Time was getting short for the three Exorcists so they all decided to go with Elizabeth to the Inn that she lives to pack her things before she leave Cannes. This Inn was nicely done up with cherry wood flooring and red curtains draped over the windows the room was quite empty at that moment. But that wasn't caught Allen's attention. There was a small picture of Elizabeth when she was younger along with another girl that looked a lot like her on the brick fireplace. Lavi looked over Allen shoulder then turned his attention Elizabeth.
"Hey Elizabeth, who is this girl that's in the picture with you?" Lavi asked.
"That would be my older sister, Sophia," Elizabeth replied with an emotionless face.
Allen looked around the empty room.
"Where is she now?" he wondered.
Elizabeth didn't say anything but just went up the stairs. Allen's gaze followed her finding himself following her up the stairs. He wondered if he said something to hurt her then Allen thought that something might have happened to Sophia. But what did he know? He was just going by what he witnessed.
The girl turned around slightly with her hand out so Timcanpy could land on it. Allen noticed she was chewing her cheek as if to keep herself from shedding tears. He didn't want to see her cry so he didn't press further. But he bit his lip when he heard Lavi take a deep breath.
"Sophia died didn't she?" Lavi examined softly.
Elizabeth nodded.
Allen felt bad about this. He could tell that Elizabeth was struggling to keep strong and Allen knew what it was like to lose the last piece family left. But they didn't come here to give her counselling, they came here to bring her back to the Black Order. So Allen took a deep breath and walked towards her to place a hand on her shoulder.
"Elizabeth, do you want to go get ready now?" Allen suggested. "We need to get you back to the Black Order as soon as possible."
Elizabeth nodded again and opened the door to her room. She kept it opened to allow the other to come in as well. Allen was a slightly amazed when he walked into her room. There were books all around her floor and not just those regular reading books either. Lavi picked one up so Allen glanced over to look as well.
"A medical book?" Lavi questioned.
"I like to read stuff like that. Regular novels bore me they don't tell me useful information like those kind of books do," Elizabeth explained.
"I guess that's understandable," Lavi agreed reading the first few pages of the same book he picked off the floor.
Allen continued to look around Elizabeth's room while she began to pack her suit case. He noticed a few sculptures on dresser. The one that caught his attention the most is a clay replica of Timcanpy.
"Hey, Timcanpy, it's you," Allen chimed. Timcanpy flew over to take a look. It landed beside the sculpture version of itself and flapped its wings like it was happy.
Allen giggled a little.
"Hey, Elizabeth, did you make this?" He asked.
"Yeah, it's an old hobby of mine. I like to make sculptures of things that made me happy in my life," she replied.
"So you made this out of clay?"
"I made a few out of clay but there are a couple other sculptures made of glass."
Allen was amazed again at her artistic skills. He thought of a moment and figured that one of the Marshalls back at Headquarters would get along with her really well. Marshall Tiedoll was an artist as well but he's more into the drawing rather than anything else.
The white haired Exorcist looked over at Lavi was sat down on Elizabeth's bed reading intensely. Allen figured that Lavi found something else to read for a while. He looked over at Elizabeth who was almost finished packing her bag. He noticed she packed a glass sculpture of a dog in her bag. To know how good of an artist Elizabeth was made Allen smile a little knowing that there was something that made her happy. His eyes scanned her bag a little bit more he but turned his head sharply when he saw her under garments.
Elizabeth closed the lid on her suitcase and turned her attention to the door. Allen turned around to notice a rather muscular man standing at her bedroom doorway. This man must be Elizabeth foster father. He carried a serious look on his face at this moment.
"Where exactly do you think you're going?" He demanded.
"I'm going away, Philip," Elizabeth asserted herself.
"Oh yeah? Where are you planning on going?"
"I'm going away to an organization to become an Exorcist."
Philip just laughed as he continued to stand in the doorway.
"Exorcist? You got to be joking. There is no way that you could be something so important like that," he snorted.
Allen growled and decided to step in.
"Excuse me but your daughter is coming with us whether you like it or not. She is an Exorcist just like we are," Allen argued.
"Oh yeah and who are you?"
"My name is Allen Walker," he introduced himself. "And this is my partner Lavi. We have been sent here by the Black Order to bring her back with us."
Philip straightened himself and glared down at Allen. Elizabeth's foster father was about a foot taller than Allen making it seem like an uneven match if a fight were to break out. But Elizabeth broke the tension when everyone turned their attention seeing her going the stairs with the heavy suitcase. Lavi caught up to her and took that heavy bag from the young girl.
"You better take care of her," Philip gave an order.
"We'll take better care of her than you did," Allen justified as he walked down the stairs to catch up with the others with Timcanpy on his head.
Everyone sat waited at the train station for the next train heading towards Italy. Lavi took the book from Elizabeth's room to continue reading it and Elizabeth just relaxed in the evening sun while Allen was on look out. It was close to getting dark and he was hoping this trip wouldn't take too long. After seeing what Elizabeth has been living with for most her life Allen figured that all this waiting around would be good right about now.
Another hour passed when the train finally arrived. The moon was rising in the east and the stairs were glimmering in the navy blue sky ever so brightly. The Exorcists boarded the train and because they are from a big name organization they had the privilege of sitting in the First Class domain.
"This is how we Exorcists get to travel most of the time," Lavi gloated finally putting down the medical book he stole from Elizabeth's bedroom floor.
Elizabeth just looked around with a small smile on her face. Allen watched her and couldn't believe how easy is it to make her smile, even though she smile just a little bit, it's still a difference from the start of their meeting. Allen figured that if she wasn't happy it'll be harder for her to focus on doing her job as an Exorcist but maybe after living in a more welcoming atmosphere she might open up a little more. He could sense that in Elizabeth's heart there is a large barrier around her that needs to broken through. So that would be Allen's assignment for now on he will work on exorcising the demons within Elizabeth.
