AN: hopefully things are starting to pick up in the story... I trying to write a bit more frequently. I love seeing all of your comments.

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Chapter 18

Quinn's POV

I didn't like how familiar he was being with mom. "I didn't realize..." He trailed off, not bothering to finish the thought.

"Didn't realize what, old man!? That she would have a life after you? That she would find someone new to trust?" That caught his attention. I glared at him as I watched him drag his eyes away from my mom.

He looked me over and I could imagine what it was he saw. A young boy who didn't have a single one of his mothers fetchers. My now red spiky hair, my red eyes and sharp teeth, would all tell him that I took after my father.

We stared each other down, for a moment before he turned back to face my mom. "Ugh, so uncool maka, I for sure thought that you would have taught any kids you had better manors than this." He smirked, clearly trying to play off my bringing up their past..

I laughed at him before my mom, and dean could respond. "I guess I took after my father, more than I had originally thought." Dean got a slight chuckle out of that but, I regretted the words as they were leaving my lips. I could see how it upset my mother, I turned to her about to apologize when he just had to re-open his mouth.

"Oh? Then am I to assume you learned your bad manors from dean?"

"No you damn bastard! Dean was there for me and my mom when my good for nothing father left us! Dean is a true father to me and to my sisters! My so called father is none of your concern!"

"Then why bring your father up if he is none of my concern?" This guy really can't shut his fat mouth, can he?

"You know soul, it was probably your arrogant attitude that reminded quinn of his father." Dean called out, apparently trying and failing to defuse the growing tension.

I could feel my black blood boiling I wanted so badly to just let it take over, to lose my self to its rage and power. But I could feel Rose's grip around my waist tighten, as if she was trying to somehow keep me grounded. "Quinn?" I looked down at her, she had this un-canning ability to sense when my rage would start to get out of hand.

"Maka-Chop!" Mom slammed a book down on deans skull and then chucked one into soul's. I had a sinking suspicion that I would have a book shaped dent in my skull as well, had I not been hurt from my fight.

"Dean! Soul! That is quite enough," She then turned to me, and to my surprise she didn't look mad, she looked some what hurt. 'Way to go quinn, you really are your fathers son! All you ever so is cause your mom pain.'

"Quinn, Rose I want you both to go see stein now. Quinn you were hurt protecting your sisters and the other kids as well, and rose if I'm not mistaken you were unconscious when mia brought you inside. So mind explaining to me why you are not down at the nurses office getting looked at right now?!"

Rose opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but quickly shut it again. She wobbled slightly on her feet at my side, I picked rose up and cradled her in my arms, the extra weight irritated my shoulder but I didn't care. I paused next to mom on my way out the door. "I'm sorry mom, everything is my fault... sorry"

I knew that she, and dean heard me, and by the looks mom and dean exchanged I knew that they understood the double meaning in my words. Once we were in the hall headed toward the nurses office rose started to squirm in my arms. "Quinn, you can put me down now, I know your shoulder must be killing you."

I let her down and we walked in silence for a few short minutes. "Your wrong Quinn,"

"Wrong about what? I don't quite follow..."

She sighed at me before answering. "You know mom and dad aren't the only ones who caught on to your double meaning apology. Quinn you need to stop thinking about yourself this way. You are not the reason behind mom's pain."

"She's right quinn." Rose just about jumped out of her shoes, but I had sensed that mia was slowly sneaking up on us. "Nice try mia, and you guys don't understand."

"Quinn, he's my dad too! How do I not understand?"

I rolled my eyes at mia, and began to walk again. "We've been over this mia, you are practically a spinning image of mom, you even have her temper. But me... I am pratically his twin in just about every way."

"Don't be ridiculous quinn, you inherited moms temper too." She smirked at me, showing off her sharp teeth.

"Mia is right quinn, you defiantly have moms temper, and you also got her over protectiveness."

I smirked at them, "I'm not overprotective, you two just like to get into trouble and I'm normally the one who has to get you out of it."

"Us trouble? In your dreams quinn." Mia jumped onto my back, I chuckled trying to control my wince. Mia had jerked my shoulder. "More like my nightmares."

"Hey!" she playfully slapped me on the top of my head and then jumped off my back. I smirked at her and rose, who was giggling at the two of us.

"Thanks" I didn't need to explain it to them, both rose and mia smiled in understanding.

"Any time bro, now lets get stein to look at you, I know your shoulder is bugging you more than your letting on about."

I shook my head at mia, "I swear sometimes you creep me out with your twin telepathy shit."

Mia grinned at me, "you have your music and your strength, I have my smarts and twin telepathy powers."

We finally got to the nurses office, only to find it empty. With the exception of the two kids I saved earlier, at least the girl was awake now.

I walked over to them, "Hey do either of you know where professor stein is?" The boy with brown hair and red eyes looked at me funny, "What?"

"Your, okay!? Dude, I thought you were a goner." Mia and rose started to chuckle, I cleared my throat to try and get them to behave. I mean hell I didn't expect this kid to know who I was, or to even consider that I could handle myself around pre-kishins. "Um, did I say something funny?"

