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Disclaimer - If i owned Cowboy Bebop, i wouldnt be writing that i dont own it...and Spike and Faye would be together and the show will still be fecking going!

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Chapter 2: Here I Am

Faye turned sharply down an alleyway which was a shortcut to the harbour. She wanted to get back to the mild warmth of The Bebop. She cursed under her breath as a

bitter wind whistled through the alleyway. Why did the climate control centre have to fail on a day like this which was already making her feel bad tempered.

She saw it in sight. "Jet, open up. It's me Faye." She said through the communicator which she held in her numb hands.

The Bebop opened for her to climb in. She tapped in the code to shut the doors and threw her jacket onto the single mustard yellow chair that sat in the bridge. Ed was

sitting with Ein by her side, mumbling on about crap which Faye really didn't care for, while she tapped away on some strange device that Faye had picked up on a

recent bounty hunt. Why the tomboy named Edward had decided to come back to the cruddy life of the Bebop when she could have stayed on Earth with a family, Faye

didn't know. Mind you, who would want to stay on a dump like Earth anyway?

Faye walked through the corridors and opened the door into the bathroom. She turned on the tap, filling the bath basin with steaming hot water. She was about to undress

and slip into the bathtub when she heard Jet laughing. Jet hadn't laughed since well…

He couldn't possibly be laughing at Ed. He got so annoyed with the kid easily now days. Faye Did the button of her top up again and peered out of the bathroom door.

That's when she heard him.

She rushed out of the bathroom and there he was, standing with a cigarette carelessly hanging from his mouth, a hand lazily sitting in his pocket. Her mouth dropped.

He noticed her standing there agape and raised an eyebrow at her, his usual cockiness applying into it. She walked over to him and started to prod his shoulder. He was

certainly solid. Taking a chance to see if it really was the real Spike and not some phoney, she prodded his wound on his stomach where Vicious had slashed him. "Oww!

Geez Faye, I can still that thing you know." He said flinching at the pain.

Faye's face turned from shock to anger. He had the nerve to have ago at her for simply checking that it was really him when he hadn't even told them he was still alive,

yet alone the fact that he just turned up on their doorstep out of the blue! "You son of a bitch!" She said and hit him hard on the stomach before storming out and heading

back to the steaming bath that was awaiting her to calm her down.

"What the hell is her problem?" Spike asked, turning to Jet as if he hadn't done anything wrong.

"Oh, I dunno, the fact that you've just turned up out of no where." Jet said folding his arms over his chest.

"I had to sort some things out." Spike said, pulling a cigarette out of the box in his breast pocket and lighting it.

"O yea. Such important things that you couldn't give us a call to let us know the fact that you weren't dead!" Jet's voice said, the calmness disappearing and being

replaced with annoyance, anger and sadness.

Spike turned his head to the side, focusing on the wall. He hadn't called because he hadn't planned on coming back. He thought their lives would be so much easier

without him in it. The only reason he had decided to come back was because Julia had said he needed to, or that's what he told himself. But he couldn't tell Jet this. What

would he say, "O yea, well the only reason I did come back was because Julia told me to!" Yea, that would make him look sane alright.

Jet sighed and gave in and sat next to Spike on the mustard yellow couch. "Give me a cigarette and I'll forget this whole conversation." Jet said. Spike raised an eyebrow.

"You always have cigarettes though, it's usually me asking you for one." Spike said.

"Yea well, we haven't been able to get the bounties to be able to get any." Jet said. Spike chuckled slightly and gave his partner two. "God knows how long you've been

without one." Spike said at seeing Jet's confused look. Jet chuckled.

"So what's say I cook up some bell peppers and beef?" Jet said after taking a drag from his now lit cigarette.

"You mean actual beef?" Spike said hopefully.

"Of course not!" Jet said merrily. It was just like old times. Remembering the old times.

Faye managed to pull herself up and out of the bathtub. She grabbed her red robe, which barely covered her ass and wrapped a towel around her head. She gathered up her

clothes, which lay in a pile on the floor and slipped out of the bathroom and down the corridor to her room. If she went quiet enough then she wouldn't have to face Sp-

"Hey Faye." Speak of the devil

Faye stopped dead in her tracks and looked up at the man who had caused so much pain in her heart over the past few months. "Move please." Was all she said as he

stood in the way of her journey back to her room.

"Wanna explain to me first why you've been avoiding me?" He asked, his usual cockiness still in tact.

