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After a while, Maka had to leave. She was a busy woman after all. Waiting and watching for nothing to happen all day was a lot of work. In all reality, she just needed to have a talk with Kid. She closed the door and turned to see Soul, leaning against the wall facing the room. Marie and Sid were gone.
“I'm going to see Kid,” she explained, walking down the hallway, “you coming with?”
He got off of the wall and stood there for a second. “Sure.”
After walking through some stairwells, Soul broke the silence between them.
“So are they out of it?”
Maka stopped in her tracks and sighed, turning to face her weapon. “Yeah. And it wasn’t even how they were when we were kids. They just seem different.”
“Yeah.” Soul paused, shoving his hands in his pockets. “That’s as much as I expected. Crona’s always been a bit off.”
Maka continued walking while still keeping the conversation alive. Soul followed. “I mean back then they were shy, sure but I dunno. They just seem different.”
“Well they were on the moon for like 6 years, Maka. I doubt that they’ll be fine.”
“They started to dig their nails into their hand, they started to bleed, Soul! And they were talking about how they need to be punished or something.”
“They’re probably just feeling bad for betraying you. Just give it some time, they barely came back only a day ago-“
“Wait, they were back yesterday and no one told me?!”
“Well I kinda just found out. Might wanna bring that up with Kid.” Soul laughed dismissively. “But just give them a bit. They’re probably super confused and in shock.”
They reached the end of the stairwell and headed out of the dungeon. “I hope you’re right.”
They headed to Kid’s place. The discussion of Crona must have triggered something in them because then they started to discuss other nostalgic things.
“Remember Kilik?” Soul had said.
“Oh yeah! Whatever happened to him?”
“Last I heard he moved to New York. Dealing with some stuff there.”
“Huh, he was always so nice.”
The two approached the door and Maka knocked.
“Yeah, oh, but did you hear about Kim and Jacqueline?”
“I remember them! Did something happen…?”
“Apparently they’re married now?”
The door opened, “I knew those two were into each other! Kid owes me like 10 bucks now!”
Kid leaned against the door frame. “I owe you what?!”
“Kim and Jacqueline are married! You lost the bet!”
“Damnit! Ugh hold on…” he dug into his pockets, searching for some spare cash. “What do you guys need?”
“Oh yeah, I need to talk to you about Crona.” Kid pulled out two fives and handed them to Maka. She accepted graciously.
“What about them? Wait, come in first.” He moved out of the doorway, letting her inside. Soul followed. He closed the door. “What’s up?”
“First off, how long has Crona been back?”
Kid sighed and shook his head. “Honestly I don’t really know. A couple weeks ago there was some activity with the moon, Stein told me that, but honestly I’m pretty out of the loop here.”
“How tough? Aren’t you kinda like the head of things?”
“I think some of the older staff isn’t telling me everything. I just found out that Crona was back this morning.”
Speaking of time, what time was it? Even though Maka could definitely waste a couple hours, she felt as if she had to hurry up. “Can Crona stay with me?”
Soul spoke up. “Maka I don’t think the house is the best place for them right now.”
“Well I don’t want them to be down in a dungeon! That place is cold and filthy.”
“Not to interrupt, but they won’t even leave the room.” Kid said
“What do you mean?”
“Well… this morning when I found out I went to visit Crona. They kept looking out the window so I asked them if they wanted to leave the dungeon but they didn’t want to.”
“Really?!”
“Weird.” Soul said.
“Also I think they got into an argument with BlackStar.” Kid told them, he turned towards the hallway “Hey Star?”
“YEAH?! Hold on-“ BlackStar came tumbling out of the hallway and walked up to Kid. “Whatcha need?”
“You and Crona got into an argument right?” Kid affirmed. BlackStar nodded his head.
“Yep! I came in and they just kept yelling at me to get out! Like, “Leave me alone! I don’t want you here,” or something.” He shouted, his voice cracking when imitating Crona. “Then Ragnarok came out and those two argued.”
Ragnarok? Maka almost forgot about that little parasite. Last time she saw him, he had grown from his small state. What did he look like now?
“-so yeah I just left.” BlackStar finished. “Why’d you ask?”
“Just seeing how they were with you.” Maka said, turning to Kid. “So you think some of the staff isn’t telling you everything?”
“Oh I know they are,” Kid said, smiling slightly, “I just don’t know why.”