Warning: Attempted rape in about the middle somewhere… I am a horrible person… And a warning for Mr. Hitler-Want-A-Be being a bastard… my spelling and poor grammer... because I know I missed stuff when I gave this chapter a look over... : (
Special thanks to RikoJasmine for letting me use Liang Lee ( aka Male Lenalee Lee) for this story!
And also to Belletiger BT for all your help with this chapter! Your so awesome! Thanks for being my sounding board and listening to all my crazy ideas! And letting me use some of yours! : )
Pairings: Tyki x FemAllen, Liang x FemAllen (one-sided)
Yet another long chapter… I listened to "Holding on to Nothing" by Lovers and Liars for the whole time I worked on this chapter…
***** ~ Allen's Pov ~ ******
It was such an odd feeling, sleeping without dreaming. Sleeping with out sound…
The young woman hadn't realized just how often she had been dreaming as of late. Allen hadn't realized how dependent her sleep had become on the lullaby that the Fourteenth played within her mind.
Her life had been filled with such stress and heartache that just sleeping had become nothing but fitful tossing and turning. That melody had become her relief. It allowed her after so many long years to truly rest...
This time there was no lullaby to ease her mind and heart.
There was not even the dream of Liang standing within that dark foreboding water. It was just silent darkness.
It was terrifying. Allen fought and twisted and pushed against the sleep that just would not let her go. She was alone and lost, it filled her with that same fear that she had felt when Allen had to watch Mana die…
That cold terror was threatening to suffocate her…
"Don't…"
A deep and flowing voice called out from the darkness, and Allen felt a new wave of fear start to eat at her heart. She did not know this voice, yet it sounded so calming. It reminded her of Neah's voice, but at the same time the young woman knew that it wasn't the Fourteenth that lay deep within the darkness, calling to her, wanting so badly to be heard.
"Forgive…"
The white heard Exorcist fought to pull away from whatever was trying to call to her. This time when she tried to wake her silver eyes snapped open. Allen sat up in her bed, her breathing heavy. Her left hand gripped her soft blanket tightly to her shivering body, her eyes darted around the room.
It had been three weeks sense the attack on HQ, on her home, and Allen was almost fully recovered from her injuries. Which was surprising, especially with how badly she had been injured…
Allen was still spending most of her time in the infirmary however. Miranda (who still had a ways to go to heal) lay in the bed next to hers sound asleep. The young Exorcist's stomach chose that moment to tell her that it was in dare need of food and Allen sighed. The young woman pushed her blankets down the bed and out of her way. Allen quickly slid her feet into her slippers and pulled on her black robe.
Allen slowly made her way to the door and was about to push it open and make her way to the mess hall when someone cleared there throat from behind her. The young woman gasped and turned, her silver eyes landing on Inspector Link. The young man stood with his hands behind his back and one eyebrow raised.
"Ms. Walker, I hope you were not planning on leaving the Infirmary without a guard again?" The Inspector asked politely, though the young woman could easily see that the man from central was quite irritated with the fact that she had been ready to sneak out without said guard.
Allen sighed and crossed her arms over to chest. She didn't need someone following her around everywhere. She was an Exorcist for gods sake!
She didn't understand what the big deal was. Yes, she had been able to control Noah's Ark, and that no one else had been able to do the same. And yes, her master was under suspicion for heresy, but that didn't mean that she needed a babysitter.
"I was just going to get something to eat." She breath out sweetly, hoping that her tone would come off innocent enough. The blond haired man just raised his fine eyebrow more, before he fixed a scowl on his face and moved to join her at the door.
"We will go and get you some food, but once your done we will need to report to the Science department. You do remember that you have an appointment with Chief Lee today?" The Inspector asked in a bored tone. Allen simply nodded to what ever the Inspector was saying, all that Allen had really heard was that she was going to be able to get something to eat.
The trip to the dinning hall didn't take all that long, the young white haired woman ordered enough food to feed at least five grown men. Link actually looked a little queasy at her food choices, but the young woman didn't see what the problem was.
There was nothing wrong with syrup on ice cream, or on everything else that she ordered for that matter.
It was about the time that Allen was half way done eating her pile of food that Lavi and the old Bookman came and joined the Inspector and her at the table. Lavi, instead of eating the food that he had on his tray, just watched her inhale her food. His face looking a little green, while the older Bookman just raised a grey eyebrow.
"Hey, Allen…" Lavi started, his green eye trained on the slowly dwindling pile of food. "Don't you think you should cut back on the sweets?" the eighteen year old said in a voice lined with disbelief as Allen smothered more of her food with syrup. When the young white haired Exorcist paused to blink in confusion at the Jr. Bookman, Lavi decided that he needed to elaborate.
"Your not going to be able to fit back into your Exorcist uniform if you keep eating like that." No sooner had those words left the redheads mouth, Lavi found his head smack on the table due to Bookman smacking him on the back of the head. Link merely sighed and Allen simply blinked.
She had always been able to eat anything that she wanted, it was one of the little perks of being a Parasitic Accommodator. She could eat anything that she wanted and it was extremely hard for her to gain weight. Though now that she thought about it, she had been having an odd cravings for sweets lately…
"If you are done Walker, we need to be going." Link cut into her thoughts, the young woman frowned but nodded and waved goodbye to her red haired friend and Bookman. Allen quickly took note that the old Bookman was watching her with that cold and calculating look that Allen had seen on Lavi's face when they had been aboard the Ark…
Her and Link made their way to the Science department, Timcanpy fluttered after her and then made himself comfy in her white hair, much to Allen's annoyance. Allen sighed and took note of all the people in the halls moving boxes and other various things.
