Men are From Mars, Women are From Earth (Remix)

I don\'t own Cowboy Bebop, it belongs to a guy that I like to call Nabeshin II.

Part Two: Heaven is Not Enough

Spike’s POV

Julia was dead and I finally defeated Vicious. I know I did, I shot him, saw him go down. It’s over; I can finally die in peace. I’m tired, so tired.

I say my last word. “Bang!”

I fall to the ground and everything goes black.

Vicious’ POV

He missed! Ha! I’m alive!

This is great! Mom and dad will be there soon Diana! I just have to wait for my silly Julia.

Oh, my shoulder is killing me.

Now to see where Spike went, I take a little peek. He’s on the stairs and out like a light, Julia’s sleepy potion worked. But there are some guys down there. Time to get scary.

I burst out laughing, pretending to be downright evil. My sword was covered in tomato juice. I come down the stairs and put my foot on the fallen Spike’s back. “See this blood that is dripping on my Katana! It’s Spikes! Spike is dead! I killed him and I enjoyed it too! You should have heard it, he was asking for mercy, pleading for his life. Then, I just gutted him like a fish, I was laughing as I did it too! It was simply beautiful to see him bleed to death at my feet. That’s right! This man here is nothing but an empty shell, drained of all life! I loved it, I loved breaking his spirit and making him cry. I killed him and he\'s dead!”

They all gasp.

They’re all afraid of me.

I shouted; “Get out of here! All of you, before you die! The elders had bombs placed throughout the building!\" Actually, it was Julia\'s doing, she is kind of like a ninja.

I continued to yell; \"They’ll detonate soon! Get out while you still have the chance! Spike and I had a pact, if he goes I go! But I want to go in a blaze of Hellfire!”

The remaining men ran away.

I took my foot off Spike’s back. “Phew! Now, we’ll have to wait for Julia, Spike. Yes, that’s right, she’s alive! She didn\'t die! As for you, my friend, we’re putting you away for a while. You need to chill out, literally!”

I wiped the tomato juice from my sword. Then I bent down and wiped the blood from his face and began to clean his wounds. Which seemed to be healing slowly, this is weird. “I’m sorry, I am so sorry. But I am done with the past. I hope one day you’ll meet our Diana, and then you’ll understand why things have to be this way. Actually Julia, Mao, and I cooked up this plan. Yes, Mao, is actually that Mike Yamada guy. I let Mao live, I’ll tell you about it later. Mao helped me out after my family was thoughtlessly slaughtered in front of me. So, I’m letting you live and I refuse to kill anyone, I will never ever take another human life.”

\"I don\'t hate you anymore.\" I started crying over him. \"I love you Spike, I want you to live. Please, live for me. Hang on Julia will be here. I chose to move on and you need to move on too. Because Diana and I saw you, that July. The Priestess at the orphanage let me take her out that night to see the fireworks in Tharsis. Diana was curious, she peeked in the gazebo, I followed her. I saw everything, that girl proposing to you. You shared a kiss, which made me a bit ill. But you two looked so perfect, it would have been better if she was older. Then later, the girl wished upon a star, she wished for you. What could I do? I guess, I just wanted you to finally be loved in this weird twisted way. Stay with me Spike, don\'t break this girl\'s heart, she needs you.\"

Julia’s POV With a little flashback...

\"Have a nice rest... Sucker.\" I mutter sarcastically to myself as I smoked, sitting on top of the back seat of my new Rambler convertible.

“It was just a dream...” I’m such a liar. I fell out of love with Vicious, fell in love with Spike, now I got Vicious back and he’s changed.

I looked at Spike one last time and closed my eyes. Those darts worked pretty well.

End of Flashback...

I faked my death, so we can be free, Vicious and I. I told Vicious to tell his men to use tranquilizer darts, so he can come for me. Spike took me to the hospital and I snuck out with no one watching. I’m good at sneaking. Spike, I loved you once, but I will never love you again. When I first met you, I hated your guts. But now, I don\'t want to carry a grudge against you. We’ll still be friends, after you cool off. I think that will take a long time. But you’ll find that certain someone. I don\'t think it would be Faye though, I think she was hitting on me when I first met her.

