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Contrary to popular belief, there were never any words exchanged between the two on those long train rides between missions. The journeys the two shared were always spent in comfortable silence with neither one uttering a word as they sat beside each other on those roughly upholstered seats in the dimly lit train compartment.
As the scenery rolls by and the train shakes, rattles, and bumps the boy and the girl sit still, not daring to move for fear of breaking the illusion. For these few precious hours they spend together they can pretend that nothing is wrong in the world. They can make believe that they are anyone on their way to anywhere. They can close their weary eyes that have seen too much and just imagine that they are an ordinary teenage boy and girl. And for a moment, it seems real but every time the spell is broken as the train inevitably stops and the two are delivered to the next site of bloodshed and misfortune.
It's always just the two of them on those train rides, just the two of them sitting in that dusty compartment, side by side with shoulders barely brushing. No matter where their imaginations or the train may take them, this is real. The tender glances are real, the "accidental" brushing of limbs is real and for now, that is all they need. Still, no words are ever exchanged between the two and none ever needed to be, they both knew. He feels her hair tickling his shoulder and he knows. She feels their fingertips lightly touch where their hands meet on the seat cushion and she knows. There they are, the cursed boy and the sheltered girl, these child soldiers huddled together on a train going nowhere, and as they share a fleeting glance, they both know.
A/N: Tiny drabble is quite tiny, sorry about the briefness. I'm not a huge AllenLenalee fan but they can be pretty cute together. I wrote this on the car trip from Montreal to Quebec city, it was inspired by 'Girls Who Play Guitars' by Maximo Park. Hope you liked it anyway, remember to review as it encourages me to actually write once in a while.