Soon the entire tower would be moving to a new location. The new European Branch headquarters was almost finished being build. Sometimes it amazed Allen how fast the Order could get things done…
Her silver eyes landed on a man dressed in red, a Crow, that was standing in the hall. This one made five that the young woman had seen since she had left the infirmary. It was odd seeing so many from central within the old tower.
Allen sighed and tried to brush her straight white hair into something more presentable once she had shooed Tim from his little nest. The young woman didn't understand why the Order had decided that she needed a guard. Sure her master was in quite a bit of trouble, but she didn't think anyone would want to hurt her…
Allen was dressed in her blue hospital pants and shirt. Her black rode held closely to her shivering body with her free hand as she caught the eyes of some random people in the halls. She had been noticing that lately also. That some of the finders and other people that called the Black Order home had been looking at her with cold questioning looks…
Her master was being accused of heresy. The more that the news of the famed General Marian Cross consorting with the Noah spread, the more the young woman notice more and more of those looks…
Allen Walker was the mans apprentice, and not only that, but the word had gotten out that she had been the one to control the Ark. Allen hadn't missed the fact that the more time that past the more people from central seemed to show up. You could barely walk down the halls without seeing at least one Crow…
It was making her nervous and now she had a meeting with her supervisor, Chief Komui Lee? Allen didn't really want to talk to the man, she wanted to speak with her master, she wanted to speak with Neah…
But neither things were going to happen. Allen was no longer allowed aboard the Ark, not since the Attack had taken place. The young woman wanted to ask the Fourteenth about her mother, because the man had somehow known the woman and never before had Allen been so close to finding out anything about her birth parents.
Speaking to her master was also not allowed, Allen had been told that it was because of the pending heresy trails, but the young woman wasn't so sure that was the true reason…
Link opened the door to the science department, the petite woman fallowed timidly after the Inspector. Her eyes glancing at all the boxes and all the lose piles of paper as they continued deeper and deeper into the large room.
"Allen?" A shaken voice asked from in front of her. The young white haired woman snapped her head up and came face to face with Liang. The young man was frowning at her in concern. His dark purple eyes looking all the more darker for some reason, and Allen felt concern for her comrade rise in her heart.
Liang looked like he had been through hell, his eyes were filled with stress and something bordering on fright and rage. Liang looked like he just had a long conversation with the devil himself.
But Allen didn't have anytime to ask if her friend was ok, because Inspector Link took her by the arm and pulled her past her fellow Exorcist. "Wait, why are you taking Allen back there?" Liang called out, his voice lined with his poorly concealed panic.
Reever came up and stopped Liang from following after her. Allen felt new fear well up within her chest. She had never seen Liang look like that before, looking so close to falling apart…
The Inspector dragged her into Chief Komui's office. The young Exorcist turned her wide silver eyes on to the four people within the room. Her supervisor turned his head to look at her, and Allen swallowed at the look within the older Lee's eyes. He looked about as bad as Liang…
The young woman eyes quickly noted that Branch Heads Bak Chang and Renee Epstain sat in chairs before Chief Komui's desk. Their eyes turned and watched as Inspector Link ushered her pasted the two double doors of the rather large office.
Allen shivered with fear when her eyes landed on the last man within the room. Her pale skin prickled and a cold chill raced across her flesh as Head Inspector Leverier turned to smile at her.
Ever sense the man had shown up at the Black Order tower, Allen had notice a change in Liang. Her comrade was so closed off and had this far off look in his eyes. The young woman knew that it had to do with the man that was smiling at her in his creepy, bone chilling way.
Link let go of her arm and ushered her into the only empty chair within the room. Allen tried her hardest to not look at the man sitting next to her. She took a little comforting in knowing that Bak and Komui were in the room with her, but that didn't stop the growing black pit in her stomach…
"Ah Ms. Walker, so nice to see you up and about." The Head Inspector said in his smug sounding voice. His black eyes narrowing and returning to fix Chief Komui with a pleased look. "We have some questions for you." The frown on the older Lee's face deepened at the Head Inspectors words.
"Allen, did you know of Cross' involvement with the Noah?" Bak Chang asked, his voice sounding reluctant to be apart of this meeting. Allen swallowed and turned her confused silver eyes to the blond Branch Head.
No, Allen didn't know anything about her master having anything to do with Noah. Her master had never once spoken to her about the Clan of Noah. Her master had never told her much of anything, except about her Innocence and about Exorcists. So the young woman shook her head, not trusting her voice at the moment.
The blond woman sitting next to Bak frowned and Bak himself sighed in relief. Allen turned her silver eyes to looked at her supervisor. He was looking at her with narrowed blue eyes, his hands folded before his face. It was now that Allen noticed that the older Lee's desk was for once clean of any stray paper, except for a few that sat before him in a neat pile.
"So you had know idea that the man knew the Fourteenth Noah?" Inspector Leverier said, his mouth still set in that smug smile of his. Allen frowned, that familiar nausea that she had been feeling a lot recently twisting in her stomach, but Allen pushed that down and shook her head again. The Head Inspector sighed in disappointment, but his smile widened. "Oh? I find that surprising. Tell me, when did General Cross take you in as his apprentice?"
The young woman flinched at this question, she had told her supervisor that her master had taken her in a little over three years ago, which was the trust, and that was when her training as an Exorcist started…
Though it was also true thought that when Komui had asked who had been taking care of her before then, Allen had simply refused to answer the older Lee. The white haired Exorcist didn't feel comfortable talking about Mana with just anyone.
Sure, she would mention little things here and there, but only the little things, like that the man had taught her to juggle. Those things were about all she was willing to share about her foster father. "Three years ago…" She answered softly.
"Yes, your Exorcist file says that. Did the General ever say anything about your connection to the Fourteenth?" Inspector Leverier asked after a long pause, this seemed to make everyone within the room unconvertible.
