Madness is Love

*Do not own Soul Eater...

Chapter 4: Consideration...

Several faint yet insane chuckles spilled from Medusa's lips as she laughed at the gruesome thoughts running through her head. She had him in such a position that she could, quite literally, get away with anything.

Yet at the same time, there was a feeling of uneasiness slithering through her. Sure, she was obviously the one on top in this moment (even literally) but she started to think about just how far she had gone and how much danger she could have just placed herself in.

She revealed to Stein that she was a witch. She admitted it and is even now using her magic to bind him. There's no way in hell that the "I was just kidding" line could at all work here. Off course she could just kill him and with her talent, it wouldn't be hard at all to make sure there wasn't any evidence that she was the killer.

But it wasn't anything like complications to her plans that stood in the way of ending Stein and being done with it. Whether she wanted to admit it or not, deep down she knew that she couldn't kill Stein, she DIDN'T want to...

The insane smile on her face dimmed and once she saw the expression on Stein's face, her mouth fell into a frown. He no longer had any fear on his face, nor did he seam worried at all in the slightest. In fact, the look he was giving Medusa was almost (at least the way she saw it) mocking.

He noticed the slight anger and confusion on her face. "What...?" he asked sarcastically.

Medusa did not answer right away. She just stared at him with her serpent eyes.

Stein arched a brow. "Something wrong, Medusa? I thought you were going to make me scream and such..." he ended the sentence with a smile.

"I hate your face..." she spat bluntly.

Stein continued smiling but now arched both brows. "And why is that? What's wrong with my face?"

Medusa brought her hands to Stein's face and forced his mouth into a frown. "Stop smiling." her expression was cruel and her words were harsh, but the touch of her hands were surprisingly gentle.

Stein looked at her a bit confused, or at least acted confused. He could since the doubt that she was feeling inside and he saw it as his way to come out of this alive. Yet he knew that there was no way he was going to die; he knew she wouldn't do that.

Before Medusa could do anything else, Stein instantly brought his hands up and grabbed Medusa's arms. He had started to feel the tightness of Medusa's vectors going numb as soon as Medusa's insanity died down, allowing him to free his arms.

He sat up and brought Medusa up with him, holding her in place right in front of him. Medusa's eyes widened by the sudden turn of events. He looked down at her as she looked up at him. Medusa was screaming all kinds of curses in her head as her face turned to a scowl.

Stein stared down at her blankly. "Let me guess..." he began. "You were having fun up until the part when you realized what in the world you would have to do to over this all up in the end, am I right?"

"No..." Medusa said angrily.

"No, I think I am right. You knew in the end you could just kill me but you soon realized that you didn't want to do that." the last few words were said almost mockingly.

Medusa continued to look at him angrily. She could easily use her vectors to throw him off but, for some reason, she didn't want to. Even she knew that what she was thinking was almost masochistic but she couldn't help but feel like she wanted to be in this situation. She wanted to sit there with him holding her in place and wanted to be angry at him. She didn't quite know why but she felt she would rather she how things go now instead of overpowering him as easily as she could.

...

...

"...Use me..."

Stein looked at her confused.

Medusa freed her hands just to grab onto Stein's. "Use me..." she said firmly. "Go crazy, let out your insanity!" she exclaimed.

Now Stein was actually confused. "Wh..What...?" he asked.

"You heard me." she exclaimed again, holding on to Stein's hands even tighter. "I want to see you madness, DOCTOR!" she shouted.

"M-Medusa, calm down." he thought she would draw attention to the room, after all, it was still the school day.

"No!" she growled the word deeply in anger but she actually did try to keep her voice down, knowing (like him) that they couldn't risk getting caught. Come on, Stein! Go crazy on me again! Break me down! Force me on my knees and violate me!"

Stein narrowed his eyes. "What in the world is wrong with you!? Now you WANT me to dominate you?! Isn't that the whole reason you're doing this little revenge thing?"

Medusa just looked at him and blushed hard, almost out of embarrassment.

Stein took his hands away from hers, oddly enough causing Medusa to show discomfort. He gave her a very serious look. "I know you have odd ways of getting what you want but where in the world did this come from?"

Medusa looked at him angrily but continued to blush hard. "Would...would you just do as I ask? Just for once?!"

