Well! Hello! How's it shaken? XP
Notes: EVERYONE; Now, alot of you have asked when Maka will be waking up. I cannot give you guys that information. Terribly sorry about that! (only kindda cause it adds to the suspence). And about the pairings! Soul does end up with Maka i swear! It just won't happen for a very long while... Sorry.
Oh, and some questions will be answered and some hints will be laid down so watch out!
Disclaimer: Only own Alex, Kayla (even if i borrowed the name from a friend) and Jake (even though its my brothers best friends name).
Alex
"We are going to the beach ASAP! We can deal with the kishin later! I need my fill of hot guys!" I scream running down the air planes steps.
Last time I was in the Land Down Under, Drake threw a hissy fit when I ran off to the beach and talked to a bunch of guys. He got this really deep scowl on. He pulled me out of the group and hugged me from behind. We stayed like that for a little until the guys ran away. I looked up at him and he only shrugged.
After the incident he wouldn't let me near the beach, "Alex, we need to get the bags to the hotel room."
"But!"
Soul glares at me from the door of the airplane, "I mean it. I really hate to be the responsible one but, you know we need to get checked in."
"Fine." I sigh and open my arms for Soul to throw my bag.
"You need to come up here and get it. You have your guitar remember?" He points inside the plane. I smack my head.
I climb up the stairs once again grumbling about how distracted I get. When I reach the top of the stairs I notice Soul is bent over his bag searching for something.
Look at that mighty fine ass! Hm! You should grab it! My face erupts in a blush at all the images my other self shoots my way.
UGH! Stop it! I shake my head, "Alex, you alright?"
Soul is now standing up with his bag slung over his shoulder, "Huh? Yeah, I'm totally fine!" I give him a smile and scurry over to my own bag.
Did you see that leather jacket? HM! My other self calls. I grip my bag tighter trying to block out all of her thoughts.
I can't believe I used to be like you!
I'm only here because you keep pushing down what you really want to do! She sings.
"Alex, are you sure you're okay?"
I look back to Soul knowing my whole face is red, "Yup." I bite my lip at the squeak and turn back to my bag. I lift it up on my shoulder and grab his guitar.
Why are you acting up so suddenly? Why now, when I'm on a miss… THAT'S WHY! You picked now of all times to start acting up because it's just mean and him! How am I supposed to keep focused on work when you keep undressing him!
I watch her rub her hands together, I'm going to keep doing it until you finally jump him and become your old self again!
As she speaks I don't notice that I still have a step and completely miss it, "AH!" I let out. I continue to yell until I find that I'm not hitting the ground yet.
"Sometimes I wonder if you're a klutz or you just think too much and you get klutz because of that." Soul chuckles. I look up at him with wide eyes then hang my head. Stupid inner self.
"If I think the whole world screams in joy because I am such a genius." I grumble as he helps me getting stand straight again.
He gives me a raised eyebrow, "Have you been talking to Black Star lately?"
"Ah, no. Why?"
"Because you just sounded like him." His eyes widen and his hands reach his face as he makes an 'O' with his mouth, "Your turning into Black Star!"
I gasp in fake horror and then glower, "I am not."
"You are too." We begin to walk away from the plane and towards the good sized airport in front of us.
"Are not!" I glare at him.
We continue our argument as we enter the airport. A lot of people stare at us with half way disgusted glares and half way amused smirks.
"Dear, aren't they a cute couple?" I stop mid 'are' and look at the elderly woman. I look at Soul, who is looking at me with a red tint to his cheeks, then down to where my hand is. I find that I am gripping his jacket, I'm only holding it because I don't want to get lost, and it looks like well, I'm holding it in a cute manner while we argue.
"She's adorable isn't she?" My eyes widen as I look up at Soul, "She's the cutest when she blushes." All I can see is his giant smirk. All I can feel is my whole face erupting in a wild fire.
"I hate you." I squeak out. He chuckles and pulls me towards customs.
~ooOOoo~
"This is the hotel?" I stare up and the bigllion floored hotel. I think it says it's a Hilton?
Soul shrugs, "Death is paying for everything so I had to pick the best of the best."
"Hell yeah!" I smile. "This is the fanciest hotel I have ever seen. Not stayed at but, seen!" Soul gives me a disbelieving eyebrow. I laugh nervously, "He liked the simple life. Nothin' fancy."
Soul nods and begins to walk up the front towards the door. I follow quickly after him. This hotel has doormen! Geez, Soul. I didn't know you paid attention to what hotel we stay at.
I take a sideways glance at him, 'Does he care enough to really look?'
"What are you thinking about?" Soul gives the check-in lady a charming smile almost making her faint.
I purse my lips. I decide to lie, "Just about how it would suck if it started raining." I look over to some plants near the doorway. Exotic colorful plants. They're fake as hell. Wow, now I'm relating to plants…
"That's a lie." I whip my head around only to have my eyes widen at how close he is. Without taking his gaze from mine he grabs the hotel keys, "Alex, you know how uncool lying is."
