"Your father asked you to protect a Witch!"

Kid's eyes widened at those words.

"She is not!" Patty yelled. "Solrea is not a witch! She's nice and kind and Kid loves her and...She is not a witch!"

"Solrea?" Kid turned to her, pleading, hoping she would refute the claim.

But her head was down, bowed. She looked defeated. When she did raise it, Kid felt something pass through him.

Her face was blank, devoid of emotion, yet tears flowed freely down her face. He could barely hear what she said next.

"Soul Protect: Release."

It was like a curtain dropped. Solrea was radiating a Witch aura. Her soul was gold and purple, small and fragile still, yet now it, and her aura, seemed to pulse with electricity.

"You see now boy? She has lied to you, hid herself from you and everyone else."

"Shut UP, Minerva!" Solrea lashed out. "You just had to tell him, didn't you? Maybe I was about to tell him, but we'll never know because you had to open up your fucking mouth and drop the bomb! I hate you! I HATE ALL OF YOU!"

"Solrea…"

She raised her hands.

"Tornado Barrier!"

Winds whipped up, forcing the witches back, away from them. Solrea turned, but the auburn witch was still there, spell primed.

A gunshot echoed. The witch gasped, and fell back, a hole now in her shoulder. Patty, still a gun, was smoking. Kid was trembling.

"It's this way!" Solrea dashed out of the room, Kid close behind.

"Wait, this isn't the right way! The door is behind us!"

"We can't get on the streets, it'll slow us down! You used Beelzebub, right? You'll have to use it again!"

The pair ended up on the roof. Kid summoned Beelzebub, and hovered over the roof.

"Solrea, what are you doing?!"

"Kid, I can fly on my own."

"There they are!"

Minerva and company had made it onto the roof. Solrea took off, jumping onto the wall around the roof, then right off.

"No!" Kid's stomach dropped.

"Wing Summon!" And then Solrea was soaring upwards, the feathers gone from her hair but two pure white wings on her back. She turned and flew in the direction of home.

Minerva was about to go after her when multiple gunshots landed directly in front of her. Solrea stopped and turned. Kid was hovering above the building, guns smoking.

"Unless you want to die, I suggest you cease. Also, find a new home- I will be telling my father about all of this. And he will not be so lenient."

Minerva screeched as the two flew off.

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Solrea dived into the hole in the roof, flaring her wings to slow her descent. Kid was right behind, the twins reverting back from gun form. Kid watched as Solrea's wings shrank, becoming feathers once again.

Of course, as soon as that happened, Liz ran over and seized her by the throat.

"Liz, stop!" Kid yelled.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you right now!" Liz snarled at Solrea, who was struggling to breathe.

"Liz, stop it!" Patty was crying. "Let her go!"

"She's a witch, Patty! She lied to us! She made us trust her when she could have killed us at any moment! She probably lied to Shinigami-sama too!"

"Liz, drop her! Give her a chance to explain!" Kid ordered.

Begrudgingly, Liz let her go. Solrea dropped to the floor, coughing as air was allowed back into her lungs.

"Go outside, both of you."

Patty led Liz out. Once they were gone, he crouched next to Solrea.

"Solrea…"

"She's right. I did lie to you. I lied to all of you. I should have told you from the moment you stepped in here."

Her voice was weak, tiny. Tears began to fall, soft sounds on the dirt floor.

"How...how can you….you probably hate me now. I wouldn't blame you. I'd hate me too."

Solrea looked up. Her face was filled with anguish.

Kid did the only thing that came to mind. He hugged her.

"Solrea, I don't hate you. I don't and I never will. I know you have a reason why you didn't tell me you were a witch."

Solrea buried her head in Kid's shoulder, face in the ruff of his sweatshirt.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" She held him tight, and he to her.

He waited until she had calmed down enough. She pulled away, a single tear on her cheek. He brushed it off, smiling.

"Do you...do you want to hear what I haven't told you?"

He nodded. Solrea breathed slowly, taking off her sweatshirt, and pulling her shirt up and off. Kid was about to protest when he saw it.

A scar, pink and red and white. It started at her right shoulder, trailing down between her breasts and ending at her left hip.

"I don't remember much, but I do remember being in a house, in chains. A man, he...he tortured me. Beat me, hurt me. I screamed for him to stop. I screamed and screamed, then one day I stopped screaming. Then, one day, he started….swearing at me. Then he took off my pants and started to take off his and I knew what was going to happen. I screamed as loud as I could, then he smacked me and said that no one could hear me.

"I blacked out, but I remember getting so mad that I wanted him to die. Then I woke up, and the shed was gone. He was….dead, burned to a crisp, still smoking. The next thing I knew, a man with red hair in a suit appeared."

"That's Death Scythe, my father's weapon. We call him Spirit"

Solrea nodded. "He took the man's soul, and then...then he looked at mine and told me I was a witch. I knew what they were. I was terrified of them. He told me that and I started bawling. I was scared of what I could do.

"Spirit, he called your father and explained the situation. Then Shinigami-sama talked to me for a bit. He offered me protection, but I couldn't use my powers to hurt anyone. That was my half of the promise. I swore I would never hurt anyone. He helped me find a place to stay, and that was that.

"I learned how to fight, how to take care of myself. I had to use my powers sometimes, mostly to get out of sticky situations. All that I've used are defensive spells and the wing summon. I know more than that but I swear I have never hurt anybody ever!"

Solrea had put her shirt back on, and was now looking at Kid, scared out of her mind.

"I believe you."

"I didn't want to tell you because I hate being a witch. I never wanted to be one, ever."

Kid hugged her again. Solrea squeezed him.

"Kid...I-"

"I know."

Liz was pacing outside while Patty leaned against the wall. Something fell past her face, and she looked up.

It was starting to snow.

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Liz and Patty snored, sleeping together on the mattress that had been Kid's. The young Shinigami was holding Solrea, who was burrowed into his chest.

"They'll leave."

"Hm?"

"The coven. They know you told your father, and he knows where they are. They'll move to a different area."

"They won't stop tracking you though, will they?"

Solrea shook her head. "They want me too badly to just give up like that."

Kid hugged her closer.

"Kid...are you going home?"

"Most likely."

"I don't want you to leave."

"I don't want to either." Kid buried his nose into her hair. Her aura surrounded them both, and it was oddly comforting.

"Solrea?"

"Hmm?"

"What...what would you say about moving in with me?"

"Huh?! Isn't the Academy filled with people like you?!"

"Yes, and you'd have to have Soul Protect on constantly, but think about it. The witches would never think of you being in a place like that, and I'll always be with you."

"Well, when you put it like that…"

"So you'll accept?" Kid couldn't keep the glee out of his voice.

"I guess so." Solrea smiled at him. He returned it and held her even closer.

"I love you, Solrea Marquesia."

She kissed him. "I love you too, Death the Kid."

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PLW: And that's the end! … Actually, it isn't really. I'm making this a three-part series! The sequel to this will be titled 'Thunderbird'. I'll post it soon!

I do not own anything but Solrea and Kami City.

Thank you for reading, and I hope to see you reading the next one!