A little introduction: the current time line is three years after the Noah's Book incident in the manga or the Arachane Battle in the Anime. In this story I'll be incorporating things from both the manga and the anime in their entirety-including some parts of the odd final episode, but I won't spoil that for you just yet. Thus said, I encourage you to read/watch all the soul Eater currently available on the off chance I ruin something or you. Very sorry if I do!
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Death mansion was magnificent. Grandeur fit for a prince, as it was no doubt built intentionally that way. It suited him Liz thought as she sat by Patty's bedside, stroking her sister's fluffy blonde hair. A grim shadow overpowered the gleam in her eyes that would have sparkled down at the younger Thompson any other night.
Tonight those big blue eyes were cold, empty, and unmoving.
She and Patty use to gloat and dream about living in luxury like this, and it was Kid who made those dreams real. However…Liz checked Patty's dressings for a third time, glaring helplessly at the slice in her sister's forearm…he was also the one who put her little sister in harms way tonight.
"Fuck your symmetry…"
She'd promised her, hadn't she? Hadn't she damn well promised that if nothing else she would never let Patty be hurt, sad, or alone?
Liz heaved a breath as she turned over and over in her head what she needed to do. Eventually gave in to her own fatigue and lay down next to the lightly snoring lump with its legs already twisted childishly in the sheets.
Something had to change.
She'd put up with his OCD obscurities for too long.
Most of the time it was harmless enough, just delaying them in their missions or forcing her to spend an entire weekend measuring and moving the furniture. A small price to pay for the home, friends—even care, she guiltily admitted—that Kid gave them in return. Never had his habits really put them in any harm. Not really. It was always his body that took the beating when he stood frozen on the battlefield, his life that got pummeled away as he refused to fight because of some ridiculous geometric coincidence.
But not tonight.
Tonight his shenanigans had thrown Patty into harm, not fatal but still…
It had to stop.
He would either change somehow—she would change him—or she would find a new Meister.
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Next chapter will be longer. Also, I will re-categorize the "two characters" this story is about to reflect the couple that dominates the most RECENT chapter.
Thank you for reading!