Lost Clown
Authors notes: Ok people, time for round 1 and/or 2 (I am unsure if epilogues count) oh, and for the last chapter, I put in a (1) and forgot to explain it. SORRY! Anyway, here it is:
Oxymoron, a literary device that compares to contrasting things side by side Example: loving hate, brawling love, and light heaviness (hehe, I'm learning about it in English class, otherwise, I wouldn't know what it is, oh and p.s., the examples are from Romeo and Juliet which we are studying at the moment:)
Ok, there we go, now that I have that off my chest, I have a question for all readers! For the name of the Lavi/Allen pairing, do you all want it to be the following (Laven was just my personal preference, I just want my readers to be included! Ok, so the candidates are: Alvi, Laven, Allav, and lavlen. These are all off the nice sounding names that I could think of, so I dunno, you guys vote in the reviews and I will announce the winner when I think there are enough votes. Well I think I've talked long enough for now. Now, to the story away!
Disclaimer:
Nella: I own DGM!!
Allen: say what? O.o
Lavi: Nella Chan...
Nella: awww you guys are mean... fine I don't OWN DGM, but someday, some how... I SHALL!! (Laughs evilly)
Lavi: ne! Allen I'm scared
Allen: me too Lavi...
Chapter 1: a mission
"Lavi…" the boy whispered in his sleep and smiled as Lavi sucked in his breath, eyes wide. "Lavi…" Allen repeated and settled back into sleep.
Lavi thought back on the day before, as he fiddled with Allen's soft white hair.
Allen walked into Koumi's office to see Lavi sitting there comfortably.
"Oh hello Lavi, we have a mission together then? Where's bookman? "Allen asked, visibly pleased to have a few moments alone with the hyper active red head.
"Ne? Panda? He's off on a mission for the bookman head quarters. He should be back soon, didn't take me with him so the order would still have someone recording its history." Lavi chucked, "I think he just wanted some time away from me."
"ah." Allen said casually as he sat down beside the bored, 18 year old bookman.
"Did Koumi tell you about this mission yet?" Lavi glanced over at the fair haired boy sitting next to him.
"No, you?"
"Not exactly, but he said that we'd be heading out to Verona, Italy (1), apparently an innocence is causing some trouble out there. No idea what it's doing though, he didn't say." Lavi leaned back on the couch stretching his arms along the top of the couch, head back and yawning.
"I see." Allen nodded and noticed the bandages on Lavi's hand "Hey! How'd this happen?" he asked as he pulled Lavi's cool hands into his warm ones, examining them.
Lavi winced as Allen's hand brushed over the wound, "oh that? Its no big deal, Allen, I was just teasing Yuu-Chan and he got me with Mugen, that's all. It's not even that bad!" Lavi laughed sheepishly and rubbed his unbandaged hand on the back of his neck. "Honest!"
"Well if you say so..." Allen looked over at him, concern in his eyes, before that morphed into disappointment, "you know, you really should stop calling him 'Yuu Chan', one of these days, he really will kill you Lavi." Allen sighed with a small smirk and shook his head.
"Well he hasn't yet, so I'm pretty sure I won't be dying by his hand anytime soon. If he really wanted to, he would have killed me a looong time ago, Heh, trust me." Lavi grinned lopsidedly at Allen as Allen sweat dropped 'sad thing is that's probably true...'
"Hmm..." Allen looked down at Lavi's hand, which was still resting in his, "you should still be careful, no one would be happy in you got hurt you know..." he sighed and looked over at Lavi.
Lavi met Allen's gaze before blushing as he looked away, "you're one to talk Allen."
"What do you mean?" Allen looked honestly confused. Lavi smiled softly and pulled his hand out of Allen's grasp, gently brushing Allen's face with his fingers as he lifted his hand.
"You get yourself injured all the time; hell you only just got your innocence back what? 3 weeks ago? Coming back to the battle field in a blaze of glory. Allen, you almost don't seem to care about what happens to yourself." Lavi brought his hand down on the top of Allen's pale head, roughly patting it. "The people at the order here would be a lot more depressed if you died, especially me- and Lenalee, Heh, maybe even Yuu-Chan." Lavi smiled at the boy who looked innocently up at him, a blush slowly spreading across his cheeks. Lavi lifted his hand and looked away, scolding himself. He shouldn't be leading Allen on like that. He is a bookman bookmen aren't allowed love, well, any emotional love anyway. Koumi walked in and stalked behind his desk with a serious look on his face.
"Hello boys, well, I'm sure as you both know by now we have reason to believe that there is an innocence in Verona Italy, the city where Romeo and Juliet is set. There is a strangely large amount of people, well –err- re-enacting the play, there have been a few double suicides, like at the end of the play, but it usually ends well... so, we want you to go and check things out...make sure the innocence isn't interfering with the water or something like that. Right, its
just you two this time, so pack your things and hit the road, you will be taking a train, then walking the rest of the way. Ok, DISMISSED!!" Koumi yelled as Allen and Lavi booked it out of the hyper-active head supervisor's office.
