Shadowing Ivy
By A Shot of Amber
* ~ * Session Four: Enter in the Goddess * ~ *
The morning sun broke through the windows of the Bebop lighting up everything with a golden light. The control room remained empty of humans to enjoy nature's beauty though.
Inside the rest of the Bebop, Jet was making breakfast from the little bit of food there was left. Faye was lying on the couch still dressed in her underwear stifling yawns and trying to stay awake. Spike groaned and sat up in his bed, the sheets underneath him were twisted and wrinkled while his blanket lay forgotten on the floor.
It was another normal morning.
Spike pulled out a cigarette from his pack and lit up, blowing a stream of gray smoke towards the ceiling. The silver lighter was set back on the table by his bed while he stood up and stretched before walking out of the room.
" Ein go woof! Ein go woof! Ein go woof!" Ed sang happily dancing around the room. In the kitchen Ein sat patiently waiting for his breakfast from Jet.
" Can someone please shut her up? It's to early for this!" Faye groaned throwing one arm over her eyes.
" What's wrong Faye? Don't like the entertainment?"
Faye moved her arm slightly to see Spike leaning against the rail above her. A cigarette dangled from his lips, and she was disgusted to see that he had neglected to put a shirt on.
" It's to early for this lunatic's singing and dancing," Faye replied closing her eyes so she wouldn't have to see the way the muscles of his arms moved.
Spike grinned down at her before getting up and walking down the rest of the stairs. Ed was hanging from the rafters now looking over the room with wide-open eyes.
Spike sat down on a chair across from Faye and put his feet up on the tabletop. With lazy eyes he looked around the room at Faye lying on the couch, her long legs bent slightly at the knee to Ed scuttling around on the rafters pretending to be a monkey.
" Breakfast is ready!" Jet yelled walking into the room laden down with plates.
" Yo Jet no need to yell we all can hear you fine," Spike replied looking over his shoulder.
" Sorry but I wasn't sure if her Royal Highness heard me or not," Jet replied shooting a dirty look at Faye while he set the plates down on the table.
" Shut up," Faye muttered. She lay still for a few seconds before the smell of food broke through her senses and she quickly sat up.
" So what's for breakfast?" She asked excitedly looking at the plates on the table. This excited look quickly disappeared.
Spike was looking at the plates with a critical look while Jet set down Ein's dog bowl in front of the dog.
" It's eggs, mushrooms, and- -"
" Let me guess green peppers?" Spike asked filling in for Jet.
" Yep, it was supposed to be an omelet but I let it burn a bit when I went to go check on my bonsai trees."
" A little bit? It looks like you completely forgot it until it was burned a crispy black," Faye cried looking at mess of black and yellow eggs.
" Well sorry if you don't like my cooking. If you don't want it then starve and I'll just feed your portion to Ein," Jet yelled back.
" He he he, just kidding I'll eat it," Faye grinned picking up her plate and beginning to eat.
" Womyn," Jet muttered sitting down next to Spike and picking up a plate. " Hey Ed you going to come and eat?" He yelled over his shoulder to the red haired girl.
There was a moment of silence followed by a loud crash. Jet looked over his shoulder then went back to eating.
" So where were you yesterday?" Faye asked coyly. Her chopsticks swirled through the mess of yellow and black making a pattern before picking up a piece of bell pepper and bringing it to her mouth.
" I was out," Spike replied through a mouthful of food.
" Out? Just out? You didn't go anywhere or see anyone?"
" Nope, I was just out."
Faye gave him a look then went back to eating. Silence fell over them, each person locked into their own little world. Behind Spike and Jet, Ed lay on the floor legs and arms stuck up in the air.
* * * * * * *
" By the way where were you yesterday?" Jet's voice was muffled from underneath the ship.
" I was out, I went walking around the town and visited a park, nothing big." Spike blew another stream of smoke out watching it disappear in the blue sky. He sat above Jet on the hanger his legs dangling over the side.
