Yes, yes, I know. It's been forever. -3- I have no excellent, worthy excuses besides this one: Marvel Avengers. Yes. I am OBSESSED. I've already seen it twice, which is awesome considering it came out two or three weeks ago, and I am rather proud of myself. I've started writing a fic about it, in fact, which you will hopefully see posted very soon. *evil chuckle* It will all be revealed very soon...

Back to this story. I was unsure for the longest time of what the HELL I was doing for the epilogue, but I promised you guys a nice angsty epilogue so I tied myself to a chair and stared at my laptop for about half an hour. Reading all the new chapters that I got alerts for. ^.^; And voila, I have an idea! Let's hope this doesn't suck. Sigh. I must say it probably won't be as long as some of you would probably like either.

theotakuprincessofgotham: Agreed. Want to help me with my angry mob? :D
Mina88: Thank you! Glad you like it!
Annerizu-san: XD Kid accepts your hug only because I was already hugging him and together we were symmetrical. And he says the cookie was lovely but Patty stole most of it.
Riku Ashwood: Well, don't take this the wrong way, but yay! If you cried that probably means you liked it and that makes meh happeeee. ^3^ Kid is adorable. Enough said.
Cyanide 6: Thanks for the input! Yes, I agree, it's so much more fun when he gets hurt. Well, slightly. :3 Or majorly. I'm good either way XD
8fangirl8: Oh, he'll get revenge, don't worry... *cackles evilly*
YouCanCallMe MrsMalfoy: Maka will have a bit of an important role, but although I do read them I don't tend to write pairing fics... of any kind. There may be some light romance later on in different oneshots, but only probably because I will have run out of themes for this. -3- Romance isn't my thing. Whump is. XD

Oh right, then there's my other excuse! (^.^;7) Sherlock. BBC Sherlock to be specific. If you have seen s02e03 you will know what I am talking about. To sum it up? I was a WRECK. We all were (except for sesame. damn you.) sobbing our eyes out and hiccup-laughing. I'm sure Hannah broke that cucumber over sesame's head (or was it shoulder?) gladly. -.o

ON WITH THE CHAPTER, OR THIS WILL END UP BEING LONGER THAN THE STORY. O_o

Mirror Mirror
Part 4

(contd. from last chapter)
Kid pouted. "Why not? Doesn't she love me anymore?"

Lord Death sighed and ruffled his hair. "Kiddo, she'll always love you. She's just moved on to a different home."

"But I can keep her mirror, right?"

"Of course you can. Keep it close, and she'll keep you safe... forever."
-Lord Death and Kid (age six)-

"Let's get him back to Gallows Mansion," Liz whispered. They carefully maneuvered the skateboard down off of the tower, then pulled Kid along the nighttime streets until they reached the typical skull gates. Kid's OCD helped for once, in that the gates were well oiled and slid open without a sound. Once inside they guided him onto the bed and set Beelzebub - which had stopped floating once its master's touch was taken - against the middle of the wall. (Exact middle. Maka whipped out a tape measure to be sure.)

"We... leave him here?" the scythe meister suggested. Liz and Patty nodded, and all three girls slipped out silently.

For a while they sat in the kitchen, Liz busy fixing a quick meal of pasta with carbonara sauce*1* and all of them shooting somewhat-covert glances at the staircase that led upstairs. After what seemed like a year but was really more like an hour the doorbell rang and Patty answered, pulling a pocketknife the second she realized who was standing on the front step.

Soul and BlackStar leapt back with identical girly screams. Patty laughed maniacally and chased them around the yard with the blade until Liz reluctantly ordered her to stand down and instead march the two 'prisoners' into the living room, where Maka was waiting eagerly with a book. Soul whimpered and curled up in a ball, only unfurling when Patty held the switchblade to his throat.

"What are you doing here?" Liz snarled.

Soul gulped. "We got a weird mirror IM... it said to come here..."

"Who was it from?" Maka asked dangerously.

"Uh..." BlackStar's gaze darted about, as if looking for an escape. "It just said 'come fix it' and was signed D. Wouldn't that stand for Dallows?"

"It's Gallows," the three girls growled in unison. Tsubaki came bursting through the door, and when she spotted BlackStar she hurried over.

"I was looking everywhere!"

BlackStar grinned sheepishly. "Yeah, well, the Awesome Me got a MIM*2* and I had to hightail it over here right away."

Maka rolled her eyes. "You idiot. Wouldn't D stand for Death?"

