Disclaimer: If I owned -Man than yaoi fan girls wouldn't have to write fanfics ▒cause I'd fulfil their yaoi dreams! Nor do I own the song 'Gamble Everything for Love' Ben Lee does.
Pairings: Main character is: Laven (LavixAllen) onesided TykixAllen. Please review if you want another pairing I'll try to fit it in. ^_^
I wanna give a big thanks to , Jen Harper, Seasnake.756 and Aion Laven Walker for the great reviews. Thanks Jen for giving me cake! (even though Allen stole it from me.) And thankyou everyone who added this to their favourites or alert, I can't find your names though T^T
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"I WANNA WORK FOR YOU PLEASE!" Lavi shouted bowing down to Cross. The 2 were in the markets near Cross' mansion. Lavi had decided the best way to get closer to Allen would be through working with her.
"I don't really need any more workers." Cross said shrugging him off, Lavi may be the prince but he was in disguise, beside his normal peasant outfit he wore a dust mask over his mouth and a bandana holding his hair up, no one could tell it was him even the crazy fan girls who had pictures of him plastered over their room.
"PLEASE! I need this job, my friend works for you, I need to see her! He begged Cross.
Cross let out a deep sigh "ugh...fine. From now on you call me master, you'll be working in the fields next to my mansion, Working hours are 5am to 7:30pm, you get 3 meals and breaks a day free any more and it comes outta▓ your pay. You can sleep in a dorm with the others or if you have your own house or apartment you can still live there." Cross said quickly eager to get away from the boy, the 2 men had the same hair colour some people may think he was Cross' illegitimate child, which he probably has a few of anyway. "Love sick boys...tch." he mumbled.
"THANKYOU MASTER!" Lavi smiled hidden by the dust mask.
"May I ask why you're wearing a dusk mask?" Cross said raising his eyebrow.
"Um..." Lavi never thought of a reason why "...really...bad breath?" he made up.
"Eew." Cross scoffed.
"Yeah, but Master I have my own house and may I ask who make the food for our meals?" Lavi brightly asked.
"The maids, they all get a group of workers whose food quota they must fulfil." Cross said before turning and walking away from him.
"GOODBYE MASTER!" Lavi cheered, than he turned to go to his new work place skipping happily.
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"Welcome to Cross mansion, I'll be showing you around, you may not have to enter the estate since you'll be working mainly on the fields but it's always best to show you around." The greenish black haired girl smiled brightly showing him around. He found out her name was Lenalee and worked in the 1st unit of maids. There was 3 units, the 1st unit was the more experienced maids, 2nd unit had less experience and 3rd was of newbies, each unit had about 10 maids, every unit had a head maid and the head of the 1st unit was the head maid over all. He found out that Allen was the 1st unit's head maid.
The 2 walked into a large hall with a winding staircase leading upstairs, a few women where dusting. He heard something break from the room next door, something large like a mirror. One of the maids suddenly yelled "ALLEN! MIRANDA BROKE A MIRROR AGAIN!" this comment brightened Lavi up, he would see Allen soon.
"COMING!" A voice shouted from upstairs and a familiar head of white hair slid down the railing at a high speed; Allen ran by her hair in a bandana and covered in dust. "Miranda! Put the shard of mirror down and away from your neck and get off the table." He heard her say comfortingly. What the hell was up with these girls? A few minutes later Allen and the girl he believed to be Miranda walked out. Allen turned her head to Lavi and smiled.
Selfishly thinking she was smiling to him he waved at her. "ALLEN!" Lenalee shouted next to him and ran up to Allen hugging her tightly making them both fall to the ground. Lenalee and Allen must have been good friends. "Allen, there's a newbie here," she said pointing to Lavi, "Can you show him around? I've got a bunch of jobs to do."
"Sure... Lenalee, but can you...please get off me." Allen whimpered out, her stomach was being pinned down by Lenalee.
"Ah, sorry." She said getting up and skipping out of the room "Thanks Hun!"
Allen turned to Lavi and smiled brightly "The name's Allen, if you hadn't noticed already."
"I know." Lavi muttered.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Well, I'm the head maid of the 1st unit, if there is anything you need please come to me. You'll be working in the fields right?" She introduced herself and asked him.
"Yeah." He muttered, he knew he was blushing but lucky for him it was covered with the mask.
"Do you know what unit you'll be in? Each unit gets a group of maids to make their meals for them. I'm taking care of unit 4. Each unit has 5 to 10 people in it and they all go in rotation between tasks. You can join unit 4, there▓s a free spot open." She explained.
"Awesome! I can't wait to try your cooking." Lavi blurted out earning a confused look from Allen. She turned to Miranda and beckoned her to come over.
