Chapter info:
Chapter three- left behind
Prompt- none, this is based on a RP I did with DGM yaoi lover. I MISS YOU HARMS!!!!!!!
Pairings- Laven
Other info- Lavi is 16 and Allen is 13 and they've been best friends for as long as either of them remembers. Allen has no scar, and Lavi has both eyes.
OH! EVERYONE! GO VOTE THE POLL IN MY PROFILE PLEASE!! I NEED SOME FEED BACK!!
I don't own DGM, but I really, really wish I did...
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Lavi balanced on the tree branch that reached close to his younger friend's window. The redhead could see the boy was sitting at his desk bent over some papers as he scribbled away and Lavi couldn't help but stop to smile at him, admiring the way his prematurely white hair reflected the sunlight streaming in from outside.
'Wait- what the hell am I doing?' Lavi asked himself, glancing down at the ground, which was a long drop from where he was precariously balanced. Shaking his head in confusion, Lavi reached out and tapped on the window, grinning brightly as Allen jumped and turned to look at him, eyes widening in surprise before he hurried over to the window, throwing it open for the redhead.
"Hey Lavi!" the boy smiled, as he stepped aside and allowed the redhead inside. Lavi had a key to the house, but climbing the tree was more fun in his opinion. No matter how many times he did it, Allen's surprised face always made him want to glomp the younger boy. A lot of things that Allen had always done Lavi had started finding almost unbearably cute, and the redhead was having a hard time reining all of his affections in.
"Hey Allen..." Lavi smiled back as he climbed in expertly.
"What's up?" Allen asked casually as he sat back down on the chair in front of his little desk.
"Nothing really, just bored and I wanted to see you!" Allen smiled and nodded as Lavi continued, "I swear the old panda has never even heard of a weekend! Lesson after lesson after lesson! He has no heart!!"
"Well, I was just doing my homework..." Allen chuckled at Lavi's horrified look.
"Not you too!"
"I'm almost done! We can watch TV or something after..."
"Okay!" Lavi grinned as he flopped happily on to Allen's bed, bouncing a few times as he stared at the ceiling. Allen rolled his eyes with a smiled as he turned back to his math homework.
"Hey Allen?" Lavi asked after a few moments of thought.
"Yes?" Allen didn't look up from his school work.
"What is love?"
Allen looked up in surprise then, glancing at Lavi in confusion, "Love?"
"Yeah..." Allen paused for a moment looking as if deep in thought.
"Well... its something special between two people... uhmm... there are lots and lots of different kinds of it too... oh I dunno..." he said, scratching his head with a pencil.
"Why do you ask?" Lavi was silent for a moment.
"Well... I was talking with Yuu Chan, and he said that love is something that only families and a girl and a boy can share. But... we love each other right?"
"Of course we do! Friendship is a kind of love!" Allen smiled brightly as he shut his note book.
"But that's the thing Allen... lately... I've felt... different... about you."
"Different how?"
"I don't know... just... different... it's hard to explain..."
"Well, try!" Allen said with an encouraging smile as he turned in his chair to face Lavi.
"Well... I still love you and stuff, I mean, you're my best friend, but... there's... I feel... a different kind of love towards you too. It's... a lot stronger... and more... fluttery..." Lavi struggled with finding the proper words, something that hardly ever happened to him. He always knew exactly what words to use, how to use them and when to use them. Why was explaining this feeling so different?
"I don't know what that is..." Allen said after a moment with an apologetic smile.
"Yeah, me neither..." Lavi sighed dejectedly and Allen smiled again as he put his books away.
"Well we'll figure it out later. Lets go watch some TV!" Lavi nodded and jumped up off the bed, following the familiar white hair of Allen walker as he made his way down the stairs and into the living room.
"Mana sure is late today... traffic must be bad..." Allen said casually as he searched the couch cushions for the clicker.
"I rode my bike over here and it wasn't too bad... the roads were pretty much clear..."
"Oh, he must be getting some school snacks then- aha! Found it!" Allen laughed as he held up the elusive clicker triumphantly.
The phone rang as Allen and Lavi were about to sit down, so Allen tossed Lavi the clicker and made his way into the kitchen.
"I'll get that, you find something good to watch ok?"
"Sure thing!" Lavi plopped himself on the couch and started mindlessly flipping channels.
"Hello?" Allen chirped, expecting his father to be on the other end, calling to explain his lateness.
"Hello," Allen blinked in surprise as a cool female voice greeted him back, "Is this a family member of Mana Walker?"
