"So I pressume that you three have agreed to go by the Order's commands," Kamui said as he had the three girl's in his office the same day they had gone early to prepare the place for the rest of the Order.

"We have," the oldest agreed with a bitter taste in her mouth. "We'll be responding to you right, Kamui Lee."

"Yes," he answered. "I spoke with Roman and he seems to agree that it is better to group you with other Exorcists instead of which each other."

"With human?" the middle called. "Dad allowed us? He never, ever let us play with humans before."

"This is an exception," the youngest said. "After all, we'll all be working together to defeat those Akuma right?"

"Yes, about that I need a description of each of your Innocence," he said as he sat back to enjoy.

"Girls," the oldest said, "Give 'im a glimspe alright?"

"Yes~" they chanted as the middle and oldest stepped back leaving the youngest in the spot light.

"My name's Kotori and I'm age eighteen," she lowered her hand to let her Sage Staff form on it. Surrounding her was the air of nature itself. "And my Innocence, Mother Gaia, as her name implies has control over all earthly ground." The middle daughter steped up as she fisted her hands and palced them at her sides. "My names Cherry and I'm seventeen!" She punched her fists together as a shock of electricity sounded and crackled as she rubbed them together. "My Innocence, Odin, gives me control over thunder, lighting, and electricity. Then the oldest stood in the middle, "My Innocence, Mother and Son, give me power over magic weaponry." From nowhere she materialized a colt that she held in her right hand, "I'm seventeen and the name's Evangelique. Call me Eve."

"I see," Kamui said as he concluded their powers and wrote down their names. "And are you all going under Roman's name."

"Yeah," Eve said. "We're going under the name Rasmusen. What about our little 'secret'?"

"Yes Roman told me about it and about the cases that have happened around your kind. It'll be better for you to remain quiet about for awhile. Perhaps until you get better aqquantainted to everyone around." They all agreed. "Then that'll be it," he said smilling. "For the time being just rest until you get a mission alright?"

"Yes~!" they all chanted then suddenly the doors opened as they stepped back and Lenalee stepped in.

"Brother, want some coffee?" she asked riding a coffee tray.

"Please~" Kamui called happily. As she served him Lenalee saw the three sisters standing there, Cherry and Kotori smiling and Eve looking somewhere else.

"Hello," Lenalee greeted them. "You must be the Rasmussen sisters that my brother told me about. I'm Lenalee Lee."

"I'm Kotori"-"Cherry!" both sisters turned to Angela as she came in late. "Oh, sorry. Eve Rasmusen. By the way, I'm kinda hungry. Are they serving food here?"

Lenalee took them to the dinning hall and to Jerry. Kotori ordered Italian. Cherry some spaghetti. And Eve most of everything that was on the menu.

"She has quiet the strong stomach, doesn't she," Lenalee commented as she sat beside Kotori and across the two other sisters that rampaged against their food, Kotori the only sane and calm one.

"Of course she'd be hungry. It's been seven days since she's eaten anything after all," Kotori slipped.

"Seven days?" Lenalee asked confused.

"U-Um, she meditates a lot, yeah!" Kotori said thinking fast. "She fasts and all that too that's what I meant."

"Oh," Lenalee said smiling. "I get it. I meditate sometimes too with a friend of mine."

"Really..." Kotori said dragging the conversationg away from Eve successfully.

"Done!" Eve yawned as she stretched and stood up.

"Where you going?" she called with a mouth full.

"To sleep. I'm tired," she answered tapping her mouth close making her gulp her food down.

"Sleep!" Cherry said coughing a bit. "You've been asleep for sev-AW!" Cherry continued but was cut off by Kotori 'accidentally' tipping her glass of water over her skirt.

"Oops~, sorry nee-san," Kotori said emphasizing the accident part.

"Lee-san, mind taking me to where my room is?" Eve asked recklessly as the two sisters argued a bit.

"S-Sure," Lenalee said noticing the awkwardness of the sisters and leaving with Eve.

As they walked everything was an odd silence. Lenalee took the bat and began a conversation, "So all three of you are sisters. Who goes where, if I can ask?"

"The youngest is Kotori, then Cherry's in the middle, and I'm the oldest of the three," Eve said summing up everything.

"You're the oldest," Lenalee asked confused. "Isn't Kotori-san older than you."

"In appearance wise maybe," Eve murmured.

"Huh?"

"So who else is here in this place? Other Exorcists besides you and us three I pressume," she asked changing the subject.