" You sound like you did more then that. What happened? You meet a girl?"
There was no movement from Spike, he just sat there a few seconds staring off into space before pulling the cigarette from his lips and flicking it into the water below them.
" You might say that," he replied watching the white stub sail through the air and hit the water.
" Well what's she like? Is she pretty?" Jet slid out from underneath the ship and grabbed a wrench before sliding back in.
" She weighs 300 pounds, and talks like a man," Spike replied looking up at the sky.
" Sounds nice but I don't think she's your type. Wouldn't you agree?" There was no answer. " Spike?"
Jet slid back out from underneath the ship to see that Spike was gone.
" Hmm I wonder what got into him."
* * * * * * *
The city was exactly the same has yesterday. People strolling the streets talking and going about their business. Spike ignored them all and instead walked straight. His head held up high looking around for that familiar blue and green tent.
He never saw it though, the strange gypsy lady was no where to be found.
It wasn't until the sun started setting that Spike gave up and went over to the park he visited yesterday. Children still played in the dying sunlight while parents sat on empty benches reading newspapers or talking among themselves.
Spike sat down on an empty bench near to two men in dark suits. He pulled a cigarette from his pocket along with the silver lighter. The metal felt warm in his hands, glowing in the reddish light. He quickly banished all thoughts of her and lit his cigarette before slipping the lighter back in his pocket.
" She's a strange one..real odd with some kind of." Bits of conversation from the two men floated over to Spike but he ignored it. It was probably just something pointless and boring.
" Two of our men were here.but something happened. It wasn't her fault but she had something to play in it." The other man replied some of his comments getting blocked out by the screaming of two children running past.
" Yea well she needs to be found or the boss will have a fit."
Spike's eyes opened up again has he self-consciously listened to the conversation. The part about the two men seemed to jog his conscious has he thought about yesterday and what happened when he was here with Ivy.
" Only problem is that she's to slippery.liable to get away if we ever do catch her."
" We have to try.she's got the thing we need." The taller of the two men seemed to be quite indigent compared to his shorter companion.
Spike leaned forward trying to hear better over the sounds of the children. He didn't understand what they were saying about her and something she had.
" Hey mister!"
Spike turned to the sound of the voice to see a little girl standing in front of him holding a cat.
" You wanna play with me mister?" she asked giving him an innocent look.
" Sorry kid but I don't have time for that kind of stuff," Spike replied waving his hand at her as if to dismiss her.
" Why not?" The cat shifted in her arms and meowed up at him.
" Just get out of here kid I have better things to do." Spike turned back to where the men were sitting only to see they were gone.
" What the.damnit they got away."
" It's not nice to say a dirty word you know," the little girl was very solemn has she watched the older man get up and spit out his cigarette.
" Yea well its also not nice to bug people when they are trying to listen in other people's conversations." Spike tossed the cigarette onto the ground and squished it with his foot before turning and walking away.
" He wasn't a very nice man," the little girl mummered to herself. In her arms the cat sat very still watching Spike walk off with bright yellow eyes.
* * * * * * *
It was nighttime when Spike finally returned to the Bebop. Stars hung low in the sky, but he never really saw them. The disappointment of not finding the gypsy lady or the girl called Ivy covered his mind.
" Hey Jet! I'm back!" Spike yelled has he entered the hanger.
" It's about time you did. Jet has been wondering where you were for the longest time." Faye walked out of the shadows, her drink's straw seemingly placed between two smiling lips.
" I went places." Spike brushed past her. He didn't need any of her snide remarks.
" Places huh? Meet any pretty girls?" Faye wouldn't give up that easily, she followed behind him has he walked into the room to see if Jet was there.
" Has a matter of fact," Spike turned around and looked right into Faye's eyes, his voice was dead serious. " No I didn't." Spike turned away and walked in leaving behind a flustered Faye.
" Hey Jet where are you?" There was no sign of the older man. Only Ed sleeping in a corner next to Ein.
" I'm in here!" Jet called from another room.