"Yes it is, who's speaking please?" Allen asked in confusion, wondering why dread was building in the pit of his stomach.
"Hello, I'm a nurse at Black Order general hospital. I'm calling to inform you that Mana walker has been in a major car accident."
Allen felt all of the blood drain from his face as her calm, detached voice rang in his ears, those horrible words repeating over and over in his mind.
"Wh-what?! Is he ok!? What happened?!" Allen demanded into the phone, clutching it tightly as his hands shook.
"He... had suffered multiple fractures to the skull; we... were unable to resuscitate him."
"What?" Allen's voice shook as he tried to grasp the information.
"He was pronounced dead at three fifteen this afternoon."
"D-dead?" Allen sank to his knees as he breathed that one word into the phone, not quite believing what was happening.
"B-but he was fine this morning! He patted me on the head and gave me my lunch just like he always does! He said he'd see me after he got home from work! He can't be dead!" the white haired youth didn't notice the tears running down his face as he yelled at the nurse on the other end of the line.
"I don't believe you!"
"I'm sorry, but... we did all we could. Please contact an adult to claim the body at the hospital." And then she was gone. The dial tone rang in Allen's ear as he stared mindlessly at the wall in front of him. The boy sank to his knees, the phone still tightly gripped in his hand as tears slid down his face.
'this cant be happening...' thoughts swirled inside of Allen's head, and he just knelt there, motionless, eyes fixed on the tiled wall before him as he tried to grasp what the nurse had said.
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Lavi grew concerned at the sudden silence in the other room, he had heard Allen yell, but what words were said he didn't know.
"Allen? You ok in there? I heard yelling..." Lavi waited a moment but there was no reply, just more of that unnerving silence. A bad feeling washed over him and he wondered what exactly had happened.
"Allen...?" Lavi called again, before standing up and making up and making his way over to the kitchen door. Allen sat there, eyes glazed over, with a shocked and hurt expression on his face, tears flowing unnoticed down his ghostly pale cheeks.
"Allen!" the older redhead ran over to his friend, kneeling in front of him and shaking the boy slightly.
"Allen! What happened?!" Allen didn't even seem to see Lavi as he shook the white haired boy.
"Allen, wake up!" Lavi cried relief surfacing for a moment as the boy blinked and turned to him, only to be crushed by the dead and hopeless look that haunted those silver eyes.
"Th-that was the... hospital..." Allen whispered, eyes searching Lavi's face for an answer to an unasked question.
"The hospital? What did they want?" Lavi had the feeling he already knew.
"M-Mana... he..." Allen's breath hitched and he held back a sob, "They said he died..." the words were so low Lavi almost didn't catch them.
"He... died? But... oh Allen...." Lavi's only visible eye filled with pain and he wrapped his arms around the shaking boy.
"They were lying right? Mana can't die... they couldn't have been telling the truth!" Lavi winced at the desperation that laced Allen's words as he begged Lavi to tell him what wasn't true.
"The hospital doesn't lie to people Allen..." Lavi told him gently, wishing he didn't have to hurt Allen, but knowing that giving him false hope would only hurt him more.
"B-but... Mana... can't die... he... he can't leave me..." Allen looked up at Lavi with those same dead eyes that scared Lavi to no end, "He promised..." Lavi stared at Allen, at a loss for words. The pain in his friend's eyes was so hard to see, it was a pain that no one but another who a lived through that torture could only begin to comprehend.
"Allen..." Lavi said gently, as he searched for words that would comfort the boy.
"He said he would never leave me alone... he can't be dead right Lavi? He's fine right?" Allen's eyes filled with false hope, and the desperation in his voice scared Lavi. Allen's tiny hand was clutching Lavi's faded shirt so tightly his knuckles were white. Lavi gently pried the hand off his shirt, letting the younger boy hold Lavi's bigger hand as he stroked Allen's soft hair soothingly.
"Allen... god I hate to say this, but... I-I don't think he's coming home..." Allen's eyes widened for a moment, before he buried his face in Lavi's shoulder as sobs wracked his slender frame.
"But he promised! He promised! He... he can't just leave me! He loves me! Why? Why won't he come home!? Why can't he keep walking!?" Allen was in hysterics and Lavi really didn't know what to say to him to calm him down, "He said he wouldn't leave me alone!"
"It's not like he wanted to go Allen! Sometimes... people can't help it, because it just happens, sometimes people have to leave, like my mom. Do you remember my mom Allen?"
