Ficlet: "Eh?" (Soul Eater, Shinigami-sama, Kid, Stein)

[terajk]

Title: Eh?
Rating: G
Fandom: Soul Eater
Characters: Shinigami-sama, Death the Kid, Franken Stein
Word count: ~300
Note: Spoilers for the most recent chapter of Soul Eater NOT! Although I can't imagine anyone is surprised.
For: nenena, whose headcanon is TRUFAX.

His son really is strange sometimes. Right now he’s standing at a mirror, gripping Stein-kun’s hand. (Stein-kun waves politely, a cigarette in his mouth.)

“Father!”

“Eh?”

“Explain to me why this idiot has a PhD in Eighteenth-Century French Literature.”

(“This idiot gives you grades, remember." Stein-kun takes a drag on his cigarette.)

Shinigami-sama is...nonplussed. “Shouldn’t you ask him?”

“But he doesn’t have a medical license!” Kid says.

Now the boy is just being silly. “Of course not. He doesn’t even have a medical degree. What part of ‘eighteenth-century French literature’ don’t you understand?” (Stein-kun laughs.)

“But Father! He’s a doctor.”

“Uh-huh,” he says patiently. “Of eighteenth-century French literature. He wrote his dissertation on the Marquis de Sade.”

“ What,” says Kid.

(Stein-kun jerks his thumb. "Can I fail him retroactively?")

Good grief, this is worse than the clowns. Still, he tries to be gentle; after all, he is his father. “Now, really, son. Stein-kun’s PhD defense is famous. Everyone there threw up.”

(“Well, I can only take credit for about a third of them,” says Stein-kun modestly. “The others threw up because they threw up.”)

After a pause Kid says, “Damn it, Father! Why are you so calm about this?” 

“Why aren’t you?” He knows it’s a stupid question as soon as it leaves his mouth.

(“Eh, don’t be too hard on him, Sir,” says Stein-kun, smiling. “We can discuss The 120 Days of Sodom in detention. Maybe I'll even show him the movie--to prove there's no hard feelings and all.”)

"Well then!" Shinigami-sama says. "Carry on."
 

 

Comments

[nenena]

omg omg omg

This is EXACTLY what I needed today. It is hilarious and perfect and I love the way that you write Shinigami-sama's and Kid's personalities bouncing off each other and Stein being so perfectly blasé about the whole thing. I rarely actually laugh out loud when reading fic but I did twice with this one. THANK YOU SO MUCH eeeeeeeee! This is so perfect!