"WHAT?! HOW CAN MAKA'S BLOOD BE BLACK?!" Soul yelled.
"Soul, don't be so loud we don't want Maka to hear."
The door creaks open and the scared face of Maka appears. "What? What's this about my blood... being black?" She whispers so they can barely hear her.
"Oh, shit. Maka i didn't mean for you to hear that..." Soul reaches out for her hand but before he gets close enough, Maka slowly sinks to the ground.
"Is it true?" Again she whispers where they can hardly hear her.
"Maka I-"
"IS IT TRUE SOUL?!" She is trembling but manages to seem like she is angry for them not telling her. Inside she is begging for not to be true. For all of this to be a messed up dream.
Soul opens his mouth to answer her but Stein beats him to it. "Yes. It's true." Maka slowly takes her phone out of her pocket. She types something in, then puts it back. She stands up and walks back to where she and Marie were talking.
"Will the baby be alright?" Soul asks Stein without turning to look at him.
"I-... Soul, I used to know almost everything about science. I now don't."
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"Maka. Lets go home." Soul leans against his motorcycle as Marie walks Maka outside.
"Soul, why don't you go home for now? I will bring Maka home later. What she needs right now are some healing wavelengths and her best friends." Marie rubs Maka's shoulder. Soul looks at his partner's face. Instead of having that scared look that he hates to much, she has no expression. This scares Soul and instead of arguing like he usually does, he hops on the bike.
"Bye Maka. Love you, see you soon." He speeds off and Marie understands why he left so suddenly. She saw the look on his face once he saw Maka.
"Mommy?" Marie turns her head when she hears the small voice from the house.
"Go back inside to your father. Mommy has to help her friend feel better." She smiles at her child.
"Does she have a tummy ache?"
"No, it's more like an ache in her heart. But it can be fixed just like when you get over being sick." Marie leads Maka over to her car and opens the passenger door for her to get in. Maka climbs in and buckles her seatbelt. Marie walks over to the other side and does the same thing. She starts the car and looks over at the poor girl.
Maka has tears running down her cheeks and she is now shaking violently. "Oh Maka. Everything will be alright." She leans over and hugs her.
They drive to Kid's mansion and Marie knocks on the door. Kid answers but Marie refuses to tell him anything. "Just get Liz and Patty please."
"Fine. LIZ, PATTY, DOOR!" He steps back right as Patty comes barreling down the stairs, pulling her sister down after her.
"PATTY! PLEASE STOP PULLING YOUR BIG SISTER DOWN THE STAIRS! I MIGHT FALL!" Liz screams at Patty but still ends up falling. She falls on top of Patty and they both tumble down. When they hit the floor, Patty is standing on Liz like she is a skateboard. Patty makes her both hands into a gun and pretends to shoot with her pinkies.
"KYAHAHAHA! I'm Kid! I'm Kid!" Patty continues to cackle even when Liz tries to stand and knocks her sister off of her back.
"Liz, can I talks to you please?" Marie politely asks the angry blond. Liz rubs her back and walks over. She raises a questioning eyebrow. "Look in the car." Marie jerks her head over to where Maka is sitting. Liz gasps and runs back inside.
A few minutes later they hear, "Hey! Liz I was watching that! That show has all sorts of symmetry in it!" Liz reappears pushing Kid. Rolling her eyes at Kid's complaints she pushes him out the door.
"Go. We are going to have a girl's day. Don't believe me? Look at poor Maka." Liz points at the car and Kid nods. He pulls out his skateboard and flies away on it.
"Bye bye Kid! Kyahaha!"
"Tsubaki gonna come?" Liz asks.
"Yes. Maka texted her before she broke down. Poor thing. She got the most terrible news this morning. I'll tell you all later." Liz just shrugged, but asked no more questions. She understood that Marie didn't want to tell her without Maka saying it was okay.
They set up the living room for a small sleep over. Liz and Marie put out piles of blankets and many buckets of snacks. After finally stopping Patty from stealing them all to use them on her pillow fort, Liz walked to the nearest store to get sodas and a bottle of wine much to Marie's protests. Patty behaved while her sister was gone, but as soon as she came back Patty had stolen three blankets and was coming back for more. They ended up tying the pistol around a marble column in the ball room where they often throw parties.
"Geez Patty, I thought you would be more cooperative because of Maka. I guess I was wrong... Huuhn, I really wish Tsubaki would get here. She always does the most to help." Liz rubbed her back that had stopped hurting from Patty standing on her but now hurt because of bending over so many times. "What am I going to do with you Patty?"
"Untie me?"
"No way in hell."
"Aww..." Patty pouted and wiggled around trying to get comfortable.
"And don't even try to transform into a gun! If you do we will tie you back while you are a gun so if you transform back, you will get crushed! You will become a squeezed Patty! Pattyade!"
"What? Sis I don't know what you mean by 'Pattyade'."
"Lemonade, Pattyade. You know how we squished lemons to make Kid lemonade after he fell off his skateboard? That dear Patty, Is what would happen to you if you transformed to get out. Now don't even try." Patty was going to say something back but just then someone knocked on the door. Liz turned and ran to answer it, leaving her sister to sit alone. Liz opened the door to a very distressed Tsubaki.
"Where's Maka?! Is she okay?!"
"Just come in. We will get Maka as soon as the living room is all set up. We are watching The Three Stooges tonight! That has to cheer her up." They both rushed inside and Tsubaki started to fix a spot for Maka on the couch while Liz got money and stuck her feet in some flip flops. "Heh, forgot to get ice cream while I was at the store. Oh, don't let Patty escape! She's in the party room." Liz said before she rushed out the door. Before the door closed, it swung back open. "Uh I need to ask what every one wants."
"Vanilla."
"Ok... MARIE! WHAT KIND OF ICE CREAM DO YOU AND MAKA WANT?"
A muffled reply echoed down from the stairs, "STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE!"
"Alright! Patty is easy because she just wants one with a lot of colors... Sherbet with sprinkles should be good. Sprinkles added by none other than moi." (Moi is french for Me)
Liz eventually comes back with pints of ice cream and one gallon of vanilla. Tsubaki looks at her questionably, "The gallon is for shakes or sundaes for later on if anyone needs more. Sooner or later it will just be for me when Kid is yelling at us both to become more symmetrical."
Maka and Marie comes down the stairs when they were ready. They all noticed how lifeless she was. "I'm worried about her. My healing wavelengths have done nothing." Marie helped Maka sit down on the spot on the couch Tsubaki had decorated in pillows with. She then sat down in the chair next to Maka and put her head in her hands.
"Maka? Do you want to tell us what's wrong?" Tsubaki sat next to her and wrapped her arms around the small girl.
"Wait! Don't say anything yet, I still need to untie Patty." Liz ran off to get her sister. They came back with Patty glaring at Liz before sitting on the floor in front of crayons and a coloring book.
Maka pulled her knees up to her chest and said quietly, "My blood is black."