And after months and months without an update here is a shooort excuse of a chapter. But since I recently got a little inspiration, I'm in the progress with next chapter too!
As always; read and review, and I own nothing of -man… **cries**
Anglice
At eleven PM, most people at the order had already gone to bed, save those on guard duty and of course the always working science department. This particular September evening though, if you really listened, you could hear the hushed voices of people moving through the corridors of the Black Order.
"Lavi, I'm not so sure about this anymore…"
"Don't worry Shakil, nothing bad is going to happen! Iulia's nowhere in sight and Lenalee will be on watch while we very swiftly just look a bit around her room. What could possibly go wrong?" Lavi turned around giving his friend a big smile, still moving forward. The three partners in crime had been making their way towards Iulia's room, going only through the corridors they knew were unguarded. After all, who wouldn't be suspicious if they saw three black clad people sneaking around, pressed againt the walls as if that would miraculously make them invisible?
"But why do we have to look like were going to break into the Louvre and steal the Mona Lisa?" Lenalee whispered from behind Shakil, though she had to admit that she looked pretty awesome in her outfit. They were all dressed in tight black clothes, finished with black scarves tied around their heads. Lavi had even taken off his bright green bandana to honour the occasion.
"I thought that we would look like ninjas, actually." Lavi felt a bit offended that no one saw the awesomeness of the outfit, but kept moving. They had almost reached Iulia's door now, and was hoping that like most people here, Iulia wouldn't have asked for a lock. In a place like this, concerns regarding material belongings weren't exactly your first pirority. Besides, it wasn't like anyone was going to steal anything, since the only thing those working for the order might own would be something out of only sentimental value.
In fact, all would have seemed very ironic to Lavi if he hadn't been too concerned with the "Mission-of-Love" to realize that they were actually going to break into someone's room.
Carefully turning the door knob to not make any sound, Lavi gave a small sigh of relief when the door easily slid open. Part one was now finished. All they had to now, was find the diary with Iulias detailed confession of love for Kanda. Lavi was very sure that every girl had a diary and of course they would write about Kanda and his shiny hair in it. Can we just say that it takes one to know one, and leave it at that?
Plus, if they found it, maybe the others would stop asking him about that slip up he made earlier on the subject…
No one knew this, but when Lavi first came to the order, he had a bit of a crush on his Japanese friend and his shiny hair. The thing was that before he actually met Kanda, he had only seen him from a distance and asssumed that he was a girl. And when they met, that desire to blush around his fellow exorcist just wouldn't go away!
That was when he was sixteen, and he first realized that his preferences weren't limited to girls, and it had been hard on him. It wasn't so much that he couldn't accept the idea of being attracted to other men; it was more of the idea that as a future bookman, he now had twice as many attachments to be careful of.
Lavi and Shakil snuck into Iulia's room and started searching while Lenalee waited outside on watch-duty. At first they didn't find anything of interest (Lenalee had pointed out, that of course someone who just moved in hadn't had time to get any stuff yet) until they looked under the bed, though it wasn't a diary.
It was a folder.
With papers in it.
Paper with text on it.
"Bingo!" Said Lavi as he did a little victory-dance.
"What does it say, come on show me!" Shakil tried to stop Lavi from jumping and spinning around so he could get a look at the folder.
"Wait, we should take this with us to make farther investigations."
"No!" They heard Lenalee hiss from outside the room "What do we do if she gets back and notices that it's gone?"
"We… tell her that Kanda took it while sneaking in here to watch her sleep?"
"That won't help the situation at all." Shakil said with a disturbed look.
"I'll come in; we take a quick peak, and then put it back. Okay?" Lenalee gave no room for argument as she crossed the room with quick steps.
"Okay, but hurry up!"
"I wanna open it!" Lavi was so excited to finally read the "diary", even if it was a bit disappointed of the simple appearance of it. No pink hearts, no lovepoems scribbled down in cursive… just the word STALKK in big, bold letters.
