I just wanted to get this thing up, so please forgive the shortness...

SO! It's the maybe-maybe not long awaited sequel to "When All Is Missing"! I'm picking up a week later from where I left off there. I suggest you READ "When All Is Missing" BEFORE YOU READ THIS! Otherwise, it will be very hard to understand.

I had a third degree burn on my left arm once... I was in the emergency burn unit for ten days, and then went to physical therapy and had to wear a glove over that arm for half a year... seriously, the info in here about burns is not completely accurate, but the fact is, five seconds of direct contact on coals did that to be. Allen had a while of NO coals, so there is a difference... but mostly, just praise Lavi for being able to control fire, cuz I don't think this would work well, being held back for half a year... Moa wouldn't like it either...

Oh, and if anyone's wondering, I glanced around my desk and the first book I saw was the American Heritage Dictionary, so... but it didn't exist back then, so that's why... ahah, I need more books 7.7

Oh, and the 'password' thing was stolen from one of the first Naruto chapters I ever read... in SJ. I'm not an active reader, I just read it cuz it passes time. Don't ask me to keep up on recent events, though.

Allen awoke several days later, his mini-comatose breaking much faster than his previous, certified coma. His body was wracking with pain from the beating he had taken from the guards and the stiffness that had overtaken him in the jail cell and the bruises the cuffs and bars had given him when he pulled and pressed against him. The burns were covering his whole body, whether or not his clothes had been burned in that particular place or not. The pain had apparently overridden his mind once his adrenaline had worn off, thus, the comatose.

Lavi and Lenalee had been carefully force-watering him throughout the whole time he was out, pouring small amounts of water into his mouth (obviously, with his head tilted up), being careful not to drown him, and stroaking his throat to make him drink. After the incredibly likely possibility of heatstroke in the fire, he needed water, whether he was conscious or not. They didn't have a needle, and it was too risky to take him to a hospital, and so, they had to go with the more dangerous, less conventional methed, which Lavi apparently made up on the spot.

Kanda often kept watch by the door when Moa was out, doing her job. She had been kept in the dark through most of her stay, though they had immediately asked her not to mention them to anyone at all, even after they left.

She had mostly understood. Being a police officer, she had gotten into several situations where simply having too much knowledge was deadly. Still, she had demanded some sort of information on their current situation if nothing else. Lenalee was silently thanking the God she utterly hated at that point, that Allen had made a friend whom would be this trustworthy and that he had managed to remember where her house was and take them there so quickly.

Moa had settled for Lenalee saying that Allen had been betrayed and the order had gone against him. She seemed satisfied with that much, at least.

Johnny spent his days working with Lavi to take care of Allen, and at every other possible time, mapping out important places and continuously checking on the mask that Moa had supplied for Allen. He painted it several times over to try and make it fit the color of Allen's pale face better, but to no avail, and they ultimately settled on white once again. Quite often, he spent his time sewing new 'uniforms' for the four exorcists, and even some sort of protection for himself. They looked not so much like the Order's coats, as they had no emblem and no special features, they were meant to be cloth protection and nothing else.

And the day Allen woke up, they began to plan their departure with him included.

"Where should we go first?" Lenalee asked, "But before that, what are we actually planning to do, Allen?"

"I was thinking we could find parts of Innocence independantly from the Order, maybe make a third force against the Earl and the Noahs," Allen explained." The Order has good intentions, but completely wrong ways of going about them... obviously," He hissed the last word sort of like an afterthought. Lenalee laughed nervously, knowing almost exactly what he was talking about.

"So what's first?" Lavi interjected. "Set up our own headquarters or become a dictator?" Kanda hit him over the head with Mugen for the horribly placed joke. Allen sighed.

"I thought we might want to just travel around a bit," He continued. "It's too early to make any big moves, 'cause obviously, I'm not in that great a shape and I'll be useless if we get into a fight any time soon..." To say Allen wasn't fine was an understatement of unimaginable proportions. His friends were careful to keep their distance. The incidents at Central had been too much and almost any physical contact set Allen off.

It was a nuisance, but it was something that had to be dealt with. He was fine with speaking and contact if he initiated it, but too much of anything and he would begin to be frightened and twitch away from anything that moved.

"If we declare ourselves too early, the Order and the Earl will find us. We should lie low for a bit and just kill Akuma as they come and collect innocence if we happen to find any," Allen finished. There were nods at this suggestion. It made coherent sense. It seemed pretty reliable.

"What if one of us gets caught, but the rest are safe?" Kanda piped in. Of course he would be the one who points out an obvious flaw.

