Hope

I do not own anything, except for the character named Esperenza Seperae. -man belongs to Katsura Hoshino


Where Am I?

Silver eyes slowly open to see sterile white ceiling, windows, and sounds of machines beeping. The person blinked, adjusting his eyes to the light and getting rid of the blurred lines in the room. After the second or third blink, he was surprised to meet warm gold eyes and a relief smile, if ever possible, by a Noah of all people.

"Ah you're awake, dear nephew." The Noah, or rather Uncle Neah, grinned at him outside of his body! Allen, is disturbed and speechless at this. Wasn't his mind supposed to be gone if Neah took over his body and mind to become a Noah? Then…how? If anything, Allen blinked again, rubbed his eyes, and blinked again.

"H-How?" Before Allen finished his question, a small golden ball rush towards him and stopped in front of his face.

"T-Timcampy?" Timcampy nodded and it's tearing up the fact that its master is alive. It then nuzzled into his cheek lovingly. Allen, still shocked, remembered that Timcampy was huge the last time he remembered so what happen in between the time lapse? The hospital door opened, a woman in a lab coat with a red dress underneath came in exhausted. She looked up to surprised to see that Allen is awake. She had medium length brown hair with red tips at the end, her indigo eyes held relief at seeing Allen awake. She held an amusing smile as she walked up to the two people and the golem.

"Great, you are awake. Do you know how hard it was to get you out of those chains, charms, and protections once we got the word that you were captured?" Allen blinked, not sure how to respond to that. The woman's smile widen at this.

"You're going to ask 'How did you know?' or 'What's going on?', right? Allen Walker." Allen gave a start and looked at her suspiciously; the woman chuckled at this before looking at Neah with amusement.

"I thought you said that he won't be surprised, Neah." Neah chuckle at this, Allen looked lost.

"I haven't told him yet." The woman rolled her eyes at this; she looked like she wasn't surprised at all.

"Um- what's going on?" Allen croaked, the woman looked at him before taking something right next to him and handed him a cup of water. He drank it hungrily but careful enough for him not to choke on it.

"My name is Espereza Seperae, what do you remember last Walker?" Allen Walker looked at her, hesitating in telling her the truth but once he looked at Neah, who nodded reassuringly, he looked at the woman who is giving him a patient yet an expecting-for-explanation stare.

"I was in a dungeon, chained. My innocence locked with me since I'm declared dangerous, and Timcampy was chained to the ground since he became huge. My friends and the Supervisor of the European Black Order tried to get me out a couple of times but…" He stopped when he felt a hand on his shoulder; he looked up to see Esperenza's eyes looking back at him, understanding what's going on. Letting go of his shoulder, she sit down on the chair provided next to him.

"Good, then we don't need to worry about you ending up in with a short amnesia before you woke up. If you're wondering how we got the word that you're captured, let's just say for someone who is supposed to stay dead, is stubborn enough to stay alive. You'll see him soon, and as for how we are able to separate your Uncle from your body, its advance magic that I don't think you want to know." She smiled at him, and waited for the information to sink in.

"Why?" She let out a strained smile.

"Trust me, you don't. That one gave me a huge headache, and I'm pretty sure your Uncle felt it as well." Esperenza glared at him, while muttering "damn insufferable Noahs and their genes" under her breath, Neah smirked at her because of this.

"It was your fault; you know the consequences of that spell." She snorted at him, not caring the fact that Allen is watching them.

"And who was the one who came to me as a backup plan?" She jabbed at him with amusement; Neah continued to smirk at her.

"What about my friends?" Both of them suddenly remember the fact that Allen is there,

"They are here and fine, so don't worry about it." Allen sighed in relief.

"That's good." Esperenza continued to study the white haired boy, before opening her mouth when a quick rapt on the door cause her attention to be averted towards the noise.

"Come in." She told the person on the other side of the door, an orange haired boy popped in.

"Director, the Pope wants to talk to you." Esperenza's eyes narrowed at the orange haired boy who meeped at the glare, the atmosphere changed and became suffocating.

"Tell him I'll be there shortly. We'll talk later, Walker. Get some rest, that's an order." Esperenza left the hospital room in a brisk pace, not bothering to look behind to see Allen paled while Neah had a blank face. Once she left the room, the suffocating atmosphere left with her.

"So…I've been meaning to ask her, but where am I?" Allen's question broke the tense atmosphere.


TO BE CONTINUED


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