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Soul ran his left hand through his ruffled locks of white hair and stared at his daughter, Mary. "You could at least try to eat," he said. She shook her head, pushing the bowl of cereal away from her body.

"I've eaten nothing but nasty cornflakes for three days!" she exclaimed, pouting. Soul laid his head down on the table and sighed.

"Just wait for Daddy to get paid in a couple of days-then we can get you more food. Until then, you're stuck with this. Sorry," he said. And he truly was. There was no telling how much money he'd be able to spend on food this time. Maybe I can go for food stamps, he thought, pondering this for a moment. Mary groaned and shoveled a spoonful of the soggy stuff into her unforgiving mouth. She forced every last bite into her body until it was all gone before jumping from her highchair and waddling to her room. Soul stared at the place she was formerly sitting at and sighed.

How can I get Maka Albarn to go out with me...? Hmm...He sat and thought for a long time until he eventually fell asleep, crashing onto the table and snoring until Mary poked him awake.

"It's school time, Daddy," she said in a hushed voice. Soul awoke with a start, a piece of paper sticking to his face that was wet with drool. Mary made a face of disgust and moved past him to pull her shoes on. Soul suddenly started to panic as he realized just how terrible he must look. Going out in public while you look undoubtedly high was probably the least cool thing he could think of. It wasn't Mary's fault, of course...He ran a hand through his thick, now greasy hair and sighed. Bags have formed under his eyes and he rose to lift Mary into her car seat.

"Maybe I shouldn't go to school with you today," Soul said. He let that sink in for a bit.

"Why? You said you would if I said I would go at all," she responded. Sometimes Mary reminded Soul of a really old person with a lot of patience and life experience. It was weird to him.

"Well, you see," Soul said, yawning, "Daddy didn't get a lot of sleep last night, and he didn't shower, either. It'd be kind of embarrassing for Daddy to try to seduce Mrs. Albarn if he had bags under his eyes and unkempt hair, don't you think?" Mary giggled behind him.

"What? What's so funny?" he asked, staring at her with furrowed eyebrows in the rearview mirror.

"Am I getting a better mommy, Daddy?" she asked. Soul bit his lip. Maybe it would have been better not to tell his innocent six-year-old daughter about what her mommy did. About why she couldn't visit her mommy or talk to her on the phone. Maybe it would have been wise not to make Mary hate his ex wife. Eh, who cares? he thought, rolling his eyes at his own thoughts.

"Maybe, hopefully," Soul answered. She smiled.

"So can I call her mommy in class?" she asked excitedly. Soul's eyes widened as he shook his head furiously.

"You do that, and there won't be any mommy for quite some time," he said, trying to choose his words carefully. Mary nodded, staring out the window. Soul made a promise to himself that he'd never let his child on the bus-once you put that kid on there, they suddenly know every cuss word in the book, every possible swear and every weird, probably untrue fact about sex. The idea of his sweet little daughter suddenly doing all this stuff made him shudder, even if that was just about the best possible way to sum up his personality.

As he parked his car in the small parking lot, Soul looked back at Mary to make sure she was okay. "You ready for a new day?" he asked, rubbing his red eyes. Mary beamed and nodded, unbuckling herself. Soul held onto her hand as she jumped out of the car. Soul led her into the schoolhouse and pushed the door open. Suddenly, as always, every mom in the room was staring at him. He managed a smile to one of them, and continued to walk towards Maka.

"Whoa, whoa. Get enough sleep last night, tiger?" she said, smirking. Soul let out a breath and brushed his hair out of his eyes with his hand.

"Not even close," he yawned. Maka chuckled at set a hand on his shoulder. She leaned into his ear and whispered, "You're going to have to try harder than that." Soul suddenly felt really embarrassed, especially because he had a death grip on Mary's hand and she was trying to run away to play with her friends.

"Yeah, well, I might not be staying long anyways," he said nonchalantly. Maka just stared at him.

"Is that so? Well, I'll be seeing you soon then," she said, and turned to talk to one of the moms that approached her. Soul pursed his lips and sat down in a tiny chair, spreading his legs out like he would at home. He closed his eyes, leaned his head back, and sighed as he listened to Maka's conversation with the mom.

"Thank you so much, Mrs. Albarn."