The young woman's heart twisted within her chest, her breath ghosted out past her pink lips and Allen's eyes widened just slightly. Did this man somehow know that she had spoken and seen the Fourteenth Noah? And if so, then how did he know?
Cold fear sang loudly in her heart, but Allen forced that fear away.
"My…Connection…?" she whispered out. The young Exorcist hoping that her tone came out sounding as honestly confused as she hoped it did.
The man simply blinked at her, before he chuckled. The sound making Allen's skin crawl. That stomach turning feeling only became worse when he narrowed his eyes at her. "Why yes, surely you didn't think that he made you take control of the Ark just because?" The Head Inspector said in-between chuckles.
A second later and the mans smile widened even more, Inspector Leverier taking some kind of twisted pleasure in what he was about to say. "The fact that you are the spawn of one of the Orders greatest enemies has brought into question your loyalties." He said in a cold and sharp tone, his dark eyes flashing.
The office of her supervisor became deathly quite again after the Head Inspector had uttered those words. Allen's silver eyes widened, her lips parting. She must have miss heard what the man had said. Her eyes traveled around the room, everyone watching her for her reaction. "I-I don't under…" the young woman stammered out.
Inspector Leverier eyebrow rose in question at her words, his smile, if possible even more smug. The man sat back in his chair, his narrowed eyes never once leaving her widened silver.
"Oh, didn't Cross inform you of your bloodline? That you are a child of a Noah, and not just any Noah, but the Fourteenth, the Musician?" Leverier continued smoothly. "Surely you can understand the Order questioning your loyalties now that this fact has been confirmed."
Allen blinked slowly, her heart thundering loud in her chest. Her mind barely hearing what else the man from central was saying. Her mind slow to process that this man sitting next to her had just said that she shard blood with a Noah. That Allen Walker was a child of a Noah.
Her hands tightened their grip on her lose blue shirt as her heart twisted in her chest...
No, no. that couldn't be right. What he had said couldn't be right. Allen's heart twisted and her eyes stung with confused tears. How could this man say that she was the child of a Noah like he knew it with out any doubt…
But if it was true, if she was…
If the Fourteenth… If she was the child of the Fourteenth Noah, then that would make…him…
"Central has come to a decision, you will be allowed to continue being an Exorcist as long as you provide the Order with control and use of Noah's fabled Ark." The Inspector said in an even voice. "It has also been arranged for you, Ms. Walker, to be engaged to one of the Orders new and most prominent backers."
Inspector Leverier glanced over at Chief Komui as the man made a choking noise at what the older man had just said. The Head Inspector raised an eyebrow, but continued speaking.
"These are just a few ways for you to prove your loyalty to the Order. And if you agree, then you and your masters heresy trails will be dropped." The Head Inspector said, seemingly not even caring that the young woman sitting in the chair next to him was having a hard time taking in the information that he had just finished throwing at her.
"I don't see how an arranged marriage will prove anyone's loyalty to the Order." Chief Komui asked through gritted teeth, the man clearly not happy about Inspector Leverier's proposal, the man simply smiled his cold and creepy smile.
It was now that Allen managed to pull herself from her hazy thoughts. The word 'marriage' ringing loud in her ears. It took Allen a few long moments for her to realized that her supervisor and the Inspector were about to get into a heated argument as the Inspectors mouth twisted into a displeased frown at being questioned.
The Head Inspector had said that agreeing to this arranged marriage and helping the Order with the Ark was the only way to keep her master and herself from undergoing a heresy trail, and while Allen didn't fear for her masters safely (her master would find someway out of it, she was sure) she needed to talk to him…
Because if Cross had known… about who her father was… and if Mana had also known the Fourteenth…
The young woman shook her head and forced down the twisting hot pain within her heart. Allen turned her silver eyes on the man sitting in the chair next to her. "Inspector Leverier," she whispered softly, her voice wavering only slightly. The man turned his narrowed dark eyes back to her. "If I agree and go through…with everything… Then the heresy trails… will be dropped? And, would I be able to speak with my master…?"
Inspector Leverier's mouth twisted into a wide pleased smile and Allen had to fight down the need to shudder at the look in the mans eyes. The Head Inspector nodded his head and turned his eyes onto her guard, Howard Link, who had been standing two steps behind her chair. "Take Ms. Walker back to her room, Inspector. Make sure that she doesn't go anywhere without proper guard. We can't have anything happening to the Order's Musician now can we?"
Inspector Link saluted and Allen slowly pushed herself up from her chair, taking the hint that it was time for her to leave. Her poker face held firmly in place as she turned and slowly made her way to the door. Like the first time Link opened the door and fallowed after her, only ever a few passes behind…
Allen Walker's face was a blank mask of indifference, her poster straight as she walked down the halls. But on the inside, her very core was shaking, her heart felt like it was going to break, the young woman was on the verge of falling apart…
She needed to talk to her master, but more then that, Allen so badly needed to speak with Neah… her… father… because she needed to know if it was all true… Allen wanted and needed to hear it from the Fourteenth…
****** ~ Komui Lee Pov ~ ******
Once the young white haired Exorcist had left, Komui frowned deeply at the Head Inspector. The man only chuckled at the dark look the older Lee was directing at him. Komui Lee didn't understand what an arranged marriage had to do with proving anyone's loyalty. His eyes narrowed as he pushed his glasses up higher on his nose. "You didn't answer my question."
Inspector Leverier sighed deeply, his dark eyes flashing with his amusement at the fact that Komui had to ask the question in the first place. The look within the mans eyes telling him that his reasoning behind marrying Allen off to some nobleman should have been obvious. "This arranged marriage will be very beneficial for the Order, in more ways then one. For instance, you Chief Komui, will be getting a new headquarters out of this arrangement."
