C7

Noire's p.o.v

I looked over at Kid and waited for his answer with a smile. He shrugged. "No, I am just taking you out for ice cream."

"Uh huh. Ok." I looked out the window and started thinking about Medusa. She couldn't be a witch....right? She doesn't seem bad and she looks sweet....I looked back over at Kid and sighed. Should I tell him I went and talked to her again after I didn't have to? He might get upset and then there goes the ice cream....But then again he has been passive lately besides last night....after I pranked him....Dunno. "Hey Kid?"

"Yeah?" He asked and looked at me.

"What do you think about Medusa?"

"I don't know what to think about her just yet."

"Do you think I should stay away from her if I can?" I looked down at my hands in my lap.

"Yeah, considering what was in those letters... I want you to before we know what is going on."

"So....don't go hanging out with her because I can."

"Your obviously not taking those letters seriously Noire and that might get you in deep trouble. Stay away from her, got it?"

"Yes sir." I bit my bottom lip and looked at him.

"It's for your safety Noire."

"Uh huh." I looked out the window. Then no, don't tell him about where I went while he was training. I'll let him guess I was at the library.

"Thank you." He pulled up at the ice cream shop and got out going to the door and held it open for me. I went in and smiled at him.

"Sure thing Kid," I giggled and we got our ice cream and sat down. "So how was training?"

"Great." He smiled. "What did you do while I was training."

"Not taking letters seriously." I mumbled.

"What?" He leaned in. "I didn't hear you to well."

"Nothing Kid. Don't worry about it." I smiled at him and took a bite of my ice cream.

"If you say so." He smiled and stretched.

"Yeah...you're better off not knowing." I smiled at him and leaned over, giving him a kiss.

"I will just ask my dad, knowing him he most likely knows."

"Damn it....If he says anything..." I mumbled and took another bite.

"Uh huh... I wonder how Black Star and Fade are..."

"Well, their night probably went something like 'my love! Don't hit me with those pillows! I love you too much and those pillows hurt! You're so cruel to me!!!!' and she probably knocked him off the bed with one. He probably spent today getting back some of his dignity from having to sleep on the couch. Fade probably spent today by quietly watching him, making sure he wasn't up to anything." I giggled.

"You have it all worked out in your head don't you?" Kid chuckled. "Soul texted me, said something about he landed in Italy over an hour ago with Maka."

"Oh? Any purple headed people to greet them?" I smiled at him.

"Nope, nothing at all. Not even in the news."

"Interesting. Maybe Fade scared him off?" I looked into his eyes and leaned in giving him a kiss again.

"HMHM. Oh guess what, I never told you about what happened to Alexander and Thomas."

"Oh those two? Why weren't they at school today? They came back before I left...." I stayed close to him and watched him.

"They are grounded to the dungeon at DWMA for the next month."

"What did they do to deserve that?" I frowned and put my hand on the side of Kid's face.

"Read this note Stein caught them writing in class." He handed me a piece of paper. I pulled away from him and read it then looked up at him surprised.

"What?"

"Yeah, their a little in trouble with Lord Death and Black Star and I."

"I imagine they are bruised up then...." I set the note down on the table. I'll have to show Fade when she comes back from Japan.

"I don't know... I haven't seen them in a few days."

"Those weirdos....why would they want me and Fade though. Makes no sense. I'm getting tired of this...."

"I don't know, they were just having fun. I don't think they mean to harm you at all just steal you two and make you fall in love. But kidnapping is a crime so we locked them up for a month because of them thinking about nabbing you two."

"Boys are stupid." I sighed and put the paper in my pocket and looked at Kid then realized what I said. Oops. "I don't mean you though!" I said quickly and smiled nervously.

"You just mean boys like Thomas and Alexander, right?" He smiled.

"Black Star too."

"Yeah, him to. At least I have class. I know what a girl wants." He smirked. "Ice cream, anime, cookies, and a teddy bear."

"That's for me only though. Pretty sure Liz wouldn't want a teddy bear from her boyfriend." I giggled and leaned in kissing him. "You know me too well." I said when I pulled away. 

"Of course I do, I'm your boyfriend."

"You still know me too well. A gentleman, smart funny guy, and my boyfriend....triple threat." I giggled and took a bite of my ice cream again.

