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Chapter 2- Getting the "Job" Done
"Jet? Hey Jet!" Faye called around for Jet as she pulled a knapsack over her shoulder.
"What is it Faye?" Jet asked coming in from his bonsai plant room wiping his hands clean. "Hmm? Where you going Faye?"
"Faye Faye! Where are you going Faye-person?" Edward asked as she finished some strange hacking program on her computer.
"Oh, I got a job," Faye replied casually as she loaded a gun and through that in her bag too.
"A job? When did this happen?" Jet raised an eyebrow, "You're not running out on us again are you Faye?" His voice grew serious "Cause I will hunt you down if you—"
"Yeah yeah I know. I'm not going to leave, I just need some cash. We haven't had a good pay off in months and I'm sick of eating 'Cup of Noodle' for every freaking meal!"
"Work so late, at 10?" Jet asked confused
"Ten o'clock is not late at night, I'll be back by three. See ya," Faye waved as she climbed up the stairs to the loading dock, knocking into Spike along the way.
"Where ya going Faye?" Spike asked with his usual sarcastic attitude.
"Wherever the hell I want you stupid cowboy," Faye shot back frustrated. The stupid bastard, he couldn't even remember last night, his one good eye still bloodshot with hangover. She jumped into her ship and sped away.
"What's her problem?" Spike asked as he jumped onto his favorite yellow sofa.
"What's with you, Faye said you were drunk again," Jet complained sitting down on the excuse for a coffee table. Spike turned over and grunted, "Spike, this is the third time this month Faye's had to go out and find you hung over and puking. Julia may be dead, but you gotta get on with your life."
"So the white cat died and the tiger-stripped cat cried a thousand times. Then he died, he was never born again. Wasn't it you who told me a story like that?" Spike asked, "My little white kitty's been dead for a while now, and I'm still crying."
"Aw at last my darling fox has returned to me," Lin welcome Faye at the door of his club taking her hand and kissing it gently, "I hope you're not disgusted with my line of work, it started out as a bar, then girls just needed jobs."
"I can't say I'm disgusted. You hire women who are completely willing to be here. I am disgusted with the men who come to watch," Faye sighed, "I'm just one of those girls too, in dire need of cash."
"Well," His hand took hers and started guiding her towards the back, "I'll make sure nothing happens to you, some of the guys may ask to pay you to sleep with them, I won't force you into any of it."
Faye laughed, "Now if they do, would you be disgusted with me if I shot them?"
"That's the illusive fox I know," Lin smirked, he pulled her into a dressing room. "This one's yours, there's a rack of clothes, pick whatever you like. Poll dance, strip, whichever I'm not picky. Do whatever you want, you've got to earn your own pay." Lin waved and smiled again as he disappeared out the door.
"Spike-person?" Ed tugged on Spike's shirt sleeve as he continued sleeping.
"What is it Ed?" Spike grumbled.
"There's a new hit! Bounty bounty arg let's grab the bounty!" Edward zoomed around the couch and then grabbed her computer with her toes, clicking quickly until an image popped up. "Mr. Sakimoto, wanted for stealing the E. Coli virus number 23 from a science research. Worth fifty thousand oolong."
Spike rolled over and stared at the man's picture, "Long green hair, blue eyes, light skinned, what the hell did his parents look like? Keep searching and dig up some more stuff on him alright Ed?"
"Yes Spike-Person! Come Ein, let's go tell Jet!" Edward looked down at Ein and they both ran off into the next room.
Faye stood backstage waiting to do her job and her eyes fell on all the other girls. They were all naturally beautiful, but a few had trembling fear in their eyes. Two particular, twins, both with red hair down to their ears almost her length. Faye walked over to them and smiled, "Hey, don't look so afraid. You'll never get any money that way."
"Oh...thank you," one girl replied looking at the floor.
"I'm sure the both of you don't want to be here. Frankly I don't either. But if you want the cash to get out of here, you can't show them that fear. Show them confidence. Keep your distance it makes it more enticing to them and that way, you don't get touched."
The sister smiled, "You're a nice lady, my name is Jessica. This is my twin Kim, you can tell we're different by the color. I always wear blue, she always wears green."
The curtain opened and Faye could hear the sound of men clapping, "Well rubies, time to get going."
"Rubies?" Jessica asked confused.
"You're both red heads, like a pair of lovely rubies. Let's go, we've got cash to make."