The Head Inspector chuckled at the disgusted look on Komui's face, the blue haired man felt like he was going to be sick from profiting of something like an arranged marriage.
"Tell me Chief Lee," The man drawled out after noting the displeased look that was also on Bak's face. Renee looked like she didn't care one bit. "Do you remember Helvaska's prophesy regarding Allen Walker?"
The blue haired man slowly nodded his head, his eyes briefly flickering over to meet Bak Chang's narrowing grey eyes. "Yes. That Allen Walker would bring forth a great Destroyer of Time." Komui said in a low tone. Not quit understanding were the man was going with this…
Inspector Leverier smug smile widened. "Yes, and ever since it has been discovered that Allen Walker is a young woman and not a young man, it has been discussed that there might be another interpretation to the prophesy."
Komui's blue eyes widened. Bak and Renee's eyes were also fixed on the Inspector now. The man chuckled and the sound almost had a wicked twist to it. "What if the prophesy simply means what it says? That Ms. Walker will bring forth the one that will destroy the Millennium Earl? That she will give birth to a child that will win us the War?"
****** ~ Allen's Pov ~ ******
As soon as she had been led back to her room, Allen had wasted no time in slamming her door closed in Inspector Links face. The young woman locked her door and then threw herself on her bed. Her aching heart wouldn't slow, it was racing hard within her chest. Allen could also feel her stomach twisting and threatening to make her regret all the food that she had just eaten a short time ago.
Her stomach did in fact choose to make her pay, because a few moments later following that thought, the white haired Exorcist found herself scrambling to make it into her bathroom before it was to late.
Her thin and petite body shook as she emptied her stomach into the toilet. She gagged and her breathing was labored. Allen, for a few long moments, hoped that was the end of it. Again the young woman was proved wrong as Allen found her stomach heaving on her once again.
The young woman frowned and let her body slide from its bent position over the toilet to laying on the floor after her second round being ill. Her silver eyes were unfocused as her heart started to hurt like nothing else. To many thoughts twisting and demanding her attention all at once….
The worst thought by far was the fact that she had just agreed to marry some nobleman, that she didn't even know, all so she could have a chance to talk to her master and to escape what was surely a death sentence of a trail…
That wasn't even considering that she had just been told that her birth father was none other then a Noah. The Fourteenth Noah that had tried to kill the Earl. The Noah that she hadn't seen or heard from sense the Attack on her home.
No wonder the man had said that he had known her mother, the young woman thought bitterly.
She was the offspring of a Noah… she was in love with a Noah…
But her love for Tyki no longer mattered, because she was going to be married off to some man that she didn't even know…
Her stomach twisted violently again and the young woman moved quickly. Her head once again hanging over the white porcelain within her bathroom. Allen let a soft moan escape her pink lips as soon as she was finished. The young woman then moved to wash out the horrid taste from her mouth.
Her whole being felt so drained now…
She silver eyes narrowed as Allen looked at herself within the mirror, her pink lips twisting into a frown at what she saw. Her silver eyes were now a dull grey, her pale skin was even paler, and her white chin length hair was an absolute mess. She was sure that she would never get all the tangles out anytime soon…
The young woman reached up and tried to run her pale fingers through her stark white hair, but gave up on trying to fix it once her masters golem fluttered over and landed on her head. Her white haired was apparently Tim's new favorite spot to nest…
She huffed and shooed the golden golem away and let out a heavy sigh. Allen shook her head and started to remove her clothes, removing her corset taking its standard time of at least ten minutes to remove. Once she was undressed Allen was ever more tired and she didn't want to think about anything anymore.
She just wanted to sleep, and maybe this time when she slept, she would dream…
And if she dreamed then maybe…
Allen pulled on a overly large white button up shirt, it being the only thing she slept in when at the Order. Sleeping with just a shirt on was something that Allen found she quite enjoyed, seeing as before she came to the Order the young woman had to sleep completely clothed…
Her master was a pervert after all, not to mention the fact that she had been under the impression (Except when her master said things like "what ever you say princess.") that the man thought she was a boy...
Though Allen now realized that Cross most likely had known that Allen was a girl all along…
Sighing heavily once again and now truly much to tired and confused to think anymore, Allen crawled into her bed and pulled the blankets over her head. She could hear Timcanpy fluttering around the room for a moment before he found a place for the night.
When she finely managed to fall asleep, it was a restless and fitful sleep, like all the night before, since the events on the Ark. It didn't feel like it had been all that long since the young Exorcist had closed her eyes, when she heard a knock on her door.
Allen pushed her blankets back. Her silver eyes blinking in sleepy confusion when she heard another knock, this time more insistent. The young woman slid her feet out from under her sheets and slowly made her way over to the door. She could hear voices on the other side. Allen's lips twisted down into a soft frown at this.
Her silver eyes glanced over at her window and confirmed that it was indeed late into the night… She had been sleeping for hours… but…
Who would be at her door at this hour?
The white haired Exorcist unlocked her door and opened it a small crack. Her eyes widened and she pushed the door open further after only a second. Her green haired comrade stood before her door, arguing with a Crow guard that had been posted outside it. Liang's dark purple eyes turned to her the moment that she pushed the door open.
"Allen…can I talk to you?" the young man asked in a hushed voice.
The young woman swallowed at the look within the young mans eyes, and nodded for the man in red to allow Liang past. The Crow merely nodded in return and took a step to the side. Allen opened the door wider and Liang didn't waist a second entering her room.
