Chapter Twenty-Five: Cosplay
Summary: Lavi and Allen find otaku love at an anime convention. AU.
Genre: Romance
Rating: PG-13/soft R
Content: Some swearing, references to yaoi. Also some touching and fanservice.
Author's Note: Part of the 100 Themes challenge on DeviantArt. 100 chapters about Lavi and Allen as a couple. Don't like it, don't read it.
Legal Disclaimer: I don't own D. Gray-Man or its characters. They all are property of Katsura Hoshino and I make no profit off these stories.
Thanks to: Crazy Little Feline, P.A. Lovas, NellaXIval, Nusku, sweetpotato1992, Ashe Seraphim, Hasegawa-san, Ishikawa Yui, OyaSUMi-heart, Aion Laven Walker, Dgm-yoai-lover, ravenangel23, Sazuka-Chan and everyone else for your love and hugs.
So apparently…this theme is an actual fanfiction! Dgm-yoai-lover has fic posted on (or is working on a new fanfiction) with the same plot XD –had no idea- I haven't had the pleasure of reading it, but it's probably awesome, so give it a read (when it comes out?), everyone!
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Yaoi-con was packed.
Allen Walker had never seen so many people at a convention before. Then again, he'd never really been to one of the biggest cons in the state. He'd attended the smaller ones closer to home, but this one he'd actually driven the distance all the way to San Francisco. It had been a long trip that had gotten him strange looks as he drove south down the highway in his small Honda, cosplay gear in the back and the sticker that read: My Other Ride is an EVA Unit plastered on the bumper. However, as he got closer to the city, he could see other cars in the same state as his, weighed down with props, wigs, and food for the three day extravaganza.
"This is amazing!" said his friend, Lenalee Lee, from beside him. They were waiting for their bellhop to help them to their hotel room so they were people watching to pass the time. It was Friday and Allen and Lenalee had both skipped work to get to the con early. Others had as well, as apparent from the fact that many people were already in costume and walking around with bags full from the vendor's room and artist's alley. They had only been in the hotel fifteen minutes, but Allen had already seen a Roxas and Sora from Kingdom Hearts make out by the check-in counter. The fangirls had gone wild taking pictures; the hotel staff looked shocked, frightened, and somewhat appalled. "This con is going to be epic!"
"I agree," Allen replied, watching Lenalee text on her phone. He noticed she occasionally eyed her cosplay hanging on the rack of their cart and Allen knew she was itching to get into character.
"I wonder when they're going to get here…" Lenalee mused aloud, snapping her phone shut. The reason that the two of them had driven the distance to Yaoi-con was (truly only half because Lenalee was a crazy shounen ai fan) because of their forum friends. Over the past two years, Lenalee, Allen, and two other boys had roleplayed in the same online community. Their story and characters were from the newly popular anime D. Gray-Man. What had started as a manga no one knew about turned into something insanely well-known. That's when the out of character chatting had happened, in which the other two muns proposed that since they were veterans, they should go to a con and cosplay their favorite series. Because they had "known" each other for so long, Lenalee and Allen agreed to meet the other two boys at Yaoi-con that September, two weeks before going back to college.
"I dunno," Allen said. "They live in the city, so it shouldn't be too long, right?"
"I'd think so," Lenalee answered. The bellhop arrived and took their cart, leaving them to fight for an elevator to the seventh floor.
"What are their names again?" Allen asked, a little embarrassed. "I'd feel bad if I just called them Reb and Yusuke…" Lenalee swiped them in and propped the door open so that the bellhop could find their room.
"Let's see…" Lenalee said, sitting on the bed to take off her sneakers. "I know Yusuke-mun's name is Yuu Kanda. It's pretty cool that he's Japanese and so is his character, isn't it?"
"How do you know so much about him?" Allen asked, going to look out the window. Outside, more cars were pulling in and offloading all of their things. He saw a group of Akatsuki walking across the road from the market, take-out in their hands. A Trinity Blood photo-shoot was in process on the opposite lawn in the courtyard. A random box was following a squadron of men in army fatigues. If there was one thing Allen loved about anime conventions, it was seeing the characters in such amazingly ordinary places.
"Well…we kind of talk out of the forum, too…" Lenalee replied. Allen looked up quickly enough to catch her blush out of the corner of his eye. Lenalee roleplayed the character Runa from DGM and as of late, Allen couldn't help but notice that her posts with Yusuke had been a little…romantic.
