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Chapter 8

Maka's POV

"Your what?" Papa rushed to my side as I sat up. "You cant leave Maka." His voice was strained I haven't seen him like this, at lease not sense mama left him. "I can't stay papa, I lost my weapon partner, my friends hate me, and I was kicked out of my resonance team. Soul despises me, he wants nothing to do with me and if he were to find out about the baby... Well it would just be a constant reminder of a mistake, a regret." I could feel papa's eyes on me, but I couldn't meet his eyes. "Where will you go?" I continued to study my hands "I was thinking I would go to France, I have always wanted to go there." He finally let out a heavy breath, "Stein, do me a favor and make sure maka and my grandchild are okay." He turned to leave not waiting for an answer from stein, I was finally able to look up at him. "Papa?" Was he leaving me now too?

He stopped when he reached the door and turned to looked me in the eyes. "I'm sorry this happened to you maka, however it is your decision and I will always stand by you and help you." He smiled sadly at me. "I will be back soon, I need to speak with lord death about you leaving the DWMA." I could feel my eyes watering, "thank you papa." He nodded at me and left to speak with lord death. I knew this was going to be hard on him. My attention was then grabbed by tsubaki when she clutched my hand. "I don't like this idea maka! Your going to be in another country, trying to raise a child by yourself. What are you going to do for money? Where will you live? Do you even speak french?" These were all valid concerns, I tried to keep eye contact with her, but ended up having to look away. "I will figure something out, I have a good amount of money saved up already."

"That may not be good enough maka, baby's are expensive." I squeezed her hand, "I know tsu, I'll be okay-" I was cut off by Wes. "She won't be alone. I have friends in France that would gladly help, she could stay with them until she was able to get on her feet."

"Wes you can't volunteer your friend for this, I would be a burden to them." He shook his head at me, "No maka, trust me they won't care they are friends with me and my family, and if it is that big a deal to you, I can have them lend you the guest house." I bit my bottom lip I would be lying if I said the offer wasn't tempting. "I don't know them wes, I couldn't possibly-" He sighed and cut me off again. "What if I went with you when you fly out? That way I can introduce you to them and help you get settled. I was planning on going to see them soon anyways, so no big deal. "

"I couldn't let you to do that wes, You've 'helped' enough." All of a sudden I was hit by a wave of dizziness. I put my hand on my for head. Stein was at my side in an instant, "Whats wrong maka?" I tried to wave him off, but he was persistent. "I just got dizzy that's all." Stein felt my forehead and then pushed me back down on the bed. "Maka in your condition you can't push yourself if you feel tired or dizzy you need to rest. It could end up being bad for both you and the baby if you ignore it." He then turned to wes and tsubaki, "Wes was it? you should probably talk with spirit about maka staying with your friends, tsubaki would you mind taking him to the death room? I need to make sure maka and the baby are not in any danger." They both nodded at stein and left.

Once stein was done with the exam he let papa, tsubaki, and wes back into the room. "Well it looks like maka dodged a bullet with both the kishin's attack as well as being out in the cold rain for so long. But she does have a slight fever and she will need to rest for a day or two before she is fit to travel."

Papa let out a sigh of relief, and smiled at me, "I'm glad you are both okay maka, and I spoke with Lord Death about you leaving for France. He said that it shouldn't be a problem, but he is worried about you."

"I'll go see him before I leave papa." He patted my head, "that sounds like a good idea maka." I was tired and wanted to sleep in my own bed. I went to get up, but stein stopped me, "What do you think you're doing maka?"

"I'm going home, you said I was fine, that I just needed rest. Well I want to rest in my own bed."

"I don't know if you walking around is such a good idea, what if you pass out? You still have a fever."

I crossed my arms and grumbled under my breath. "I'm fine stein please, I just wanna go home." He pinched the bridge of his nose between his finger and thumb. "Fine, But you need to have someone walk you home. Preferably some one who can carry you if you faint." I groaned, I hate special treatment and stein knew it.

"I will take her, I have to talk to her about staying with my friends anyway."

