Madness is Love

*Do not own Soul Eater...

Chapter 2: Experimentation...

Medusa's eyes slowly began to open. The light shining above her was irritatingly bright and forced her to immediately shut her eyes in response. She turned her head away and began to open her eyes again.

As her vision became clear, she found herself lying on a couch covered in stitches. She tried to force herself up, a blanket placed on her falling to the ground as she rose. She took a moment to look around observe her surroundings. It was then that Medusa remembered what had happened the previous night, or was it only a few minutes ago? An hour ago? A few days ago? She had no comprehension of how long it had been, her head still dizzy, and a hint of nausea just to make things worse.

Medusa sat up straight and buried her scowling face into her hands when the images of what happened only hours ago came flooding back into her head. She blushed and grit her teeth in anger at the embarrassment she felt.

Medusa couldn't believe it; not only did she tell Stein to his face that she was a witch, and not only did she do "those things" with him, BUT SHE LET HIM DOMINATE HER!

Medusa was so angry. How on earth could she ever let a man, A HUMAN MAN, get her into such a degrading position? The more Medusa thought about the situation, the angrier she got. She felt such shame, humility, and raw hatred all at once.

"STEIN!" she thought to herself. "As soon as I find you, I'm gonna shove a vector arrow so far up your..." Medusa paused when she came to another realization. She looked down at herself and her face flushed a deep crimson red.

With the exception of her panties, she found herself completely disrobed and placed in an all too familiar stitched together lab coat. As Medusa pieced together what must have happened, her face got redder and angrier. She then also noticed that she was in Stein's home, she had never actually been here before, but what other lunatic would live in a place like this?

Medusa felt like screaming out his name in anger in hopes that he would come to her so that she may decapitate him, but she caught her mouth with her hands when she figured that it would be so much easier to just get up and go. Of course there would be mixed feelings of awkwardness and killing intent the next time she saw him, but right now she just felt like getting the hell home.

She turned her head and saw her clothes neatly folded on a small lamp table next to her. Medusa looked around to make sure there was no sign of Stein then proceeded to remove his coat and grabbed her own clothes.

As she got dressed, Medusa was to busy silently whispering hate-filled profanities to herself to hear the footsteps approaching the room. "That no good urchin..." she whispered angrily. "I can't believe I let any kind of emotion get the better of me. Next time I see Stein, I swear I'm gonna-!"

"You're gonna what, Medusa?"

Medusa froze and felt a chill run down her spine. She turned around to see Stein standing in the doorway behind her, lazily smoking a cigar. Her eyes were wide and she felt a bead of sweat roll down her cheek. Unfortunately for Medusa, she hadn't exactly whispered the last few words of her sentence.

Medusa continued to star at Stein with wide eyes for a moment. "...Stein..." she finally choked out.

"Yes...?" he responded, moving his cigarette to the other side of his mouth.

Medusa's eyes instantly narrowed in anger. "Stein!" she roared. Medusa shot up and swung a fist at Stein. He caught her fist in his hand without much effort but was a little surprised to find himself having to put quite a large amount of strength into keeping her back; her witch strength perhaps?

Medusa scowled at him coldly, his calm emotionless face weighing heavily in comparison. "Something the matter, Medusa?" he asked nonchalantly.

"I'm gonna kill you..." she hissed. She eventually realized how much strength she was using and then decided to dial it back a little trying not to seem too suspicious, but it was far too late for that.

"Why do you wanna kill me, Medusa?" he asked still trying to seem unfazed by her anger.

"You son of a bitch..." she growled. "You took advantage of me!"

"I took advantage of you? If my memory is correct, it seems that both of us felt equally about what happened last night."

"I never gave you permission to violate my rear end!"

Stein tried not to but he couldn't help but crack a smile at that.

"It's not funny!" she screamed.

Stein cleared his throat and tried to seem serious again. "Medusa, I admit that things to quite a turn last night, and I apologize for anything that may have gone against your wishes, but you can't honestly stand there and tell me that you weren't prepared for things to get a little hectic."

"You entered me from behind against my will..."

Stein accidentally let out another smile and a slight chuckle.

Medusa blushed madly. "I said it's not funny, DAMMIT!"

"Look, Medusa..." Stein began calmly. "I truly am sorry if the end of our experiment didn't turn out the way you planned but if you enjoyed it, then I don't think you have the right to call it anything like rape..."

