Yay, i'm back...I've put Altered Universe on Hitaus at the moment because i'm improving it and everything and i want to write up this story. Don't worry though, Altered Universe will be finished.
Anyway, i've decided to write A cowboy Bebop fic and this chapter is just a quick one.
Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop coz if i did, Julia would be shot by Faye and Faye and Spike would live happily ever after!
Chapter 1: Prologue
"What'll it be handsome?"
"Coffee-black."
The woman dressed in a pink stripy waitress's dress bustled off to the other side of the counter to make him a cup of strong black
coffee, just how he liked it.
The man sitting at the counter reached into his pocket and pulled out his last cigarette. This was what his life was and always had been,
pointless in his eyes. He paused and thought back to what his life was like before; arguments constantly with his shipmates, constantly
being on the run or chasing a bounty just to try and earn a measly 10,000 woolong to get things that claimed to be edible. He sighed
before placing the cigarette in his mouth and lit it.
Breathing in the nicotine tar that filled his lungs, he felt calmer. He closed his eyes and a flash of blonde hair whipped across the black of
the back of his eyelids. She was dead and it was his fault. Dead because they had given into temptation. But it wasn't just temptation,
no, it was love. Or at least that was what it had turned into. He should've been dead as well, but why he wasn't he didn't quite know.
He re-opened his eyes at the sound of a cup meeting the cold metal counter and the smell of freshly brewed coffee filling his nostrils. He
took one last drag from his cigarette before disposing of it and placing his hands around the warm mug.
The stupid climate-control system had fucked-up leaving Mars freezing cold and the occupants just as freezing. He didn't have anything
that would remotely warm him up. All he had was a flimsy blue casual suit and a shirt, most of which had been soaked from the rain
which was battering against the windows outside the small diner.
He sighed again and stared down into his coffee mug, the liquid inside swirling for some strange reason. Lost in his thoughts, he jumped
when the waitress spoke to him. "Something troubling ya?" She asked
"Nothing that concerns you." He said, not intentionally on making it sound rude, but like many other things that came from his mouth, it
did.
"No need to be rude, I was merely asking." She said.
"Well don't." He said. Her voice was starting to cheese him off. He hated women with attitude.
Having had enough, he drank the hot liquid, warming his insides, before standing and leaving. "Shit." He said, remembering that it was
raining. He should've just kept his mouth shut, then he would at least have had a place to shelter in and now he was stuck in the rain. He
shoved his hands in his pockets and walked away down the unusually quiet streets of inner city Mars.
Keeping his head down he walked past shop windows with happy smiling faces of couples on Valentine's Day. It was February 12th
today so of course everywhere would be reminding him of the things he had lost. Not looking where he was going he bumped into
someone. A flash of purple hair. He stopped and looked back. The person he had knocked had stopped too. Shaking her head, the
figure carried on walking. He heard her muttering something like, "He's dead Faye. Dead. You saw the body yourself."
Spike's breath stopped. It was Faye. He carried on walking, his pace picking up until he turned sharply into an alley which was
sheltered from the rain. He slid his back against the wall and put his head in his hands. "Go back to them." A soft gentle female voice
said to him from across the alley.
"Julia?" Spike said, shock and confusion in his voice as he lifted his head to gaze upon someone who he had thought he had lost. "But
You're dead."
"Yes but it doesn't mean I can't help you Spike." She said walking over to him and sitting down in front of him. She placed a hand on
his face and smiled lightly at him.
Her touch was ice cold instead of the warm touch he was so used to feeling from her. "I can't." He said looking down and breaking his
stare from her.
"Why? It's quite simple."
"No it's not. I can't just walk back into their lives and expect things to return to normal." He said.
"No, you can't expect that straight off. You would need to earn their trust again. But can't you see, as long as they're out of your life,
you're life isn't living to it's full potential." She said softly.
"I don't need them. I need you Julia!" He said desperately looking back up at her. Her soft pale lips smiled gently at him.
"You think you need me but you don't Spike." She said.
"Yes I do. I thought that everything would be right when I died but I got put on this place they call the living plane again!" He began to
shiver as her hands grew colder.
"You've been brought back because you have a purpose. And they, you're friends are part of that. Don't be a fool and try to be
independent Spike. As much as you think you can manage by yourself, you can't." He looked away at her words.
He had always had to be independent and cope for himself. She didn't know what it had been like for him after his parents had died.
She forced his head to look back at her. "Just go back Spike." She said, half pleading, half ordering him to.
He sighed and looked back into her eyes. "Will I see you again?" He asked simply. He knew she was right but he didn't want to admit
it out loud.
"You won't see me but I'll always be watching over you Spike Spiegel." She kissed him lightly on the lips, her lips as icy cold as her
skin, then she was gone.
"Home." He said before picking himself up and dragging his feet off towards the harbour, where he had the suspicion that that was
where he would find the Bebop.
Sorry it was so short. I wanted to just have an appearence of Julia, although she will get mentioned alot, and also wanted to show how Spike decided to go back to the Bebop.
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