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Chapter 9

Maka's POV

"Give me your keys maka, and stay behind me." I fished out my keys, and dropped them into his out stretched hand. Wes slid the key into the slot, and with a slight click of the dead bolt the door swung open. After a few steps inside wes froze, I peaked out from behind him to see the damage. The apartment looked the same, nothing was missing and we weren't walking in on robbers ransacking the place. What we saw was much worse.

Soul has just come out of his room, carrying a rather large bag, he was frozen in the hallway glaring at wes. When he noticed me standing behind wes he fixed his glare onto me. I became 20 shades paler than I had been before. Soul's glare deepened as his eye bore into mine, until I had begun to tremble. He slowly tore his eyes from mine, and turned his head away from us and grumbled something along the lines of "should have known."

Wes noticed my reaction to soul and he wrapped his arm around me protectively and pulled me behind his back, so that I was no longer with in souls line of sight. The silence was deafening, but when soul finally spoke, he sounded like he would spit venom.

"What are you doing here Wes?"

"I wanted to make sure maka got home okay." Soul made a disgusted noise.

"Well she's fine now leave!" I slowly made my way out of wes's grasp. He turned to me as if he had completely forgotten that his little brother was shooting daggers at us with his eyes.

"Get some rest maka, I will see you tomorrow." I couldn't help the blush that crept across my face when I heard soul make a strangled choking sound. I hated having him this close knowing that he hated me, knowing that he will never want me or our child to be apart of his life. I managed a small nod to wes's statement, then I turned and ran to my room locking the door behind me. I cringed thinking about what wes's words would mean to soul. I could hear their muffled voices from the other side of my door. It soon became quiet, that is until I heard the front door slam shut. 'That must be soul leaving.'

I flopped down onto my bed, I was exhausted and didn't even bother to change into my pj's. I snuggled into the covers and soon fell into a dreamless sleep.

I awoke late mid-morning, and actually felt rested for the first time in weeks. I grabbed a change of clothes and went to the bathroom to get cleaned up. After I was done in the bathroom I wandered into the kitchen. I was far from hungry but I knew I needed to eat something, I reluctantly fixed my self a small bowl of death charms. I had just spooned the last of the cereal into my mouth when there was a knock on the front door.

Wes was standing in my doorway with two small bundles of cardboard boxes. "Good morning maka, I'm glad to see you up and around. How are you feeling."

"I'm much better than I was yesterday, thanks and whats with the boxes?"

"hmm, oh I grabbed these so we could ship some of your things out there to you. You know like some of your favorite books, some of your keepsakes and such." he set the boxes down on the kitchen table.

I face palmed myself, "I hadn't even thought about my books, I was just concerned with leaving as soon as possible." Wes chuckled knowingly. I huffed at him for laughing. I went to the hall closet and grabbed 2 large suitcases, and then headed to my room to start packing my clothes. Wes helped me sort out the books I wanted to leave and the ones I wanted to send.

I had just finished packing the first suitcase with almost all of my winter clothes. I was about to carry it out into the hall when the bag suddenly disappeared from my hands.

"What do you think you are doing maka!?" Wes sounded half frantic, half horrified.

"Wha-? Why did you take my bag from me?" He sighed at me, "Maka you obviously don't understand what it means to be pregnant. You can't lift anything heavy, it will end up putting to much strain on your body."

"Wes I'm fine really, my fever is gone." He shook his head at me. "No maka, you can't be stubborn on this one, it has nothing to do with your fever. You are going to have limitation on what you can do by yourself until the baby is born. That's just the way it is."

"Fine."I crossed my arms and pouted in defeat. I had started to get tired, wes suggested that we finish packing tomorrow. "Our plane is scheduled for the day after tomorrow right?" I asked.

"yea, Tuesday around 2:00 why do you ask?"

"I wanted to go see Lord death, Tsubaki, papa, and stein before I leave."

"Sounds manageable, we can go see then Tuesday morning before we head to the airport." Wes finished packing up the last of the books I had wanted to take, he sealed up the boxes and carried then down to his car so he could mail them tomorrow morning. I was resting on the couch while wes order pizza. I was half asleep when the pizza finally arrived, I ate my food as fast as I could. I just wanted to go lay down and sleep.

Wes and I made our way down an all to familiar guillotine archway hall, toward lord deaths room. Upon entering we were greeted by lord death with his normal bubbly personality.

"Hey, Hiya, how ya doin?' it's good to see you maka!" Behind lord death I could see tsubaki, papa and professor stein. Tsubaki looked as if she was going to cry, as did papa. Stein looked like he was struggling to stay calm, which was odd for him."

"Hi lord death, I just wanted to see you and the others before I left. Thank you for allowing me to leave, especially on such short notice."

"It's not a problem maka, you deserve to have a fresh start and have a chance at happiness." He patted my head with his over sized gloved hand. I smiled up at him, then slowly made my way over to the others. "Can you all promise me that you will keep this baby a secret, especially from soul?" As I glanced around the room I made eye contact with everyone. They all in turn promised me that the baby would be kept just between the 6 of us.

Stein stepped forward and we hugged. "I hate to see you leaving maka. You were one hell of a student, and meister. I look forward to seeing you again, come back to us soon okay?"

"I'll visit when I can." I just don't know when that may be... I moved on to tsubaki, we hugged and she started balling. "I c-can't believe your r-really leaving maka."

I smiled at her. "Please don't cry tsubaki," I handed her 8 letters I had written last night. "There is one for you to read to everyone once someone notices that I'm gone. After the first main letter has been read, there are 7 other individual letters addressed to our friends. There is one in there for you as well. I promise that I will keep in touch with you. You have always been like my big sister." She started crying even harder which I hadn't thought possible. We hugged again, and then I moved forward to say goodbye to papa.

He already had tears in the corner of his eyes, "My little maka is all grown up... Don't you stay away for to long okay? I will want to see you and meet my grand-baby." He smiled down at me, I lost it. I threw my self into his arms and started to cry, I haven't cried in years, and even if I had it was for sure never in front of my papa.

"I p-promise to keep in touch papa." He hugged me tighter and kissed the top of my head. "I love you my darling maka."

It took me a moment to speak. "I-I love you too papa." We stepped apart from each other, and then papa melted to the floor. I rolled my eyes at him being over dramatic. Wes informed me that we had to leave, or we could end up missing the flight. I waved at everyone one final time as we rushed out the door.

Once we made it to the car wes turned to me, "Maka... are you sure you won't regret keeping this from soul? We are here, you could still go to him and tell him."

I shook my head, "no wes I'm sure. Soul regrets ever being with me, it would only hurt him to find out about the baby."

Wes kept eye contact with me until he started up the car. He was silent until we turned onto the highway. "incredible."

"What?" I was confused now "what's incredible?"

"You are maka, even after everything that has happened, you still protect him." Neither of us said another word until we reached the airport.

AN: Ugh! I had this chapter done earlier but my computer crashed and I lost everything I had written, so I just had to re-write it and make it even better than the first time round:) As always Please review. I love seeing what you all have to say!