A/N: Alright guys here's part 4. I felt that I went a tad OOC with Soul at the end, but I think Soul can be a sap sometimes. Next chapter will be all about Alex and Lucy working together and stuff, so stay tuned!
Alex stared at the man with keen interest. Stein had just finished telling one of his many stories of the time he used to wield Spirit, a literal Death Scythe. Alex's smile kind of deflated when Stein stopped telling his story as the school's doctor began wrapping his head.
"Is that it?" Alex said sadly, hoping to hear another interesting story of Stein's amazing adventures.
"Well, I could always tell you more… If you're willing to let me dissect you, seeing as I don't have enough test subjects." Stein grinned creepily while he slowly pulled a scalpel out of his pocket.
"Um… No thank you, that isn't necessary in the slightest, really. It was a wonderful story." Alex whimpered as he backed up, falling off the bed he was currently sitting on, earning a laugh from Lucy. Naturally, this caused him to bang his head against the linoleum floor. That falling, in turn, caused Alex to develop a huge welt on the back of his head, but this one could go without treatment.
As Lucy helped him up, she laughed a little at the way he looked out of it. "Come on, you freaking klutz. We should probably get out of here before your best friend wakes up." Now that Alex was conscious and she didn't have to lift dead weight, it wasn't as hard to carry him. "Besides, we need to find a place to sleep tonight or we're both going to be sleeping in here."
"Well, if anything comes up, you could always come and stay with us." Soul entered the conversation groggily as he yawned his way back to consciousness. "We've got a spare room, but there's only one problem…"
"There's only one bed." Maka finished as Alex tried to stand up on his own. The moment he heard that an idea popped into his mind that caused his face to become a tomato and to almost crumple to the floor. Lucy must have gotten the same idea because her actions mimicked that of her Meisters.
"Um… No thanks… I mean…" The two mumbled in unison things that the other Weapon-Meister pair couldn't catch, while Stein wheeled himself out of the room with a slight smirk on his face. "See you later!" The called in unison as they dashed out of the room.
"Well aren't they… Interesting." Maka thought, as she could not find a word to describe the two, while Soul dragged his feet over to the side of the bed and stood up, cracking his neck a few times.
"The thing with Alex is that he's cool, but once a woman shows up, he loses his cool. So, contrary to what he might think, I am still cooler than him." Soul shuffled over to where Maka was, holding a hand out for her.
"Hmph, says the guy who can't hold his blood in when something bigger than a B-cup gets too close to him. You perv." She grabbed his hand with a questioning look. Normally Soul would only grab her hand when he was about to transform, and the fact that he grabbed at it now was confusing to her.
"Just in case I'm too cool and I fall over. Head's still a bit wobbly." Soul remarked, not even bothering to use a witty retort here about her lack of cup size, and instead, walked forward and dragged her along with him.
After all, if Alex could be himself around a complete stranger, Soul could be honest around his partner. Even if he told a little lie to take the first step toward that goal.
So not cool, Soul thought as Maka caught up to him and they began their usual conversations and bickering. But this time, Soul had a slight smirk on his face not because he felt he was winning the argument. The smallest of smiles appeared because she seemed that much happier, swinging their arms with held together by the lacing of their fingers.