"I…" I open my mouth to speak but, snap it shut. I cross my arms, "Why do you care if I lie?" I turn away and begin to walk over to the elevators. 'Damn, he does care enough to really watch my lies. Yet, does he care enough about me not to kill me when he finds out that my mom's a witch and my dad a lecher?' (A/N Lecher – a guy that cheats on his wife)
Soul doesn't make a sound as he follows me to the elevators. I let him press the up button and we wait. When we step into the elevator alone Soul let's hell loose, "WHEN WILL YOU STOP LYING? Are you that mentally unstable that you can't tell the truth? Do you know how fucking annoying it is? I have to be with you until Maka gets back and you know what? I don't even know if Maka is going to wake up!"
I stare at him scared. For the first time in my life I, Alexandra Marie Hill, am scared.
"Stein is right! Your soul is going to turn black before you even turn eighteen with all the lies and secrets your keeping! You are pathetic! I don't see why I deal with you anymore! All you're ever going to tell me is a lie or a line!"
Are you going to take-
I calmly press the next floors button. Soul stands in the back of the elevator shaking in fury. When the doors open he opens his mouth to speak. I hold my hand up and step out, "I hope Maka never wakes up." I pronounce each word clearly until the doors close. The last time I see his face it is contorted with rage and agony.
I shake my head, "I'm getting out of here. Geez, Ma was right about going it alone. It is so much better." I click my fingers and my clothes transform. Instead of a skirt my legs are covered with ripped up capris. My American Eagle striped shirt is replaced with a tight red tank top. Instead of my long white hair being down I place it in a messy bun on the top of my head and change it to red. I paint my nails black and leave the make-up off. Instead of having a bra and panties I have a bikini and I'm ready for those boys.
I open the window at the end of the hall stepping out. I hear my name being called. I look behind me to see Soul rounding the corner with his bag on his shoulder. He looks a bit distraught, "Are you looking for someone?"
His head whips around too look at me. For a moment he looks at me in shock then it turns to fear, "Um… miss? What are you doing half way out a window?"
I look to him and then back outside. I let out a sigh as the summer breeze hits me, "I'm going for a walk. You didn't answer my question." I pout a little bit and swing my other leg out the window so I am sitting on the window sill.
"Lady, I really don't think its…"
"Wrong answer Soul." I let my hair color flash back to white as I slip off the window sill into the air. 'Hm, I wish Bari was here. He would be having a blast.'
Soul stares out the window with wide eyes. Alex jumped. It's all his fault. He could have done so much to make sure she didn't.
'Wait! Maybe, she isn't dead! She's part witch and there's some palm trees down there that could break her fall! I have to get down there!' Soul drops his bangs and races for the stairs. As he thunders down them he thinks about how stupid he has been today. Yes, he's blown up on her once or twice before but, nothing like this. But, he never yelled at her for no reason. Lying is a terrible thing to do to the soul!
Soul doesn't want Alex hurting herself just because she wants to relive her past. The thing is if she keeps this up she'll become what she thought Drake was. A run away.
Soul needs Alex. Day by day she's been helping him get out of his cool or uncool rut he has. She's been teaching him to take care of someone instead of someone taking care of him. Alex has showed him that a change is not always the worse thing in the world, that every cloud has a silver lining. She is teaching him to be more caring, to actually have some feelings.
He can't just have her leave him like that. He can't beat the kishin by himself. Soul knows for a fact that he won't be able to handle Maka dying without Alex by his side.
Soul thinks back to, maybe, Tuesday of last week.
"Soul, it isn't your fault that she's in a coma. You really need to stop being so flipping depressed all the time. I'm surprised that you don't have a rain cloud over your head." Alex scolds as they walk home from school. She waves her sucker, one that some random guy gave her, in his face.
"I am not depressed all the time." Soul defends himself weakly.
Alex stops in the middle of the street with a giant scowl on her face. People begin to watch the pair and Soul becomes a little nervous with the attention. She crosses her arms before she begins to speak, "You wanna know what I think happened?"
"No." Soul grumbles give her a glare.
She only rolls her eyes and continues like Soul never spoke, "You guys thought that you could pull off a harder mission this time. You got cocky because the kishin was hustling you. The first time you battled it, it barely got away. It was the second time that you battled it that Maka got hurt right?"
Soul was stunned. That was exactly what happened.
Alex smirks, "I'll take that as a yes. So, Soul, it was the kishin's mind games that got Maka hurt not you! Naw, c'mon, I am starving!"
Soul lets Alex pull him back to the apartment amazed at the blonde. After thinking about what she said for a very long time, after dinner and Alex was getting ready for bed, Soul comes up with one question, "Lexi, how did you know what happened?"
Her head peeks around the corner from the bathroom, "Eh, I guess. I should try and gamble sometime if what I said was right." She taps her chin and continues getting ready.
Without Alex he would have never stopped beating himself up about that. Maka and he could have never say through what the kishin was playing until it was too late. It can't be too late for Soul and Alex, right?
Soul burst out the back door, he turns right, and sprints hoping to at least find a body. If she's dead he wants it quick. He doesn't want to watch her fade away.
