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Good to see you again
A cloud of smoke was forming around Faye as she chain smoked in the control room. She looked over her shoulder at the sound of yelling coming from Jet and a woman yelling back. Faye frowned and took a step closer to the door when she heard screams and gunshots. She threw down her cigarette but before it hit the ground Julia kicked the door open and shoot at Faye twice. Faye let out a small scream as a bullet hit her in the left shoulder. Ducking down she put her hand over the wound, her mind straining to think of an escape plan.
" Hello Faye Valentine. So good to see you again." Julia continued to walk towards Faye, her gun raised and ready to fire
" The one day I decide not to have my gun with me." Faye mentally smacked her self, crawling backwards from the sound of Julia's footsteps getting closer
Julia almost laughed at the sight of Faye crouched down on the ground, clutching her wounded shoulder. She lowered her gun till it was leveled with Faye's head. Faye looked up with a smirk on her face.
" And here I was thinking about how much I wanted to kill you." Faye chuckled
" Sorry to disappoint you." Julia said through gritted teeth, she couldn't stand Faye's aloofness, no more than she could stand Spike's
Faye closed her eyes and awaited the bang that would end her life, instead she felt a sharp pain on her scalp when Julia grabbed hold of her hair and kneed her in the face. Faye fell back but her head never touched the floor as Julia held on to her hair and pulled her along towards the door. She struggled to stand but this only seemed to anger Julia. She stopped and shot Faye in both her thighs. Faye screamed and went slightly limp not wanting to be shot again and her brain didn't seem to be fully function with the amount of pain she was in. As she was pulled through the halls Faye saw Jet on the floor a puddle in his blood.
Faye lay motionless on the living room floor and listened to Julia's foot steps go away from her and disappear up the stairs and out the door. Two heavy sets of feet came down the stairs. Her breaths became shallow and slow as she wondered what was going to happen to her. Death seemed really good right now. This was torture. A big man, probably one of Julia's henchmen, picked Faye up. At this level Faye spotted Alisa's body on the floor next to the couch, she couldn't see her head but there was blood all over the coffee table. Faye could hear Julia saying something about Spike before her head hit the wall and she was knocked out. Damn henchmen.
Downtown Ganymede: Abandoned Warehouse
Water dripped on her head, irritating her sore and bleeding scalp. Faye's eyes fluttered open as another drop of water fell on her head. She looked around the desolate room only to see an old rusted chair, a bunch of broken crates, a moss covered table, and an unconscious Spike right across from her. Leaning back against the wall, Faye ignored the water dropping on her head and stared at Spike as he stirred in his sleep then woke staring right back at her with those dull dead eyes.
" Where's Julia?" Spike asked calmly, ignoring the fact that she was the one that did this to him and that he was chained to a chair
Faye coughed up some blood and shook her head, not wanting to answer if that was going to be his first question. Her mind wandered to Jet and Alisa, all that blood. Faye's eyes wondered back over to Spike when she heard him pulling against his chains, seeing how far he could stretch in them.
" Why did you run earlier?" He asked stretching both his arms out then his legs
" You're supposed to be dead." She spit it out like word vomit knowing that it didn't sound right
" …Sorry to disappoint you." Spike whispered never returning her gaze
The click of her heals echoed through the warehouse as Julia stomped towards Spike dressed to kill. A leather suit Spike had seen many a times. Faye refused to look at her, her gaze stuck on Spike. Julia pulled a hatchet knife out of her boot and walked calmly over to Faye. Spike's eyes never left her.
" I thought you were dead, then I saw her on the intercom. I believed she was dead until then. I came here to kill her. I guess that's not how things are gonna go." Faye smirked and let her gaze fall to the ground; " I just need to know one thing before you do this Julia. What are you doing alive?!" She shouted glaring up at Julia for the first time. She stood towering over her with her knife in hand, ready to strike
She just stood there, a malicious smile growing on her face. She glanced over at Spike and crouched down leveled to Faye, her knife poking into Faye's side.
" I was going to tell Spike about my intentions after I killed you, but since your so damn," Julia stabbed the knife into Faye's side, careful not to go in too deep, " curious, I guess I can let you in on it too."