"You don't…like him, do you?" Allen asked. Her ears turned red. Their things arrived, giving Lenalee the opportunity to not answer. After they had unloaded all of their stuff, they sorted and hung things up. The girl kept checking her phone, somewhat panicked, waiting for the call from Kanda. "So…what do you know about Reb-mun?" Allen couldn't help but ask. Reb and Allen's character, Alex, were good friends, so Allen felt like they were almost friends in real life as well. He was curious, to say the least, as Reb had made some posts in which Allen had to wonder if the other boy was coming on to him. The silver-haired boy was not sure how he felt about that.
"Not much. I can't remember his name, but I know that he's Yuu's roommate," Lenalee replied with a shrug. She pulled her boots out of her bag and grabbed her Exorcist uniform from the closet, walking into the bathroom to change. They were lucky they didn't have to do much in the way of hair, as Runa had long black hair like Lenalee and Alex had white hair, which was close to Allen's platinum blonde.
"Oh…" Allen replied, changing as well. His curiosity would be sated soon enough, Allen knew, and that was enough to make him look forward to his and Reb-mun's meeting. It took a good twenty minutes to get their costumes on plus make-up and hair. Then they got their wallets, cameras, and keys before leaving the room. Their belts had convenient pouches for all of their things, including cell phones as well.
"I don't know about you, but I think we look damn good," Lenalee commented, looking down at the black and white number she wore. Her boots were above the knee and had one hell of a spiked heel. Allen was glad he was a boy.
"I think we're hot," Allen agreed. He had decided to leave the majority of Alex's second release form "Crowned Clown" in his room as he didn't want to carry around the sword or wear the clawed hand. Instead, he had just donned the second generation uniform with a crafty creation for the somewhat deformed left arm of his character. "And it is kind of warm, too…" Lenalee had to keep him from smearing the make up of the "scar" that ran through his left eye when he rubbed his forehead.
"It'll get better downstairs," Lenalee insisted.
But it only got hotter.
There were people everywhere. And there were a lot of people making out as well. Flashes of cameras were going off left and right at couples cosplaying their favorite yaoi couple, even from non-yaoi series. Lenalee and Allen were grabbed for a few pictures, but thankfully not asked to kiss. Since it was Yaoi-con, no one was interested in female characters anyway. Besides, Allen didn't want to kiss Lenalee, no matter how pretty she was. For one, he was gay, and secondly, she was like his sister, so it would be even more awkward.
"There's the pre-reg line," Lenalee said, pointing at it. They joined the group and waited; Lenalee texted on her phone. "Oh, they're already here, but they need up in the room…" She texted them their room number and told them that she had left two keys at the front desk for them. "They want to know if we'll pick up their badges for them and then we're going to meet in the food court." Allen nodded, his heart beating fast for some reason. He didn't know why, but he was really looking forward to meeting Reb-mun. What would he look like? What would he be like? Would he pursue what had been merely hinted at in the forum, where Reb's eye would catch Alex's with a strange intensity? They got their badges within the next fifteen minutes and then made their way to the food court, Lenalee texting all the while.
"They should be here by now…'look around for a big hammer', is what Yuu said," Lenalee told Allen, who began scanning the crowd. Close to a pizza place, Allen spotted a black and white striped hammer held up above peoples' heads. The black cross spire on the top confirmed that it was Reb, and even more so when the crowd parted a bit to let a redheaded boy through. Behind him came another boy with long black hair held up in a ponytail. They were the spitting images of the characters they were cosplaying, which accounted for the crowd around them.
"Yusuke and Reb! OTP!" someone screamed. Reb waved at Allen and Lenalee quickly before he and Kanda were mauled for pictures.
"Please, please make out!" one girl begged. The redhead went to grab the other boy, but was thwarted by his sword.
"I'll kill you," said Kanda threateningly. The fans just got off on it.
"Oh, c'mon, Yuu-chan. It's Yaoi-con!" said Reb. Allen could hear the girls swooning at the nickname.
"No," Kanda replied before walking away. The girls gave sighs of disappointment, but Allen caught Reb telling them: "Don't worry! I'll work on him all weekend." Then they all cheered and touched the redhead for a while as Kanda neared their table. He looked a little awkward and Lenalee fidgeted in an embarrassed kind of way.
"Hi," Lenalee said.
"Hi," Kanda said. Then there was a silence in which there was a lot of looking and not enough talking.
