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Title: Day to Day by threewalls

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel

Word Count: 100

Summary: "There are days when it makes perfect sense to fall into bed with his shipmate."

Warning: Suicidal Thoughts

Title: Stitches by hammerxsword (QDS)

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel

Jet Black, Spike Spiegel,

Word Count: 191

Why I Rec This Fic: Domestic stuff and angst – good combination

Title: swing-by by besselfcn

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel, past Spike Spiegel/Vicious

Jet Black, Spike Spiegel,
Summary: “Don’t,” Jet says, when he pulls the BeBop back to dock forty-five minutes after take-off, “say a fucking word.”

Word Count: 551

Why I Rec This Fic: Hurts, in a good way. Also mistaking being loved for loving someone is a good angst trope.
Podfic by Thimblerig here

Title: Chase by fivethingsunmixed

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Spike Spiegel,

Word Count: 759

Summary: "How Jet and Spike’s relationship grew to be what it was at the series start; how two men with vastly different backgrounds came to appreciate, respect - maybe even love - each other.."

When Spike realizes that Jet is working his way around his distaste of authority, Spike is at first gobsmacked - that just doesn’t happen . You either respect authority, or you get slapped. Authority doesn’t bend to you .

But here it has.

So Spike starts bending in return, like an elegant dance, or a jazz chase. Jet gives way on some of the captaincy authority, so Spike starts going easy on him - if he chastises Spike for something Spike knows full well is his fault, Spike yields.

And somewhere, staring at the stars, as they move through the black, Spike, assassin, ally to no one but the dead and missing, realizes he has a friend.

Title: break my fall by procrastinatingbookworm

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Spike Spiegel

Word Count: 1030

Summary: "Jet and Spike get high together."
Warning: drug use, Dissociation

Spike takes another hit, rising up on his knees and crawling towards Jet. Uncharacteristically graceless, his loose limbs topple him into Jet’s lap, although—maybe that’s what he wanted. Jet can never quite tell. It’s one of Spike’s favorite tricks, playacting incompetency.

Title: love and disaffection by procrastinatingbookworm

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Spike Spiegel

Word Count: 1254

Summary: Life Action TV: Post Canon: fix it: "Jet lasts fifteen minutes."

Why I Rec This Fic: Jet just can't be mad at his idiot. (I have mixed feelings about the Live Action version but I have mixed feelings about the OG anime too - and one of my feelings for both is that I prefere a happy ending so I like that there is fic for that.)

Title: don't even recognize the stranger by spock

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Spike Spiegel

Word Count: 1509

Summary: Post Canon, Spike has amnesia

Warning: Dubious Consent Due To Identity Issues

Why I Rec This Fic: Domestic closeness, guilt and idenity angst

There's other things he wants to say too, like, here's where you lost your goddamn mind on some space 'shrooms, or that's the spot where you always leave your fucking shoes — and even though I know that's where they're gonna be, I nearly kill myself trippin' over them every fucking day anyway.

Title: illumination by cptsdstars

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Spike Spiegel,

Word Count: 2144

Summary: Post: Knockin on Heaven's Door: Spike disassociates

Warning: canon typical unreality, Dissociation

Title: Dog Days by piratesPencil

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Spike Spiegel, Ein

Word Count: 2645

Summary: "Spike couldn’t believe that Black Dog, former terror of the ISSP and current terror of the bounty hunting world, had a soft spot for puppies. Except that wasn’t true. He could absolutely believe that Jet was soft for mongrels and kids and anyone who needed to be taken care of. After all, Jet was soft for him."

Warning: sex

Why I Rec This Fic: I am fond of characters being fond for eachother.

Title: elegy sans gas by Ghoulie_cruz
Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel
Jet Black, Spike Spiegel,
Word Count: 4482

Summary: "Hey, Jet, wanna hear something funny?"

Title: Put a little faith in me by Sweaterknight

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Spike Spiegel,

Word Count: 5453

Summary: "Spike and Jet never see quite eye to eye, but they're pretty good at working around that."

