Here's chapter 7. Please enjoy.
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Kid dropped Marie and Stein after having had them admitted as VIP patients. He hadn't left them until he had made sure they were okay and carted off to their room which Kid made sure was the same. The doctors weren't sure at first about putting the unconscious male in the same room as the woman who was currently in labor but they agreed once Kid described their relationship. Kid summoned Beelzebub and spread out his soul. Using his more advanced version of the soul-sensing ability all meisters possess and felt what he thought might have been the cloaked soul of Maka. She was three blocks to his left then straight for eight minutes if he were walking at a leisurely pace, but he wasn't going to do that. He traveled as fast as he could by board and saw her sitting with her head tucked between her knees as she cried. Kid pulled his soul back in slowly but startled Maka in the process.
Maka's head shot up when she felt Kid release his soul-sense. Kid noticed how unusually pale her skin had become and how her skin had bruises on her neck and her upper neck, her feet were torn from her run, and her eyes , even though puffy and red, were sunken. She jumped to her bare feet and ran towards the other end of the alley. Maka didn't even notice that she was quickly coming to a dead end. She was too busy to notice. She didn't know what Kid knew or even want to know how he was able to find her. She just wanted to be alone. She needed to think about how she was going to explain herself. She hadn't meant to hurt anyone, but when she realized she sent a soul wave out she turned and saw that Stein and Marie were knocked to the ground and she panicked. She frantically apologized to Marie who was the only one left conscious and continued to run. It wasn't what she would normally do but she couldn't help it. Everything seemed to be falling apart around her and that seemed to be the only logical solution.
Kid was far quicker than Maka on Beelzebub than she was on foot and Maka knew this to so she threw. He caught up to her in an instant and wrapped his arm around her waist pulling her off the ground and into his arms. Maka fought his hold and caused them to fall the eight feet he had taken them to the ground. Kid tried his best to protect her from the fall by wrapping his body around her and positioned himself between her and the ground.
The two both suffered damage from the fall as they both fought to take the brunt of the fall but Maka did something that made Kid hesitate and she took advantage of his hesitation. Last minute she took her right hand and ran it from his shoulder along his jawline and into his hair. Her left gripped firmly onto the front of his jacket. She was able to shift them so that only his left wrist and his right forearm were the only parts of him that made contact with the ground. His right forearm was behind Maka's head while his left hand was at the small of her back.
When Kid and Maka hit the ground, he felt the pop of her shoulder dislocating at the combined force and weight of their fall. A crunch and a tug sensation going from his elbow to his finger could not be good sign. Maka's eyes were still filled with fear and panic and her soul conveyed the same and Kid felt that if he let her stand, she still will run away if given the chance. Something was clouding her judgement and Kid could not figure it out. Maka clearly was not in her right mind. Nothing came to mind and Marie would not tell him anything specific about why Maka was acting so strange so there was only one thing Kid could think of doing.
Kid repositioned his arms as he took a deep breath. His arm that had been behind Maka's head was now pinning her to the ground by applying pressure to her collar bone and the one that was at the small of her back was now held out at his side. His out-stretched arm summoned his death cloak and put it on as he focused. Then he summoned Beelzebub to his sore hand as well.
"Maka please come peacefully." Kid requested. His voice wasn't as steady as he intended for it to be as Maka struggled to escape his grasp. "We can figure everything out together." …Whatever it all is. He left the last part unspoken. Looking into Maka's eyes Kid noticed her pupils were dilated to the point they were near pinpoints and she wouldn't look him in the eyes. She was looking everywhere else but at him.
"I-I didn't mean to. I-I just…" Maka tried to push him off her but his reinforced strength and power, thanks to his Death Cloak, she was unsuccessful. The cloak provided a grim reaper enhanced strength and powers, so his already inhumane abilities were heightened even more.
