I still don't own Durarara!


"Celty, you're back!" A man in glasses and a lab coat walked over towards us. "Who's this girl with you?"

The Black Rider's name is Celty? I never expected that, then again, I've dealt with a lot of unexpected things today.

[Her name is Arisa, it hurts for her to speak at the moment. Ask her questions later.]

The man nodded. "I'll need you to sit down so I can look at your injury, alright?"

He lead me over to a couch, I slowly sat down and took my hand off my neck. It didn't seem like my hand did very much to stop the bleeding but thankfully I'm not dead.

"I've seen this kind of cut before, not too deep but enough for continuous bleeding and it becomes larger as you move that part of your body. Did Izaya do this to you?"

I nodded, I really wonder who else had gone to this guy for something that Izaya did to them.

"You just need some stitching up, and some rest. I can tell you're weak from all the blood loss. Let me get a towel to clean up the dry blood."

o-o

Around two hours later after I passed out and woke up later, I could talk again and I had a good amount of bandages around my neck. I explained most of what happened and for some reason, they understood.

"Thank god that he called you, Celty. I probably would've died if he didn't."

She typed up something on her PDA then showed it to me. [You said that Izaya wanted you to be his pet, why would he do that?]

"He said that I was able to control-"

The door was loudly kicked open, I jumped in my seat.

"Is that pest here?" A loud, male voice yelled. I could tell who that was.

"Speak of the devil." I stood up. "Thank you for-"

He interrupted me. "How dumb are you? Thinking that you can trust that louse like he is your friend."

"Huh? You were pretty much the reason that I'm alive right now and you're still insulting me! Jerk." I said, angrily

"Gnat."

"Idiot!"

"Virus!"

A glare contest began and you could practically feel the amount of tension in the air. I didn't notice how close our faces were because of this argument.

"You know, Celty, if you think about it enough, they could end up being a couple."

We quickly turned our head towards Shinra simultaneously, bumping them together. An 'ouch' was heard from us both.

"Shinra, are you going to keep her here until her sister gets back?"

Shinra slid his glasses closer to his face. "She can stay here tonight but I believe that Celty could probably get her back to her apartment in the morning. Shizuo, I think she'll need a bodyguard so Izaya doesn't kidnap her or kill her in her sleep ." Shinra said, with a small smile.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" I asked him.

"Arisa-chan, don't you have a big enough apartment so he could stay there until this is all figured out?"

"What?! No, just because I need a bodyguard does not mean I need him to help me. He's doesn't have to live with me either!" I looked at Shizuo, "Why aren't you saying anything?!"

"I'm thinking it over. You are pretty helpless but I don't want to live with a pest like you either."

"Take that back!" I yelled, angrily "I'll be perfectly fine!"

Shizuo picked me up by the front of my shirt, Celty was making motions to tell him to put me down.

"You're weak, unarmed and a lightweight. One stab and you're gone." He said with minorly irritated voice.

He dropped me on the couch. I tried to fix my shirt, the part he was holding was practically ripped. There has to be another way to deal with this whole 'Arisa isn't safe' situation.

"We could...get a new lock!" And then I realized why no else suggested that, "...Izaya can probably pick any lock, can't he?"

They all nodded, I hung my head in shame. Does Shizu-chan really have to protect me? I know he's probably the only person who is able to fight with Izaya without losing instantly but I can't believe this is the only option.

"Do you even agree with this...idea?" I asked, looking at Shizuo. "Don't you think I'm an annoying brat or something?"

"Why wouldn't I think you're an annoying brat? Besides, Izaya would probably hire someone to drug you then take you back to him, not kill you."

I glared at him. "So you don't care if I get kidnapped by a psychopath?! Wow, that's just cruel."

Celty stepped between us to break up the fight. She put her PDA in Shizuo's face, I wasn't sure what it said but it got him to calm down slightly. She turned around, typed something else then showed me.

[All of this yelling isn't helping your condition. Like Shinra said, you need to rest, we can figure this out later.]

I nodded, it was a few hours until midnight. Celty led me towards a room for me to sleep in, leaving Shizuo and Shinra behind. I swore I heard him mumble something but I was probably imagining it. I sat on the futon on the floor then sighed, this was the weirdest couple of weeks in my life. Sure, it was exciting and full of unpredictable things but it was more life-threatening than fun. If that monster has to live with me so I can be 'protected', hell is most likely going to break loose. God, this is making my head hurt and my neck as well. I need to sleep on this, it's too late to make decisions.


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Setton-san