"It's a good thing I know you sweetie."

"Hmmm...I'd guess so. Yeah because it makes me not want to do this," I giggled and dumped the rest of the ice cream on his head and laughed.

"AHHHH. Noire why?" He narrowed his eyes at me.

"Because I wanted to share that last tiny bit of ice cream with you." I giggled and leaned in, kissing him. He got up and walked out the ice cream shop and to his car getting in it. Ok, bye Mr. Grumpy Pants. I watched and didn't move. He drove off after a minute and left me. Shrugging, I got up and cleaned up our mess and went outside. "Bet he's going home to take a shower and be pissed." I laughed and walked down the street to Natalie's place and knocked. When she answered, she squealed in happiness and pulled me in off the streets quickly.

"WANNA SPEND THE NIGHT?! NO, EVEN BETTER! A WEEK?!" She sat me down on the couch and went into the kitchen getting down the cookie jar and brought it out to me. "I have some of your old things brought over here along with the clothes you left at your mother's house. I went through it for you....I hope you don't mind." She set the jar on the coffee table in front of me and sat down next to me. "Oh and while you were busy with school, Travis and I started going out!" She giggled and hugged me. "God, I missed you. You never come here, like ever. I know that you've been busy but really....you need to visit your aunt Natalie more!" She pulled back from hugging me and looked at me with her hands on my shoulder.

"I will....Sorry about that."

"Awww, it's alright. Now, go wash up. You have street on you." She pushed me into a bathroom and walked off. Guess this little visit turned into spending the night....

Kid's p.o.v.

What the heck is wrong with Noire? It's like she has been trying to piss me off for... well a while now. You know what, I am done pushing it all aside. Dumping ice cream on me is where I draw the line. Not to mention the prank, trashing the house up to be asymmetrical, and much more but I am to mad to think about it. I walked into the house and took a shower as I thought of what to do with Noire. After a good hour of taking a shower I got out, dried off, and put on some clothes. I walked out the room and paused as I realized something. No Soul. No Black Star.... WHERE ARE MY OTHER BROS? I will have to just settle for them. Hmmmm.... I think I will go talk with Kendal. Yeah, get to know him better. I started walking down the hall when I heard Cori and Kyle's door open.

"KID!" Kyle said cheerfully as he walked up with Cori.

"What's up buddy?" Cori asked as they wrapped their arms around me.

"Wanna go out to the movies with us? Just guy time?" Kyle asked me.

"You know it'll be fun. We can plan revenge on the girls for their little prank they done-"

"Sure." I said simply.

"AWESOME! Let's go get Dave, Charles, and Kendal." They pulled me down the hall to the other boys and convinced them to come with us and we all ended up at the movies watching some action movie.

"I just thought of this, what about Soul and Black Star?" I asked the boys.

"Let's face it, they are probably getting their girl back as we speak. Especially Black Star." Kendal said and laughed. We all froze then looked at Charles.

"You. You helped the girls."

"They paid me with cake." He held out a hand. "Cake or notta helping one bit." Charles said in a cute unbeleiveable way. I raised an eyebrow.

"Fine you can get cake-"

"For a week."

"Boy this kid knows how to make a bargain."

"Deal." I said quickly. "I know what we can do." I told the boys. We all huddled together and I told them my brilliant plan.

Fade's p.o.v

"So....Want to go horse back riding for the evening?" Black Star asked from the blanket we were laying on in a field of flowers. He held up a grape from the picnic he had set up and held it out to me from his propped up position next to me and looked down at me.

"Sure." I smiled at the thought. I can totally out ride him and escape!

"Of course you'll be on a lead." He smiled at me and fed me the grape.

"Seriously?" I pouted.

"What if the horse gets scared and runs off with you and Kari?"

"I know how to ride a horse Black Star." I narrowed my eyes.

"I don't want to take a risk with you like that. Besides, you like playing run and hide." He smirked and fed me another grape.

"Dang it, you know me to well."

"Exactly. I know you better than you think I might know you. You've become slightly predictable to me."

"Ah!? I have?" I sat up and pinned him down. "Tell me I haven't."

"Why should I lie? I can tell that given a chance, you would run unless there was a really good reason to get you to stay like say....cookies." He held up a bag of cookies and smiled at me.

