Authors Note:

Ahhh.. shit sorry guys.I ended up being busy over the weekend soo... I slowly picked at this after school. I had too much homework. -DIES- That's why I didn't promise!

Anyway, here's the new chapter!~

Title: Symbols of Embrace

Chapter: 1- The First Flake

Rating: T – For Violence and Mild Language

"I'm sorry, Buddy, we're almost there!

Lavi began to tread faster and harder against the snow, making his boots slosh around with bitter water. His face pinched up against numbness in his barely responsive body, he could barely feel his sprained ankle now. Suddenly, his foot got tangled on a frozen root beneath the white, making him stumbled forward with a grunt. Trying to regain his footing he stepped on the slick powder beneath him. His boots squeaked under him as his face hit hard against the sub-zero mass.

The red head slowly pushed his red face up out of the snow with a gasp and forced his neck to look to the side.

"Allen!" Lavi called out breathless when he saw his friend lying in the snow. Snow was dusted all over Allen's body, white flakes biting at his face making his face even redder.

"Come on, we're so close..." Lavi gritted as he hoisted the unconscious boy over his tired shoulders once again. They kept on going, Lavi's movements were erratic from cold, the gray inked sky loomed over them as if it were almost saying that they weren't going make it. Allen's warm breath was gone now, the wind whispering it's chilling breathe down every inch of their bodies.

When Lavi glanced up and he saw what he wanted more than anything right now. He was so happy he almost ran, fumbling as he did so I might add, until he met the door of the tiny shelter.

Lavi gave in to a sign of relief, "Thank God," he thought as he laid Allen against the frost-bitten stone wall, his matching hair had snow laden about his head, not that you tell because of it's color. Lavi turned to the door, turned the knob and pushed lightly against it. He opened his eye to nothing but wood.

"What?" Bewildered Lavi began to shake the handle violently. No luck. He looked up and saw that the hinges had completely frozen over with transparent ice.

"Shit!" he cursed then he bummed his head rather hard when trying to lay his head against the wood ," If we stay out here any longer we'll get hypothermia." Looking up, a few silver specks clung to his eyelashes, only a small amount of snow kissed his face instead of a rush of it.

"Glad the blizzard stopped, though" Lavi thought with a sigh. He lazily looked over at Allen with that turquoise eye of his and sighed once again at the situation.

They were assigned to a mission in Northern Russia, in the small village of Gelenjik. It was suppose to be the usual, fight some Akuma, get the innocence and go home. Then it turned into one of those cliches were nothing went right. Fighting some low level Akuma went with little injury, but that didn't last for long.

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Allen and Lavi were practicably back to back shouting different commands to their Innocence. "Crown Belt!" Allen shouted as he spun into a rather gruesome Akuma, stabbing it in the back. His glassy molecule reflecting it's deadly screams and that of it's explosion. Both breathless, they fought to gasp in as much as the frosty air as possible.

They both stole a sideways glance at each other and broke out in a smile. "Let's hurry up and kick these guys asses. Then we'll finally get to go home." Lavi said with a cocky grin pulling at his face.

"Let's, but I'm not looking forward to another long train ride," Allen replied with a similar grin and continued to hit another Akuma. While Allen was busy, Lavi turned his head hard when a local building exploded in the distance.

"A-Al-len...?" Lavi asked warily, unsure of what caused the explosion.

"W-What?" Allen replied gritting his teeth, still completely focused on the enemies around him. He didn't even turn around slightly.

"Ummm.." Lavi just couldn't get the question out him for some reason. His eyes flew open when an immense purple orb came shooting at them. "Allen! Get DOWN!" he pleaded, shooting a fierce warning in his eye.

"Huh?" Allen turned around too late, amethyst sparking with malevolence pounded against flesh, causing Allen to grind with unforgiving cement of several walls.

Lavi just stood there, horrified. Then reality came back and struck him in the head. "Allen!" He cried as he scrambled to meet Allen amongst the rubble, which was hard on his sprained ankle. He found Allen inside a civilian's bathroom, with porcelain cutting as his face and lodged in his thigh. He was clearly unconscious with such a hit, hopefully he didn't have a concussion or have any fractures. Lavi gingerly fingered the porcelain in the boy's thigh and decided to yank in out. Blood slowly rushed from the wound when the red-head started to enclose his leg up tightly with cloth, which tinged it with crimson.

"We need to look for a doctor," The burgundy teen spoke out as he lifted the cursed boy onto his shoulders, which caused his ankle to wiggle in pain under the weight. That's when it hit him, the village evacuated soon as the Akuma arrived. He would have care for Allen himself.

"Don't worry, Al, I'll get you fixed up," he gave Allen a momentary look of concern before adjusting the position of Allen on his back. He stopped when a snowflake pressed feathery on his cheek and looked up to the atmosphere which was slowly leaked in a dreary gray.

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He snapped out his thoughts when he saw Allen slowly collapsing to the ground, his legs unable to hold the weight any longer. Lavi grabbed at his shoulders before he could, however he barely feel his own fingers anymore much less hold on to him and was afraid he was about to this breakable teenager at any moment. Both he and Allen's shoulders hit the door with a thud. That gave Lavi an idea.

With his new found passion to get inside, he began pounding and pounding his right shoulder against the wood. Again, again, again and could hear the hinges creak slightly under the pressure. With each hit he felt give in more and more into the cold. His shoulder was throbbing so much probably the skin broke and hot breath was now ghosting over his frantic expression.

His shoulder hit the entrance again and slumped over in pain. He tried to pull back again to give it another whack but he just fell over in frustration. Lavi couldn't do this any more, he was too tired, to frozen. He clawed at the door and was on the verge of tears, but of course he wouldn't admit it.

"Please! please... open. We need you to open!" He stifled a cry out of pure desperation, he lifted his body one more time and let a flimsy blow hit the hard wood, He cried out in pain, but this time he heard something. A crack.

Authors Note:

MY. GOD. It's so short! Sorry about that, I just really wanted to get another piece of the story!

Malevolence : having or showing a desire to harm others

FORGIVENESS ? -teary eyes-

REVIEW? -even tearier eyes-

- SM