying and diseases" the nurse pouted "well you are such a treat yourself"
Faye stood by Vicious's sleeping form. The tears made their way to the surface once again. She took his hand in hers they were icy cold. She ran a slender finger down his jaw line and smiled at him "Sujiro I know that you are stronger than this you can pull through...you idiot why did you go and do that why did you try to protect me I told you before I'm no damsel in distress...you are so dead when you come out of this...so please come out pull through Alex and I will be waiting for you my love" she kissed him on the forehead. Another nurse came up to her and brought a chair for her. She thanked her and sat down.
It went like this for three more days until she was released. Jet had made her come back to the beebop and spent time with her son. "Hey there sweetheart I missed you so much" he was sleeping in her arms. Jet came in "I can't believe you got him to sleep it takes me and Ed a few hours before he can even yawn" "that's because I'm his mommy and he missed me so much" she kissed her son on the tip of his nose. The vid phone rang and jet picked it "yes this is the beebop....of course yes she is here...hold on a sec" he turned to faye "faye it's the hospital they say they have some news" she looked at him confused and then stood up. She gave jet the baby and took the vid phone "yes this is she....yes I'm his wife....I'm still on earth........" jet looked at her trying to understand why all of the sudden she went quiet. She clenched her fists and a few times jet could hear her sobs "faye?" she didn't say anything. She closed the line and then fell to her knees "faye" jet walked up to her. She banged her hands on the floor "why? Why is everything so cruel...why" "what is it faye?" she cried even more "oh jet it's vicious he...he...he passed away a few hours ago jet...my vicious died and I wasn't there for it....I wasn't there" now that was a shocker he was dead....but they had been there the day before and he seemed fine seemed like he had gained some color, now he was dead.
The baby began to cry and she got up and took him "oh alex your daddy is gone, I can't believe it he's gone like that from our lives" she sat down and rocked him in her arms as the tears spilled.