XD holidays…. Gotta love 'em!

Erm, so… this is chapter three… I don't really have much to say…

No wait; I lied… HAS ANYONE SEEN MIDORI DAYS? I just bought the first DVD… and I love it! It's so funny…

I mean, come on… it's about a guy whose right hand just turned into a girl… XD

So then I went to check out the Midori Days fanfics …they only have five! WE NEED MORE MIDORI DAYS FANFICS!

Oops… Kinda went off track…. So, here's chapter three before I continue to ramble on:P

Disclaimer: Yadda yadda yadda… Don't own no Bebop, Don't own the words from 'With Arms Wide Open'… I own Demroque… But I'd much rather I was not for that….

Nothing to Say.


Chapter 3

With Arms Wide Open.

Well I just heard the news today,

It seems my life is gonna change,

I close my eyes; begin to pray,

Then tears of joy stream down my face

With Arms Wide Open Creed

"Oh, I'm sorry… Mr Demroque is late, but please go wait in his office; I'm sure he'll be here soon." The receptionist smiled sweetly and led them to the small room. She pulled out a chair for Faye to sit on, left a piece of paper on Demroque's desk and left the room.

Spike sighed and plonked himself down in a chair with a huge sigh, he then grew bored and began to drum his fingers on the front of the desk. (A/N Don't you just love that word? Plonked, Plonk-ed, Pl-onk-ed! It's fun! Try it, I dare you!) Faye glared at him for a while and then moved into a more comfortable position. Spike watched her out of the corner of his eye. She had gone through so much crap throughout her life and now, she was expecting a child at the age of twenty with no secure job and she was single. It was times like these he realised that she was alone and needed a lot of support. Just like Julia needed their support now.

"Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to make you wait, my wife she was- " Demroque had arrived; a steaming cup of coffee was in his hand and a folder with blue tab saying "JULIA" on the side was tucked under his arm as he shut the door.

"That's quite alright." Faye smiled sweetly at him and motioned for him to sit down. He plonked (A/N Heheh:P PLONKAGE!) down and placed his coffee on the desk and opened the folder. He glanced down a few pages before hurriedly flicking them over and glancing down the next page. He finally found the right page and picked up a pen. He dated and timed the session on the page before him and then looked up expectantly at Faye and Spike reaching for his coffee at the same time.

"Erm, okay so where were we last?" He took a sip of his coffee.

Spike looked at Faye.

"You go first."

"Why should I?"

"I went first last time."
"You are so annoying!"

"Just go already!"

"I hate you."

"I love you."(A/N No he is not confessing his love for Faye, he is being sarcastic)Spike glared at Faye who glowered back. This was getting nowhere. He looked at Demroque and noticed that the man was trembling; surpressing laughter. Demroque was laughing at them.

"Faye, please just go already."

"Alright," Faye tapped her chin thoughtfully, "So where was I?"

Damn, damn, damn, damn! What was I going to do? How the hell am I supposed to tell everyone that I'm expecting a child with no father? Julia dropped me off at the restaurant where Jet was waiting.

"Where's Spike? I need to tell him something!" I glanced around the room and realised that we were the only ones there…excepting the people cleaning up the mess.

"He took Ed and Ein home, I hope he's smart enough to stay with them and not leave them alone by themselves."

"He better be there." Last time they were left home alone we came back to find out that we had no electricity because Ed was experimenting with her computer and its voltage capacity…

"Why are you so worked up? What happened Faye?"

"Uh, I think I'll tell you when I get home," I was not in any mood to get a lecture about contraception and sex…especially from Jet.

-later-

"We're home!" I hurried through the kitchen to the lounge and much to my discomfort I found Spike lounging on the sofa watching whatever was on TV at 4:57 AM.

"Jet! Edward found another blender! Can Ed and Ein experiment with it?" Jet looked at the blender then at the cute grin of Ed and pleading face of Ein and couldn't refuse.

"Go ahead, just don't hurt yourself." Ed squealed and hugged Jet then ran out of the room. Spike was watching with mild interest.

"Jet, you're a big softy."

