Allen: 'Lavi, please promise me the cat-idea will go better. We really screwed up with the akuma.'

Lavi: 'Of course, Allen, I'm sure this will work!'

Allen: 'Why do I have this ominous feeling that we're forgetting something about cats?'

Lavi: 'Don't worry, Allen, I never forget anything, I'm a Bookman after all.'

Allen: 'That you can memorise everything, doesn't mean you will remember it when you need it... I somehow have the feeling you'll only remember it when you try to.'

Lavi: 'Really, Allen, don't worry so much.'

Allen: 'You're the one to say that. It was your idea that got us in these problems at all, and the second one only made it worse.' *sigh* 'Why do I have to be dragged into this too?'

"What do you think of this one?" Lavi held a fluffy fat cat in the air so Allen could see it from his place on the rooftop.

"It seems right to me, but I don't really see a difference between one cat and another... it's just as spotted as the other one you neglected earlier."

"It isn't!" Lavi declared. "This one has a spot on the nose and no scar on..."

"yes, I know, Lavi," Allen interupted him. "I know you see countless differences because you memorized the whole pattern of the last cat. Let's just take it." He jumped down and touched the cat's head to make sure it felt as soft as it looked.

"Lenalee will probably like.." Allen stopped talking halfway when the cat jumped out of Lavi's arms and took a bite on something in the air. When he saw a glimpse of gold he yelled in panick. "Lavi, it took Timcanpy, stop it!"

Lavi facepalmed and watched Allen running after the cat. "Not again."

At first Allen wanted to activate Crown Clown and use Clown Belt to pluck it out of the air, but that didn't seem to be needed. The cat was so fat and slow that he caught up to it easily and he grabbed Timcanpy.
"Let go of him, he's my master's precious possession."

The cat didn't seem to like his prey getting stolen and growled dangerously.
Allen pulled harder, ignoring the obvious signs of an attack.

At that moment the cat unsheathed his claws and flung at his face, planting them right into his skin. Allen yelled in pain and surprise but he didn't give up. He held on to Timcanpy and kept pulling while trying to push the cat away from his face.

Then Lavi jumped in with a panicked "Allen!" And started lashing at the cat what only caused his friend even more pain as the claws slided over his skin.

After a struggle that lasted at least a quarter of an hour they were exhausted and Allen's face was cut to shreds, but at least Timcanpy was free again and safely put away in Allen's shirt.

Back in the cafeteria, where Allen was trying to eat the pain on his face away (even though it only became worse because he was moving it all the time), they sighed desperately.

"I don't think the cat was such a good idea after all."
Tim marked Lavi's words with a relieved sigh.

"Oh, do you think so," Allen responded while gnawing on a bone with some straps of flesh left on it. "I thought it went great. You finally didn't get to be a victim this time, now it's my and Timcanpy's turn and we'll be fine."

Lavi didn't even have the energy left to argue with his eating friend. "Well, it was your turn now. Do YOU have a better idea?"

Allen kept on chewing while thinking hard. "Maybe we should do this my way this time. Don't all the girls like chocolates? Why don't we buy chocolates for her? It's easy, it doesn't have nails, it doesn't eat Tim and it doesn't involve any akuma."

"Why doesn't it surprise me you come up with an idea that involves food? But it might actually work. Let's try it. Allen, hurry up, the shops are going to be closed soon, you have two minutes to finish your meal." Lavi stood up. "This time we'll succeed!"

Allen nodded. "I'll be able to do that, just wait a while."

So after two minutes they were on their way to the exit again, when Allen remembered something : "Lavi, shouldn't we put on our coats first?"

Lavi turned around. "Well, actually we should, but we don't have the time. Why don't you get the coats, then I'll get the chocolate."

Allen nodded and ran to their rooms, while Lavi did the shopping.

They found eachother again at the door of the order, as Lavi had used his hammer as super fast transport. Both were panting.

"Did you find it?" Allen asked.

Lavi nodded.

"Let's eat some more then. Lenalee will be back from her mission in an hour, we still have the time. I'm hungry." Allen turned around and lead the way to the cafeteria before Lavi could even disagree.

"Seriously, Allen? Are you still hungry? You've eaten so much already. You're even eating more than usually."

"We're doing a lot more than usually too," Allen answered grumpily while pictures of the disastrous day flashed through his mind again. "Even my master didn't let me work this hard."

Lavi chuckled while they sat down.

"Oh, Lavi, I couldn't find your coat," Allen muttered while chewing on a cupcake. "There were so many books everywhere, I didn't dare to touch anything, I was afraid Bookman would be mad for entering your room as I would never be able to place it back in exactly the same position and state. I did search for it on a distance, but it must be buried somewhere underneath it."

Lavi shrugged his shoulders. "I'll get it now then." He placed a bag on the table and disappeared.

Allen was curious to what kind of chocolate Lavi took for Lenalee so he looked into the bag, but all he could find were biscuits.

"Seems like he has put it somewhere else." He finished his last mouthful of food and felt disappointed that that was the last thing he had. Jerry seemed really busy with providing food to others at the moment though, so he would have to wait for at least an hour before getting some himself again.

"Lavi probably won't mind, I'll buy him new biscuits after this. I know Lavi won't be mad at me." Allen took them out and starting eating them.

He just finished the last one when Lavi sat down again, wearing his coat again. He sighed desperately. "The old panda keeps far too many books in our room. The ones that buried my coat had toppled over after you opened the door."

Allen stopped eating. "I.. I'm sorry, I didn't know. It wasn't on purpose."

"I know Allen, well, let's put the gift into a basket so it'll look better and then bring it to Le..." He didn't finish his line as he found an empty bag. He looked at Allen in dismay. "You didn't eat them, did you?"

"I'm sorry, I ate the biscuits, but I didn't touch the chocolate, wherever you might've hid them."

Lavi's eyes grew twice their size. "Allen, those were for Lenalee. I couldn't find chocolate anymore at this late hour so I took biscuits. Now we have nothing!"

Allen jaw dropped. "You didn't tell me!"

"I thought I could tell you now. I didn't think you would finish your meal so fast!"

Too tired to have a fight again they both sighed and became all depressed again.

"If we want to make up for it today we'll have to come up with another solution. Allen, maybe we should try to bake some cookies ourselves."

Allen was really surprised. "Do you know how to cook?"

Lavi smiled uncomfortably. "I read a recepy ones, but never actually did it."

They sighed again.

"Well, we'll never know until we try. Okay, let's do our best!" Allen jumped up from his chair.

Lavi leaned over the table and whispered: "Allen, your attracting a lot of attention here, let's go away and do this a bit quieter."

Allen looked around, grinned out of embarrassment and hurried after Lavi who lead the way to the kitchen.

It was true, Lavi had memorized everything as always, but there was a huge problem in their lack of experience .

As they tried to weight the flour, it spilled all over the place because Tim came to close and blew it away with his wings. When they tried to use the oven Allen burned his hands because he didn't know where he should hold it. And of course Lavi didn't want to give any comments about the form of the cookies (they looked like they had barely survived a world war).

But after making a lot of mistakes and getting hurt (Allen burned himself twice and Tim nearly got his tail stuck in a cabinet because he was randomly flying in the way again) they finished their first, and probably only, cookies. And this time Allen DIDN'T eat them, although they made him really hungry when he looked at them (especially because it made him feel bad again because he thought about apologizing to Lenalee).

And so when the long, painful and exhausting day came to an end they stood before Lenalee's door with a basket of cookies, ready to apologize.