Another flashback...

I told Vicious about Diana 4 months ago. I couldn’t keep a secret any longer.

During my exile, I spent some time on Venus for a while before going to Callisto. Diana was born on Venus; I took her to Mars after and dropped her off at an orphanage in Neo Manhattan. I knew she would be safe there, but when I dropped her off I heard her crying. I couldn’t leave her there for long so I had to find some way to get her father back.

I remembered that night, it was June 29, 2068. My phone was ringing off the hook. I answered it and on the other end was Vicious.

“Julia. Julia are you there?” He said softly.

“What do you want?” I snap.

“Can you come over?” He asked me innocently.

“Why?” I didn’t want to be bothered.

He sounded like that lost little boy that I met years ago. “I have to be with someone right now. I ordered a pizza with everything, I got about 4 pints of Ben and Jerry’s, and I am going to watch Katharine Hepburn films all night. Please come over, I need you DiCaprio.”

He sounded like he needed some company.

Something told me to come to him. \"I\'ll be there in a few minutes.\"

I came over to his apartment in a rush and I knocked on the door.

“Come in I’ve been expecting you.\" He said.

I come in and see him dressed in sweats and a UCONN Women’s Huskies Basketball sweatshirt. His hair is a mess and it looks like he’s been crying. He must have been crying over Spike, or maybe his mother leaving him, or maybe me.

I walk over to him. “Vicious, is that you?”

He poured some wine and offered me a glass. “Yes.”

I took the glass and sat beside him. “Which film are we going to see first?”

He took a slice of pizza. “I was thinking of The Philadelphia Story, it was her best.”

I took a slice of pepperoni which was my favorite. “Sounds good to me.”

We finished the pizza and ice cream, watched every film Kate Hepburn did, and had a few more glasses of wine.

“I think you stayed too long, you can leave me if you want.” He was a little drunk.

“Vicious.” Suddenly I put down my glass.

“Go, I’m not feeling too well.” He whined.

I don’t know if I was drunk, or maybe it’s because I’m Leonardo’s granddaughter, utterly irresistible. I started kissing him, slowly laying him down on the couch. \"Daniel.\"

Suddenly he broke free.

“Please no, don’t call me that name.” I took his hand and dragged him off to the bedroom. “DiCaprio?\" I ran my fingers through his hair. \"Oh Julia, don\'t do this.”

I laid him down gently on the bed and kissed him. “I miss you.”

“What about him?” He muttered.

“I don\'t care about Spike, I want you! I made the wrong choice, please take me back.” I growled and began kissing his neck. Then, I started to nip at the tender skin.

“No! Stop!” He wriggled under my grip.

“I only had a few glasses my sweet V-Chan. I want you back Dani.” I whispered in his ear.

“Stop it!” He shouted.

I took off his shirt and threw it on the floor.

“Give in.” I said kissing him again.

“Do you love me?” He kissed me back.

“Yes, I love you. I love you my golden heart. I love you more than ever.” I gazed into his eyes.

“Liar! You always lie!” He bit me on the chin.

\"That hurt, but I enjoyed it.\" I pinned his arms down. “I’m not lying! I’ll take you back.”

“Julia you\'re hurting me!” He screamed.

I let go quickly.

“I’m sorry.” I whispered in his ear. “Let’s continue, okay.”

“All right.” He gave in.

We undressed each other; I looked into his blue gray eyes and ran my hand through his silver hair. I laid him down and started kissing him all over again.

I turned on the radio and Layla was playing. “It’s our song.”

“Yeah, I remember the first time, I lost my virginity to you at 15.” We began to relive that day again. \"DiCaprio!\"

“Vicious!” I yelled out in joy as we made love.

We continued our lovemaking and that’s when I promised him that after I hunt down and kill Spike I would come back.

But things changed and something wonderful happened. Diana.

February 26, 2069 at Mike Yamada\'s Safehouse, I gave birth to Diana Juliana DiCaprio Hepburn. I stayed there with Diana for a month, then I took off and went back to Mars. Back to Little Italy in Neo Manhattan, Diana will be safe here.

