Chapter 3 - All Play and No Work
Disclaimer: I don't own "Cowboy Bebop"
Spike woke up the next morning alone. Only greeted by a nearly cold half-eaten breakfast and a note from Faye that read:
Remember, what's yours is mine too!
I'll be in the pool area getting some sun if you need me.
xoxo ~ Faye
"Great." Spike said sarcastically following with a yawning stretch. He fell back on to the bed.
Faye began to drift asleep, the lack of people in the pool area that morning was too peaceful for her. Especially since she wasn't too much of a morning person anyway, with nothing crazy or loud going on around her, she wouldn't be able to stay awake.
She sighed 'I wonder how long I've been outside?' she thought to herself, pulling her sunglasses over her eyes. 'He needs to hurry his ass up and get over here. Well, I did make it sound more like if you want to… Oh well, I guess I did need some time to myself to think. ..About what's going to happen once this is all over...'
She rolled around to lay on her front so the backside of her would tan too. 'I bet everything will go back to normal. Yeah, once we've all got our take of the money, everything-... will be just the way it was.' her eyes filled almost to the brim with tears 'We won't stay like this… because of her, even though she's gone, he still loves her. He'll be in love with her until the day he dies.'
Faye grinned to herself, trying to ease some of the painful facts she knew she had to come to terms with. 'And until that day comes it'll be too late. Come to think of it, he has had quite a few close calls...' She thought about the last time, his fight with Vicious.
'Honestly, I thought it would've gotten through to him how I felt. But no, all he could think about was avenging Julia's death. I remember when I finally pulled myself together to go after him... He was on the ground, motionless when I got there, I panicked, and he wasn't even breathing at first. I-'
"Good morning, beautiful." Spike greeted.
Faye was so deep into thought at that moment he startled her. "Oh, hi," she responded automatically, trying to suppress the horrible wrenching feeling in her chest.
Faye rolled back over into her original position.
He sat down beside her and put his hand on her stomach, but only for a second before hey threw his hand up as if he had touched fire. "Ow, you're really hot, Faye,"
"So I here…" She joked. She knew he was being goofy; it made her previous thoughts slowly start to melt away.
"No, I mean you feel like you were stuck into an oven for Thanks Giving dinner." Spike picked her up "And there's only one way to put out a fire!" then started walking to the pool.
"Put me down! Spike, no!" she playfully smacked at his shoulder.
He jumped into to the pool.
Faye surfaced first, screaming and cursing about the cold water.
Spike followed shortly wearing a huge silly smile, accented perfectly with Faye's sunglasses clenched between his teeth.
"You idiot!" she laughed, snatching her sunglasses from him and laying them neatly on poolside.
"Now you're a wet turkey!" he joked.
"I'll show you a wet turkey!" she splashed water in his face. He splashed her back. It soon became a splash-war that looked like it wouldn't end.
On one hand, Faye was tired and didn't want to spend the whole day playing like kids. On the other hand, she was also very stubborn and didn't want him to 'get the last laugh'.
So she did what anyone like that would do, she jumped on him and pushed him underwater.
She started laughing at him and cheerfully stated "I win!"
Spike shook his head, shaking off excess water from his hair "That's not fair! I want a rematch!" he started laughing, realizing he was acting like a child.
He scooped his arms around her waist and pulled her close to form a suggested truce.
She threw her arms around his should in a suggestive agreement.
They're laughing soon came to a halt as he ran his fingers through her hair.
"You know, you are good at acting." he teased.
"Whose acting?" she replied with an almost shy undertone.
He smiled, knowing she knew what he meant. She leaned in and kissed him.
Spike kissed her back, pushing her against the wall of the pool. Faye slowly ran her hands down his chest, the way her fingernails softy touched his skin made him want more.
But she stopped once she reached his shorts, teasing at the waistband. Almost as if she was contemplating something.
Spike half grinned and lightly kissed her lips.
Faye bit her lip as she slid his shorts down and took him into her hand.
"You sure you want to do this?" he whispered into her ear as he positioned himself.
She gave him an unsure nod, wrapping her arms around his shoulders.
He rested one hand around her waist while the other positioned his manhood against the opening of her entrance.
"I'll go real slow, okay?"
Faye closed her eyes and breathlessly whispered "'Kay."
He started with a small thrust, Faye gasped slightly.
'Man, nothin'. Damn tight fucking hymen.' Spike shoved harder this time, and gained about half an inch.
