A/N: Two updates within one 24 hours period? No way! Please don't kill me because of the chapter!


I poked my head through the door to the science department. Not seeing who I was looking for, I pushed it all the way open and walked in. "Have any of you seen Lavi?"

"Sorry, I can't say that I have," Reever replied, working diligently on his paperwork unlike a certain maniacal Branch Chief.

"Why do you ask?" Johnny wondered, helping Tup carry more papers to Reever's desk.

"It's nothing really. He left this note on my nightstand telling me to meet with him. But I guess he's being difficult again because he didn't tell me where. And I can't figure out what these doodles and scribbles on the bottom mean. Knowing Lavi, he probably drew them to annoy me," I replied, handing him the note.

4. A doodle of a pig. – g. An odd-shaped oval. – gg. A doodle of a person in a net. – ap. A small circle.

"I think he may have been trying to give you directions." Tup said hesitantly. He didn't seem too sure.

"Pfft. He didn't seem to try too hard," I scoffed, glaring at the paper.

"Tup may be on to something. I think this could be a rebus game," Johnny suggested, "Lavi would do something like that." [1]

"Ah! You're right Johnny! That's makes this a lot easier," I cheered, taking another look at the note. "The only word I can think of with two Gs is egg so that must be what the picture is. What's the one with a net?"

"Um…-ap…trap?"

"Let's go with that. Then what about the circle?"

"An o?"

"O? Oh! Okay. 4 Pi-e-tr-o," I said, putting the clues together.

"Do we know anyone named Pietro, Tup?" Johnny asked, getting a head shake in reply.

"4 Pierto? 4 piętro? Czwarte piętro," I muttered, slowly realizing what it meant. [2] "That idiot."

"You figured it out?"

I was irritated at Lavi's little game. Why did he have to make me work so much when I just woke up? "Yes. He wanted to meet in the first floor of the training room. Thank you for helping me. I'll see you later."


"LAVI!"

Said redhead looked in my direction and smiled, blatantly overlooking the annoyed expression on my face. It was almost as if he was expecting this.

"You are so-" I stopped in realization, now fully awake. I had just realized that I didn't remember waking up and going back to my room last night. Lavi must have carried me back after I fell asleep.

"I'm so what?" He chirped happily.

"Nevermind. Thank you for carrying me to my room. I couldn't have been easy seeing as it's at least 28 floors up. Especially with my heavy armor," I thanked, giving him a small hug. He laughed and hugged back. Randomly, he spun us around so that we switched places before letting me go. I was facing the door again and he was facing the interior of the room.

"So what was it that you wanted to talk about that you had to send me on an adventure just to find you?" I questioned. Honestly, it had better be something good for making me climb up and down a total of 24 floors.

"Yeah, I do." He paused for a moment, as if waiting for something.

"Well…what is it?" I asked impatiently. I didn't get to eat breakfast yet since I was trying to find him.

Just as randomly as he spun us around, he swooped in and kissed me, then quickly pulled away. "I love you~!" He declared happily, a big grin on his face.

"…" I was complete and utterly flabbergasted.

"Could you repeat that?"

"I could~" He teased.

"Lavi!"

"Haha! I said 'I love you~', silly Kasia!"

I take that back. Now I was compete and utterly flabbergasted. My train of thought was brought to a screeching halt. Oh screw that! It crashed into a brick wall, derailed, and was flopping around frantically like a fish out of water! I was sure my mouth was hanging open and my eyes were as wide as dishes. I could feel my face heating up and guessed that it was probably cherry red. I had to do something! I scrambled to gather up whatever coherent sense I had left.

"I-I…I…I…I've…I've gotta think about it!" I squeaked, my voice cracking. "I…I...BYE!"

I ran out of there faster than I ever thought I could move in a dress. I didn't even hear the feral growl of a certain grumpy Exorcist that was echoing from the room.


[1] Modern rebus is a word play game. You can use pictures to represent words or part of words. An example would be H + A picture of an ear = Hear or here. In the chapter, it was: Pig minus the g = pi; Egg minus gg = e; Trap minus ap = tr; and o.

[2] Czwarte piętro = Fourth floor (above ground level). Though I may not have the right spelling. Based on the rough map I have of the Headquarters, that would be the first floor of the training room.