Chapter Seven
It didn't take long for Lavi and Linali to get separated from each other either. In minutes, each exorcist was on their own.
Lavi realized this after he already had a whole conversation by himself. He was now standing on his own, wondering where the other two were. He walked around aimlessly, but it was pointless with all the other people that were there.
Lavi let out a small sigh of disbelief, but he was almost instantly interrupted.
"Are you not enjoying yourself?" Lavi spun around to face the young man that was questioning him. For a quick second he was surprised at the fact that there was a male at the party, since it was to invite girls, but he then realized that some of these beautiful girls must have brothers that accompanied them.
Lavi gave a slight shrug with his left shoulder as he replied, "Just a bit too crowded for my taste" The young man nodded in agreement.
"Yes, I must agree with you on that. Sometimes these parties do become a bit of a bore once you've gone to as many as I have" Lavi let out a very unlady like, and slightly Kanda-ish snort at this, but the boy seemed not to have heard it.
Suddenly the boy grinned at him. He stuck out his hand to Lavi as he said "Forgive me; I don't think I have introduced myself. My name is Edward Galton, pleased to meet you" Lavi hesitated for a second, but gave Edward his hand after deciding that this was probably the best and least suspicious thing for him to do, especially since he wasn't really a 'miss'.
"Name's Lavi" said Lavi with a weak smile. Edward took his hand eagerly, and bent down to kiss it. Lavi felt like squirming on the inside.
"Such a pleasure to meet you Miss Lavi, and what an interesting name" Edward said happily to him with a smile. He suddenly tapped his chin as if he was thinking.
"I had done some traveling at some time, and I believe I had heard the word 'Lavi' before. If I remember correctly, Lavi means 'lion'. Is that correct?" Lavi gave him a sweet, but very false smile.
"Yes that is correct" Edward smiled to himself, clearly pleased that he remembered such a thing.
"Yes, well I guess it does fit you with that beautiful red hair. The color really stands out, and it does seem to say that you are a strong and brave person. Yes, it really does suit you"
Lavi rolled his eyes at the young man, but he seemed to miss it yet again.
"But," continued Edward, "I think that you are more of a rabbit then a lion. It just seem to fit you better" The word rabbit instantly reminded Lavi of the dangerously beautiful female samurai that was waiting outside. She was lucky that she wasn't the one in here talking to this idiotic noble, who might he add, was trying to impress him way to hard.
Lavi suddenly laughed at the thought of having Kanda here talking to this noble Edward Galton, and what she might have possible done to him.
Edward seemed to hear him this time, for he said, "Yes! That was the exact same reaction I had!" Apparently he had continued talking even when Lavi's mind had wandered elsewhere.
Suddenly Edward Galton stopped, reached for his hand. He held it in his as give him a sweet smile.
"I am truly happy to have met you tonight, Lavi" Lavi squirmed on the inside. He would admit that he flirted quite often, and he was quite happy when he was flirted back with, but for once, he wanted to get away from here as fast as he could. He did not like to be flirted with by another boy.
Suddenly there was an ear piercing scream that snapped Lavi out of his thoughts. He dropped Edward's hand as he spun around to face the direction of the noise.
'It must be an akuma' he thought 'So they finally showed up. It's about time something interesting happened'
Lavi turned back towards Edward. "I'm truly sorry, but I must go now" he said with false sincerity which the young man didn't seem to notice. Lavi turned and ran off before the other boy could say another word.
It wasn't long until Lavi found what he was looking for. A large crowd of rich noblemen surrounded four people. Lavi instantly noticed Allen, but she was now dressed in a fancy suit, instead of the dress that she had come in. Lavi stared at her, confused, until he caught a movement in the corner of his good eye. It was another Allen sitting on the floor, except this one was wearing the dress same dress as the one she came in.
'This one must be the real Allen' thought Lavi. There were two other people there, a middle aged woman, and a girl who must have been in her early twenties. Both of them had a horrified expression on their face.
Suddenly the older woman pointed a quivering finger at the Allen sitting on the floor.
"You, you're not Aaron, you're the other one" she said her voice barely more than a whisper.
"Mother, who is this?" asked the fake Allen, who must have actually been Aaron. He was about the same size as Allen, and he had the same brown hair that Allen now had after Linali had dyed it. His skin was also pale and smooth like Allen's, but unlike Allen, he lacked a scar running down his face (although hers was invisible at the moment since it had been covered with a really thick layer of makeup)
Allen's face went from shock to confuse. She had been walking around when a woman suddenly grabbed her, demanding to know where she had been and why she was dressed like that. Then the woman's eyes grew big and she let out a piercing scream as she pushed Allen away, causing her to trip and fall over. She now sat on the floor wondering what was going. She looked at the boy, amazed at how similar they looked alike when she suddenly thought of something.
Allen stared wide eyed at the older woman for a moment, and then she narrowed her eyes in hate.
"You" she spat "I know who you are" Both Allen and the woman looked furious. Everyone watching took a large step back away from the two.
"How could you?" Allen demanded "Tell me! How could you?" her hands clenched tightly as she yelled in rage. Allen got off the ground and tried standing as tall as she could, which as Kanda had pointed out many times, isn't very tall, but she didn't really care.
"How could you just leave me?" Allen continued screaming "How could you just leave me as a child not caring if I lived or died? How can you call yourself a parent?" She was now shaking with anger, and the woman didn't seem much happier.
Allen suddenly pulled her glove off, revealing her distorted red skin. "Is this why?" demanded Allen "Is this why you tried to get rid of me?"
"Yes" came the woman's reply. Her voice was cold and filled with hatred. "And you should have died" Lavi gave a small shudder at what she said. How could she have done this to Allen? No one should abandon a child, no matter what was wrong with them.
"Enough" said Lavi as he stepped between the two. He turned towards Allen. "Let's go" was all he said to her. As the two exorcists were walking away, Lavi suddenly turned around and faced the still fuming woman.
"You had no right to throw another human life away" he said in an expressionless voice "You had thrown away something very precious and you will never even know about it"
Lavi turned and began walking away as the woman continued to scream behind him, her voice fading as they got farther and farther away.
The people parted way from them as they walked through, not looking at their faces as they passed by. They suddenly saw someone running towards them. It was Lianli.
"Allen! Lavi! Are you guys okay? I heard someone screaming earlier" she said, slightly out breath after having just been running.
"It was nothing" Lavi said "Let's go. There doesn't seem to be anything here" Linali raised her eyebrow as she gave him a questioning look. She turned towards Allen hoping that she could shed some light on the subject, but the distressed look on her face told her that this was better left for another time.
Edward Galton stared down at the three exorcists as they left. He gave a sad sigh as he watched his beautiful red head leave. How much he hoped that he could see her again soon.
Haha! Lavi has got himself an admirer! He's going to be stalked now! Hehe! I can't wait to start writing the next chapter. Poor Allen though. I'll explain more of it later in the story, so don't worry if you didn't really understand it. Hm, I'll have to have Kanda and Linali do something interesting soon since they didn't really do anything in this chapter. Oh well, there's always another chapter!