"We get them back, duh," Allen said. "No matter what, none of us go on without the others, got it?" He said in a voice that sounded as though it had come straight from hell, promising any deserter a very painful repentance.

He blinked and shook his head furiously. They weren't going to become like the Order... but they had come along with him willingly. He wasn't about to let them off the hook if they decided to bak out at a very bad time, was he?

He steadied his head as his vision swam from the movement. He still wasn't quite composed enough to move quickly, and he was still reteaching his legs how to move. Burns, whether they be second or not, were definitely not good. Still, he considered himself lucky that he had managed to avoid touching the coals and was only slightly burnt by the flames, otherwise he's had third degree burns all over his body and most likely be immobile for at least a month.

"A-anyway," He continued hastily, noticing the odd looks his friends were giving him. "Maybe if we do get separated somehow, but in battle, not like abduction," He added even more hastily, "Maybe we should have a key word or something to know that no one else would figure out..." He said. He had read that in a story once when he was with Mana, or rather, Mana had read the book to him, in an attempt to teach him to be literate.

The others nodded, understanding where he was going with it. They all started tossing out suggestions. Heart, together, comrade, the complete dialogue of the American Heritage dictionary ("Lavi, one, there is no such thing, and second, a dictionary isn't going to have dialogue anyway!"), and about a million other random words and poems, including 'Komurin XVI', and 'soba'.

Allen hated to tell them that every single one of the suggestions was either stupid or really obvious to guess, so he just said, "Let's save this for later," and thankfully, that was the end of it.

There was some silence as they all debated within their own minds what to discuss next.

"...what about the Ark?" Johnny asked hesitantly. He wasn't much in the topic of strategies, as he was the only one who wasn't an exorcist, and thus not used to the complexities of combat, but he thought he should voice this particular concern. "Are we going to keep letting the Order use it?" He asked.

Allen blinked and looked over at him. "Well... I don't see why not..." He said quietly.

His friends all almost fell off of their chairs. "What do you mean?"

"If we let them keep the Ark open, they can find us easily!"

"It'll be easy for them to track us if they send troops all over the world!"

"How are we going to use the Ark ourselves if they're swarming it?"

"I knew they messed up your head, stupid beansprout!"

"ALLEN!" Allen yelled, temporarily stunning the others into enough of a silence that he could explain himself. "The Order isn't bad, just corrupt. If I close off the Ark, they wont have enough time to et to the Innocence we miss before the Earl. I'm not choosing who's better, I'm choosing to help the one who's not worse."

He took a breath, organizing his thoughts again before continuing. "Besides, the Earl can use his Ark too, if we give our Ark to the Order, then they'll at least be able to delay the Earl a bit. And I'm not going to close the Ark if there are people inside it!" He said, the last sentence clearly saying the argument was over. "Also..." He said, answering their unsaid question. "We can get to different parts of the world without the Ark. We can use trains and boats again. Even though we'll have to pay for tickets, we can always work and gambol for the money... there are reasons I learned half the skills I have, even if they seem useless to some," And then, the 'darkness' overtook Allen. Lavi backed away slowly.

"Hey!"

They blinked, and all eyes locked onto Johnny, who's sudden interjection had awoken them from their own world again. He blinked before realizing he had almost shouted. He covered his mouth and blushed softly before speaking.

"A-about the password, or name, or whatever..." Johnny said softly. "You want something easy to remember, but no one would ever imagine, right?" He asked. Allen nodded.

"Lucifer's Angels."

IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!!

I intend to try and keep this as close to anything plausible in the manga as I can imagine, so the Bookmen WILL play a roll, Lev WILL return and the Order is yes, taking a back seat, but it is still important. I WILL be going through this until the end of what I think will happen in the series, and so, I'm sorry, you're stuck with AlLena. BUT!! Before you stop reading, AlLena is NOT going to dominate this whole fic! This is remaining a FRIENDSHIP!!

But yes, the Heart will apear, and I am going to try to resist OCs as much as possible, but obviously, that's not going to happen completely. I'm still going to try, and if I can, I'll edit in all the main-stream characters that I can.

So, I'm going to say this now... I am going to make this something like I have NEVER written before, so please, give me as much critique as possible, and I will love you all forever! I'll try to keep the story going, but there will be those chapters where it's a full memory, or it's a sit-down-and-explain thing. Please don't hate me. I'm just trying to keep this story alive

Will you all stick with me through this one, too??

(Just to make you all realize how important you all are: I was sick for two days straight and this is what I was working on while I was supposed to be resting and catching up on my homework. THAT is how frickin important you all are to me!!... actually, I still have Lit to do 0.0 oh dear...)