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Tell him, a promise made to be broken

Bebop

Faye paced back and forth on the deck of bebop. What she saw was real, it was him. It felt like an eternity staring at him like that. But she hesitated. Why…why then when it could have been an open window to so many questions, to so many opportunities to punch him in the face.

" But then what…?" The question rung around in Faye's head.

If she brought him back to bebop, then what? Tell him that she loves him and then they go get married and have three kids of their own? In what bullshit planet would that ever happen? Faye sat on the ground and thought of what to do next.

" Jet…" Faye said quietly, "I have to tell him."

Without a second thought Faye jumped up and ran inside. She ran down the corridors to Jets room but stopped before opening the door. Loud moans and grunts sounded through the halls but she didn't hear them, Faye's mind was fixed on Spike. Faye cautiously opened the door and stared in horror. She would have screamed but her voice was caught in her throat. Bare ass…back and forth, moans and groans…Faye felt like she would barf. She tried to back away but her legs wouldn't work.

" Oh god Jet!"

" Alisa!"

Faye covered her eyes as if they were hurt and screamed. Voice found.

Sitting quietly in the control room, Faye looks out the window at the vast amount of water. Jet walks in rubbing his balding head. He even had the audacity to walk around with no shirt on and a pair of baggy pants showing off his robotic arm. Faye felt like she was going to barf again.

" Could you please put a shirt on? I never want to see any part of your body again." Faye scrunched her nose up in the memory of his back muscles flexing

" Your gonna have to learn to knock if you are going to stay here." Jet said sternly ignoring what Faye had just said, " What was so important that you just had to barge in like that?"

" Oh…I almost forgot. I saw Spike out in the-"

" Oh god not this shit again. You said, you fucking said it, that he was dead! You told me that. It came out of your lying mouth. You said it!" Jet ranted on walking over to Faye and pointed his finger in her face, he smelt like sweat

" I said that cause I thought he was dead. I don't know how it happened but he was there, right in front of me. He even said hey...well he said 'Yo' but you get what I mean! I wasn't lying before. Maybe he was just sleep. I don't know…all I know is that when I saw him I ran." Faye refused to look at Jet, but she knew his facial expression was probably close to livid

" So now you are looking for Julia and Spike? You are delusional." Jet sat down across from Faye and frowned, " And if he is alive? Then what?"

Faye almost hated to hear him say that, that very question that has been on her mind since she laid eyes on Spike earlier that day. Then what? She shrugged and walked off. Jet rubbed the bridge of his nose and sighed. She was never going to give up.

Uptown Ganymede

Julia paced back and forth in the living room. She held the phone to her ear, saying yes to everything the voice on the other line said. She stopped walking and stared down the hallway when she heard a click at the door. Spike was home.

" He's here. I've got to go. I'll call you at the regular time." Julia quickly hung up the phone and ran to meet Spike at the door

" Hey." Spike smiled as Julia walked over frowning

" Where were you? I woke up and you were gone!" Julia said trying to put up a worried face, "I was worried…"

" I went to the store to get some cigarettes. I didn't mean to worry you." Spike walked over and hugged Julia kissing her forehead, he hated it when she looked sad

Julia pulled away and walked over to the table in the middle of the room. A vase with white roses sat in the middle along with some mail. She opened the drawer and moved to let him see that it was stuffed with three different brands of cigarettes.

" How long have we had that?" Spike asked with a chuckle as he walked into the living room

" I bought all those over a year ago. You mean you never looked in there? What's that?" Julia closed the drawer and walked over to spike. She took the pack of cigarettes from him and looked at the torn off opening. There as lipstick on it, " Why is there lipstick on your pack of cigarettes."

" That's Faye's. This one is mine." Spike pulled out a pack from his pocket that was already half empty, Julia still looked mad and confused

She sat down next to Spike on the couch and put Faye's pack of cigarettes on the coffee table. Julia stared off into the distance for a minute then looked at Spike with tears in her eyes. Spike felt his chest tightened. He couldn't stand seeing her like this. Every single time he would go out without her this would happen. You would think that after a year she would get used to it.

" You promised…you promised that you weren't going to see them again. You said that after we started this new life together we wouldn't have any ties to the past." Julia quietly, a tear ran down her cheek. Spike ached to wipe it away

" I ran into her in the city. I said hi, she ran. I picked up her cigarettes. Julia…" He wasn't sure what to say. She always won…always

" Promise me…promise me you won't see them again. Spike, they will only endanger what we have planned." Damn it, she was playing the 'plan' card again

Spike looked away and sighed. " I promise." he stood and tossed his cigarettes on the coffee table, "I need a shower." Spike didn't look back as he walked down the hall way and up the stairs 'Why the hell do we need this big ass house.' He thought to himself but it wasn't the first time. He stopped walking and turned around at the sound of Julia's light footsteps. She gave him a halfhearted smile and put a hand on his arm.

