Welcome back everyone! Sorry It took so dang long, but I kind of became obsessed recently with my Fallen Souls story. :) LOL. Anyway I am glad to present all of you with the next installment of Love Your Enemy!

Coal's POV ~

"COAL!? WHAT THE HELL!?"

I sat bolt up right when I heard a rather loud thump of something large hitting the ground and the pressure from my lap disappearing suddenly. I looked around rubbing the sleep from my eyes and found that I had fallen asleep in my living room. One question down and one to go...but not for very long.

I looked down at the space inbetween the black leather couch and the coffee table to see what had fallen and get my answer.

Claire's sitting there cross-legged in the space between the two pieces of funiture. She was rubbing the place where I guess her shoulder had either cought the ege of the table, or had connected with the ground to produce that loud thump from earlier.

I kind of just stared at my partner blanky, as the fog cleared itself from my head bit by bit. All I remembered really was coming back to the manor with the scythe after a long training session with Soul and Maka on resonating to try and pull off Witch Hunter. I remembered how uneasy both our parents looked when we described the not normal Traitor we fought and thinking about that helped clear the fog a little quicker.

But not quick enough to registar a hand flying towards my head, let alone duck or reach out to grab it in time to prevent it hitting me.

Slap

"Again!? Seriously Claire. what is it with you and hitting me and yelling like that in my ear? Are you trying to make me def and beat my brains out women!?", I demanded trying to think about where my partner's knack for hitting me on the head came from. For some reason an imiage of Maka appeared in my head. Could my partner really have gotten her annoying violent tendencies from the warm hearted Academy nurse? I think back to how that tree was neatly split in half when Maka and Soul used Witch Hunter and cringed a bit. Yeah. That was a total possiblity.

Claire glared at me with heated red eyes and a slight pink flush to her cheeks, "You're not the one that woke up having slept with her head on her partner's lap!"

"Yeah you're right about that one.", I replied, "I was the one that woke up with his partner yelling in his ear and smacking him on the head again. You toatally had it worse."

The scythe went to slap me again, but this time I moved fast enough to intercept the attack and grabed her wrist mid strike. She struggled to get away, but I kept a too firm a grip on her wrist to prevent her from moving it. Our eyes locked with each other and Claire stopped her stuggling. I scanned the ash blond weapon carefully and actually paying attention to her for the first time. My grip locked around her wrist still and holding it up above our heads, ignoring how close we were.

Claire's distinctive red eyes and ash blond pigtails. Her lips set in a hard stubborn frown. The weapon's cocky, confident atitude and posture daring someone to challenge her. She was such a contradiction that I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. She looked...delecate, too delecate to be a weapon almost. I subconciously found myself loosening my grip around her wrist, afraid that too much pressure may cause the bones to snap. Even though I knew that Claire was a perfectly capable scythe, I felt protective of her all of a sudden.

"Coal? Arm going numb here and we're going to be late for class if we don't get a move on.", Claire's voice seemed to have soften a big when she was the one to brake the eye contact.

I droped mine and Claire's arm, but hesitated a little bit before finally releasing her wrist. "Yeah look, let's not tell anyone about this. Tessa has a knack for taking things the wrong way and spreding rumors pretty quickly.", I stood up off of the couch and offered a hand to my weapon partner to help her up.

"Yeah...why am I not surprised?", Claire grinned shaking her head, "Now let's hurry and get to class already...before Tessa notices we're not in class yet."

When Claire placed her hand in mine nodding, I closed mine over her's and pulled her to her feet before letting her hand go. We smiled at each other, before heading out of the door and off towards the Academy.

Claire's POV ~

I kept an eye on Coal as we walked through Death City, on our way to the Academy from Gallows Manor. I was silent as my thoughts drifted back to earlier at the manor. My eyes narrowed in focus. What had happened exactly that lead to me waking up with my head on my meister's lap the next morning? I couldn't place it.

I knew that our second training session with my parents had been a tough one and both of us were exhausted. My parents agreed to let us go for the day and Coal and I headed back to Gallows Manor, so that we could continue on our own after resting up a bit. I remembered reclining on the black leather couch and closing my eyes for a minute, but I never meant to fall asleep like that. I must have been more tiered then I thought I was.

But that still didn't explain how my head ended up on Coal's lap.

Did I shift at some point in my sleep without realizing it or waking up?

It was possible.

I shook my head thinking that I was starting to be rediculus. Falling asleep with my head on Coal's lap was nothing short of the result of being utterly exhausted from my parents drilling the two of us during our training session. Nothing more and nothing less.

I stoped and looked back when I noticded that the Gri Reaper had stoped and was glaring head of us with narrowed golden yellow eyes. "Coal? Now what's going on with you? Seriously, the way you've been acting lately is freaking me out.", I sighed and crossed my arms.

"Aw how cute.", a male voice cought me off gaurd, "A pair of bickering Academy Students, too easy."

It was a huge muscled man smirking at Coal and I ahead of us. I didn't need to think who this guy was or what he wanted.

Anouther Traitor, just like One.

"So anouther Traitor then?", I said allowing myself to be engulfed in white light as I shifted into my full weapon form and felt Coal catch me from mid air. "You know what pal, you guys are really starting to get annoying. Can't we do this after school? Or maybe during class? We kicked your buddy One's ass to the curb, so what's stoping me from swallowing your soul too?", I looked at him from the blade of the scythe. Now these guys were just starting to annoy me, but we defeated the first one so this guy shouldn't have been a problem.

The Traitor laughed, "I'm Two. One was nothing compared to me, it'll take a lot more then seeing souls to take my soul, weapon!", he laughed.

"You could be number Five-Thousend for all I care!", I yelled back at Two, "You're still going down hard and your soul is still going to be mine! Let's go Coal!"

"We will see about that little weapon.", Two smirked.

Coal tightned his grip on me and leapt into the air, before slashing me at Two and landing behind the guy with a perfect landing. He grinned, "Got him! these Traitors really are a fools mission, aren't they?"

But I wasn't paying attention to my meister, because all my attention was on Two behind us. Something just didn't feel right, even though I was sure Coal stuck that hit perfectly and we should have done some kind of damage to the Traitor. "Coal look!", I yelled gritting my teeth.

Sure enough, Two was laughing and turning towards us with not a single scratch on him. He looked just the same as he did before, minus his now bulkier appearing body anyway.

"Not a scratch...", Coal hissed under his breath, "But how. That attack was right on target. I was sure of it."

"Hahaha, you really thought an attack like that could stop me boy? I told you I'm not as weak as One was! I can harden the muscles in my body so that they become harder then stone, to defend against attacks.", Two laughed.

"Damn!", growled Coal, "Any ideas Claire?" He turned his golden yellow gaze to me and raised an eyebrow.

"I'm a weapon Coal, not a problem solver.", I retorted cooly, "But even if I was, this guy's ability throws all of our options out the window...minus one which we have yet to pull off."

"Witch Hunter!"