Mizu: I actually really like this chapter. This chapter is also the reason that I had to separate Lavi and Allen in the previous chapter. I hope you like it. That said, I don't own anything to do with -Man. If I did then Kanda wouldn't be draining away his life and Link would not exist.


Chapter 4: Long Distance Connection


Bookman looked up at the clock in his dining him. Sighing, the old man slowly made his way over to the front door and counted down the seconds to 4 o'clock p.m.

"3...2...1" he counted, quickly opening the door as a tall redhead Lavi came racing through it, "Right on schedule."

"Thanks old man!" Lavi quickly thanked as he rushed into the kitchen and grabbed the plate of food that the old panda had made for him before running to his room and, more importantly, computer.

Bookman sighed and headed back towards his original seat in the dining room. It had been this way for the past month or so. Everyday at exactly 4 o'clock, Lavi came rushing through the door straight to his room where he locked himself in there for most of the evening. At first, it worried Bookman until it soon became routine. He couldn't help but chuckle when he remembered the day that it had started.

He was sitting in the dining room, relaxing a bit after his shift at the college's library, when he heard a squeal of tires, a couple of hurried steps, and very loud WHAM against the door. He had jumped out of his seat and rushed to the door only to see Lavi holding his face on the ground. The idiot had forgot completely that he had to open the door to get in his house.

For the next couple of days, whenever Bookman heard squealing tires, he rushed to the door and flung it open at the last second. Now, it was second nature. Although…Bookman stared at the redhead's door. He couldn't help but wonder what on earth was so important to him that he locked at the rest of the world.

Lavi fidgeted in his computer chair as his computer booted up.

"Come on…Hurry up you piece of shit," Lavi muttered, leg hitting the desk as his muscles continued to spasm.

After a few long minutes, the slow machine finally loaded to his desktop. Lavi checked the time. Two minutes left. He quickly opened his internet and tapped his finger impatiently on the mouse as it loaded. The second it finished loading, Lavi quickly typed in his username and password into his mail browser or whatever you called it. He didn't know nor really cared about the name of it.

Lavi sighed in relief when he saw that he was the first one on. At least he hadn't missed him.

Juniorred logged on.

Lavi waited the last few minutes before an all to familiar name appeared on the screen.

White_faced_clown logged on.

"Hey Allen," Lavi typed.

White_faced_clown: Hey Lavi. *yawns* How was college life today?

"Pretty good," Lavi said as he typed, "Mr. Mikk was giving me shit again for falling asleep in his room again though."

White_faced_clown: How did you end up with his class anyways? I thought that it was exclusively for freshmen?

"Yeah, but somehow the dean found out that I managed to squeeze by without taking it. So now, as a junior, I'm stuck in a class full of freshmen. It so sucks ass…"

White_faced_clown: Haha. I'm sorry, Lavi. It must be hard in that class. I was lucky enough that Tykki was feeling kind and let me leave the room whenever I wanted to.

"Not really. I just sleep through it all. It did suck when Tykki saw me sleeping when he was showing off his toys. He threw a dildo at my head!"

White_faced_clown: lol that's what you get for sleeping in his class though.

"Yeah, yeah. So how'd you sleep, babe?"

White_faced_clown: Not to good. Rhoad kept sneaking into my room and dress me up as a gothic doll…again.

"Creepy…"

White_faced_clown: You don't know the half of it. Just when I thought that I'd finally get some sleep, that crazy freakin' orange cat, Lero jumped on my head and started yowling right in my ear. When I finally got fed up with it and threw it out of my room, Rhoad was there yelling at me for being mean to him.

"Why won't they let you install a lock on your door again?"

White_faced_clown: The Earl says that locks only bring family problems. Not that I care. I already have a problem with them all so them hating me wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit.

"Glad that that hasn't changed."

White_faced_clown: Trust me, Lavi. Hell will freeze over and be sucked into an enormous black hole before I start to even remotely like my family.

"Lol. I love the way you put things into perspective. So what about the rest of the family there? They giving you any problems?"

White_faced_clown: Only Rhoad's dad, Cyril. He's sooo creepy Lavi! He makes for a living. While that isn't that creepy, who he makes and what he does with them is! I saw him playing one that looked just like me! Then, the next day, I saw him using a Rhoad one too…*shudders and tries not to puke* Lavi, I think I'm the only person in my entire family who ISN'T a pervert!

