A/N: Sorry for the delay, Joe's mom/ my aunt died so we've sort of been… Well anyway here this is.
Kanda still hadn't figured out what he'd done, but he knew that Lavi was involved somehow.
It may have been the fact that they'd spent hours trapped on a train together, but Kanda reasoned that murdering Lavi might solve all of his problems.
Sadly for him, idiots and geniuses are both extremely hard to kill, a fact which is doubly true if your target happens to be both.
Kanda spent the entire duration of the mission (a full fortnight) yelling at, or trying to maim Lavi for, "whatever the hell he did to piss Moyashi off."
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Back at the Order Lenalee was getting really worried, Allen was clearly unwell. She had tried to get him to open up, but he started avoiding her instead.
She decided to enlist the help of the one person who could always get information out of Allen, General Cross.
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Cross came back from his mission looking forward to some relaxation only to have a lovely young lady (tearfully) explain that something was seriously wrong with his apprentice.
"Dammit."
He went to the kitchen and asked Jerry to make him a huge thermos of hot chocolate and a large tray of food (politely, he knew better than to get on the cook's bad side), he also grabbed a bottle of vodka. He mixed the two beverages, got everything set up in his room and then went hunting for Allen.
The boy wasn't in the cafeteria, or his room, or ponytail's room but Cross still found him easily.
Allen was out in the forest trying to train himself to death.
Cross simply watched him for a moment, assessing the situation.
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Allen slump against a tree exhausted, his whole body ached but his mind was blissfully blank. Maybe tonight he'd be able to sleep without nightmares.
He was about to doze off right there but then he became aware of the huge shadow looming over him. The wind blew just right accompanied by all too familiar scent of cigarette smoke, gun powder, wine and a hint of something utterly unique that Allen had always attributed to magic.
"M-Master! You're back!" He squeaked, trying to spring to his feet and greet the general properly.
Cross merely threw the boy over his shoulder and strolled off towards the room.
A/N: So the truth serum part is coming up soon, are there any questions that you want Cross to ask Kanda or Lavi? (If they're silly I can always throw them into an omake.)
I'm debating throwing in a flashback about how Kanda and Allen got together in the first place, should I?
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