" In where?" Spike looked around trying to follow the voice.
" In here!" Jet yelled popping his head out of the doorway leading to his bonsai plants.
" What are you watering them for? Shouldn't you be making dinner?" Spike asked. He walked over to Jet who was dressed in his rubber apron and goggles. A watering tin in one hand and a pair of pruning shears in the other.
" No need, Ivy is making it."
" What Ivy? Who is she?" Spike asked balking at the name.
" Ivy, you know Ivy. She volunteered to make dinner tonight," Jet replied adding a little water to his plants. He obviously didn't see Spike's reaction to the name Ivy.
" Jet how long has Ivy been here? Did she come today or something?"
" I don't know, I guess has long has I can remember," Jet replied searching his memory but coming up blank.
" Has you can remember? What are you talking about? We don't have anyone named Ivy on this ship!"
" Of course we do! Remember you invited her to join us on that day when we.uh.well I don't remember what happened that day but you invited her to join us and she's been here ever since."
" Jet I never invited a girl named Ivy on this ship, what is going on? You are making no sense."
" Damn Spike of course I'm making sense! Go see for yourself, she's right in the kitchen!" Jet yelled pointing out the door towards the kitchen.
Spike blinked a couple times to clear his vision. He turned and ran to the kitchen expecting to find nothing or maybe even Faye making something for dinner.
He wasn't that lucky though. Someone was in the kitchen but it wasn't Faye. Long black hair with blue green ribbons wound in it. A black mini skirt with a dark blue top over it and a loose white shirt over that. Ivy turned around and smiled at Spike. A bowl was clutched in one arm while she continued to stir the contents inside it.
" Hi! Welcome back dinner will be ready soon!" Ivy said cheerfully.
" How did you get in here?!" Spike yelled pointing a shaking finger at her.
" I walked through the doorway Spike, " Ivy replied feeling confused at his accusation.
" I'm not talking about that I mean how did you find this ship!" Spike yelled.
" You invited me to join the crew, remember it was right before you went to find that bounty on Jupiter." Ivy replied.
" I never invited you. I didn't even know you until yesterday when you took my lighter!"
" Ah yes I remember your lighter! Here you left this on the sink in the bathroom this morning." Ivy pulled out something from her apron pocket and tossed it to him.
Spike caught the lighter in one hand and looked down at it. It was his all right but he was sure he had it when he left the ship this morning. Still when he had left the ship that morning a girl named Ivy was not living on it.
Spike looked up again to see that she had turned back to the stove. Her hair hung down in a silky tangle. She was way to thin for her own good, stick like legs leading down to a pair of white socks and black high heels.
" She is like an overgrown child," Spike muttered out loud.
" What did you say?" Ivy turned to look at him over her shoulder.
"Ah nothing, never mind," Spike replied backing out of the kitchen.
Ivy watched him disappear out of the room before going back to stirring the vegetables in the pan. The few strands of hair that fell in front of her face hid a small smile.
" Talk about a mood change," she said softly to herself.
* * * * * * *
Spike sat outside on the hanger looking at the last of the sunset. The lighter lay in his palm feeling warm against his skin.
' Who is that girl and what is going on here?'
One by one his fingers closed around the lighter. Above him the sky glowed with orange rays from the sun and down here something strange was going on. He wanted to know what it was.
Keep the door open for a goddess.
* ~ * Next Session * ~ *
Ivy: Our lives are like a mysterious dance that goes around and around. Like the waltz filled with a haunting beautiful affect.
Faye: I have no idea what you're talking about.
Jet: Neither do I, but she as never made sense.
Spike: You haven't known her long enough to know if she makes sense!
Faye: What's with him?
Jet: I don't know, he's been like that lately.
Ivy: Ever since I came in.
Faye & Jet: What?
Ivy: Nothing! Any ways the next episode is "A Waltz for the Stars."
Please remember to read and review or send all comments, questions, suggestions, and flames to Saphrians_Water_Reflection@hotmail.com. Thank you!