They all sat down on the floor in a circle and Lavi opened the folder carefully, as if it was the original script of the Odyssey…
Loggbok dag 1, kväll
Det här suger. Operation STALKK suger. Hur ska man kunna komma underfund med en person som inte gör annat än tränar, äter och sedan sover?
Loggbok dag 2, kväll…
"It's in Swedish!" Shakil let out a loud sigh and buried his face in his hands. Had they gone through all this for nothing?
"What are we going to do now?" Lenalee asked.
"You're just lucky you've got the Genious on your side. I wouldn't make a good Bookman if I didn't speak almost every language there is, right?" Lavi grinned at his comrades and for a moment he was thankful for all the tutoring he had to go through with Bookman, including language-studies.
"So you can translate it?" Shakil's face lit up.
"Of course!"
Log day 1, evening
This sucks. Operation STALKK sucks. How are you supposed to figure out a person who does nothing but train then eats and then sleeps?
Log day 2, evening
I noticed something in the training area today (I was heading already heading there, I wasn't trying to spy on him shirtless like some creep! And why am I making excuses to a piece of paper?). Anyway, he has this tattoo, it's some sort of symbol. I've seen a similar sign before, when travelling through Asia. It's Sanskrit, and important in Hinduism. But I don't know what it means.
Log day 3, afternooon
I just came back from the library, and I saw the target of investigation staring at Lavi like he killed his soba. Strange as it sounds though, he didn't make a scene or any death threats, he just went out and stormed down the corridor. At least I didn't have to clean up any chopped off bodyparts. Otherwise nothing interesting happened today.
Log day 4, morning
I went up oh so early to prepare for today and all the stalking I will do (isn't there a better word for it that doesn't sound so illegal?).
I'll start at breakfast, but first I'm going to sleep a bit more…
Log day 4, evening
Did I mention that this sucks? If nothing happens tomorrow, I give up.
Log day 5, evening
Oh. My. GOD.
The apocalypse is here.
I went to breakfast and then… this is too freaking weird, but I was just minding my own business by myself when I hear this gruff, male voice behind me saying "Is this seat taken?"
I didn't recognize it at first and was too occupied with my food to care, so I just nodded and he sat down. Then, with my mouth full of food, I turned to see who it was and in my surprise I choked. I mean I literally choked on my food, I thought I was going to die!
Anyway the thing was, that the gruff man beside me was none other then you know who! And there were plenty of other seats at empty tables he could sit by, like he usually does.
And as if this wasn't enough; he talked. Not much, but he talked, asked questions and stuff.
"Where did you say you come from?"
"Who was your general?"
"Where is baka usagi?" (well that's not an odd question, but I just answered "no" and then he said, "we'll you usually hang out." Like he NOTICED or something)
Okay so it wasn't like it ws all that personal, but still. He could have just sat somewhere else and then drop by to ask for Lavi.
I think I have to go to the cafeteria and get some tea and then head straight to bed. Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and realize that it was just my imagination, that I'm crazy and hallucinating. Probably.
"What do we make of this?"
Lavi, Lenalee and Shakil all sat in Iulia's room for a moment, a bit perplexed because of what they just read. Lenalee was mostly surprised at the fact that Iulia even kept a journal (or whatever it was), Shakil didn't really accept that his new friend was a stalker and Lavi was trying to find any indication of when this was written. He did see something by the last entry… 24th of Semtember, 10.42 PM…
Okay and today was…
"Lenalee, what day is it today?"
"You have a photographic memory and you can't remember that it's Wednesday?"
"No I meant the date!"
"24th."
"What time is it?"
"Just a little past 11, why?
"We have got to go now, she'll be back any second!" Lavi started to panic.
"Keep quiet!" Shakil hissed at him "why do you say that?"
"Look at the last entry, it wont take her forever to get tea and-"
"What. The. Hell. Are you doing with that you bloody trespassers!"
Shit.
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And that is all for now mei amici, But you'll get an update soon! Anyway, the title simply means "In English" and I couldn't come up with anything more creative today, but of course it refers to their little translation-part.