Stein looked at her VERY confused. "No!" he exclaimed, shaking his head. "What reason would I have to do that right now? What reason do you have to ask me to do that right now!?"

Medusa just stared at him. She was silent and her anger faded into what looked like sadness and scorn. She looked away from him and fell back on the bed, getting another confused look from Stein. She just lied there, not saying a word.

Stein stared at her wondering if she would say or do anything. He just know noticed that all of her vector arrows had vanished, most likely during her odd outburst.

He took a breath. "Medusa..." he began. "What are you doing...?"

She narrowed her eyes and after a moment of silence spoke. "I'm stronger AND smarter than you..."

"Is that a fact?" he asked sarcastically.

"Yes." she responded, also sarcastically.

Her eyes then then came to look at him. "In fact, there's not one thing I can think of that you're better at than me."

Stein just stared at her.

She looked away. "But there is ONE thing I can think of that your somehow good at that I'm not..."

Stein arched a brow in genuine curiosity. "And what is that?" he asked.

She looked at him again. "Being the good guy..." she said in a monotone voice.

"What...?" he asked.

Medusa took a deep breath. "All I wanted to do was bring you down to my level. We both know that you have a great amount of madness in you, Stein. All I wanted to do was prove that when it all come down to it, you're just as bad as me..."

He looked at her blankly, for he wasn't sure how to respond yet.

She continued. "But I can't break you, Stein. I guess you're too much of a good guy..." she said the last two words coldly. "And I'm just too much of a bad girl..."

She then gave him an odd look. It wasn't angry, or sad, or insane; it was blank with a blush. "I just thought if I could bring you down to my level, then you'd see it's not so bad being bad..."

Stein looked at her rather oddly. "Forgive me if I'm still baffled by the fact that we've come to this discussion only moments after this whole situation we've been in."

Medusa looked at him, still not a shred of emotion in her eyes. "If you hadn't decided to stick your nose where it didn't belong yesterday, then we wouldn't be in this mess."

"Well forgive me for being right to suspect you of treachery..."

The two scientists just stared at each other for a moment. Medusa had nearly forgotten that the two of them where totally naked. She gently placed an arm over her chest to slightly cover up. She didn't mind Stein seeing her exposed breasts (especially sense he already had) but she didn't feel she could talk to him seriously with her laying so suggestive in front of him.

"Stein..." Medusa said, breaking the silence.

Stein looked down at her awaiting an answer.

After a moment of just staring at the stitches covering the professor's body, Medusa finally asked. "What is it that causes you to stay with these people?"

Stein just stared at her, not showing any emotion and not answering at first.

"Is it because you feel you ave to obey the Shinigami? Does he force you to be good and stay like a dog? Is it because you want some reason to feel superior? Is it because-"

"Why are you asking?" Stein said, interrupting her.

She took a moment before continuing. "Because your like me Stein...You have NO reason to stay here...And you know it...Don't you..."

Stein didn't answer.

Medusa got up and brought herself close to him. "You don't even have to react." she placed her hands gently around his face. "Even without a single word, I can see it all over your face." she sighed as he continued to stare at her silently. "Both you and I know it's true..."

The two just sat there in silence for a while. Every couple of seconds one of them almost had the words to speak but the urge to talk died even quicker. What Medusa said was true and at the same time was false. Stein could go back and forth correcting her forever but in the end she would always have a point.

After a disturbingly long moment of nothing, Stein finally had something to say. He looked up and saw her glaring serpent-like eyes meeting with his. "Allow me to ask you something then..."

Medusa stared at him with genuine curiosity.

He continued. "You keep telling me I have no reason to stay here and that since I'm like you, so to speak, that i should come with you. But..." he paused for a moment as if trying to find the right way of saying what he wanted to. Even the slightest wrong word could give her the edge to knock him back down. He sighed. "Then what reason would I have for running with you specifically?"

She tilted her head. She saw the look on his face and saw how serious he was. Medusa actually blushed somewhat genuinely and looked away from him. "Does everything we've done not mean anything...?"

Stein blinked and gave a look of confusion.

Medusa turned back towards him but she kept her eyes away. "Yesterday (i think) we were at each other''s throats and today wasn't that different. But you can't deny that...well...that we have done all these things..." she looked at him with innocent eyes. "Nothing will ever be the same..."