By A Shot of Amber
* ~ * Session Four: Enter in the Goddess * ~ *
The morning sun broke through the windows of the Bebop lighting up everything with a golden light. The control room remained empty of humans to enjoy nature's beauty though.
Inside the rest of the Bebop, Jet was making breakfast from the little bit of food there was left. Faye was lying on the couch still dressed in her underwear stifling yawns and trying to stay awake. Spike groaned and sat up in his bed, the sheets underneath him were twisted and wrinkled while his blanket lay forgotten on the floor.
It was another normal morning.
Spike pulled out a cigarette from his pack and lit up, blowing a stream of gray smoke towards the ceiling. The silver lighter was set back on the table by his bed while he stood up and stretched before walking out of the room.
" Ein go woof! Ein go woof! Ein go woof!" Ed sang happily dancing around the room. In the kitchen Ein sat patiently waiting for his breakfast from Jet.
" Can someone please shut her up? It's to early for this!" Faye groaned throwing one arm over her eyes.
" What's wrong Faye? Don't like the entertainment?"
Faye moved her arm slightly to see Spike leaning against the rail above her. A cigarette dangled from his lips, and she was disgusted to see that he had neglected to put a shirt on.
" It's to early for this lunatic's singing and dancing," Faye replied closing her eyes so she wouldn't have to see the way the muscles of his arms moved.
Spike grinned down at her before getting up and walking down the rest of the stairs. Ed was hanging from the rafters now looking over the room with wide-open eyes.
Spike sat down on a chair across from Faye and put his feet up on the tabletop. With lazy eyes he looked around the room at Faye lying on the couch, her long legs bent slightly at the knee to Ed scuttling around on the rafters pretending to be a monkey.
" Breakfast is ready!" Jet yelled walking into the room laden down with plates.
" Yo Jet no need to yell we all can hear you fine," Spike replied looking over his shoulder.
" Sorry but I wasn't sure if her Royal Highness heard me or not," Jet replied shooting a dirty look at Faye while he set the plates down on the table.
" Shut up," Faye muttered. She lay still for a few seconds before the smell of food broke through her senses and she quickly sat up.
" So what's for breakfast?" She asked excitedly looking at the plates on the table. This excited look quickly disappeared.
Spike was looking at the plates with a critical look while Jet set down Ein's dog bowl in front of the dog.
" It's eggs, mushrooms, and- -"
" Let me guess green peppers?" Spike asked filling in for Jet.
" Yep, it was supposed to be an omelet but I let it burn a bit when I went to go check on my bonsai trees."
" A little bit? It looks like you completely forgot it until it was burned a crispy black," Faye cried looking at mess of black and yellow eggs.
" Well sorry if you don't like my cooking. If you don't want it then starve and I'll just feed your portion to Ein," Jet yelled back.
" He he he, just kidding I'll eat it," Faye grinned picking up her plate and beginning to eat.
" Womyn," Jet muttered sitting down next to Spike and picking up a plate. " Hey Ed you going to come and eat?" He yelled over his shoulder to the red haired girl.
There was a moment of silence followed by a loud crash. Jet looked over his shoulder then went back to eating.
" So where were you yesterday?" Faye asked coyly. Her chopsticks swirled through the mess of yellow and black making a pattern before picking up a piece of bell pepper and bringing it to her mouth.
" I was out," Spike replied through a mouthful of food.
" Out? Just out? You didn't go anywhere or see anyone?"
" Nope, I was just out."
Faye gave him a look then went back to eating. Silence fell over them, each person locked into their own little world. Behind Spike and Jet, Ed lay on the floor legs and arms stuck up in the air.
* * * * * * *
" By the way where were you yesterday?" Jet's voice was muffled from underneath the ship.
" I was out, I went walking around the town and visited a park, nothing big." Spike blew another stream of smoke out watching it disappear in the blue sky. He sat above Jet on the hanger his legs dangling over the side.
" You sound like you did more then that. What happened? You meet a girl?"