"So…you're Yusuke-mun?" Allen asked, capturing Kanda's attention. He nodded and they shook hands. Yuu was a bit unsocial, it seemed, and didn't know how to react in situations where there were a lot of people he had never met before. He also didn't seem to know how to look at Lenalee without being obvious about it. It was actually kind of cute.
"Whew! Fangirls are scary!" said a voice from behind them. Reb walked up, his hammer held over his shoulder. He'd escaped the crowd, but not the stares. Allen didn't blame anyone for that, as he was openly staring as well, not expecting an otaku to be so attractive. Sitting down at the table with them, Reb fiddled with his eye patch and headband for a moment, straightening them up after his attack by the hoard of crazed women. Then once he was perfect, he looked up at all of them and smiled so brightly it nearly lit up the room. Even if it didn't really light up the room, it certainly made Allen's heart skip three beats or so. "Hi. I'm Lavi!" he said, when no one said anything. Allen realized it was because Kanda and Lenalee were too busy gazing at each other to notice much.
"I'm Allen," Allen replied politely, and the two of them shook hands.
"Nice to meet you," Lavi said, then laughed. "You know, for real this time."
"Yeah," Allen agreed, smiling. The one green eye not covered by the eye patch looked at him fully for a moment, before switching to look at the two across from him.
"Wow, you guys! The apocalypse is coming! Jesus is here to save your soulz from the invasion of blood-thirsty zombies that came to Rick Roll you!" Lavi said in an attempt to get the two of them out of their trance. But they didn't seem to hear and Lavi shook his head. "Wow, I guess we're chopped liver, then, huh?"
"Guess so," Allen said, handing Lavi his badge.
"We should just leave them here," Lavi proposed. "Have you looked around yet?"
"Not yet, no," Allen answered. Lavi grinned and Allen felt some heat gather in his cheeks.
"Then let's ditch them," Lavi said. "They won't care." Allen nodded and they stood up. The other two didn't even notice.
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Allen had never felt so popular before.
On their way to the vendor's room, they were stopped over and over again for pictures. No one asked them to kiss, which Allen was glad for. It wouldn't do very well to pass out in front of everyone. Or get hard. Both of which would be terribly embarrassing. Besides, it was difficult to not to both of those things when Lavi merely put his arm around Allen's shoulders for a few of the shots.
"Wow! This vendor's room is huge!" Lavi commented after their badges had been checked. The room was huge and filled with all kinds of anime and manga, but mostly yaoi-related material to buy. People were swarming with excitement around the booths, buying anything with half-clothed men on it. Lavi held his hammer up above the crowd so he didn't hit anyone with it and Allen followed behind him. While two of them were looking at some merchandise, a Grimmjow and Ulquiorra from Bleach groped the two of them as they passed, making Lavi whoop and Allen blush. "Oh, c'mon, Allen! We're hot! People want to touch us!"
"I guess so," Allen replied, his cheeks hot. They found cute hats with bunny ears on them, which Allen proposed they buy for "lulz". Lavi agreed, laughing and as they pulled out their money to pay, Allen dropped the wad of his cash on the floor. The moment he knelt down to pick it up, two things happened. First, a Sasuke who had been looking at doujinshi near them decided it would be a good time to smack Allen's behind with his yaoi paddle. The force of that blow actually gave birth to the second thing that happened, in which Allen fell forward into Lavi. He nearly knocked the other boy over, but Lavi managed to steady the both of them so they didn't fall to the ground.
"Whoa! Watch where you're swinging that thing, Sasuke!" Lavi shouted at the cosplayer next to them. His strong arm was supporting all of Allen's weight, so the smaller boy immediately righted himself, embarrassed. "Hey, are you okay?" Lavi asked, his green eye looking down at him, concerned. Allen was still holding onto the redhead's jacket and he quickly released his grip, slightly red.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry I ran into you," Allen apologized.
"Hey, it's no problem," Lavi said, smiling. One of his hands was still on Allen's upper arm, the other just barely on his waist. A crowd had gathered to gawk at them, making Allen all the more flustered by their staring and "awww"ing. But he blushed even more when people started shouting things at them like:
"Hold him, Reb, and tell him you'll be there forever~!"
"Make sweet love to him, Reb!"
"Can I get a picture with Alex on his knees again? Please?!"
"No harassing the cosplayers!" barked a member of con security coming through the crowd. She was short, but angry looking. Her badge read: FOU. "Break it up. Get lost." The girls dispersed, frightened. Throwing some of her pink hair out of her eyes, Fou pointed at them and said: "No provocative poses in the vendor's room!" Both Lavi and Allen nodded quickly in understanding, intimidated. After she left, they paid for their hats and ran.