Warning: Casual slutshaming, sex, referencing to the genitals of a (trans) male character as clit, reference/implication of transphobia

Why I Rec This Fic: Great Spike tone that feels like canon, but mostly I am just in love with the way this fic writes about his body, the normalization of it, I dig it in ways I can't word.

Title: someone's terrorized my psyche to get even by procrastinatingbookworm for brawler

Fandom: Cowboy Bebop

Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Spike Spiegel,

Word Count: 6155

Summary: Life Action: Episode 6: Binary Two Step Rewrite: "Jet is Spike's emotional tether. Spike's run-in with Londes gets significantly worse.

Warning: suicidal thoughs, psychological trauma, messed up mix of violence and love, dissociation

Why I Rec This Fic: Spike likes women who can kick his ass, I like my fictional men traumatized and on their knees. People letting the people they love do anything to them even destroying them is great fun in fiction.

Title: in the quiet, we are fine by lupinely
Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Character/Pairing: Jet Black/Spike Spiegel
Jet Black, Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, Ed, Ein
Word Count: 10428
Summary: "Spike and Jet never put a name to what they are doing together, and they both prefer it that way. They’re two people on a spaceship trying to make a living. It doesn’t have to be any more complicated than that.
Then the dog shows up. Then Faye. Then Ed."
Why I Rec This Fic: Great Jet/Spike and lovely found family bits.

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Title: Sneaky Sonata by talefeathers

Character/Pairing: Bebop crew

Word Count: 339

Summary: "Ed isn't sleeping, but her crewmates think she is. They start to talk about her, and Ed listens in."

Why I Rec This Fic: Just cute! The ordinary space adventures of this found family and their love for eachother were my fav part of canon so its a good fic to me.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen her sit still for that long,” she said. “She’s almost cute when she’s not yodeling or something.”

“Or hacking into the ship,” Jet agreed.

“Or letting Ein have her table scraps,” Spike supplied.

“Giving us stupid nicknames,” Faye continued, but Ed noticed notes of tenderness sneaking into her voice.

“Banging around the inner hull,” Jet added, chuckling fondly. “Like she’s pretending to be a pinball or something.”

Title: Systems of Belief by Motchi

Character/Pairing: Faye Valentine, Jet Black, Faye Valentine/Jet Black

Word Count: 1734

Summary: Post Canon: "Faye, Jet, and what it means to believe in more than yourself."

Why I Rec This Fic: Softer and way less angst then what I mostly go for this two - but very lovely with a good flow of words.

Jet believes in time.

When he was younger, he wanted to trap it and store it in a jar as if it were a bug or a collection of paperclips. He could keep it on his nightstand, next to the alarm clock, or on a shelf next to his books. He could take it to school with him on test days—he could use it to impress the girl who sat behind him. There were all kinds of things a boy could do with a jar of time.

Impossible, his father told him. Time was a living thing, his father told him. Time was meant to run free, like the clouds, like the stars, like the future. But, his father told him, if he took care of it, it might take care of him.

That worries Jet.

Title: theseus by besselfcn for cptsdstars

Character/Pairing: Spike Spiegel
Julia/Spike Spiegel/Vicious, Jet Black/Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine/Spike Spiegel, Cowboy Bebop crew
Word Count: 1845

Summary: "You heard a riddle, once. Or maybe it was a story. Aren’t riddles kind of like stories, except that the jackass telling the story won’t tell you the ending? Makes you guess the ending yourself, based on how it started?"

Why I Rec This Fic: Spike is full of angst, this captures the tone of that from the show well.

You’ll tell me, right? Jet asks. You look over at him; he’s staring at the ground, tracing patterns in the grout with his finger. Before I lose you to them?
Words bubble up in your throat. You won’t lose me. You already did. You never had me. You can’t lose me, you can’t, I’ll always be here, I’m already gone--
“I’ll tell you,” you say.