It seemed that the distraction of the redhead talking was calming because Allen looked up at Lavi with watery eyes and nodded, stifling a sob.
"Yeah... but not very well..." Allen said quietly, hiccupping as tears continued to slide down his cheeks.
"Well she died a long time ago because of a disease in her brain... she left me behind because the sickness took her, not because she wanted to. She still loves me, just like Mana still loves you, but she is just watching over me from heaven now." Lavi spoke gently as he thumbed the tears off Allen's pale cheeks, wishing that Allen didn't have to hurt so much.
"B-but I d-don't want him to w-w-watch! I want him t-to be here!" Allen sobbed, jerking his head away from Lavi's soft touch, "I don't w-want to be a-a-alone!"
"You wont be alone Allen!" the younger boy stilled.
"Then w-who will take care of me? Who... will be here?"
"I'll be here! I'll always be here! I love you, remember?" Lavi looked straight into Allen's silver eyes, praying that the sincerity of his worlds would reach Allen.
"You... wont leave?" Allen's little voice was tentative and wary, as if he couldn't quite believe that he wouldn't be left alone again.
"No, I won't. I promise."
"B-but my real mom and dad left because of my arm, and now Mana is gone too... I don't want to lose anyone else... I don't want to be alone..." Lavi's arms around Allen tightened and the redhead tried to keep his voice from shaking as he spoke.
"I'm not going anywhere Allen, I won't leave you alone."
"You'll stay...?"
"Yeah..." Lavi smiled comfortingly at Allen as he brushed some more tears off Allen's pale face, "I'll stay." Allen smiled weakly and nodded, before glancing around his kitchen sadly.
"B-but what will happen to Mana's house? I... I don't want to go live with some stranger!"
"Allen..." Lavi said uncertainly, knowing there really wasn't anything he could do about the house... there was no way that the panda would be able to afford the mortgage.
"I don't want to be anywhere but here!" Allen looked up at Lavi with wild eyes and the redhead could only sigh and pull him into a tight hug.
"Allen... I'm not sure if you can keep the house... but you could come live with me!" Allen stared at Lavi for a minute, before looking down with a pained look on his face.
"B-but... Mana's house..." he whimpered, "I... don't want to leave it alone..." Lavi smiled softly as he leaned forward and planted a kiss on the top of Allen's head.
"I'm sorry Allen, but... there's only so much I can do..." the elder boy said gently as he stroked Allen's silky white hair.
"I... I know... b-but... I don't want to leave the memories that are here behind..." Allen pressed his face against Lavi's chest as the redhead held him close, "It's just... if... if he is... is... I... won't have anything left..."
"The best I can do is convincing my grandpa to let you live with us Allen... we'll clear out the spare room and we'll bring all of your stuff over there and we can hang out everyday!" Lavi spoke soothingly as he rubbed gentle circles on Allen's back. Allen pulled back and looked up at Lavi, smiling shakily for the older boy's sake as he wiped away the lingering tears in his eyes.
"L-like a permanent sleep over?" he asked in a little voice.
"Yeah! That's it, just like a permanent sleep over!" Lavi said enthusiastically, hoping to keep Allen from getting upset again, "We can talk and hang out whenever we want and I'll help you with your homework all the time and it will be great!"
"O...kay..." Allen said slowly, before swallowing and looking up at Lavi with almost lifeless eyes "U-umm, Th-the nurse lady said that I... h-have to c-call someone to... to claim..." Allen trailed off as tears flooded his eyes again and he squeezed them shut to keep from crying again.
"We can call panda... he'll give us a drive there... if... if you want to see him that is... panda could... identify him..."
"NO!" Allen yelled, making Lavi jump in surprise, "I... I'm sorry.... I just... I want to see him..." Allen whispered, "I... I can't accept it... unless I see him..." Lavi nodded and helped Allen stand.
"I'm just going to call panda ok? Why don't you get something to drink?" Lavi gave Allen a gentle push in the direction of the fridge and the white haired boy nodded numbly before walking over to it. The redhead turned to the phone and dialled his number, holding on to the phone stressfully as it rang.
"Hello?" came the grumpy voice of Lavi's grandfather.
"Gramps..." Lavi choked out.
"Lavi? What happened?" the elderly man's voice lost most of its grouchiness and Lavi could hear the concern in his voice, even if it would have been well masked to anyone else.
"A-Allen got a call from the hospital... a-apparently M-Mana... was in a car accident and... he... didn't make it..."
"Is that so? Too bad for the kid..."