A mob followed them.
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"Why is cosplay so tiring…?" Lavi asked.
"I dunno…" Allen was sitting beside him, leaning against a wall. Some people around them were doing the same thing, looking as tired as he felt. Day one and Allen was exhausted, but still excited. In his lap, he had some fried rice from the food court. Lavi was eating Lo Mein, his long legs stretched out in front of him. Their knees were resting against one another as they regained some energy. They were both wearing their hats, the long ears falling over their shoulders. Lavi looked so adorable that Allen just wanted to hug him repeatedly.
"Should we even check out panels?" Lavi inquired, twirling his chopsticks. Allen watched his slender hand and fingers gracefully move the utensil for a moment before going back to his lunch. He couldn't have it that bad for the boy beside him that he thought his hands were arousing…
"Maybe we'll go to a few tonight," Allen suggested. "Didn't we talk about casual clothes for evenings?"
"Yeah," Lavi replied. "I have my traditional clothing too, if we wanted to wear kimono."
"I brought mine, too," Allen said, smiling. "I figured it'd be comfortable."
"Oh, most definitely," Lavi answered. The two of them laughed, going back to their food. They talked for a while about their roleplay and what plot progression they should work for, what battles they should create and subjects pertaining to their forum.
"I wish Hoshino would get better soon. I need to know what happens!" Allen said, making a frustrated face. Lavi laughed, nodding in agreement about the condition of their beloved manga-ka.
"It was such a bad place to stop, too," Lavi mused aloud, finishing up his Lo Mein. "Ah, well. She couldn't help it. But when D. Gray-Man comes back, I'm going to be one happy guy."
"Me too," Allen said. They lulled into comfortable silence. Lavi's knee was warm against his. The redhead sighed and leaned against Allen, his head on the smaller boy's shoulder. Allen went still, his breath catching. Lavi turned his head slightly, his hair brushing against Allen's neck.
"Is this okay?" Lavi asked.
"Yeah," Allen replied.
"Are you sure?"
"Mm hmm."
"Cool."
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"Maybe no one will attack us if we're like this," Allen said, as he and Lavi walked down the stairs from their hotel room. It was better than sacrificing an arm and a leg for an elevator, which they had practically had to do just to get up to their room after lunch.
"Maybe," Lavi agreed. "Even if we're still in character. It's kind of like camouflage cosplaying." He was holding the knees of his hakama so he didn't trip and fall, just as Allen was doing. Their straw sandals scratched against the concrete stairs as they descended. It was only them currently for a few flights (Allen could hear Caramelldansen from around the second floor or so) and Allen's laugh echoed in the stairwell.
"Camouflage cosplaying," he replied, amused. "That's cute."
A few more steps.
"You're cute," Lavi said. Allen's face heated up, causing him to miss a step and fall forward into the wall on the landing. Lavi's laugh reverberated off the walls this time, only to be cut off half-way through with a breathy swear as the redhead tripped on his hakama and fell into the wall beside Allen. "Fuck my life. That was instant karma…" It was Allen's turn to laugh again, but Lavi chuckled with him as the two of them leaned against the 5th floor landing's wall. Caramelldansen was far away now, leaving them with only their harsh, echoing breaths. "I feel stupid."
"I do, too," Allen said, pushing himself away from the wall. "Let's be more careful next time." Lavi nodded, scratching at the band of his eye patch.
"Er, you know what I said before…" he murmured, sounding embarrassed. Allen looked at the space above his shoulder, not wanting to meet his eyes. The smaller boy knew that he was probably reading the signs wrong and that Lavi really wasn't interested in him. He was just one of those people who was friendly with everyone, even if his friendliness was borderline flirting.
"It was nothing," Allen said with an easy, faked smile. Lavi's expression appeared thrown off for a moment at the words.
"Um, but I meant that…" His one green eye looked down at the floor. "Never mind." Had Allen guessed wrong? Did Lavi really mean what he said earlier? Were all those touches and gestures something more?
"Well, I mean, um, if you—" Allen began, not knowing what to say.
"But, erm, yeah, so—" Lavi tried, but was unable to articulate either. Both of their blushing faces had to mean something, right? They were very close, Allen realized. Close enough that Allen could feel Lavi's body heat and see just how green his one visible eye was. They became even more embarrassed at their proximity when they realized it, jumping apart when heavy footsteps began getting louder above them.
