Cowboy Bebop Fan Fiction ❯ The Kiss of the Scorpion ❯ Faint Memories ( Chapter 9 )

The Kiss of the Scorpion 9
Author's Notes: This is a combination of Cowboy Bebop the Anime and Cowboy Bebop Shooting Star. It takes place around five years after the anime ends. I have seen the entire series (A/N: my family has two copies and I'll probably buy the set again for myself), I have both Shooting Star mangas, and I have the movie (I have yet to see it I probably should at some point). Now for the warnings there will be rape in some of these chapters but they will eventually turn into true love (A/N: don't ask I think you will get the idea as the story goes along).
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Shin placed down the phone and smiled softly, Mai was very good at what she did. He frowned though and wondered if her actually mission had been completed successfully. If it had and still found Ed then he would definitely owe her a vacation and a raise. He frowned remembering how last month he had nearly lost Mai.
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Shin and Mai had gone on a mission together posing as a couple; even though Shin did have thoughts against it he knew it would be better if they went together.

"Are you sure this is such a good idea?" asked Shin fiddling with the collar of his tux in the elevator.

"This is a Valentine Ball Shin-san," said Mai calmly pushing her hair out of her eyes and pushing at the silky material of her red dress. "They would have suspected something was wrong if you came alone. You won't stand out as much with me as you would have, had you come alone."

"So you and the others keep telling me," muttered Shin he swore the group would pair them together in group missions on purpose.

"So," said Mai calmly. "What do we know about them?"

"They are dealers in underground trading of minors for sex toys."

Mai flinched before she could control her emotions and Shin secretly wished he hadn't been so blunt about that, seeing how that was how they had gotten a hold of Mai. He had saved Mai from one of the more older men with darker tastes for sex games. Mai had been what people called a Living Doll, basically rich, older males and sometimes females would pay to sleep with children between the ages of two and twenty.

"Are you sure you are going to be able to handle this?" asked Shin after another moment of silence.

"Hai," said Mai calmly twisting her arm slightly so that the numbered tattoo on her wrist wouldn't be seen.

"I knew we should have brought you gloves," muttered Shin.

The elevator doors opened and together they stepped out and into the hallway heading toward the ballroom.

"Lets hope this goes well," said Mai the moment they entered the room.
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Everything seemed to have been going well; however, what they hadn't expected was for one of Mai' old clients to be there. Shin frowned there had been something else that they hadn't counted on and that had been the betrayal of one of their own. It had been a female that had been trying to get his attention for years and when he had stopped doing missions with her and started doing them with Mia things had gone down hill from there. Shin frowned again he never would have thought she would have gone so far as to nearly get him and Mai kill, or worse in Mai's case become another Living Doll.
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Mai and Shin had been talking to the leader of the Underground Living Doll ring when Hotoro had walked up to them, Hotoro had been the man that Shin had saved Mai from.

"Taroto-san," said Hotoro. "Do you realize who you are talking too?"

"Should I Hotoro?" asked Taroto.

"Hai," said the other male. "You are talking to a former Living Doll and the one and only Shin."

Shin cursed when he realized they were surrounded by males with guns. He saw that Mai had tensed her muscles and was searching frantically for a way out. He pulled a smoke bomb from his coat and quickly dropped it filling the room with smoke as he and Mai made their escape; however, somewhere along the way Mai had gotten shot and had it been in lower it would have pierced her heart. Shin was reluctant to let her do anything away from the headquarters after that, aside from simple things like delivering messages and packages.
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Shin sighed and programmed the coordinates into the computer so that the ship would take them to Mai's position they would set up a rendezvous when they got closer if luck was with them they could finish this little game quickly and not have to worry about anything else. He sighed and sat down on his bed fingering a silver chain on his neck. The chain had a locket and hidden within the locket was a lock of Mai's hair, he didn't know why he had it but he did. He sighed again and closed his eyes listening to the soft sound of the woman Faye singing her child to sleep.
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Ed and Scorpion were escorted to their seats and they waited for the opera to begin, the moment the lights when out Scorpion reached out his hand for Ed's and clasped it tightly and held onto it throughout the opera. She knew that he appreciated the talk they had, had earlier that day after the shopping trip.
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Author's Notes: I will tell you what happened between Ed and Scorpion in the next chapter. Also do you guys think I am speeding up the Ed and Scorpion romance? If so let me know okay. Anyways sorry this chapter revolved more around Shin and Mai I promise to have some more Faye and Spike action in the next one and of course Scorpion and Ed.