Apparently it has been three days since i updated this... Hm, oh well. This got stuck in my head and i had to get it out! I also wanted to tell you that i am getting a beta reader for this story! WHOO! *does happy dance* So now the story will be even better!
Notes: FreeHugz767; I did not think of that until you told me. But if he WAS related to MAKA is would totally not be by brother! Psh, crazy. D
That's about...WAIT! No, no... Ah, i'll tell you. There is some cussing as you can totally see right now. And some fluff. Yes, i said it. Fluff. Soul and Alex fluff. Mmm, so not thats about it~
Disclaimer: Don't own Soul Eater. I own Alex, Drake, and Bari.
Soul stares down at his new partner, 'HOW THE FUCK COULD I LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN?'
She's been out since five o'clock and it's nearing ten. They said she just passed out and hit the tile. They said he shouldn't worry but, he can't help it. He should have been there with her! He should have been used as her weapon not Liz and Patty!
"Ugh, damn hang over. Dude, Drake is going to be so fucking pissed." She murmurs while putting her forearm over her eyes.
Soul gapes at his partner before he jumps up, in a total out of character way, and pulls the girl into a hug, "I was so scared! Don't ever do that again!" He rants. Soul knows what his doing is totally uncool but, right now his other partner is okay. Alex is okay.
"Drake…Wait, who are… SOUL?" Alex places he hands on Soul's chest and pushes him away, "Are you on drugs?" She glares at him with glistening green eyes. She grabs her head and begins to shake it.
"Alex, I am so sorry I wasn't there! I should have been with you! I should have been able to save you…" Soul trails off and looks at the distressed girl.
"Since when do you call me Alex?" She stares at her feet with no expression.
Soul notices his mistake, "I…I didn't mean to…" He stutters out. He's becoming very angry with himself! How can he let a girl like her get him so out of character? She's making him a soft little pansy!
"Please, don't do it again." She smiles up at him. All sadness gone from her features replaced by the fake happiness she insists on letting everyone see.
"I won't." He falls back into his chair. "Are you sure you're okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine. My head just hurts." She leans slowly back onto the pillow. She turns her head to look over at Soul, "May I ask why you care about me all of a sudden?"
"It would be uncool if I lost two partners." Soul states. It was half of what he was feeling. The other feeling was something he could not explain. It was like his job that he had to protect her from all the evil.
"I'm glad we both feel the same way about each other." Soul couldn't tell if Alex was being sarcastic or legitimately meaning what she said.
"Oh. You're awake." Stein walks in the room.
Soul feels the room become tense. He takes his gaze off of Stein and looks over to Alex. She looks like she's trying to hold something back, "Hi ya, Stein-sensei!"
Soul wants to let out a sigh. He wishes that she would act like she does around that creepy raccoon, "I guess that you're feeling better now?"
The fake smile broadens, "Yup! Do you know when I'll be able to go back to Soul and Maka's apartment?"
"No." Stein cranks on his screw and watches the girl.
Alex looks down in over dramatic sadness, "Oh. Well, do you think you could ask the doctor?"
"No."
"Oh." Soul raises an eyebrow at Stein. What is the crazy old coot doing?
Alex pulls her knees to her chest and puts her head between them, "So, are you going to tell us what really happened?"
Soul is taken aback by the question and it wasn't even directed at him, "I fainted because I over-exerted myself." Alex mumbles it from her knees.
"That's not what I think happened. And the doctors don't think it happened either."
"Stein, what are you talking about? It was her first fight with a kishin for a while! How do you know that she didn't over-exert herself?"
"There is no way for Alex-"
"Lexi." Alex throws in. She looks up from her knees and puts on a defiant scowl on.
Stein continues as if she had said nothing, "Could have ever over-exerted herself."
"So, what are you trying to get at?" Alex asks in a sickly sweet voice.
'There's something more going on. But what? Could it have to do with Alex's mom? Or her runaway weapon?' Soul watches the scene play out. 'I wish Maka was here. She would understand this better than I can. I don't understand any of this!'
"That you lied to everyone." Stein voice becomes menacing.
"Why would I lie about what happened? The doctors are only trying to help me." Alex says innocently. Soul also notices the she's gripping her legs harder now.
"Are you sure you didn't lie? Because that is a nasty head wound. You should really tell us what happened." Stein pushes.
Alex bites the side of her cheek, "I already told you. I over-exerted myself and fainted."
Stein grinds his teeth. His scowl becomes deeper. Then suddenly he breaks down and not in the emotional way, but in the way where he's letting the truth out to hurt Alex, "You're heart stopped for a moment didn't it? You want to know why? Because you saw Drake again. You saw your old partner and died because you were in so much shock. You're so weak that you died when-"
Soul nearly jumps out of his seat when Alex lets out a scream, "STOP IT! PLEASE! DON'T SAY ANYMORE!" Soul looks between the two. Alex is holding tears back and it seems Stein is only getting started.
"Then why don't you stop lying!"
