A/N: Hey-o, just thought I should mention that the characters are OOC. Oh and Hevlaska is the head nurse, so on with the story!
Disclaimers: I don't own -Man. I own a copy of the Manga series but I'm told that's not enough.
'Bold." - Allen
'Italics.' - Peoples thoughts (Not Allen's or Nea's)
Chapter 3
After leaving Allen, Lavi had no clue what to do so he did the most illogical thing he could think of, bugging Kanda. Practically skipping down the hallway the redhead made his way to the yard where he knew the angry wannabe samurai was, most likely meditating. A goofy grin plastered itself onto Lavi's face as he reached the sliding door. Before he exited the building, Lavi looked around just to see if Kanda was indeed there because sadly the green eyed youth wasn't always right. There sitting under the only tree was the long haired youth, known as Kanda. Throwing open the door Lavi launched himself at the other man with a yell of 'Yuu!'
The next thing the ginger knew was a plastic butter knife (hey plastic can still be dangerous) was pointed at his throat. "Call me that again Rabbit and I will cut you." He growled.
Lavi mock pouted. "Aww you don't be like that." Then a thought came to him."Y'know you'll probably get into trouble when they find you with that." He brought up.
Kanda thought for a moment, growled and put his makeshift weapon away. "What do you want Rabbit."
"Entertain me, Yuu. I'm bored." He whined, flopping down beside the other troubled teen.
"You entertain yourself." Came his response.
"Yuu~" He whined again.
"Go away Rabbit."
"Puh-lease~"
"Go set something on fire, you damn pyro." Kanda growled.
"With what?" The pyro questioned as pictures of his last fire danced through his head. 'Damn it' he thought considering thats what brought him here in the first place.
"Ask Road, she probably has something." He said hoping to get rid of the annoying rabbit.
"Okay!" Lavi was gone, leaving Kanda in peace again.
"Hey Road-chan!" Lavi called, entering the young girls open door.
"Hiya Lavi, do you wanna play dress up yet? " She asked as she stepped away from Miranda, who was dressed up in a simple, ankle-length, long sleeved, dark green dress.
"Uh, no. Nice dress Miranda." He commented idly.
The depressed woman just looked at him and gave a nervous smile.
"Road, do you have anything to start a fire with?" He asked her.
The ash skinned girl pretended to think about it. "I do have something." She said slowly.
"Really, can I have it? pretty, pretty please!" The redhead was itching to get a hold of something to light a fire with, no thanks to Kanda.
"I'll give it to you. For a price." she said with an evil smirk.
"Whats your price?" He asked.
A small giggle then a "play dress up with me for a week." was his answer.
Lavi really didn't want to but. " Fine now gimme, gimme, gimme."
The girl searched through one of her drawers and pulled out a box of matches.
"If you get caught, you can't blame it on me. Got it?"
He took the items and with a 'yea' left, Road started giggling 'He's so gonna get busted.'she thought. Miranda make a squeak of fright at the young girls laughter, which made said girl turn to her. "Now lets put your hair up."
Lavi made his way towards one of the bathrooms. After locking the door, he grabbed the half filled garbage can (It's metal) and filled it further with toilet paper, lit a match up and dropped it in. The paper lit up almost instantly. A big smile cross his face, as he watched the garbage burn.
A blonde haired nurse walked along one of the deserted hallway, she smelt something burning. Not finding anything out of the ordinary she went back to the nurses station. Seeing the head nurse there, she approached. "Hevlaska, Do you smell smoke?" She asked.
The old nurse sniffed the air. "No Eliade,I don't."
"Really, can you please follow me? I smelt smoke down one of the hallways." She said concerned.
"Alright dear. Lets go see if you're crazy or not." Hevlaska said and motioned for Eliade to lead the way. The closer to the bathroom the more they smelt the smoke.
"You do smell that don't you Hev?" The blonde nurse asked.
"Yes I do. Well now you know you're not crazy." The gray-haired nurse replied.
"Do we have any firestarters?" Eliade asked.
"Yes I believe we do. Come on lets check the bathroom." Hevlaska said leading the way. When they reached the door, they found it locked, when they looked down they saw a small line of almost transparent smoke coming through the bottom. "Lavi, are you in there?"