He past her and Allen slowly closed the door behind him. Her left hand pulling and fidgeting with the shirt that she was wearing. She hadn't thought about the fact that she was only wearing her night shirt. The piece of clothing only fell to half way down her thighs…
Not to mention the fact that she had just invited a male comrade into her bedroom late at night…
But Liang looked so upset, something in his dark purple eyes told her that he really needed to talk to someone. Her embarrassment at the fact that she was far from being properly dress would have to wait.
"What did they want from you?" Liang asked, his voice sounding so hallow that the young woman felt her heart twist in concern.
Liang had taken a seat on her bed, his head low and his dark green hair (now a lot shorter then it used to be) blocked Allen from seeing his face. The white haired Exorcist frowned, Allen chewing on her bottom lip in worry for her comrade.
Allen took a step closer, her heart beating much to load in her chest now. There was something nagging at the back of her mind, her stomach fluttered with nervousness, but the young woman pushed these feelings away.
Allen shouldn't be feeling like this, her friend wouldn't hurt her, he had just come to her for comfort and to make sure her meeting with the Head Inspector had not been to bad...
Allen slowly took a seat next to her friend on the bed. Her petite frame shivered as her mind screamed that there was something very, very wrong. That her comrade had gone much to still…
Her left hand rose to touch the young man next to her. Allen's eyes flashing with her fear for Liang's well being. Though the young woman flinch when Liang took her left wrist in a hard grip.
His head lifted and Allen found that she had only a moment to see how dark his eyes had become, because in the next passing second the young woman found herself being pushed back onto the bed. Allen's pink lips parted in a startled gasp, her first thought was to demand to know what the young man was doing, but her mind lost hold of that thought when suddenly Liang's lips were on hers in a hard kiss.
Her eyes widened and they burned with confused tears as her friend kissed her harder, her left wrist now held over her head. The young woman fought to turn her head away from the kiss, but this only seemed to encourage when it should have done the opposite.
Allen's right hand came up and pushed Liang roughly back, breaking the connection between their lips. Her breathing hard as her eyes widened. Her cheeks tinting pink with shame when Allen realized the position that she was in. Her back pressed hard to her bed, Liang on top of her and between her thighs…
The pain of betrayal flashed like sharp knives though her heart and body. The young white haired woman could taste the bile in the back of her throat at the thought that she was in this kind of compromising position with someone that was not Tyki.
Which Allen dimply noted, was silly, because she was now engaged with some man that was also not Tyki…
Her frightened silver eyes met Liang's and begged for her comrade to move away from her, for him to let her go and leave her be.
Allen's heart sank as she looked into the other Exorcist's haunted purple eyes. Liang was falling apart at the seems and he needed someone to offer him comfort, but she couldn't give him this...
Liang narrowed his eyes and made to kiss her again, Allen's heart twisted with fear…
His lips had barely touched hers again, when Allen felt rage rise up and take a hard cold grip on her heart. In the next moment her comrades weight was gone and her Innocence was invoked. The young man was thrown across the room from his place on top of her by Crown Clown. Liang hit the stone wall of her room hard, but somehow managed to keep himself on his feet.
Allen met his wide confused purple eyes with a look of burning hot rage. Her silver eyes narrowed, her petite frame shook in her furry from her place on the bed. How could Liang think, for even a moment, that he could try and force himself on her, think that she would let him…
Another second past and Allen's anger fled from her. Her body started to shake and hot tears started to burn at her pained silver eyes. Her comrade was looking at her with such a broken look…
The other Exorcist's eyes narrowed and his lips twisted into an angry frown. The young man pushed himself away from the wall and took a step forward, closer to the bed. At this Allen shivered, she could taste bile rise more in the back of her throat, her right hand scrubbing at her trembling lips.
"Allen…" Liang started, his voice sounding so utterly hollow and empty, that Allen wanted to weep. This was all so very wrong. Her heart felt so very cold. The green haired Exorcist took another step forward and Allen pushed herself back on the bed.
"Leave." She whispered out, her voice almost failing her. The thought that her friend would even consider this… it hurt so much… and the young woman knew that look within her comrades eyes…
Her mind pulling up a horrid memory from long, long ago… An event that she had force down deep into a black hole in her mind. A memory that she never ever wanted to remember. A memory of what almost happened right before Mana had come to take her away from that hell of a circus…
"Get out…" Allen said in an even quieter tone, her silver eyes wide and almost unseeing, but the young woman knew that he heard her, because Liang paused in his advance closer to the bed.
"Allen, don't you want to be with me?" He asked, his voice still that broken and utterly hallow tone. The young woman's stomach twisted and she knew that she was going to be sick.
Allen raised her clawed black left hand, Crown Clown's white cape fluttering around her. White ribbon's shot forth, stopping just millimeters from striking Liang. The young man only blinked slowly, his lips twitching into a small broken smile. "I know you won't hurt me… I love you."
"Get out!" Allen started in a quite hiss, but by the end she was screaming. "Got Out!"
The other Exorcist tilted his head, his dark and hallow purple eyes clearly showing his confusion. He didn't understand why she was so upset…
"I don't love you Liang! Get out! Get out of my room!" Allen shrieked. Her silver eyes fixed on the young man standing in the center of her small room. Liang blinked slowly, so very slowly, before his lips twisted into an enraged snarl.
The young white haired woman pushed herself all the way back on her bed, her back pressed flat against the wall. Her mind clouded with her panic and fear. Her mind far from being rational, the white ribbons of her Innocence curled back and prepared to attack what it perceived as a threat...
Liang took a hard step forward and then Timcanpy was in his face. Tim's teeth bared and her masters golem growling in warning. The male Exorcist hissed and raised his hand to swat the golem away, but his hand was stopped in mid swing.