"Oh I don't know about that, Allen. You sure sounded like one in your journal."

White_faced_clown: *blushes* why do you keep bringing that up?

"Cause I'm hoping that one day I'll get to see that side of you. I'd really rather experience it but that can wait."

White_faced_clown: I-I gotta go take a shower. Before Cyril wakes up and tried to get me to take it with him. Be back in fifteen, k? Don't go anywhere~!

"Trust me, Allen. I'm staying right here, waiting for you to get back."

Lavi leaned back in his chair. This was his normal routine now. He waited for 4 o'clock every day so that he could get online and chat with his Allen. Smirking, he remembered that fateful day when he received an email from Allen. It had been a week since Allen left and Lavi was feeling completely and utterly depressed. Everyone of his friends tried their best to make him feel better. Even Kanda tried to raise the spirits of the broken bunny man. Lavi had just shoved the stoic man aside when he stood in front of him in the hallway with wonderfully wrapped present. The only thing that he wanted was his Allen.

He could remember how all the hallways were full of gossip about him and Allen.

'I heard that he made a pass at that white-haired freak only to get rejected.'

'That's not what I heard. I heard that the little pipsqueak was trying to flirt with Lavi a couple of days ago when we saw them at the beach. Apparently, when he ran off, the idiot didn't pay attention to the road and got hit by a car.'

'Really? As if that kid didn't already have enough deformities. Is he going to be ok?'

'Lala, the kid died instantly. Why else would he not be here and Lavi look so freakin' depressed?'

Lavi snapped, "Will you all just shut the hell up? And stop talking about things that you don't even know is true or not!"

His sudden outburst set students scrambling for their lives. Sighing, Lavi turned away to head off for his new class with Mr. Mikk. He instantly regretted doing so.

"Lavi! Don't scare all those poor girls!" Lenalee scolded, marching up to him.

"They were getting on my nerves," Lavi sighed, "spreading such horrid lies about Allen."

"That doesn't make it any better!" Lenalee snapped, flicking a finger into his forehead, "Look, Lavi. I know that you're angry at what all's happen and probably in a lot of pain, but you can't take it out on those poor girls."

Lavi just sighed, "Fine."

"Good," Lenalee smiled, then grabbed his arm, "Now come with me!"

Lavi just let himself be dragged away from his health class. He was rather glad that Lenalee was saving him from Mr. Mikk. How he hated that man now. Him and the rest of Allen's extended family.

"I got him, Johnny!" Lenalee called out as she dragged Lavi into a computer lab.

"Great, Lenalee!" Johnny, their computer genius geek of a friend, called back, "Now bring him over here! He'll really want to see this!"

"What are you guys doing in here? Don't you all have classes or something do…be…at," Lavi said, trailing off at the end of his sentence when his eye looked at the computer in front of him, "What is that?"

"It's a chat box!" Johnny proclaimed.

"I kinda figured that out!" Lavi snapped back, "But why is Allen's picture on it!" "Cause it's a private chat box for you two," Lenalee giggled, "Johnny managed to break through the school's firewall and took off all the blocks on just this computer."

"So," Lavi tried to start, staring at the computer.

"So you don't have to be so sad anymore! Allen set up an email and emailed me yesterday," Lenalee explained, "He asked me if there was anyway that I could get you to set up an account with this site so that you two can have some way of communication. I know it isn't as great as actually having him here or hearing his voice over the phone but"

"This is great!" Lavi shouted happily, hugging Lenalee tightly, "Thanks Lenalee! You're the best!"

Lenalee giggled and pulled Johnny out of the computer lab, allowing Lavi some private time.

"Hey Allen! It's Lavi!"

White_faced_clown: Hey Lavi! I miss you so much!

"I miss you too. Say, what time is it there?"

White_faced_clown: 3 a.m.

"What? Why aren't you in bed then?"

White_faced_clown: Spending time with you is so much more important than sleep.

"Allen…"

White_faced_clown: I'll go back to bed in a few. I just really wanted to talk to you.

"…k. So when would be a good time to talk with you where you aren't asleep?"

White_faced_clown: That would be 4 p.m. and 7 a.m. for you. 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. for me. Damn 9 hour difference messes everything up.

"That's ok, Allen. I'll be on every day at those times"

White_faced_clown: You? Up at 7 every morning? This I've got to see.

