A/N: SPOILERS! If you have not seen that last Episode of Cowboy Bebop (who hasn't?) and wish to seeit for yourself. DO NOT READ THIS CHAPTER!
Chapter 5: Red-Eye
Spike laid his tired body on the yellow couch, trying not to think. Yet he couldn't take his mind off Faye…and why she had come back. He kept thinking…maybe now, he can finally keep her.
Ed played on her computer as she always did, with Ein asleep in her lap.
"Its sad." Jet said sitting across from Spike. "I couldn't see myself as a parent…but having your child kidnapped…it must be the worst thing Faye has ever felt." He stated.
Just as Jet laid back in the chair, a voice came on the computer.
"Jet? Spike? Ed? You guys there?" asked the raspy old voice.
"It's Ben!" Ed said with happiness in her voice.
"What's up?" asked Jet.
"I've got a job for you…there was killing in the city. A man and an old woman were found dead in their gating home." Ben said reading the report. "Not only that, but the nut-job didn't take anything…they just shot the two people and took off." Ben said.
"Really? They didn't take a thing?" asked Ed with sadness in her voice.
"Nope, not a thing…and the people of this house were loaded. And the man of the residence had a wife and a daughter…but they are nowhere to be found. Right now the wife is big suspect." Said Ben.
"I want you three to check it out. See if you can find out anything that my team misses over. We'll pay you 30,000 Woolongs." Ben said taking a sip of coffee.
"That's chump change Ben, not even enough for two meals." Said Jet crossing his arms.
"Then I'll pay you triple!" Faye said standing on the stairs. The three didn't even hear her come in.
"Who is that?" asked Ben.
"No one." Spike said quickly. "We'll take the job." Said Spike.
"Alright…get your lazy asses to work." Said Ben turning the screen black.
The bounty hunters stared at her teary eyes and saw she wasn't lying. The faxing machine made a monstrous sound as it spat out the report. Faye saw it and quickly rushed down the metal steps to read it.
Spike, Jet, and Ed saw her eyes rush back and forth, reading every single detail, not once stopping till they got to the final period.
"This is my house," Faye said looking up at them. "This is my husband…" Faye quivered holding the paper close to her chest. "That's my baby missing." Faye said breathing heavily and hammering out tears. "I'm a suspect?" Faye asked out loud. "I wouldn't do that! Not to my baby!" Faye cried.
Jet stood up from off the couch, and walked over to her. "Its alright Faye, we'll find your daughter." Jet tried to comfort her, but still the tears kept flowing.
Spike watched her tears run down her face…he remembered the last time he saw tears like that from Faye…and they were tears for him.
He was ready to go…he had been ready. He was going to face his past, and hoping to finally leave it all behind him. Yet as always, fate tried to butt-in Spike's business. Hitting him where it hurts. Her footsteps clattered behind him slow and sad.
"Why now?" He thought. "Please Faye, just walk past me…forget me and be happy…please." He begged in his mind
"Where are you going? Why are you going? You told me once to forget the past because it doesn't matter. But you're the one still tied to the past Spike!" Faye's voice was trembling and strident…she held her stomach.
Spike didn't know what to say to her…or how to keep himself from breaking down. He turned around to look into her eyes one last time…for it could have been the last time he would see her beautiful eyes.
"Look at my eyes Faye, one of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So I thought I could only see patches of reality, not the whole picture."
Stricken with surprise by his opening up…she had the feeling that he was not coming back.
"Don't tell me things like that. You never told me anything about yourself. Don't tell me stuff like that now!" Faye panicked pushing him away and closing her eyes.
"I felt like I was watching a dream, one I would never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was all over." Spike said turning away from her.
He hesitated to stir…he didn't want to leave just yet…his body wanted to move, but his heart was anchored. Faye staring at his back told him her news:
"…My memory finally came back. But nothing good came of it. There was no place to return to, this was the only place I could go. And now you're leaving just like that. Why do you have to go? Where are you going? What are you going to do, just throw your life away like it was noting!" Faye was angry, fearful, and sad all at the same time. She didn't want him to leave…she wanted him to be with her, and their baby.
Spike knew that couldn't happen…he still had feelings for Julia, and he still had his mind set to kill on Vicious, and yet now that he had gotten to know her better, Spike was falling for Faye. He tried to block out the thought of Faye spilling tears for him again, that's why he didn't look at her. He wanted to tell her…but he just couldn't bring himself to do it.
"I'm not going there to die, I'm going to find out if I'm really alive." He again tried to budge but he just couldn't, it was as if his feet were planted to the floor.
"I don't want you to go…" Faye said low and sad. Spike bit his tongue and held down his rapid beating heart. He finally got himself to walk away from her, it hurt like hell but he managed to start moving.
