A/N: Remember me saying that I was going to write a different story with Rena? Well, here it is! Presenting Yesterday and Today! I will try my hardest to make sure this doesn't become a Mary Sue.
Summary: Sophia Conners is known around the coffee house circuit for her use of old songs. When Jet and Spike go to a club she's performing at one night, more of Spike's past comes back to him. Who is Sophia really?
Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop or anything else copyrighted mentioned. If I did, I wouldn't be writing these!
Chapter 1: The Luna Cat Coffee House
Spike looked at the sign on the old coffee house. "Luna Cat? Are you sure the bounty is here?" Jet nodded. "His name is John Bodden. 34 years old. Often performs at these places." Spike lit up a cigarette. "Whatever Jet." "It's not so bad Spike," said Jet, turning off his communicator. "We even get a show tonight." Spike looked at the chalkboard sign. It said, 'One Night Only! Sophia Conners, The Old Soul!'
Spike read the sign over and over. "Old Soul?" Jet looked at the door. "All she sings are songs from the 20th and early 21st century. She became known as The Old Soul three years ago when she first became popular." Jet ran his hand over his head and made his way to the door. "C'mon, Spike." "I'm coming." He looked at the sign again. He had heard this girl's name before, but he couldn't remember where. He had a thought, but she shook it off. "It can't be her," he said to himself, "She died." Spike sighed, stamped out his cigarette, and went inside.
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Spike had his feet propped on the table. He wanted to fall asleep so bad. "Do you see him Jet?" Jet had the goggles on and was looking at a guy a few tables over. "It's defiantly him. We have to wait though. We don't want to start anything." Spike leaned his head back. It was going to be a long night. The host walked up to the stage. "Now for tonight's main act," he said in a slow, deep voice. "The old wandering soul of Mars. She's performing for the first time after a three month trip around the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Please welcome Sophia Conners." Half of the club clapped but the others snapped as the spotlight came upon her. Spike looked up. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. A girl with long raven black hair, dark brown eyes, a dark green button down shirt, black pants, black boots and a guitar with purple accents. "It's...her..."
"Yes, Spike. That's Sophia."
"No Jet. That's not what I meant."
Sophia looked towards Jet and Spike and gave them a sly grin. "How is everybody doing tonight?" There were a few responses from the crowd. "That's good. I wasn't sure which song I was going to start off with, but now I know." She looked over at Jet and Spike's table again and started to play. "Pretty brown eyed girl, She's so sweet and naive, She met a boy fell in love, Carved their name out in a tree, What a perfect memory, There's a swing out by the creek, They would meet there, He put a rose in her hair, Then she kissed him on the cheek..."
Jet looked at Spike out of the corner of his eye. "Spike...do you know her?" Spike hid his face. "You could say that."
"All alone and then I close my eyes, I think back to that time of my life, When everything that meant anything was you, Messed things up grew up a little too fast, I knew it was much too good to last, Cause the only thing that meant anything was you..."
As Sophia's sweet voice further filled the coffee house, Spike further hid his head. "How can she be alive?", he whispered to himself, "She died five years ago. Well, I thought she did." These thoughts raced though his head as the song continued.
"Starry skies under the moonlight, You and I two fireflies enchanted by the night, When I see a rainbow dance across the sky, I feel all warm inside, I get teary eyed, Makes me think about you and I..."
Spike finally looked up. She used to sing him that song all the time. Many others too. "Rena..."
Sophia finished and half of the crowd clapped, the others snapped. "Thanks. Now, I'm going to sing 'Landslide'" She found the right place to start and started playing. "I took my love and I took it down, I climbed a mountain and I turned around, And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills, Well the landslide brought me down..."
Jet elbowed Spike. "Spike," said Jet through clenched teeth, "He's moving!" Spike looked up to see spiky headed John move towards the stage. Spike and Jet slowly took out their guns. Sophia still continued to sing.
"Well, I've been afraid of changing 'cause I built my life around you, But time makes you bolder, Children get older, I'm getting older, too, Well I'm getting older too"
John got to the stage stairs and started to pull out a gun. Jet and Spike slowly followed him.
"So, take this love and take it down, Year and if you climb a mountain and you turn around..."
Before Sophia was even finished, John came up from behind her, got her in a chokehold and held a gun to her head. "Nobody move or she gets it!"
"Aww, Shit!" said Spike.
"Shut up Spike!", shouted Jet.
"You two!", yelled John, "Weapons on the floor!"
Spike and Jet grumbled as they dropped their guns onto the floor. Spike looked at Sophia. She looked back and nodded. She stomped on John's foot and elbowed him in the solar plexus. He let go, grunting in pain. She twisted his arm, making him let go of the gun. "You stupid bitch!" John lunged toward her but she knocked him off stage with her guitar case. Spike and Jet grabbed their guns and pointed them toward John on the ground. Sophia pulled hers out of her guitar case and pointed it towards him also. "Listen," she said, pushing the hair out of her eyes, "Never interrupt me during a song. It's a bad sight for a killer like you to get beaten up by a girl." Spike laughed at her a little. "You haven't lost your touch Sophia or, should I say, Rena Orlivio?"
Rena rolled her eyes and kicked John. "Five years is a long time Spiegel. We need to catch up."
A/N: The first song used is 'The Only Thing' by Tamyra Gray. I have no Idea how long this story is going to be. 5 chapters at the least.