Medusa calmed down a bit. She hated to admit it but he was sorta right. She should never have trusted things to go so smoothly to begin with. But still, if she let her rage die down then it would look like she lost the argument, so she quickly found another thing to be mad at him for. "Why did I wake up IN YOUR HOUSE wearing YOUR COAT and not in ANY OF MY OWN CLOTHES?"

"That's not true...you had your panties, which I must say have quite a unique and cute design." he smiled.

"STEIN!" she raged.

"I brought you here because I didn't want to leave you at the school and I also didn't know where you live. The reason you woke up without the majority of your clothes is because I was lucky that I could get on you what you woke up with. And I wrapped you in my coat to keep you warm. Does that answer all your questions?"

Medusa blushed. She wanted to make him feel like he was the bad guy here but he had just completely neutralized any reason she could find to be mad at him. She turned her head away in embarrassment.

Stein waited for her response but she soon turned away began to head for the door. "I'm leaving..." she said coldly.

"Oh...?" he responded, hinting fake confusion in his voice. "Well forgive me for the inconvenience but I'm not just going to let a witch walk outside freely."

Medusa's eyes widened the instant her hand reached the door knob. She turned to him with her eyes narrowed. "I told you I'm not a witch."

"Yeah..." Stein took a few steps forward. "And I recall you turning around and saying you were last night."

Medusa stared at him blankly but he could see the burning hatred in her eyes. He could see in her eyes every intention to kill him if he made a wrong move or said the wrong word, but he wasn't scared. He continued to approach her, Medusa's body tensing in reaction.

As he approached her, Medusa's mind filled with homicidal thoughts. But as the need to eradicate him rose, it instantly vanished when she felt his hand come down and gently pet her hair, her eyes widening in surprise.

She looked up and saw an innocent smile on his face that filled her with confusion. "Yeah...I guess we were getting a little carried away, weren't we?"

"Wait, what...?" Medusa thought.

"I'm just kidding. I know that you were just joking around last night."

Medusa didn't know whether to to be angry or still confused. Was he messing with her or did he believe her? Dammit! Of course he knew, but for now, Medusa felt safe enough that she could walk away now without consequence. She swatted away his hand and once again reached for the door knob. She didn't want to say anything at this point; she felt that it would only bring more reason for her to cause a scene.

She turned away and walked outside. "I guess I'll see you at the academy..." Stein said trying to sound nice.

She didn't turn to him. "I'm not coming in today..."

"Oh? I don't think it would be right for one of the faculty to skip school. It's a bad example for the students."

Fuck the students! is what Medusa wanted to say, but instead she just said: "Then tell them I caught something and stayed home." Medusa said sounding a little irritated.

"Caught what?" Stein asked.

Medusa then shouted. "A bunch of shit from some asshole!" and she stormed off.

Stein's eye were slightly widened. He couldn't help but feel a little bad. After all, he let his madness get the better of him and ended up doing something arrogantly sinful to a person that he honestly thought he could have something with-

...

Stein stopped mid thought when he realized what he was even thinking. Last night...both he and Medusa were obviously plotting against one another but what was said was still genuine. He placed his hand over his forehead and sat down. Had he actually developed something more than just an attraction for Medusa? No...It couldn't be...Stein had always been a cold scientist. He himself had said that love was something impossible for him to truly comprehend and he new that Medusa was the same way.

But in this one instance, were their personas as cold unfeeling scientist really so important in this ONE situation...? Stein closed his eyes and sighed. "Maybe I should take the day off too..."

*Vector Castle...

Medusa stormed in through the front doors of her home. While she had been walking home, she waited until there was nobody around to see and released her anger. Medusa had never been so angry in her life.

She tried not to think about how she told Stein she was a witch...but she did anyway. She tried not to think about how she confessed her feelings for him...but she did anyway. She tried to not think about how she let herself get talked into something as dumb as sex...but she did anyway. She tried not to think about how he dominated her and lied down and took it from behind, enjoying every moment of it while he ruled over her...BUT SHE DID ANYWAY!

In that moment, Medusa lost herself in her rage and throw a table across the room, it smashing to pieces from the might of her throw. Medusa felt absolute shame from everything that had happened last night but he worst humility was allowing her enemy to have his way with her and enjoying it!

Medusa placed her face in her hands. She would not cry, it would only show more weakness but if she were a normal human girl right now, she would...

The crash of the table attracted the attention of Medusa's daughter, Crona, who stood behind the wall of a doorway leading to another room. Crona was already scared of her mother so when Medusa ACTUALLY go mad, it was horrifying to the pink haired girl.