"Ah yes, there's Allen Walker and Yu Kanda who're currently out in a mission since three days ago. Then there are Lavi and his teacher Bookman. There's also Noise Marie and Choazii Han. Also Timothy Hearst and Miranda Lotto and Arystar Krory III. I think I haven't missed anybody," Lenalee took the whole way to the room to explain. "Oh, we're here."

"Thanks and thanks for taking care of my sisters and I," Eve said whole heartedly as she grabbed the doorknob.

"Of course, we're a family now," Lenalee said in a matter of a fact tone. "We'll always be there for each other rig-" But Eve had rudely gone inside shutting Lenalee halfway. "E-Eve-san..." she murmured sullen a bit.

Inside, Eve heard Lenalee's footsteps leave the hallway, "I don't believe in 'infinite' things. None of you will ever stay for long with us. So that's not always Lenalee Lee."

~X~

By the time the grandfather clocks around the Order ran one in the morning, Eve slowly and silently creaked open as she sneaked out making sure nobody was watching her. Kotori not considering what 'normal' was, had packed only the usual thin, summer nightgown that Eve always wore- in the winter. Things like the weather bothered the immortal sister little. That was the reason why Eve only wore a pair of silk short and silk tank top of a pinkish color. Not her color but it was for sleeping, who would know, right? She went on barefooted walking around the Order in their new enviorement.

"Kammy, what you think? Anything in this place?" she whispered as she walked around lightly and not making a sound. Kameron came from the pocket and landed on her head as she shook no. "I see. Are you sure?" Kammy flew before Eve's face and boiled mad. "Sorry." She walked some more until she found a good place to seat and enjoy the fresh air.

Finally she found a broad balcony in the third floor that was just right. She went and jumped over the railing as she sat down on it as she felt the cold, winter breeze brush her bare arms and legs. She liked nature, it felt like being in the olds days when there weren't that many people and when nature ruled its course upon human beings. Human. Something she never was and never will be. Not after what had occurred to her when she was just a child, a true child. "Say Kameron," the golem's cherub wings perked up. "You said that Father was the one who created you. Then even back then things like Akuma existed?" Kameron perked twice saying yes. "I wonder how they're doing. I should go visit him and Mother once in awhile shouldn't I?" Kameron shook no. "You still hate Father for what he did?" Kammy flew in front of Eve as its wings sullen in her expression. Eve chuckled like she had once again turned back to that girl from the past before everything happened. Being in the outside free and not encarcerated inside the catacumbs made her feel overjoyed. Almost as if she were truly free. She scoffed at that stupid thought. Of course she would never be truly free. Neither her nor her 'sisters' would be free from the curse of living forever. She scoffed again but this time of pity. "Kameron, why do humans want immortality so much? It's a curse. Why would they want to live forever if that meant..." she sullen gravely at the simply thought of the last part. "If it meant...watching as everything they love dies away."

"Immortality has always been man's greatest wish," a boy's voice startled Eve's thoughts as she turned hastily around, almost falling from the railing themselves but being caught by a pair of strong hands that stabled her back on. They were warm, unlike the strange coldness that had overcome her being since she became immortal. She. turned secure of her sitting, to a young man. He was young and had ravishing red hair that almost mirrored the color of her eyes. Not only was his hair a beautiful color but his right eye was of a bewitching emerald color. The oddity she found was the eyepatch that he wore upon his left eye.

"You heard me," it wasn't a question but more of a cold statement. If he had heard any of what she had said and had connected the dots she was obligated to turn him in the Kamui but more importantly to Roman. Roman always told the three that if a human should find out about their immortality that their only choice was to end that human's life. There where many of them but not even a handful of beings like Eve and her sisters.

"I didn't mean to startle you, my bad," he said chuckling letting go of her as she turned to the inside of the balcony to glare at him with her crimson eyes. "But I was intrigued by that question you asked the golem."

"You eavesdropped on Kameron and I," she spat out. "You're a very detestable person."

The young man sweat dropped at her harsh comment, "Cold. Very crude coming from such a cutey like yourself."

"Go die," she called irritated. He sweat dropped again. That's when she noticed the uniform. It was like hers and her sisters'. "You're one of the other Exorcists Lenalee told me about."

"Yep," he said getting his hopes up since the conversation changed. "The name's Lavi, sweetcakes. What about yours?"

"Not saying," she answered flat out. Then silenced ocerwhlemed them. Lavi feeling rather awkward about it noticed her unusual attire. "Aren't you cold with only that on?"