Title: Knock on my chest (you’ll hear it echo for miles) by Charcoal_skys

Character/Pairing: Faye Valentine, Jet Black, Spike Spiegel, Ein, Ed

Word Count: 5355

Summary: "There was three things Spike didn’t like; Dogs, children, and women with attitudes. How the hell he’d managed to end up with all of them ok the ship was beyond him. What was further confusing was how grateful he was for their presence in the metal confines of the ship."

Why I Rec This Fic: Just lovely found family feels.

Post Canon

Title: Landslide by sabinelagrande

Character/Pairing: Jet Black, Faye Valentine, Ed,

Jet Black/Faye Valentine, Spike Spiegel/Faye Valentine, Jet Black & Faye Valentine, Ed & Spike

Word Count: 529

Summary: "The crew of the Bebop start to come to terms with the state of things."

Jet sits on the couch, with a small, strange smile playing on his lips. Every so often, he stirs his chopsticks through a cold plate of beef with bell peppers, sans beef.

Somewhere on a barren stretch of Earth, Ed points a finger at a star she can't even see. "Bang," she says, and she doesn't know why. Ein does, and he lets out a low, mournful howl. But then Ed sees another meteorite fall, and she's off again.

He lifts a morsel to his mouth and chews thoughtfully. That kid… he doesn't want to think about it just now. He settles for whistling an easygoing little tune, the one Spike likes. Used to like.

Title: Someday, Somewhere by talefeathers

Character/Pairing: Jet Black, Ed, Jet Black & Ed

Word Count: 1426

Summary: Post canon – Jet meets Ed again.

“He put your pinwheel up on the Bebop, you know,” Jet told her. “Before he left. First real decoration she ever had.”

Ed smiled again; this one didn't quite dimple her cheeks. There was a moment’s silence before she spoke again.

“Ed’s not sorry for leaving,” she said, watching her feet as she swung them to and fro. “Not mostly. Ed thinks Ed had to.” She looked up at Jet with those golden eyes again, and Jet almost didn’t have the nerve to look back. “But Ed is sorry you were alone.”

Title: code of living is your gun in hand by carrionkid

Character/Pairing: Jet Black, Faye Valentine, Ed,

Bebop Crew

Word Count: 7848

Warning: Reference to suicidal intentions

Why I Rec This Fic: The author calls it „anti-fix-it“ affectionaly but for me the getting the band together is enough. I also really really like how they wrote Ed.

"That's just like him, isn't it?" Faye scrubs at her eyes with her free hand, "Leaving us to clean up his mess without a thought?"

The truth is, Jet all but took care of the mess by himself.

He wasn't expecting it to be that easy to get Spike's body, but there wasn't anyone left to claim him and he'd already been "dead" once before.

(If he was smart, he would've taken advantage of the clean slate, but then again, if he was smart, none of them would be together.)

Title: This Bed We Make by Atra Materia (TheDarkMaterial)

Character/Pairing: Faye Valentine, Jet Black

Faye Valentine/Jet Black, One-Sided Spike/Jet, One-Sided Spike/Faye

Word Count: 226

Summary: "This isn't the way a marriage is supposed to be."

Warning: Sex

Why I Rec This Fic: I like to imagine a future/post canon where the rest of the Bebop crew still together and as happy as they can be – but I find this kind of future very likely and great to read about too,

Title: Coda by talefeathers

Character/Pairing: Faye Valentine, Jet Black

Faye Valentine & Jet Black, Faye Valentine & Spike Spiegel, Jet Black & Spike Spiegel

Word Count: 251

Summary: for the Prompt: Things you said while you were crying.

Title: Any Port in a Storm by sophiewritesandstuff

Character/Pairing: Jet Black, Faye Valentine,

One-Sided Spike/Faye, One-Sided Spike/Jet, Faye/Jet if you squint

Word Count: 500

Summary: "any port in a storm (idiom) Fig. when one is having trouble, one must accept any solution, whether one likes the solution or not."

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Title: Might Have Been by sabinelagrande
Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Character/Pairing: Julia, Faye Valentine, Julia/Faye Valentine
Word Count: 406
Summary: "This never happened."
Warning: Implied sexual content
Why I Rec This Fic: Me chanting wasted potential! Wasted potential! - Look I just want some more female characters interacting okay? And Faye and Julia have so much chemistry in their one scene, there just have to be fanwork for them.

