I don't own d.gray-man. If I did, I would die from happiness.

--

Allen was surrounded by darkness, a feeling of fear taking over him. Suddenly, he could hear screaming, and then Akuma appeared in the thousands, high level, and their souls screaming for salvation. Allen couldn't breath.

He sunk to the floor, clutching his throat, gasping for air. Then his eye gave a sharp, painful burning jab, and he felt like he was on fire. He screamed, clawing at his eye, trying to gouge it out, anything to stop the burning, but something stopped his fingers from getting to it. Suddenly, an Akuma appeared before him and grabbed his arms. Allen screamed, trying to struggle from its clutches.

'Allen! Wake up!'

The Akuma suddenly turned into an alarmed looking Lavi, trying to stop Allen from ripping the bandages on his face. Allen relaxed his arms, panting. Lavi let go.

'Allen, what happened?'

'I-I don't know, I think it was a nightmare….'

'Che, wouss.'

Allen looked in the direction of Kanda's voice. The three of them were sitting in a first class carriage on a train, rain pelting the windows outside. Kanda sat opposite them.

'Leave me alone, Kanda…' Allen sobbed angrily.

'It didn't seem very much like regular nightmare,' Lavi said concernedly, 'You were screaming and thrashing around, and you tried to dig out your eye. Good thing there was a bandage on it or you could have damaged it.'

'It was hurting.' Allen said sheepishly, sitting up and wincing slightly as the stab wounds gave him sharp jabs of pain, 'I'm sorry…'

'Hurting?! Allen, are their any Akuma here?'

'No…'

'Does it normally hurt like that?'

'No…'

'Right,' Lavi sighed, leaning back against his seat and running his hands through his hair, 'and coupled with the fact it was bleeding earlier…We're getting Komui to look at when we get back.'

Allen didn't like the sound of Komui setting his drill on his eye, but at the moment he was too tired to argue. Lying back down on the seat, he closed his un-bandaged eye, trying to remember what had happened. There had been Road, and the candles, and then the demon-

Allen suddenly felt nauseated as he remembered the state of the Akuma's soul. A wave of bile washed up in his mouth, and Allen sat up, clasping his hands to his mouth. He jumped up, ran to the window, threw it open and was sick. Lavi and Kanda looked up in alarm.

'Allen!' Lavi jumped up to help him, but before he could reach him, Allen had finished. He wearily shut the window and spun around, his face wet from rain, and collapsed weakly onto the seat.

'What the hell was that for, Beansprout?' Kanda asked grumpily, 'Motion sickness or something?'

Allen didn't answer; he was already asleep. Though it didn't look like restful one; he was shivering like he was cold, and his brow was furrowed, clearly having another nightmare. Lavi bent down and placed a hand on his forehead.

'Youch! He's got an insanely high temperature!'

'He probably just has the flu or something.'

'I dunno, Yuu, he was only like this after Road had him. What the hell could she have done to him?'

Suddenly, as Lavi turned around, he came face to face with Kanda's mugen.

'Don't call-!'

'-You by your first name. Got it.'

--

The train began to slow, signaling the exorcist's station. Lavi got up to wake Allen, but the exorcist didn't respond to any of Lavi's shakes, or even when he called.

'Crap,' Kanda said through gritted teeth, 'He didn't die, did he?'

'No,' Lavi shook his head, feeling the younger boys' pulse, 'but he has really high blood pressure. Something is straining his body. We gotta get him back quick.'

Lavi picked Allen's limp form up and hoisted him onto his back. He and Kanda then made their way quickly to the train door, and were the first ones out. Getting many strange looks from passer-bys, they teenagers elbowed their way through the crowds, out of the train station and into the town. A few minutes passed as they walked in quick silence to the edge of town, and just as they got onto the path to the order, Lavi heard Allen whimper in pain. Before Lavi could do anything however, Allen gripped him painfully.

'It hurts…It hurts!'

'Just a little further Allen, come on, can you hold on till then?'

'I can't…IT HURTS!'

Allen suddenly let go of Lavi's shoulders and clawed at his bandaged face, causing Lavi to miss balance. They fell to the ground, And Allen rolled onto his side, curling up in a ball, pressing his palms to his eyes.

'It hurts too much…'

Lavi sat up, unsure of what to do. A few meters ahead, Kanda noticed Lavi had stopped and turned to see what had happened.

'OI! Rabbit! What happened?'

'Allen's having another pain attack!'

'What, again?!'

Kanda jogged back to them and watched Lavi try to hold Allen back from damaging his eye for a moment, then got on his knees, pulled the strip of cloth that tied up his hair out, seized Allen's wrists and tied them together. He then picked Allen up and put the whimpering boys' hands over his head so he couldn't scratch at his eyes.

'Thanks, Yuu…' Lavi sighed in relief.

'Don't call me that!'

'Alright, alright….'

Kanda huffed and started power walking towards the order. He and the Rabbit had to get Allen home quick, particularly if the pain he was having was making him mentally unstable.

--

Kanda dropped Allen onto the hospital bed heavily and straightened him out so Komui could get a better look at him. With Lavi holding Allen's hands so he couldn't gouge out his eye, Komui gently removed the bandages from his face. Allen's Akuma eye snapped open, activating, the cog wheel preventing Komui from getting a good look. The scientist reached into his pocket and pulled out a small torch, and shone it through the wheel and into the eye.

'Well?' Lavi said in a concerned voice, 'Can you see anything?'

'Not a thing…..Allen? Can you talk?'

Allen nodded stiffly, closing his eyes.

'Allen, is your eye undergoing another evolution?'

'I-I don't kn-know….The first one wa-wasn't pai-painful….AAAARRRRGH!'

Allen suddenly bucked against Lavi, wrenching himself from the boys grasp, and clawed at his eye. Komui yelled and dragged his hands back.

'Allen, you need to stop doing that!'

'I-I can't he-help it, my hands move o-on their own….'

'Really? Man, this is really unusual. Ok, I'm going to give you some painkillers and a sedative, see if that will help, but I'm going to have to strap your hands to the bed to stop you from hurting yourself.'

Allen nodded weakly. Komui turned to the others.

'Ok, Lavi, go find Bookman; we need all the information on Akuma curses we can get. Kanda, you go find Lenalee, she'll be in the cafeteria, and get the rest of the scientists from the department.'

The two teens nodded and went out the door. Komui sighed and reached for the leather straps attached to the sides on the bed. As he tied down Allen's hands, he glanced at his face. There were red, raw scratches around his eye from where he'd scratched at the skin, some of them bleeding. The rest of Allen's face was contorted in pain. From what the other two had told him, he had been like this ever since Allen had been taken by Road, but none of them actually knew what had happened to him, and every time they asked him he would have another attack. It had obviously been traumatic for him, and that was why Kanda was going to get Lenalee. Although Komui liked to blow up anyone who tried to date his sister, Allen was perhaps the only one who barely passed his standards. He knew the white haired teen had a crush on Lenalee, maybe something deeper, so perhaps her presence could help him a little. The scientist pulled the straps tight, but not too tight, and then went over to the medication tray to get the needle of sedative. He walked over to Allen again, pulled up his sleeve and injected it. Allen shivered.

'Ko-Komui….It-it's too cold, could you turn on the heater? Please?'

'But, Allen! You have a fever of almost a hundred and fifty! How could you be cold?'

Allen didn't answer; he was already conked out. A trickle of blood dripped down from his eye.

--

Ok, second chapter done, sorry it sucked. Now due to very complicated circumstances I cant be stuffed explaining cos they're rather personal, I wont be updating for a long time due to a lack of computer, so just bare with me, for I shall return.