******THIS CHAPTER WAS WRITTEN BY DEATHBERRYSUPREME********

A/N (from Angel): Hi there so I just thought that I would drop in a quick note, that this chapter was not in fact written by me, instead by the amazing writer Deathberrysupreme. I am publishing this with FULL PERMISSION from her. I will be posting where this story continues off from chapter 6, and I can only hope to compete with her amazing writing skills. Thanks!

PROLOUGE

"Ace?" a quiet voice was heard from outside the morgue's front door. "Ace, are you still in there?"

I turned my head to face the woman that had entered. Fuck, why couldn't I remember her name? She was part of her family apparently. A black veil had covered her face, but had been pushed away. Tear tracks ran down her face, and she wore a plain black dress. My own suit was a bit dirty; I'd had to borrow it from one of the doctors earlier. The lighting in the morgue made my skin look paler than it was. The white bandage wrapped around my head did nothing but make my red hair stick up even more, and my eyes looked positively feral. I didn't even know why I was here. The woman looked at me with pity in her eyes. Fuck. A thirty-something year old looking at an almost fully-grown almost-man of seventeen years like that? It made me sick.

"What do you want?" I couldn't be too harsh with her. I couldn't remember if I'd had the same weakness before, but women unnerved me. I probably hadn't, seeing as I'd apparently fallen in love with one.

"Oh Ace." She sighed, looking at me, sitting on a small wooden stool in front of the empty coffin. Apparently, they hadn't been able to find her body. It was like she'd dissolved into dust, along with the driver. "You didn't have to come." I felt my mouth lift into a smirk. I didn't. She was right about that. I guess I'd felt a debt of gratitude or something to her. "You don't even remember my daughter, do you?" It wasn't really a question, more of a statement.

"No, I don't." It felt weird talking after so long.

"It wasn't your fault." Her words hit me like a bullet. What did she mean? It sure felt like it was, with all those bitter looks her friends and family were giving me.

"I know that." She looked shocked at the response. She was probably hoping I'd be grieving for her dead daughter. My temper rose. "I fuckin' know that, so why do the all look like they're blaming me! Dammit, I don't even remember what happened! All I remember is waking up in a hospital bed with people surrounding me, saying 'Oh, it's not your fault.' 'Good thing you've woken up Mr. Cionaodh *'. How the hell was I supposed to know what happened? How was I supposed to know that apparently, my girlfriend and I were in a carriage accident**, when the horses spooked and ran into a tree, killing both my girlfriend and the driver on impact, and when I awoke in the hospital, I had severe retrograde amnesia***, and only remembered my name? Well I didn't!"

My chest was heaving. I felt like I was about to collapse. Suddenly a pair of warm arms encircled me, pulling me closer. "Oh, Ace. I'm sorry." While the woman hugged me, opening her once more. "I'm so, so sorry." I felt tears running down my cheeks as I collapsed into her arms, the world swimming around me. I vaguely remember hearing one more thing. "It'll be okay, I promise you Ace. I'll take care of you, I swear it."

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All right, first chapter done! It's short, I know, but the next will be longer. This WAS just a Prologue. Some important stuff:

No, Acer won't be emoing forever, next chappie will be much funnier, lighter, and Allen, Lenalee, Lavi and Kanda will come back in. Acer may seem a tad bipolar, but that's just his personality.

There will be some missions from the manga, but otherwise, there won't be. I don't want to retell the story. Lets say all of 'em are still searching for Cross, and are at a remote town in Europe.

* CIONAODH is Ace's last name. It translates to 'born of fire' and is the Irish form of the Scottish 'Cinaed'. I thought it'd be fitting, considering Ace has bright red hair and hazel eyes.

** I don't think they have cars, so I'm putting carriages. Lets say they have hospitals, cuz for fuck's sake, they have a giant robot!

*** Retrograde Amnesia is when you forget your past. You don't always forget everything, but in Ace's case, he's forgotten all of his past. It doesn't always affect all types of memory (ex. Procedural memory- automatic skills, eating, drinking, sword fighting. I think this could also be called muscle memory.) Please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know much about this topic.

Please R&R, I'd like to know what you all think!

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