I'm glad you all liked the chapter! I hope the twist wasn't to, surprising. Since there were so many reviewers in one night, I decided to update again!

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So here you go!

((AN: I don't know if I'm confusing you guys with the time period or not, but the story is set in the 21st century, with its cell phone glory and all.))

DISCLAIMERS: I no own d gray man.

WARNINGS: Tyki/Allen, Kanda/Allen

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After Lavi had told Alice the news, he decided to leave. He was only there to deliver the information. "Well thank you for informing me Lavi, if you see Kanda anytime soon please tell him that I am sorry for the unfortunate loss of his wife."

Lavi nodded and bowed as he walked away from the little cottage. "I will be sure to, and good day to you to Miss Walker."

"Goodbye Lavi!" She called. Alice retreated back into her house. She couldn't believe the news. Kanda killed Lenalee? Why? Kanda had always been the civil type; he didn't seem like the kind of person that would kill someone he wasn't happy with. I wonder if, if maybe he killed Lenalee for me? No that can't be possible, curse myself for thinking such silly thoughts! He didn't kill Lenalee! Kanda wouldn't, that's not the Kanda I know! Alice shook her head as she cleaned off the dirty dishes. That reminds me! Tyki's coming to visit today! Better get ready! She smiled at herself as she wiped off her hands after putting the last of the dishes away in the dishwasher.

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I must go see Alice! Kanda thought to himself as he heard of Tyki and Alice's engagement. "I see, you are engaged. Congratulations." He wished he could get angry and yell at Tyki for stealing his Fiancée, but she technically never was his fiancée. Tyki didn't steal anything from him. He simply got to Alice quicker than he had.

"That's all?" Tyki asked surprised.

"There's nothing left for me to say to you, Tyki Mikk. This conversation is over." Kanda looked down at the floor, as if he was suddenly very interested in the dark purple and blue weave of the carpet. He couldn't let the other man know of his distraught. That's probably what Tyki wanted to see anyways. He turned to start walking out the door when he was stopped by Tyki's voice.

"How very mature of you," Tyki's golden eyes glinted. "You're going to go visit her aren't you?"

Kanda froze. Of course he was going to visit her; he hadn't seen her in six fucking years! Was seeing her for one day that much of a sin? "No, of course not, don't get stupid ideas in your head; I haven't seen her in six years. By now she'd probably already forgotten about me." He lied.

"Good response. You may go." What power Tyki had over him! Kanda would go when he said to, and stay when he was told to. "And a good day to you too sir." Tyki said, a sly smile painted on his face.

Kanda rushed out of the large ball room, he had to go see Alice, and it'd been to long since they saw one another. Would she want to see him? She couldn't know about Lenalee could she? Unless Tyki told he, but he probably wouldn't. Thoughts rushed all through his head. He flagged a cab once he was outside the building. He didn't need his luggage, just his cell phone, he could buy a ticket off there. Kanda reached into his pocket and grabbed his 'Blackberry' phone. "Ah, piece of crap." He muttered as he waited for the brower to pop up. As soon as it did he went to the airline webpage and bought the ticket for the next flight to London. "Why didn't I just come here in the jet?" He asked himself as he waited for his car to come. Kanda watched a couple walk down the side walk, hand in hand, the woman leaning over to whisper something in the man's ear, and then the man, laughing, kisses her on the cheek.

Why were we never like that?

He kicked a pebble on the ground. The flight would be at about an hour after midnight. He would go visit Alice tomorrow sometime after noon. He wouldn't want to disturb her lunch would he?

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Alice was going to make a nice brunch since Tyki was coming at about lunch time. She stared out the window in her kitchen, the moon had risen well in the sky, and it had to be very late at night about now. She had finished cleaning up the house so it was spotless for his arrival. She had just received a call from Tyki, in fact, telling her that he would be there sometime before noon. When she asked him how the business trip went he told her that he had run in to an old friend of hers.

"An old friend?" Alice mused. "And who might that be?" She couldn't remember having any old friends that Tyki might see.

"I'll tell you about it when I get there tomorrow, alright?" She could hear him smiling in through the phone.

"Come on! You know I hate suprises! Tell me!" She pouted.

"It's late, love, shouldn't you be asleep by now?"

"I was waiting for you to call, don't change the subject!"

"Go to sleep, I'll be there tomorrow, you don't want to be all tired and grumpy when I come to visit do you?"

Alice puffed up her cheeks, Tyki was difficult sometimes! "Fine, love you."

"I love you to, dear."

Alice put the phone down and glanced at the clock, it was late almost midnight in fact. She still needed to shower and change for tomorrow. Before going to her room, she checked off another day on her calendar. There was only two months before the wedding! Everything was near perfect, the dress had been made, the flowers ordered, the cards sent, church and hotel reserved. Chances are paparazzi would come and want to take pictures of this wedding. Tyki made sure to have the windows tinted for that as well. The wedding wasn't going to be big, okay, yes it was. But it wasn't going to be that big. Only a few hundred people were coming. Okay maybe that is kind of big. Alice couldn't help being nervous, what if she suddenly, before the wedding, changed her mind and didn't love Tyki anymore?

She couldn't fathom that. She would have none of it.

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Kanda sat uncomfortably on the plane. It was a good thing the flight was only a few hours long, he would arrive in London in about an hour and a half, since there was a bit of delay. It was a bit of late notice but he could always just stay in the vacation home. No one was there anyways; the Kanda's only used it for hosting large parties. The flight seemed to last just about forever, everyone around him was asleep, he could hear the soft snoring of the people surrounding him. He wasn't used to these public transportation kinds of things. He didn't want to look disheveled when he visited Alice, so he contacted the house keeper at the vacation home to have a change of clothes ready for him when he arrived, as well as a car to pick him up from the airport. He informed the hotel that he was staying at in Paris that he had already left, and that he would need his baggage shipped and that they could just send him a bill with the luggage.

He didn't need that clothes anyways, he had plenty of suits just like the ones he had abandoned.

When he arrived in London everything was set, the car was there and when he reached the vacation home, the spare clothes were there as well. He thanked the chauffeur and the house keeper and went to sleep in the clothes he arrived in. He could change later in the morning.

But right now he was dead tired.

So he slept.

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I didn't like this one very much…I hope you enjoyed the chapter more than I did!

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~byrdie