Hey everyone! Sorry for the slow update, I'm working on like five projects at once and it's a bit hard, but I'm doing okay!
Oh and, although some may feel it's too soon, I reveal the letter's secret in this chapter! Please don't complain, even if you find it too soon, because I wanted to include it in this chapter.
raelynn gross assisted me alot with the plot for this mystery as well as SMILES 208. I also wish to thank Sally White for her support and aid as well as everyone reading and reviewing this story!
I do own Blair and Spirit's son but I don't own Soul Eater.
Just enjoy and review! Thanks everyone
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Chapter 13: Revelation
The next day at around eight in the morning, the entire group is assembled in the SLR office.
"Okay, I got the bulletin for Spirit Jr. out via Marie this morning. She's posted it on that huge old bulletin board and everyone knows to contact us instead of police if they see him," Kid states.
Maka and Soul nod as they stare at a picture of the child of their friend and her husband. Maka has her hair tied back in that ribbon style and wears a simple, flowing pink dress that stops just below knee along with a pair of white sandals. Soul is concerned about Maka, given the fact she's been quite depressed all day and that she's also carrying that letter from her mother. He's starting to realize...that he wishes she were more than just his friend and that's also on his mind at this point. Maka, not quite as blind, has long realized this about herself for Soul. Alas, neither have figured out how to say it.
"I swear, that crime scene was scary clean," Soul murmurs.
"Yeah...it was way too clean," Maka noted.
Kid organized several files he had and then looked at everyone.
"Okay, someone needs to go to the hotel and interview people there, someone needs to see if there have been any recent kidnapping that are similar to this one, and then someone else is going to have to go to interview Blair and Spirit," Kid stated.
"I, the amazing Black Star, call the hotel!" yells Black Star.
"Okay," agrees Tsubaki.
"Soul and I will talk to Blair and Spirit," Maka stated.
"Right," adds Soul.
Kid eyes them, "I don't think that's a good idea. You two are too close to them."
Soul and Maka straighten in unison and glare at Kid.
"What? And you think that'll hinder us?" they inquire in their togetherness.
"It just may be too hard you too. Now chill out. You two can stay in this office together and sort through files in unison as well as take any call tips we get from our bulletin," Kid states.
"Oh come on! We're going to be stuck here?" bellow Soul and Maka
"Well, you could go somewhere else or go for lunch. Just don't let those files out of sight," Kid responds.
The group of five left, leaving Soul and Maka with a very huge stack of files.
"This sucks," they mutter in complete unison.
The two each open a file exactly mirroring the other, working in complete unison as they often did so much.
"Nope," mutters Maka
"Completely different," Soul notes at the same time as Maka mutters about hers.
The two glance at one another at the same time and smile before turning back to their files in unison.
"Hey?" Maka begins.
"What?" Soul inquires.
"What should we sing tonight?" Maka asks
"Not sure," answers Soul
A few seconds later...
"First Light?" the two inquire in unison.
Another second later...
"Sure," they respond.
The two laugh in unison.
"We're just too good," they laugh, also in complete harmony.
Maka grins and Soul smiles as they continue harmonizing throughout the files.
As the others exit, Liz laughs slightly.
"If those two aren't together by the time we get back, their either stupid or bent the other way," Liz mutters.
"Or asymmetrical!" exclaims Kid.
"Not asymmetrical," sighs Patty.
"I, the amazing Black Star, god of love and awesomeness, declare that Soul and Maka need to stop being stupid!"
"Yes, I agree with Black Star in a way," Tsubaki sighs, kneeling down to kiss her shorter boyfriend.
Kid and the other two chuckle slightly as they split up and head to where they were supposed to go.
Meanwhile, back in the office of SLR, Soul and Maka are pissed off.
"This really sucks!" they scream in unison.
Both facepalm and glare at their files through their fingers.
"Kid may as well have asked us to find needles in haystacks!" the two bellow again.
They toss their files back onto the pile they've looked through and Maka groans in frustration as her mother's letter flies off of her lap. She stands to get the unfolded letter when Soul is suddenly up and picking it up for her. He suddenly squints at the letter.
"I swear I saw something on it, like dirt or something," he murmurs.
He sweeps his hand over it and feels just a slight ridge. What the hell? Soul turns toward Maka, who's side has one of the light fixtures on it and raises her letter, quickly gasping.
"Maka! Your letter has pinholes in it!"
"What?" she asks, jumping up and running over to see what Soul is blabbing about.
Soul points at the pinholes and Maka gasps. She rushes to get a notepad and writes down each letter that has a pinhole in order on the paper.
"What does it mean?" Soul asks.
"I saw a code like this in a book Mama and I read one time. You write each letter that has a pinhole down and try to figure out the message they spell when spaced out correctly," Maka states.
She shows Soul her notepad and he looks at it with her for a long moment. The letters, written in order and run together looked like;
'M a k a t h e f a t h e r y o u k n e w m a y n o t h a v e b e e n t h e r e a l o n e'
"I see your name," Soul murmurs.
Maka suddenly gasps and screams, "Oh my god!"
Soul looks at her and gasps as he watches her quivering form as she holds her hands near her face in utter shock. He hates this look, it saddens him to see Maka so suddenly upset.
"What Maka, what?"
She takes the notepad from him and quickly rewrites the message as what she now believes it to be.
'Maka, the father you knew may not have been the real one'
Soul gasps too, "Holy shit."
"I...I...can't believe it! But that's the only sensible message I see!" Maka cries.
"Dang. And here we thought sitting in this office wasn't going to do crap for us," Soul mutters.
Maka burst into tears and sank to the floor and Soul quickly knelt down to her.
"Maka! Maka, it's okay, I'm sorry. Calm down," he tries to soothe her.
"Oh my god Soul, I knew the wrong father..." sobs Maka.
He pulls her into his arms and she throws her head into his chest sorrowfully, her body shaking with choking sobs.
"Hey Maka, why don't we go out and get something for an early lunch? Maybe it'll make you feel a little better," Soul sighs.
"O...okay Soul," Maka responds, "I'll go get that little case bag thing so we can keep the files in it. We're not to let them out of sight."
"Alright," Soul replies.
Maka leaves and returns later with a red purse similar to a portable file. She slides the file folders inside, causing the purse to grow to an enormous size. Maka lifts it easily though and carries it as she follows Soul out of the hangout and over to the nearest Burger Death restaurant.
"I still can't believe it," Maka mutters.
"I can't either. The dad you knew was like my second father too," Soul sighs.
The wind blows softly and suddenly, a chill rings up Soul's back. The sun laughs above as blood pours from it's mouth. Suddenly, the wind carries a calling voice;
"Soul! Maka! Hey guys, wait up!"