He wasn't sitting with her like she was used to. In fact he sat as far across the setee from her as the plush structure would allow.
soul was motionless, not even the slight raise and fall of his shoulders to show he was breathing.
after the initial hug he had stepped away from her acting distant and uncharacteristically closed off. he was treating her like an outsider again. like all the nights of laying across this couch with her legs thrown over his lap and his hands tapping silent rhythms on her knees simply never happened.
like he hadn't grown to become her best friend and like he had never trusted her enough to let his walls down.
it hurt.
She was beyond ecstatic when she crossed his scent trail in the hall. and as reluctant as she was to admit it to herself his presence here had influenced her decision to come.
now he acted as if she was an intruder tapping an unceasing and annoying rhythm against the walls of his control. it only made her want ball her fists up and bang against them.
she sighed again exasperated and let her head hit the back of the sofa. he didn't so much as quirk an eyebrow at her instead choosing to imitate stone in his still state.
she turned her head looking over the library shelves stretching out the length of the room and hoped something interesting would catch her eye.
the door opening rather rudely finally drew soul's attention and she fallowed his gaze to see blackstar standing in the doorway. his nostrils flared angrily and his stance stressed.
"blackstar?" she questioned. she knew the castle was making him uncomfortable,he hated vampires, but she hoped he could fallow orders well enough to keep them out of trouble. he was her brother blood or not and she trusted him more than anyone else. Yet he was the weak link in this situation. the person who threatened her life, however inadvertently.
blackstar strode purposefully into the room, eyes never wavering from their death glare but passing between her and soul all the while.
from the corner of her eye she saw soul tense as well and sprang to her feet closing the distance to star and hoping to keep the two tense men from getting close enough to exchange blows.
"maka" blackstar bit out grabbing her by the arm. "I'd think it proper to tell me where your going from now on. "
under different circumstances she would put him on his ass, but at the moment she was looking to avoid a bigger conflict and simply let him pull her along like a rag doll.
she turned to look in soul's direction and hopefully apologize with her eyes but to her horror he was no longer sitting passive and tense on the settee. soul was looming over her and blackstar, both equal in height and half a head shorter than him.
blackstar tugged her by the arm in an attempt to move her behind him but soul's hand latched on to blackstar's in an attempt to pry him off her arm.
fangs were out and growls echoed through the room. she found herself sandwiched between two people capable of killing each other and any hope of peace or prosperity between their people. all the years of work would go to waste and more deaths like her mama's would pile up until countless numbers of innocents had payed the cost of war.
her hand struck him sharply across the face almost of its own volition. the sharp sound of skin to skin contact rising in pitch above the other growls and hisses in the room.
her palm had torn open along the line of a healing wound smearing blood across his face bright compared to the dull Burgundy of his shocked gaze.
there was no time for a moment of shock, not with blackstar ready to launch himself and soul's jugular so she turned and fled from the room pulling her surrogate brother along with her. they sped through the halls and across the courtyard all the while blackstar was yelling at her.
she could hear what he was yelling. didn't want to. she just kept flashing back to the hurt on his face like his mask had been ripped from him leaving a vulnerable and exposed surface. she hurt him.
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