A/N: Hey! This chapter has a lemon, so you've been forewarned! Please R&R, and of course...ENJOY!!!

CH 6

Lindsay hummed a sweet, lulling tune as she continued to straighten out Faye's mansion, just as requested, all the while completely unable to keep her thoughts from straying off to that of her best friend and her bodyguard.

What were they doing right now? Having some hot, steamy fling along the coast of one of the many Bermudian beaches?

Lindsay's romantic side most certainly hoped so. She couldn't help the fact that she had always enjoyed playing the role of the ever-wise matchmaker, even if it usually did place her in a rather compromising position with her friends.

Carefully adjusting a crooked picture frame upon the wall beside the front staircase, Lindsay practically jumped straight out of her skin the moment that there came a sudden knock at the door, thus startling her rudely back to reality.

"Oh!", she exclaimed, hurriedly rushing on over to the door in order to receive the caller.

"I'm coming!," she exclaimed, "Please don't go anywhere!"

"Now why on earth would I do that?," the handsome, dark-haired young man returned pleasantly as soon as Lindsay had opened the door and come face-to-face with him. "I'm here on account of Miss Valentine and Mr. Spiegel....are they home right now?"

"Uhh..."

"Oh! I'm sorry!," the man hurriedly apologized, laughing at his own forgetfulness, "I'm Shin Oniwara....Spike's partner."

Lindsay smirked. This guy was pretty cute, so she decided that she would live it up just a tad.

Leaning seductively against the doorway like an overly-coquettish siren, she acknowledged slyly, "Why, hello, Shin. I'm Lindsay Haskins....Faye's best friend. I'm currently straightening up her place since she and Mr. Spiegel will be gone for a few weeks or so, but you're more than welcome to come inside, if you wish."

Shin paled. "Oh....well any idea when they'll get back?"

"It depends."

"Why?"

"It's a secret."

"Why?"

"Because!"

Shin grunted, then ran his fingers throughout his short, dark hair in utter exasperation, sourly trying again under the confinements of his breath, "Now, look, Miss Haskins, it is terribly imperative that I know Spike's whereabouts, so please tell me!"

She frowned deeply. "Why should I? You've given me no specific reason to trust you, at all."

Making a noise that very much resembled that of a deranged howl, Shin impatiently pulled out his bodyguard ID and gave it to the stubborn redhead as proof.

Giving the small card a once-over, Lindsay jovially made note that the young man was completely single, her soft, ruby red lips curling upward into a pleased smirk as she decided aloud, "Alright, Mr. Oniwara, I will tell you where Spike and Faye are if, and only if you promise to do one thing."

"Anything," Shin agreed, truly believing that he was now officially in this way over his head.

Smirking in triumph at this announcement, Lindsay acknowledged pleasantly, "I'll tell you their whereabouts if you go on a date with me to the Blue Cod! I've always wanted to go there ever since Faye went with that hot partner of yours, so whaddaya say? Are all systems go?"

Shin drooped. "I guess I have no choice."

"Well great! Pick me up at eight! Oooh....that rhymed!," Lindsay cooed, giving him a coy wink before shutting the door behind her and humming audibly as she cheerfully strode into the living room and out of earshot.

Shin groaned at this, then bowed his head forward in utter disgust, urging his memory banks to remind him to murder Spike whenever he found him, again.

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"Faye...if I ask you what I have in mind, will you promise not to hit me?"

Faye quirked a delicate brow as she lifted her sunglasses up to rest on top of her lovely hair, her tone surprisingly soft and gentle as she questioned rather suspiciously, "Well what is it that you want to know, Spike?"

The mossy-haired man smirked as he eyed her barely-there black and white bikini upon her small, slender frame, then returned teasingly, "How the hell do you keep from popping out of that thing? Your boobs are defying gravity, for Christ's sake!"

Faye frowned deeply. "Well I didn't know that you were the sort of man that enjoyed my assets, Spike. Maybe I should have reconsidered spending three weeks here with you, after all."

Spike grinned, insisting in a sickeningly smug manner, "You can't seriously tell me that you don't admire my assets, as well. Tall guys are, after all, a precious commodity to women since we-"

"Last longer during....erm....loving-making. Yeah, so I've heard," Faye acknowledged, rolling her eyes. "If you even think for one minute that that makes you the slightest bit attractive to me, Spike, Spiegel, think again."

"Faye, I don't want you to be attracted to me...I was just kidding around," he insisted defensively before lying back down onto his striped towel in the sand. "If I raised your ego in any way, let me apologize to the world in advance for ensuring all hell to break loose."

"Thanks."

"Welcome."

Faye stifled the shrill shriek that desperately wanted to come bursting forth from her delicate vocal chords, her left eye twitching slightly as she found herself wondering what on earth had happened to the sweet, charismatic Spike Spiegel that had put his life on the line for her own and had proved himself worthy of being her bodyguard.

Why was he suddenly acting like a complete asshole?

Was it something she did? Was it something she said?

Perhaps she had gone too far yesterday in asking all of those personal questions?

Well, whatever it was, it was starting to really get to her, and in a very big way.

Faye didn't like feeling as if someone had the upper hand over her, and now that Spike was making her feel more and more insecure with each passing day, she truly had no idea how to handle him. All she knew was that she had to escape, and soon.

A/N: Hey! Welp, the next part of this chapter is strictly NC-17, so I had to post it on If you'd like to read it, just go to , enter it, click on anime/cartoon, then Cowboy Bebop, and mine should be right at the top. Please R&R to tell me what you thought, so far! Thanks!