"Shut up, I'm going to bed…Don't eat all my food Spike." Spike chuckled and shifted over as I sat down on the sofa next to him.

"Spike…We need to talk."

"What?"

"I'm pregnant." I looked at his face for a reaction. He didn't even react, almost as if he already knew.

"I'll take it from here." Spike glanced at Faye who nodded and looked down at her stomach for a second and then back at Spike and smiled.

"Go for it." She said.

Well, well, well… At least she's not going to pretend. But why was she telling me? I mean what did I have, to…do….with…. FUCK! Is she going to tell me that this is MY baby?

"Spike, this is your baby."

"What?"

"You know when this happened…" She blushed, I guess she's referring to that night that we had gone to a company party and Faye came with me because it was hosted by her step-father and I had also been invited. Then we somehow got a lift home and decided to have a drinking competition and ended up quite drunk. I honestly remembered nothing except when I woke up…in bed with Faye…

We said we'd never tell anyone else as I was with Julia and Faye had been kind of going out with Vicious at the time.

"You mean when…then we woke up and…baby?" She nodded.

I put my head in my hands. "What are we going to do? I can't tell Julia…wait… you found at Julia's clinic…Does she know?"
"No, she said she'd wait for me to tell her."

"Tell her it's Vicious'."
"What?"

"Just say it's Vicious' and then we won't get in trouble."
"You mean you won't get in trouble. Spike, Vicious will then really think it's his child and then he'll want to play daddy but it's not really his child and then you'll get mad and tell at some stage out of anger that your child is being raised by- " She began panicking. She was playing with her dress and fisting her hands in the fabric. She had turned white out of worry and when she turned to look at me I realised she was about to cry.

"You don't have to tell anyone."

"I need to tell Gren. He'll help me." I didn't really trust Gren but he was Faye's older brother.

"Okay, tell Gren but if he asks about the father say you don't want to tell."

"Spike, that isn't going to help because it will look like I don't know who the father really is…Wait, why are you trying to get out of this? Don't you want this child to know that you are it's father?"

"I don't want to lose Julia."

"Spike, she won't leave you… Julia's not like that. But, if you keep it from her… I'm sure she will tell you."

"Then why didn't you tell her when you had the chance."

"I didn't want to hurt her…It would make more sense if you told her."

"Faye…I don't want to think about this right now. I'm going home and I'll call you in the morning."

A tear trailed down her face. " I'm sorry, I didn't want…to…I m-mean I couldn't…"

"What?"

"Abortion." She couldn't do it. I knew that, I understood why. Her mother hadn't got rid of her so she wanted to give this baby the same chance.

"Don't worry. We'll work this out." I leaned over and slung my arm over her shoulder and gave her a squeeze. Standing up, I tossed her the portable phone from the table and said "Keep this on you at all times. I'll call you when I have time."

She looked at me and nodded.

"Interesting, so I'm assuming that this happened at least seven months ago?" Demroque was glad he had finally found out why Faye was pregnant. It had been bothering and he didn't want to seem so rude as to ask.

They both nodded.

"I need to tell you about my brother Gren. I don't know if you've heard of him but his full name is Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener." As soon as she saw Demroque's eyes widen in surprise she knew he had heard of her brother.

"The musician/actor? He's your brother?"(A/N I can't decide whether to make Gren a musician or actor! Help me choose! TT)

"Half-brother. His father and my mother had an affair after his mother died and just after my mother got married."

"You're related to one of the richest men alive?" Faye shrugged.

"Anyway, he wanted me to tell you that the moment he is involved in this story you are never to tell anyone. Some legal thing…confidentiality something or rather."

"So anyway…Gren…"

"Hello? Gren, here." I sighed into the phone. I was worried it would have been my father. My father was a good man; he was kind to me. But I didn't like him because of the fact that after I was born he did not even take care of me after my mother couldn't. I didn't understand why he had never let me live with him and Gren.

"Gren, it's Faye. Look, I need to talk to you… in person. When are you free?"

"Is it urgent? I mean I have to go to another movie premier interview."
"I don't know if it's urgent but we really need to talk."

