Me: 'I REALLY couldn't think of anything to write for this theme. It just seemed too obvious. Almost everything I write is about Allen being an exorcist. I just didn't know what would be a good oneshot to write for this. But somehow I ended up with something.'

Lavi: 'It's not TOO bad I guess. I would really like it though if you gave me a date.'

Me: 'I'm sorry, Lavi, I just didn't feel like it. Maybe next time. I still got the idea it's not really good though, but that's just my opinion. Have fun reading it anyway!'


Day 4: exorcists

'So, what kind of job do you two do?' The waitress put a mountain of plates on their table, blocking Lavi out of Allen's sight. It was quiet at the moment and apparently she was getting bored, because suddenly she took a lot of interest in the two unfamiliar males that had sat down inside.

'We're exorcists,' Lavi declared proudly, looking at the girl with obvious interest.

'Oh?' She smiled back sweetly to the redhead, 'and what do you exorcise?'

'Akuma.'

'Criminals.'

Allen looked at his colleague with a pulled up brow that asked what the hell he was doing, but the other acted as if he hadn't seen it at all.

'You exorcize criminals?' she asked, wonder apparent in her voice. 'What kind of criminals? And you don't kill them right?!'

'Oh, don't worry.' Lavi waved her question away in a careless motion. 'We don't kill them. We take them with us to The Black Order and deal with them there. When they come back they all have turned into good fellows and continue happily with their new lives.'

Too tired of hearing the idiotic impress stories of the redhead, Allen started eating and rolled his eyes in the meantime.

However, the other male continued, talking about how he caught murderers and had brought them back, almost dying in the process.

'And you're his colleague right?' the girl shifted her attention to the boy, who looked up in surprise, mouth stuffed with food. 'What kind of dangerous situations did you get in?'

Allen shifted a bit uncomfortably. Not feeling anything for lying, but not in the mood to betray Lavi either. 'I… I kind of experienced the same things as him.'

'Can't you tell…?'

'I have a nice story about the two of us.'

Allen sent the other male a glare as warning now, but it still got ignored.

'Let me tell you about that time that Allen got hurt…'

Well that was the limit. 'And had to drag you out of the line of fire, because you were unconscious.'

Lavi's eyes widened and he looked at his companion for the first time since their conversation started. 'I don't think it went like that, more like the other way around.'

'Sure, when we were exorcising criminals, but when we were exorcising akuma the other day, I had to drag you out of the rubbish because you needlessly broke a wall with your hammer again.' He poked with his fork in his food aggressively.

'What are you talking about, Allen? We were talking about our job.'

'Oh really? Because I've got the feeling I'm the only one talking about our work here.'

For a moment the two were staring daggers at each other, until Allen's left eye came to life with a screech.

He immediately straightened his back and took a look around until he found what he was looking for.

'Lavi, that man with the beard. He's an akuma.'

Suddenly the girl wasn't important anymore, because the redhead understood the urgency of the situation. He stood up and looked at his companion to determine when the would attack.

The girl looked at them questioningly.

Allen gave her a sign to stay where she was and gave her an explanation in a soft whisper: 'Now, we're going to show you our real work.'

It seemingly only made her more confused, but the two exorcists didn't pay any more attention at her. They walked in on the man acting like they were about to leave, but came to a standstill when their target stood up as well and turned around.

They reacted even before the weapons of the akume came out. Lavi jumped out of the way of the bullets while Allen stopped them with Crown Clown's cloak to be sure nobody would get hurt. Then they took out their weapons and killed the akuma in a single strike.

A level 1 was nothing for experienced exorcists like them. For a moment the boy even thought more akuma had to be hiding somewhere, because this just had to be a trap, but it wasn't.

When they turned around to continue on their meal, the girl was staring at them with a pale face and huge eyes of terror. 'Y… You… what happened? You killed that man?'

'N… No, you see. We…' Lavi was struggling to find a way to explain, when Allen decided to jump in.

'We exorcise akuma. They are weapons that disguise themselves as humans.' He stepped forward and offered her a hand. 'Are you okay? You must be shocked to see something like this.'

She shook her head and took a step back. 'P… Please leave…. We… we didn't do anything wrong. Please don't hurt us!'

Allen's smile faltered and his hand withdrew partly.

'We won't hurt you!' Lavi exclaimed while walking up to her. 'We just saved your life instead! It's okay, you don't have to be afrai…'

'Please, leave me alone!' She turned around and fled, leaving a disappointed Allen and shocked Lavi behind.

Allen sighed. 'I'm sorry, Lavi. That won't be a date for today.'

The other sighed as well. 'Yeah, apparently. I'm not really surprised though. This happens more often when people see us fight.'

'Yeah, they'll think we're monsters.' Allen walked back to his table and cleaned the last scraps from his plates. 'Let's go before they'll call the police and Komui will have stuff to explain again. We'll leave The Order's address behind so they can sent the bill in later.'

Lavi agreed and a few minutes later they left through the door.

'Nè, Lavi…'

The redhead looked at Allen in response.

'Do you think that someday, when we've defeated the earl, those people will also come to see that we saved them?'

Lavi frowned unhappily. 'I'm sorry, Allen. I've seen a lot of wars and the winners do get enchanted on after. But the ones that were against them always find ways to oppose to them. I think people who want to call us monsters will keep doing that, even if it's just because they can't comprehend our world.'

The boy fell silent for a moment, then smiled nostalgically. 'That won't change my mind though. I'll keep on fighting, for both the sake of the akuma as for the humans.'

Because he was an exorcist.