"Like you said, spending time with you is more important than sleep.

White_faced_clown: *blushes*

"Haha. Made ya blush!"

White_faced_clown: Sh-Shut up! Oh, crap! I gotta go. Rhoad's up and trying to break into my room. I love you, Lavi. See you in a couple of hours!

"Love you too, Allen."

White_faced_clown logged off.

After that quick little chat with his love, Lavi felt reenergized. He spent the rest of the day hurrying through all work just so he wouldn't have any homework when he got home. The second school was over, Lavi sprinted through the hallways, grabbing Kanda and Lenalee as he ran past them and dragged them to his car.

"Come over to my place today!" He begged his two friends, "We should all join that chat so Allen isn't so lonely over there!"

"Lavi, we set that up so you two would have some time together. It be wrong if we joined it," Lenalee stated.

"Trust me on this, Allen and I will get a lot of alone time on that," Lavi said with an evil smirk, "I know for a fact that Allen won't make any friends over in England. He'll curl up behind his happy mask and hide from the world. He's already having problems with his cousin. I just figure that if we all join he would have a place to actually relax after a long day of being Allen."

"Well, if that's what you want Lavi, then ok!" Lenalee beamed, "But why don't you go to your house and we'll go to Kanda's? I know the site so we can join from there."

"K! See you guys later!" Lavi exclaimed, climbing into his rust bucket of a car.

He sped out of the parking lot and raced home. Chuckling, Lavi remembered the old panda's face when he had ran straight into the door. Lavi stared at the screen. Five minutes left. Allen never came back a minute early or a minute late. Such was his strict schedule.

White_faced_clown: Who's this?

"Hm? It's me, Lavi. What are you doing back so soon from your shower, Allen? You never come back early." Lavi typed, raising an eyebrow at the entry.

White_faced_clown: I'm not Allen. I'm Rhoad.

"Oh! Hi there, Rhoad. It's nice to meet you….Allen's told me so much about you."

White_faced_clown: You can knock it off with the nice guy crap. I know that you're Allen's gay boyfriend in Japan.

"H-He told you?"

White_faced_clown: No. I snuck into his room a couple of weeks ago and read his journal. He sure is different when it comes to your guys' private matter, isn't he?

"A-Ah…"

White_faced_clown: I'll take that as a yes. So how long have you two been chatting today?

"Since he woke up I presume."

White_faced_clown: Really? You've been chatting since 4 in the morning?

"No…Only for the past couple of minutes."

White_faced_clown: Awww…And here I thought that I was going to find some naughty things on this chat.

"What?"

White_faced_clown: You didn't know? Allen is up every morning at 4 doing naughty things to himself. Gee, I thought that he would have told you and beg you to help him with those things.

"H-How would you know that he does that?"

White_faced_clown: It's not like he's that quiet, you know. The entire house knows what he does even though he thinks that we don't.

"….ah…I…"

White_faced_clown: That and I just happened to be outside of his door this morning, planning on how I should dress him for today. I bet you wish you could have heard him. He was louder than usual today. He called out your name a lot too.

"…"

White_faced_clown: Hahahahaha. I embarrassed the great Lavi! Maybe I should send him pics that I took from a couple of days ago.

"Y-You're a v-very s-sick girl!"

White_faced_clown: And you're a perverted homosexual man who lives in a totally different country lusting over my cousin who, previous to you, was a completely innocent boy. His innocence was supposed to be mine.

"What the Hell! You two are blood related! That's incest!"

White_faced_clown: And what you do isn't? Think about it. The genetic make up of every human being is almost completely identical. There are only a few differentials that exist within the human genome, not even a full percent of difference. We are all related. No matter who we choose as a sexual partner, it does not change the fact that we are in fact related. So in that way, you, too, are enjoying incest with a "brother". It's actually the most thrilling thought once you fully comprehend it.

"…"

White_faced_clown: Oh! I hear Allen coming. Let me give you one last thing to ponder about before I go. Allen is the family's new musician. I will NOT let you have him, got it? He's ours and ours alone.

White_faced_clown has deleted all previous chat.

White_faced_clown: Lavi? You still there?

"Y-Yeah…"

White_faced_clown: Good. When I didn't see anything on the screen, I was afraid that Bookman made you get off.

"No…I'm right here…I'm just…thinking."

