Author's Note: I will go ahead and say that this was the hardest bit of the entire thing to write. It's also the shortest, for the same damn reason. It's bloody hard to write Ed and make her convincing. Her reaction is probably the hardest to get, because of the simple fact that she doesn't know how to be sad. Goodbye isn't a permanent thing for her, and I'm not entirely sure she understands the ramifications of death, or possible death. So I just went with this and hoped for the best…
He isn't doing it right.
Edo-chan has seen this game before. They played it all the time. Spike-person isn't doing it right. He's supposed to be on the Bebop with Jet-person and Faye-Faye. They can't play the game with him because he's not playing right.
Edo-chan saw it on the net while she was looking for fun things. She recognized the game, because they played it all the time. Except this time, Spike-person is doing it wrong.
Does this mean that Spike-person lost the game that they played? The game where they would go off and be cowboys and come back all wrapped up and moan and complain for days? They played it so much, maybe he got tired of it. Maybe this is a new game for Spike-person to play.
It doesn't seem like a very fun game. Edo-chan doesn't think that Jet-person and Faye-Faye like it very much. She saw a picture of Faye-Faye. She looked like she did after that time when she watched that old movie of little Faye-Faye. Maybe she doesn't understand the rules of Spike-person's new game? Or maybe he's winning and she doesn't like it. She doesn't like losing at all. Maybe that's it.
Maybe he's playing a new game because Edo-chan left. Maybe Edo-chan was important to the old game they played. Edo-chan always went and found the puzzles for them. Like that time with MPU. That was a different game, and they only won because of Edo-chan. Everybody won. The others had said that they hadn't gotten any money, but Edo-chan hasn't quite worked out if that was important to the rules of the game. But Edo-chan got to go with the Bebop, they got Edo-chan, and MPU got a friend. So they all won.
Maybe it's because of the other person Spike-person was playing with. He did bad things. He broke the rules. He cheated. Edo-chan thinks that Spike-person won his game with the cheater-person, but maybe he had to make up a new game, or at least new rules to the old game. Because he isn't following the rules to the old game. He's supposed to go home.
Maybe Spike-person never played by the same rules as Jet-person and Faye-Faye. He always seemed to keep score a little differently. Maybe they all thought they were playing by the same rules and they weren't. Things like that happen, sometimes. Of course, Edo-chan still hasn't figured out the rules to the game all the way. They're confusing.
Jet-person and Faye-Faye don't seem like they've been playing the game. Is the game over? Is Spike-person the winner? Or did he lose? Maybe it's still his turn. Edo-chan doesn't know. Maybe she'll ask whenever she goes back to the Bebop. Or maybe she'll have figured it out by then, and she can play the game too.
But Edo-chan still thinks he's doing it wrong.