There was no movement from Spike, he just sat there a few seconds staring off into space before pulling the cigarette from his lips and flicking it into the water below them.
" You might say that," he replied watching the white stub sail through the air and hit the water.
" Well what's she like? Is she pretty?" Jet slid out from underneath the ship and grabbed a wrench before sliding back in.
" She weighs 300 pounds, and talks like a man," Spike replied looking up at the sky.
" Sounds nice but I don't think she's your type. Wouldn't you agree?" There was no answer. " Spike?"
Jet slid back out from underneath the ship to see that Spike was gone.
" Hmm I wonder what got into him."
* * * * * * *
The city was exactly the same has yesterday. People strolling the streets talking and going about their business. Spike ignored them all and instead walked straight. His head held up high looking around for that familiar blue and green tent.
He never saw it though, the strange gypsy lady was no where to be found.
It wasn't until the sun started setting that Spike gave up and went over to the park he visited yesterday. Children still played in the dying sunlight while parents sat on empty benches reading newspapers or talking among themselves.
Spike sat down on an empty bench near to two men in dark suits. He pulled a cigarette from his pocket along with the silver lighter. The metal felt warm in his hands, glowing in the reddish light. He quickly banished all thoughts of her and lit his cigarette before slipping the lighter back in his pocket.
" She's a strange one..real odd with some kind of." Bits of conversation from the two men floated over to Spike but he ignored it. It was probably just something pointless and boring.
" Two of our men were here.but something happened. It wasn't her fault but she had something to play in it." The other man replied some of his comments getting blocked out by the screaming of two children running past.
" Yea well she needs to be found or the boss will have a fit."
Spike's eyes opened up again has he self-consciously listened to the conversation. The part about the two men seemed to jog his conscious has he thought about yesterday and what happened when he was here with Ivy.
" Only problem is that she's to slippery.liable to get away if we ever do catch her."
" We have to try.she's got the thing we need." The taller of the two men seemed to be quite indigent compared to his shorter companion.
Spike leaned forward trying to hear better over the sounds of the children. He didn't understand what they were saying about her and something she had.
" Hey mister!"
Spike turned to the sound of the voice to see a little girl standing in front of him holding a cat.
" You wanna play with me mister?" she asked giving him an innocent look.
" Sorry kid but I don't have time for that kind of stuff," Spike replied waving his hand at her as if to dismiss her.
" Why not?" The cat shifted in her arms and meowed up at him.
" Just get out of here kid I have better things to do." Spike turned back to where the men were sitting only to see they were gone.
" What the.damnit they got away."
" It's not nice to say a dirty word you know," the little girl was very solemn has she watched the older man get up and spit out his cigarette.
" Yea well its also not nice to bug people when they are trying to listen in other people's conversations." Spike tossed the cigarette onto the ground and squished it with his foot before turning and walking away.
" He wasn't a very nice man," the little girl mummered to herself. In her arms the cat sat very still watching Spike walk off with bright yellow eyes.
* * * * * * *
It was nighttime when Spike finally returned to the Bebop. Stars hung low in the sky, but he never really saw them. The disappointment of not finding the gypsy lady or the girl called Ivy covered his mind.
" Hey Jet! I'm back!" Spike yelled has he entered the hanger.
" It's about time you did. Jet has been wondering where you were for the longest time." Faye walked out of the shadows, her drink's straw seemingly placed between two smiling lips.
" I went places." Spike brushed past her. He didn't need any of her snide remarks.
" Places huh? Meet any pretty girls?" Faye wouldn't give up that easily, she followed behind him has he walked into the room to see if Jet was there.
" Has a matter of fact," Spike turned around and looked right into Faye's eyes, his voice was dead serious. " No I didn't." Spike turned away and walked in leaving behind a flustered Faye.
" Hey Jet where are you?" There was no sign of the older man. Only Ed sleeping in a corner next to Ein.
" I'm in here!" Jet called from another room.