"Enough of this Maka!" Kid shouted. He was worried about her appearance which he hoped was exaggerated by her distressed emotions. How long had she looked this way? Why hadn't he noticed sooner? Kid got to his feet and Maka did just as he thought she would, just as he hoped she wouldn't, she scrambled to her feet and ran from him. He jumped on his board once again, he went a lap around her in reverse then wrapped his arm around her thighs and threw her over his shoulder and went further into the sky than the first time. The first time it may not have worked but the second time it would. In no time they were thirty feet above the ground.
"Lemme go Kid! This has nothing to do with you!" Maka shouted. Kid kept her thighs held down as well as he could as she kicked her feet wildly. Maka banged her fist into his back but looking down at the ground must have caused her to experience a case of vertigo because she buried her face into his shirt and grasped his shirt. She feared what would happen when it came out that she had harmed Marie and Professor Stein. The law says for her to be thrown in a cell for the rest of her days. Since she was also a freak would they let her out to be experimented on? She couldn't control it, she needed to find a way to lock it away . Maybe there was another half weapon half meister who had this same issue. "Please just drop me at the edge of Death City and I'll disappear. I promise you will never see me again. Please." She begged. "I didn't mean to so don't lock me up." She tried to hold her tears back. Her fear kept growing and she knew it was irrational, but this changed everything for her.
"Maka I'm not going to do that." Kid said firmly. Maka began to get violent again. She balled up her fist tightly and slammed it down onto his back repeatedly. Maka was enraged by how easily he had denied her request. She had not meant to hurt anyone so why could he not see that. She needed to escape. Kid had been flying them towards his house and they were almost there. It was the most secure place and if something happened it'd be the safest place for Maka. He furrowed his eyebrow in frustration as he gripped her legs tighter to hold her steady as she struggled even more. He hated having to do this to Maka. She was his closest friend out of everyone, but until they got to the bottom of this she still had to be detained for assaulting Marie and Stein until the three of them explained what happened. "Look Maka all four of us will have a sit down and talk about what's going on and find out what we will do. I don't think we have to do anything as drastic as exiling you. Marie seemed-" At the mention of Marie Maka grew antsier and she wiggled around as Kid approached Gallows Mansion. She kicked her feet, slammed her fists into his back, pleaded and yelled for him to release her, and when that didn't work she apologized and yanked one of his feet from underneath him and sent them both flying into one of the second floor windows once they were close enough. "Maka are you alri-"
"I'm so sorry!" Maka apologized as she interrupted his inquiry into her wellbeing. "I didn't mean to. I don't want to be locked up please I'm sorry." She ran. Under his father the punishment for laying a hand on a Death Scythe off school grounds and outside of school activities is an immediate life sentence in the cells below the school. So, as he watched Maka's retreating form he understood a majority of her fear but she had to know that he would never lock her up. Right? Shit… Kid set off after her and saw her duck into what he knew to be a broom closet that had to be uncomfortably small. When she had asked for leniency and freedom, he had said no. He had meant it wouldn't come to that but thinking back it may not have sounded that way to her.
"Maka please come out." He said after knocking softly on the door, so he didn't scare her. No response came from the room. He knew she was in there because the doorknob had been off center by an eighth of a centimeter, but he didn't push too hard on the subject. "I know you didn't mean to hurt them. I don't know the whole situation, but I know you. I'm not going to have you thrown in the cells so come out of the closet. It's cramped in there." Kid still had not gotten a response as Maka, though touched by his words, was partly scared that he was tricking her into coming out. He ran a hand through his hair, waited a few seconds then tried to pull the door open only to find it difficult with Maka pulling on it from one side and his wrist hurting him. He let out an exasperated huff of air and melted through the door and appeared on the other side and grabbed Maka by the shoulders. "That's enough of this silliness." He said.
"Please don't." Maka backed as far back from Kid as she could in the tight quarters of the closet. Only a sliver of light came in through the crack of the door. Kid kept coming closer and reached to grab for her. Maka avoided his grasp by throwing herself to the side causing her to hit her dislocated shoulder on a shelf and hiss in pain. Most of the room's contents were hidden by darkness including Kid's look of concern. He wanted to reach out to her and calm her.