Allen's silver eyes snapped to the one holding Liang by the wrist. Inspector Link narrowed his eyes at the young man that he was restraining. The Crow that had been standing guard at her door was only a few steps behind the Inspector.
She hadn't even heard the door open…
Allen felt relief wash over she as Link pushed Liang back, her guard now standing between her and the other Exorcist. The Inspector was then saying something to her comrade, but the young woman was just so tired, her silver eyes completely unfocused as her body sagged. The room tilted and started to spin, her Innocence wavered and then was gone.
It was now that she heard those first blessed key strokes of a piano, though they sounded so far away. Allen let out a twisted little giggle, her pink lips twisting up into an odd little smile as she welcomed the blackness of her dreams with open arms.
But again she did not dream of the man that she so badly needed to talk to. But for now that was fine, she could hear the music flowing out from that darkness that she had been so terrified of earlier. She could feel the one that was waiting within pulsing and raising, slowly waking…
She was not sure how long it had been, how long she had been sleeping. Allen woke to her door being thrown open, the wooden door hitting the stone wall with a loud bang, but even with that loud noise Allen was still slow to wake. Her mind refusing to think about the events that had happened with her comrade…
Her silver eyes slid to look at her window, her vision still blurred from sleep, but still the young woman took note that it was light out.
Link was then at her bed side, pulling her to her feet. The young woman was quickly dragged out of her room and passed the Crow that was waiting at the door. Her silver eyes taking in that the man in red was trying to hold of a large group of people with a barrier spell. The group looked odd but Allen found it hard to get her mind to focus, her head hurt and her forehead pulsed with a dull pain.
Link started to quickened his pass until he was running down the hall, her personal guard telling her that almost everyone in the Order had been infected with some type of virus. That he was taking her out of the old stone tower…
That was when they encountered two of the General's, the Inspector twisted and pushed Allen back, Link throwing up a defensive spell between them and the zombies…
The young woman stumbled back until she hit a hard chest, Allen's confused silver eyes finally focused as she glanced up. A pair of dark drown eyes looked down at her and Allen gasped and made to move away from her master.
General Cross tisked and took a hold of her right wrist. His eyes turning to the surprised Inspector. The blond haired man had only a moment to open his mouth before General Kluad broke threw his barrier. Her masters mouth twisted into a smirk as the blond General moved to attack the Inspector.
Her master turned to look over his shoulder and it was now that Allen took notice that Cross already summoned Maria. Her master issued the order for Maria to use her Invisibility Shield on them. The corpse of the woman parted her black painted lips and she started to sing.
The red haired man didn't waist any time in dragging her the other direction after that, away from the now zombie-fide Link. Allen stumbled as her mater continued to pull her along by her wrist, Maria following a few passes behind the white haired Exorcist. They easily made their way passed and through groups of zombies thanks to Maria's Invisibility barrier.
Alllen's silver eyes widened when they landed on the open ark gate. Her master wasn't thinking of fleeing using the Ark was he? Their comrades needed help…
"Master, where are we going?" the young woman stammered out. Her eyes turning to glance at the dead woman following behind them obediently. Her master sighed but continued up the stairs that would allow them to enter the Ark.
"We are going to use the Ark to get to the Asian Branch, idiot." the red haired man said as he glanced back at her. They stepped though the white gate and had only taken a few steps within the Ark when her master paused. Allen blinked and turned her eyes away from Cross to see what the man was now glaring at.
The young woman's breath became stuck within her throat, her silver eyes widening at the man that stood before them. The Fourteenth stood, blocking their path to her masters intended exit. Neah narrowed his cold gold eyes at the red haired General, his grey lips twisting into a frown. The Noah had his hands in the pockets of his dark long coat.
The Fourteenth Noah didn't look all to happy to see her master…
Cross frowned deeper before he was then smiling coldly at the Noah that stood in their way. "I thought so, how long have you been hanging around Fourteenth?" her master asked in a tone laced with ice.
Neah's gold eyes slide from her masters to glance at the woman that stood behind Allen and Cross. The Noah's frown deepened, before the man was then glaring darkly at the General again. "Long enough." The Fourteenth said in an equally cold tone.
Allen swallowed, her heart once again beating hard within her chest. Here she was, standing with the two men that she had been so desperate to talk to not even a one day ago, and for the life of her the young woman couldn't find her voice to speak.
After a few long moments of a cold staring contest, Neah turned his golden eyes on her, his lips twisting into a deeper frown at her appearance. It was now that Allen realized that she was still wearing only her night shirt. Her pale cheeks heated in embarrassment. The Fourteenth Noah once again fixed the General with displeased look.
"Give Ellen your coat and let her go, before I have to kill you." The Noah drawled out in a tone heavy with cold anger. Her master barked with laughter, the tense and cold atmosphere lifting only slightly, though mostly on her masters side. Her master narrowed his eyes at the Noah, but removed his black and gold Exorcist coat and held it out to her.
Cross smiled slyly at Neah, her master far from fearing the Noah before him, even though he was standing within the Fourteenth's domain. "She's not my type. Doesn't have the proper curves." The red haired General said in an amused voice, her master seemingly enjoying the dark look the Fourteenth was now shooting in his direction.
Allen struggled to pull the large coat over her petite frame. The black and gold Exorcist coat hung of her like a blanket, the young woman had to hold the front of the jacket closed with trembling fingers. Her silver eyes raising to look at the man standing before her and her master. She gathered her courage and swallowed the large lump in her throat. )
"Who- Who are you…?" the young woman choked out in a soft and wavering voice. Neah blinked and turned his eyes back on her, her master's lips twisted into a wider smile, his dark drown eyes flashing with amusement. Her master understanding what she meant by the question.