"Eh…we're gonna be late," Allen said. "To the panel." Lavi nodded mutely and the two of them walked down a few more flights to the lobby. A Ciel Phantomhive from Kuroshitsuji was being molested by both Sebastian and Grell on a nearby couch for a fangirl photoshoot. Lavi grabbed Allen's hand and pulled him through the crowd when someone shouted out: "Alex! Reb! Waaaaait!" Allen didn't notice anything else except the warm hand in his.
After 10,000 yen pyramid, the two of them hurried to watch Cosplay Chess, which was amazing. Kanda and Lenalee were playing as a rook and a pawn respectively, and when Lenalee was taken out by an Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach, Kanda nearly went to maul the cosplayer. Allen couldn't help but think that his over protectiveness was as cute as it was ridiculous.
"What else do you want to do?" Lavi asked, after the match was over. The two of them had left Lenalee and Kanda to wander off to their Gurren Lagann panel so they were alone again, staring at the board of events. There had to be twenty different yaoi roundtables that Allen wanted to go to, but he wasn't sure how Lavi would react to that. Sure, they were at Yaoi-con, surrounded by people cosplaying boys making out, but that didn't mean that Lavi was interested in boys, did it? And Allen didn't want to be the one to say he wanted to go a yaoi roundtable. What if Lavi thought he was weird and didn't want to hold hands with the queer boy anymore?
"Let's go to the DGM yaoi-roundtable," Lavi proposed, pointing at it on the schedule.
"You want to go?" Allen asked.
"Er…yeah…" He seemed a bit unsure of himself. "Do you? If you don't feel comfortable then we can go to something else."
"N-No! I want to go…" Allen said. Lavi smiled, looking excited.
"Then let's go," Lavi replied. Before he could take Allen's hand, the silver-haired boy acted faster. His fingers grasped Lavi's hand and the two of them walked hand-in-hand to the panel. They were carded outside the room and then allowed inside. It was a huge space, completely full except for a few scattered seats. There were no two next to each other.
"Let's just stand," Allen proposed, but Lavi had sat down in a chair near the back that was unoccupied. Allen stared at the other boy as he patted his lap, indicating for him to come over and sit on him. "I'm really heavy…"
"You're not," Lavi replied. "C'mon."
"Can you see?" Allen asked, after he sat down across Lavi's legs.
"Yeah, just fine," Lavi replied, resting his cheek against Allen's chest. In response, Allen moved his arm around Lavi's shoulders, not only for balance, but to hold the redhead as well. He did his best to keep his breathing from sounding as erratic as his beating heart.
The panel was good, run by a girl who was rather crazy, but entertaining. There was a lot of screaming from everyone the entire time over favorite pairings and plausible canon relationships. It only got a bit uncomfortable when some images were projected on the screen before them. Well, it was only uncomfortable when they were of Alex and Reb. Allen completely shipped the pair and had "fapped" to some internet porn he had found of them once or twice. The pictures on the screen were graphic, too, and Allen felt Lavi shift slightly under him with the same amount of discomfort. They made it through the entire panel without saying anything and without moving too much. Allen could feel against his thigh that he was not the only one affected by the fanart.
"What do you want to do now?" Allen asked, when they were out of the room. It was considerably cooler, helping with his problem.
"I vote for getting a good night's sleep and then starting out early tomorrow," Lavi replied with a long stretch. Allen averted his eyes, too turned on to endure more teasing. In the end, they caught an elevator to their floor and went into the room. Kanda and Lenalee weren't back yet, so Allen took full use of the shower. After he was through, Lavi went into the bathroom and cleaned up as well. By one in the morning, they were both in bed and watching How It's Made on the discovery channel.
"So is it chill if I sleep here?" Lavi asked, looking up at Allen from under the edge of the blanket. His face was so different without the eye patch, but still just as attractive.
"Yeah, it's fine," Allen replied, trying to keep his attention on the show.
"Sure?" Lavi asked sleepily, his arm snaking around Allen's waist.
"Yeah," Allen answered after he had caught his breath again. Lavi snuggled against him, their bodies molding against one another with a warm, comfortable heat.
"Cool."
