Hey all new chapter here, please enjoy…

PS I have decided to call the first Arc "a new beginning" review to say who you want Arthur to end up with.

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"Well, here we are." Beamed Alfred as Arthur eyed the blonde American warily. "And where would that be, exactly?" he asked in a rather bored voice. "Your new lab, I've never been to this part of HQ before, Yao always chased me out cuz he thought I would break somethin'" chuckled Alfred sheepishly and Arthur snorted in response.

"Yes imagine that" he said, his voice dripping with sarcasm as he walked into the derelict labs only to have a test tube fly out of nowhere and almost knock him unconscious. A Chinese man about 30 was hurling things at a silver haired male with a creepy smile and Arthur chuckled, causing the two of them to freeze and stare, "honestly, you two are still fighting? Some things never change…"

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"D-don't put me in the same category as him-aru!" spluttered Yao shocking Alfred into silence, Yao was never flustered or shy. "Da подсолнух, I am nothing like Yao-Yao." Huffed the Russian (подсолнух= sunflower). Then, the two of them realised where they were. "No way! Arthur I haven't seen you in years-aru!" Arthur smirked at the disbelief on Yao Wang's face.

"Yes, it has been a while but it appears I will be working with the two of you from now on." Arthur replied with a charming smile causing Yao to turn crimson and start stuttering while Ivan clapped with delight "замечательно! Just like old times da?" (замечательно! = wonderful) "Indeed" Arthur chuckled "but with a lot less explosions I hope" he finished warningly and Ivan smiled innocently "da, Yao-Yao was always blowing things up."

Yao snapped "you are a violent bastard-aru! You always caused the explosions then blamed it on me! Arthur didn't speak to me for a month after you accidently killed the lab rat and blamed it on me! Go die Russian bastard!" shrieked Yao attempting to hit Ivan again but Arthur caught his hand and clicked his tongue disapprovingly.

"Now now, Yao you know I detest violence. Both of you apologise, now." Arthur said sternly meeting each of their eyes, Ivan's an unconvincingly innocent purple eyes and Yao' shy amber. "It wasn't my fault-aru." He mumbled stubbornly, looking away to hide the blush on his face. "Yao…"

"Fine-aru! I'm sorry!"

"Da, da извините."

(Извините= sorry)

"See? That wasn't so hard was it? Now, I'm going to get set up, tell me what are we working on currently?" said the blonde in a serious voice. "There was a body found underneath a bridge, a twenty four year old Caucasian male, his eyes were gouged out and his mouth filled with iron nails post-mortem, any thoughts?" asked Yao and it seemed to Alfred as if they had been doing this for years.

"Mouth full of iron? Fae." He replied turning on the laptop at a nearby desk and setting up an account then searching "fairies." A few months ago Alfred would have thought him insane…but now? Nothing surprised him anymore.

"Oh, I see." Mumbled Yao leaning over Arthur's shoulder "fairies don't like iron" said Arthur matter of fatly, he was obviously clarifying for Alfred who hovered awkwardly in the doorway. "Right so I'll err be going now… Later's Arthur." Arthur turned to nod at him then looked back at the laptop.

"When do we receive the body?" murmured Arthur, opening up a word document to jot down their findings. "Now-aru," replied Yao and the three of them made their way over to the morgue.

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(SKIPPING THE GRAPHIC BIT)

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"He's definitely Fae, just a look at his ears and eyes will tell you that much… It looks like someone drained his blood. Who's the local Head of Clan?"

"Vladmir Lupei."

"Vlad? Hah what a small world, we need to get him over here to identify the bite marks."

"Done, anything else?"

"No, we won't know anything until we question him… Get someone on that."

"Da, da we got it."

Yao had watched Arthur entranced for the entire duration of their investigation but he noticed Ivan was too… Well, it looks like he had competition but he wasn't going to let his fairy disappear without a trace this time Arthur was his.

Game on.