He is only met by crowded streets and not a single drop of panic. Soul raced from one end of the sidewalk to the next looking for a red haired girl or white haired or blonde.
Finally after a half an hour Soul sits down on a bench and puts his head in his hands, "Damn it all."
"Hey mister!" Something pokes his shoulder. Soul lifts his head to glare at a mini-me of Black Star.
"What do you want?"
"I was just wonderin' if ya lost your mom. 'Cause I lost mine a long," The kid pulls out 'long' for a terribly long time. Almost long enough for Soul to hit him, key word almost, "Time ago. Maybe I could help ya?"
Soul scowls at the kid but, he seems not to notice, "Listen, I didn't lose my mom."
The kid frowns, "Your dad."
"No."
"Your sister?"
"No."
"Your brother?"
"No."
"Oh! Your girlfriend! She dumped you didn't she?" Soul's glare intensifies.
"I don't have a girlfriend. If you really want to know I lost my meister." Soul growls.
The kid's eyes widen, "Now, I understand! That's why you look like you're going to die!" The kid smacks his head, "Why didn't I see this before?"
"Listen, I don't have time to talk with you about all of this."
The kid puts up his hand, "You love your meister and got in a fight with her didn't you?"
"Okay." Soul stands up and stares down the kid, "I don't know who paid you or if Alex did something to you so you would annoy the hell out of me but, you need to stop. I don't want to deal with your kind of shit today."
The kid smirks, "So… are ya like gay or something? Because Alex is a dude's name."
Soul grabs on to his shirt and brings the kid up to eye level, "I told you to leave me alone what's so hard about-"
"She had red hair right?"
"What?"
"Your meister, she had red hair, right?"
Soul sets the kid down slowly. He stands on the bench staring up at Soul with an amused smirk, "What's your name?"
"Oh, introductions. I like this." Soul sighs, "Impatient, geez, my name's Jake or Jakey-Boy. The ladies call me that."
Soul rolls his eyes, "So, you're going to help me find Alex?"
"Sure, sure. She's a witch right?" Soul's eyes widen, "How else would she survive a five story fall?"
"Luck?" Soul shrugs and begins to walk down the side walk with Jake following him.
"Psh, not even the luckiest man alive could have survived the way she did. She didn't even make a crack in the ground. She's one hellva witch ya know?"
Soul looks down and the kid next to him with a glower, "She's only part witch. Now, can you please stop talking about it?"
"Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. I just need to find a woman with her 'abilities' so she can break this damn curse." Jake pulls on his shirt with a scowl.
"Curse?" The pair walks into the hotel. Soul walks over to the check-in lady once more and asks if she has seen either his or Alex's bags or both. She smiles and hands over both.
Jake only begins to start talking about the curse when their in the elevator, "I annoyed this one witch and she put a curse on me to where I would stay a nine year old for forever."
"So how old are you now then?"
"Don't look at me like that!" Jake shouts at Soul's frightened face. This guy could be like ninety years old by now! "I'm only seventeen. I wanna meet that girl to see if she can change me back and-"
"And?" Soul has a bad feeling about this.
Jake smiles, "I wanna see if she would rather spend her time with me then be your meister."
"Death-sama."
"Oh! Hello, Spirit!" Death claps his hands smiling at the Death Scythe.
Spirit pushes his fingers together worriedly, "I was wondering how the plan was going with Soul and Alex?"
Death smiles under his mask, "Perfectly~! Alex has run away and Soul has had his talk with Jake."
"I still don't see how that is going to bring them closer together."
"Then I will explain it! Or this movie clip thing will~!" Death claps his hand and a movie screen comes down and a projected.
Spirit wonders how this is possible especially because Death's room does not have a ceiling.
The first picture to come up is one of Alex and her mother, "Now, Alex's mother's name is Kayla."
The next picture shows Kayla and a white haired man in embrace, "This is Kayla and Weston."
"Weston as in Soul's father?" Spirit looks at Death with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes. Now, quiet!" A few more pictures of Kayla and Weston together roll and Spirit sees the similarities.
"Wait. Go back a picture." Spirit looks at a picture of the Evans family and Kayla and Alex. "When do you think they'll find out?"
Death shrugs, "I might tell them when Maka wakes up or they might find out on their own."
"And you're letting this all happen, why?"
Death rolls his eyes at Spirit's stupidity, "They need to fall in love to figure out that they're in love with someone else~!"
"That doesn't make any sense." Spirit shakes his head. Death glares at him and proceeds to give him a chop on the head. "Hey!"
"Just leave." Death points a finger to the door pissed off at his Death Scythe.
Spirit grumbles as he walks out. When he looks up because of a noise he comes faced to face with someone he never thought he would see ever again, "Kami."
"Why, hello Spirit." The beautiful blonde woman smiles seductively at Spirit but, keeps on walking as if he were nothing but, a piece of dust.
Spirit watches her go crying dramatically. Stein rolls in from the other hallway and watches Kami walk into Death's meeting room, "Looks like it's about to get very interesting here."
*Scratches back of head* Soooo? How'd ya like it? Oh, and i love dramatic irony!
