The Love of An Outcast

By InuYoukaiNeesan7

Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop or any of the characters in any way... DARN!

HAHA! I love all the reviews I got for that last one! God, that was hilarious to see you all squirm! Keep in mind this is still a Spike/Faye Fanfic so DON'T FREAK OUT! lol This is just another bump in the road for them! hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

WARNING: This is a major fluff! If you don't like that sort of thing well...THAT'S TOO DAMN BAD!

Chapter 8: Whitney? The dead Guy!


Last Time:

"Whitney...?" Faye breathed. Spike looked at her in confusion. The man lifted his blonde head and looked up at them with grey eyes.

"Hello...Sleeping beauty..." The man replied with a smile on his handsome face.


Immediatly, Faye released Spike and ran to Whitney, wrapped her arms around him, then kissed him. Spike stood, dumbstruck.

"Hey, wait a second!" Spike said, jealousy rising up and down his spine. He ripped Faye out of the stranger's grasp. "Faye's mine!" He said suddenly, standing in front of her.

"Excuse me?" Whitney glared at Spike.

"You heard me!" Spike balled up a fist, ready to defend himself.

"Wait, wait! Hold on just one second!" Faye got in between Spike and Whitney. She looked up at Spike, straight in his eyes. "Since when have I ever been yours?"

Spike stopped. "Faye...Didn't you take me here to sleep with me?" Spike grabbed her wrist.

Whitney grasped her other wrist and pulled her so her gaze went from Spike to Whitney. "Did you?" Whitney questioned.

Faye hesitated. Then she made a decision that would define every moment that happens in later events. "God! All men think alike! Get your mind out of the gutter, Spike! I came here strictly to discuss what our realationship -if you can even call it that- was turning into!" Faye lied.

This was no ordanary lie. This was about the biggest lie she had ever told in her entire life. She had brought Spike there to sleep with him. She had every intention on having sex with Spike that night, but she was scared. She was afraid that if she would admit to it Whitney, the man she had loved and lost, would be gone out of her life forever, again.

Spike felt his heart shatter. He stared at Faye for a second then turned and left, not stopping when Faye called after him.

Faye bit her bottom lip. She felt Whitney's eyes on her. She turned back to him with a scowl on her face.

"Where the hell have you been! You have a lot of explaining to do!" Faye crossed her arms.

Whitney rubbed the back of his head and smiled. This wasn't going to be pretty.


Spike slammed the door as soon as he got into the house. Ed and Jet sat at the table eating dinner. Spike took off his jacket and undid his tie.

"How'd it go?" Jet asked.

Spike growled. "Well...We went back to her place..."

"You did?" Jet stood up with a smile on his face. "I told you! Didn't I tell you?" Jet laughed.

"Yep...Everything was perfect...We were kissing, holding each other..." Spike's frown deepened.

"Then what!" Jet urdged him on.

"Then we turned the corner and her dead boyfriend was on her door step!" Spike yelled.

"There was a dead body on her door step? What a way to kill the mood!" Jet exclaimed.

"No! There was no dead body on her door step!" Spike threw his shirt at Jet. "Her boyfriend, who was supposed to be dead, was waiting for her!"

Jet sat back down. "Whitney?" Ed gasped. "The looooove of Faye-Faye's life!" Ed continued in a dramatic voice.

Spike looked at her for the first time since he walked in the door. "Yes...Whitney..." He winced when he said the name. He sat down on the couch.

Jet looked confused. "Whitney? The dead guy!" Jet sratched his head.

"YES! WHITNEY!" Spike yelled. Both Ed and Jet jumped.

Jet got up and sat next to Spike. "You know what's weird, though?" Spike almost said in a whisper.

"What?" Jet took out a carton of ciggerettes.

"He called her 'Sleeping Beauty'..." The moments replayed in Spike's mind.

"I wonder why he'd call her that..." Jet pondered as he got out his lighter.