Title: Moonlight Mile by ninety6tears
Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Character/Pairing: Julia, Faye Valentine, Julia/Faye Valentine
Word Count: 685
Summary: "Julia slept where Spike used to sleep."
Warning: implied past dubious consent (not between Julia/Faye)
Why I Rec This Fic: The kind of hazy tragic style/relationship fits canon well, and I like my Julia as bad news.

Faye put the book down and felt the tangled electric shimmer of Julia‘s hair through her fingers. Impulsively she hummed a melody with a drunken twinge in how it clung in her memory, a tune she’d heard on the saxophone in a bar on Ganymede’s moon. She thought of all the little veins of roads and highways on Earth, so many blown to toxic ash, as if all these dead promises of escape were reincarnated into so many strands of hair for a woman with eyes that seemed anciently wise yet barely aware.

Title: the past is a long bone by eluvion
Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Character/Pairing: Julia, Faye Valentine, Julia/Faye Valentine
Word Count: 1017
Summary: "Or, in which Julia survives, and this changes things."
Warning: implied past dubious consent (not between Julia/Faye)
Why I Rec This Fic: I think it makes sense that Julia would have a lot of simelar issues to Spike given that they lived in the same circumstances - and this kind of complicated/messed up female character is something I love. - And I also love the hope/fight in choosing to get better and change to be better - that is something I can see wonderful for this two characters together.

“You don’t owe me anything,” Faye says. “And I don’t give a damn about the past. Life moves on, and I did too.”
“You saved my life,” Julia says.
Julia’s frowning, and Faye likes how it ruins her image. She likes when Julia is imperfect, likes when she comes back after a failure, the way her jaw is set and her frustration is palpable in the air. She thinks about provoking Julia at those times, wonders what the other girl would do to her then.

Title: Not a Love Story by rabbitprint
Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Character/Pairing: Faye Valentine, Jet Black
Julia/Faye Valentine, Julia/Spike Spiegel, Jet/Spike Spiegel (all kind of one sided)
Word Count: 1911
Summary: "A Faye short. Missing things isn't easy when you're not sure why you do, or even who they are."
Why I Rec This Fic: For me honestly Faye is the most interesting character on Cowboy Bebop, even if I am not always happy with what Canon gave her – but compared to Julia she got the long end of the stick – and seeing Julia though her eyes, see her from the perspective of another female character trying to come to terms with who they are as a person feels very different then seeing her mostly though Spikes idealization – no Faye never got the chance to get to know Julia as a person either – but still, it feels like a dynamic I want to explore. It also features the kind of post canon unspoken feeling angst I am just weak for. "In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat".-Rumi.

Faye was a grabby child, or at least that's what she thinks she could have been. There are parts of her memory which are still fuzzy. Undetermined. What she doesn't remember in facts, she recalls through emotions. And above all, Faye knows that she likes having things, but hates needing them.
The latter has probably cursed her life forever, judging from how easily the ache sits in her chest and giggles.
Love´s a horrible feeling, a brother to hunger. Faye knows it too well, which doesn't make the emotion any better. No matter how many times you tell yourself to stop, it doesn't erase that hollowness, that helpless starving that rejects all substitutes.

Title:the in-between by lupinely
Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Character/Pairing: Julia, Faye Valentine, Julia/Faye Valentine
Word Count: 2441
Warning: Sex
Summary: Faye and Julia in her car.
Why I Rec This Fic: The scene with the two of them in that car is one of my favorite Cowboy Bebop scenes in the whole show. There is potential in it, for both characters but specially for Julia who gets the short end of the stick in canon (I am bitter about this).

“Wait!” Faye’s cry stops Julia from driving away. Faye grabs the side of the car and leans in, trying to see Julia’s face, trying to understand. “You’re that Julia?”
“Of course I am,” Julia responds. “What does it matter?”
“It’s just—” Faye hesitates “—I was beginning to think that you weren’t even real.”