"Is that all you can say?! Gramps, Allen has to come live with us!" Lavi tried to keep his voice as quiet as possible, glancing over his shoulder at Allen, who was staring blankly out of the kitchen window, sipping some orange juice.
"Lavi... how the hell are we supposed to afford another kid? It's nice of you to want to help him, but we have ourselves to worry about first."
"Gramps come on! I'll get a job ok? Allen shouldn't be put in a home with a bunch of strangers! He needs people who know him! His father is dead! I can't just let him go through this alone! I'll work and pay for him, and we have a spare room anyway!"
"Lavi..." the old man sighed, "Alright, fine. You want him here so bad, great. You get a job and pay for him because at my age, there is no way I'm working any more than I have to."
"Thanks gramps..." Lavi smiles shakily into the phone, "W-we need a drive to the hospital too... A-Allen needs an adult to claim the... body..." bookman sighed again, and Lavi knew he would be rubbing his eye stressfully.
"I'll be over in about ten minutes. Get Allen packed up for tonight. He can sleep here; we'll get more of his things after we clear out the spare room."
"Okay... thanks gramps..."
"Yeah, just be ready when I get there." The old man hung up and Lavi sighed, before turning to Allen with a reassuring smile. The boy looked haunted, his eyes were rimmed with red and puffy from crying, and he had wrapped his arms around himself, as if trying to keep from falling apart. Lavi felt his heart twist in agony at seeing Allen hurting so much and he realised that he cared too much about the boy to be only best friends.
Lavi realised he was in love with him.
The redhead wasn't sure when it had happened but at the moment he didn't care about stupid details like that. He loved Allen and Allen was hurting, so Lavi was going to do everything in his power to take that hurt away.
"A-Allen?" Lavi called to the younger boy gently, "Panda says he'll be here in about ten minutes... he said you're going to sleep at our place tonight ok? So we just have to go pack some stuff for tonight. I'll help you okay?" Allen nodded and pushed off from the counter he had been leaning on and stumbled. Lavi rushed forward and wrapped an arm around his waist to support him and the white haired boy clung to him as if he would drift into space if Lavi wasn't there.
"L-let's go..." Allen said flatly in a quiet voice. Lavi nodded and helped Allen over to the stairs, guiding him gently through the house that was as familiar to Lavi as his own. The redheaded male pushed the door to Allen's room open and stared worriedly at the younger boy as he looked around almost dazedly.
"I'm... going to come back right?" Allen asked after a moment and Lavi sighed before nodding with a gentle smile on his face.
"Yeah, you will. I'll make sure of it okay?"
"Th-thanks..." Allen smiled weakly and grabbed the small duffle bag he kept in his closet, "I only need enough for tonight right?" he asked, as he wiped his damp eyes with the heel of his palm.
"Yeah..." Lavi smiled and walked over to Allen's dressers pulling out what he knew to be Allen's favourite pyjamas and some clothes, handing them to the boy. Allen took them and folded them neatly, placing them inside the small bag on autopilot. His hazy grey eyes swept over the room again and rested on the framed picture of him and Mana that sat on his bedside table. Lavi watched worriedly as Allen picked up the picture and stared at it, taking a shuttering breath before setting it back in its rightful place and turning back to Lavi with blank eyes.
'I've never seen him so... dead...' Lavi thought with a grimace.
"Okay... I'm ready... I guess... is your grandfather here yet?"
"Not yet... but he should be here soon." Allen nodded as his eyes wandered over to the picture again. Lavi pulled the smaller boy into a hug and held him close, and Allen clung to him, trying his hardest not to cry again as the redhead held him so lovingly.
"Everything will be ok Allen. I'll make sure of it ok? Just hang on until it gets better..." Lavi whispered softly as he rested his chin on the top of Allen's head.
"O-okay..." Allen nodded slowly and they just stood there like that, neither really wanting to move. Lavi could feel the tension in Allen's entire body ebb slightly, as if something as simple as this hug could start to heal the wound that had been ripped open in Allen.
The honk of a horn shattered the comforting quiet of the room and Lavi looked up at the window to see his grandfather sitting in the driveway looking impatient.
"Come on Allen... lets go..." Lavi unwrapped himself from around Allen and took his hand, gently leaning the boy out of the house and up to his grandfather's car.
"H-hello Mr. Bookman..." Allen said in a timid voice, as he took his seat in the car.
