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On Relationships Ch 1: The Start

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"Liz, that story you sent me was beautifully written, but terribly sad! Do you know how long it's been since I've weeped so openly? DO YOU?" Kid said as he came into the common room of the first floor of the manor house.

Liz thought for a moment. "Well, there was this morning at breakfast when you got upset over seeing your reflection on the counter top," she suggested.

Patty giggled madly. "You cry all the time, Kid!"

"I... I do not!" He began to sob wildly in a bizarre mixture of anger and depression. "Why must the two of you seek to destroy my mental health at all times? What did I ever do to you?"

"Kid, I-I.. didn't mean anything by it," Liz stuttered helplessly, laying a hand lightly on his shoulder.

Patty sobered from her laughter fit. "Didn't mean to make you sad."

Now deciding to play the high-and-mighty route, Kid puffed his chest out and snorted. "You should both put more thought into your behavior, you know! Despite your opinion of my disorder being something hilarious, it's a debilitating mental illness that I struggle with every day of my life! I should think it would be handled with more care, thank you very much!"

"We do NOT find your OCD hilarious, thank-you!" Liz retorted, angered out of her previous concern. "I'll have you know it's exhausting and annoying trying to keep track of everything we do around you to try not to set you off!"

"Patty certainly does," he answered dully. After all, the younger sister did laugh uproariously at every fit he experienced.

Liz's eyes filled with tears. "I-I can't h-h-help it if we're n-not p-p-perfect like y-you want us t-to be," Liz broke off, the tears in her blue eyes cascading down her cheeks before she put her head into her hands and began crying in earnest.

Patty stood rooted to the spot and looked at Kid accusingly. "See what you did? You made sis cry."

His dry demeanor was lost, however, once Liz started crying.

"H-hey! Liz! Stop that! I never intended to upset you! I was just... You're not REALLY crying, are you? You're just trying to mess with me! I command you to stop crying this instant!"

"I can't stop, y-you jerk," Liz's muffled voice came from behind her hands, between sobs. "Y-you only l-like us when w-w-we're weapons. And w-we c-can't do a-anything r-right for you."

"That's not true and you know it!" he snapped, stomping one foot wildly on the floor, "I rely on the two of you for far more than firepower! The respect and admiration I hold for the unwavering faith you have in each other and ability for cooperation is unimaginable! Now stop crying right now! I mean it!"

Liz peeked out from between her fingers, her sobbing stopped, but tears still trickling down her cheeks. "W-what if I c-can't?"

Patty sat down cross-legged on the floor, watching Kid carefully to make certain he would make her sister better.

Kid just stared blankly at Liz, not quite sure what to do. Up until now, he was convinced she was just teasing him as she and Patty often did. He looked to Patty for some kind of help and, receiving none, he tried to speak as reassuringly as possible. "Seriously, Liz, I'm not really mad at you. I was just joking. You know, ha ha? Like how you and Patty do to me all the time?"

Liz took her hands away from her tear-streaked face. "But you s-seemed so m-mad. And I don't like it w-when you're mad at m-me so much. Not when I-I..." she blushed slightly, blinking rapidly and releasing more tears as she did so. She stared at the floor, not daring to look up into his golden eyes.

"That's just the way I seem, Liz. It's my natural behavior! You should know me well enough by now to know when I'm genuinely angry or not!" He slumped exhaustedly and sighed "Now I know why my dad started speaking in that ridiculous voice. It does tend to help lighten the atmosphere, doesn't it?"

He then looked at Patty for a moment, made eye contact, and silently seemed to agree with her that it was worth a shot. After that, he looked back at Liz and spoke in a bouncy, nasal voice while tilting his head to one side. "So let's put a big smile on that face and act like nothing ever happened, hmmmmmmm?"

Patty giggled from her seat on the floor.

Liz looked up at Kid, her eyes wide with shock. "Don't do that," she said seriously.

He tilted his head in the opposite direction and spoke normally again. "No dice, eh? I don't get it. Everyone loves it when my father talks that way."

"That's..." Liz replied, wiping her eyes of tears and smearing her makeup in the process, "...your dad."

Patty continued to giggle. "I liked it!"

A noticeable twitch ran through Kid's body. Oh, how he wanted to correct that horrible smudge! But now probably wasn't the best time. Instead, he threw on his own cloak and mask and asked, again in his weak attempt to imitate Death's voice, "What about now? Does it work any better this way?"

Liz glared at him, suddenly angry. "I mean it, Kid. Don't do that. Patty, stop laughing at him."

Patty abruptly ceased her laughter, blinking at her sister questioningly.

Liz sighed at the look on her sister's face, and the hurt look on Kid's as he took off the mask. "I-I'm sorry," she said, looking at the floor once more. "I guess I just don't feel right tonight." I don't feel right about not telling you, she thought to herself. When you say such nice things about me...

"You don't feel right?" A whole new wave of terror splashed over Kid at that thought. Grasping Liz's hands, he stared frantically into her eyes, searching her soul for any sign of illness. "What's wrong? Is it a cold? The flu? Cancer?" Turning to stare at Patty, he snapped "Quickly, Patty! Call 911! This is an emergency!"

"No, no, no," Liz said quickly, giving her sister a look that told her not to move. "It's not anything like that. I don't need a doctor." She reached her hand out towards his.

Patty looked back and forth between the two of them. She mumbled something about getting a hot towel and then took off towards the bathrooms.