"Enough of this foolishness." Kid snapped. His mostly black hair, except for the now three white rings, was disheveled from the whole event and his golden amber eyes conveyed his frustration with this whole situation. She shoved him into a low shelf with the full force of her weight accompanied with a hiss of pain for Kid.
"I'm sorry." Maka squeaked then peeled out of the broom closet. On his way to the ground, Kid reached out for Maka and only succeeded in doing is being jumped over as she held back a sob of regret. She left him on the floor and ran down the hall and into another room that turned out to be a library. The shelves went to the roof and lined all the walls and filled the room making it a maze. The footsteps in the hall alerted her that Kid was closing in on her and had most likely used his Soul-Sensing abilities once again to find her. Glancing around the room Maka spotted a window across the room and a vent above the shelves directly in front of her. How was she supposed to escape when he could catch up to her no matter where she went? He was a grim reaper for deaths sake. Scratch that, THE only grim reaper left for deaths sake.
"Maka Albarn, enough of this." Heart racing and body aching all over, Maka braced her body against the door that had no lock as she looked for some sort of makeshift blockade. Kid didn't even bother with the door this time and fazed through the wall and grabbed her shoulders once and shoved her against the door. "You're really pissing me off." His tone took him back to a time before his father died and he remembered why he felt so reminiscent and of when. Back when he battled Black Star and Soul he had been frustrated and pissed off to an extent just like this but for different reasons but this time it was different, and he wasn't entirely sure why. He felt a pull bringing him closer to her. Their faces were inches away from one another. Maka's breathing hitched and Kid didn't was having difficulty breathing because of a cracked rib he got from when she shoved him into the shelf. "Let's get you to the hospital for your wounds once you've calmed down. Then we can all talk everything out once Marie and Stein have had their time gotten everything settled with their child." Maka's ears perked at this piece of information.
"What do you mean?" Maka raised one hand and grabbed his wrist with her good hand.
"Marie is currently in labor." Kid said. He thought the piece of information would calm the young woman before him, but he watched as her, angelic shaped Grigori, Soul began to shift and morph around her chaotically. "Maka calm down. Marie and the baby are fine." Kid tried, and failed, to comfort Maka.
"Marie's baby… I may have… Oh no… The baby…" Maka began to panic. Her grip on Kid's wrist increased and she began to hyperventilate. Her eyes went out of focus and blades began to protrude from her body in all directions. None of the blades hit Kid anywhere that was fatal for him, but he was cut as subconscious warnings. Each cheek got a slice, his shoulders all the way to his feet were sliced and stabbed into by the blades. One of the blades came out of Maka's hand that was wrapped around his wrist and pierced threw his wrist. Maka's eye remained in the back of her head while in this state and stayed like this until the blades retreated into her body once more. Kid was in so much pain but his adrenaline and determination kept him pinning her to the door so when her knees went weak she didn't fall to the floor. She slowly came to and was calmer than before but wasn't entirely back to normal.
"We need to get to Marie. I need to speak with her immediately." Maka tried to stand but her legs would not hold her up.
"First you need to calm down." Kid ordered. Maka did not take kindly to being told what to do.
"You are not my boss." As soon as the words left her lips, she realized she was wrong, but she was too made to admit that she was wrong. The look in his eyes chilled her to the bones though. He narrowed his eyes and pressed his body closer to her.
"Actually I am. Maybe you've forgotten." With his eyes peering into hers he was able to get her to calm down for a moment and got her to listen to him as he said that last sentence, he followed it with another that he regretted immediately after. "Just go to sleep because this is getting us nowhere really quick." As the first word left his lips his pupils had enlarged and almost eclipsed all the gold of his eyes.
"W... wa…. wh... what…?" Maka's eyes rolled in the back of her head and she was out like a light. Kid's eyes returned to normal and he quickly realized he did something wrong. He hadn't heard from Excalibur about his father saying he'd been capable of doing this or that this would be a possibility, but he was worried about how long it would last and how it would affect Maka. Physically and mentally. Kid carried her to his room and tucked her into his bed until he could figure out what to do. He called Liz telling her he found Maka and that she should go find Patty and go to the hospital and check on Stein and Marie in an official capacity. After hanging up the mirror, Kid firmly held Maka's hand around Maka's and held it to his forehead. His eyes were closed, and he begged for her to open her eyes. She didn't though. Kid released her hand and gently placed it back by her side and called Excalibur, much to his displeasure, and prayed for him to pick up on the first ring.