"Oh, my pleasure! I love seeing kids happy and learning."

"Well, I'll see you around, Mrs. Albarn. My ex husband is about to meet me in court-I'll talk to you later."

"Okay, goodbye."

Soul thought about this for a moment, how the lady was seeing her ex husband in court. he was suddenly taken back to when Liz had the baby.


They were in the hospital, and Liz was just having Mary, when Soul bursted through the doors, gasping for air. "I'm here! I'm here..." he said, clutching his heart. Liz was in too much pain to register that her husband was there, but once Mary was out and lively, she went ballistic. In her fit of rage, she managed to throw several items at him, including a shot, before the doctors had her pinned on the bed. Soul was nothing less than shocked. The only reason he was late was because there was a raging ice storm outside, and traffic wasn't at its greatest peak. As he spit out apologies, saying it was uncool of him and that it wouldn't happen again, but she just kept on going.

After she calmed down, she uttered the words, "I should've known," before walking out the door. Soul was really confused as he picked Mary up in his arms and soothed her. After that, he decided to name her Mary, since that was what Liz wanted. He was then desperate, and had to rely on some lady at an Orphanage to take care of her until she was old enough. Then he took her home and single-handedly raised his daughter. Liz wanted a divorce, so that was what she got. None of this made any sense at all to Soul until he found out from Liz's sister, Patty, that she was put in the loony bin. It all went by so quickly. Patty soon became Soul's friend and babysitter for Mary, but they never went any further than that.
Once it was all over, Soul set out to find a new girlfriend to help him support Mary, because all she ever wanted was a mother...


Soul was snapped back to reality when Maka ruffled his hair a bit. "Oh, hi," he muttered. Maka smiled.

"It's about naptime," she said.

"Yeah, I'm pretty tired..."

"No, idiot, for the kids."

"Oh." Maka led him into her office again and sat him down in a plush chair.

"You fell asleep for a while, muttering things every now and then. I was just going to leave you there, but what if you woke up the kids?" she said. Soul nodded.

"So about that date," Maka said, staring at his sleepy, tortured eyes. The word "date" made him perk right up, though.

"I decided that I'll go ahead and say yes. I mean, what have I got to lose? You seem like a pretty good father," she continued. Soul's face brightened, but it didn't show for long.

"I knew you'd say yes...There's no way you could have resisted this," he motioned to his body. Maka made a disgusted look.

"Oh I could resist," she reassured him. But she was already smiling again, so it didn't have any effect on him. He sat up in the chair lazily and exhaled.

"So...Saturday?" he asked. She nodded.

"Alright. Sounds good to me," he yawned. Maka let herself stare at him for a while. His messy hair just seemed so...what was the word...appealing? Desirable? Yeah, let's go with that. His eyes were a piercing bright red on a daily basis, but this time they were a darker red, a shade that captured her. Whenever he yawned-which was often-she could see his perfectly aligned, shark-like teeth that threatened to make his lip bleed at any moment, but never did. She wondered how many cold sores the guy got from biting the inside of his cheek. It must be awful, she thought. Especially if he doesn't use cream, which guys usually don't-WAIT why am I thinking about cold sores?! She rolled her eyes at herself and studied him some more.

"You gunna keep staring at me?" he smirked. "'Cause I'll let you, if you want. I have no problem with it." Maka blushed and looked away, dreading how long the awkward nap time was. Soul kicked back and relaxed until it was time to take Mary home. He told her about the news of the date and she got all excited. Her eyes sparkled and he loved it when they did that. So he picked her up, swung her around, laughing, and set her back down. It was going to be a long two days until their date.

Maka sat back in a chair at the dining table of her small apartment that she shared with nothing but a cat. She thought about how she agreed to go out on a date with a stranger, but after worrying for about an hour, she figured that if he was a rapist, he would've raped her already. Also, rapists aren't good fathers. So yeah. That was her proof. She went to bed and allowed herself one more thought about how sexy-yeah, that's the word for it-Soul looked.


Ugh, I'm sorry, guys. I'm SORRY. this chapter sucks ass and it's super short. Sorry. . I'm struggling to get to the actual plot line. XD It will come in the next chapter, I promise. Anywhore, be a doll and review, follow, and favorite so you can get a shout-out in my next chapter! Okay thank you buh bye sweetie pie.