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Allen trudged towards his room, not even bothering to stifle yawns. Road had forced him to play dolls with her for almost an hour, and he was exhausted and tired and wanted to go to sleep. He pushed open his door and saw Lavi sitting on his bed holding Timcanpy.

'About time you came back! Listen, we're gonna have to hide Tim better. I think he must've meowed or something and Lulubell heard him cos I found her in here looking for something.'

'What?' Allen blinked, 'Did she see Tim?'

'Nah, took him to the library till she left. We'll have to make sure to lock the door from now on.'

Allen nodded and came towards the bed. Lavi moved back so Allen could lay down, letting Timcanpy go free as he did. The boy sighed and covered his eyes with his arm.

'Road made me play with her dolls...'

'Ouch,' Lavi winced as he lay down next to him, 'that's low...'

'Yeah, and then she tried to get me to wear a dress as punishment cos my heart wasn't in the game.'

Lavi snorted in laughter. Allen hit him with his arm, unable to keep a small smile off his face.

'Shut up, it was humiliating!'

'I know,' the redhead rolled on his side and grinned, head propped up by his elbow, 'That's what makes it so funny. If it wasn't humiliating then that would make it creepy.'

'Hm...'

They lapsed into a companionable silence. After a minute Timcanpy got bored of playing around on the floor with the various balls of wool Lavi had tossed at him, and hopped up onto the bed to settle comfortably between them. Lavi sighed and reached to scratch the kitten under its chin.

'Allen?'

'Mn?'

'I'm sorry I kissed you and stuff...'

'S' ok...' the fifteen sighed. 'Lavi, can I ask you a personal question?'

'Yeah?'

'How'd you die?'

Lavi blinked in surprise, then sighed sadly and rolled onto his back, staring up at the canopy of the bed.

'I was murdered.'

Allen's eyes widened in shock. He'd been under the impression that Lavi's death had been an accident, or he'd died from some disease, but now that he thought about he could remember the ghost saying something about being killed before. He was curious as to why he'd been murdered now, but was unsure if it was appropriate to ask him to continue. Fortunately, Lavi went on without being asked.

'I... Don't quite remember the details. Only a person who has died suddenly can become a ghost, my soul wasn't prepared to leave the land of the living and I got stuck here... Anyway, my family had a certain... Artefact that someone wanted and that someone asked me where it was. It would be dangerous if that artefact left the place it was at, so I didn't tell them, and they killed me. I was still standing when I died it happened so fast...'

'H-How did they kill you? I mean, that fast... I don't know of any weapon that could do that. Did they have a gun?'

'Nah, she killed me with a spell. She was a witch you see.'

Allen blinked.

'A witch..? Witches don't exist!'

'Says the boy whose best friend is a ghost.' Lavi turned on his side to grin at him. Allen pouted, and smiled weakly.

'I guess you're right... A witch, huh?'

'Hm, yeah, there were heaps of witches around the town when I was alive. But it was dangerous to be one cos there was a test invented that always made the witched known, and even if you weren't an evil witch they'd burn you. So, my family created that artefact and sealed everyone's powers in it so we became normal humans-'

"We"?' Allen sat up in surprise, 'You were a witch too?'

'Sure was, though not very good. Pretty much the only thing I could do was shrinking and growing spells, but that would still be enough to get me burned. Anyway, the witch that killed me was from out of town, and she wanted the thing that had everyone's powers in it to increase her own. Now, if anyone touched the artefact, they would die, cos of the overwhelming surge of power, so I told her that but she said she had found a way to contain it and I had better take her to it or else. I realised then she was obviously evil so I refused to tell her, and... Wam!' Lavi clapped his hands together, 'Blasts me with a spell and I'm dead immediately.'

'That...' Allen tared in shock, somewhat speechless, 'That wasn't very nice of her.'

Lavi chuckled, sat up and ruffled Allen's hair. The boy felt his face heat as the ghost gently let his hand fall, brushing his fingers down Allen's cheek as it went, as though accidently-on-purpose. He smiled and got off the bed.

'Nah, it wasn't. Anyway, it's late and your tired right? I gotta go out for a while anyway so I'll let you sleep.'

'Ok...' Allen nodded and got up to get his pyjamas as Lavi opened the trap door, 'Night Lavi.'

Lavi nodded and descended the stair case. He couldn't help but stand on his toes as he shut the door, to see Allen with his back turned, slipping off his button-up shirt from his shoulders. The ghost then walked through the tunnel, his mind buzzing. He'd almost completely given away all the details of his murder. Pretty much the only thing he hadn't told Allen was where his body was, or the fact that his body now had the crystal sealed inside it to protect it, causing the strange diamond coffin. He knew Allen was a good person and would never try to steal it, but holding that knowledge was a pretty dangerous thing, as he had learnt the hard way.

'Heh...' He murmured to himself with a smile as he emerged in the moonlit garden, 'That cute trusting face of his... Can't hide anything from him... I have to be more careful though. God damn... What kind of maniac gives ghost emotions anyway?'

First he'd kissed Allen, almost draining his life force, now he'd told Allen about the crystal artefact that held over two hundred witch's powers. If he wasn't careful, he was afraid his beloved friend would get hurt.

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This chapter was short, sorry.

And a note, both boys and girls can be witches for those who dont know.

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