Faye waltzed into the room Jet was in. He looked at her suspiciously. He couldn't remember the last time she had ever looked that happy. Actually, he didn't recall one last time she looked like that.

She went over to him like a little girl, hands clasped behind her back and leaning in and watching for a few seconds the pruning he was issuing on his little trees.

"What?" he finally grunted.

"Would you mind making some beef and bell peppers? Please?" she asked sweetly.

If he had been eighty, Jet was sure he would have had a heart attack and died right there on the spot. After all, this was Faye, at least it looked like Faye. He didn't remember ever hearing her speaking this politely, only when he watched the tape of her younger self. "Why? You know it's only bell peppers...And you hate the stuff anyway."

"Not as much as Spike, and I'm sure he's hungry."

She allowed a few seconds for her words to soak into his brain. Hungry, he's hungry..."You mean..." he started. Her eyes sparkled and she slowly nodded her head. They both laughed and quickly embraced each other in a hug. Finally, he let go and heaved himself up. She watched as he muttered about what an idiot he was, making them worry about him like that so.

Faye started to make her way back toward Spike, but before she could even get in the room, the familiar smell of bell peppers filled her nose.

It's a wonderful feeling when you can sense that you are loved on some level by some people. I didn't realize how important I was to those two until I heard them laughing. I smiled. They meant as much to me, as I did to them. Although we may not have shown much, we were a family. A family of misfits. The only thing I wanted to do now was to sit down and get a job. Something that wasn't as dangerous as bounty hunting. After all, Edward was gone, so we couldn't hack and get as much information as we used to and Big Shot was over.

It seemed that with those two gone, it marked the ending of our bounty hunting phase, and the beginning of something more. Something where we could finally sit down and maybe enjoy a Christmas, a birthday. Besides, now that the dangers of my syndicate life was gone, I had no need to be roaming around the solar system fleeing from them, and looking for Julia. No, she was gone.

Instead, I wanted to start the life I had wanted when I had been with Julia. A home, a wife, maybe children. Though, children were annoying, and I did hate them. Definitely no dog. Unless it was as good as Ein, which I doubted. For the first time in my life though, I finally realized how much I missed that annoying, sing song child and the flea bitten dog. They really brought some life to this old ship.

When Faye walked back in, I knew that I had to start my new life with her. There was just no other woman besides Julia, who was dead, and Faye, that I felt would make me feel complete.

Faye walked back in the room, a smile still plastered on her face. She looked over at Spike, who because of his injuries could barely sit up. Still, she saw him looking at her. She was about to ask what was wrong, when Jet came limping in, with a nice heaping plate of beef and bell peppers.

Spike looked it over quickly and noticed that they still had no beef in them. He sighed, and allowed Faye to feed him. Jet watched the two for a bit, and feeling that they needed to be by themselves, left to take some weight off of his leg.

"Faye?"

"Hm?"

"Why did you come back for me?"

She studied the plate of bell peppers which was almost gone by now. "I don't know..." she finally said.

"You always come back..."

"What are you saying?" she said defensively. "That I love you or something?"

"You can't deny it any longer..." he told her tauntingly.

"Yeah, well I definitely can't compete with her can I?"

"You're right. How can you compete with a dead woman?" Spike sarcastically said as she put another forkful of bell peppers in his mouth. It took her a while to digest the true meaning of his words into her mind.

"You mean..."

"You won."

She carefully studied him, making sure he wasn't lying. She didn't notice any of his know all expressions, but one that she only saw when he was talking of Julia. He watched as her eyes soon welled up with tears, and she gently laid her head on his chest. "Spike, I don't know what to say..."

"The only thing you have to say is that you'll spend the rest of your life by my side."

He could feel her smile. "Sure, that is, if you don't mind our major age difference."

"Maybe it was destiny that led you to be in that accident and saved..."

"Maybe..."

They stayed there like that for what seemed like hours. Neither one of them wanted to move, afraid that if they did the settling atmosphere around them would break and all would be lost. Even when the door banged, Faye didn't dare get up and answer.

Jet grunted. He was about to yell at Faye when he limped by when he saw how content the two were. It seemed to him that everything was finally starting to fall into place. Jet was almost like a father to Faye, and a friend to Spike. So, when the two would finally settle down together, they would be a family. He couldn't help but smile at the two, but that smile quickly faded when he opened the door.

"Where's Faye?" a tall guy asked. He was broad and muscular. From his past experiences, he could tell that this guy had been living a rough life.

"What makes you think a person named Faye is here?"

"I've been looking for her clear across this solar system, and everything leads to here."

"Why do you want her?"

"Pass this message to her, pops. She can't hide from her never ending debt forever, can she? If she doesn't pay up soon, then she pays with her life. People are getting rather impatient with her..."

"Yeah, I'll tell her." he barked before slamming the door shut. He passed a hand over his balding hair. They were in trouble.

A/N: Sorry for taking so long. Time just isn't on my side. I'll try to update at least every two weeks, but if I can't, it'll be once a month. It seems that it's the only thing I'm capable of doing at the moment. I'm working on a lot of stories right now, and my job is hectic. I even recently had to move my writing site, so please bare with me. Sorry again! Hope you guys enjoy the new chapter! I think it introduces more drama, what do you think?