A/N: So I wrote more. Oops. Suppose this'll be a series of short oneshots. A lot of them from now on will be themed by songs, but I'd love to take ideas from anyone who reads them for other oneshots.
And to Lialane Graest, who very kindly reviewed, thank you so much~ I'm a fan of your fanfiction, so I'm glad to hear you liked it.
Rei reached over to the table in front of the couch she was currently laying on, grabbing the near-empty grey mug from it. She took one last gulp and finished off her tea, almost grimacing at the amount of sugar she swallowed that had accumulated at the bottom. She set it back down once again, tucking a strand of messy, light blonde hair behind her ear as she lay back down on the pillow. A rough cough escaped her lips, and reversed the soothing effect the tea had had on her sore throat. Sighing, she pulled her blanket up to cover her and focused her attention on some sitcom that was currently on TV.
The eccentric scientist, in the middle of yet another dissection of what one would assume to be another endangered species he managed to get his hands on, rolled quickly on his stitched chair through the living room and along the white arrows on the floor to retrieve his scalpel. Seconds later, the weapon chuckled as she heard what was presumably the sound of him and his chair falling, as usual, over the base of the doorway. Once he had retrieved the blade and repositioned himself on his chair, he kicked his desk, sending him rolling back the direction he had come. Stein stopped, however, when he heard the cough of his roommate, and turned to glance at her. "You're sick," he stated.
"I'm fine," she replied with a shrug. She had a cough and a bit of a headache, and she would admit she might be a little sick, but it wasn't anything she was concerned about.
He seemed to either not hear her reply or at least disregard it, as he continued, "Do you have a fever? Perhaps you have the flu." He made his way over to her, placing his palm to her forehead to check, earning only an irritated sigh in response.
"I'm fine, Stein," she repeated. Once again, he ignored her, hand moving to her neck, his index finger on one side and thumb on the other. Most people would likely be scared for their life, the 'mad scientist' having his hand around their neck as he did at the moment. Rei, however, wasn't too terribly concerned, though curious as to what it was he was checking for. "What'cha doing?"
The professor's brow furrowed in confusion, before answering her question and removing his hand. "Checking to see if your lymph nodes were swollen. It's a sign of an infection. They're fine, of course," he explained, adding the last sentence as an afterthought. That wasn't what he was confused about, however. He was aware that most people were already scared of him, and to be in a position like that in which he could've likely managed to kill her if he so wished would have terrified them. She wasn't scared. He didn't know why. A part of him wanted her to be; the look of fear in her eyes must be so satisfying, absolutely adorable, really. But he'd never seen it.
Though he didn't realize he was staring at her while occupied in his thoughts, she did. Her eyebrow raised, and she waved her hand in front of his face to get his attention. "What's up?"
"I could've killed you, why weren't you scared?" he asked bluntly, attention back on her.
She blinked, the question not being what she expected. "I've never been scared of you. I trust you~," she replied simply, with a shrug and a smile.
He was silent, staring at her for another several seconds before rolling back to his experiment on his trusty chair, not replying to her last statement. 'I trust you.' That certainly wasn't something he had heard in a long, long time. And while that same part of him wanted to show her how absolutely naïve she was being in trusting someone like him, wanted to finally see what fear looked like in her eyes, for the moment, he wanted to enjoy it. Not because he intended to betray that trust, but simply because she trusted him while so few others did. It was…nice.