"Oh, right..."

"Which Death? There's Kid, and there's Lord Death," Liz pointed out. "It could have been either of them. Although it does make more sense if it was LORD Death, because Kid's up in his room, asleep. Whatever. I think I know where the fragments are - want me to go get them?"

"I have them."

Everyone spun around in shock to face Kid, who was standing in front of the mirror in the dining room. In his hands were a dozen shards of broken mirror glass. But the worst part was that the young shinigami looked like he was... well, a ghost. It was as if they could see the wall behind him. Oh, wait- they could.

Liz let out a startled shriek and leaped towards her meister, but he shrugged her off. "Don't worry, Liz. It's not that bad. You can still touch me, see?" He placed a hand on her shoulder. "I'm just not entirely... solid."

"Because of that mirror?" Maka whispered.

Kid's expression iced over and his tone was clipped. "Yes. It can't be fixed."

"What?" Soul yelped. "Then why did you- or your dad, or whatever- call us here and said 'fix it?'"

"Even if you can't fix the material, you can fix the spirit."

Gallows Mansion fell silent. Nobody dared even breathe. (Well, BlackStar did, he just got a lot quieter.) For the longest time, Maka felt like she was teetering on the edge of a cliff, then she steeled herself and asked, "What can we do to help? Can we make you, er, solid again?"

"No." Kid heaved a sigh. "The mirror is my strongest tie to the human world. Without it I cannot truly exist in full here. Part of my soul is now permanently stuck in the Grim World. But I can still fight, pull the trigger, everything. Except for certain things, one of those being you cannot hit me with a soul wavelength and you cannot injure me, although I can't say the same for Asura. His Madness scarves could probably make contact. And my father, naturally."

"So then... what do we do to 'fix the spirit?'" BlackStar snorted.

"Apologize," Kid stated calmly, fixing him with an even gaze. "If you can be truly sorry for something that has more impact than you can imagine, then the part of me that roils and turns in the Grim World will be at peace. If you do not repent, I can't promise that I can control myself from attacking you and possibly killing you. And don't even TRY boasting that I can't - you know as well as I that I can."

It hit Soul in the face like a ton of bricks. Because of their stupid mistake, a teammate was, uh, not solid. He couldn't go back to being normal, he couldn't even control himself from killing them, something he clearly didn't want to do no matter how much damage they had inflicted. It was their fault, and their burden. Even if BlackStar was an unemotional idiot, the albino scythe at least was sorry. Truly sorry. "Kid, I- uh, it wasn't cool. Not at all. I'm... sorry, uh. Yeah. If you don't want me to be your teammate, uh, you've got every right. I- I, uh, take the blame. It was BlackStar's idea but I was the first to step on it."*3*

Kid smiled. "I forgive you. And I still want to be your teammate, although I must say our resonance will take a bit of fine tuning." Soul grinned.

BlackStar, seeing he was the center of attention (in a bad way, incidentally), cleared his throat and looked down at his feet. "Right. Uh, sorry. I mean, you didn't deserve it. And the Great and Holy Me was being a jackass."

"Yeah, you were," the shinigami shot back dryly. "But it's okay. You do realize there's no way you can beat me in a fight now, right?"

"You wanna bet?"

"Hell yes."

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And so the next day found Soul, Maka, BlackStar, and Tsubaki facing off in front of the school, opposite Kid, who refused to even wield Liz and Patty. The sisters didn't actually protest, just smirked and settled themselves comfortably on the steps in front of the doors, next to Stein, who had agreed to referee (only because he wanted to see how good Kid was, and depending on the outcome who to dissect).

The battle raged for over an hour, but several explosions later, Kid walked away dusting off his slightly nonexistent suit with not even a scratch, leaving an unconcious pair of boys, a panting and furious Maka, and a frantic Tsubaki behind. Liz and Patty fell in step behind him as he made his way calmly into the school, Patty flipping Soul and BlackStar off behind his back.

All was right with the world...

and Kid got his revenge.

EET EEZ SO SHORT. SHOOT ME NOW. Rawr. But Kid got his revenge. ^3^

*1* I can make this. It's really good. *drools*

*2* MIM = Mirror Instant Message. Yes, I made it up. Bask in the glory.

*3* Soul's apology was a try (and fail) at being cool. As always, eh? XD

Reviews, prompts, suggestions welcome! If you want to see a certain oneshot written, inform me!

~DeaththeKidKat~