" In where?" Spike looked around trying to follow the voice.
" In here!" Jet yelled popping his head out of the doorway leading to his bonsai plants.
" What are you watering them for? Shouldn't you be making dinner?" Spike asked. He walked over to Jet who was dressed in his rubber apron and goggles. A watering tin in one hand and a pair of pruning shears in the other.
" No need, Ivy is making it."
" What Ivy? Who is she?" Spike asked balking at the name.
" Ivy, you know Ivy. She volunteered to make dinner tonight," Jet replied adding a little water to his plants. He obviously didn't see Spike's reaction to the name Ivy.
" Jet how long has Ivy been here? Did she come today or something?"
" I don't know, I guess has long has I can remember," Jet replied searching his memory but coming up blank.
" Has you can remember? What are you talking about? We don't have anyone named Ivy on this ship!"
" Of course we do! Remember you invited her to join us on that day when we.uh.well I don't remember what happened that day but you invited her to join us and she's been here ever since."
" Jet I never invited a girl named Ivy on this ship, what is going on? You are making no sense."
" Damn Spike of course I'm making sense! Go see for yourself, she's right in the kitchen!" Jet yelled pointing out the door towards the kitchen.
Spike blinked a couple times to clear his vision. He turned and ran to the kitchen expecting to find nothing or maybe even Faye making something for dinner.
He wasn't that lucky though. Someone was in the kitchen but it wasn't Faye. Long black hair with blue green ribbons wound in it. A black mini skirt with a dark blue top over it and a loose white shirt over that. Ivy turned around and smiled at Spike. A bowl was clutched in one arm while she continued to stir the contents inside it.
" Hi! Welcome back dinner will be ready soon!" Ivy said cheerfully.
" How did you get in here?!" Spike yelled pointing a shaking finger at her.
" I walked through the doorway Spike, " Ivy replied feeling confused at his accusation.
" I'm not talking about that I mean how did you find this ship!" Spike yelled.
" You invited me to join the crew, remember it was right before you went to find that bounty on Jupiter." Ivy replied.
" I never invited you. I didn't even know you until yesterday when you took my lighter!"
" Ah yes I remember your lighter! Here you left this on the sink in the bathroom this morning." Ivy pulled out something from her apron pocket and tossed it to him.
Spike caught the lighter in one hand and looked down at it. It was his all right but he was sure he had it when he left the ship this morning. Still when he had left the ship that morning a girl named Ivy was not living on it.
Spike looked up again to see that she had turned back to the stove. Her hair hung down in a silky tangle. She was way to thin for her own good, stick like legs leading down to a pair of white socks and black high heels.
" She is like an overgrown child," Spike muttered out loud.
" What did you say?" Ivy turned to look at him over her shoulder.
"Ah nothing, never mind," Spike replied backing out of the kitchen.
Ivy watched him disappear out of the room before going back to stirring the vegetables in the pan. The few strands of hair that fell in front of her face hid a small smile.
" Talk about a mood change," she said softly to herself.
* * * * * * *
Spike sat outside on the hanger looking at the last of the sunset. The lighter lay in his palm feeling warm against his skin.
' Who is that girl and what is going on here?'
One by one his fingers closed around the lighter. Above him the sky glowed with orange rays from the sun and down here something strange was going on. He wanted to know what it was.
Keep the door open for a goddess.
* ~ * Next Session * ~ *
Ivy: Our lives are like a mysterious dance that goes around and around. Like the waltz filled with a haunting beautiful affect.
Faye: I have no idea what you're talking about.
Jet: Neither do I, but she as never made sense.
Spike: You haven't known her long enough to know if she makes sense!
Faye: What's with him?
Jet: I don't know, he's been like that lately.
Ivy: Ever since I came in.
Faye & Jet: What?
Ivy: Nothing! Any ways the next episode is "A Waltz for the Stars."
Please remember to read and review or send all comments, questions, suggestions, and flames to Saphrians_Water_Reflection@hotmail.com. Thank you!