Maka: But, where are you going to stay?
Raina: (smiling at Black*Star's reaction) I've always figured my parents would try to pull something like that on me, that's why I've been saving. Ever since I was three, really.
Kid: (working on arranging the medicine cabinet) Why three... it should be eight...
Raina: (rolling her eyes) Three is symmetrical too, Kid. Think about it.
Anna laughs at Raina. Raina smiles back, then it quickly fades.
Liz: So, you've been saving since you were three? Why?
Raina: That's when I asked if I could become a meister, like my brothers. They said no, and I was determined to come here even if they didn't fund me. I've got enough to pay rent for a few months, and I'm going to get a job sb soon enough.
Soul: (shrugging) Sounds like you have it all figured out.
Maka: Yeah. (looks out the window, then turns towards the door) We should probably leave. It looks like it's going to rain. (turns her head, then looks back) Oh, Raina? As soon as you're better, call us. We're going to have a party!
Raina: (nods, waits for all of them to file out, Kid coming last, sad because he couldn't finish organizing the medicine. Raina rolls her eyes at him, then she looks at Anna) You should go too, Anna. I'll be fine. Everything will be fine.
Anna: (not moving, just looking into Raina's eyes) Your eyes are a really pretty color. Like the color of sea foam.
Raina: (smiling gently at her partner) Or the color of rainwater as it falls to the ground. Go on, Anna. I'll be fine.
Anna: (smiling) Ok.
As Anna walks out, Raina looks over towards the window and sees a drop form. She smiles at the irony of the moment, but deeper in her mind the smile comes because Anna and the others still like her and they've forgiven her for everything she's done, though she may not have been in control. Raina smiles because she knows that we has happened had to happen, but she's grateful that her friends were beside her.
After a few weeks, Raina is feeling well enough to be up and moving around, and she's called to the Death Room along with Raina. Lord Death reveals that he decided to let Anna have Kaida's witch soul, because she was the main one fighting Kaida. Anna smiles broadly and swallows it down. Raina comments that there are only 99 kishin souls they have to fight now until Anna can become a Death Scythe, and they both laugh.
They've done it backwards. Black*Star yells at Raina and Anna for getting the soul that should belong to 'their god,' Liz, Patty and Kid congratulate Anna while Soul and Maka talk to Raina. She says she's sorry for everything and Maka brings her into a hug, bringing Soul and everyone else in too.
Raina, in the middle, smiles. 'Here,' she thinks, 'is where I belong,'
This, my dears, is the end. A little cliche, I know, but it was dragging and it was time to end it. Probably a really bad ending, but whatever. I'm going to release another Soul Eater story soon, and it won't be as long as this. This one was 101 pages on a google doc.