"ED KNOWS!" Ed cried, jumping up from the table and running around and around the couch where the two men sat.

Spike looked at her. He stuck out his arm just as Ed was coming around again. He caught her by the collar and wrenched her on the couch in between Spike and Jet.

"Tell me everything you know about him!" Spike yelled. He wanted to know what he was up against. "Starting with why he calls her sleeping beauty!"

"Wellllll..." Ed began.


"Don't you see? I had to leave!" Whitney tried to explain. A vase came hurdling towards him, missing him by nearly an inch, smashing into the wall.

Faye had tears in her eyes as she threw everything in sight at her long, lost, love. "You are such a bastard! Do know what a hell you put me through?" Faye yelled.

Whitney had just got done explaining what had happened. He had left because of money issues...

FLASHBACK

"Why did you leave?" Faye sobbed into his shoulder. "I thought you were dead..."

"I had too..." Whitney stroked her hair, trying to soothe her.

"Why? There had to be a good reason!" Faye looked into Whitney's grey eyes, as if she could look into them and know.

"Faye...I left because...Because behind it all...The flowers, the candies, the dinners...I was in debt." Faye's eye brow twitched with annoyance.

"You left because you were in debt?" Faye pushed Whitney away.

"Yes..." He closed his eyes.

"THAT'S THE DUMBEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD!" Faye screamed as loudly as she could.

Whitney's eyes shot open. He put his hands up in defence. "Hey, hey, wait! I mean this was really bad debt! They were really going to reposses everything I owned!" Whitney's voice dropped down to a whisper. "But even then...It wouldn't have been enough to pay everything off.."

Faye put on a look of forgiveness and pity, making Whitney smile. "THAT'S THE BIGGEST LOAD OF BULL SHIT I'VE EVER HEARD!" Whitney's smile quickly faded.

"It's true!" Whitney tried to defend his words.

"Oh! I don't doubt that!" Faye gritted her teeth. "What's the biggest load of bull shit I've ever heard was that you would leave the woman who loved you more than anything in the world! You could have taken me with you or at least told me!" Faye fought back. Tears were now streaming down her cheeks.

(So...That's how we got to where we are now.)

END OF FLASHBACK

After a while Faye got tired and fell to her knees, crying. Whitney rushed to her side. "Faye...No matter what happened or what's going to happen...You'll always be my sleeping beauty..." Whitney whispered in her ear as he wrapped his arms around her waist.

Faye smiled as she remembered that fateful day; the day she met Whitney.

ANOTHER FLASHBACK SORRY

Faye squirmed around, she felt a sharp pain going up her side. She tried to think about where she was or even who she was for that matter but nothing came to her. She opened her eyes and found a pair of grey ones staring right back at her. She screamed.

Faye shot up, hitting something hard with her head. When Faye's vision cleared she saw a very handsome young man on his ass, rubbing his newly bumped head.

"W...Where am I!" Faye yelled. "Who are you!" Faye tried to get out of bed and screamed in pain when she did so.

"Now, now! Hold on!" The man stood up trying to make her relax. "I'm a student doctor here... My name is Whitney and-" Just then several doctors swarmed in.

There were many chants like: "Oh my god! She's awake!" Or, "It's a miracle!"

Faye had no idea then, but her being awake, or even alive for that matter, was a true miracle.

The doctors then told her that she was in a terrible accident that had resulted in many deaths (including her parents)...She was the only survivior.

Everyday Whitney came and visited her. They soon became close and once Faye was free to leave the hospital the start of a true romance was underway.

"You know something Faye?" Whitney said to her while they were in a drive-in movie theatre watching a sappy movie about love. They sat in each other's arms.

"Hmm..." Faye breathed, taking in Whitney's scent of pine.

"It's kinda like a fairytale...You and me..." Whitney smiled.

"What? What do you mean?" Faye sat up and looked at him.

