Who: Ed and her first ghost (Spike Spiegel) What: A Voice from Her Past When: During the night of December 17th Where: Her Room at the Welcome Center Status: Done unless someone wants to check on her Rating: PG-13 (This is Cowboy Bebop after all) Spoiler Warning: Fandom Theory Spoiler possible for "The Real Folk Blues"
Ed and Ein had decided to stay at the Welcome Center while she looked for more stable housing and getting her computer tech business off the ground.
While Ein was playing with a friendly Cocker Spaniel a few rooms down Ed was hard at work on her laptop, mostly trying to rejigger the settings to fit the time she found herself in. That was when she heard a voice that last she knew was missing at the hands of the Red Dragons along with the smell of smoke from his cigs,"Long time no see Radical Edward" and that was when she turned her chair to see none other than Spike Spigel, a part of her past from her time with the Bebop. "Spike..." Ed's voice hung in the air since the last time she had seen him was as a 14 year old kid right before she left to hunt for her father.
"You grew up, not a kid anymore" Spike simply observed,"Still got the dog?". "Of course, Ein's playing a few doors down, he's as social as ever" since the Corgi had adopted Ed when they met it seemed. "What happened Spike, did you get your revenge against Vicious?" Ed finally asked what had been on her mind for several years. "He killed her" meaning Julia,"So I got my payback but at a price" as Spike came clean about events after Ed left the ship. "The remaining Red Dragons got to me and you know the legend about the star? Mine finally went out. But you seemed to have bloomed since you left, you're still the cyber queen from the old days just older" as Ed cracked a tiny smile. "I had no idea, last I heard you had gone on a revenge spree but I know the truth now" she finally got the words out as Spike faded away, not even leaving the smell of his smokes behind.
That left the hacker both shaken up and curious as she went into her webcam to confirm everything she had seen,"This is so strange..." she muses as she went to work on her newest puzzle. "Why Spike and why me?" as her fingers flew across the keyboard as she went to work on going over the footage from her webcam. But she saw nothing to show Spike had even been in the room,"Webcam from days of old, please tell me what is going on?" but at the same time she did whisper one word,"Bang".
OOC Note: it has never been proven in Bebop canon that Spike did die, I'm going on a theory that has bounced around the fandom to explain why Ed is seeing him as her first ghost.