An Escape. (A Soul Eater fanfic)

Orange Juice and Nightmares Cont.

Orange Juice and Nightmares Cont.

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*Flashback*

This time, it was Kidd who miscalculated. He'd finally mustered up enough courage to try and plant a small chaste kiss on her forehead, but it seemed that she'd tilted her head up rather significantly.

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So, naturally, it came as a surprise to both of the teenagers when Kidd's lips met Maka's.

Yet, neither pulled away.

Both of them remained in their positions, unsure how to respond.

Kidd pulled away first, and even in the dark his cheeks glowed a fierce red. "S-sorry...I didn't mean t-"

"I-it's fine." Maka herself couldn't keep her voice from wavering as she shakily touched her mouth.

"I'm, uh, going up to bed now," stammered Kidd, and the couch springs sounded again as he rose to his feet and quickly made his way upstairs to his room.

Maka briefly wondered if he could see in the dark, as he bumped into nothing and didn't appear to be disoriented at all.

"...I didn't mind it..." she added quietly to herself, sighing and curling up on her side.

She soon fell asleep, dreams running rampant with the multitude of things that had happened in the past week.

In the dead of the night she was awaken by someone shaking her shoulders roughly. Groggily, she pushed herself up on her elbows.

"Kidd...?" she muttered, rubbing her eyes.

"You only wish it was him, sweetheart."

As if by magic, the light flipped on, and sitting cross legged on the coffee table in front of her was someone she'd never seen before.

"Who are you?" Maka demanded, swinging her legs over the edge of the couch and rising to her feet.

"I am nothing, dear. Simply your imagination. Is that what you wanted to hear?"

Her eyebrows furrowed and she studied him intently.

"You don't know me, Maka, but I know you. I know everything, from what happened to your mother to what just happened between you and Death the Kidd up there." He jerked his thumb upwards, a sneer taking shape on his pale face.

"Who hired you?" was her first question, but the man simply laughed loudly. Maka tensed, and as if reading her thoughts he stood on the table with his hands placed proudly on his hips.

"You needn't worry about waking up your friend. He's dead, after all, so how could he possibly hear you?"

Before he could finish his sentence she'd dashed upstairs, and upon opening Kidd's bedroom door found a bloody, mangled mess.

"Kidd!" she shrieked, kneeling beside his body and shaking it. "Kidd, wake up! Kidd! Kidd!"

"Maka!"

"KIDD!"

"Maka!"

She shot up straight, gasping for air. "K-Kidd..."

"I'm here. It's alright. What on earth happened?" He removed his hands from her shoulders, and stood up to go turn the lights on.

"I...I'm sorry...did I wake you...?"

"I'm not going to lie. Yes, you did. I thought you were being murdered down here or something!" Kidd sighed in relief, plopping down next to her on the couch.

"I might as well have been..." she muttered, cradling her face in her hands.

"Maka, what happened? Did you have a nightmare?"

"I guess you could say that...blood has the strangest color...it's a little different in every person. Yours was really, really, really dark..." She began to shake at the recollection.

"Mine...? Oh, Maka..."

"Everyone I've ever trusted ended up dead or hurting me!"

"...ended up dead..."

"Everyone..."

"Maka, I won't be dying anytime soon."

"I know...I just...it was gruesome, Kidd...Terribly so...I can't get that image out of my head..."

Kidd paused for a moment. He'd never really experienced a nightmare-besides a few symmetry mishaps. Like that sarcophagus and the mummy inside.

Disgusting.

"Get ready," he said, throwing a glance in the direction of the stairs. "We're going out for a bit."

Maka didn't argue, scurrying up to her room. Moments later she ran back down, only just then noticing the time.

"It's three in the morning...where are we going...?"

Kidd stifled a yawn and grabbed his car keys off of the counter. "Secret."

"It's so pretty..." Maka murmured, mesmerized by the still operating fountain complete with rainbow lights.

"It runs all night." Kidd smiled. "I don't think you ever got a chance to see it when it lights up."

In response, Maka shook her head. "I wish I had earlier...it really is amazing..."

Kidd continued to smile, glad to see that she at least seemed to not be thinking about whatever her nightmare was.

"Um...Kidd?" She asked timidly, fingers twiddling and feet shuffling.

"Yes?"

"I know you're probably getting sick of hearing this...but thank you. I don't know how I can ever repay you for all you've done for me."

"And to think, I almost ran you over."

"If you hadn't I probably wouldn't be here. I wouldn't have a school, or friends, or a cru-ahem. Family." Her face pinked. 'Fuck.'

"A cruahem?" Kidd raised an eyebrow and folded his arms. "I'll subtract the 'ahem'. A cru? Do tell me, what is a cru?"

"It's...another way to say family..."

"In what language, may I ask?"

"....Dutch?"

"I studied Dutch a few years ago, Maka."

She squeaked, her cheeks growing redder by the second. "It was nothing."

"Then why are you getting so worked up over it?"

"I'm not! Shut up!"

"Fine, fine. I'll coax it out of you eventually." Kidd held his hands up in surrender and sat down on a bench. Maka stood with her arms crossed in defiance for a few seconds more before sighing and plopping down next to him.

"...as I was saying. Thanks." Maka cleared her throat. "You really didn't have to take me out just because of a nightmare..."

"Nonsense. We can't have you being forced to lay in bed and think about it, can we?"

"...I suppose not."

They lollygagged in the park for a while longer before the sun began to peek over the horizon. Kidd drove them home, where a tired Maka immediately fell asleep on the couch.

An almost equally as tired Kidd stayed awake a while longer to make sure her nightmares did not trouble her, before venturing into dreamland himself.

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Plot development on the way, folks! Sorry about the mindless fluffy fillers!