This was the place where I was born and raised. Until my father ran off and my mother commited suicide.

I dropped Diana off, then I ran, I ran as far as Callisto, so I could figure out what to do. While I was there, I met Gren, strange guy, but why was he playing the song that Daniel wrote for me?

The two years pass, then I called him crying on the phone, I couldn\'t take it anymore. “Remember that night, we spent some time together. Layla was playing and then things, you know, one thing led to another.”

“What the hell are you talking about? Oh I remember, two years ago. You were drunk.” The voice said on the other line.

I growled; “Well, honey, I want to see you tonight at my apartment. Be there or else!”

“Or else what?” He said sarcastically.

“Or else, I’ll come over and do something really bad to you! Like how about I shove your Katana up your ass and pound you with it!” I demanded and hung up.

That night I heard a knock at my door it was Vicious. “What did you call me about? Have you found Spike? Did you kill him?”

I looked him in the eyes; they were colder than ever before. Maybe this news will turn him around so he can spare Spike\'s life.

I lit a cigarette. “I want you to go to The Demeter Orphanage, there is a 2 year old girl named Diana there. I want you to see her.”

He growled at me, the cold turning into a blazing fire. “Is she Spike’s brat?”

I stomped out the cigarette and took a deep breath. I wanted to keep calm, forget it. I remember when he first found out about the affair that I had with Spike. He held the gun to my head and told me that I had to kill Spike so I could be free. Either Spike dies or we both do, well, I don\'t want to die and I don\'t want to kill. So I just cracked! I wanted to jump him and tear him limb from limb.

I threw him violently to the couch, pinning him down, screaming at him in frustration. “That is enough! You’re making me crazy!\"

This made Vicious very scared. “Julia, please stop it!”

That’s when I slapped him hard across the face. “Wake up Vicious!” I really didn’t like that, but I just wanted to wake him up.

He rubbed his cheek. “You hit me!” He got up to leave.

“Don’t you dare walk out on me!” I took Vicious by the shoulders and pinned him against the wall and kissed him hard. I wanted to be brutal this time.

\"Stop it!\" He broke away a little.

\"You want to leave? Well, I\'m not going to let you go.\" I still had him pinned.

“Try to stop me!” I could see he was trembling a little.

“You’re trembling. Are you afraid of me little Daniel Hepburn? Are you afraid of your sweet angel Julia? The young girl whose mother hung herself after her father ran off with another woman. What happened to you Vicious, was it Titan? Was it the affair with Spike that broke you? Is it power? No more syndicate Vicious, I own you! Your soul is mine!\" I seemed to have scared him.

“No, I’m not afraid of you. You don’t scare me one bit DiCaprio.” He was calming himself down. \"Now can you let me go?\"

\"You don\'t scare me anymore Vicious either, I\'m no longer afraid of you. Besides I am the one you should be afraid of.\" He called me by my last name I hate that sometimes. I backed away, but I had him by the wrist. “Now listen to me, I am not a weak damsel in distress! I’m not some object that you two idiots can just fight over! Spike is nothing to me now! She’s your kid! Yours!”

“Mine? How do you know?” He asked.

“She has your eyes and I think she’s got your confidence. Look, when I dropped her off at the orphanage she started crying. She didn’t want me to leave. So I was thinking that you and I could patch things up.” I said calmly.

“What does that mean, if I see this kid everything will be fine.” He said coming closer. I suddenly let go and he embraced me.

Things will be changing.

I took his face in my hands. “Go see her Vicious. If you go see her, I’ll come back to you, and we can escape together. We can be free; we’ll destroy the syndicate from the inside. Don’t you want that?”

He looked a bit puzzled. “We can both be free?”

I nodded; “Yes, we can.”

“What about Spike?” He said coldly.

“Let’s not kill Spike, but I want you to take care of him. So why don’t we put him away for a while.” I touched his face.

“Like in a mental institution?” He joyfully asked.

“No, I was thinking of putting him to sleep.” I smirked;

Maybe a nice cooling period would do him good.

“Suspended animation?” Vicious smiled. “Julia, I never seen this side of you in a while. God, you can be such a fiend. I think I like it.”

