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A Whole New Faye
Spike walked through the halls of the school; he barley knew what was in the school, when he was in the Syndicate they had taught him every thing he needed, so he never went to school. Even when he little his parents couldn't manage enough money to put him in school. They had owed the Syndicate too much.
As he walked to class 415 he noticed that the walls had pictures of all the bounties that they had ever laid eyes on. He also caught sight of a picture of Roco with his sister Stella. On it, it said, "We Miss You Roco"
Walking into the room he saw a big classroom with cushioned seats and polished desks. Each desk could hold about 2 to 3 kids. At the front of the room there was the teachers desk with nun other than Faye, but she had changed. Her hair was still the same and so was her face, but now she was wearing tight, but not so tight jeans, black leather high heels that came up to mid-calf. (You can't tell that they come up that far I just added it in ) She wore a violet blouse with small flower decorations.
"Can I help you?" Spike heard Faye say, her back still facing him, her voice was still the same except a little more sophisticated, and it also seemed dead, her voice had lost its liveliness, as if it was just person without a soul.
"Hello……Romani."
Faye gasped and turned around sharply. Her expression looked as if she had been attacked. Her eyes, once full of life, are now dull and clouded, wide and full of fear. Her body was trembling, she was scared stiff.
"Hi Faye how's it going?"
Spike started advancing toward her, but every time he took a step forward she stepped backwards. "Faye it's me Spike, what's wrong with you." Spike kept on walking until Faye's back was against the wall.
"Faye it's me Spike, don't you remember me?" Spike started walking towards her once again.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" She screamed at him when he was at arm's length. Startled Spike took a step back, but quickly recovered with a frown.
"Please go away, stop torturing me like this, I can't take it anymore………I can't take it anymore." She said sliding down on to the ground and huddling into a ball. She looked so helpless, and it frightened him to quite an extent.
"Why…….why now, why did you have to come here now! I was just getting over you! I was finally happy, now you've come back to haunt me again! What did I do to deserve this? I haven't done anything wrong in 3 years." Faye said to herself, and to Spike.
"Faye it's me and I'm real, I'm alive I'm not dead. Please look at me I won't disappear I promise, please just look at me." Faye turned her head slightly to take a look at him. Tears were still sliding down her face. Spike knelt down to her level and looked into each other's eyes. Faye slowly brought her hand up to his face and touched lightly, and then pulled it back quickly as if it had burned her.
"Spike is it really you tell me you're really real. I don't want this to be another dream that I'll wake up from and end up crying myself all the way to school, and then put a fake smile for all the kids that they can all see through, please tell me." She said in a whisper as she attached herself onto him in a gentle embrace.
Spike returned the embrace not really sure of what he was doing, he stood up with Faye still in his arms, listening to her breath, they were shallow and raspy, and she hiccuped from time to time. He also noticed that he had started to rub her back in a circle pattern. He didn't stop, he knew that she needed this.
They stayed that way for about 5 minutes before Faye spoke. "You have a lot of explaining to do." Her voice was muffled because she was talking with her face in his chest, but he heard it clearly and smirked. She didn't completely change.
"I know a small little diner, why don't we go over there and get a drink, besides I get a discount every time I bring a guest. I'm their best customer." Faye said with a small smile, taking her face away from him. Spike chuckled; she was still trying to spend as less as she could.
"Sure and I'll tell everything that happened when I left, every single detail, then I want the same thing from you, including the most embarrassing moments got it." Faye nodded lightly and started picking up all of her stuff and walked to the door. Spike starred at her mesmerizing every movement that she made. He noticed that she had most definitely had grown up.
"In more ways than one." The voice in his head said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Spike asked mentally
"You know what I mean, don't try to hide it, I am you remember, I know every thing that you're thinking."
"Your annoying, go away, I don't need you to tell me what I'm thinking and what I'm not."
"You know she's got a great body, great legs, skinny waist, ruby red lips, huge breasts…"
"ENOUGH! All right I get it I think she's unbelievably hot, beautiful, sexy, gorgeous, you name it!"
"I told you, I'm always right."
"Go away, your giving me a headache."
"Fine be like that"
Spike grimaced at the argument that he had just had, his mind had actually beat him, and to make matters worse he agreed. Faye had changed in more ways than one. 'Could she really take Julia's place' Spike thought.
Faye watched the scene before her; Spike had totally zoned out. First he looked confused, then irritated and then he was blushing. The Spike Spiegel was actually blushing. Then he looked confused again, but this time he looked lost as well. She giggled at the sight; he looked like a little boy that had just been given a math problem that he couldn't comprehend.
Spike snapped out of his trance when he saw Faye giggling. "What's so funny?"
"You are," She said now going into hysterics, she was holding on to the door for support. Soon enough she on the ground rolling from side to side; her face started to also turn red from the lack of oxygen.
"Come on I'm not that amusing. All I did was have a verbal argument with myself" Spike said laughing slightly in spite of himself. This was the first time he had ever seen her act like she was doing right now. "Hey Faye, how come you never acted like this before around me?"
"I would have, but these emotions where all locked away in my mind at the time being, when you saw me before you left, I was hiding everything, now that I have my memory back I can't let the mask down and show my true self, but I can show what I was like, just like now. My old self would the one I had forgotten would have been too cheerful to bounty hunt, so I became a combination of both. I am two of the same person in one body." Faye explained while calming down from her little excitement.
"So basically you're a combination of the old Faye and the one I know right." Spike said understandingly "I kind of like that, it nice to see you a little more open." He replied smiling.