"You know what, I don't really like them anymore."

"Now you're just saying that to be mean. I made these myself." He pouted and looked away. "I worked really hard on these."

"You made them yourself?" I bit my bottom lip. "I guess I could try one."

"Nope, you said you don't like cookies anymore sooo..." He tossed the bag to the side of the picnic basket.

"Fine, I wont eat them." I licked my lips. "Yet."

"What was that darling? Why are you on me anyway?" He laughed and ruffled my hair, wrapping his arms around me.

"I cant be on you Mr. Star?" I moved off him and looked into the basket.

"You can be on me all you want. It's just that I thought you were going to eat that sandwich I made you in the basket."

"I'll eat it." I pulled it out and looked at him. "Do you want a taste?"

"Sure, if you don't mind." He propped himself up again.

"Too bad." I giggled and took a bite.

"And you see, I knew you were going to do that. Mrs. Predictable." He laughed and laid back down.

"Whatever. I don't think you know all of me anyways. I know I have not told or showed a lot of things to you yet."

"I've seen enough to know I love you." He looked at me seriously.

"I hope so." I mumbled and took another bite of the sandwich.

"So....horse back riding at sunset, and dinner made by me. What a romantic evening for the two of us." He laughed and grabbed the bag of cookies and opened it.

"Very much." I nodded and looked around. He took a cookie out of the bag and started eating it, watching me.

"You like Japan?"

"Yeah, I think it is beautiful here."

"Good, then I picked the right place for you." He smiled softly and took out another cookie and ate it.

"Are you teasing me with those?" I asked and narrowed my eyes.

"Maybe," he smirked as he took out another and started nibbling on it.

"Your such a tease. I'm leaving." I stood up and walked off with the sandwich as I walked towards the house. I was scooped up into his arms and he laughed, putting one of the cookies in my mouth.

"If you wanted one, all you had to do was ask." He smiled at me.

"Why do you think I wanted one?" I said after I ate the amazing cookie and then took a bite of my sandwich.

"One, you narrowed your eyes at me and asked if I was teasing, two you left, three you're craving them." He laughed as he told me the list.

"We might have a problem."

"Problem?" He frowned and looked at me then sat down on the blanket with me and kept me in his lap.

"If I keep craving them, then it wont be healthy for the baby."

"T-true....When you get further along, do you think you will want them even more and like...attack me if I try to make you eat something else?" Black Star wrapped his arms around me and put a hand on my stomach.

"Who knows, I never will understand because I don't have a mom to guide me."

"Well...there is Lord Death. He was in my shoes once upon a time or else you wouldn't be here."

"He isn't a mom."

"He's a dad. He had to help your mom through pregnancy. By the way, I don't have to start calling him dad right?"

"No, he is my dad."

"Some families are weird and make their son in laws call them dad." Black Star laughed and ruffled my hair. "Ok, well...I'll read a lot of pregnancy books and master them to try to be the best husband ever."

"Ok." I shook my head and laid down beside him. "You don't understand."

"What don't I understand? That I need to make sure that you actually eat your veggies? I'm making green bean casserole tonight for you so that way you have something healthy to eat besides raiding the cookie jar."

"Ok." I smiled. "I can't wait!"

"Alright. So what do you think those two are up to over in Death City? I'm pretty sure that Noire misses you and has done something completely unforgiveable in your absence." He laughed.

"I don't know, you stole my phone in the car and tossed it out the window."

"Because I got you a better one." He smiled and pulled out a new phone and handed it to me. "I put the numbers in it and such. Just don't go too overboard with not paying attention to me or it might get the same fate."

"Or you could just take my charger?"

"Or that." He shrugged.

"I win." I smiled.

"Yeah, I'll let that one slide." He smirked and started playing with my hair.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Oh nothing. Don't worry about it." He smiled and kissed my cheek.

"But I am.." I trailed off.

"All I meant was that I'll let you win this once." The phone in my hand run and I looked to see it was Lord Death.

Noire's p.o.v.

"Aunt Natalie! I can't spend the night! I only wanted to stop by and check on you and say hi!"

"Why not?!" She was cooking in the kitchen and looked at me with that spatula of hers in her hand.