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Allen woke up at three in the morning. The television was still on and by the bluish glow, Allen could see two forms in the other bed across from theirs. It was obvious that it was Lenalee and Kanda. And it was very obvious what they were doing. Lavi was in a dead sleep behind him, so Allen took his opportunity to turn around and face the redhead. Ignoring the light squeaking of the other mattress, Allen studied the other boy carefully: admiring the shape to his face, the arch to his brows, and the strong structure of his nose; then focusing on the smaller details, like the fine strands of his red hair and the delicate lashes against his cheek.
"I think you're cute, too," Allen murmured against Lavi's soft lips.
He didn't wake up.
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The next day was a whirlwind again. It was cosplay, panels, photoshoots, food, then a rest and then repeating all the previous four again. Allen and Lavi were exhausted a few hours before masquerade and had decided to go to the room to take a quick nap. However, they were thwarted when they heard Kanda and Lenalee in there doing the "whoo-hoo" as Lavi so maturely put it. It resulted in the two of them camping out on the hotel lobby's plush loveseat, where Allen fell asleep with his head in Lavi's lap and the redhead napped sitting up. They were rudely awoken an hour or so later by a member of the hotel staff. Apparently people had been taking pictures of them and blocking the traffic in the lobby, so they were asked to leave.
"At least we have a little more energy now," Lavi said, stretching as they walked toward the major line outside of the grand ballroom, where the skits and cosplay were going to take place.
"A little…" Allen replied with a yawn.
"Excuse me! Excuse me!" They turned to see two cosplayers from Death Note, L and Light (both handcuffed together, of course), with their cameras in hand. "Would you guys mind posing for a picture?" They'd been doing it all day, so they immediately struck their poses. It drew a small crowd, who also wanted pictures.
"Can you guys hold each other?" asked a girl in gothic Lolita. Lavi looked at Allen, as if asking for his permission. Allen laughed and shrugged in a way that indicated he didn't mind. Arms moved around him and they smiled cutely for all the blushing fangirls. Allen even passed off his camera to one of them, asking for pictures as well.
The two of them got a bit more daring as the requests became greater. It went from hugging and holding to pinning and groping. Allen knew what was next and waited in anticipation for the one person to ask them to do it…to kiss in front of all of them. And when it came, Lavi looked at him in the same way he had done in the stairwell yesterday. That's when it all clicked and Allen realized that everything Lavi had said, he had meant. In fearing that Lavi was going to push him away, Allen had really pushed Lavi away.
"May I…?" Lavi asked, his fingers gently brushing against Allen's cheek. Whether the question was for show or not, Allen didn't care. He nodded.
"Please," he said, fingers curling around the ends of Lavi's scarf, pulling him closer. The girls (and even some of the boys) around them were holding their breath as the two boys closed the distance between them. The moment Lavi's lips touched Allen's, it was like everything he'd ever read about in books and fanfiction. The cliché line about a person's mind blanking as the world stood still on its axis. Allen had always thought phrases like those were overused, ridiculous, and absurd. But now that he was kissing someone—a real, tender kiss with someone he liked so much—Allen had to agree with those statements, as he experienced a feeling of pleasant vertigo that left him clinging to Lavi for support.
When had it developed, this overwhelming feeling for the boy kissing him? When had Allen crossed the line between his roleplay and real life? He wasn't sure, but maybe it had been slowly growing over the years he and Lavi had played together. Maybe over that time, they had grown closer than Allen had ever realized. Maybe that was why, at that moment, Allen felt like everything that had ever been out of place and empty in his otaku life, now was complete and full. Emerging from his trance when their lips parted, Allen could suddenly hear all the cheering and shouting from the people around them and it actually shocked him slightly. Had they been shouting the whole time?
"Allen…" Lavi said, bringing Allen's attention to the redhead against him. He could see himself mirrored in Lavi's expression. Just as Allen was wondering, Lavi was obviously thinking the same thing. But then, he smiled and Allen did too, albeit shyly. Whatever had happened—whenever it had happened—had given birth to this new happiness inside both of them and that was all that mattered.
"Kiss again!"
"Do it again!"
"Sooooo cuuuuute!"
They were more than happy to oblige.
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D'awww. They are so cute!
(And now I miss con so much...)
So, I was totally going to add some hot, smexy smut, but then I decided against it.
Proposition for you, then.
For most of these challenges, I have omitted the sex to keep the rating rather low. But, would some of you be interested if I posted the smut elsewhere? Just curious :D
Chapter 26
Tears – "Bookmen aren't allowed to cry. Then why can't I stop?" Lavi's thoughts on Anita's ship regarding Allen.
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