::: Alright, I can tell I'm probably going to get quite a few hate comments for the way I made Lenalee behave. PLZZZZ let me explain. I wanted to write a story with characters that I could emotionally connect to, and I wanted to use two of my most dominating and contrasting emotional issues and distribute them between two characters. I used Silverton and Lenalee. Silverton has serious self-doubt and finds it difficult to admit her faults to other people, but has no problem pointing them out to herself. Lenalee has an issue where she can't accept 'defeat', typically in the form of maturity or intelligence. Therefore, when Silverton was mature enough to admit her faults to Lenalee, Lenalee tried to retaliate, but only wound up worsening her situation. It also has to do with enjoying glory, since originally everyone was on her side, she felt very defeated when the tables turned so suddenly. I hope that clears things up...

Also, I wanted to make Lenalee a more three-dimensional character. The way Lenalee is in the anime/manga is not to my liking. She is one of those female characters who have only one side to them. The whole, everyone loves her, no one has any problems with me, I get along with everyone, I have no flaws. Let's be honest, real teenaged girls are WAY more complex than that. We all get jealous and act immature at some point, and we all have that one thing that makes us tick. The actual character, Lenalee, by Hoshino Katsura, is not really a good description of a teenaged girl. In fact, she winds up being that female character to can't do anything, cries a lot, and has no real purpose in being in most situations. I wanted to change that.

This version of her shows another side to her that, I think, would make sense. This way, she's a more accurate representation of a typical teenaged girl. Although the change may upset some people, I actually would have liked Lenalee better in the first place if Hoshino made her a character like this. That would be a character who I can relate to. I promise, she won't be completely bashed on in this entire fanfiction. She's simply being used to contrast with Silverton right now. To be honest, however, they aren't quite as different as they may think... :::

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When Silverton first arrived at the Black Order, she got herself into a fight with Lenalee over a black notebook that turned out to filled with sketches of her old friends. Kanda had helped Silverton go get food, since she was too nervous to do it alone. When they arrived, Silverton attempted to apologize to Lenalee, who then tried to provoke her in order to make Silverton look bad. Kanda supported his new found friend and put Lenalee in her place before they exited the cafeteria.

Everyone in the dining hall stood there and watched as Kanda and Silverton swiftly left the room. There was pin drop silence all around, until Lenalee broke it and collapsed back into her seat. Tears began pouring from violet eyes as she cried, "I can't believe Kanda did that to me…Look what that girl has done to him…I was so scared!"

Allen sat beside her and hugged her closely. "Oh, Lenalee, please…It's alright…You know how Kanda can be sometimes…" Allen pleaded out of concern for his weeping friend.

Lenalee continued, "He's never looked at me like that before…It's because of that girl…"

Lavi carefully observed the scene that was before him. Lenalee's eyes were filled with tears, but her cheeks weren't red and her eyes were not bloodshot at all. Her voice wasn't quivering and her breath wasn't staggered. Lavi, the successor to the Bookman, could easily tell that this was an act.

"Really, I don't think she meant any harm, Lenalee…" Allen said, "She really did look like she was sorry-"

"Whose side are you on, Allen? I thought you were my friend!" Lenalee yelled at him.

Lavi thought to himself, *"The whole point of this is to make Silverton look bad. Maybe Kanda was right…Maybe Lenalee really just can't handle the spotlight being taken off of her…"*

"Who is responsible for this?! Who made my dear sweet sister cry?!" Komui hollered as he darted into the cafeteria. Without hesitation, he ran to Lenalee's side and shoved Allen out of the way. "Who did this, Lenalee..? You're big brother is here for you!"

Lavi thought, *"If I say something in Silverton's defense, she'll probably say something about me being a disloyal friend like she did to Allen…"* he barely glanced over at Bookman, who was sitting beside him. *"I'm not ready to handle that kind of pressure. I'm not supposed to have friends, as the successor to the Bookman."*

"THAT FIEND!" Komui yelled after listening to Lenalee's sob story about what happened. "She must pay for making my dear sister cry!"

"Calm down, Chief!" Allen demanded as he held Komui back, who was trying to race out the door and attack Silverton. "She had good intensions, really!"

Lavi set down his fork. "Allen's right. I think Lenalee just misunderstood her." He stated with Lenalee obviously irritated. *"Maybe…we're all just misunderstanding her. Yuu obviously see's something in her that we're all blind to…"* "Maybe we should just give her a chance."

It was silent in the meditation room as Kanda and Silverton ate their soba noodles. Occasionally, they would sneak a glance over at one another as they slurped. They refrained from speaking up until the moment when they both caught each other glancing awkwardly and quickly looked away.

Silverton set down her chopsticks and wiped her mouth off with her arm. "Hey," she looked at Kanda.

He paused his eating and looked back at her calmly. "What?"

She smiled and suddenly wrapped her arms around him.

"W-What the fuck are you-?" he began to protest as he slightly struggled against her grip.

Silverton hugged him closely with a bright smile. "Thank you for being there for me, Yuu. I'm glad to have you as a friend."

He sighed and patted her head with his hand. "You're welcome. Let go."

"You know," she began, still latched onto him, "Before we went to the cafeteria you acted like you weren't going to intervene…"

He grunted. "I wouldn't have had you not just stood there and let Lenalee walk all over you."

"So…does that mean I can count on you from now on?"

"Tsk. Don't get used to it. Now get off me and eat your damn noodles."