"Because I made someone who is very important in my life very mad with me!" I crossed my arms. "Very mad. Like up and left on a date mad."

"He can wait certainly!" She frowned.

"Natalie, I'm getting married to him and he's mad at me. I don't know what he's doing and all I know is that I need to make it up to him. I wasn't even trying to make him mad on the date."

"Well....in that case I guess you should go try to make him a little happier with you...It sounds like he doesn't know you are here either."

"Exactly, he doesn't." I went up to her and hugged her. "I'm sorry Aunt Natalie...maybe another time?"

"Yeah, ok! You better come and visit me again soon ok?"

"I will." I smiled at her and gave her a kiss on the check and then went to the front door and left, running down the street to home. When I got there, the Kid's car was gone and I couldn't find any of the boys around. Well damn it. I frowned and went to Lord Death's study. "Lord Death? Where are the boys at?"

"Off to the movies." He shrugged.

"Is Kid alright?" I sat down in front of him.

"I don't know, he seemed pretty upset when he came in. He slammed all the doors." I winced.

"Damn it. I'm sorry Lord Death. It's my fault. I put a tiny bit of ice cream on him, messing around."

"It's fine." He shrugged.

"Do you think he might be ok when he comes home?"

"I don't know."

"So I should stay out of his way or try to make it better?"

"I don't know what to tell you sweet heart. Do what your heart and brain tells you to do."

"In that case...." I stood up and went over to him giving him a hug. "Thanks Lord Death." I smiled at him and ran out of his study, going to the kitchen and grabbed a cook book and flipped to the fudge section and started making cookies and fudge to leave out for Kid along with an apology letter. When I finished them, I set them in the living room and set the letter that was written on pink paper between the two plates and put a box with a ribbon on it in front of the three things. I had picked it up for him on the way home....I hope it will help him....I grabbed the red roses I had found and started making a path of rose petals to the living room from the door. Then inspecting my work, I smiled softly and walked upstairs to my room and went to my bedroom, locking the door behind me and crawled into bed, going to sleep.

Kid's p.o.v.

I walked up to the front door with the boys around midnight, had spent all day with them planning and doing guy stuff. Charles was knocked out and being carried in by Kendal. I walked into the front door and stopped when I seen the rose petals. Kyle and Cori whistled and pushed me towards where they lead into, the livingroom.

"OOOO, Go check it out Kid." Kyle told me and I followed the petals to the coffee table and picked up the letter after seeing the things on the table. The letter was of course addressed to me.

"Who's it for?" Dave asked.

"Me."

"Lucky man he is." Kendal said cheerfully and left us going upstairs and then the other boys followed. I read the letter that said:

Dear sweet Kid,

I'm sorry about earlier and I thought you wouldn't get mad over that. The house....well, I did clean it up after I was done messing with you and that was because you got too cocky. I hope that you calm down soon and when you do, I'd be perfectly happy to tell you this in person: I love you very much Kid. I'm sorry about today and yes, I did go see Medusa while you were training, but because you worry about it, I'm not going to do that again and I will limit my contact with her the best I can while still helping Dr. Stein investigate. Love you very much, and I hope everything turned out ok. Well....the cookies did but I make them a lot, don't I?

Love,

Noire

I took a cookie and ate it then smiled as I folder the letter up and stuck it into one of my jacket pockets then took the cookies and fudge to the kitchen and put it up then cleaned up the flowers and went back to the box and carried it up to my room going into it and sat the box down on my desk and sat down in my chair and wrote in my diary for half an hour before I looked at the box and opened it up slowly. A silver chain with a little comical soul pendent that had the expression of a smirk and a wink on it was in there. I laughed and got up walking over to my bed and laid it down on my nightstand then climbed into bed and covered up falling asleep.

In the morning, Liz shook me awake and smiled at me. "Hey, Noire made you breakfast. She asked me to bring it in here to you." She set a tray with bacon, eggs, and pancakes down on the nightstand and left me. I sat up and looked at the food then pulled the tray into my lap and ate the food. When I finished I walked into my bathroom and took a shower and got dressed in my usual for school. I brushed my teeth then walked into my room and grabbed the tray. I slipped the present from Noire into my pocket and walked off heading down to the kitchen and sat the tray down in the sink. I walked off to the front door and out to my car and drove off to school without a second thought about it.