"Hello." The elderly gentleman grunted out uncomfortably. Lavi knew he wasn't very good at comforting people, and that the old man would leave the emotional stuff to the redheaded boy. Lavi slid into the seat beside Allen and took his hand, squeezing reassuringly as Allen looked back at the house.
"A-are you sure you want to do this Allen? You don't have to see him..." Allen stared at his lap for a moment before nodding slowly.
"I need to see him... if... if I don't I don't think... I can ever accept it you know? It's like... unless I see him; I'll never be able to wrap my mind around it you know? It... It's like he's still... alive..."
"Yeah, I know... I... felt that way when my mom died..." Lavi told him smiling sadly.
"Did it help?" Allen looked up at him with wet eyes, "Did it make it better? Seeing her?" Lavi looked down and his hair hid his eyes from Allen's gaze as he spoke.
"I didn't. But... it helped me accept she was gone..." Allen nodded slowly and leaned on Lavi's shoulder; staring out of the window and watching the cars rush by as they drove.
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They stood in front of a door labelled 'morgue' and Allen stared at it fearfully, as if it was going to suddenly jump forward and bite him. He reached out blindly for Lavi's hand and grasped it tightly as he tried to get a better hold on himself.
"L-Lavi... I'm scared..." he said in a tiny voice.
"It's ok Allen... you don't have to be scared..." Lavi smiled as he squeezed the white haired boy's hand reassuringly, "You don't have to do this if you don't want to." Allen shook his head almost violently.
"No... I need to do this..." Allen took a deep breath and stepped forward timidly, pushing open the door and peeking in. A nurse quickly led the three of them to a window and smiled encouragingly at Allen.
"Okay dear, I'm going to turn on the lights, and if the man you see is Mana Walker you tell me, alright?" Allen nodded slowly, not taking his eyes off the darkened window as the nurse flicked on the lights, illuminating the sterile room behind the glass.
A man had been placed on the medical examiners table, and a plain white sheet was placed over him. Lavi could see the red marks on his forehead and under his hair where the skull had cracked and the skin had given way. The once robust cheeks of the always smiling man were pale, and the angles of his ghostly white face were more pronounced than Lavi ever remembered seeing. The shaggy brown hair that was just starting to grey looked slightly damp and had been combed into unnatural perfection. He was cold and unmoving at Lavi cringed as Allen let out a heartbroken gasp, as he pressed his hand to the glass, tears steaming down his cheeks.
"M-Mana..." Allen choked out, squeezing his eyes shut as Lavi turned him away from the sight of the younger boy's dead father on an impersonal slab of metal.
"Shhh, its ok Allen... I'm here..." Lavi pulled Allen into a tight hug and stroked his hair softly, whispering soothing words as he stared sadly at the body of a man he had considered almost family, fighting the tears that he knew he would shed when he was alone.
"C-can we go? Please?" Allen whispered in a pained voice.
"Of course Allen, come on..." the redhead led the young boy towards the door, gently turning his head forward as her craned his slender neck to look back, just before exiting the morgue.
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Night had fallen and Lavi was laying awake in his bed, mulling things over in his mind. Memories of the day from hell wouldn't seem to leaving him alone and let him get some sleep.
Allen clung to Lavi as they drove away from the hospital, sobbing into his shoulder and Lavi rubbed his back and stayed silent, letting Allen cry himself out.
'Why? Why did this have to happen to him?' he asked Lavi questions he couldn't answer, and Lavi just held him tighter, praying that the pain would leave Allen. Someone as kind and pure as Allen didn't deserve this hurt didn't deserve that emptiness. Lavi could only watch as the one he loved suffered the worst pain a child could face, and pray that Allen would climb out of the dark hole he had been thrown into.
Lavi rolled over with a sigh as he tried to clear his mind, shutting his eyes slowly, wishing sleep would claim him and shut off his over worked mind.
Allen finally calmed down and Lavi was glad, thinking that Allen had maybe started to accept everything.
He was wrong.
Allen allowed himself to be led into the bookman residence without a sound. He picked at dinner without a sound. He and Lavi watched TV and went about the night without a sound. They went up and got ready for bed and still, Allen didn't make a sound. He moved through out the house with a blank face and empty eyes, doing what people asked of him but he wasn't really there. Lavi showed him the spare room, when they were younger and had sleepovers Allen would stay with Lavi in his room, but Lavi wanted Allen to be able to mourn by himself, because he would never get over it if he couldn't. So though it was cluttered by boxes in the corners, Allen was going to sleep in the bed there. Lavi watched as he climbed into bed and walked over to him, pulling the covers up to his chin.
