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[heartandsoul]

Who: Maka + Kid + Rin + Whoever wants to come and visit at the Clinic!
When: Backdated to yesterday on the 29th of May, after Rin's network post
Where: THE CLINIC
Style: Action is preferred but I can change if you reeeeeally want to
Status: Ongoing, scenarios are listed under the cut!



[Scenario A:

Maka wasn't doing so well when she woke up--the last image in her mind was Asura's face looming, and the sharp, horrible pain of his hands breaking through her chest to the other side.

Oh. God. She's dead. It happened, she's dead. She couldn't save Crona or stop the Kishin.

So when she wakes, she's screaming, jerking violently around in her bed until she realizes that she's no longer on the battlefield. However, that does not mean her turmoil ends. Maka pats at her chest, realizing there's no hole, no pain, no Kishin, no Kid or Black*Star.

Where?

Then the memories of Vatheon flood back into her mind, signaled by her pressing her fingers to her forehead, hissing in pain.

...Ha. Hahaha. She's been here before. She's died here before. ...Where is Kid? Where's Rin? Has she finally succumbed to insanity, why does she feel nothing but fear and uncertainty? Where is the wound?]


[Scenario B:

"It's gone, it's not there anymore" was what she was told about the wound, though Maka is still lying in her bed jittering slightly at the memory, the feeling, was it real or was it not? She has so many questions, but all there is for an answer is overwhelming silence. She should be taking comfort in this silence, but it only drives her to wishing she could scream all the more.

But Vatheon. She's back in Vatheon. She had been taken away again and brought back with memories from her world leaving her hanging on a precipice of emotion, yet there were people she loved here. There was safety. Kid and Rin were here. It's all right, everything is all right.

Yet Maka still feels like she's going crazy. The trembling halts and all she is able to do is just stare at the blank white expanse of the ceiling.]

...I want to go home. Back to the villa.

[It's only a mumble to break the silence, but one thing at a time to bring back her peace of mind is what she wants at the moment.]

Comments

[heartandsoul]

Doesn't the consent of the host matter more than what the friends want?

[circumsutus]

Not if Lord Death asks for your revival. Your soul's too useful to go to waste.

[heartandsoul]

...I guess I have no reason to rest peacefully anyway after I'm dead. That's not what being a Meister is about.

[Well duh.]

[circumsutus]

Not until the world's at peace.

[Theirs not to make reply,/Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die...]

[heartandsoul]

Mhm.

[...Awkward.

She's going to artfully segue into another to--]

Can I have a hug, Professor?

[Nope, just more awkward.]

[circumsutus]

[Yeah, that's just awkward right there. Nobody asks for hugs from Stein.

But he'll oblige her, just this once, sitting down on the bed beside her and wrapping her in a rather awkward embrace.]

[heartandsoul]

[Awww yiss, professa hugs are the best.]

I...found out that I could resonate with Papa back at home.

[It was weird and ultimately wasn't that was needed to fight on but...at the same time she felt so much stronger than before. Strange.]

[circumsutus]

[He'll just hold her until she decides to pull away.]

The bond between a parent and child can be strong enough to overcome differences in personality.

[heartandsoul]

I felt strong and fast using him. But it didn't help Crona at all...he ended up being swallowed by the Kishin.

[No sorry, Stein, she's going to be leaning on you until you actually set her back herself. She needs the protected feeling right now.]

[circumsutus]

... you tried to help Crona by showing them the bond between a parent and their child.

[heartandsoul]

No, I was trying to get closer to him to talk to him, Papa was the one going on about a bond between a parent and a child.

[Come on Stein this is Maka we're talking about.]

[circumsutus]

[He doesn't know. Sometimes Maka takes after her father.]

Somehow, I'm not surprised.

[heartandsoul]

[Much as she denies it, yes she does.]

...It was moot anyway, Crona killed Medusa. And he's an idiot for going on about something like that to Crona of all people.

[circumsutus]

... Crona killed Medusa? [Stein was pretty sure he killed Medusa during that fight under the school.

That snake has more lives than Blair.]

[heartandsoul]

Yeah...that was what finally pushed him over the edge. I guess even stealing Arachne's body couldn't make Medusa live forever.

[Not that she knows Medusa was PLANNING to be killed by Crona. ???? WITCH LOGIC???]

[circumsutus]

I guess not. [Arachne wasn't even awake when Medusa died. Stein hates being from the past.]

It doesn't make sense for Crona to kill Medusa. That child doesn't have the sort of mind that would really be able to consider taking action against Medusa.

[heartandsoul]

I'm not sure what happened, all he said was that he killed her and...he'd take apart the world. He managed to disrupt my resonance with Soul, too, that's what led me to wielding Papa for the moment.

[circumsutus]

[A sigh. ]

That's a pity. I'd hoped that someone would be able to reach Crona. [Crona didn't deserve the abuse that Medusa inflicted, and Stein had thought that maybe, with care and friendship, Crona would be able to find a place to belong.

Maka you had one job]

[heartandsoul]

...[Ouch, Professor, that stings.]

I can still reach Crona. I know I can.

[circumsutus]

Maka, there are some fights that you're not going to be able to win.

[heartandsoul]

I am going to save Crona. I can still reach his soul!

[She shudders, mumbling to herself.]

I can...I can...

[And, finally, she begins to weep silently.]

[circumsutus]

[Right now, Maka probably needs a hug. It feels awkward, and he's not sure that he's doing this right, but Maka probably needs it.]

[heartandsoul]

Nnnn--

[Dammit. Why does she always feel so weak? She thinks she's gotten stronger but then it turns out nothing's changed at all...]

[circumsutus]

[He pats her awkwardly on the back, trying to comfort her. Stein's not very good at comforting.]

[heartandsoul]

[He tried, that's all that matters.

More than that, this is some truly childish behavior coming from her, and the fact that she's acknowledging it as such is scary. How is she supposed to grow and better herself as a person if she keeps crying like a spoiled child?]

I am going to destroy the Kishin. Even if he did kill me and it wasn't just an illusion, I'll kill him from beyond the grave. He's not going to get rid of me and I'm not going to give up on Crona.