I'm updating once again! I know it's been quite a while has it not?

DISCLAIMER: I don't own DGM

WARNINGS: TYKI x fem! Allen!

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In the end, Alice never did chase after Kanda. During the time she was at the airport, she realized that she couldn't bear to steal someone away from someone else. They'd known each other for ages. Maybe Kanda was better off with Lenalee, Alice herself hardly knew the man. He could have been lying the whole time, she wouldn't know, he could put up a good act. Nor could she step on that plane and fly to her love's wedding to watch him get married to another woman.

She wasn't strong enough to do that.

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"Lavi, I-I can't do it!" Alice cried as tears trickled down her cheeks.

"Alice! You have to!" Lavi said forcefully, grabbing her arm as she tried to turn away. "I can't watch my best friend get married to someone he doesn't love!"

"But he doesn't love me!"

"He does! With his whole heart! I swear it!"

"Lavi, I-I just can't! I can't watch him either!" She broke away from his grip. Strands of her hair clung to her damp cheeks as she ran from the terminal. She didn't care that people were yelling at her to watch out, or that the security guards were chasing her telling her that she couldn't go through the doors.

"ALICE!"

She ran all the way back to the front of the terminal, down the stairs and to where all the chauffeurs were waiting to pick up their riders. Her heart hurt, and she had run away again.

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It had been at least five or six years since that incident. Alice still remembered Kanda well, and hoped the best for the couple. Who she assumed to be happily married and have had children by now, she was still unmarried, but she had made a life for herself, not needing to depend on her parents any longer.

When she had gotten back from the air port, she went straight home to tell her parents. Mother apologized for what she had done and the entire trauma that she had caused her daughter and both her Mother and Father accepted her the way she was. This was a considerably good memory. She heard her door click open, suddenly started by the noise she quickly hid in her living room, behind a large arm chair.

"Alice!" A very familiar voice rang through the parlor.

Alice peeked inside, noticing a very peculiar head of fiery red hair. "Lavi!" She ran to him and gave him a great big hug. "What are you doing here? It's been ages since I last saw you!"

He hugged her back. "I know, I know. But I came to tell you something."

She pulled away from him. "What is it?"

"Something happened to the Kanda's, Yuu's wife in particular."

She sat him down. "Wait here, let me get you some tea. You can tell me then."

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Kanda leaned against a large marble pillar as he watched numerous couples sashay past him. He wasn't trying to be unsociable, it's just he never really liked these kinds of parties anyways. Never understood why people came to them in the first place. He didn't come here on his own accord, oh no. He had been tricked here, by a very crafty Cross Marian. The grooves in the marble were hurting his back, but it was much better than having to dance with one of those cake-make-up-wearing, tight laced, heavy perfumed women. They were not of his taste.

He noticed another one of those girls start to approach him. He'd already made eye contact; there was no running away now. So he just stood there and waited for her to come.

"Good evening sir, would you care for a dance?" She asked, standing much to close for comfort.

He wiggled out of the tight hole and away from the pillar and replied. "Tempting but no thank you." He bowed and started to walk the other way when she grabbed the back of his collar. Her grip was surprisingly strong, almost choking him.

"Mister, I know someone that would very much like to see you, if you would please follow me." He turned around and followed her tall wig to the other side of the ball room, where the stairs were located.

"Where are you taking me?" He asked grumpily, pulling his arm away from her iron grip.

"You'll see." She clacked up the stairs and waited for him to catch up.

There were many rooms upstairs, but only one had the door open, Kanda could smell cigarette smoke. He didn't like that smell, it irritated him, and how could someone smoke the stuff? Cigarettes slowly killed you. He would never touch one. He followed the girl inside the room, it was very badly lit, and there was smoke clouding the room. But he could still see the two figures lounging in large red armchairs.

Cross Marian and Tyki Mikk.

"There you are boy, I've wanted to talk to you about this for quite a while now." Tyki said silkily as he strode over to Kanda.

"Talk about what?" Kanda asked dumbly.

Marian stood up as well. "Thank you Eloise, you may go now." The girl bowed and retreated out of the room. "What happened to your wife, Kanda Yuu?"

Kanda stiffened. "She passed away in a car accident, did I not tell you?"

Tyki took in a long drag of the cigarette and blew the smoke in Kanda's face. "Did she really?"

"Yes she did," Kanda shifted his gaze from one person to the other. "What are you trying to get out of this?"

Marian sat back down. "You can handle this, Tyki can't you?"

"Yes Cross, We believe that your wife didn't die in a car accident."

"What are you talking about?" Kanda raised an eyebrow pretending to be unknowing.

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Crash.

Alice's cut of tea tumbled onto the floor, leaving a mess of spilled tea and china.

"Lenalee's dead?" Alice gasped, surprised. "How?"

Lavi held the china tea cut gingerly in his hands, sipping the tea. "He told everyone that she died in a car accident. I can always tell when he's lying. I can always tell when anyone's lying. And he was definitely lying."

"That's horrible! How tragic!" She cried as she quickly went to wipe up the tea and sweep up the china.

"Not for him. I'm telling you, he murdered her." Lavi scratched his chin. "He never really liked her in the first place."

"Why are you telling me?" Alice asked after cleaning up the mess. "I haven't seen the man in ages. Why would that matter to me?"

"Well, I've always known that you loved him. And I thought that it would be nice for me to tell you." Lavi said, justified.

"I have no desire to take the place of his late wife anymore. I am now engaged to another man as well. Are you done with your tea?"

"Yes, thank you." Alice picked up the tea cups, brushing her hair back. "You've still got that scar and the arm I see. So the curse was never broken?"

"There is no curse. This is just the way I am. And the man I am now engaged to embraces me for that."

"I see, by the way who are you engaged to now?"

"A wonderful man named Tyki Mikk."

"Really?" Lavi raised a brow. One of the executives of the rival trading company, Earl Trading. Lavi thought to himself. "I happen to know him."

"Really? Isn't he wonderful?" She gushed happily.

"Yeah." Lavi trailed. That would be a story to tell Kanda, he definitely would not be happy.

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"We know you set up your late spouse's murder." Tyki said.

Kanda froze. "What?"

Tyki sighed. "Do you think we're stupid? Might as well tell the truth."

Kanda looked down. Shit they caught me. "Okay fine. You got me, yes I did kill her. So what? Don't you have bigger things to deal with?"

"Oh well I was just wondering how Alice would take that when I tell her."

Kanda suddenly shot up. "Alice? Where is she!? I haven't seen her in years!"

"I see you're interested? But that's too bad, Alice is off limits." Tyki smashed the cigarette butt into an ashtray. "We're engaged."

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