"Now you're a peeping pervert? Do your insults have no end or what?" she counterattacked. Somehow that big mouth seemed to start making her uncute-r by the second. Her breath was starting to be seen by the air that got colder and he could see his own breath. He groan and took off his red scarf as he wrapped it a couple of times round the girl's petite neck.

"You're just a little shy, aren't you?" he teased her trying to give her a spoonful of her own medicine as he leaned, arms crossed over his chest, upon the railing. "Okat then, sweetcakes, let's play a game shall we?" She opened her mouth but before she could retort he had continued talking, "I'll try guessing your name, okay?"

"Whatever," she called as she cupped Kammy in her hands and bounced her up and down. She didn't want to go back to being isolated in that room even if she was away from the catacumbs. But staying with this Lavi guy seemed just as bad; she hated playboys.

"Mmh," he said in thought. "What about Ariel?"

"Nope."

"Ashley?"

"No."

"Kathleen."

"Not even close."

"How 'bout Nina?"

"Ice cold."

"You're not helping, you know?" he said knowing he wasn't getting any closer by guessing any further. "How about just a little clue. What you say to that sweetcakes? Just a little word or phrase that'll give a, let's say, 1% chance of finding out?"

Eve glanced over at Lavi with a cold stare. Went back to watching Kammy as she thought, sure not like a human could guess my whole name by a single phrase. "Gospel."

"Envangelique." She turned shocked and surprised eyes wide. He only gave a cocky grin. How? she thought, a single word and without hesitation he guessed it right. She opened her mouth to respond but he won her to it, "That's a really pretty name sweetcakes."

She pouted like a little kid who'd just been scolded, "How did you do that?"

"Do what?" he still had that stupid cocky grin plastered on his face.

"Get it right with only one word," she finished. "My name's unusual. It's old Greek. How with only that one word to describe it?"

"Gospel is the good news, right?" he said. "And 'the bringer of gospel' in old Greek is Evangelique."

"You're weird," she said simply as she kept playing with Kammy.

"Now how 'bout another question?" he asked as he was starting to frustrate her with the Q and A. "You were talking about how immortality is a curse. How so?"

"Immortality," she began unsure if continuing the conversation would uncover her secret. She chose to remain in the conversation but chose her words carefully. "It sounds like it would be a rather painful experience to live forever."

"Yeah, what makes you think that sweetcakes?" he asked staring at her with a quizzical frown. "Isn't the point of immortality that you don't get to face death?"

"Yeah but at what cost?" was she realy discussing this with a mere human? But somehow she couldn't contain her mouth or her mind from talking on and on. Talking to this guy- Lavi -seemed so very natural and very, very comfortable. "I mean, sure living forever sounds nice and all but how would you deal with seeing everyone else die. Imagine yourself young and undying and then watching all the ones you love dying in front of you and you unable to do anything about it."

"Mmh," he said in thought closing his eye. "You have a point there. But immortality is unattainable."

"What makes you say that?" she asked genuinely curious.

"Humans always yearn what they cannot obtain. Humans want always what they can and will never have no matter how hard they try. That's why some called this search for immortality their reason to live," he explained hiimself.

"They yearn..." her eyes wide with the illustration that he had given her. "For something they can never have?" Her voice told her that somehow she understood then again that she didn't quite get it.

"Basically," he said trying to find a better and more simple example for a young girl like 'sweetcakes'. "For example, there's this poor family who watch always as the rich walk by their poor house. They want to be rich of course, anybody does. But to them, who are so down to the dirt, have a yearning for it even though it is theoretically impossible for that dream to be accomplished."

"I see what you mean," she understood a little bit better. "But getting the unattainable is something very fearful in itself," she murmured.

"Huh?" Lavi sighed looking her way noticing her sullen face. The way the moonlight hit her small face was gorgeous. She looked like a little porcelain doll that he was so afraid to handle because he was afraid she would break at his mere touch. He had seen this kind of beauty before somewhere...a long time ago.

"I mean, sometimes not getting what you want the most is better," she sighed looking up into the moonlight.

Then he remembered a name to go with that face he remembered and whispered it to himself in thought, "Barathrum?"

Eve was glancing at him with a bit of wide eyes before she heard, "Nee-chan!" Both turned to see Cherry tired and in her nightgown, she looked as if she had ran a mile.

"Cherry?" Eve called getting off the railing. "What's wrong?"

"It's Kotori," she said panting. "Something...something happened to her. She's crying blood..."