Hey again, I got a lot of positive reviews, so here I go again. I hope all my readers enjoy the chapter and keep encouraging me to continue my story. Hope you appreciate my devotion to making my story as close to the Anime as possible. Well here you guys go…

"This is how it was after he left. Quiet, dark, and empty.' He sat again in front of the bonsai tree that he had been working on for a couple of days, it relaxed him. People say that when you lose someone, you acknowledge it, you accept, and you move on with your life. "Bull-shit" He thought to himself. At least for him it was, for all of them. When he left, he told himself "he'll be back, he always does." But that day it was different, he didn't come back, but that didn't stop him from believing that he was. He closed his eyes so tight, that he knew if he opened it the truth would hit him like the blinding light of the sun, and he wasn't ready for the truth, nobody was.

He was his partner, a friend, even a younger brother, he hated to admit that even to himself. They looked out for each other, that's how it was. They argued like brothers do. They both looked at the same thing and just saw it differently, but that was ok, cause the outcome was always the same, they would go back to each other, that's how it was. He would see the logic and reason in it, while Spike would see the illogic and recklessness, but that was also ok, because that's just how it was. That is also the reason why he waited so long to open his eyes again and see the truth in it, he wasn't coming back. Cause that's how it was. He wasn't the only one who denied the sun, there was her.

She waited days, weeks, months and he saw her changing, but as hard as he tried nothing was going to bring her back. She was falling and there was nothing to catch her. The first days, she paced back and forth waiting for him, someone, anybody to come through that door, and eventually someone did, but not him. It was early and she was playing cards on the yellow sofa, he was doing what he always does, fixing his bonsai. The door slide open and in came the all genius hacker and her little hairy companion. He couldn't see Faye's face but he knew that when Ed and Ein had walked through the door, all hope had left her. Edward, a genius, didn't understand, no not that she didn't understand, it was more she didn't want to. She had cried, not in front of them but, they knew she had, they had heard her at night and even the dog had howled to the moon that night. She acted as she always had, Edward like, but inside she was hurting like the rest of us. She had stayed with her father, at least when he wasn't forgetting her and leaving her behind. He was after all her family, but she decided she had another family waiting for her, so she came back minus a Spike. It tore up Faye even more. Seeing them together, and yet missing something.

Faye began to change, gambling and debts had stopped, at first Jet thought it was a good thing for a while, but then the call that changed everything. Alex. She was finally going to meet the sister she had lost so long ago, again tragedy struck and it would be the last time that Faye would ever see hope or humanity in herself. Every bounty she had gone after ended up dead, not one of them had ever seen the inside of a prison. She chose not to see them as people, even though scum of the earth people, but instead all she saw was her sister's killers, and after a while even they had eventually turned into Spike.

"Shit" Jet yelled out loud to the empty room of bonsai. Stretching his metallic arm he grabbed another clipping tool. "Here I am, sitting here clipping bonsai trees while Spike is at Faye's probably dead, and for good this time. She's definitely gotten good with those knives." He commented looking over at the bonsai tree. "I think if Faye could go back in time the day Spike left, instead of shooting up at the ceiling, she would have put a bullet in his head" He smirked to himself.

He still remembers the day he left and came back, especially when he came back. He left and came with the tiger-stripped cat's story. It was raining, hard too. He was standing looking out into the sky, Faye was at her place and Ein and Edward were asleep. He just stood there, he didn't hear anything except the rain, then footsteps. At first he thought it was Faye, she always managed to show up when least expected.

"Did you ever hear the story of tiger-strapped cat, who was alone for a while until he ran into a gray cat, the gray cat was very logical and always wanted to think before he leaped, but the tiger-stripped cat, who was already dead and had nothing left to lose preferred to be reckless"

Jet breathed in for a minute. He thought that maybe after all this time he had finally gone crazy. But deep down he knew he wasn't crazy, he knew if he turned around at that moment Spike would be standing there. But he wasn't ready, at least not yet.

"No I haven't heard it, is it any good?" Jet answered still looking at the sky.

"After they became friends they ran into a dog, who seemed to be very smart for his specie and even though the tiger-stripped cat didn't like dogs they decided it was ok for him to come along." The man stopped for a minute.

"A dog huh?" Jet stated.

" They later ran into a black female cat who was abandoned and liked to live her life her way. She decided to come along, even though her and the tiger -stripped cat argued a lot. They were together for a while, before they ran into a young brown female cat, Even though she was weird they accepted her. Then there dysfunctional family was complete".

"Spike.." Jet began but only to be interrupted by his friend.

"But, one day the tiger-stripped cat left to find out if he was really dead and it turned out that one part of him was, but there was another part of him that was alive, he had to make sure before returning. After a while he did come back, back to the family who he had left behind in search for something that the tiger-stripped cat had always had, a place where he belonged." The man stopped and reaching down in his pocket he found a bent cigarette.

"That's a good story." Jet was finally able to speak.

"I hate that story." The man stated lighting the cigarette.

Turning slowly Jet saw Spike face light up for a minute before he smiled.
"I forgot you don't like pets." Jet stated turning away to look back out to the sky.

So did you guys enjoy that chapter. I know it's short but still, I really hope you did. I worked hard on it so please review. And don't worry I'll write another chapter as soon as possible. Some of you might be wondering about the story that Spike tells at the end. If you have ever seen the anime, the last episode "the real folk blue part II" Spike tells Jet a story about a tiger-stripped cat, that was the last time they laughed together before Spike left. I thought it would be appropriate for Spike to come back in a similar way. That's the way I saw Spike coming back to Jet, with a story about his life.