Chapter 6: Ruby Red & Diamond White
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"Faye, you are my beautiful diamond and I will make sure no man breaks you" was one of her grandmother's favorite things to say to her.
"Baby doll you are going to be an independent woman" her grandmother would always say, repeating it like an old song.
But now sitting in this bed, naked, Faye felt as though she had let her grandmother down and broken the silent promise between them. She didn't dare open her eyes to confirm what she was regretting now.
"I'm never going to let a man get the best of me, Granma!"
Faye heard her own childish promise play back in her mind. She had always felt so alone with out any siblings and no parents to make her feel special, but she had had her grandmother to take care of her and love her. But even though she had made that promise to her grandmother she still wanted to feel real love from a man and not what her grandmother had warned her about, how men lied and cheated just to share your bed for the night and in the morning they would be gone with not a single love word to be found. She wanted love but she wanted to stay independent, both fighting each other to control her. She was lonely that was true, but did she really want to belong to a man? No she didn't. Her grandmother had died when she was 15 and how she missed her everyday.
Faye opened her eyes to look out the ceiling to floor window; the sun was low dipping into the horizon. She blinked away a tear in memory of her grandmother, as she inhaled a breath she could feel the soreness between her legs and exhaled. She couldn't take her eyes off the beautiful sunset.
"From were I'm sitting you look like you have been dusted in gold, such a sight to see" Faye heard the bodiless voice say from behind her.
She turned around, clutching the sheet to her chest and set her eyes on Spike as he sat in the shadows across from her holding a glass of wine, deep dark wine. She could barely make out his facial features in the cast shadow, but she could see traces of arrogance on his to handsome face. It embarrassed her to be looked at with those all knowing eyes, so she turned her back to him.
"How long have you been up?" she asked him not looking at him but speaking over her shoulder while she fixed the sheet around her body.
"I hardly sleep so I watched you sleep for a while and then got up to pull back the curtain and get a glass of wine" he said watching her closely, so closely that he could still see the traces of the pink on her cheeks from when she had looked at him.
"Would you like some wine?" he asked her while he set his glass on the small crystal table next to him.
"No thank you" She rose as she spoke and pulled the sheet wrapped around her more closely as she padded across the room toward the bathroom. As she made her way closer to the bathroom door, Spike stood in front of her and looked down at her. He smiled at her and she looked down at the floor were her toes just barely peeked out from under the sheet. She could feel the blood rush to her cheeks as she remembered everything they had done.
"Excuse me, I need to use the bathroom" she said still not looking at him. But she felt him move aside and let her pass. She walked past him and exhaled in relief of being able to hide from him for a while until she felt something pull at her sheet. All of a sudden she felt the rush of cool air on her naked body and her eyes went wide. She spun around to look at him and saw him with the same devious smile he had since the moment she had met him. The shock of his movements had left her speechless and dumbfounded and naked. She regained her wits a second later and dived for the sheet only to miss it by few centimeters, landing on Spike.
"Give me back the sheet!" she yelled at him as he kept it from her reach.
"What for? You don't have anything to hide from me; I touched and kissed every part of your body" he said as his intense eyes bored into hers. He grabbed her wrist and lifted her up off of him; she could feel the tension in his body.
"Did you think this was a one night stand Faye?" he looked down at her with the same easy face but the strong under current of anger in his eyes.
"I-I-I didn't think anything" she stuttered, feeling anger pulse inside her. Who was he to tell her if it had been a one night stand or not. She made the decisions not him, so what did it matter to him?
"Let go of me" she said with her voice completely steady, looking up at him with fire in her beautiful green eyes. Confident that he could not scare her, she didn't want anything that he didn't want to give her. She was making it easy for him to walk away but yet here he was holding on to her as if she mattered. Faye had never mattered to anyone; the only thing that mattered to anyone was her body. No one had ever wanted Faye for her mind; all anyone wanted from her was her body.
"If I don't? What will you do? Will you scream? Hit me? Well Faye? What are you going to do to me if I don't let you go? Tell me!" he lost his control and yelled at her, something he had wanted to avoid. She put up a front made of pure control and calm but underneath she was fragile and something inside of Spike wanted to protect her and care for her. Her body was beautiful but he wondered what kept Faye awake night after night. Spike wanted to know everything that went through her mind.
He felt her shrink against his hand gripping her wrist; she was going to lash out at him for his sudden out burst of anger.
"Don't yell at me! You don't know anything about me! Who do you think you are?!" She screamed at him and dug her nails into his arm and bicep hoping to be set loose. He wasn't easing up so she put pressure on her nails and drew blood. As Faye watched the blood drip from the punctures that her nails had caused him, she wasn't aware of the tears spilling from her emerald eyes.
"I'm sorry…I'm sorry…" she muttered as she cried into Spikes bare chest.
"Faye…" he whispered her name into her hair and felt her hot tears sting his warm skin.
"Faye I want more from you than just your body. I want you to know that your body isn't the only beautiful thing about you." Spike spoke past her head but made sure she was listening.
"I once fell in love with a beautiful angel and I thought that she would be my world but she betrayed me and since that day I have learned to accept that a beautiful face could never substitute a beautiful soul and although this is something I should have learned early on in life I was fooled. I won't make the same mistake again, I won't fail love twice, Faye" He looked up to the ceiling and exhaled. Spike looked down into the woman in his arms and Faye looked up at him, into his beautiful eyes filled with something not from this world and gave him a small smile. Spike brushed away Faye's tears with the pad of his thumb and traced her soft lips; he pressed his lips to her warm pink ones and smiled.
"When you're out of sight, I'll keep you in mind Spike" Faye said walking into the bathroom with out the sheet but her clothes in hand.
"When you're out of sight, I'll keep you in mind Faye" Spike said after her.
Faye looked back at Spike and closed the bathroom door. Faye bowed her head hiding her pink cheeks behind her hair and smiled to her self. She had finally found happiness for her lonely soul.
"I'm looking forward to our life together Faye" Spike spoke into the darkness of the room and smiled, placing the white rose in Faye's glass of wine.
The End
Authors Note:
Hey Everybody!
So after almost 2 years I finally finished this story.
I had not planned on taking me that long but I guess things never happen the way you expect them too.
So I hope you enjoyed this story please review if you have the time.
And I guess I just want to say thank you for reading and that I'm sorry it took me so long.
Also I had no idea how to finish this story because I got ideas for other cowboy bebop fanfics so this story ended up being very open ended.
Sad to say I'm disappointed
But either way I might come back to this story and fix it or end it differently.
But I will be writing more.
So stay tuned
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Ps. Sorry for any grammar & spelling errors I'm really busy and I try to proof read but I just didn't have the time with this chapter
Please forgive ;D