Life was going pretty well for Stein and Spirit except for a few small things. Spirit was being forced to quit smoking and Stein constantly smoking around him wasn't helping in any way so they had to compromise, Stein would smoke a bit less and Spirit would try not to yell at him.

One day Stein and Spirit were standing around, pretending to do important business when Sid burst into the dispensary holding a baby, of all things. The man working as a Doctor didn't think the academy was the proper place for a baby with all the fighting going on and asked "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

Of course Spirit had to freak out like he normally would assume the worse, yelling at him "He couldn't just leave it to die!"

Stein couldn't help himself, he felt like he had to explain himself "I didn't mean he should just throw it away" he then realized why Spirit was acting like this "You're going to have a child of your own soon enough, aren't you, Senpai?"

The older man immediately changed from angry to awkwardly rolling from side to side on the floor making up incoherent excuses as to why he didn't tell Stein.

As the days went on, Stein found himself reluctantly helping care for the baby that Sid decided to name 'Black Star' because of his tattoo displaying his ancestry. The young Doctor regularly had to keep himself from manically laughing about the stupid name.

Then a few days later Stein was called to the Death Room to find Lord Death looking much more serious than he normally does. The Shinigami explained "We've found another Doctor" assuming him to be much more upset than he was.

Stein didn't know what to think about that so he just asked "Does that mean I can go back to university?"

The Lord of Death immediately cheered up, and replied "Yes! You can go back and learn about bones and organs to your heart's content!"

That brought a small crooked smile to the young man's face. Until he realizes that he would have to leave the life he built for himself in Death City. He even painted his entire house a grey colour that he liked. Eventually he decided to keep the house since he was hoping to return sometime in the future. After he went back and finished university.

One night Spirit was sleeping peacefully until Kami woke him up yelling "Wake up you ass!" quickly followed by "I think the baby's coming!"

He then fell out of the bed he was previously comfortable in and yelled "Oh shit!"

Spirit then took around fifteen minutes running around trying to get everything they needed together. Kami just laid there watching him freak out, unimpressed. Once he was finally was ready to get out the door she asked him "Didn't you say you got everything ready days ago?"

He ignored her to just get everything in the car. Nothing was said between them until Spirit helped Kami get into a wheelchair and pushed her to the front desk where he freaked out at the lady at the front desk "My fiancée is about to have a baby!"

The lady then looked at the two of them surprised to see the man excited and the woman, not as much. Usually it's the other way around. She then told them "A Doctor will be with you shortly"

This of all things was what made Kami snap, yelling "I don't want a Doctor shortly! I want a Doctor now!" not caring that she disturbed most of the people in the area.

Spirit was trying and failing to calm her down. She kept yelling until a secretary told them "right this way"

Around five hours later Spirit was able to hold his new daughter for the first time. As far as he was concerned, nothing he had seen until then could even compare to the beauty of his new born daughter. Quite awhile later Kami decided to name her Maka because it means both 'the favourite one' and 'earth'.

Then the next day he made Stein the godfather without telling Kami. He knew that she wouldn't even try to understand why he did it. Stein didn't know about it either. The scatterbrained man decided to explain if anyone asked that he forgot that his old Meister was a psychopath who was leaving for university in a few days.

Stein's reaction was pretty much the same as Spirit expected. He said "Oh" then took a drag on his cigarette and then asked "Why?"

Spirit then said "Well, you're the closest thing I have to a friend, except for Sid, but he doesn't count because he's a co-worker now"

The younger man's voice was kind of muffled as he spoke around the cigarette "That's kind of sad" then before Spirit could be offended he said "You do know I'm leaving in a few days, right?" The only response Spirit could muster up was some sputtering and wild hand gestures. To make himself sound even angrier Stein added on to that "Also, let's pretend that what we did when we were kids was just experimenting" then he dropped the butt of his cigarette on the floor of the hallway they were standing in, stomped on it angrily and walked away before Spirit could say anything.

Stein was only kind of regretting how he left things with Spirit. He tried to distract himself by working extra hard at his studies. Then one day a man who looked a year or two younger than him walked up to him and told him "I really like your stitches" without any annoying small talk and then asked "did you do them yourself?"

Since he wasn't sure how to react in this situation he just said "Yes" and started to walk to his dorm.

He turned around though when he was told "My name is Peter and your name is Franken"

Stein was impressed, simply because few things that could shock him and someone whose soul he hadn't even looked at knowing his first name was apparently one of them. He decided not to show it in his voice as he replied "just call me Stein" and then continued to walk away.

Peter ended up being one of the few people Stein talked to. They mostly about their studies since all they did together was sit in one of their dormitories silently reading textbooks and doing extra credit assignments they both found more enjoyable than their sane classmates.

As they got more comfortable with each other they started talking about other things. Stein told Peter about how he got the job working in Death City. Peter explained what made him realize he wanted to become a Pharmacologist (he couldn't decide if he wanted to become a Doctor or a Scientist). Then one day Stein was bored when they were sitting next to each other reading about ibuprofen and looked at the other man's soul. It made him ashamed that doing that was how he realized that the two of them were dating. He then got up and put his own face in between Peter's and the book he was reading. Peter's soul was sending off messages that said 'oh shit' but that all changed when Stein softly connected his lips to Peter's.

Stein said nothing as he backed away slowly to see the giant insane smile on the other man's face which he soon matched.