"Fuck! Ow, no, no, Spike, I can't do this-" she shrieked, forcing him away.
"Damn it all, Faye! Whats wrong now?!"
"Whats wrong? What kind of question is that?! It fucking hurts, you son ova bitch!" she hoisted herself onto the pool's edge.
"No shit, Sherlock! -God," he grabbed his hair out of frustration again "that's the second time, Faye!"
"Don't you understand how bad it hurts if you don't get relieved?!" he pulled himself out of the pool.
"Where are you going?" she asked half-heartedly.
"To find a hole to crawl in."
"To fuck?"
"Of course, dipshit. 'crawl in a hole and die', sound familiar?" Spike scooped up a huge beach towel from the lounge chair and wrapped himself in it from the neck down.
knock, knock
"Go away!"
The door creaked as it opened "Spike?"
"Haven't ever heard of giving someone privacy?"
"You're not even using it..." Faye sat down on the counter
"And? I want to be alone." Spike grumbled.
"What's your problem? Its not my fault you're always hard when you come around me."
He glared "Apparently even someone like me can get desperate."
She jumped off the counter, huffing "Fine, be a jerk."
"Sorry, I can't control what comes out of my mouth."
"You control what goes in mine pretty well."
"What?" he stared dumbfounded for a minute "Oh," he shrugged "whatever. I don't want it, virgins suck at giving head."
"Why do you always have to be such an asshole?!" she shoved him back a foot.
He grabbed her by the arms "Why are you such a bitch?! What are you scared of?"
She shook her head, adverting her eyes "Nothing."
"That's bullshit, we all know it. You have to get yourself together, Faye. I'm tired of putting up with you." he roughly turned her head towards him.
She stomped his foot and left the room.
"Faye, I'm not done talking to you."
"I'm done talking to you, Spike! I'm done with this damn boat! This is the dumbest thing I've done in my whole life!" she bawled, throwing his clothes at him "Get out! I don't want to be anywhere near you!"
"What the hell is wrong with you? Why is it so hard for you to come to terms with the truth?" He dressed himself and walked for the door.
"Where are you going?"
"You told me to leave. So I'm leaving." he waved goodbye "I don't want you to feel alone, Faye. But I can't help you when you're constantly pushing me away."
Faye fell face-down on the bed, burying her face in the pillow to muffle the sound of her cry.
knock, knock
"Go away!" she screamed at the top of her lunges.
"Faye, its Victoria. Are you alright?"
"Geez, you look stressed." Richard sat on the barstool beside Spike.
"Faye is the biggest bitch." his face was impassive as he took a long drag of his cigarette.
"Come on, man, that's your wife. She can't be that bad if you've made it though this far."
"She is. All she ever does is think about herself, what she can get out of something. What she wants."
"He never considers me in anything he does. It's like I don't matter to him and then the fact that-"
Spike slammed his glass on the bar "We're always arguing. One of us will go off somewhere. And we end up making up later."
"Then we start arguing again. It's a never ending cycle." Faye threw her hands into the air.
"Doesn't your love for him out way the little things like that?" Victoria asked.
"Of course. I wouldn't be here still if I didn't love him…"
"Can't you remember a time when you were happy with her?" Richard downed his shot with a disgusted look.
"No." then Spike thought back to the final showdown with Vicious. He remembered falling out of the window and walking a few paces before his vision went black.
As my mind started to drift from this world, I heard her call out my name. It pulled me back. She shook me so hard. I could hear from the tone of her voice that she was sobbing. It was the first time I've ever heard her sound scared. She begged me not to die. Not to leave her alone.'
'I felt like I could hear her talking to me every day. Singing sometimes. It was still a little off key. But, to me, it was soothing. And it helped keep me alert.'
Spike swallowed 'I woke up a month later in Urgent Care. She was sitting next to the hospital bed reading a book. It looked like she hadn't been sleeping but to me, at that moment, she was the most beautiful thing in the universe. I realized that no matter what, she'll be there beside me. Whenever I needed her, even if I was sure I wouldn't. I can't believe I forgot about that so fast. After she did so much for me.'
Both Spike and Faye said simultaneously "I have to go."
Okay! I recently bought a Dell Insiron notebook, so I'm back in buisness, baby! I know it took me a really long time but chapter 3 is finally done! I've already started on chapter 4 and it should be done before the week is over!