Wes walked over to me and offered me his hand. I ignored it and got up on my own. He chuckled slightly, "Your a stubborn one arn't you." I walked past him to the door not caring if he decided to follow me or not. Once we got out side and the cool evening air hit me I couldn't stop the shiver that worked it's way through my body. Wes must have noticed me shiver because the next thing I knew I was engulfed in a warm fall jacket. I blushed slightly, "t-thank you." He smiled at me, "you are most welcome." I snuggled into the warmth of his jacket, that's when I noticed wes used the same type of cologne as soul. I missed the scent, however it just wasn't the same when wes's own scent was mixed with it. We had been walking for about 10 minutes in silents when wes finally spoke, "Maka, about my friends in France, I called them while stein was doing the exam."

I stopped walking, "you what? Isn't it like around 6:00 in the morning over there?"

He rubbed the back of his neck, "Well it's more like around 7:00 but yes, its early there, anyway when I spoke to Karen and her husband Jim they said that they would be thrilled for you to stay with them for as long as you need. They are cleaning up the guest house for you now."

"Wes I-I don't know what to say, I-" Here was the person that caused soul to turn his back on me, and now he was doing so much for me. He saved me earlier today and now this... Did her feel guilty or did her feel sorry for me? "I don't want hand outs wes, if you feel guilty maybe you should talk to soul. But I am still going to France and having my baby."

"I do feel bad about everything that happened because of what I did. But that is not the reason why I am doing this for you maka. It's not hand outs either, I honestly want to help. You are now like family to me, and I am going to want to be a part of my niece or nephews life."

"So helping me helps the baby, you could have just said that to begin with." I lowered my head and started walking again. But I didn't get far wes grabbed my arm to stop me.

"Maka, yes helping you helps the baby but, I would help you anyway, I truly do care about what happens to you. I didn't know you were pregnant this afternoon when I helped you." He slowly dropped his hand from my arm.

"why do you care? I mean I kinda broke your nose and you hardly know me... "

"I think it's because your like the little sister I never had. The way you cared about soul made me respect you and when you hit me..." He chuckled, "I felt like I was fighting with soul, like we used to when we were young."

"I thought you didn't like your brother, you talked down about his music and how he was the family disappointment."

"yea... about that, I actually like souls music. You were right about my music, there is no emotion in it. Soul puts everything into his, I am jealous of him. I will never be able to play anything like he does."

I was shocked it was a few minutes before I could speak, "Why are you telling me this?"

He thought about that for a moment, "I'm not sure, I just feel like I can talk to you, like you will understand. My parents never even tried to see soul for who he was, or how talented he is. If you don't play the way they want, your not worth much." This was so similar to what Soul had told about his past. After a moment wes continued talking.

"I envy soul, who can date for love, where I have to date for status. Soul who is the only one in our family that has weapon blood. He is now a death scythe, thanks to you, that makes him even more special. And what can I do? I can only play cookie cutter music."

"Wes..." He just smiled at me, "I'm sorry maka, I wasn't trying to upset you. I didn't mean to ramble on like that, but thank you for listening." He took a deep breath, "Now what do think about staying with Karen and Jim?" I thought about it for a moment.

"I think that it would be nice to know someone over there so, sure I'll stay with them. and um wes?

"Hmm?" He hummed in response, as we started walking again.

"um, when do you think we can leave? I would like to be gone before the end of the week if that's okay." He thought in silence for a moment, "Well lets see how you feel tomorrow. If your are okay then how about we leave on Tuesday. So if everything goes as planned we can leave in 2 days, but you have to rest tonight, so no staying up packing or anything like that."

"Sounds reasonable, thank you wes." He smiled slightly. "Now lets get you home, you must be exhausted." When we got to my apartment building I noticed that the lights to my apartment were on. I froze where I stood.

"What's wrong maka?" I couldn't move, I was barley able to squeak my response. "I didn't leave any lights on when I left earlier."

AN: See Wes has feelings too. And a very special thank you to 'Mavis Chase' I had a slight writers block earlier and you helped me work through it :).