"How do you bug me?" Vivian asked, "is it a wire or a chip?" She asked expecting something technologic from the witch as Medusa walked over and quickly shoved her fingers into the models mouth. After a second she retracted the hand and Vivian felt sick.
"I use snakes, you have five in you. I have a radio that my snakes broadcast on." Medusa said quietly and began walking away. "Well, I have to find the good doctor and see about hooking them up to the computer."
Medusa quickly walked out of the place and shut the door behind her. Death Scythe turned to Kami and then to Vivian. "Why is Medusa this willing to help?" Nuru twitched a little but it was enough to catch his eye. "Sis?"
"Hm?" She said not straying up from the comic book, but casually turning the page.
"Do you know why Medusa's helping us?" Death Scythe asked her walking over and sitting on the table in front of her.
"Nope." She said and flipped the next page. Death Scythe grabbed a foot, pulled off a sandal and began tickling her. Nuru immediately crunched over into hysterics dropping the book.
Death Scythe stopped and Nuru gained her composure back somewhat. "You're not telling me something."
"I…" Death Scythe grabbed her foot and held it up. "Franken and the witch were involved romantically. I don't know the details but it was horribly, horribly obvious. Don't tickle me again." Nuru said and turned her leg into a blade and pulled it away carefully. "I didn't tell, got it?" She said softly and exited the room quickly the blade clicking against the floor.
Marie sat down in a chair and turned to Vivian and mouthed 'leave' to her knowing that Medusa would soon be tuning in. The supermodel began walking out and Kami walked over to Marie and knelt down grabbing her hands as the death scythe began crying. "Marie, you alright?"
"No, I don't know what his problem is! He says he's using Vivian as a shield but then he refuses to use her and then witch Medusa." She said and Kami knelt in and cradled her.
"Let's go then, we can go stay at my house." Death Scythe said, "I'll go see if Soul and Maka will wake up."
Stein sat on a bench on the opposite end on town that was pointed so the person can see out into the desert. He tried to keep his mind blank but it wasn't helping any. Footsteps approached along with the buzzing of a radio frequency. It stopped buzzing and gave way to complete silence. "It's your house; I bugged it a while ago. They all left about an hour ago, even Marie."
Stein just sat there facing foreword and Medusa sat down next to him putting the radio between them. She held out a hand with a single dead flower. "I took the liberty of not watering it for you."
Stein laughed and took the flower from her. "Dead, slightly beaten, and it looks like you attempted dying it blue." He said and sighed. He lost all emotions and rolled the stem in his hand just staring at it.
"Your pretty little model ejected my snakes. She threw them up right after she walked out, they didn't have time to spread. We can't bug her and she doesn't know that." Stein stopped and looked at her. "I took another liberty, Mizune has infested her walls and Eruka and Free are getting camera equipment, they'll be setting up a camera outside her hotel room."
"You're taking a lot of liberties." Stein said and turned back to the flower to continue turning it in his fingers. "I really don't want to pay you back. I don't love you."
"You don't know what love is." She said moving over and setting the radio on the pavement below. "She's fragile, that's why you like her, and she's easily manipulated. That's why you like her, but you like someone to push back, don't you." Stein stopped and turned his head looking at her.
"The insanity is growing inside you because you're next to me." She said her head changing to be more snakelike. "Let it take over, it's only natural."
The flower dropped from Stein's hand and he stood up and began to walk away from her but stopped. He turned his face smiling insanely. "Aren't you coming?"
Medusa got up and picked the radio up from off the ground and began following him through the town to his house which was abandoned at the moment Stein walked in and felt Medusa trace her finger tips along the back of his neck. She set the radio down and pulled Stein's neck down so there faces met.
There was something that let loose in his brain and Stein lost himself to lunacy. It hit him like a brick just like it had last time and he couldn't help himself. Stein grabbed Medusa and threw her down on the table. It was going just as Medusa had wanted it to; she grabbed him under the neck and pulled him in.
Stein's head moved down to her neckline and Medusa screamed a bit as Stein bit in marking her with his teeth. Stein's hand slid down her body and grabbed her thigh and raised it and put his other hand on the table. He stopped and looked over for a second, his hand wasn't directly on the table, there was a grey sown together cloth. An image flashed in his mind and his head dropped. Stein dropped her leg and dragged himself off the table blanket in hand. "I can't…"
Stein walked slowly down the hall in towards his room. He was upset at himself and it kept getting worse because he had the taste of Medusa on his lips. The heels followed him slowly at an unthreatening pace. Stein ignored her and went into his room and opened up the dusty draw full of cigarettes and a few lighters and grabbed one of each.
"Franken." Medusa said and touched his shoulder, his arm immediately whipped out and she flew against a wall.
"I don't love you. I'm not quite sure what it is between you and my insanity, but I am not my insanity. You'll get paid by the fact that I'm not going to kill you." He said and put the cigarette in his mouth and lit it walking out the door. "By the time I get back, you had better not be here."