“I love you.” I gave him a kiss and I saw color return to his face.

He held me tight. \"I love you too.\"

\"I\'m sorry that I was rough with you.\" I said softly. \"I can be a sadist sometimes.\"

He put his head on my shoulder. \"Apology accepted, my darling psycho.\"

That night we hatched our elaborate plan that will change everything.

Back to the present time.

Stop waxing nostalgic Julia! I was watching the stars fade away into the dawn. I waited for daybreak to meet Vicious. From the shadows, I watched remaining members beginning to run out of the building. I\'ll put the fear of god in them. I rushed into The Red Dragon Headquarters.

I wasn’t afraid, they all stood there with terror in their eyes as I raised my Derringer. \"Hello boys.\"

One of them spoke; \"White Cougar?\"

I gave them an evil smirk; \"If any of you tell a living soul, I will hunt you down like Mad Perriot and kill every one of you! I\'ll even do it with a smile.\"

They all quivered and nodded; \"As you wish, we will never tell anybody.\"

I put the Derringer away. \"Good, now scurry away like the rats you are!\" I shouted as they raced off.

When I came inside the headquarters I felt like I stepped into one of the rings of Hell. There were dead bodies covered in blood, riddled with bullets. Mangled faces of people I knew. There were arms and legs separated from their bodies. Sinewy pieces of muscle and flesh, some of that flesh was roasting. There were broken body parts strewn among the debris, blood on the walls with the bullet holes. It wasn’t that new to me, I’m used to it. I was an assassin, as well as a medic; I have taken and saved lives.

Anyway, I knew who was responsible for this destruction.

This had to be Spike’s doing. “Spike what the hell have you done? You destroyed the syndicate! Goddamn it we’re free at last!” Then I felt some remorse. “Rest in peace guys, you’re finally free!”

“Julia DiCaprio you get the hell up here before Spike dies on me!” Vicious screamed on the speakerphone. Well, Vicious told me that he’d be on the top floor.

I can’t get to the top floor because the elevator was broken. “Damn you Spike!” I walked out of the building and went through the other entrance. One that I knew of it was a secret place. “Coming my sweet!”

I go up the stairs and see Vicious bending over Spike who was out cold.

Vicious calls me over, “Julia, get over here now!”

I shout over to him. “It looked like there was survivors.”

Vicious looked up. “Yeah, there were but they all ran away. Well, actually I scared them away.”

“Yeah and I scared them some more.” I see the wound in his shoulder. “Vicious, you’re hurt.” I tore off a piece of my shirt and wrapped it around the wound.

Vicious grumbled, “Hey Julia, stop it. Don’t worry about me. He must have been aiming for my heart, but he got my shoulder, again.”

I looked around, hoping that there were no more survivors sneaking around. “I thought he was a good shooter, I guess that drug we gave him threw him off balance.”

I could see Vicious struggling a little, “We have to get out of here before the building goes up. By the way, I looted the safe, hacked into the computers and sent all the money to a bank on Venus. Under the alias of Daniel Hepburn.”

I smirked; “I love you.”

“I know princess.” He shrugged, “We have to live on something. It’s ours anyway, this was our syndicate. Now it’s crap! I’ll have to do something with this place later. We have to be quick before the authorities get here and we can’t let anyone see us.”

I kneeled down and wrapped Spike up in his long coat. “Let’s be quick about it.”

“Jules, let’s get him to the hospital. Remember that little promise that I made to Mr. Yamada.” Vicious said as we finally lifted Spike off the stairs and put him in a blanket.

We raced down to the car as fast as we can.

I touched his shoulder, “You have to get that looked at.”

I saw him smirk, “Don’t worry I will.” I helped Vicious put Spike into the backseat of my Rambler. “Nice car.”

“Thanks, my old one was blown up. This one runs better and it’s faster. It also has a better security system.” I’ll miss my old car, but this one is really cool.

“You have such a cool car, that just makes me love you more.” He said in an airhead-like voice. He was joking around. I never saw him with a sense of humor before.

I said in a drawl, “Well baby, she purrs like a kitten and drives like a dream. She also changes colors, from blue to green. Like Gollum if you strangle him.”