When I reached the school I walked up the stairs this time and walked down the hall to class taking my time, then walked into Stein's class and took my seat. After the students filed in and everyone took their seats, the bell rang, but the seat next to me where Noire usually sat was empty. She is probably off at the nurses office asking that poor nurse a billion questions. Hmm... this reminds me something.  I looked over at Kyle and Cori then wrote down: Hey come train with me after class in the gym. I passed it over to Cori then walked out the classroom and down the hall to the dungeon and walked up to Thomas and Alexander's cells.

"Evening boys." I said when I reached them and took a seat on the stool between their cells.

"What are you doing here?" Alexander asked.

"I can't come check up on you two?"

"Well apparently you can do whatever you want and get away with it like cutting class." He said back.

"Of course. I came down here to ask you two something."

"Ask away."

"If I let you two go will you try to kidnap Fade and Noire again?"

"Do you want us to?"

"No."

"Then no."

"Great, want to be my friend again? I'll let you out if you two promise to be good boys."

"Fine I will. I'm tired of being down here." Alexander said. "You can have Noire."

"Excellent because I need you two for the best prank ever."

"Oh? I'm listening." Alexander laughed a little. Thomas came up to the door like he was interested in this conversation now.

"I'm gonna let you boys out. I'm gonna say you two escaped buttttttt really you haven't. You two are gonna go home and wait for further instructions. If you two don't cooperate in this I'll just catch and lock you back up by the way."

"Alright, you have a deal." Alexander told me.

"Deal," Thomas agreed.

"Great! Prepare for the biggest prank ever." I grabbed the keys from in my pocket and let them both out.

"See ya." Alexander grabbed Thomas and started dragging him down the hall. "You know where we will be."

"Yeah." I nodded and looked at the cells and then walked off to the death room to give my dad the news. My dad was sipping on his tea, talking with Noire who apparently wasn't questioning the nurse like I had originally thought. Noire's eyes widened when she saw me. I walked up casually and looked directly at my dad. "Hey, guess who slipped their chains and got free." I leaned across the table towards my dad.

"You? You know you need to be in class."

"Besides me." I frowned.

"Nope."

"Can't find the right answer?"

"I don't like the guessing game."

"Thomas and Alexander." I gave him a wink since he was in on the plan.

"Oh really? Well....We'll just have to search the city for the- This reminds me of the time James escaped and got the girls." Lord Death tilted his head. "I certainly hope they aren't going to try anything like he did."

"Oh we can't allow that. Black Star wouldn't be too happy."

"No he wouldn't be....Guess I will have to end their honeymoon to bring them back to safety at the manor and lock Noire up until we find the jail birds."

"Great idea." I looked over at Noire. "Hmmm she still is helping Stein though, guess we can't lock her up just yet. Noire your gonna have to just stay by my side until Stein don't need you." She paled a little and she almost dropped her tea cup.

"W-where's my say in this?" She set the cup down before she could accidently drop it again.

"What? Are you scared of me? I am your fiancé. Nothing will happen. I decided to forgive you for your behavior."

"Oh...ok then." She smiled in relief. "Glad you aren't mad anymore."

"I love you. That present was so sweet of you." She giggled.

"I thought you might like it."

"Come on we should head to class."

"Ok." Noire stood up and hugged me then pulled me over to the door.

"Oh yeah, Soul and Maka left some important stuff here so they are coming home." My dad said and I smiled.

"Oh ok." I pulled Noire out the room and down the hall to Stein's class. She kept ahold of my hand and leaned in giving me a kiss when we got to Stein's door.

"I love you Kid." She smiled at me.

"I love you to." I said softly and walked in sitting down in my seat. She sat down next to me. After class, Noire leaned over and kissed me then took the cards that Stein had put on her desk.

"I'll be really careful ok? You're number is the first one on my speed dial." She stood up and put the cards in her pocket.

"I'll be in the gym training, if your not there in half an hour I will come find you." I told her and kissed the top of her head.

"Ok, see you in fifteen minutes." Noire giggled and walked out of the room as Cori and Kyle walked up to me.

Noire's p.o.v.