"Nah, it's not you kid, it's me. My sisters know what I can do so the thought of me getting hurt is kinda funny to them."

"My name is drake and the uncool one behind me is Hunter." Drake paused for a moment to take in my fetchers, before he turning to rose and mia to compare their Fetchers to mine. "Your sisters? You mean theses two? Are you sure they are your sisters, you look nothing alike."

Mia started to laugh, "Drake I told you that I had a twin brother, and you of all people should know that twins don't always look alike."

I turned to mia and rose, "Wait you know these guys? I had thought that you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they had arrived before me to maybe help."

Mia shrugged, "rose and I had been looking for you when we ended up on the balcony and that's where we ran into drake and hunter. We talked for a bit and then out of what seemed like nowhere the pre-kishins attacked and well you know the rest."

But what I want to know, is why have the pre-kishins been banding together, also what drew them here? It's practically suicide for them to attack the academy, and normally they are solo hunters which makes dealing with them much easier. Was the academy the target or were they after-. My train of thought has been interrupted by the girl hunter.

"are you wearing contacts?" I raised an eyebrow at her question, "Um, no.. Why?"

"Hunter! That's such a uncool thing to ask!" Drake was trying to scold the girl who was still staring up at my face, but she just waved him off.

"Um, hunter? Why are you studying my brothers face?" Rose who had been quiet at my side spoke. I noticed hunter's cheeks slightly flush as she averted her eyes to rose's face.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to stare like that, its just that I haven't seen anyone with red eyes like that..." I couldn't hold back my laugh.

"You do own a mirror right? Your eyes are red hunter, so are drakes." Drake tried to cover his laugh with a cough.

"Not what I meant. Yes me and my brother have red eyes, but they are dingy, a result of our mom's hazel-green eyes mixing with our dads red. But your eyes... they are a bright crimson red, only our dad and our uncle have eyes like that."

"So why does it matter that I have red eyes like your dads? Who is he anyway?"

"Huh? oh I thought we told you our last name, sorry about that." She smiled up at me. "My full name is hunter evans, and that's my twin brother drake evans. Our dad is none other than death scythe Soul eater evans."

Great just what I needed another sister to baby sit... And to top it off I have a brother who was raised by our bastard of a father, that means he will probably be just as lazy and careless as the old man. Just great!

I did my best to keep my face as blank and expressionless as possible. Hunter was still smiling, she looked like she was proud to have soul as a father. Drake was studying our reactions and I'm guessing that rose's worried, and mia's 'I couldn't care less' expressions were a bit of a shock to them.

Hunter's smile fell slightly, there was a long awkward silence that just hung in the air between us. That is until drake cleared his throat. "You guys do know who death scythe soul eater is right? I mean, normally when ever we tell someone who we are we get jumped with hundreds of questions about our dad."

I took a deep breath, "Yea we know who the old man is... Our mom, master meister, and now death scythe Maka albarn was the one who turned your dead into a death scythe."

I interlaced my fingers behind my head and just waited for the information I just gave them to hit home, it didn't take too long. "Wait so your maka's kids? And you know about our parents old partnership? Do you know any details? Did your mom tell you anything about their missions? Do you know why-"

"Whoa, whoa whoa. Slow down, one question at a time." Ugh so uncool, it was like drake and hunter had one brain to share between two mouths. Once hunter finished asking a question drake would jump in and ask one, then as soon as he finished speaking hunter would spit out another.

Mia gave our clueless siblings a small smile and then began to answer questions. "Like quinn said one at a time, firstly, yes we are maka's children Quinn, rose and myself. Secondly, yes we know all about their partnership. Our mom told us just about everything, When we were little she would tell us these amazing stories about a young talented meister and her strong and brave weapon partner."

The small smile mia had on her face faltered as she continued to explain. "It wasn't until later that we realized the stories were real, we eventually got our mom to tell us about how she and your dad disband and about why she left death city."

"would you tell us what happened? We asked our dad but he just got really quiet." Hunter asked. "Actually I think that is something your dad should tell you."

"Mia are you sure that is a good idea? I mean I think that they should know what the old man did." Mia gave me a 'Shut up or else' look. Drake snorted at our silent exchange.

"What did our dad leave your mom because she was holding him back or something? I bet he needed to find a better partner, one that could sync up with his soul wavelength, one that wasn't wea-"

I morphed my arm into a scythe blade, "Go ahead and finish that sentence if you don't mind losing a few body parts." Drake slowly backed up until he was up against a wall of the nurses office. "Wha-!? Dude, quinn, chill! What's your problem!?"

"My problem right this second is you drake, your acting just like your father and that is not a complement. He didn't leave my mom to find a better partner, he betrayed her trust! He failed to do his job as weapon! His meister needed him and he turned his back on her! She was forced out of their partnership, and out of her resonance group! That is what your 'amazing' father did to disband our parents partnership."