“Okay, enough.” Vicious grabbed his cell phone. “I’ll call the cryogenics wing of the hospital. He’ll be in deep freeze, while we make our escape.”

“I’ll be driving.” I said as I opened the door.

Vicious finished his call. “No, I will drive.”

“You are in no condition, Daniel!” I used his real name.

“Let’s just get to the damn hospital, Jujube. I don’t want him to die!” He’s serious about this redemption stuff.

“Aye, aye captain! Man, I hate it when you call me that.” I rushed into the drivers seat slamming the door.

\"How about I just keep calling you DiCaprio?\" He said fastening his seatbelt. “Are the explosives in place?”

I was really careful about that one. “Yeah, they\'ll go off in 20 minutes.”

He took one last glance at the silent building.

A place of ill repute, eh, it we called it home.

I tore through the streets like a madwoman in my new car. “What should we tell his friends?”

He looked in the backseat. “We’ll come over later to tell them about Spike’s condition.”

Then I remembered the reason why he changed. “After we leave the hospital, we’ll get Diana and leave Mars for a while.” Then I froze. \"I left my coat and passport at Annie\'s.\"

Vicious took out a black coat and something else. \"I have them right here.\"

I was relieved; \"Good. We can get the hell out of here now.\"

Vicious’ POV/Flashback

I remembered how it began.

She asked me to go to the orphanage to see this kid of ours. The orphanage was this brownstone on the corner of 73rd and Battery Park Avenue in Neo Manhattan. The brownstone was a little weathered, but it seemed like a decent place for children. The surrounding area wasn’t too bad either, mostly small shops, bakeries, eateries, churches, apartment houses, and a few movie theaters. It was the little Italy section of the city. Julia grew up here in a little brick house that was next to a movie theater. The theater stands, but the house is a parking lot.

When I got there, the nuns looked at me and smiled, they weren\'t nuns, they were priestesses. Wiccan priestesses.

The high priestess who ran the orphanage came up to me, she was kind. She looked a little tough though. She was stocky and had sky blue eyes. “Can I help you sir?”

“I am here to see Diana DiCaprio.” I asked.

“Diana DiCaprio Hepburn?” Julia used my last name well isn’t that nice.

“Yes, I’m her father. I just want to see her.” I hope they will let me see her.

“She’s right this way.” The priestess gave me a smile and led me down a long hallway.

She stopped in front of a door and opened it into a play area where children were playing. “Diana is over there.”

I looked around and I saw the children playing together, except for one. “When did she come here?”

The woman said softly, “She was dropped off here 2 years ago by her mother. A golden haired woman with the saddest blue eyes, she was very beautiful too. She had told me that her husband was very ill and that she couldn’t provide for her. So, what did happen to you Mr. Hepburn?”

I couldn’t mention the Red Dragons. “I was in a coma for a while, seriously injured by my brother. I had recently awakened, it was my wife who woke me up by telling me that we have a daughter. So that\'s why I have to go see her. Because she gave me the reason to live again.”

She points to a child by the window. “There she is and it seems that no one wants to play with her. She’s always alone.”

“She won’t be alone for long.” That is so unlike me.

“You and your wife will be picking her up soon?” She asked.

“Of course we will after we take care of a few things.” Destroy syndicate, put Spike away.

“I’m happy for her. She’s a very good kid; she causes no trouble and is very polite. But I think she needs her family.” She stepped away.

I looked and saw a young child with long flowing blonde hair sitting at the window. From the side I can see that she’s a little sad.

I went over to see her, while the priestess watched. “Diana?”

She turned her head and looked at me, she was a mini Julia. But she had my eyes. “Hi.” She said in a small voice.

My heart began to soften. “I’m your father.”

The little girl opened up her arms and I picked her up. “Daddy!”

I suddenly felt alive again, something had changed, something had crossed over in me and I couldn’t go back. “You look just like your mother.”

She gave me a little smile. “When is mama coming, when will you pick me up from here?”

Now I know Julia will return to me. “We’ll be together soon sweetheart, very soon. Daddy and mama have to straighten a few things out. But we’ll come get you, I promise Diana.”