Lavi smiled at the memory, Allen had been truly concerned about him, and that made him feel all warm and fuzzy inside (2). Lavi slowly traced the dark red scar that marred the gentle face of the boy, wondering how he got such a painful looking wound. Allen had said he was cursed, being able to see the souls of akuma made that pretty obvious, but how he had come about becoming that way, no one really knew. In fact, no really knew anything about Allen's past. No one ever asked him much and Allen never seemed very willing to divulge anything about himself unless it was necessary. Lavi frowned, deep in thought, why did Allen always shy away from the questions Lavi sometimes asked about his past? It couldn't be that painful, could it? What could be so bad Allen wouldn't even tell his best friend? Lavi sighed and looked down at the slumbering youth, who was blissfully oblivious to all, content to drool on his pillow and dream about food. Lavi leaned down and softly pressed his lips to the center of Allen's star shaped scar.
As he sat back a tiny voice, thick with sleep murmured softly to no one in particular, "Lavi..." Lavi sighed and stood, keeping his eyes away from the sleeping boy. So trusting and innocent, yet Allen wouldn't tell him what he truly wanted to know. Lavi wanted to know everything about Allen; he wanted to tell Allen everything about himself. No one but he knew his real name. Not even bookman, yet with each passing moment with this gentle boy with a head full of rocks (3) he found him self being able to trust Allen with his name, he found himself wanting to trust Allen with his name. Lavi curled his fists, furious with himself for letting his affections for the boy get so far out of control. He was to be bookman someday. He couldn't break away from that, yet, he couldn't just break his feelings for Allen either. It wasn't just brotherly affection any more. Lavi groaned as he sat on his own bed, head in his hands, after losing Allen, then suddenly getting Allen back, after being so sure the boy was dead... it had made Lavi realise just how much he felt for the stubborn white haired kid. Either way, Allen couldn't really feel the same way, even if he did, Lavi could never act on his emotion. It was a breaking the fundamental law of being bookman. A bookman has no need for love, for sadness, for joy, for anger, for a heart. Lavi sighed and shook his head. This wasn't the time to be dealing with this. 'Its late, you're tired, this is just a passing emotion, and it will blow over by morning' Lavi thought as he slid his legs back under the covers and tucked himself in.
"Just have to wait for the storm to pass..." Lavi mumbled to himself as his brilliant green eye slid closed. Tomorrow, after a long day of walking they would be in Verona. There they could finish the mission and go home. Then, when Lavi was alone in the dark confines of the order's well stocked library, he could deal with what he was feeling, there among the old tomes and weathered science theory books; he would destroy any love for Allen in his heart, even if it killed him.
Authors notes: Wow! This chapter is like 500 words longer than the last one! Yay for me! Anyway, to the footnotes! AWAY!! (Flies like superman to the footnotes)
Verona, Italy, the town where Romeo and Juliet, which, I just found out (because I googled it) is a real city!! Wow!! Cool. (puts Verona on my places to go before I die list)
Oh geez the warm fuzzy syndrome, how cheesy can I get? ((Sweat drops)) oh well...
"...a head full of rocks..." this is a family saying of sorts that it used to describe someone who is incredibly stubborn (... I hear this a lot... from father dearest... he's so mean... I get my stubborn-ness from HIM... he shouldn't be so mean! Cheap old goat! (That's what I call him cuz he has a beard, and he's cheap... and old! So the name is fitting)
Ok, umm I wrote most of this in one shot. I don't have a beta reader yet, but I'm thinking about getting one, so if any of you would like to be one, lemmie know. Umm yeah. I'm tired. I want some sleep but I have to stay up until this is posted and everyone can see it in all its shining glory (tootin' my own horn there but whatever. It's my horn. I'll toot it if I want to.)
Shout outs to my first ever reviewers!!
Demon-Arms-Kaito: my first reviewer. THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! Anyway, yes it is nice to see Lavi get a taste of his own medicine! GO Allen!! (Flying tackle hugs!)
YugiKitten: here is the next chapter you were looking forward to (me: NO WAY!! REALLY?!)
I reviewed my self, because I was quite bored, hehe please pay me no mind.
Kayday: I KNOW RIGHT!! Laven TOTALLY deserves a name!! Whether its Laven or Alvi, or whatever IT NEEDS ONE!! I LOVE Laven!!
Kittygopop: I LOVES IT! OH MY GOSHIES YAY! I HAVE A NICKNAME!! I got this out quickly with little to no procrastinating!! I'm so proud of my self!!
Mizuki Kuro-Chan: OH MY GOSHIES! THIS. IS THE. LONGEST. REVIEW. EVER. (Flying tackle hugs my new bestest buddie) I LOVE YOU KURO CHAN!!
P.A. Lovas: I know I've already said it a lot (I mean a lot a lot) but... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING!! CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER OF MOZARTS SPIRIT TO COME OUT!! (Another flying tackle hug)
Ok well I think that I've talked long enough, thank you all who read, and a double thank you to all who review.
Allen: awww Nella Chan has a nick name Lavi!
Lavi: yellow Chan! So kawaii!
Allen: I knows!
Nella: awww thanks guys!
All together: THANKS FOR READING PLEASE REVIEW!! (More flying tackle hugs to all)