"I'm right down the hall if you need me, ok? You know where it is... so get some sleep ok?" Lavi stroked the younger teen's hair softly and turned to leave. Allen's pale hand shot out from under the covers and grasped Lavi's large hand tightly, stopping the redhead in his tracks.
"Please stay until I fall asleep... I... don't want to be alone..."
Lavi sat up and rubbed his face with both hands in irritation with a deep sigh. Thinking over things like this wasn't going to do anything but piss him off and make him tired and grouchy tomorrow.
'Think of happy bunnies playing in a field full of bean sprout...' Lavi thought with a tired smile to himself as he collapsed back onto his pillow and fell into a dose.
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A small hand tentatively reached out and prodded Lavi gently; waking him out of the deep sleep he had finally managed to fall into.
"Hmm?" he asked, more than half asleep.
"L-Lavi? Can... Can I sleep with you? I... had a bad dream..." Allen whispered quietly, in that timid little voice he had only started using in the past day.
"Wha- oh! Yeah! Yeah, hop on in..." Lavi mumbled tiredly as he pulled back the blankets so Allen could climb under with him. He felt the small weight of Allen crawl onto the bed and soon soft warmth pressed against him as Allen snuggled close, seeking warmth and comfort.
"Th-thanks..." Allen muttered as he relaxed.
"Anytime Allen." Lavi whispered back, wrapping his arms around the younger teen, wondering if being in love with him made Lavi a pedophile.
"I..." Lavi was ripped fro his musings as Allen's quiet voice broke the comfortable silence that had enveloped them, "I was kinda hoping it wasn't him you know? That... that they had made a mistake... b-but..." Allen choked out unable to continue as his voice cracked and tears flooded his eyes.
"I know Allen; I was hoping too... its okay, cry as much as you want." Lavi said in a low, soothing voice as he pulled the white haired teen closer to himself and rubbed comforting circles into his back. Allen buried his face into Lavi's shoulder and did his best to stop the sobs that wracked his body, he wanted to be strong, but it just hurt so much...
"I-I'm sorry... I don't m-mean to bother you w-with m-my problems..." Allen stuttered out as he finally got a grip on himself. Lavi pulled back and smiled softly, the moonlight streaming through his window reflecting off his hair as he spoke gently.
"Its okay Allen, I'm glad you are actually. Now try and get some sleep ok? And wake me if you get cold or uncomfortable and I'll fix it okay?" the redhead gently thumbed a few stray tears away and Allen nodded, smiling a little.
"Okay..." he said, laying his head on the pillow and shutting his eyes. Within minutes of lying there, Lavi felt the tension leave his body and the soft breaths escaping his slightly parted lips were soft and even. Lavi chuckled lightly and laid down properly, keeping an arm wrapped around Allen's slim waist as he stared at the sleeping boy.
"What a kid... he falls asleep so quickly... eyes must be tired from all the crying he's done today..." Lavi murmured to himself with a sad smile, kissing the pale forehead of his bed mate gently.
'Poor Allen... he loved Mana so much... that man was all he had... its going to be so hard for him... I wish so badly I could do more... Allen... I'm so sorry you have to hurt so much... please... let me help you take that pain away Allen... please...' Lavi didn't know if he was praying or if he was just mentally begging, but when Allen stirred in his sleep and clutched his shirt as if it was the only thing mooring him to the earth, he was thankful.
Thankful that Allen had chosen him to cling to in his time of need.
"I wonder... if he loves me too..." Lavi whispered as he stroked Allen's back, trying to stop him from shivering in fear of whatever dream he was having. He whimpered and Lavi pulled him as close as he could get, lying soft kisses all over his face, trying to sooth the boy.
"It's ok Allen... Shhh, I'm here..." Lavi whispered words of comfort into his ear and smiled as the white headed teen relaxed slightly.
"I'll always protect you Allen; you never have to worry because I'll never let anyone hurt you if I can help it." Allen finally relaxed fully and his face smoothed into a peaceful state and he smiled softly in his sleep as he dreamed.
"Lavi..." he breathed thankfully and the older boy smiled as he tucked Allen's head under his chin.
"That's right Allen, I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. Ever."
-End-
A/N: wah! That was so sad! And so long! D: it took me forever to write! Stupid school... anyway... please check out the poll in my profile, and please review if you liked it! ): the lack of reviews for the last chapter made me really sad, because that's a very good one shot! Even if it is Bak/Allen... and there was just as much Laven in it as Bak/Allen! –Pouts-