He just couldn't imagine himself in a relationship. He was never meant to be with her. She was just meant to tame him.
Definitely something so pure couldn't be corrupted by something so dirty, vile and disgusting like him.
He was mad, his mind was a rather messed up place. If he would ever get in a relationship with her, it probably wouldn't end up in a good way.
And on top of that, he didn't understand the meaning of love - or, to put it into better words - he never felt it.
Or at least, that's what he thought.
It was almost midnight, his eyes stared at the monitor of his computer, his long fingers tapping against the desk.
He was thinking about her again - his friend, his cure for his insanity, his partner.
But unfortunately, he just couldn't understand Marie. There was actually nothing about him that could make a person love him - let alone admire him or care about him.
It was a mystery for him why she cared about him that much.
He sighed, taking a sip of the already cold coffee that was standing on his desk for quite a while now.
Ah, right. She had made it for him before she went to sleep. He didn't even know for how long that coffee's been there, the time flew by way too fast.
The scientist cranked the screw in his head a few times to clear his mind again, and noticed the stack of papers on his desk.
Shit.
Now he remembered why he had to stay up late again. He had to correct the student's tests. Right.
Taking the papers from his desk, he quickly flicked through them. But suddenly, he stopped on one particular one that had caught his attention.
"I DON'T NEED GOOD GRADES TO SURPASS GOD!"
Stein couldn't help but smirk at that. That kid... he was... special, to say the least.
Also, Stein was quite surprised that there was no giraffe from Patty this time. What a shame.
He actually liked that little paper-animal, which was the reason why he gave her a better grade than she actually deserved last time.
His excuse for this was "that some of the giraffe's dots matched with the right answers". Yeah, right.
Maka's test, on the other hand, was perfect as always, while Kid actually managed to write down his name properly this time.
Unfortunately, his name was the only thing he wrote down on his test...
Stein took a pen and sighed, starting with the rather boring work. God, why didn't he just start earlier?
Not soon after, once he started to correct the first few tests, he got distracted again at a particular sentence that made him think again.
It was the last question on the test, and a rather tricky one with that. But what made him think, was the student's answer.
Q: Define "madness".
A: Love and other feelings. Feelings are like madness, they can be really messy sometimes and you just don't know how to get rid of them.
Also, just like madness, love is something that spreads like a disease.
Not the answer he expected, actually.
He sighed, leaning down in his chair, lighting another cigarette and puffing out the skull-shaped smoke. It was a rather cool trick his special cigarettes always did.
...Smoking was one of the things that could calm him down and make him think easier; a bad habit.
Once again, he cranked the screw in his head - a comparison between madness and love? How foolish.
Madness - it wasn't a thing to joke about, he knew that.
Once the insanity devours you completely, there is no way out. Everyone has a small amount of madness inside of them, and some may have a higher immunity against it than others.
It didn't make any sense to him how something like love could be compared with madness.
No sense at all.
He sighed, looking at the stack of papers again.
This was going to be a long night.
First chapter, weee. So, this is going to have basically like... ten chapters, maybe. May or may not contain lemons. Depends. c:
(Btw, the next chapter won't be as boring as this one. This was basically the "introduction" to this story. *shot*)
Reviews are not necessary, but highly appreciated.