"I haven't been avoiding you. All I did was go and take a bath Spike."

"Well, the way you left the room implied you were trying to avoid me, Faye." He said, emphasising 'Faye' just like she had emphasised 'Spike'.

"Just move Spike." Faye asked defeated. She didn't want to talk to him any longer. She didn't want to sense, smell or look at him any longer. Just the thought of him

made her heart ache. That was how much he had pained her. She wanted him back on the Bebop just as much as she didn't.

"No." He said sternly.

"Why not!" She asked distressed almost.

"Because I want to know why you're so angry at me!" He said.

She looked up, pure disbelief on her face. Why she was angry at him? Why she was angry at him! "Because you were dead to me Spike! Dead! D-E-A-D! You went to

die, you said to see if you were alive but basically you were going there to die! Then all out of no where you come back and think that everything will just go back to the

way it was? No! It won't. If you really want to know why I'm so fucking angry at you Spike, it's because you didn't care about how Jet felt when you were planning

your suicide." She said, then looked down and said quieter, "You didn't care how I felt about you waltzing into your death." Spike looked at her with shock and sadness

on his face at the pain of which he had caused her. "So don't you dare have ago at me for being angry at you because you deserve an explanation because you didn't give

me one!" She said angrily and shoved past him, storming off to her room leaving Spike to stand there in silence and shock.

He never realised how much pain he had caused that night he went to kill viscous. He didn't think they cared that much about him, well maybe Jet but never Faye. He

heaved a great sigh before turning and wondering back to the kitchen.

Faye slammed the door behind her. That lunkhead! That arrogant, stupid, pompous lunkhead! She threw her clothes across the room onto the floor before falling

backwards onto her bed. She deeply sighed and closed her eyes. Why did he have to come back? Things would have been so much easier if he had just stayed dead to her.

She would eventually have moved on, well on the outside, and have had a simple life without all of his problems building on top of hers like they always managed to do.

Images of blonde hair and blue eyes crept over the black space which was the back of her eyelids. Then miss-matched brown eyes met the blue eyes. The images quickly

changed to a young girl running up a hill, her violet hair swishing and swaying. Faye's eyes snapped open. She was not going to think about her and him, especially

together, and she was certainly not going to think about the life she could have had. She would not make herself feel any worse than how she already felt.

She sat up and pulled her clothes on. There was only one way for her to make herself feel better; gamble.

Jet hummed quietly as he fried up his special beef and bell peppers. He heard the stool move back from the counter and someone collapsing into the stool. "Didn't go to

well then I gather." Jet said, slightly chuckling.

"It's nothing funny Jet." Spike said, taking a cigarette out of the box on the side and lighting it with the lighter in his pocket.

"Well it kinda is." Jet said.

Jet chuckled slightly then sighed. "But seriously Spike, don't expect her to welcome you with open arms like I have. You hurt her real bad Spike. I've never seen her

depressed since you left."

"I know but what was I supposed to do. Not go and avenge her death and stay just so Faye wouldn't be sad?" Spike said sarcastically.

"True but you could have we-" Jet stopped when Faye came into the room.

She leaned over the counter and picked up the keys to the Redtail. "I'm going out Jet. Don't wait up; god knows when I'll be back. Just don't leave me on Mars." Faye

said, not looking at Spike, trying to ignore the fact that he was sitting there staring at her.

Jet turned round and nodded. "Don't break your ship; I've only just fixed it." He said.

"I'll try but I'm not making any promises." Faye said giving a smirk before turning and leaving the kitchen. "Don't just sit there! Go after her, try and at least make

peace." Jet said to Spike.

Spike moaned before swivelling round on his chair and dragging himself after Faye. He managed to reach her just as she was getting into the Redtail. "Faye wait! Look I'm

sorry about earlier." Spike said.

Faye ignored him. "Aren't you even gonna talk to me….wow that's mature."

She gave him an 'go fuck yourself' look before starting up the engine and flying off to Mars.

"I can't say I didn't try." Spike said to himself before dragging himself lazily back to the kitchen, his hands shoved in his pockets, back hunched and a cigarette hanging

loosely from his mouth.

Okay, i'm not the greatset at writing long chapters as you can see.

Ed, Ein and Jet will play bigger parts in the next chapter and so forth but the first chapter was just the prologue and this chapter was showing the relationship between Spike and Faye.

The plot will also develop more, like the actual action storyline but like dito on the bit above this.

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