Julia woke me from that daydream.

“Vicious? Vicious? Oh Danny Boy! Stop spacing out Daniel!” Julia shouted.

“What?” I hate it when she calls me Danny Boy.

“We’re at the hospital. Let’s get Spike out of my car, okay?” She said.

Suddenly we heard an explosion; there goes the syndicate building. “Bye, bye Red Dragons!”

“Julia.” We heard a faint moan from the backseat.

I gasped, “I think he’s waking up.”

“We have to get him in there quickly.” She said as she grabbed his arms and I got his legs.

“Where am I?” Spike mumbled; “I’m still in pain, I thought in Heaven there is no pain.”

“What should we do Julia?” I whispered.

\"Vicious, why are you here? Aren\'t you supposed to be in Hell?\" He muttered.

\"Spike, that is not nice! I was a war hero, so there, Kwan Yin let me in The Summerlands. Besides, there is no Hell in our religion!\" Geez, I didn\'t like that one bit. I looked up at Julia. \"Well, Miss Perfect?\"

Julia rolled her eyes. “Make him pretend he’s having some weird dream. He\'s always lost in a dream.”

“Oh Spike, be nice to your friend. This is Kwan Yin talking, we’re on my cloud right now, I’m taking you to The Summerlands. I want you to go back to sleep, I make your pain go away. This is all a dream Spike, go back to sleep now. When you wake up the goddess of dreams will be there, she need new husband, but for now, you sleep. Can you do that for your sweet goddess?” I said in a sweet sounding voice and kissed him on the lips.

“Okay my sweet goddess. Tell Vicious that I am sorry.” He had fallen back into sleep.

“Vicious, that’s weird.” Julia whispered.

“I had to think of something, besides you said weird.” I told her.

We brought Spike into the Mars General Hospital E.R. “We have a 27 year old male, with multiple wounds! Name is Spike Spiegel!”

Doctors and nurses surrounded us, they asked Julia and I some questions and then we made our request.

“Hello, I am Doctor Benjamin Okafor head of the cryogenics wing.” The doctor came up to us.

“We\'re Daniel and Julia Hepburn, we are freelance bounty hunters. Spike is a very good friend, he\'s a hero and we need to save him! He was seriously injured in a raid; we want him to rejuvenate so his wounds can heal properly. They were bad wounds, the guy had a very sharp Katana and he was slashing at me. It was horrible! The guy was a vicious maniac and I mean vicious! He was going to kill me! But my best friend Spike jumped in at the last minute and took the near fatal hit.” Oh man, I am such a ham! “Can you do it?”

The doctor nodded, “Of course, but it’ll take a while.”

Julia and I looked at each other. “Time doesn’t matter, my husband and I are so happy that you can help us.” She called me her husband, that\'s so sweet.

We watched as they lowered the Spike into a glass cylinder and filled it with a blue liquid.

I whispered to Julia. \"Is that what I did to him, that\'s gruesome, it looks like I tried to cut him in two.\"

She whispered back. \"Ugh, Vicious, you\'re about as disgusting as me. Wait, he seems to be healing.\"

I told her something just to piss her off. \"Oh, look at the unit on him. I never knew he was so hot, I should have slept with him instead. Although, I kissed him once and slept with his cousin.\"

\"Stop bringing up the past!\" Then she slapped me. \"Shut up Vicious! You\'re my bitch now.\"

The cylinder was then lowered into a metal tube and that was the last we saw of him.

“We want the very best treatment for him.” I told the doctor.

“He’ll be back to normal in about 14 years.” She told me.

“His name is Spike Spiegel.” I told the nurse and she wrote it down.

I felt a little dizzy. “Oh crap.”

Julia rushed to me. “What’s wrong?”

“My shoulder is beginning to hurt like heck.” My shoulder was acting up.

We had a doctor treat the wound, I was in pain for a while and then it stopped. Julia had grabbed my coat and something fell out. “That is something that I have always wanted to give you for years.”

Julia grabbed the small black velvet box. “What is this?”

“Why don’t you open it?” I told her.

