This story is written like a light novel, not a flash fiction. It is written from the prospective of the OC. If you don't like that, don't read it.

-Velvet

Finder Jump located his charge in the dining hall, of course. As he approached, Exorcist Star Johannes looked up from the report and dishes spread in front of her and smiled. She was short, curvy, and plump. Brown eyes, a pretty face, and Cupid's bow mouth.

"Hi, Jump." Star looked around but Jump was alone. "Aren't Mahoja and Gaia with you?"

"They're getting the details of your stay here. As well as the details of your meeting with Chief Komui." Jump started to sit across from her only to notice small mountains of bowls and plates stacked there. Wherever there wasn't one of the reports on recent Exorcist activity spread in front of her there was a dish or collection of dishes nearly cleaned of whatever food they had contained.

"Did you really eat all of that?"

"You know I did," Star said. "My Innocence is a parasitic type after all."

Jump laughed nervously as Star picked up a pair of chop sticks and plucked up a piece of gyoza from a nearby saucer. "Girl Exorcists with parasitic types must make all the boys very nervous about whether she'll watch her figure."

Star snapped the chopsticks like twigs, face darkening.

"Hanh?! You say somethin'?" Little bits of food flew out of her mouth as she shouted at him.

Jump shrank back a little, holding up his hands. "Nothing, nothing at all." Teasing Star might be dangerous, he thought. Jump stopped kidding around and sat beside her. He leaned over and read the title of the report she was reviewing. "Ah. The Ghost of Mater case. Not surprised to see you reviewing that one."

Calm again, Star said, "I've got a lot to catch up on and not a lot of time to do it. A hundred years is a long time to be asleep, you know."

"But technically don't you already know?"

"Sort of but it's all a little hazy…. So I'm playing catchup."

Jump scanned the titles of the open folders and papers.

"A lot of these reports are about Allen Walker's fieldwork." Jump waggled his auburn eyebrows at her. "Are you doing all this reading because you're secretly interested in him? You know, 'like that'."

Star stretched then smoothed her custom Black Order uniform. The big puffy sleeves trailed with mantle-like banners from her shoulders down her back but the body of the jacket with its standing collar was fitted, short, and trimmed in red. Adorned like any other Exorcist uniform, it covered a black halter top underneath. She wore matching black tights, embroidered pumps and a stretchy but fitted mid-thigh length black skirt that was also embroidered in a thick flourishing red design from hip to hem.

Star replied, "Who isn't interested in him around here. The boy Hevlaska prophesied as the 'Destroyer of Time'. Yes, I'm deeply interested in knowing what that's all about. Though I'm certain we won't know until the Creator is ready to show us."

Jump stared a little then smiled. Star's earnest candor never ceased to surprise him.

"Do you think Allen did the right thing in Mater? I heard Kanda was completely against allowing Lala to keep the Innocence that served as her heart and fused with her. He and Allen even fought over the matter."

Star laced her fingers. "I agree with Allen. He definitely did the right thing. He honored Lala and Guzol's bond. What's the point of saving humanity if you destroy bonds like that in the process, you know."

"You and Allen are both very kind people," Jump said softly.

Star blushed and stood up abruptly. "Jeryy has some red raspberry tea and something gelato-like for dessert I bet."

Looking at the food-crusted, empty dishes crowding the table, Jump thought, Haven't you had enough? This is a lot, even for me... Instead he asked, "Should you eat hot and cold things at the same time?"

"Meh, I'll just drink the tea first," Star shrugged. "Or warm myself up with the tea after the gelato… Man, maybe you're right…"

As Star collected the scattered confidential reports and stacked them, a Finder with a purple bandanna tied around the lower half of her face walked up to them. The hood of her cream-colored uniform jacket was up but small, thick gold hoop rings could be seen piercing her earlobes.

"There you are," Mahoja said. Gaia, Star's golem, flew around her head. Gaia was round, deep gold, and bore flashy wings, each feather a color of the rainbow.

Laughing outright at the table piled in dishes, Mahoja added, "I see you found the dining hall."

Star patted her slightly rounded, very satisfied belly.

"My stomach never leads me astray. And what's more, unlike at home, I can eat as much as I want here."

"And not keep a single pound which is the only reason you eat so much when you're here."

"Not true. I also enjoy it, second. And, third, my Innocence requires it." Star stuck her nose in the air.

"True. In any event, Chief Komui is waiting for you."

As they walked, Mahoja reached over and pulled the edge of the top folder open in Star's arms.

"Mater huh."

"Yeah, we were just talking about it," Jump said.

"I'm glad that Toma at least made it out of that alive. He's a very sensible Finder." The Black Order headquarters was a cross between a cathedral, a castle, a lab, a dormitory, and a government building. All sanctuary, research, officialness, and security. Mahoja led them down stately, open corridors. "The Chief is this way."

Author's Notes:

Y'all know D. Gray-Man is the property of Katsura Hoshino and her producers/publishers. I do not own nor did I create any of the established characters, places, objects, etc. featured in this work. This literature is a work of pure fanfiction.

I would say that this story takes place between the end of the 2006 D. Gray-Man anime and before the Cross Marian situation in Hallow, considering that I'm seeing red and black uniforms in my head. Assuming Allen Walker spent some time at the new European Branch headquarters.

Also, I'd rather not spend too much time assuming what Katsura Hoshino's characters would or would not say and do, which is why my fanfiction work will center largely around OC ("original character" inserts), characters of my own creation that are written in as part of the D. Gray-Man universe.