Lavi stretched his arms as he woke up and felt something solid on the other side of his bed. Groggily, Lavi lifted his head to stare at it and caught the sight of white hair cascading down slender shoulders.
'Argh!' He gasped in fright and tumbled off the bed… again as he sat up and rubbed where his head hit the ground. Lavi had slightly forgotten that Nella had crept into his room and fell asleep. Luckily enough she was still sleeping as he stole out of the room quickly and turned on the kettle.
Times like these really do ask for coffee, a very strong one as he scratched the back of his neck and sighed. What was he? A coward? He, Lavi who stared at the horrors of this catch-me-if-you-can serial killer had left behind without a so much trouble was frightened out of his room because of a young woman sleeping… slightly seductive… in his bed.
Lavi groaned aloud as he finally put together his coffee and turned around taking a deep sip of the hot liquid. Nella soon walked into the room looking like a three year old child, rubbing her eyes… Lavi glanced at the tabletop quickly, blushing.
Lavi shook his head and quickly excused himself to get changed so he could get those fingertips to Komui.
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'No kidding, through the window?' Komui was shocked as he gapped at the fingertips, untying them and matching them to the tip less hand. Lavi nodded.
'It went into where Nella was sleeping, scared her senseless it did,' Lavi added as he gazed at Komui going about his work to stitch the fingers into place on Mr. Hodges' hand before stepping back satisfyingly.
But that positive emotion soon headed downhill as Komui stared at him sternly.
'Don't you think that it's possible that the killer will target Nella now? I mean it was sent through her window,' Lavi shivered at the thought but shook his head anyway.
'If so then why later than when he killed Mana?' Komui grumbled as he folded the cloth over the corpse one last time and wheeled it over to the storage area.
'Another question, where's Nella?' Lavi gagged at the question muffled from the storage area and raced up the stairs before Komui appeared again.
IDIOT!
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Lavi raced up the stairs and just as he reached the doors, he heard a scream, mostly likely, he knew it had to be Nella as he reached for the door. Drat the door was locked as Lavi heard Nella's whimpering and didn't think twice as he stepped back and kicked his very own door down.
'NELLA!' Lavi called out as he grabbed an umbrella and rushed into the kitchen where Nella was cowering in the corner, a tall figure dressed head to toe in black towered over her. The hood of the jacket covered any observable feature of their face except for a pair of sparkling gold eyes.
'Oi, get away from her!' He lunged at the figure, brandishing the umbrella like a sword. The figure unfortunately retaliated by swinging their arm and Lavi watched a glint of silver glide inches from his face.
Lavi stepped back and blocked the next attack with his umbrella but was shocked to find the figure's weapon of choice sliced threw metal and fabric as if it were butter. He gapped at it before he realized that the figure was coming at him again.
Suddenly, Nella reacted by opening one of his cupboards and hurling the first thing her fingers grabbed, a glass plate. The figure dodged it but Nella kept hurling them until one of the plates hit them on the right shoulder. With a hiss, they turned around and ran for the window.
'Bastard, WAIT!' Lavi ordered as the person smashed through the window and down to the ground three floors below. He rushed to the window and glanced around the empty alleyway below… nothing, the person vanished into thin air.
Lavi kicked the lower wall angrily, the first glimpse of the killer and he slipped through his fingers just like that.
Then he felt a gentle presence behind him and the touch on the shoulder that made him turn around and he met the silver eyes and soft smile of Nella. The gratitude, though not expressed in words, was evident in her smile that Lavi couldn't bare to look but kept staring anyway.
Before he knew it, she leaned up and captured his lips with her own. Lavi quickly pushed her away and stared at her confused frown.
'Wait… we shouldn't, I mean…' Nella giggled at him.
'It meant thank you,' her voice small yet melodic just like the last time he had heard it. Lavi blushed scarlet at his foolishness and looked away.
'Right,' Nella nodded in agreement before Lavi kissed her back managing to slip into her slightly opened mouth. When they parted, it was her turn to look red and embarrassed.
'I was get returning the favor,' Lavi snickered.
Got this done finally, thought it was time that we'd get a glimpse of the killer not much but it'll leave you guessing~!
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