Stein looked down. "I see...but you came here with some intent to kill me. So how do I know you mean what you-" before Stein could finish his sentence, Medusa brought her face to his and and touched her lips to his, locking them into a kiss. It started mildly, but as Medusa led him into it, Stein soon became just as passionate with his lips as her.

The two scientists continued to make out for what was only a minuet but felt like forever. Medusa eventually pulled herself away and looked into Stein's eyes. Even after that, both looked at each other with emotionless expressions. Medusa took her hands away from Stein. "I don't know if someone like me or even someone like you can feel love, but if this is the closest we can get to that, then i think whatever it is must be genuine.

Stein just looked at her with his still blank stare. He hated to admit it, but she was probably right. He didn't think of himself as someone who could ever feel true love. It was a concept the was simply not mixed in with the other characteristics that made him a person, and Medusa was the same way. But Medusa was different, she was evil. Even if Stein had not seen the extent of that evil yet, Medusa knew how evil she was and always would be.

Medusa turned to the side and started grabbing her clothes. Stein seemed a little confused at first when she got off the bed and started getting dressed but he soon came to the same conclusion that she was probably having in her head.

As Medusa slid herself into her dress, she spoke to Stein, with a monotone voice. "I know that it is impossible for everything that's been said to be forgotten and that this is not the last time we will have to deal with each other but am I safe to assume that you'll let me go for now? And that we'll just continue the rest of the school day as we should?"

Stein got up and started putting his own clothes on and spoke to her in a similar tone. "Yeah...I'll let you go for now."

She turned her head slightly. "Honest? If I just walk out that door and leave at the end of the day, you won't be there ready to stop me?"

Stein shook his head. "Nope." his voice slowly shifting back to his normal nonchalant tone.

"You won't have ratted me out by tomorrow?"

"Nope."

"You don't plan on following me home?"

"Nope."

At this point they were both completely dressed. Medusa turned around and looked at Stein. "And how do I know that you're not lying?"

Stein turned around and walked over to her. At first she tensed up, assuming that he might try something to harm her but Medusa's eyes widened in confusion when Stein planted a soft and quick kiss on her lips. She looked at him and continued to look in confusion when she saw a smile on his face.

"Don't worry..." he smirked. "For now, you can trust me for the same reason that I can supposedly trust you."

Medusa just blushed and looked surprised.

Stein then smirked a more sinister smirk. "But you might wan to get back to work before something bad really does happen to you, WITCH Medusa"

Medusa instantly caught the playfulness of his fake threat and played into it. Her eyes narrowed, pupils like a serpent's, as her vector tongue licked her lips. "Are you insinuating that a rat can corner a snake?" she said with a sly and seductive grin. "You're already in someone else's territory, so why don't you beat it before you get eaten." Every word from her mouth was just as sadistic as it was playful, an odd combination.

They gave each other one more ferocious kiss and soon Stein began to leave. He turned back one more time. "Of course I'm letting you slide for right now but you know that dire consequences are coming your way for this little conspiracy."

Medusa simply smiled.

"I don't know WHY you infiltrated the DWMA and despite everything that's happened, I'm sure it can't be good. But for now..." he opened the door and let himself out. He looked back at her to finish his sentence before closing the door. "Farewell, and have a pleasant rest of the day...Nurse...Witch...Medusa." he gave her one last smile and closed the door walking away.

Medusa continued to smile. She looked down as several mixed emotions swarmed through her head. Nothing particularly bad but some very odd things passed through her mind that she didn't expect to be feeling today. She felt challenge...satisfaction...eagerness...determination...and anxiety all at once. Last night Medusa felt the most anger that she had felt in a long time. Today, all kinds of things happened. But now Medusa had regained her composure and confidence.

She knew this was going to turn into a very deadly game. Stein still had know clue what she had joined the DWMA to do and now...she had two goals now. Stein...and the kishin...

Man I feel sick, ANYWAY, I'm sorry that this took so long but meh...

In the end of the last chapter I said that this chapter would contain an equal amount of lemon...guess I lied...

I took out the porn because I REALLY want to get to the point already, this will turn totally different as i progress.

All I have to say now is that in the next chapter, I'm gonna have it established that this story IS following the anime/manga story. but when I get to the point where Medusa is about to revive asura, that is when I will have things drastically altered.