Session Ten : Piercing the Void

Faye saw Spike's sleeping form on the couch. Ed was next to it on the floor, drooling over Ein who was being used as a pillow. Faye smiled. She was going to keep them and by doing so, she had to face Julia. No one knew of her decision which was why she had drugged their food in order to keep it that way.

In the hanger, Faye passed by Spike's Swordfish II and gazed at it for a brief moment before walking over to her own ship. Mars wasn't that far away, only a couple of hours. Faye placed the coordinates towards it, deciding she did not wish to fly there manually. She had no idea where it was...the graveyard with the only cross-shaped tombstone in Mars. But somehow, she knew she'd find it. She was certain of it.

Faye soon landed on the crimson planet.

Glancing around, she checked the time and according to what she had heard earlier that day in the radio, sunset was in about two hours. She had that much amount of time to find the tombstone and wait for Julia. Faye didn't question the fact that the direction where her legs were taking her was the right one or not.

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The blonde beauty took another sip of the tea in front of her. Sitting outside in a café, she saw the world behind darkened lenses. She was waiting for the sun to take that world into a darkened abyss. But before that, when the sun and the moon crossed paths, she would see him. And kill him.

"Excuse me miss, would you like some more tea?" the friendly waitress offered with a smile.

The blonde gave her one of her own. This smile however was not sad and beautiful. "Thank you. That would be wonderful." The waitress nodded and poured the steaming liquid from a pot into the cup before leaving.

Julia removed her sunglasses to prevent the tea's steam from fogging them up. Waiting for her drink to cool down, she glared at it. The tea reflected her features back at her, but it could not reflect her thoughts.

She had decided to finally follow Vicious' orders. She didn't know why but somehow...it seemed right...as if she was supposed to do it all along. As if it was her destiny.

A small smile wove on Julia's lips at such thoughts.

The tea in front of her finally cooled down to a desirable temperature. Julia placed her sunglasses over her eyes before taking another sip of the liquid.

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"Is this it?" Faye glanced up at the cemetery's name over the arched entrance. There was a pathway in front of her that offered a tour of the cemetery and the tombstones it held inside the brown walls. She gladly took it and began her decent into the most horrifying moment of her life.

Sorrow quickly pierced through Faye as she walked deeper into the cemetery. Not because of the death and sadness that vibrated out of it but because there was no one else around to feel it. She was alone in the land of the dead.

Solitude.

It seemed as if something else had said it and planted it into her thoughts. Faye whirled around in the uneasy atmosphere that suddenly crashed on her. It was all still empty but she had found it. The cross-shaped tombstone. It couldn't be more appropriately presented.

Faye eased through the maze of headstones before standing in front of the famed cross-shaped tombstone. It was more than she could've imagined. It was a plain, cemented pyramid that had a flat top. Several small steps lead up to the top where the cross was impaled, at a stooping angle. The image itself seemed to be the source of the sorrow that seeped into the cemetery's soil.

She turned to look behind her before she heard her name.

"Faye."

The blonde before her was surprised to see her. Faye could see the slight bewilderment that crossed Julia's face, despite the fact that she still wore her sunglasses.

Faye walked towards the motionless blonde. "I didn't tell Spike."

Julia regained herself, taking off and putting away her sunglasses. "Obviously..."

"You were going to hurt him." Faye was surprised at her words and the strong truth that seemed to emerge from them.

Julia was taken by shock yet again. "How...?" Suddenly a firm wave of resolution visited her features, casting a dark shadow across her eyes. In a white flash, Julia had a gun pointed at Faye. It was now her turn to be surprised.

"You were going to hurt him..." Faye repeated in a whisper.

"It's not something you need to know," Julia said, "But killing Spike is something I need to do. You should've told him to come."

Faye's eyes glazed with an intensity of some sort. "I would never betray Spike that way! I would never send him to his death..."

Julia's face displayed no emotion. "Then I'll send you to yours."

Faye jumped away from Julia's sight and ducked down behind the cross-shaped tombstone to pull out her own gun. She didn't predict it would come down to this. Several bullets grazed off the tombstone, chipping cement off, in an attempt to lure Faye out. The rain of bullets stopped as Julia took time to reload. Faye took that as her opportunity to emerge.

Peeking out of the tombstone, she saw Julia slumped up against one of the other headstones, quickly reloading her gun. Faye did not hesitate as she targeted Julia's gun with her own and blasted it away from her hands.

Julia gasped as the hot metal bullet pushed her gun several feet in front of her. She tried to roll over to it but froze when the cold steel of Faye's gun clammed her head.

"Go," Faye said. "Leave Spike and all of us alone. Just go and don't contact us ever again. Please." She retreated her gun from Julia's skull.

Julia hesitated at her words, working them in her brain. She stood up and faced Faye. "He is lucky...to have someone like you. We never found that within each other but...your words...they mean nothing to me!"

She tackled the unsuspecting Faye, sending her head crashing onto the tombstone behind her. Momentarily blinded by a flash of white light, Faye blinked several times before noticing Julia walking towards her, her retrieved gun in hand. It was pointed yet again at Faye. She saw no hesitation in Julia's face.

"...they mean nothing to me!"

Proof that she would kill her then and now.

Faye closed her eyes. Spike... She then faced the raging blonde, gripping the gun in her hand with a tighter firm. "Forgive me, Spike!"

"Don't say that name!"

Two shots echoed through out the cemetery...synchronized with different desires.

Hello! I got to post this up before going back to school! Oh yeah...¬¬ Hehehe...I hope you enjoyed it, it's all drama and stuff...okay maybe not that much but it had its moments. Either way, I wish to

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