Faye sauntered on stage in a deep purple outfit. Her breasts were overpowering her small bra and her ass was covered just enough to be enticing without being bare. Faye grabbed onto the pole and wrapped her thighs around it, arching herself up and down. She could smell the arousal in the air, and it excited her in a fun sensation. She continued to tease the men with the pole, bending and entwining around it in ways men didn't think were possible. She watched them masturbate themselves and turned it aside. She walked down the stairs of the stage and wandered over to a random young man in the crowd. She sat down on his lap and gave him a lap dance. He was a decent age and she leaned forward, he losing his face in her clammy breasts.
Lin watched in the background, smiling as he took down a heavy shot. She watched him from the corner of her eye as she leaned on another man and grabbed at his genitals. There was passion written all over her face and Lin could feel lust run through him. He put down his drink and walked into a back door and Faye grinned as she continued her work with a customer. After an hour of fondling, grouping, and other naughty things the girl's left the stage for the next batch. Faye pulled the money from her bra and thong and started counting. "How'd you do miss?" Asked the Rubies.
"Hmm very nicely for the first day," Faye smiled, "Call me Faye, Miss is too formal for a rotten place like this." She threw on a thin silk bathrobe that only just passed her ass, grabbed her bag, and left the backstage with a wave. She was heading towards the exit when she walked by the room Lin had gone into. Feeling a little risqué, she turned the handle of the door and found it was open.
"Beautiful fox, you have come."
Spike ran his hands over his eyes and yawned on the couch, "What time is it Jet?"
"Just a little past midnight, Ed finally fell asleep after using all that sugar in her. This guy, Sakimoto, his bounty just went up another twenty thousand. When Faye gets back we should get to this guy soon."
Spike yawned, "Alright," He closed his eyes and went back to sleep. Not caring that Faye wasn't here, or at least, that's how he acted.
"How did I do for my first day boss," Faye asked seductively as she walked into the dim lit room.
"I think you did, quite well," Lin smiled as he got up from his chair by the window, "I'm sure you'd like a drink after such a hard night."
"Aww yes that would be so nice," Faye whined gently as she stretched her arms above her head.
"I see you made friends with the twins," Lin noted handing her a cup of hard liquor.
"Yeah, sweet girls, shame they're here," Faye noted looking out at the window as she sipped at her drink.
"They're very lovely, got into some trouble." He took a sip of his liquor and stood beside her watching her eyes as they stared out the window, "Their brother got mixed up in a gang fight and was taken in. They want to bail him out."
"If my partner got stuck in jail no way in hell would I bail him out," She took another sip of her drink, "He pretended to be dead and disappeared, that low bastard. It would serve him right."
"How could a man care so little about you that he'd disappear like that?" Lin asked gently as he walked up behind her after abandoning his drink, "He doesn't seem very loyal."
"He lived in the past, worrying about his 'poor Julia' I've lost my past at one point too, but I didn't run away for it," She scowled as she finished off her liquor.
Lin kissed the sensitive point between her neck and her shoulder and she let out a quick sigh, "Don't worry my beautiful fox, I won't let him hurt you again."
Faye couldn't help but sigh again as he kissed the spot again, she could feel his hands working their way around her waist and bathrobe, "Lin..." she called out gently but then smirked, "It seems my routine has done its job."
"To arouse me till no end?" He asked teased as he pressed himself against her.
She smirked, "Seems about right," she cooed.
His hands and worked their way to her cleavage invested bra strap and undid the latch in the front, letting her breasts fall free into the air and his hands catch them. Faye gasped again as he began to tease and fondle both breasts in such a stimulating manner she wanted to do it right this instant. "Lin..." she called his name again, arching her head back, grinding the back of her body against his front.
He moaned as his member pressed against his pants that suppressed him. He guided her onto his bed, and sat on all fours above her. "You're not going to stop now are you?" She asked him seductively and he grinned as his lips found her left nipple.
Lin sucked on the teat erotically, his tongue wrapping around it and nibbling as his right hand fondled her remaining breast. Faye simply remained a tease as her foot snuck down to his member and rubbed him with her toes. He moaned into her breast and Faye moaned back. The level of arousal was skyrocketing with each move the other could make. Lin released himself from his position and brought his face close to hers, "You know, you're the only one who's ever made me feel this way, even in a place like this," He brought his face closer, "You're the only one..."
There was a loud buzzing sound of Faye's communicator. "Shit..." She growled. She sat up, Lin getting off as she grabbed her robe, throwing it over herself as concealment, and then pulled out the communicator, "What is it?"