I walked up to Medusa's door after reading the questions on the cards and went in. "Miss?" I looked at her when I had stepped in. "It's me again."

"Oh hello Noire." Medusa said and gave me a smile.

"Kid is training again, and I don't want to watch that so you don't mind if I hang out with you again right?"

"Sure, you can sit in here with me." I smiled and sat down across from her.

"Slow day?"

"Slow day. Yet I got a sick one today. He came in puking so I sent him home."

"Poor boy." I frowned. Alright, first question on my to do list: Have you always wanted to work here? Do it Noire. You told Kid fifteen minutes. "I was thinking about what you told me yesterday about wanting to work here because you wanted to see this place. Have you always wanted to work here or was it just because a job opened up?" I tilted my head and studied her.

"This wasn't my first pick but when I got word of the job opportunity I thought, why not?"

"Oh? What was your first choice then? Maybe I've heard of it." I smiled at her. Second question on my to do list cards.

"The hospital."

"Oh....then I've definitely heard of it." I giggled. "What about kids? Do you have any?" I questioned. Third question and a repeat from yesterday with mandatory written on the card.

"No, no children."

"Oh ok...." I frowned. Well....she said she hadn't dated anyone in a long time. Ok, moving on to the fourth question. "Well....you said you liked cooking with herbs yesterday. What do you like to make the most?" I relaxed into the seat and casually glanced at the clock. Been here for about....4 minutes? 7?

"Seasonings for my steaks I enjoy cooking. I cook a lot of them."

"Oh you like steaks then?" I smiled at her.

"Yeah."

"I bet they are awesome. I need to talk Kid into starting a herb garden instead of making me go to the store to get them." I laughed a little. Fifth question. "So anyways, my cat got ahold of a mouse a few days ago and- Oh wait a minute, I forgot to ask you if you have any pet snakes!" I looked at her in false alarm. "Oops."

"Hm? Oh I don't have any but I do enjoy them. I had a few when I was younger though."

"Did they ever catch mice?" I tilted my head. "Or did you have to buy mice from the store for them?"

"I bought mice from the store to feed them. Yet there was these rare times where a mouse would get caught and my mom would give it to me and I would keep it in the freezer until it came time to feed the snakes."

"Hmm....that seems a little hard to keep a pet snake." I tilted my head.

"It isn't like your normal everyday house cat Noire. It is a snake."

"I know. I just thought that maybe they were a little similar. They both have sharp fangs and such and they both catch mice." I bit the inside of my lip. Next question Noire. "When you say you used to have a pet snake, was there anything different about it from other snakes? Like a weird personality?"

"Nope."

"Hmm...maybe cats are the only pets that have weird personalities...." I looked down at the floor in thought.

"You should get a snake." I looked up at her in shock.

"R-really? You think that I would be responsible enough to take care of something as hard as a snake?"

"I could take you to go get one, if you think you are responsible enough. I think you are." I smiled at her sweetly.

"I'd have to think about it for a bit. That's a really big decision to adopt a pet."

"If you say so."

"Well, it's just that I have a cat that gets jealous easily and I'd rather not get another pet if she's going to be upset about it." I laughed a little. "Thank you though Medusa."

"Yeah, It's best to not get more pets if you have a cat like that."

"Yeah, but she's worth it." I giggled.

"Seems like it, you have been talking about her almost the whole time you have been here."

"She means a lot to me." I looked at her and smiled softly.

"Yeah." She nodded. "That's a good thing to know."

"Well, I think Kid's training might be almost done by now or it will be when I finally get down the hall. This place is like a maze." I laughed and stood up. "Thank you again Medusa."

"Don't thank me yet." She muttered. I stopped and looked at her.

"Hmm?"

"Come here darling." I felt a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, but I curiously took a step towards her.

"Yes nurse Medusa?" I tilted my head. She hugged me and gently moved my hair away from my eyes when she pulled away.

"See you tomorrow?"

"Y-yeah," I looked into her eyes and didn't move away until she did. She moved away and sat down in her chair.

"Good day Noire."

"Y-you too." I smiled at her and walked out of there and then broke out into a run to Kid. What the hell was that?! When I got to the gym, I quietly went in, dismissing it currently from my mind and went over to the bleachers to wait on Kid's training to be done.