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Chapter 3: Tell me

"Just get out of here, Spike. I don't want to see you anymore." Faye said softly as she closed the door in the green haired mans face. Spike raised his hand to the door to knock when a voice interrupted him. "Don't bother, Spike. She won't answer. She's not the same person you abandoned." Spike turned to see Jet leaning against the entryway to the hall. "I thought you left. And what are you talking about 'abandoned'? I never had any obligation to her. I never declared undying devotion to her." He snapped angrily.

"That's because you're stupid when it comes to the real world. In a fight, you're probably one of the most reliable and smartest people I know. But in reality, you're an idiot. You can't see the things right in front of you." Jet said as he began walking away. Spike followed him angrily. "What are you talking about?" he demanded.

Jet turned to him with sad eyes. "You had an obligation to her whether you realized it or not and whether she realized it or not. You still don't get it. Faye didn't have a family. She just woke up one day to find herself in a completely new world. Sure she's a pain in the ass a lot of the time but I knew that she thought of us as her family. She needed some kind of security to hold her to this world and we provided that." Suddenly Jet snorted. "What am I doing? Why they hell am I explaining this to you for. You'll never see it or get it." He said angrily as he began walking away again.

"No! Tell me! Tell me just what the hell it is I can't see!" Spike yelled. Jet turned, eyes ablaze in carefully controlled anger. "No, not what you can't see! What you couldn't see! She loved you! She relied on you and loved you! You know what makes it really sick? Somewhere deep down in you, you probably knew that! She's not like you Spike! I don't know if she still loves you but all I know is that when you left she was destroyed. It was like all the life left her. I don't know if she'll ever be her old self again but I won't let you do that to her again."

Spike was silent for a moment before he spoke. "Look, I'm sorry for leaving you guys but I had to I had to face my past before I could move forward, Jet. Even if it meant I died." He said quietly. Jet sighed as he ran his hand over his rapidly decreasing amount of hair.

"Look Spike, I've already forgiven you for leaving Ed and me. But Faye, I never want to see her like that again. You don't know what it was like. And I can't trust you to not do that to her again. So, you can stay on the Bebop but stay away from her. I won't let you destroy her again." He said before walking away one last time.

Spike stood silently before heading for his room on the opposite end of the Bebop. Opening the door he sighed at the familiar sight of his room. Nothing had been touched in the four years since he had left. Save for one thing.

He saw the one picture he had in his room laying on the floor. He remembered looking at it one last time before placing it on his rickety dresser before leaving. He walked over and picked it up. It was a picture of the crew in front of the Bebop.

Ed had her goofy grin on as she latched onto Jets back. Jet had that same genuine smile. Spike's lanky form leaned against the ship as he graced the camera with one of his lazy smirks. His two eyes, each a different shade of brown telling exactly what he was feeling; amusement, annoyance, indifference, yet telling nothing of the secrets of his heart.

Spike's eyes they moved to concentrate on the last person of the crew. Faye. She stood in her tough looking pose with her one hand on her hip. She had one of her sultry smiles on, as if she held a secret that only she knew. Her eyes, the piercing emerald green that seemed to always take his breath away, were sparkling in secret amusement.

Spike lifted his finger to gently caress the frozen image of Faye softly. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." He whispered before he placed the picture carefully back on the dresser. Sighing he turned and fell onto his bed and into a dreamless sleep.

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