Aishiteta to nageku niwa, Amarnimo toki wa sugite shimatta. Mada kokoro no hokrobi wo iyasenu mama kaze ga fuiteru.

Kawaita hito mi de dareka naite kure, The Real Folk Blues. Honto no kana shimiga shiri tari dake doro no kawari tsukatta Jinsei o waru kuwa nai ichiro kiwi owaru nara

        The stupid song played over and over. Faye understood the words completely and kind of wanted to shoot the speakers that were playing it because in a sense she could relate to the song. That Torvolt guy had been gone all day and she was starving. She figured maybe he was busy taking advantage of some other poor girl he had picked up off the street. The funny thing is that she felt as if she knew him, but if that was the case why didn't she remember him…. The song kept playing as she paced around the room.

"WOULD SOMEBODY TURN OFF THE STUPID SONG?!?" She yelled angrily stomping her foot. She felt something metal slap against her ankle as she remembered her magnetic anklet.

"It used to be our favorite song…" His voice drawled out from behind her. "Why are you wasting energy like that, Faye?" He said holding a bag of food.

"I was hoping I could pass out while standing and maybe break my head open." She gave him a look that would've intimidated him if she weren't so hungry.

"I see… I remember a Faye who would sometimes refuse to eat because she didn't want to be fat."  He told her. She quirked an eyebrow at him and stared at his face a bit harder and tried to place a face, but he only opened the bag in his hand to have the smell of pasta waft through the air. "Still your favorite right??" He said as she frowned a bit and glared at him.

"Thomas 'Torvolt' McLean." She back up into a wall as a sadistic smile came to his face as hers went to one of fear.

"It took you all day to remember your love." He said. "What have you been doing all this time?? Selling yourself?!?!" He raised a hand and slapped her clear across the face. She fell to the floor wanting to touch the stinging spot on her face but the straight jacket prevented her from doing so. She turned her head letting her violet locks hide her face. He jerked her face towards him and he inspected the red mark on her face. His hazel eyes met her green ones and his held pure fury and anger.

"how did you..." She started to ask but he tightened his grin on her chin shutting her up.

"Live?? I'm not sure myself... but isn't it funny that your mother had you preserved to not only save your life but save you from me, while my dad only did it to get rid of me since I wouldn't die??" He said waiting for a response but when he received none he slammed her head into the floor making her nose bleed from the pressure.

"Answer me when I'm talking to you..." He said but soon realized she was on the brink of losing consciousness he shook her making her open her eyes a bit. "You're still a damned whore." He told her just before she went limp in his arms. Another sadistic smile came to his face and he grabbed a needle from a nearby table.

"You mean to tell me that was our guy?!?!" Spike looked at the computer image Edward had on the screen.

"Yup yup, Spike person." She said proudly. Spike gave a heavy sigh trying to keep his cool, which was difficult because Faye was in that guy's possession as of now and if they don't find Faye quick…no he didn't want to think about it.

"Is there anything else on this guy??" Jet said.

"He's Faye-Faye's brother!!!" Edward said. "By marriage only and he was sent to prison for… many counts of illegal brainwashing."

"Why didn't you tell us this before?!?!?!"

"You no ask Edward!!!" She said while Spike was trying his best to not destroy something.

"We don't know where Faye is…" Spike said. "By now she could be gone…" He said trying to replace thought of the worst. That maybe she could've been taken advantage of already or he could be frying her brain of any humanity.

"Edward, know!!!" The girl began typing faster on her computer as both males looked at the girl as if she was crazy. "Faye-Faye had bad feeling about her part and had Edward put a tracking device in her anklet." She stopped typing and a map came up on the screen. Ed pointed to the blinking light and without hesitation Spike took off towards his ship, leaving Jet watching him in complete confusion.

'Spike's never cared about Faye's well being like this.'

            As soon as he landed his ship in an abandoned space port it began to rain. He remembered this was exactly how the weather was when he had left the syndicate behind. As he made his journey towards Faye's residence he felt odd. His insides were twisting up in knots. Just thinking about the Syndicate bothered him now. He had to finish the mission for Vicious, he had to turn in this woman to a man who would only use and abuse her in so many ways.

