Disclaimer: I do not own Cowboy Bebop just the words below bar pieces taken straight from the script.

I wanted to throw out something this month so I raked through my backburner files & found this: a fic I came up with after first watching the anime a while back.

Enjoy!

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"I'm gonna have to pass this time"

Jet turned to stare incredulously at his partner who was leaning against the rail next to the hatch. Usually the carefree bounty hunter would jump at the chance to catch a big bounty and, with the price tag at eight million woolongs, for him to pass it up in favour of doing probably nothing but sleeping on the couch was definitely a surprise.

"You're leaving me alone with her?" He asked unsure if he was hearing things correctly referring to their other, self-proclaimed partner.

"Yeah, what's the problem? She's all gung-ho about it" Spike pointed out knowing that the more zeros to the tag the more eager she would be to try and bag the bounty herself. As in all for herself

"I'm not the type to be led around by a woman" Jet grumbled.

"Then you'll have to lead her around" Spike suggested.

"I'm even less the type to do that"

"You know, Jet, eight million is easier to divide by two than by three" Faye butted in not caring that they were talking about her as she slipped her hairband on. "It's a nice even number"

Plus a bigger share for yourself, the two male bounty hunters thought simultaneously. Despite the fact that they had let the woman stay on their ship, very grudgingly in the case of Spike, Faye had a habit of hogging the few bounties she had snagged solo to herself only to lose it to gambling. Not to mention she would also clean the fridge of all edibles even if it was Ein's dog food.

"Wow, I'm really surprised" Faye mocked looking pointedly at Spike. "A tough guy like you, afraid of hackers"

"Hackers are boring. And chasing them is more boring" Spike answered in way of explanation not at all ruffled by Faye's insult having had several bounty hunts on hackers before.

"Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses. This one is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet" Faye proclaimed looking back on her time at high school. "So catching him will be a breeze"

The males of the Bebop, including Ein, had to wonder what rock she had been living under for how long to assume hackers were something like that. The hackers Spike and Jet had hunted previously were scrawny rats looking akin to accountants that had just been fired and were getting their own back on the system.

"It might have been like that when you were young, but that was a long time ago" Jet scoffed reaching for his pack of smokes on the counter in front of him.

"What are you trying to say, Jet?" Faye asked coolly a subtle sharpness entering her voice that only Spike managed to pick out. "I'm starting to get old, like you?"

"Well you can't tell a woman's age by looking a-aack!"

Jet's comment was cut off by Faye placing the heel of her boot firmly into the space between the pads on his boot crushing the soft flesh beneath.

"And you can't tell what a woman will do by looking, so you'll have to be very careful" Faye said before walking off in a huff.

"Same with a snake!" Jet shot at her retreating back as he nursed his sore foot.

"You two make a lovely couple" Spike remarked chuckling in amusement at the scene before him. "I'll expect a souvenir from planet Earth"

Ignoring Faye's impatient call, Jet light his cigarette and took a calming draft before replying to Spike's remark.

"Nothing good comes from the Earth anymore" He said exhaling a cloud of white smoke. "So you'll just have to find something for yourself during your search"

Spike, in the process of pulling out his own pack of smokes out of his pocket, stared down at the ex-detective in shock and surprise.

"What?" He exclaimed.

"You heard me" Jet replied undaunted by the look he was receiving from him. "It was your ship that ate up most of our savings not even chasing Decker"

Spike growled. He had managed to get himself into a fight with three brothers who were also bounty hunters and had messed up his prairie oyster whilst they were roughing it against a deep space trucker. In retaliation, the three brothers messed up his ship so badly that Jet had to literally take it apart just to fix it. Now he was really wishing he had taken that thick wad of woolongs from VT when the trucker offered it.

"Fine" He resigned stomping after Jet towards the hanger. "But we're definitely buying some meat if we're having bell peppers again!"

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How was that for an appetizer? It was originally a oneshot but I wanted to tweek & update it before publishing so I broke it down in several places. Providing my job doesn't over tax me, I shoud hopefuly get the rest of it done within the week.

Review if possible & 'til next time

Watch this space, Cowboys!