Author's Notes: Whew, monthly update. Thank you to the devoted readers who still check up on this story. I know I'm not as nearly good as keeping up with the updating but I have school now and all of that junk. Oh well, I think this is a fairly good chapter - cliff hanger of course ;)

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Morning breached through the window, and cascaded over the bodies that laid entangled together on the bed. You could see green fluffly hair and then not far was violet hair sprawled over the pillow.

Spike twitched slightly in his sleep, but it was enough to awaken the ever-so drousy Faye as she slowly opened her eyes and looked over at Spike who had his arms encircled around one of hers.

Smiling to herself Faye used her other hand and ran his fingers through Spike's hair, imagining it would be tangly but surprisingly it wasn't.

"You always surprise me, don't you Spike?" Faye asked the sleeping Spike as she cupped his face in her hand.

"Yeah I guess I do in some ways." Spike said as he opened one eye and looked up at Faye, who was surprised that he was awake.

Spike slowly untangled his arms from Faye's and sat up yawning and stretching. Then he scratched his head and then looked back down at Faye who stared back up at him intently.

"What?" Spike asked curiously.

'He's so dumb,' Faye thought to herself then shook her head then answered, "Nothing."

Spike smirked and then let himself fall ontop of Faye, slowly wrapping his arms around her waiste and laying his head right below her breasts. Faye let her hands wander to his hair once again playing with it, Spike looked up and saw that Faye was looking back down at him smiling; he smiled back.

"Do you mind if I shower first?" Spike asked, but it came out muffled because he was talking into Faye's shirt.

"What'd you say?" Faye asked leaning up a little to hear it better.

"Do you care if I shower first?" Spike said lifting his head up a bit.

"Yeah, sure just don't..." Faye said but Spike finished, "use all the hot water, I know I know." Spike smirked and then got off Faye.

He grabbed his clothes and was about to leave but stopped in the doorway, turning around he walked back over to the still lying in bed Faye and kissed her on the lips and then walked out of the room.

Faye smiled to herself and rolled over onto her side. Suddenly remembering her dream from the night before she felt a wave of coldness rush over her. Faye grabbed her sheets and blankets tightly wrapping them around herself.

Just thinking about the dream made her sick, and it's not like the dream was gruesome or anything bad like that. But something about it made her weary as if something bad was going to happen, something worse then what was already happening with Sylvia being a total oddball bitch.

Faye wondered about what would happen if she asked Jet to just take off. So they could just leave this planet and all of the shit that is going on here; like Sylvia. But no, she knew deep down inside that Sylvia would only find them once again and they might as well settle this all now even if it did up better or worse.

Sighing Faye pushed herself up and got out of bed. Stretching she went to her dresser and pulled out what seemed to look like a pair of daisy duke jean shorts and a white tank top. Walking out of her room she noticed that the water was not running anymore in the bathroom but the door was still shut.

Faye knocked on the door and yelled, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine, just getting dressed." Spike said as he pulled his shirt over his head and shook his head like a dog trying to dry his hair off.

Throwing a towel ontop of his hair he pulled out his toothbrush and started brushing his teeth. Opening the door he saw Faye standing there with her hands on her hips, "What?" Spike asked with his toothbrush hanging out of the corner of his mouth.

Faye shook her head and asked, "Could we please speed up the process?"

"Oh sorry I didn't know I wasn't going fast enough for Queen Valentine!" Spike said as he threw his hands up in defense and went to go and spit out the toothpaste and then washed his mouth out with water.

Turning at Faye he smiled showing his now clean teeth, "Beautiful," Faye commented and then walked past Spike then pushed him out, "now if you don't mind I'd like to get ready for the day." Faye added and then smiled at him as she shut the door.

Spike merely shrugged and walked into the kitchen to see Jet sitting at the table with a cup of coffee as he read the newspaper.

"Anything good?" Spike asked as he walked over to the cupboard and pulled out a mug for himself and began to fill it with coffee.

"No not really." Jet said as he continued to read the paper intently.

"Then what are you reading that looks so interesting?" Spike asked as he sipped from his cup.

Jet flipped the paper around so Spike could see it, "The comics," was Jet's only reply.

Spike's lips formed a little O as he nodded his head and took another sip of his coffee.

Walking out of the kitchen he waltzed over toward Ed and Ein who were doing their usual routine - Ed typing away nonsense and Ein not so far away sleeping.

"What exactly do you do on there Ed?" Spike asked as he leaned down closer to the screen.

"Oh you know, the usual. Play some games with creepy old men online and then usually I just go through other people systems." Ed said as she continued to type away.

"Creepy old men..." Spike shuddered at the though of little ol' Ed playing games with old men. But then remembered that Ed had played chess with that one old man...and his parrot. Spike shuddered again and then took a seat on the couch.

Turning on the TV he began flipping through the channels, "Nothing's ever on..." Spike said outloud to whom ever was listening.

"Aw, poor baby." Faye said as she leaned against the bathroom doorframe with her arms crossed.

Spike looked out the corner of his eye and just smirked, "Smartass."

Faye smiled and shook her head as she retreated to her bedroom to put away her pajamas. While she was in there she pulled the towel off her head and shook her hair freely, almost in the same manner as Spike did.

Walking out of her room she drug the towel on the floor behind her and headed back into the bathroom so she could do her hair and makeup. After she hung the towel back up she bent down and opened the cabinet underneath the sink, pulling out her blowdryer.

Spike had become incredibly bored already as he listened to the hum of the blowdryer, 'She spends so much time getting ready, too much time.' He thought to himself.

Spike had finished his 2nd cup of coffee and considered having one more for just the hell of it. Shrugging off the thought he flipped through the channels once more, hoping and praying there'd be something on. But alas, nothing was.

Sighing Spike got up and went back into the kitchen to find Jet gone. Putting the cup into the sink he went to table and picked up the paper to read whatever Jet was, "the comics."

Faye had just finished putting on her mascara as she closed it she pulled out chapstick and started putting some on when all of the sudden gunshots went off and windows broke.

Faye fell to the floor and waited for the gun fire to seize. When it did, she stood up and dashed out into the living room to make sure Ed and Ein were alright. She looked around and saw Ed holding onto Ein for dear life behind the big yellow couch.

"Are you two alright?" Faye asked.

"Yes," Ed said and Ein barked.

Sighing Faye ran to Jet's bonsai tree room. When she entered she saw that Jet was not in there, backing out she bumped into Jet.

"Oh there you are, are you okay?" Faye asked.

"Yeah I'm fine, I can't seem to find Spike though." Jet said.

Faye ran past him and went to look into Spike's room, but to only find it empty. She then ran out back into the living room.

"Spike went out." Ed said.

"When?" Faye asked anxiously.

"Right after the gunshots went off, he was in the room with us and he covered us then ran out like a pack of bulls." Ed said.

Faye ran out of the Bebop to find Spike down by the dock near Sylvia who was holding a gun up to him.