Disclaimer: Cowboy Bebop doesn't belong to me.
School is a fcuker (purposely misspelled). Argh. I hate almost all of my classes…especially chemistry! ARGH. Anyways, here's the next chapter. Hope it isn't as bad as the other chapters. I'm trying to thicken the plot a little bit with a new character. Haha, hopefully it works.
To Osa: I'm really stunned to hear anyone wanting to put my fic on their site. You have my permission to do so. I still can't believe you would want to host this fic on your site.
Once again, thank you to all my reviewers. Without you guys, I wouldn't know how to improve my story, and I certainly wouldn't have continued on with it. Thank you!
Chapter 7 ~First Draft~
Vicious walked down the hallway leisurely and was just about to open the door to the party within, but was stopped by one of the guards.
"Hey, where do you think you're going?" the guard said.
"To the party of course," Vicious said.
"Haven't you heard the news?! There's no time to party now; there's an intruder at this party. We must seek him out immediately," the guard said frantically.
"An intruder?" Vicious asked pretending to be interested.
"Yes, a top assassin I heard. He killed several of our highest ranking men. We must stay alert at all times or else our lives will be endangered as well," warned the guard.
"Wow, he must be really good then," Vicious wondered.
"Not good enough. He made one mistake," the guard said.
"Oh? And what's that?" Vicious questioned.
"He accidentally left one guy alive. I guess the assassin isn't so top after all," the guard chuckled, "Come on, follow me. We must get back to the headquarters for new objectives."
"Yes, we should," Vicious said as he followed the guard down the hallway. Just as they were passing a dimly lit corner, Vicious wrapped his arm around the guard's neck from the back and used his other hand to pull out his gun. Vicious gently pushed the head of the gun at the guard's head.
"I would never leave anyone alive accidentally. There's a reason for everything I do," Vicious said coolly.
"You're…the assassin!" the guard exclaimed as he tried to struggle out of Vicious' grip.
"Be careful there or your neck is going to break," Vicious warned, tightening his grip on the guard's neck. This made the guard stop immediately.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"Where's Shawn?" Vicious asked.
"Shawn's not here…today," the guard gasped.
"Where can I find him then," Vicious questioned.
"He's usually…at the…new…casino…," the guard muttered, "Now that…I've told…you…can you…let me go?"
"Like I said earlier, I only keep the people I need in my plans alive," Vicious said as he pulled the trigger. With a bang, the guard fell to the floor.
"At least, it was a quick death," Vicious said looking at the dead body on the ground with blood splattered on the wall. 'Never mind cleaning up.' Vicious turned away from the dead body to find someone was watching the whole time.
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'I've had enough of waiting for that stupid bastard. I can't believe I even waited for him to show his face. I swear, the only reason I ever thought he was sexy was when I had too many drinks,' she though as she got up to take a walk around the building, 'Enough of the party, I need some air."
As she walked around the floor, she noticed two men standing in the corner. Being the curious Faye she was, she walked up closer to what was going on. 'Hmm…some man to man action going on?" she wondered when she saw one of the men had his arms wrapped around the other. She still couldn't see what was going on, so she took a few more steps closer. To her surprise, the man was holding a gun aimed at the other guy's head. Within several seconds, a bang was heard through the hallway as one of the men fell to the floor.
Faye couldn't believe her eyes. 'What the hell is going on?' Just as Faye was about get the hell out of the place, the man turned around and caught Faye's frightened gaze.
Before the man could do anything, Faye turned around and started to around. She darted around the corner towards the elevator.
"God damn it! Hurry the fuck up!" she cursed.
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Seeing the woman taking off, Vicious ran after her. The woman suddenly made an abrupt turn, which threw Vicious off a little bit but not enough to lose her. 'Not bad,' he thought, 'but not good enough either.' He stopped running when he saw the woman frantically pushing the buttons for the elevator to come.
"I guess, it's just not your luck tonight," Vicious said.
The woman turned around to meet Vicious' evil grin with her own.
"Hmm, is that so?" she asked as she turned around to knock the gun out of his hand, but instead, she knocked his mask off revealing his identity to her.
"Damn you," he said as he knocked her out with the butt of his gun.
"It's…y-you," she muttered before she fell into unconsciousness.
'Me?' he wondered. Vicious looked at the woman close; the figure was strangely familiar, but he couldn't match it to a name. He reached for her mask but was stopped by the footsteps heard not far away. Vicious could hear footsteps rushing to where he has killed the guard. 'Shit, gotta go,' he thought. He left the matter as that and the woman behind. As stealthily as he came, he left without a trace except for the dead bodies behind.
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"Miss?! Are you okay?" The guard shook Faye gently, hoping for her to wake up soon.
"Argh…" Faye muttered trying to shake the stars out of her sight.
"Miss, you've been unconscious for a while," the guard informed her.
"I'm okay…," Faye said, slowing registering what had happened. She realized that she was no longer at the party anymore. Instead, she's lying on a hospital bed.
"Did you get a chance to see the killer? We need as much information as we can to seek the intruder out," he questioned.
Not wanting to snitch Vicious out, Faye lied to the guard and told him she didn't see anything. She was just taking a walk around the hotel, and all of a sudden was knocked out. The guard regarded her suspiciously. He was so sure he heard some struggling going on before he got to the site to see the unconscious Faye on the floor.
"It would be wise for you to speak the truth. We will guarantee your safety if you do," he said with a slight undertone of warning.
"I'm sorry, but I am telling you the truth when I said I didn't see anything," she said. If one did not know Faye, one would believe everything she said, but the man was very shrewd. He knew Faye must've heard something or interacted with the intruder. Otherwise, he wouldn't have walked over that particular area of the room if he didn't hear some sort of commotion going on.
"Okay, thank you very much then. We're sorry to see your night ruined by this. The doctor said you'll be able to leave by tomorrow once they've confirmed you are feeling well enough to leave. Good night miss," the guard said and stood from the chair beside the bed, heading for the door.
"Thank you," Faye muttered slightly perplexed by the way the guard was acting. Something didn't feel right; why did the guard keep insisting that Faye knew something? 'Maybe he knows,' she thought. 'I must find Vicious and tell him that someone is onto him…but how am I gonna find him?'
As the guard softly closed the door to Faye's room, the two men stood on the side of waiting for him.
"Watch over her. I'm sure she knows something, but she just won't say it. I heard her struggling with the intruder, but she told me that she was attacked from behind. See if anything is out of the norm and report to back to me immediately," the guard informed the two men.
"Yes sir," the two replied in unison.
"We must keep this incident away from the boss' ears. This shall be taken care of before he returns from his trip to Venus," he ordered.
"Yes sir," the two replied acknowledging the great task they are given to complete.
"If everything is understood here, I shall leave immediately. The Grey Wolves Syndicate isn't so happy with their dead leader," he muttered as he left the hospital with a grim expression. 'This is surely a sign…' he thought walking out of the hospital to be greeted with the grey clouds looming over his head.
A/N: I'll try to get the nxt chapter up asap.