" Your still working for the syndicate aren't you?" Spike asked in a voice not even about a whisper, " All this time…"
" And here I thought you would never catch on." Julia taunted, pulling the knife out of Faye she stood and walked over to Spike, " All you had to do was sign your name on the dotted line, but you were too busy moping around, smoking and getting drunk to do a damn thing for a fucking year and six fucking months, that's all you had to do and then you could have lived. You just had to go and see her, you promised me you wouldn't. And I don't take well to broken promises."
Julia raised her gun level to Spikes head. Faye jolted forward as far as she could go screaming, "No, please stop". Her eyes widened as well did Spikes when Julia turned around and shot at Faye, twice in the legs for the second time. Her scream echoed throughout the warehouse. Spike pulled his hands up from behind him, his skin tearing on the chains, bones breaking. He lunged forward as far as his legs would let him, which was far enough, and pulled Julia into a choker hold, her hands bent painfully behind her.
" Who put you up to this Julia? Who?" He growled in her ear shaking her roughly, " Was is Vicious? Is that bastard still alive?" Spike grabbed hold of her hair and yanked it back so her head rested painfully on his shoulder, he could see the flickers of fear in her tainted blue eyes, " Is that why I'm still alive?" He whispered staring over at Faye who sobbed loudly not daring to move her legs, tears falling freely from her eyes.
" You're thinking way to low babe. This goes higher than Vicious ever dreamed of. A whole galaxy of linked syndicates are held together and ruled by the person who has their name on that paper." Her eyes jumped over to the papers on the desk
" Its just a fucking piece of paper. How does that determine any type of power, you know how it works Julia. You fight your way to the top. You don't sign a damn piece of paper." Spike yanked her hair harder; he heard her breaths get shallow and hoarse
Julia gasped for air, her fingers flexing, trying to scratch at anything, " Vicious did fight, and he won the title of Syndicate leader. But now that he is d-dead, with y-your name on t-the paper, you will b-be the leader of the G-galaxy S-syndicate." She gasped, arching her back, standing on her tiptoes, suffocating
Spike pushed her forward, grabbing her gun as she fell. He mentally apologized for what he was about to do. Faye sobbed softly and shakingly looked up at Spike as he shot Julia in the stomach four times. She watched in confusion and astonishment as he shot the chains holding his legs and walked over to the table and grabbed the pen connected to the paper that was actually a computer that you write on. Something about it didn't seem right.
" Spike…don't…do it…." Faye whispered, coughing more and more. It only sounded like raspy breathing
Spike lifted the pen from the computer, staring down at his signature that he couldn't take back if he tried. Something was seriously not right. If he could end the syndicate with this then why not sign it. Spike spun around at the sound of footsteps and clapping. A man in a black suit walked towards them clapping and looking very smug.
" Well done Spike Spiegel. Well done indeed." The smug man said as he walked past Julia
Faye jumped a little when Julia's hand shot up and grabbed the man's pants leg. He stared down at her with the most utmost disgust.
" We've done it Michele, we've done it…" She whispered struggling to sit up; Spike could barely look at her.
Michele laughed and pulled a gun out of his suit pocket, " I'm doing it doll, you failed."
Michele jumped back as his gun was kicked out of his hand. Spike only got one punch in before Michele's moves began to mimic his own. It was water against water, neither one was getting a punch in.
" Who the hell is this guy Julia?" Spike grunted as he dodged another punch and went in to punch Michele but missed once again
" He…He is the man you just signed the syndicate over to…in your will." Julia whispered as she backed away from the fight clutching her stomach
" I signed what?!" Spike shouted taking his eyes off Michele for one second, which was enough for him to get a good punch in
With the same smug smirk on his face Michele walked over to Spike, staring down at him as he wiped the blood from his lip, " Let me reintroduce myself. My name is Michele Bianchi. I am now the leader of the galaxy syndicate. Well, that is as soon as I kill you." Bianchi pulled another gun from his other suit pocket, as soon as the gun was level with Spike's head it was shot out of his hand
Julia stood leaning on a stack of crates with her gun pointed at where Michele's gun once was. Spike's eyes narrowed as Julia turned her gun towards Faye.
" Would you forget your damn vendetta against the girl and shoot Spiegel! The syndicate is ours, just shoot him!" Michele shouted
Spike stood and took a step forward, ready to attack Julia if she showed any signs of pulling the trigger. Faye looked up at Julia with half closed eyes, consciousness slipping from her. "Do it." She whispered, forcing a last smirk upon her face.