"NO! I WON'T!" Alex shakes her head digging her nails into her legs. Tears threaten to fall. Soul feels his heart reach out for the girl. For some reason he understands her pain. For the longest time he had lied to his parents about going to Japan. He told them that he had been accepted into a prodigious school there. For a while it didn't make him feel bad but, when the day he would leave came around, he couldn't hold it in anymore. He told his whole family that he was going to be a weapon and that he was sorry for lying. He felt terrible watching his mother's face turn from happiness to pure sadness and his father's turning to fury. Wes seemed completely calm about the whole thing and his expression hadn't changed.
"You're so weak! You have to lie to everyone to make you feel a little bit better! You are pathetic!" Stein roars. Soul wonders when the doctors haven't come in yet to make Stein leave. Then Soul thinks, 'What doctor would want to get anywhere near an angry Stein?'
"NO! NO, I'M NOT! I'M NOT WEAK!"
Soul remembers the first time when he heard Maka's Soul Song (A/N Soul hears soul wavelengths so, I thought I would give it a name :D). She had been way pissed off at her dad for getting her yet another worthless present, a thong this time, for her birthday. Maka was furious. She had torn through the house ranting about how terrible her papa was and wishing that he would grow up already. Soul had sat on the couch and listened to the whole thing with fleeting interest until, he heard faint music.
Soul heard loud drums and trumpets. Banging and shouting out angrily but, there was a small sound of a flute. It was small but, still there. It sounded so painful like the flute was dying. That was when Soul figured it out. That Maka was furious at her papa for not getting her a decent present but, sad that he never put thought into it.
Upon figure this out, Soul went over to Maka and told her to return it to the store and go out and buy herself a real present. Maka looked up at Soul as if he was crazy for a moment then told him it was a great idea. As Maka was leaving Soul heard the sound of a piccolo and a flute playing a happy and upbeat tune, which was much better than the dying flute, drums, and trumpets he had heard earlier.
Now, Soul is hearing a horrible clash of noise and an instrument. He can hear nails on a chalk board and a piano playing. What hurts him the most is not the nails but, the tune the piano is playing. He's heard it before. He's heard something like that in his own soul before he met Maka. It is a deep pounding noise with slow higher keys playing. At moments the song is scary and others its sound is something beyond sorrow and agony.
"You are so pathetic that you won't even look at-" Before Stein can say another word Soul quickly pulls out all the tubes that are sticking to Alex's arms. He swiftly pulls her into his arms and races out of the room. "Soul! What are you doing?"
"Put me down!" Alex yells at him trying to pull away and set her feet down.
"Do you want to go back to him? I can put you down." Soul stops abruptly and looks down at the girl.
What he sees is heart wrenching. Her green eyes are swollen red with tears still falling. Her dirty blonde hair is a complete mess. Her lips are still trembling even though she's biting hard on them, "No, please, Soul don't. Please."
Soul only nods at the whimpering girl. He makes his way through the hallways to the elevators. He sighs when he sees them, 'Almost home.'
Then he sees Spirit, "SOUL-KUN!"
Alex jumps a little in his arms at the loud shout from the weird weapon, "Spirit."
"MAKA! Oh, my goodness you're awake! Oh, it has been too long since I've heard your beautiful voice!" Spirit reaches out to touch Alex. When Alex turns around, to probably tell him off, her eyes widen and she grips my neck.
"SOUL! GET HIM AWAY FROM ME!" She screams right in his ear making him and Spirit flinch.
"Spirit, I need a favor." Soul looks at the red head with all the seriousness he can muster.
In a rare moment of seriousness Spirit looks at Soul, "What is it?"
"Keep Stein busy. He's been messing with Al…I mean Lexi here and I'm trying to get her home right now." The elevator bings and Soul steps on to it with Alex in his arms.
"I can do that." Spirit waves to the pair as the elevator's doors close.
"Who was that?" Alex shout-whispers at Soul.
"That was Maka's papa." Soul shifts Alex around and in turn she grips his neck once again.
She buries her head into the crook of his neck and whispers, "Does he have green eyes?"
"No, he has blue." Soul lets out a sigh, "Now, I' going to put you-"
"What? NO! Please! Soul-"
"Stop." He lets out his commanding voice. He bites his lip hating how he sounds like he's scolding a dog, "I don't think you want the whole city to see your butt."
She blinks a couple of times then looks over her right side and sees that Soul has his arm around her legs and not around her legs and her hospital gown, "Oh, I…I didn't know."
Soul chuckles, "Don't worry about it." The elevator bings and they arrive at the ground floor. He steps out into the deserted lobby. He bends down to let Alex put her feet down.
"Geez, its cold." She frowns at the ground. Soul laughs and picks her up quickly making her squeak, "Hey! That's not nice!"
"I am not being your knight in shining armor so; I don't have to be nice!" He smiles as he walks out of the hospital in the streets of Death City.
"Well, then what are you?" She folds her arms across her chest.
"I'm your weapon." He watches her smile and lean her head onto his shoulder.
