"Franken, did you take your meds?" Marie called from the kitchen as she stirred a pot of beef vegetable soup. "Franken," she called again, drawing out the 'a' and 'e' of his name. "Don't make me force you to take them!"
"Uggghhhh," said a very tired and groggy Stein. His feet dragged across the kitchen tile, and he bumped his shoulder against the wall as he opened the refridgerator. He exhaled loudly and dramatically through his nose as he turned the bolt in his head. He turned his head over to see Marie giggling at his behavior and apperance. He needed to shave, and his loose- fitting white t-shirt needed to be washed. His glasses were even crooked and his hair was a complete mess. As for his behaviour, he had been acting like a child ever since Marie brought him back from the hospital a week ago. "I don't wanna!" Stein said pouting, which only made it harder for Marie to supress her giggle fit.
"Take your meds now, or I swear I will force feed you!" she said and threw a slice of a carrot at him. The carrot bounced off of his face and landed on the floor, his eyes following it as it rolled over to a shoe. No, not only a shoe, a leg, a body... And of course, a red head. "Hey, Spirit! I was just telling your big baby of a meister here to take his medication."
"Oh yes," Spirit said, "Here is the great meister, the most powerful man to ever graduate from the Lord Death's academy!"
Marie's face was now beginning to turn red from trying to stop herself from laughing so much.
"And oh, here he is," Spirit continued dramatically, one hand to his chest, the other raised poetically, "Being forced to take his medications by the evil Marie Mjolnir. How will he ever escape this terrible fate?" he asked, the pitch in his voice getting higher as he concluded.
"Yeah, you're laughing now, but just wait another week or two from now, and I'll kick your ass!" Stein said smirking. He pulled a bottle of water out of the refridgerator, then two bottles half- filled with pills from the counter next to Marie.
Stein opened the water bottle, then both of the two med bottles. He shook out one pill from the first bottle, then two from the second bottle. He popped all three of the pills into his mouth and swallowed it down with the water.
"Now that's a good boy," Marie said with a cute smile on her face as she patted Stein on the head lightly. He only stared out the kitchen window.
"You know, Stein, it's kinda wierd seeing you in something that doesn't have stitches all over it," Spirit said as he observed Stein's plain white t-shirt for a brief moment. He put his hands on his pockets and leaned to the right a bit until he was resting up against a wall.
Stein looked down and finally noticed how bare his shirt was. He looked up and gave Marie a questioning look, as if he were asking if looked any different without all of the stitches.
"You look fine, Franken," she said reassuringly as she added some chopped green bell peppers to the soup. "Spirit, would you like to stay for dinner?" she asked turning her head to the red head.
"Oh, no thanks, Marie. I've got to meet with Shinigami in a little while. By the way, Stein, Shinigami said that he wants you to stay home from class for the next week, and to feel better soon because the students miss you oh so dearly!" Spirit said, raising his dramatic act at the end of his sentance.
"I'm sure they do... So who has been substituting for me, anyway?"
"I have." Spirit said dryly.
"I bet Maka enjoys that a lot." Stein said as he smirked lightly.
"Hell ya she does, you should have seen her face when I walked in to class Monday morning! And Soul was practically jumping up and down in his seat and yelling because he was so happy! I bet your students don't greet you like that. Huh? Do they, Stein?!" Spirit exclaimed as he paced back and forth a few feet from where he was previously standing.
"No," Stein said as he twisted the bolt in his head, "they don't."
At that, Spirit began doing a little victory dance. "They also don't throw a bunch of trash at me and respect me." Stein continued.
The happy dance stopped. "EEEEEHHHHHHHHHH!" Spirit whined.
"And you said I was acting like a child...?" Stein asked Marie quietly.
"MY MAKA DOESN'T RESPECT MEEEEE! WHAT AM I GOING TO DOOOOO?!" Spirit continued to whine.
"Spirit-" Stein tried to say before Spirit cut him off.
"MY MAKAAAAAAA!"
"Spirit, shut up. You're giving me a head-"
"MAAAAAAKKKKKAAAAAAAAA!"
Then all was silent as Spirit was face down on the floor in the living room. "I told you to shut up," Stein said, his voice sounded heavy, and suddenly seemed exhausted. He was still leaning forward, with one leg in front of him and bent, and his hand that he used to unleash his soul was still twisted to the left and was slowly walked over to Spirit, and he reached his hand out as Spirit rolled over and sat up, waiting for him to take it so he could help his weapon up.
"So you had to hit me with your soul wavelength?!" Spirit exclaimed while he rolled his shoulders and dusted himself off. "Woah, Stein. You ok?" he asked after he noticed how Stein's head was down and his eyelids were drooping.
"Yeah, I should probably just go..." he inhaled and exhaled lightly then continued, "go lie down." Stein patted his friend on the shoulder then began walking toward the hall. "I'll see you later, Spirit."
"See ya, Stein." Spirit said before he went back into the kitchen and joined with Marie.