Crona wanted to sneak away but know that she was here, she was frozen in place from fear. Medusa brought her head up and saw her child eyeing her shakily from the other end of the room. At first Medusa glared at Crona coldly but she tried to calm down and erase all the emotion from her face.

"Crona..." she said firmly. "Come here please."

Crona did not want to but she knew of the consequences if she did not obey Lady Medusa. She slowly approach her mother. "Y-yes, L-Lady Medusa...?" her voice was filled with fear. "D-did I d-do something w-wrong...?"

Medusa took a deep breath and tried to calm down. She was still angry but there was no point in venting it onto her wreck of a child. "No, Crona..." she said trying to force some kindness into her voice. "You haven't done anything wrong. Someone that works with mommy really upset her last night."

*now that I think about it, that means Crona was alone last night. Let's just pretend Crona didn't notice...

Crona stared up at her mother oddly. She was surprised that all the rage had vanished from her voice. A person going from homicidal to perfectly calm was something Crona was definitely not used to.

"Crona..." Medusa began, placing her hands on the child's shoulders. "I'm going to go upstairs and to my bedroom. Could you please bring mommy a glass of water in a moment?"

Crona was still confused but rather than risk Lady Medusa having to repeat herself, Crona nodded and obliged. "Y-yes, Lady Medusa." she then headed to the kitchen to fetch her mother a glass of water.

Medusa stared into space as the pink haired girl vanished from sight. She then looked up the stairs and sighed. "I suppose I have to go to my room now..."

Medusa sat down on her bed and closed her eyes. She still felt mad but she suddenly felt several other feelings wash over her. The were feelings she was not very much use to. Last night, she had done things that she thought she would never do and just now when she saw Crona, a strange thought washed over her.

She stood up and looked at herself in a vanity mirror across the room. She placed her hands on her stomach and for a split second imagined herself pregnant with HIS child.

...

Medusa turned away and forced her face into a scowl. NO! What a sick thought! She may have had sex with him, but she would never carry that fool's seed! Medusa then let the anger drop from her face as she heard the door slowly start to open.

She turned her head and saw Crona silently letting herself in with the glass of water that Medusa requested. "Um, Lady Medusa..." Crona began. "Here's your water..." she said holding it out.

"Mommy has a bit of a headache, Crona. Could you please bring it over to me?"

Crona was still for a moment but then began to approach Medusa. Has she came in reach, Crona handed the water to Medusa who took it. She then gulped it down all in one instant, taking a deep breath after finally taking her lips away from the rim of the glass.

Medusa then looked down, and expression of sadness taking over her face; this really confused Crona. Medusa thought to herself how her child had failed to become a Kishin and how it looked like she would soon be failing to locate Asura and infect the student's of the DWMA with her prized black blood.

She couldn't believe how distraught this whole ordeal has made her. The last time she felt this sad was when she was a child nearly 800 years ago.

"L...Lady Medusa...?"

Crona's words brought Medusa back to reality. She turned her head and saw the confused look on her child's face. Once Medusa looked into Crona's eyes, a strange realization occurred to her that would remain the same unless something happened within the next few weeks. "Crona..." she began.

"Y-yes, Lady Medusa...?"

"I'm going to do something I've never really done before. I want you to know that mommy is very upset inside and that it has nothing to do with you." that was technically a lie. True Medusa could say she was disappointed in the child for failing her but just for right now, Medusa was disappointed with herself.

Crona was extremely confused by all this but she found herself nodding to Lady Medusa anyway.

Crona's eyes then widened when Medusa wrapped her arms around Crona and brought her into a warm embrace. Crona felt her cheeks redden and her eyes widen even more. She didn't know what to do...

"I'm sorry, Crona..." Medusa finally said. "Mommy just needs to know right now...that she's not alone..."

The explanation that Medusa just gave answered one question just to open another. As long as Crona could remember, Medusa had never once hugged her unless it was motivation to kill. Crona had also never seen her mother ever show any kind of emotion of sadness.

She didn't know how to handle it and almost found herself pushing Lady Medusa away...but she didn't. This hug...It felt good...

As Medusa hugged her child, she could slowly start to feel her evil personality returning as her mind began to formulate a plan. A plan to CRUSH Stein into a mound of clay and do with as she pleased...

*Well, I definitely like how this chapter turned out but I gotta confess that there's a huge portion of it that I typed up and then my damn computer went and fucked up before I could save it. I manged to rewrite that specific portion and get the same point across that I already had, but it had come out so well the first time...

Anyway, hope you like this chapter, next time Medusa tries to make all this work for her and will get some more lemon. Thanks for reading and please review :D