Title: "The Silver Lining"
Rating: T
Pairing : Soul x Maka
Summary: It only took him a moment to realize it as she gently placed a wet towel on his hot forehead. Maybe just maybe, after all those years and after all those fights, he might have just found that silver lining that he'd been looking for.
Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater but I wish I did. Oh the pain. D: -goes to agonize in a lonely corner-
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Chapter 1 – Realization
He gazed up at her through his blurry vision, eyes only half focused as he studied her face. Had she always been this pretty? Maybe she had, he probably just hadn't noticed. Though right now, none of it mattered, not like his thoughts could even be processed in his sickly state. Yet still, a single string of thought managed to run through his mind, his crimson eyes busy gazing at her. She really did care about him didn't she? And without even thinking it, a small smile appeared on his fever flushed faced.
"Soul?" she asked as she watched him smile up at her, "how are you feeling? Do you want me to call a doctor instead?"
He closed his red orbs slowly, his mouth opening at the same time to reply, "No...I'm good...just like this..."
"Are you sure about that?" She asked, her voice filled with concerned, her right hand coming to place itself delicately on one of his heated cheeks, "Soul, you're burning up..."
Soul only grunted in response, his mind racing and telling him to not become flustered by her touch. Why become flustered now? They've had physical contact countless of times before. And yet, her fragile hand on his cheek made him feel dizzier. In between his mind stupor, he still noticed something. Her hands were soft but with a few blisters. They were probably from all those fights in which she and him had participated before. She risked her life practically everyday, draining her physical energy to the max. And yet she still managed to have her hands soft, her studies at the top, the house clean and she made food for the both of them.
"You know, you should get going now...or else you'll be late to school..." Soul managed to murmur, a side of his mind hoping she would remove her hand from his cheek, the other half yearning for her to never let go of him. He opened his eyes slowly to see a scowling Maka above him, her anger showing clearly on her face.
"What? Why are you mad?" He asked her, but in the back of his mind he already knew the answer...
"You think I'm just going to leave you here alone while you're this sick? What do you take me for? Some kind of heartless partner?!"
'Typical Maka, you're so easy to decipher...' he thought as he managed to give her a crooked smile. After all these years, she had become so easy for him to read. Seeing her everyday, observing even the most insignificant of her actions, unconsciously learning about her and instincly knowing what she felt or wanted.
They had lived together for 5 years now, both having been 13 years old when they had partnered up. Five years since they had started living together, since they started to share their lives. How much had they gone through together now? 'I've lost count of it.' When did his feelings become this deep? 'I never realized it.' When...? 'I'm still confused.'
"What?" she asked, her voice annoyed as he gave her one of his lopsided, sharp grins, "are you laughing at me or something? What's so funny about worrying about you?!"
"Nothing Tiny Tits..." Soul responded with the unique nickname he had given her when they first met. The exact same one that him to his first-
"Maka Chop!"
"What the hell Maka!" he cried out after an encyclopedia made contact with his skull, "are you trying to kill me or something? Can't you see I'm sick you stupid flat chest?!"
"Hmph!" she huffed and she turned his back to him, her arms crossed across her chest, "I'm not that flat chested anymore, thank you very much!"
"Sheesh, how many times do I have to tell you?" Soul said as he gently massaged his aching skull, "how the shape looks like doesn't matter, what matters is the soul."
"You say that and yet you still..." Maka said, her temper not coming down anytime soon, "oh whatever, I'm going to make tea."
She stood up from the bed and walked swiftly towards the door, "If you need anything, just call me. I'll be in the living room reading a book."
Soul only grunted in response as the door shut behind Maka's back. Really now, talk about mood swings.
'Man, you're so whipped. This is so not cool.'
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Two days later, Soul found himself going senile. The cause of this mess being his long time partner, Maka Albarn. Two days ago he had become conscious of her and from that point on, he couldn't keep his eyes off her. Wherever she went, his eyes followed her. Whenever she spoke, his ears perked up and tried to catch every word she said. Whenever she called out his name, he would quickly answer and feel like an idiot inside.
"I'm losing it, I'm really losing it." Soul muttered to himself as he ran his rough hands through his white hair, messing it up even more than it already was. Sprawled on the couch of his and Maka's living room on a saturday morning, he couldn't find himself to be anymore flustered. These past days, he had conceived very little sleep, his mind occupied with thoughts of her. During the day he observed her restlessly, during the night, his mind swam with images of her. There was no time, no place in which she left his mind.
He was acting like an idiot, if he kept this uncool act up, he was sure that Maka would become suspicious. He didn't want that, he didn't need that.
"Don't lose your cool, this is just tiny tits were talking about," he said in an all too loud voice, not aware that Maka had woken up now and was standing in the doorway of the living room.}
"What about me, Soul?" she asked, her right hand suspiciously holding a heavy book. One that seemed to obviously hurt and threaten to crack his skull.
"Nothing..."
"Maka Chop!"
A minute later, as he lay half dead on the floor, only two words rang in the weapons mind.
Why her?
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A/N: I hope you all liked my first Soul Eater fic. :D I'd been meaning to write one for a while now and I barely got to it.
I'll update soon, I promise.
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