Chapter 10: You're Always Welcome at My Place

We've been sitting on the ledge of the building for what seems like hours. I was taking in the information slowly. The story I just heard coming from Lulu's own lips, it was horrible. To think she went with that, all that blood, horror and pain. I wanted to embrace her into a tight hug, comforting her and telling her everything was alright, but that would be a lie and I couldn't lie to her.

"Dagger," Lulu broke the silence, "You've haven't talked in awhile." She stated. "I understand if you don't want to be my partner."

"No!" I jumped to my feet, "Lulu everything you did was in the past. This is now and now you are a student of The DWMA nothing else! I don't care what you did back then, all that matters is now. I've decided from the moment we meant that I want us to be partners, equals. I came to learn to control my abilities and you came to atone for your actions. I think we can both help each other to accomplish that and much more."

Lulu remained sitting only looking down at the city streets below. "Dagger we can't do this we're both weapons. It's not allowed in the rules."

"Fuck the rules!"

Lulu ignored my remark, "I want to be partners, I do!" She finally stood and made eye contact. "Dagger I still have men who are after my head. I've done so many sinister things, so many I'm sure if there is a heaven, I'll be in hell. I'm an awful person!" Lulu screamed, she fell to her knees and began to shake violently and sob. "How could you want someone like me?! How Dagger?!"

I knelled down to her eye level. I took my hand and held her wet cheek and with my other I slapped her clear across the face. "You ask why?!" I screamed at her, "I don't care! My only reason is because! I don't care who is after you. I don't care who you were, what you did or anything at all!" Lulu stopped crying, she stopped shaking, she stopped moving all together. "We are partners from here and on! Till the end! If even one comes for your life they'll have to go pass me before they can even lay a single finger on you!" I pulled us both standing and I wrapped my arms around her in a tight embrace, "I don't care." I mumbled.

Lulu relaxed in my arms and wrapped her own arms around me, "Then I guess, we're partners huh?"

"I wouldn't want it any other way." I said.

I tightened my arms one more time and then let her go. We stood for a moment and looked down at the streets of Death City, "I hope those guys had stopped persuading you." Lulu said. Shit, she's right, I don't know if Soul, Maka and the others were still chasing after me. Well it is late, I'm sure they all went home. Or they all could have just gone to my apartment.

"Great." I sighed.

"Hmm?" Lulu asked.

"It's nothing," I answered, "I was just thinking that if they had stop looking for me, they all are probably are at my place waiting for me to get home so they could all jump on me with question and shit."

"Oh well, "Lulu said, "Do you want to go home, because we can go to my place and stay for awhile."

I looked and Lulu's face, "As nice as that sounds, I learned all time ago you can't run and hide away from your problems."

Lulu expression changed into something I couldn't identify. Had I said something wrong? I hope not. "You're right Dagger. If you want I can walk you home."

"You sure? I don't want you to go out of your way. For all you know you don't live anywhere close to my apartment."

"That's fine. I could spend the night there right?" Lulu asked.

"Yeah sure." I wrapped my arm around her shoulders, "You will always be welcome at my place."

We both got off the roof of the building and went to on the route to my apartment building. Even though she told me everything, it's still difficult to take in. We both have our own stories, our own sins and demons that will remind us of our past and with the path we chose there will be more to come. Rather new or old some nightmare cannot be erased or forgotten so easily. Perhaps with each other we can maybe protect one another. We can fight off the darkness together to preserve what little hope we have in ourselves.

This is how we had begun, with unlikely partnership, a forbidden promise. If only we had release what really we had brought ourselves into horrible events would have been avoided. I would had not been so rash and was able to safe my dear friend from myself.

(A/N)

Hey everyone. So sorry for such a long delay I meant to get back to writing once school was over however this summer had been a little hard on me. But I was able to at least get this chapter done. I know It's a little shot but more chapters are on their way.