As she closes her eyes she whispers one thing to Soul, "Thank you."
Soul continues to carry Alex through the city ignoring all the weird looks he gets from the males and the 'AWE! Isn't that just adorable' looks from the females. He hates how she got really heavy half way home making him want to stop and just sleep but, he doesn't and continues on to the apartment.
He remembers when he carried Maka after the attack on Death City. He carried her all the way to the hospital and stayed with her all night. He was so scared that he hadn't broken her fall right and she was going to die. She didn't though. Maka was ready for missions a week later.
Soul opens the bottom door of the apartment building and steps inside, "Okay, I have four flipping sets of stairs and then I can go to sleep for forever."
Soul sighs and begins the journey up the stairs.
By the time Soul makes it up the four flights he feels like he's going to die if he has to walk anymore. Before he opens the unlocked door he looks down at his partner; he sees her sleeping peacefully with a small smile on her lips. For another moment he listens to her Soul Song. He hears a piano playing something along the lines of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, 'So, she has a piano song too.'
Before Soul can push the door open quietly Blair flings open the door, nude as any person could be, "SOUL-K… Why are you carrying Lexi-Chan?"
Soul closes his eyes and prays to everyone he knows that he doesn't fly back and has a bloody nose, "Blair, please just put some clothes on." He growls. He hears Blair move out of the way. He walks into the house with his eyes open to make sure he doesn't trip over that talking raccoon.
"So, you stole her from the hospital? Wow, you do love her." Bari drawls from the couch.
"Shut it, vermin."
"Ouch, that so did not hurt." Soul rolls his eyes at the thing. He walks into his room trying desperately not to trip on some of the clothes he hasn't picked up yet. He stumbles to his bed without dropping Alex. He removes the covers and sets her down. He pulls the covers up and smiles down at the sleeping girl.
"I never knew you had so much pain inside of you. I really hope that I can help you in some way before you have to leave." Soul knows that he has to keep an optimistic view about Maka's condition. He will never give up on her no matter what they say.
Soul pulls up a chair and lays his head on his arms and closes his eyes.
~ooOOoo~
When Soul wakes up he feels moved. Out of place even. He pulls off the covers and puts his feet on the floor. He looks around his room, now clean, with some curiosity, 'How did I get in my bed? And wasn't my room dirty before I went to bed? Whoa! Where's Alex?' Soul stands up and rushes to the door scared out of his mind that Stein had taken her back to the hospital.
"We're in here Soul!" Alex smiles from a bar stool. "Blair's making breakfast!"
Soul hears the cheery high notes of her soul, "Blair's doing what?" Soul asks cautiously.
"Bari-kun is helping Blair!" Blair steps from behind the pillar and into the open space of the bar holding on to a spatula. Soul looks from Blair to Alex. She is dressed up in a tank top and one of his plaid pajama pants. Soul takes a seat next to Alex.
Soul raises an eyebrow at the girl, "Why are you wearing my pants?"
She looks down at her pants then back up at Soul with an amused expression, "They were in my room."
The pair looks over to their purple haired house mate, "Blair."
She looks up from the pan and smiles, "What did Blair do?"
"BLAIR! Pay attention!" Bari screams from the other side of the counter top. Blair looks back down at pan once again.
Soul and Alex smile, "I'll give it back to you later."
Soul chuckles, "They were too small for me anyway so, you can have 'em."
"Wow, sharing cloth-"
"Shut it, Bari." Alex growls.
"Fine, fine. You're only denying the truth!" He sings.
"What is his problem?" Soul throws his hands up.
"Just ignore him. He's a dick all the time." Alex states plainly as if it was yesterday's news.
Bari makes a snorting noise but, says nothing.
"So, why do you have him anyway?"
"My Ma's paying me to watch him since, she got tired of him. And my Ma pays good." Blair thrust a plate of steaming pancakes into Alex's waiting hand. She picks up her fork and cuts it into a bite size piece.
The first night Alex was here Soul let Blair cook to show that no matter what the circumstances, Blair was never allowed to cook. Let's say that Alex got the message.
Alex stabs the piece with her fork and lifts it off the plate. The whole apartment goes silent as Alex brings the slice up to her mouth. She quickly bites the piece and starts to chew waiting for the horrible flavor to attack. Soul is astonished when Alex opens her eyes wide and swallows, "Its…amazing!"
"No way!" Soul grab a fork and grabs a whole chunk of it and shoves the whole mass into his mouth. "Oh, dear God, This is so cool!"
Soul goes in for another piece, "Back off weapon boy! This is mine!"
Soul sits back and folds his arms, "Some caring meister you are." Alex rolls her eyes and laughs at the jealous guy. Soul listens in to her Soul Song one more time and hears a piano playing with a sad twang of a lone guitar. Soul smiles knowing that that piano is playing louder than the guitar, showing that she might be happy for the first time in a long time.
Ah, its so cute! Oh, and the reason why Alex was scared of Spirit was not because he looks like Drake, so why was she scared?