"Faye? Where the hell are you? You better not be making bets on those stupid ponies!" Spike's voice shouted as his picture showed up on the communicator.
"For your information I was going to take a shower before coming home from work!" She spat back, Spike now noticing that she was just in a sheer bathrobe.
"Well come home, we have a shower here you know," He growled, seeing Lin's hand in the background, knowing a man was nearby but not who.
"Yeah in that crap heap where there's no hot water and no food. I guess you don't want the money I just worked my ass off for!" She shouted holding up a thick roll of bills.
Spike was quiet for a while, his face serious, but the same look he had before he left to get Julia back that night, "Faye, just come home stupid." With that he was gone.
"I guess I better go," She sighed.
"That's your undedicated cowboy?" Lin asked
"Yup, that's him," She sighed as she threw on her normal yellow outfit. "Guess I'll be back tomorrow," she added throwing the robe over her shoulder, "Thanks for the new outfits," She grinned, "Maybe next time we can put them to better use."
"Yes," he approached her again, "They can stay on the floor where they belong," He answered grinning.
She smiled and ran her hand through his hair, "Sounds like a plan Lin, see ya," with that she exited with a wave.
Faye plopped into her ship and began to count her money again. To her surprise, there was an extra thousand woolong and a note attached Consider it a bonus, not a bribe, Faye smiled, "Time for some good old shopping."
An hour later she popped into Bebop with arms full of bags.
"Faye? What on earth did you buy?" Jet asked astounded.
Faye grinned over the bags and poured one out onto the table, out slid at least five new steaks, "I told you getting a job would help us all."
"Whoa it's steak! Meat!" Jet picked them up and looked at them. "Faye your new job is amazing."
"Guess what else?" She teased him laughing.
"What?" Jet asked "What could be better than this?"
Faye put down the other five bags, "I bought other food too. And I still have at least five thousand woolong left. I know it isn't a lot, but at least for once we're not entirely broke," She laughed.
"Spike! Get in here Spike!" Jet called throughout the ship.
Spike came in yawning, his normal hunched over like stride, "What is it Jet?"
"Look Spike, Faye bought us ten steaks, vegetables, fruits, and look she even got sweets for Ed."
"Sugar sugar Ed-person gets candy whooooo," Ed was on the ground already eating her candy, shaking in her contorted like motions from the sugar rush.
Spike wasn't sure what to say. It was true, for once in their life they weren't starving from lack of food and there was even extra money on the table leftover. Still, she had made this money being a prostitute right? Dirty money. "Faye, there's a new bounty out for over fifty thousand woolong."
"Oh really?" She asked after taking a gulp of soda, "Who's the guy?"
Jet turned on the screen, "His name is Mr. Kaheel Sakimoto, wanted for stealing the E. Coli virus number 23 from a science research."
"What's so bad about the virus, don't we have vaccines for that?" Faye asked.
"Well, apparently before he was kicked out of the science research area for the government he was working on alterations to illnesses to help further warfare. He might seek his revenge," Jet concluded.
Faye stared at the picture, "Don't recognize him. Oh well, can we just enjoy what I brought home for once?" She asked picking up a burger she had picked up at a fast food place.
Spike picked up a burger as well, but couldn't help but gaze at Faye. She had such pride in herself and usually didn't take shit from anyone, so why was she working in a place so degrading as a strip house? And why did Spike care so much?
Later that night Faye laid in bed staring at her ceiling. She could still feel shivers roll through her every time her mind came to Lin. She opened up the draw in her night stand and counted the money, slipping it into an envelope. She wanted to save, and hopefully at least pay off maybe 2 percent of her debts.
Her door slid open and Spike walked inside.
"Hey! Haven't you ever heard of knocking?" Faye shouted as she slid the drawer shut.
"Haven't you ever heard of self-respect?" He asked as he sat down on her bed with a cigarette.
"What the hell does that mean?" She shouted again hitting his shoulder, "I don't like what I'm doing but it makes good money! None of the guys even touch me! What the hell am I doing justifying myself? Get out Spike!"
Spike turned and grabbed her hand as it came down to slap him, "You were always better than this Faye. You wanted quick cash, but you still treated yourself as a human!"
Faye was quiet and looked at the ground, "I'm going to pay off my debts and once I do I'm OUT of here!" She shoved him off her bed, "Now get out Spike Spiegel, and don't tell me what to do!"