The Fourteenth offered her a smile. Though Allen could tell by the look within his gold eyes that the Fourteenth knew what she was really asking, but the man was going to try and play dumb. The Noah opened his mouth to speak, but Allen cut him off.
"Who are you to me?" the young woman said in a more forceful tone, her silver eyes pleading with the Noah to tell her the truth. Because she was so tired of people lying to her, lying to her with the idea that they were protecting her…
Neah's eyes softened and then they closed. His lips twisting into a strained smile as he then look at Cross, his gold eyes hard. The red haired General watched the Fourteenth as he sighed heavily. "You told her?"
Cross simply shook his head, his arms crossing over his chest, his white shirt crinkling softly with the motion. His smile didn't waver. Allen frowned and took a step forward, the young woman once again chewing on her lower lip. Her silver eyes fixing the Noah with a hard demanding look. "Are you my father?" the young white haired Exorcist whispered out.
Neah looked at her, his smile falling from his face completely. His gold eyes flashing with regret, with a deep sadness. His eyes filling with regret that he hadn't told her sooner. "Yes."
Her silver eyes burned with tears, the young woman found that she couldn't keep them back. They burned down her pale cheeks in hot rivers. Her heart twisting with so many confusing emotions that Allen wasn't sure exactly what she was truly feeling.
Her master ticked from beside her, his eyes narrowing at the Fourteenth that was looking down right horrible for making her cry. "Look what you did you idiot." Cross hissed out under his breath. Neah turned his eyes back to the General and fixed the man with a cold glare. Allen choked back a sob that was mixed both with joy and sorrow…
Because while Allen finally knew who her birth father was, the fact that he was dead and nothing but something similar to a ghost… hurt…
The young woman turned and smacked her master on the arm hard as anger rose in her heart. The red haired General hissed in pain because she had used her left hand to strike him. Her angry flashing silver eyes glaring at her master. "And you knew and never once told me?" she hissed. Cross blinked and then frowned at her, her master clearly not sure what to do with the fact that his apprentice had just hit him…
Neah chuckled at the look on the powerful General's face, his gold eyes still holding that odd sorrow within them. Allen choked back another sob and slowly slid to her knees, her heart still filled with an odd mix of emotions.
Her hands covered her face to hind her tears, because the Exorcist knew that she was being overly emotional. It was a few long moments before the young woman felt someone join her on the ground. Allen hiccupped and slowly lowered her hands. Her pale right hand and her black left hand fisted into her masters coat.
"A group of Science geeks will be coming through here within an hour or so to administer a vaccine to help with the Orders little zombie problem." Cross said in a uncaring tone, his eyes looking up at the blue sky, before his gaze fell to the Noah sitting next to Allen. "I'm guising that you don't have all that much time left, especially after your little venture outside of the Ark?"
Allen blinked, her concerned silver eyes turning to look at the man sitting on the grown beside her. The Fourteenth frowned before he let loss a heavy sigh. His gold eyes falling to be half mast.
"No, I'm starting to degrade much faster now…" His gold eyes caught Allen's wide fearful look. The Noah smiled at her reassuringly. "There is nothing to worry about, I am only an old memory of what once was. I'm already dead remember? There's nothing that can be done about it."
Allen's pink lips twisted down into a deep frown, her master sighed and started to make his way down the old white stone street of the Ark. One hand raising to wave at the two behind him.
"I need to get to the Asian Branch and let them know what's going on. We can't let to much time pass or it will look suspicious." The General said in an airy voice. "Like I said, you have about an hour." and with that the red haired General turned a corner and was gone.
Leaving the father and daughter to talk.
******* ~ Tyki's Pov ~ *******
The Noah of Pleasure sat in the middle of his room aboard the new Ark. His gold eyes flashing with something between amusement and irritation. Road stood before him, her grey lips twisted into quite the irritated pout. The Ninth Child's small hands planted on her hips and looked for all the world ready to drag him from his room at any given moment.
The floor of his room was covered in broken glass from the large windows to his right.
"You broke the windows again?~" An amused voice sang out from the doorway to his room. Tyki's head leaned back and his eyes slide over to look at the Earl. The oldest of the Clan chuckled and shock his head before sighing. "This will make it the third time today.~" The Maker said as he waved his hand in the air, the large windows that lined the wall to Tyki's right quickly mending themselves.
Tyki sighed and his gold eyes moved to glare at the ceiling. It looked like he wasn't going to be able to get any peace today either. His family wouldn't let him be, and while Tyki did appreciate the others concern, the Third wanted to be alone.
He wanted to think about things. He wanted to think about Allen. The Noah of Pleasure wanted to see her, to touch her. This deep and horrid ach in his chest was going to drive him crazy. It had started a little over a week ago, it had faded quite a bit now, but at first it had been so overwhelming…
He had been almost consumed by the feeling that he needed to be somewhere. That there was something very, very wrong. The Third Child had been filled with this overpowering need to kill, the destroy and to rip something to pieces…
His instincts had been screaming at him, but he didn't know why. Tyki remembered feeling this way once before…
It had been many, many years ago. If Tyki was remembering right, he had been about eighteen at the time. That time, the Earl had taken him to where he thought that he needed to be. That drive had taken them to some old circus, but there had been nothing there…
Road huffed and then stomped her foot. Her gold eyes flashing with displeasure. The young looking Noah of Dreams turned her eyes on to the Earl, her tone high as she practically wined to the Patriarch of the Noah Clan. "Earl! Tyki won't get up and come to the ball that daddy is throwing tonight!" The twelve year old girl hissed. One grey finder pointing in an accusing way at the Third Child.
The Millennium Earl chuckled at the Ninth Child, before Adam turned to look at the Third. The Earl looked like he was going to say something, but someone cleared their throat from behind him. Tyki was pulled from his thoughts, his gold eyes watching the Maker move a step to the side.