" I need a shower too." without another word, she pulled him into the bathroom.

Sitting at the edge of the bed chain smoking, Spike stared at the wall in front of him. Julia slept silently, not bothered by the smoke. He hadn't thought of Faye for months and now she was all he could think about. What was she doing here? Why did she run? Flicking another cigarette into the trashcan, Spike watched as the paper inside finally caught on fire. Julia quickly shot up with a gun in hand pointed at the fire. She stared in confusion as Spike just sat there doing nothing about the fire.

" Are you going to put that out?" Julia put her gun down and stared at Spike

" Why?" Spike kept his eyes on the fire as it died down on its own, " I'm going out."

" Spike you promised!" Julia groaned in annoyance, "Why can't you stay here? What do you need out there that you don't have here?"

" I'm not going to break my promise. I just need some air. I'll be back." Spike refused to meet her gaze, if she looked him in the eyes she would know he was lying

" Fine. I'll come with you then."

Julia started to pull her covers back but before she could get a leg out of bed Spike was by her side with two fingers on a pressure point in her neck. She stared up at him in confusion as she laid back down suddenly falling back asleep.

" I won't be out long. I just need some air." Spike turned and left once he was sure Julia was asleep. One thing was for sure, he would get an ear full when she wakes up.

Bebop

Jet stood on the deck of bebop staring out at the water. It was freezing but Alisa wouldn't let him smoke inside anymore, one of her many rules. Either he stopped smoking all together or he stopped doing it inside. Hearing footsteps on the boarding plank next to bebop, Jet turned around and even in the darkness of the night he knew who it was.

" Hey Jet. It's been a while." Spike smirked and jumped on deck, Jet only took another long drag off his cigarette and looked away

" Faye's not here. She left about an hour ago. Might not be back until tomorrow." Jet said coldly never looking Spike in the eye.

" You know why I didn't come back Jet. I just couldn't."

" Yeah, Faye told me. Julia's alive, I'm happy for you. What I don't understand is why you are here now. You have Julia back so now you want Faye too?" Jet glared over at Spike confused and mad

" It's not like that. I just need to talk to her. I-" Jet ran over to spike and pushed him over board into the water as Faye walked towards bebop

" I bought some of that gum Alisa wanted for you. Are you seriously going to quit smoking?" Faye asked as she jumped on deck and handed the bag to Jet

" Yeah, something like that. You got a message from someone, I left it in your room." Jet lied as he pushed Faye inside, she turned around to say something but he closed the door in her face, "Spike, you okay?"

Jet grabbed some rope and threw it over board. He laughed and lit up another cigarette as Spike climbed on board dripping wet and perplexed.

" Wouldn't be back until tomorrow huh?" Spike glared over at Jet as he tried to take in as much air as he could

" Just go Spike. Its better if she continues this endless search for you rather then knowing that you are alive with someone else." Jet pleaded flicking a half finished cigarette to the ground and walking over to the door

" How did she know I was here in the first place?"

" She was on the phone with Alisa and heard Julia when she went into La fin. She thinks if she finds Julia she will find you. I'm just not sure what she will do once she finds you." Jet opened the door and sighed, " I really think you should go. There is nothing left for you here."

Spike watched as Jet closed the door. He wasn't able to get five feet from bebop before he saw Julia standing in the distance. She walked calmly over to him with a blank look on her face. Spike had expected her to look pissed but the gun tightly clutched in her hand made up for her lack of emotion.

" Julia, what are you…" His words were caught in his throat as she walked over to him slowly raising her gun

His eyes were dull and unreadable as she held her gun inches from his right shoulder. His first thought, She would never shoot him. Julia was incapable of doing such a thing to him. Right? She held on to the gun with both hands and swung it hard against Spikes temple. Julia looked down at Spike with a bit of pity in her eyes as she lit her cigarette.

" You just had to go and fuck everything up didn't you? I really wish it didn't have to come to this." He stared up at her with empty eyes, blood trickling down the side of his face, his eyes stayed open and his screams kept dormant as she shot him twice in the shoulder and very close to his heart.

" You always did have to complicate things."