Maka

As Soul lay in the same bed as Kid had months ago, Maka worried.

"Is he going to be okay?"
"Of course," Nygus said. "He'll be unconscious indefinitely, but he's still alive and will be for quite awhile."

"Okay." She sat next to him for hours until Liz and Patti came.

"Hey Maka, we heard about Soul." Liz said as she closed the door.

"He's going to be fine."
"That's great. How long will he be out?"
"No one knows."

"Oh. Maka, we know it's going to be hard. But just look at it like this: He's lucky. And so are you. You're going to see him again." Liz was right, they were lucky. Liz and Patti lost their meister to amnesia and death. At least Maka was going to see Soul once again.

"Let's go home," Maka said with a slight smile on her face.

The three walked to Maka's apartment. A forth of the way there, the painful silence was broken.

"Would you like us to stay with you tonight?"

"It's fine, you don't have to."

"C'mon Maka! It'll be real fun!" Patti exclaimed with genuine excitement.

"I guess."

Gopher

The boy passed nearly an hour flying in the sky looking for the girl. He didn't bother to look inside buildings. He had only looked in her empty apartment and realized she was out. He also realized she would be out in the streets at some point, so he waited. He waited until the girl finally appeared… With two other girls.

"Not again," he mumbled as he flew down.

He was quickly noticed.

"Hey Sis, What do you think that is?" Patti asked in her typical childish manner.

"I don't know"
"Maybe it's a giant bird!"
"I don't know. Maka, what do you think it is?"

"I can't tell…" She noticed Gopher was getting closer. The "bird" was going to hit them. "Get out of the way!" They all jumped to the walls of the nearby buildings. Gopher landed on the hard street, barely harmed. He look Maka in the eyes.
"You," She started.

"Funny, people tend to say that to me a lot."

"Maka is this one of them?"
"It is." Liz looked over to Patti.

"Weapon form."

"Okay!"

Maka

It only took a few shots from Patti, and he fell down to the ground. He was weaker this time.

"I won't let you beat me again."
"I didn't do it this time, but it's too late, your done." A final shot was fired and he was unconscious. The boy looked weaker too, almost as if he was being starved. It was obvious he had to be working for someone, someone harsh. A person wouldn't normally have so much motivation to get something done and starve himself or herself at the same time. So his master was starving him. The poor child.

"Let's take him to the academy."
"What? Why! He'll try to blow the place up!" Liz stated in fear.

"What if he learns like Crona? What if he sees the light?"
"What if he doesn't, and he tries to kill you, or all of us?"
"Let's let Lord Death decide."

The boy had been put in a small cell like Crona, and his fate was to be decided soon.

"Why do you trust him? He tried to kill you. Twice." Liz continued to ask her day after day.

"Crona tried to kill me too. Why not trust him?" She repeated word-for-word every time Liz asked her the question.

The apartment was empty, Blair was off with Spirit lately and Soul was still asleep. He had wakened up earlier, but it was only for five minutes. The remaining five had only heard about it. Maka felt lonelier than ever with Soul gone too. Not only that but she had a reoccurring nightmare.

She stood in a classroom of the DWMA with Soul and Kai. "You can take his soul." The words of Lord Death rang through her head. In other words: she got to kill Kai. As Soul flew into her arms, she readied for the swing. Just as she was swinging, Kai's hair changed from blond to black. A smile appeared on his face. "Maka..."

At that moment, she would jump up and fall out of bed. She would quickly distract herself by visiting Gopher.

Gopher

"Gopher?" Maka said to him through the iron door.

"Go away."
"Gopher, have you eaten yet?" Silence. "Gopher, please eat."
"I won't."

"Why not?"
"I have disappointed Noah-sama."

"Gopher…"
"What is it now?"
"Have you ever been treated kindly?"
"What do you mean? Kindness is for weaklings."
"I'll take that as a no."

"Why do you stay with Noah if he treats you badly? You could be here with us."
"You mean to say you're being nice? You shove me in a prison cell and leave me here for weeks! Is that what you call kindness?" It had already been three weeks. No word on Gopher had been said. It was as if the only person who remembered him was Maka. She brought him the food, she talked to him.

"I know that you feel forgotten, but we care."
"You care." He suddenly realized that was the first time. The first time someone cared.

"Right?" He asked. With that sudden realization, he wanted sudden confirmation.

"Of course." It felt nice.

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