"All right. I'll see what I can do." Five minutes later he called back and said we could meet at some café.

-later-

"You're pregnant? Faye that's great but… Have you told Dad? Have you told your mother? Who's the father? How are you going to afford this baby? You don't have a job!"

"One question at a time!"

"Who have you told?"

"You, Julia and Spike."

"Spike? What about Jet?"

"Spike's the father but he doesn't want anyone to know. I'm too embarrassed to tell Jet. But I think he's worked it out."

"You parents? Are you going to tell them?"

"I was hoping you could tell Dad and then I would speak to Ma…."

"Faye, you should tell him…"

"Please? Gren you owe me after I got that magazine to stop telling people you were gay because that's why you never have a girlfriend."

"Hmm… I'll see what I can do…"

"Thank you. Will you come with me to tell my mother?"

"Okay, only because you're my only sister."

"Half-sister."

"Whatever." He gave me a small smile. I loved my brother. He was not a big attention seeking celebrity. He loved his acting/music (A/N WHICH ONE? TELL ME) he had had the same girlfriend for years but when she broke up with him he was in no hurry to get back at her by finding someone else. He was the most gentle person you would ever meet. He signalled to the waiter that he was ready to pay. After paying he looked at me as we headed to his car, "Are you going to tell them now?"

"No, not now… I need some time. But I need to start looking at how I'm going to accommodate this baby. I'm going to make this hard on Jet."

"You can always live with me if things don't work out." I looked at Gren hoping he was not doing this out of sympathy. He was not, his eyes always gave away his feelings; the saying was so very true for him. His eyes were the windows to his soul.

"Thankyou." He held the door open for me when…

"FAYE! IS THAT YOU?" I turned to see a 10-year-old boy run towards me. I looked at Gren and rolled my eyes.

"Hey there… How are you?" This was my little brother, Red (A/N In loving memory of my goldfish…). One of them…I had four brothers.

"Good! How are you?" Although I loved my brothers the moment I saw my step-father my love for them always seemed to lessen. I hated my step-father. No one could ever make me feel any kind emotions towards that man. And as it just so happened, I saw another one of my brothers, the youngest one walking over to us with my mother and my step-father.

"I'm alright. How's everyone else?"

"Roy is mean, he thinks that now he's fourteen he can bully me and Benny." Roy and Benny… my other two brothers; so those were all my brothers. Gren, Roy, Red and Benny.

"Faye! What a nice surprise. Oh, hello Gren."

"Hello."

"Faaaaayyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeee!" The next thing I knew Benny jumped on me and was cutting off my air supply.

"Hi Benny."

"Faye, you don't look well." My mother was inspecting me as she spoke.

"I'm fine."

"Your mother's right. Something looks wrong." I glared at my step-father. I didn't want to start a fight because of Red and Benny. I never got to see my little brothers much because of this man. I really didn't as much about them as I should have because he never let them invite me to birthday parties and he wouldn't let me take them anywhere."

"Actually, Faye has some important news to tell you." Gren. Was. Going. To. Die. I didn't want to tell them now, in a carpark, in front of Red and Benny. I felt my face grow hot. I was blushing…out of embarrassment. I did NOT want to tell them right now.

"What is it?" Suddenly my step-father was interested. He must have realised I was uncomfortable.

"Faye, is something wrong?" My mother wanted to know if something was wrong. She had given me away as a child and now… suddenly she cares… I don't think anyone knew how much she pissed me off right then.

"Oh my dearest mother," my sarcasm shocked them; I saw Gren warning me not to lose my temper. I felt Benny move away; I think he sensed I was angry.

"What Faye's trying to say is- " Gren tried to intervene before I caused a scene. I pushed him out of my way and spoke loud enough for anyone with in a 10 metre radius so that my mother would feel embarrassed.

"I'm pregnant."

Yaaaaawn I don't like this chapter… Too… bleh

Anyway review…. Despise this chapter with me! I think I kinda stuffed up Gren but then… I don't really understand his character… I think I'll go watch the episode with him again… hmm

So yeah this is a rough it might be modified sometime later….

Luv yaz all!

Ansushi