He heard the click of her gun, and heard several shots being fired…he still didn't move, he still didn't look back. He just continued to walk away.
Once he turned the corner, Faye stopped firing. She dropped her gun to the floor and fell to her knees. She cried into her red jacket like a small child.
Spike had merely turned the corner he wasn't gone just yet. He listened to her cry. Before he got up to go face what he thought to be his last battle; he proclaimed to himself, and silently to her.
"I love you, Faye Valentine."
Held by the hand, Samantha lead Alexandria down a long hallway that had red marble floor, and the walls were filled with paintings of people. The furniture was elegant, and everything looked expensive
"Here we are little one." Said Samantha stopping at two thin tall doors that were painted gold. Two big bodyguards stood outside the room on each side of the entryway. One opened the door for the two girls. Alexandria looked at the big man with her pulsing brown eyes and said sweetly.
"Thank you." She smiled at him and walked in with Samantha.
The bodyguard suppressed a small smile as the two girls walked passed them. Alexandria's eyes exploded with shine and happiness, the room was light pink and very fancy like the hallway. The room was filled with mountains of toys to play with and dresses for her to dress up in. Samantha could feel Alexandria's grip get tighter on her hand.
"All of this…is yours Alexandria." Said Samantha getting down to her level.
"Really?" Alexandria asked looking Samantha in the eyes. Those same light brown eyes made Samantha give a smile as well looking to her eyes.
"Yes they are." She said patting her on the head.
Alexandria ran to the toys and began to play right away.
"I'll be back to check on you. Okay?" said Samantha.
"You mean you're not going to play too?" asked Alexandria.
"I have to do big girl things right now." Said Samantha. Alexandria smiled at her and began to play again.
Samantha walked back over to the doors and took one last look at the child. She closed the doors behind her. Once out in the hallway she lit up a cigarette, she took in a deep puff and blew it out.
"I hate children." She said feeling calm again. "Watch the brat. Make sure she doesn't go anywhere." Samantha ordered.
She took a few more puffs before putting it out on an ashtray on the table. She saw a lean man come walking up to her.
The red-eyed man walked down the long hallway, his hands behind his back and a small smile across his face.
"Smoking is bad for you lovely." Said Tony-stopping right in front of her.
"Sorry sir." Samantha apologized.
"How is the girl?" asked Tony gaining a serious tone in his voice.
"She will be fine…she'll be occupied for a while." Samantha said.
"Good. Now shall we go?" asked Tony holding his hand out to her.
Hand in hand the two walked farther down the large hallway.
They came up to two doors, similar to Alexandria's doors. The doors led to a large room, and a very long table where many men awaited Tony's arrival.
Once he opened the door, the men looked his way and clapped and cheered with joy. He walked in with his head held up high and a now larger smile across his face. He took a bow as the claps and cheers got louder. Samantha took a seat up at the front of the counsel table.
"Thank you." He said, as their commotion got softer, Tony walked over to his seat and an old man praised him.
"Tony, we are truly amazed…you have brought life back into this company!" he said with a smile.
"Our stock of red-eye is now increasing than ever before…we are back in business my friend!" another old man said.
"Your brother Vicious would be so proud that you have decided to take after him." Said the oldest man at the end of the table.
Tony turned his head toward Samantha and smiled.
"I hope he is." Said Tony under his breath.
"Tony, tell us how you got such an item back on the market." Asked the oldest man, also known as Boss Jinshitu.
Tony smirked as he turned away from the counsel members. He waved his hand over a small monitor that was built in a counter. A small vase with red liquid rose out gently.
"The red-eye I have here in my hand is not just ordinary red-eye, this is special. See I have concocted a new kind of red-eye. I have taken a chemical that I mixed in with the red-eye's ingredients, creating a triple rush." Tony said placing the red-eye back into the counter.
"What chemical is it?" asked Boss Jinshitu.
"It is a natural chemical." Samantha stated.
"Amazing…quiet a genius!" said Boss Jinshitu. "I know this isn't the best time to bring it up, but we have gotten word that Spike Spiegel is still alive." Said Jinshitu. "How will keep that bastard from stopping you like he did your brother?" he asked.
Tony didn't like the subject, but he rather put it out there than be asked it a million times.
"Spiegel didn't want to stop my brother for the red-eye, he wanted revenge. He got his revenge…now I want mine."
Tony turned toward a screen behind him, and clicked a button on the remote. A smiling Alexandria came upon the screen. The counsel had confused looks on their faces.
"Who is that?" asked a man.
"Gentlemen behold…A Spiegel has been born." Tony said with a smile.
TO BE CONTINUED…
I know it sucks...lucky for chapter 6 is already up! Hope you enjoyed!