"Come on." He mumbled to no one as the dial tone went onto its second ring. The third had him tapping his foot. The fourth had him standing with his other hand braced on the inside of the elbow of the hand supporting the mirror as he watched the screen. He watched as the contact photo of Excalibur continued to show three dots appear and disappear underneath the photo of him posing with his cane that took well over 700 attempts before Kid told him he was sticking with the obviously unoriginal pose. Excalibur had leaned on his can with one hand while the other rested at his side as he looked off into the distance with his legs crossed. It was a pose Kid had seen in a book about the 1700's called the Grand Manner Portraits.
"The customer you are trying to reach is unavailable at this-" Kid hung up the mirror and called Excalibur once again but this time on his mobile mirror. Excalibur was supposed to be home according to that stupid schedule he kept.
"Answer the mirror…" Kid was pacing the length of the room from the door to the window. "It's an emergency Excali-"
"The great and all-powerful Excalibur speaking! Who dares-"
"Excalibur, I need you to get over here to my house immediately. We have a situation." Kid didn't have time for Excalibur's shenanigans that came with his rants of how great he was.
"You fool! I have tea being prepared at Shelly's for my weekly reservation." Excalibur dismissed Kid and was about to hang up when he narrowed his eyes at the image on the glass and his normally cheerful face drained of positivity. "Kid what have you-"
"I didn't mean to… Please just get over here…" Kid's voice broke a little as he pleaded for Excalibur's help. "I need your help…" Kid could no longer hold the mirror, so he let it drop and passed out on the floor at the same time. When Kid came to Excalibur, Liz, and Patty had put him in the bed next to Maka and had doctors examining their wounds.
"Kid's up!" Liz said as she got the attention of Patty who had been threatening the two doctors. The two men were drastically different in appearance. The one caring for Kid was the younger as Patty would not let the him near Maka. He was 5'9 with brown hair and a mustache. He was slender and was not muscular at all. The other was at least 68 years old and was 5'6 because of the hunch in his back but if he hadn't had the hunch he would have been at least 5'11, had at one point been a muscular, and had his long white hair tied back into a pony tail.
"…Just remember you so much as peek at her and my entire collection of three-sided blades will find themselves in your body." Patty had just finished threatening the young doctor when Liz had told her that their adopted brother had awoken. "Kid!" She shouted, sheathing her blade then jumping over Maka's sleeping form and onto Kid. She interrupted the elder doctor in the process, but she didn't care. She wrapped her arms around his necked a tad too tight and sobbed about how worried she was when Excalibur had called her and Liz to the house.
"Kid what even happened here?" Liz asked.
"Yeah?" Patty emphasized the importance of the question.
"The window on the second floor is broken from the outside in, there's damage in the center broom closet, and then the library…" Liz thought the entrance of the library looked like a murder scene minus a lot of the blood. Blood was on the carpet though, but not on the door or wall. Liz saw the state that Maka and Kid were in and put one and two together. Maka had no cuts on her but was covered in blood. Kid on the other hand had blood all over the front of him pairs with gouges and slices from head to toe. The blood belonged to Kid not Maka and somehow, he took all the attacks and she had dragged him away from the attacker and took care of the attacker.
"I'm not entirely sure…" Kid admitted. "Maka was erratic. I couldn't calm her down. She wasn't thinking straight, then she just… Her soul… I could have sworn she was a weapon. Blades came out of her, but she wasn't aware of them. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head." As soon as the words met Liz's ears, she knew exactly what happened, but it shouldn't be possible. "What is it?" Kid asked. "I know that look."
"When Patty and I first found out we were weapons we were already on the streets." Liz began to explain to Kid what she thought was happening to Maka…