            He's known Vicious for a long time… way back to when he first joined the syndicate. They were inseparable nothing would ever get between them. Spike can't understand why Vicious would want Faye over all the women involved with the syndicate. They were just as beautiful, but not nearly as lively though. He couldn't just turn Faye over like that. Vicious would harm her, break her spirit and her heart. The live wire he knew would die.

"Why the hell is it bothering me so damned much?!?!" Spike growled to himself. "It's a simple mission. Just get the girl take her back no questions asked. He owns the syndicate now he does what he wants." Spike punched a door that was locked. He looked up and saw that he made to his destination… an asylum that hasn't been used in years.

"Wake up beautiful…"  His polite melodic voice stirred her from her slumber. When she only groaned he slapped her. "I said wake up whore!!!" He yelled and she looked at him mildly shock.

"I thought I was dreaming." She said feeling groggy, but not the usual grogginess that would come from just waking up. She tried to move her hands but then remembered the straight jacket.

"Oh… the fun hasn't started yet beautiful." He traced a hand up her bare leg and sighed deeply. "Just the way I remembered, soft and smooth." She gasped when she realized she couldn't feel a thing.

"What did you do Thomas?!?!"

"Nothing angel… just insuring you feel no pain for your first time." He raised his hand up higher.

"I've given up my first time to a man I met when I was revived." She said, but he didn't believe her.

"No need for the bluffs." He kissed her. "You should just be glad I've numbed the pain… but the pleasure will still exist." He placed a helmet on her head and turned a dial on it. She recognized the object even with its upgraded materials.

"Still using helmets for brainwashing??" She asked as he shook his head.

"Faye… Faye… Faye…" He sighed. "Don't you remember?? I loved you and always you, but you never came to me willingly. I know those friends of yours will come for you eventually. So I'll do what I should've a long time ago… Alter your thoughts to make you come to me..." He said just as cold steel was pressed against his neck.

"The problem with your type is that you talk way too much." Spike said. "Now stand up and back away from her." He said backing up enough for him to stand… as soon as he had he turned to hit Spike before the bullet was pulled, but Spike moved.

            Faye watched the fight slightly in horror. Her step brother was now fighting the man who owns her heart. She wanted to just crawl back in the block she was preserved in. Somehow things can never go the way she wants it and it tears her to pieces. She banged her head against the wall behind the bed and a stinging sensation came from the back of her head. Whatever he had done to her was wearing off. She kept banging her head giving herself a headache. A gunshot was heard and the helmet fell off her head. She saw Spike standing there with the smoking gun. He undid the straight jacket immediately freeing her arms.

"Let's go..." He said.

"Where's Thomas??"

"Gone... He got one good blow and he's gone… Let's go…" Spike said and they both took off running. He got outside and saw Spike's ship chasing after a dark blue ship while a battle ensued… only the driver in Spike's Ship seemed to just he shooting with little or no aim. Then the dark blue one took off away from the city and Spike's ship landed.

"Get in!!!" The cheery face of Edward came out and Spike shoved her out of the way. "Ow!!"  The very flexible girl accommodated herself to the small space. "We'll be back, Faye-Faye!!!" Ed said as the ship took off.

"Catch up Spike Person!!!" Ed kept yelling only making Spike angrier by the moment. Spike caught up with the ship and Ed opened the hatch. "Ed, be careful!!!!" The girl said jumping out of the ship and attached herself to the other ship... the one Thomas Torvolt McLean was in. She pulled at metal covering on the bottom and pulled out a handful of cords. The ship slowly descended and landed in a wooded area. 

            Spike found the ship in no time and saw an interesting site as well. 'Tiny Torvolt' was being held hostage by the slightly insane computer genius. They turned the guy in got their cash reward and returned to the bebop with little damage done to anything... and that disturbed Jet a whole lot.

            This new Spike was different. He wasn't the same insane risk taker he had known before, he wasn't the same guy who would nearly destroy his ship trying to catch a bounty only to have them killed at one point or another, and he wasn't the guy who disliked Faye's personality and wouldn't save her unless it had something to do with him and something he needed to get done. No something was really wrong with this Spike, and he can't figure out exactly what it is yet… but he would eventually.