"You're my sleeping beauty..." Faye felt her cheeks burning. Right at that moment Whitney leaned in and kissed her; their first kiss.

END OF FLASHBACK


"Hmph...Sleeping Beauty...What a jack-ass..." Spike huffed as soon as Ed was done telling the story.

"Damn, he's good!" Jet chuckled but immediately stopped once Spike glared at him.

Ed sighed. "Faye-Faye was the luckiest girl in the world..."

"Whatever! I could offer her more than that damn doctor could ever!" Spike scowled as he got up and made his way to his room. He needed to think about how to get Faye back. There was no way in hell he was going to lose her! He never really had her in the first place.


Faye and Whitney had fallen asleep in each other's arms that night. She woke up to find Whitney gone and a piece of paper lying where he had.

Faye gasped. "Oh, no...Please, God, not again!" Faye lifted the piece of paper and read:

Dear Faye,

Went out to get breakfast. Be Back soon.

Sleeping Beauty's knight in shining armor,

Whitney.

Faye let out a sigh of relief. Just then she noticed her apartment door was open. She got up and closed it.

"God, what a lazy bum..." Faye let out a breath and smiled. "Whitney."

"No...SPIKE..." She heard Spike's vioce behind her. She froze and turned to face him. "You should really think about getting new locks for your doors." She was still a moment then ran to him and wrapped her arms around his neck. She frowned when Spike didn't hug her back.

"Damnit, Spike! Why did you walk away last night?" Faye stroked his cheek. "I was worried sick..."

"No you weren't..." Spike swatted her hand away. "You know Faye...I didn't like that you lied to me last night."

"What do you mean?" Faye back away from him.

"When you said we didn't come here to have sex..." Spike glared at the ground.

"I'm sorry, Spike..It's just...Whitney...And-"

"I know, I know! He was the love of your life...Ed told me the whole story!" Spike said miserably. "But, Faye, can you honesty stand here and tell me you have absolutely no feelings for me? That it's only Whitney that you want?" Spike backed her up against a wall so she couldn't escape.

"Hey!" They both looked to see Whitney standing in the door way with a bag full of food in his arms. "Get away from her! Now, I don't know who you are but you'd better leave Faye alone!"

"Go on, Faye! Tell him who I am! Tell him the truth!" Spike pushed Faye toward Whitney. He hated making her feel this way but it was the only way he could see how she truely felt.

"Whitney...I did bring Spike here so I could sleep with him last night..." Faye choked on her words. "I...I was falling for him. Then he came and showed me he felt the same way and I..." Faye stopped.

Whitney put down the food and glared at Spike. "I'll fight you for her.." Whitney rolled up his sleeves.

"No...This is something Faye has to decide for herself." Spike took one more look at Faye then left.

"So, Faye, who's it gonna be?" Whitney asked with pleading eyes.

Memories played in her mind. She thought about everything she had gone through with Whitney then what she had gone through with Spike. She chuckled. She remembered beating the living daylights out of Spike. When he stopped Vicious from raping her. When they spent their time together in on-school-suspension just talking. It occured to her, then, that the memories that she and Whitney had created were great and would be with her for a long time, but the ones that she and Spike had made were better and would be with her forever...

She walked up to Whitney and placed a hand on his cheek. "Good bye...My knight in shining armor..." Leaving a dumbstrucken Whitney, she walked into her room and collapsed on the floor crying. Whitney left moments later, never to see Faye again.


IMPORTANT Author's Note PLEASE READ:

Okay! So sorry about this chapter. Ugh...I HATE writing fluffs but I had to do it in order to get to the next chapter! Whew! Sorry to everyone who hates fluffs just as much as I do!

OH! Okay...I'm trying to decide whether or not to put a lemon in this fanfic sometime! So everyone submit a review saying whether or not you want a lemon. I'll tally it up and decide once I'm ready to start the chapter I feel will be the right time to put a lemon in. SO HURRY! VOTE YES OR NO FOR THE LEMON!