AN: This is an idea I had when re-reading the last couple of chapters of D Gray-man that sort of evolved into a semi-headcanon and I just had to write something that expressed that idea. Just think about how little we actually know about Bookman and his last apprentice (just that he apprearantly had one) and how he was involved with the Noah and also how little we know about Allen's past and his involvement with Neah.
Sheril's tone was mocking as the other Noah, Fiidora loomed threatingly over Jr. As if to enhance the thought of what he already knew, that Fiidora's parasites were infecting his current apprentice.
"You wouldn't want to lose another successor at that age … would you?"
Well, the Noah didn't know of course that even if he couldn't reach his former apprentice at this point, he wasn't truly as "lost" as they thought he were. He wasn't dead after all and as long as he wasn't dead there was still a chance he would remember. Not that Bookman harboured any significant hope that he would. The Fourteenth's memories would in all probability override his before he had a chance to remember his own.
Well, he supposed it was only a technicality really. His apprentice was "lost" in a sense even if it weren't in the way the Noah thought. But with the Fourteenth slowly taking over it was only a matter of time until he was lost for real.
Bookman couldn't even really be mad at the Fourteenth since his apprentice had given up his body completely willingly and to get mad would mean getting just as involved as his apprentice had been and he'd sworn not to get too involved because of that very incident.
Now, even if his worry for Jr. (for Lavi) overrode most of it, he couldn't help but feel a little smug in his superior position of knowledge. Not that he wasn't always in a superior position of knowledge but this particular piece of knowledge was something personal, something special.
He had gone to great lengths protecting this knowledge and keeping it secret to protect his former charge while he went through the vulnerable years of childhood once again. Not even Cross Marian knew. It was the only piece of knowledge he'd allowed to become more personal than business, the only "ink" he'd allowed to get to his mostly buried emotions. He feared Jr. was starting to make it past his walls as well which worried him to no end, he didn't want a repeat performance.
He would bide his time. Wait for a more opportune (or more desperate) moment. He would sit on his knowledge for as long as possible. To protect the Fourteenth.
To protect Allen Walker.
Bookman is totally old enough to have had 20-ish year old Allen as his apprentice 35 years ago.
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