"What is it then, if not a physical ailment? Is it psychological? Is that it, Liz?" He was now face-to-face with her, golden eyes huge with concern. "You're not letting Madness overcome you, are you Liz? Don't go down that road, Elizabeth! It's a dark tunnel with no way out!" He then shook her wildly by the shoulders. "FIGHT IT! FIGHT IT, LIZ! YOU'VE NEVER GIVEN UP ON ANYTHING ELSE IN YOUR LIFE BEFORE, NOW FIGHT!"

"Ugh!" Liz pushed Kid away from her roughly, standing back from him a couple of feet. "It's not anything like that, you idiot! You say I'm beautiful, and perfect, and all these nice things to me. But it's like ALL I am is a weapon to you. Not a girl or a woman or whatever."

She locked her eyes onto his. "But I AM a girl. A stupid, asymmetrical girl who l-lo-" Liz choked on the word and swallowed hard before continuing. "Who loves an annoying, son-of-a-bitch son of the grim reaper."

Liz broke eye contact, looking down again, unable to meet the gaze of his golden eyes. She held her breath. She'd told him. Said too much. What would she do if he rejected her?

Kid tumbled backward comically, rolling a few times before coming to a stop. Okay, so Liz was mad that he said nice things to her? How did that make any sense? Sure, HE didn't believe it when people said nice things to him, but that was because... because... well, he didn't have a reason at the moment, but there usually was a good one. But that wasn't the point right now.

"Of course I know you're a woman, Liz!" he snorted indignantly, blushing just a bit, "Forgive me if I'm unsure of how to act accordingly. Unfortunately, I've only ever lived with my father, so-" He stopped suddenly, staring in mindless shock at what she'd just said.

"You... Liz, I..." What the hell was he supposed to say to that? Especially considering the wrong thing would probably make her feel far worse than she already did. "Are you serious!" Yeah, that probably wasn't the right thing.

Liz looked up at him quickly. "Of course I'm serious! I wouldn't say something like that if.. if I wasn't." She faltered. She waiting for him to say or do something besides stare at her with that expression of his. Boredom? Disinterest? Tiredness? Shock? It was hard to tell with him sometimes, and she couldn't bear to look at him long enough to puzzle it out. After the silence had dragged on, she finally gave it up for a lost cause.

"Nevermind," she mumbled. "I'll just... go to bed and you can forget I ever said anything. We can start over in the morning." She turned to head back to her room.

"Liz, wait." While his social skills were often lacking, Kid was still an expert at regaining his composure after a shock. He was once again speaking calmly as he stood behind her and, leaning ever so slightly to the left, said "I don't intend to forget anything you've said. I'm simply confused. Nobody has ever said anything like that to me before."

His stance straightened and he furrowed his brow thoughtfully. "I honestly thought I drove you crazy. I don't see what there is that you'd find... well... lovable about me."

Liz froze at the sound of Kid's familiar voice. Something seemed to flutter deep down in her stomach as she listened to what he said. She half-turned to look at him.

"You don't drive me crazy," she said softly. "You're annoying sometimes, sure, but everyone has those moments. You're kind to me, and to Patty. And you always do the right thing, even when I'd chicken out. And I like it when you touch me, even in weapon form." Liz blushed.

"You like when I tou-" His entire face blushed a hot red at that and he quickly shook his head in a ridiculous attempt to bring the color back down. "Right. Well... Liz, I'm truly flattered! I just... I'm not sure how to react. How does one generally respond to this sort of thing? It's not that I don't share your sentiment, but... I never really allowed myself to consider such a thing..."

He thought about this for a moment before admitting "At the risk of sounding like Crona, I'm not sure how to deal with this."

Liz quickly closed the remaining space between them, leaned down and kissed him full on the lips before he could react, her lips lingering against his momentarily before she pulled away from him.

"Just... think about it for now, okay? And let me know," she said. Then, without another word, she disappeared down the hallway towards her bedroom.

Apparently this was a night for a lot of unprecedented behavior. With another wide-eyed expression frozen on his face, Kid was unable to do little more than gasp in surprise as Liz kissed him and simply watched her leave with a bewildered stare. He would definitely think about it, all right!

He continued to stand there like a deer caught in the headlights of an SUV until Patty returned with hot towels draped in her arms.

Patty studied the expression on Kid's face, and draped a hot towel over his head. He obviously needed one right now.

"Where'd sissy go?" she asked, looking around for Liz, another towel still in her hand.

"She went to bed," he answered, muffled underneath the towel.

Patty slouched. "Oh. Alrighty. I guess I should go, too."

She flopped the remaining towel over her own head and sighed with pleasure. Then she bounced down the hallway towards her own room, calling behind her, "Night-night, Kid. See you in the morning."
Chapter 1 of an episodic story about Death the Kid and Liz Thompson's developing relationship with each other. See how the two of them deal with Kid's lack of social skills and Liz's previous relationship experiences.

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Chapter 2: Acceptance

This story may or may-not be added to at a later date. As I write this, I currently have about eight or so chapters in total. This story focuses on the developing relationship between Death the Kid and Liz from Soul Eater. My husband and I wrote this together as our own take on their relationship, and the development thereof. We enjoyed the pairing of Kid and Liz, but thought Kid's lack of social skills would make for some hilariously awkward moments.

The chapters of this story have been adapted from roleplays and chats that my husband and I had together. Some parts are verbatim, with very few changes. Other sections have been almost completely changed or edited for content. It is rated M: there is nothing explicitly sexual in content, though their conversations do get pretty racy in some places.

This is a fun story to fuel my (and hopefully others') fandom of the Kid and Liz pairing. Would love to see what other people think of it.
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Love this!!!! So freaking much!!! :) <3