She opened the box and gasped at the tycoon cut diamond ring. “Oh Vicious.”

I put my shirt back on. “I’m not the greatest guy in the world.”

She sighed, “Vicious, don’t say that.”

I decided to ask her anyway. “Will you marry me my darling psycho?”

She put the diamond ring on. “Yes, I will!”

I grabbed my coat, and then we left. We got into the car and I put my arm around her. “Let’s go get Diana.”

Julia nodded and I was glad she was driving a little slower. “We’ll do that, then go to the Justice of the Peace.”

“You really want to do this.” I asked.

“Yes and I was thinking of going to Venus for a while.” She kept her eyes on the road.

“Sounds good to me.” I said as we drove off. Yeah, a new life sounds great to me. \"Where should we live after we get back to Mars?\"

Julia smirked; \"How about that abandoned church on the outskirts of Neo Manhattan, near the Tharsis City line. We\'ll knock some of it down and make it a huge mansion where we will have a huge garden, a place where stray dogs and cats can have a good home. Just what you\'ve always wanted Vicious, but I want horses, rabbits, and carp.\"

We got to the orphanage that afternoon after we had changed into some new clothes and had something to eat. We held hands as we entered the orphanage.

The High Priestess came to greet us. “Mr. and Mrs. Hepburn, are you here to pick up Diana?”

Julia nodded; “Yes, we called late this morning and told you we’ll be here to get her.”

“Here she comes.” The priestess stepped aside as a young priestess walked with Diana down a hallway.

The young priestess let go of her hand and Diana ran towards us with tears in her eyes. “Mama! Daddy!”

I reached out to Diana and she jumped into my arms. “See we kept our promise.”

We walked out of the orphanage; we hopped into the car and grabbed Mike Yamada at home. We would need him as a witness for our small wedding.

Mike was happy. “I am so glad that you two have gotten back together. I’m glad that you didn’t kill Spike, and it’s so nice to meet Diana for the first time. Don’t worry about anything; I have a house on Venus where you three can stay. I’ll also take care of the former headquarters while you’re gone. You can do anything you want with it after everything clears. I’ll have a Buddhist Monk and a Wiccan Priestess bless the place to clear the negativity. They\'ll do the same thing after you tear down the church, by the way, I\'ll help you guys with the grounds.”

“Well, I was thinking of doing something good with The Red Dragons Syndicate Building site. Maybe I\'ll have a museum built there.” I said.

After the I do\'s, I began to walk away. “Vicious, where are you going?”

I stopped and gave Julia a kiss and Diana a hug; “I said that I was a bounty hunter, well, I’m going to get that job and become the greatest bounty hunter who ever lived.”

I walked up the stairs to the I.S.S.P. area. I went over to the attendant at the desk. “Excuse me, sir.”

The attendant looked up at me. “Yes?”

“My name is Daniel Houghton Hepburn and I want to become a bounty hunter.” I gave him an ID with my real name.

I took the test, while Julia came up with Diana. After I finished, Julia took the test and we both passed.

We left city hall, driving towards a transport that would take us to Venus. After we boarded the transport and sat in our seats. I took one last look at the red planet below, Julia laid her head on my shoulder and Diana slept in her arms.

I remember a dream I once had after I had met Diana. The woman in the dream said something. I think she said. “Listen to the song of life.” Good words to live by.

Goodbye Spike, until we meet again, and I hope it will be on more peaceful terms.

Heaven is not enough, I want life.

: Part Two-
I changed the chapter to Heaven Is Not Enough after a song from Wolf\'s Rain. I\'m nuts about Wolf\'s Rain and I love that song! Everything is done by different character’s point of view. Creative criticism is always welcomed, if it doesn’t sound good, tell me and I’ll fix it. Julia is a little meaner in this fic, I like Julia and I love Vicious, he was bad, but he was cool. Also I changed Vicious’ name from Cat to Daniel, after the Elton John song. No flames or harsh criticism please.

: Part Three-
The Man Who Got Away- Faye deals with Spike being gone. Jet meets the new Vicious and gets a glimpse of him and Julia in action. Edward doesn’t find what she’s looking for and gives up. Until something unexpected happens.