Claimer: I own all OC's. Not that they're any in this story...
Disclaimer: I, unfortunately, do not own D. Gray-Man. Otherwise, this would have happened a lot earlier in the manga.
Plot: I'm participating in the "Yullen Week" that's going on here. The theme for today is "doll." Collaboration between Neko-Kyoutan and myself.
"Excuse me, but visiting hours are over." A small girl in a nurse's outfit peeked her head into the door. She didn't seem old enough to be a nurse... but you could never tell these days. "Finish up your meeting and exit the building through the left side." And with a tilt of her head and a rather... wide smile, she was gone. There was something a bit creepy about her expression, and the way that her hair seemed to defy gravity completely... or her skin being more gray than anything else. She was gone before Kanda could get a better look at her. Besides, after today? Kanda had seen worse.
Allen blinked at the strange appearance of the girl, but accepted her words that it was time to stop visiting the friends and time to leave. Allen nodded at Bookman, resisting the urge to bow, then smiled at Lavi and waved, wishing him better before stepping out of the room, leaving Kanda behind so he could say his goodbyes. The hospital was...strangely empty, and really quiet, but hopefully that was just Allen's nerves getting the better of him. He walked along the hallway, trying to find the waiting area, but he managed to get...turned around somehow. Long story short? Allen ended up in the doctor's waiting lounge. Allen frowned, confused with himself, and turned around to exit the room. However, in the short span on him trying to turn around, there was someone there; someone who looked a lot like Solen.
She had bright blond hair that hung down to her hips and those strange eyes that seemed to shit from the normal color to a deep, acidic orange. Allen narrowed his eyes and she smiled, twisting her hand just enough so that the lock clicked in the silence of their stare-down. Allen backed up one step, making the girl giggle and tip her head to the side, her eyes flashing from pretty green to acidic orange again.
"So," she said in a chipper and bubbly voice that matched her looks. "you're Allen Walker, the little Prince. Hm..." She hummed, eyeing him up and down. "I expected you to look...much more Prince-ly. Well, I suppose that you get what you get." She giggled and bounced up and down a bit, narrowing in on Allen. The boy kept making steps backward, but he knew where this was going to end up. With one of them dead.
Allen was determined for it not to be him.
"So, I guess you know why I'm here, hm little Prince?" She asked. Allen didn't answer, knowing why she was here, just not feeling the need to say anything about it. The girl sighed and tipped her head to the side, ceasing her walk forward. Allen took a quick look of everything that was around him, so he could use it later.
"Well?" She asked. "Aren't you going to ask my name?" Allen gulped and nodded. He should know the identity of his attacker.
"What's your name?" He asked quietly. She giggled again and her eyes flashed once more. The battle was about to begin.
"Grace." And with that, she stretched out her long legs and aimed a kick at Allen's face, making the boy duck and roll out of the way. He stood up just in time to receive a blow to the gut. He hunched over and coughed but while Grace giggled, he grabbed a mug off the table and smashed it into her head, using the shock of the attack to throw more blows Grace's way. He landed a punch on her eye and in her stomach, but when he reared back to throw another, Grace picked Allen up and threw him across the room, into a framed picture.
Glass, and the picture, rained down around Allen, the small shards cutting him in various places, yet he rolled out of the way to avoid being stomped on by Grace's foot. She giggled again and followed him, stomping where his head would have been and doing various other things to try and end this fight with Allen dead. Allen quickly got to his feet and threw a kick Grace's way, nailing her in the chest and causing her to fall back, landing on the glass pile. She got up and looked down at her arm, where a large piece of glass was slowly tinting itself red with her blood. She hummed and pulled it out, gripping it tightly in her hand and looking at Allen with wide, murderous and crazy eyes.
"Didn't you ever learn that it was impolite to hit a girl?" She asked, giving Allen barely enough time to tense and get ready to dodge before she came at him with the glass, swinging it this way and that, catching Allen and ripping his clothes, sometimes catching his arms. Allen was nice and bloodied before he swung his foot around in a round house kick, making Grace drop the glass. Allen then dove and picked it up himself, dodging various hits and kicks that she was throwing at him and swinging back with the knife. She was doing fairly well at dodging, but Allen managed to catch her on her arms and stomach, making her bleed just enough to pause her in her actions.
While she was distracted, Allen wasted no time, taking the bloodied piece of glass and slamming it into Grace's stomach. It wouldn't be enough to kill her, but enough to make her stop while Allen did finish the job. He stood, apologizing with his eyes as he kicked her where the glass lay, embedding it further and effectively throwing her into the wall again. She landed with a dull and sickening thud, her body leaving blood streaks down the wall. Grace didn't get back up again, but her now dull orange eyes stared at him, even in death.
That's when the shakes started.
Allen shook like he was cold, the shivers racking his body and forcing him to sit down. Tears ran down his face, and though he knew that it was either her or him that died, he still...killed a person. Allen shook harder and curled up into a little bloody ball, sobbing silent tears. He had just killed his first person, and it felt terrible. Allen sobbed harder, little whimpers and gasps starting to make their way out of his mouth, and his tears mixing with his blood, staining his face and body. Why? Why did it have to come to this? He never wanted this to happen, and not on account of him being here in this world.
Why?
Kanda still had things to say and quite a few questions to ask Lavi, but wasn't going to push it while the old man was in the room. Though he doubted that he would care, Kanda eyed the red head sternly. This conversation wasn't over, and wouldn't be over until Kanda had answers... or at least a lot more than he had now. Lavi only smiled, green eyes closing as he grinned. "See you soon Kanda." Meh, not like either of them had a choice. Although, Kanda couldn't help but half-heartedly chuckle at the simple statement.
"You're not known to be so lucky Lavi." If things kept on the way they were, he wouldn't be around to see anyone at all. And with that and a passing glance to the old man, Kanda left the room. He expected to see Allen there, but he seemed to have already left. He's probably waiting at the elevator... he thought. But for some reason, that didn't seem right. Allen didn't have a very good sense of direction. "It's a short trip from here to the elevators, how do you get lost in a hallway?" The raven muttered, a hand tugging at his bangs. Lost, in a hospital, that was much too creepy for its own good. Kanda passed the girl from earlier again, and she smiled, staring without any signs of blinking as he passed her. She looked almost frozen, and Kanda was happy to leave her behind... but suddenly she burst into motion, all giggles and grins and saying... something. By then, it was a bit too much for Kanda to take in. Against the gloomy atmosphere that was the closing hospital, she just didn't fit.
Oh my God. So yeah, you remember when I said that that was going to be the last update in a while? Yeah, that was a while. By my counts that was updated in January and now it is May. So yeah, things got even crazier! :D Yay for me! And Kitty! So things are getting crazier, but maybe updates will be more frequent with the summer months. Maaaaaaaaaybe. Except for the month of July in which I will be gone. For the last week. ^_^
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Kitty-chan (Neko-Kyoutan)