White_faced_clown: Oh…Rhoad got on, didn't she? That little she-devil was still in my room when I came back, much to my horror. I really wished that I was allowed to take my clothes into the bathroom…So…what did she say to you?

"That all humans are related so what we do is technically incest."

White_faced_clown: Haha. She told me that a couple of days. When she first said it, I was completely disgusted. I mean, the very thought is rather disturbingly true, right? But, after a few minutes I came up with something that put her truth to shame. While it is true that all humans are related, those that are family share such similarities that most of the rest of the world do not have. And those similarities include mutations of genes that the rest of the world will not have that would cause problems should they be allowed to multiply with those same family members who are the only ones that share that very same mutation. So, while we are all so close in the genome, each family has their own specific genome that no other family would have. In that way, we are not so related. In that way, we are all different from everyone else. "…Thanks, Allen….I can see why she creeps you out. She's WAY too sadistically smart for a 16 year old."

White_faced_clown: True that!

"Um…Allen?"

White_faced_clown: Yes?

"I have a question for you."

White_faced_clown: Ask away, my smexy bunny man!

"Um…do you…you know, while thinking about me?"

White_faced_clown: *blushes dark and slowly nods* Y-Yeah. W-Why?

"I was just curious"

White_faced_clown: K…Damn it!

"What?"

White_faced_clown: Rhoad stole all my pants again!

"Again?"

White_faced_clown: Yeah. The girl LOVES to torture me so much.

"Why don't you go out in your boxers then and take them back?"

White_faced_clown: What? And risk running into Cyril? Hell. No.

"Well, you skip classes."

White_faced_clown: Why not? I could spend more time with you then.

"Allen Walker? Not follow his schedule? This I've got to see"

White_faced_clown: *smirks* It will be quite the show.

Bookman sighed and looked at the clock. Lavi should have come out by now. He never stayed in his room much past 5:30. It was already almost 7, for christ sake! Standing up, Bookman was about to drag the boy out of his room when a knock came from the front door. Grumbling something about getting a doorbell, Bookman opened the door only to see many of Lavi's friends standing outside.

"Hi Mr. Bookman! We were wondering if Lavi was home," Lenalee stated.

"We have something to show Lavi!" Johnny exclaimed happily.

"He needs to come with us right now!" Jerry added.

"Well, if you are looking for that brat, he's locked himself in his room for the evening. You can drag him out of there if you want to," Bookman sighed before heading back to the dining room where a huge book was placed.

The group of young adults quickly made their way to Lavi's door. They couldn't wait to tell him the good news.

"L-Lavi?" Miranda asked, knocking on the door gently.

When the shy woman's knock went unanswered, Lenalee tried knocking a little louder. After her was Jerry who all but pounded on the door. When there was still no response after several minutes, Kanda was fed up. Kicking down the door, Kanda stomped into the darkened room, instantly regretting it.

"Holy crap! My eyes!" Kanda screamed, fleeing from the room, most following.

"Shit!" Lavi snapped, quickly standing up, forgetting at his pants and bowers were around his lower legs and not noticing the computer cord wrapped around his foot.

He tried to take one step and fell flat on his face, pulling the computer off of his desk was he fell.

Allen stared, panting heavily from the immense amount of "exercise" he just did, blankly his laptop's screen.

Connection with Juniorred has been lost.

Cursing under his breath, Allen slumped against his chair. His mind flashed back to his extended chat time with Lavi and smirked. It had indeed been quite the show. The white-haired boy flopped down on his bed. He wasn't going to go to school. Not today. He was going to enjoy some more time with his Lavi before calling his friends and put their plan in action. Of course, that call would be a long time from then, leaving Allen plenty of time to be with his bunny man, even if he was just imagining him.


Mizu: Implied smut! I couldn't resist it. However, I didn't really want to try and write them…doing it. Sorry if I was kinda ramblely at the end. My mind is so focused on the next chapter already. Oh! And sorry for what Rhoad says, K? I wrote this right after I was looking through some of my old bio notes and came across my notes about the human genome. It kinda stuck in my mind. If it gives anyone a problem, I'll change it, okay? Kinda freaked me out when I finished writing too. That's why Allen says what he does. Again, sorry if it freaks anyone out.

Lavi: Why do you keep using "smexy, bunny man?"

Mizu: Because, according to Kaze, that is what you are. Just like always, any type of review will be very well welcomed. Ciao for now!