"Well...uh? Sorry I didn't catch you're name." She said cutely.
"Uh..." Lavi didn't think of an alias either, so much for him being a genius. "Yuu!" He said quickly, stealing the name of his best friend.
"Ok then...Yuu. Miranda and I will be you're escorts for the rest of the tour then." she said linking arms around both Lavi and Miranda and skipping off. Lavi laughed loudly, this was sure going to be fun.
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The tour ended quickly because of Allen's hyper-energetic attitude. He had soon after gone to work in the fields; it was now 6pm and about time for the evening meal. Out came Allen, Lenalee and some other maids he couldn't name. The meals were small and cheap; hardly any meat, some cheap vegetables grown in the field and a home made sauce; obviously peasant food, he figured out which was the batch Allen made and went over there. Surprisingly it was delicious, the sauce she put on the meal got rid of the bland taste of the cheap vegetables. A thought came to mind making him blush, thank God for the mask, Allen was the perfect house wife, but it was a waste of talent if he wanted to marry her, he had maids already.
Lavi finished the meal and went back working constantly staring at Allen who was cleaning up the waste.
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Allen was currently setting up his disguise as a boy in the main hall; most of the workers knew about his gambling and offered to help Allen. She was an independent woman and preferred to do everything by herself so she smiled back at the people offering to help and declined kindly. She was almost done with the bandana around her head but she couldn't seem to get it right no matter what she did. Suddenly she felt the bandana being taken out of her arms and tied up. Blushing, she looked up; the man she met that day stared down at her.
"Ah, Yuu. Thanks." She smiled, a slight dust of pink sprinkled her cheeks.
"Yuu? Oh right." Lavi said confused than remembered his alias. "May I join you tonight, Miss Walker?" Lavi bowed.
"I'm a guy now remember." she glared at him; he just chuckled grabbed Allen's hand and skipped out the door into the streets beyond. Believing that the coast was clear, Lavi took of his bandana and dust mask earning a gasp from Allen. "Lapo?"
Lavi seemed hurt buy this, than started laughing uncontrollably, "It's Lavi." He said laughing.
"I like Lapo better. But aren't you the prince? Why are you working for Cross? Prince Lapo."
"Oh, you figured out who I am, you didn't seem to know the other night."
"I got a few pointers from my friends. So why are you working for Cross."
"There's a very interesting person working there, I wanted to get to know them better." Lavi answered. The 2 strolled down towards the bar they went to the other night.
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"How in the world could you get so much money?" Lavi stared in disbelief down at the large pile of money and other items Allen had won.
"I cheat." Allen replied calmly like it was a normal subject.
Lavi's eyes widened and he chuckled, "That kind of person, huh."
"Don't think that, I just need to make money for Master."
"I could always give you money." Lavi offered.
"I can't do that! It's immoral." Allen gasped.
"And gambling and cheating isn't."
"I only cheat if the other players cheat. I've never played against a person who doesn't cheat in some way. It's only fair." she shrugged.
"I'll verse you than." Lavi said brightly and dealed the card out to Allen and him than set up the chips and organized his cards already making strategies.
"Even though you know I cheat?"
"You said you wouldn't cheat if I didn't, right." It was more a statement than a question.
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"Four of a kind!" Allen said pulling the winnings to him.
"You said you wouldn't cheat." Lavi stared at the money he had just lost.
"I saw you cheat in the 3rd round." Allen smirked down at Lavi like she was the Queen and Lavi was the peasant.
"Damn eagle eye." Lavi muttered.
"We'd better get going." The 2 left the bar and Allen took of her bandana and made her disguise more girly. Lavi and her walked to the Cross estate. "Is a prince like you living in the dorms?"
"Nah, I'm going home after I drop you off, can't have a young lady like you walking about alone after dark." Lavi said like a gentleman.
"Don't look down on me!" Allen glared at him, unfazed by his gentleman act. "Well I suppose it's realistic, can't have the heir sleeping on a dusty hammock surrounded by rats, smelly feet and snoring. You probably have a comfy bed with expensive pillows and maids coming at you're will." Allen snarled jealousy tinting her voice.
Lavi stopped the two bent down and held Allen by the chin, manipulating her so she gazed straight into his eyes. In a sensual voice he said "Would you like to try a little luxury?" Allen stared up at him with a beet red face. "Allen...I want you to be my Queen." his continued his voice with a hint of lovingness.
Allen stopped, she just stopped.
Everything about Allen stopped, even her breathing.
Her hair seemed stuck to the wind.
How could she, how could anyone reply to what Lavi just asked her.