"Come on I'm starving, and these people have the best turkey sandwiches. I just know you'll like them." Faye said as they started walking out of the school and down the street.
The diner was small and quaint. It had booths that you sat at and small stools. The floor was black and white that if you stared at you would get a headache. It also had pictures of what it was like in the 1960. Extremely rare to get now a day. Both Faye and Spike sat themselves down in a booth at the edge of the place.
"Hello Faye how are you?" the waitress said. She was a lady in her late 50's or early 60's. She was short and a little pudgy, but she had sweet personality.
"I'm fine Kili, how are you and David doing?"
"Oh me and David are doing great, thanks to you. I still can't begin to tell you how grateful we are, now what would you like to eat?"
"Could we please have some of you delicious turkey sandwiches, with turkey mayo, and…."
"Lettuce" Kili finished for her. "Yes I know, you loved our sandwiches."
Kili left and Spike spoke. "What did you do, I mean that they are so grateful for?"
"There was a robbery here about 2 months ago, their daughter was here and the robber put a gun to her head demanding that they give him all of their money, and I was there at the time being, so I just snuck up behind the guy and knocked him out with the butt of my gun. Not much I just couldn't let one of my favorite students die."
"Their daughter is your student, what's her name?" Spike asked amused at Faye's story.
"You'll meet her, she's always my waitress, or bus-girl, either way I always see her. She is a wonderful girl, she help out when ever she gets the chance and is a grade A student."
"You still haven't told me her name." "Sorry her name is Shura."
"Yes" Spike and Faye turned their heads to see a young girl about 13 years old, she had short blue hair and deep blues eyes. (Anyone who knows Shinobu from Love Hina, that's what she looks like. ) She also had a tight blue stripped shirt and blue jeans.
"Hi Shura, how are you doing?" Faye asked in a tender voice that Spike never new she had. "Umm………well if it isn't a bad time I'm having trouble with one of my math problems. Could you please help me out?"
"Sure just bring it over and while you're at it, please bring our sandwiches. I'm really hungry." Faye said in a playful pleading voice, Shura giggled, nodded and ran off.
"Your really good with kids, I never thought I would ever see this side of you." Spike stated.
"I guess I have to thank Anita for it, oh you don't know who Anita is though do you?"
"I met her already, and I've known her for a very long time in fact. I know that she Ed. I talked to her before I saw you. She told me all about her father and what she went through, but she still hasn't told me what she did to get you out of your depression and why she changed her name to Anita."
"I'm back." Shura said breaking up their conversation and handing them their sandwiches. "Could you please help me Faye." Faye nodded and started helping her out with her homework.
"I thought that your supposed to call your teachers by their last name, not there first." Spike stated. "I let them call me Faye because I feel old when they call me Ms.Valentine. Besides there are two people in the school besides me with Valentine as there last name." Faye said.
"Yeah there's the Principal, and the science teacher, and they are both boys so we always tease them. Not to mention they aren't really nice people, so we all try to avoid them as much and best as we can." Shura added. "They also have rumors that the Principal and the science teacher once had bounties on them so we also try to avoid being alone with them, but since Faye here became our teacher nothing strange has gone on, so we really have to thank her."
"That's also why I became a teacher here. I didn't want these children to be endangered just because they are doing something right." Faye said taking a bite of her sandwich.
"Doing something right?" Shura asked. "Yes you guys are going to school right? Then you're doing something your good. You kids shouldn't be in danger when you are going to school." Faye explained.
"Thanks you Faye I think I can figure it all out on my own now." Shura replied and ran off into the kitchen.
"She's a really good kid isn't she?" Spike said "Yeah now," Faye said getting settled "I want answers, what did you do when you left, where did you go, what happened to Julia?"
Spike told Faye everything that happened and what he did afterwards. "After I broke up the Syndicate I had a funeral for Vicious and Julia. I owed it to them."
"Owed it to them?" "Yeah, even if Vicious was my enemy, he was still like a brother. We were best friends when we were little kids, so it was only fair to give him a proper burial. Julia had helped me let go of my past. She showed me that your given life to fulfill it to it's most. After I learned that I started realizing that I could move on and be happy once again."
"I see." Faye said finishing up her sandwich and taking a sip of her drink.
"So what happened to you?" Spike asked picking up his tray and throwing away his garbage, then sitting back down.
"About 2 months after you left I fell into depression; I wouldn't eat, sleep, or drink. I would just wallow in my misery. Then I got so upset I slit my wrists……twice." Faye said showing Spike the X shaped scars on both wrists.
"Then when that didn't work I took an over dose of sleeping pills. I almost went into a coma. Jet saved me right before I fell asleep. Then after some recovery I started bounty hunting again, but I had a lot of trouble, I kept on hoping that I would see you, so I usually got distracted and lost the bounty. Then when the 500,000,000 woolong bounty came I actually was excited and I thought that if you were with me you would try to steal it from me, so I jumped into action."
"You seduced him and knocked him out cold right?" Faye nodded and Spike chuckled. That was the way she always caught her bounty heads. "Jet also told me that you paid off your debt, and I saw the Bebop. He said you said that it was for being the father that you had lost right?" Faye nodded again.
"What hasn't Jet told you yet?" Faye asked. "No one has told me what happened to Edwa-oh sorry Anita. I mean why did she change her name and what happened to her after up picked her up from the hospital?"
Faye took a deep breath. "Spike Anita is my………daughter."
All right! Chapter 4 is over. Tell me did you like? Was it good? Please review okay and see ya!
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