Sheryl walked into his room, the Noah of Pleasure raising a eyebrow at the smug and down right giddy look on his brothers face. In his hand was that black folder at he had seen the Earl and Sheryl looking over a while back…
Right before Tyki had met up with his human friends and then with his Allen. The mining town that he had proposed to the young woman in…
Adam's smiled widened, and the great Millennium Earl quickly snatched the black folder from the Fourth Child's hand. His brother blanked and then fixed the First with a bland look. The Earl ignored him and opened the folder and glanced over whatever was within. His smile widened into a even wider and giddy grin. His gold eyes flashing with joy.
"It took them long enough to sign, but this is most definitely worth the losses that we incurred!~" The Earl said in an amused chuckle.
Road seemed to understand what was going on, because the Ninth Child of Noah giggled in glee and clapped her hands. The Noah of Dreams ran over to her adopted father and attempted a tackle hug, though Road was much to light to actually knock the Noah of Desires over. "Great job daddy! I knew you could pull it off!"
Tyki sighed and reassigned himself to the fact that his family was completely insane and crazy. Though he had known this for a very long time, and despite himself, Tyki found his mood lightening. A smile fighting to pull his lips up and out of the scowl that he had been wearing on his face for the last few weeks…
Ever since his last meeting with his white haired Exorcist…
The Noah Pleasure blinked as suddenly the black folder was in his face, his gold eyes blinking in confusion before he looked up. His brother was smiling slyly, the Fourth Child of Noah apparently somehow managed to get the folder back from the Earl…
Tyki fixed a frown on his face, his right hand rising slowly and taking the folder from his brother, who's tanned mouth stretched wider across his face in a wickedly pleased grin. Tyki narrowed his eyes at his smug looking older brother and fought down the need to swallow. His gold eyes falling down to look at the black folder that was now in his hands.
He wasn't sure if he should be worried over what was within the rather plain looking folder or not.
Slowly the Third Child flipped open the folder, his eyes falling on the nice and crisp documents within. His gold eyes narrowed as he skimmed the words written on the clean white paper, his mind not quite processing what he was reading…
Tyki looked the papers again, then one more time just to make sure. His mouth opening in a disbelieving gape, the Third not really thinking about his dignity at the moment and about what kind of face he was making. Tyki couldn't believe it…
These papers in his hands, they were a signed and legally binding contract for Lord Tyki Mikk to marry…
"The masquerade ball tonight is in honor of the Kamelot family's support of the Black Order." Sheryl said in a voice lined with his smugness. Tyki's widened eyes didn't once glance up from the papers within his hands. The Noah of Pleasure barely hearing what his brother was saying. "God's Holy Apostils are the guests of honor." Sheryl's smooth voice continued.
Tyki slowly blinked, a long moment dragged by that was filled with silence. The Third could hear the giddiness in his brothers voice when he finally spoke again. "Your fiancé will be there.~"
The wide and thrilled grin that spread across the Third's face was almost frightening.
A few long hours later found him standing within his families large ballroom. Something else Sheryl quite liked to do, his brother loved throwing tea parties and large events of any kind. Though Tyki had the feeling he threw so many because Sheryl was trying to get him to meet a young woman that would strike his fancy…
Tyki gave a heavy sigh, Sheryl would be holding this over his head for years. His older brother was already bragging to anyone that would listen that he had finally gotten his charming and very elusive little brother to settle down.
The Third didn't miss the fact that his supposed engagement was quite the topic tonight. No thanks to Sheryl and Tricia, his sister-in-law could be just as bad as his brother sometimes…
The Noah of Pleasure had eavesdropped on a group of young woman that had been chatting earlier behind his back about that "Minister Kamelot was in negotiations to arrange a marriage between Lord Mikk and some no named young woman…"
Tyki forced a charming smile on his lips as a finely dressed young woman approached him. An expensively decorated masquerade mask covering the top half of her face him his view. The young blond noble woman curtsied and smiled seductively at him and Tyki fought the need to frown in irritation.
That was something else that the Third Child of Noah had taken notice of. Quite a few of the unmarried young ladies were practically throwing themselves at him. No doubt seeing this ball as their last change to catch his eye, seeing this ball as their last chance of becoming part of Earl Adam's little family and small group of high status nobles.
"My lady." Tyki greeted in a smooth tone, being careful to make sure none of his irritation showed in his voice. The Noah of Pleasure took her gloved hand and brought it to his lips and kissed the back. The young woman giggled airily and her red lips parted to speak, but Tyki was no longer paying attention to her.
His almond colored eyes spotting the one young woman that he had been dieing to see for weeks…
There will be some actual Tyki/FemAllen action in the next chapter! I promise! : )
Oh, and gold stars to all those that caught me trying to be sneaky about Allen's little bouts of nausea… among other things that I have been throwing into the last few chapters...
I did say that this story would have a few things in common with my story "Secrets"…
Ok so, I have a question. Who would like a lemon in the next chapter? Because I have come to the conclusion that I am a pervert, and that I really enjoy writing lemons… And well, the Noah's are all perverts as pointed out by Alternative Angel (loved your review by the way!)…
*clears throat* Please review, let me know what you think…
And who here wants to kick the snot out of Liang? I felt so bad about writing that part… but Belletiger BT did make a really good point that in the anime Lenalee did have a mental break down once… so if you think about it, its not all that far of a stretch for Liang to go a little insane… Add that with one of the reviews Wicken25 left for a previous chapter…
And if you didn't at least want to sock him one, then I didn't do that scene good enough… : (
Yeah…
Anyway! Thank you for all the awesome reviews for last chapter and like I said, the next chapter will have some real Tyki/FemAllen goodness in it!