They got no reply.
"Lavi, we are going to need you to come out." Hevlaska tried again, once again getting no answer back she turned to Eliade." Eliade please stay here and try to get him to come out." She left without waiting for an answer.
"Lavi please come out" She tried, a little scared. She got no answer, Eliade tried a few more times before Hevlaska came back with a male nurse, Suman Dark. "Hello, Suman." Eliade greeted.
Suman banded on the door. "Lavi Bookman, I need you to come out of there." He with an authoritative voice and just like the previous times there was no answer back. Sighing under his breath, he reached for the key loop hanging off his belt. Opening the door, he let a cloud of trapped smoke come out of the previously enclosed space. Hevlaska handed him a fire extinguisher which he used to put out the fire in the garbage can, that's when Lavi broke out of his daze.
"Hey what ya do that for?" He asked standing up from his position on the floor.
"Why did you start the fire?" The nurse countered.
"Uh, cause I wanted to." He answered slowly. "You didn't answer my question.
"I think the answers obvious, you started a fire inside a building." He deadpanned.
Lavi just scratched his head nervously, that was when Hevlaska stepped in. "I think you need to go have a talk with Ms. Anita." She said while stepping forward. Grasping Lavi's upper arm she led the boy away from the bathroom and towards Anita's office.
Getting there, she knocked on the door , with her free hand and stuck her head in. "Ms. Anita?"
A young woman with short black hair looked up, showing kind brown eyes. "Yes Hevlaska?" She asked.
"Are you busy?"
"Not at the moment. Was there an issue?" The woman asked.
Hevlaska pushed the door open and walked in, dragging Lavi in with her. "He started a fire in one of the bathrooms." She stated.
Anita sighed. "Take a seat Lavi. Thank you for bringing him here Hev."
The nursed bowed then left, closing the door behind her. Anita went to her filing cabinet and pulled out Lavi's file.
"Why did you start that fire, Lavi?" The brown eyed woman asked after she got situated.
"I don't know, cause I wanted to." He answered pulling his knees up to rest on the chair.
"Did anyone provoke you into doing it?"
"No not really. Yuu did suggest it though but I don't think he actually thought I'd do it."
"Hmmm. Where did you get the matches?" Holding up the said box.
"Found 'em." He said after a moment, remembering what Road told him.
Anita asked a few more questions, questions in which Lavi did not answer. Sighing inwardly she tried something different. "I heard that you visited Allen Walker, are you two friends?"
"Beansprout? I guess that was really the first time I even seen the kid." For some reason after he said that, something told Lavi that wasn't true. "What happened to him anyway?"
"Sorry I can't tell you that."
"Lemme guess patient confidentiality." It was more of a silent question.
"Yes, but I can tell you that he needs friends to get over what he had seen and been through."
'Obviously.' Lavi thought.
Anita looked at the clock. "I'm afraid that's all the time we have today, I will see you in a few days." She said
Lavi got up and walked to the door." Lavi?" He turned around."No more fires okay." She said with a smile.
An overly cheery, fake grin crossed his face. "You got it Ms. Anita.
As soon as that door was closed, Lavi leaned against it and sighed loudly. 'I'm never listening to Yuu again.'
On his way back to his room, Lavi ran into Tyki, a pleasure addict. "Hey Lavi." He said with a roll of his tongue.
Putting a cheery facade on Lavi responded. "Yo."
"You look a little tense there, maybe I could help." The dark skinned man said, smoothly sliding his arm across the green eyed boys shoulders.
Pushing Tyki's arm off his shoulders, Lavi stepped away. "I'm good man."
"You sure boy? we can go back to my room and I could give you a message." Tyki walked towards Lavi, making the younger man step back into a wall, getting cornered, he placed his hands on either side of Lavi's head.
"Tyki, I'm not interested man." Lavi said trying to push the older man off him.
Tyki leaned down so his mouth was level with the others ear. "I can make you feel very relaxed." He said seductively.
"Not necessary." He said firmly, trying to hide a blush.
"Awww don't tell me you're a virgin."Tyki said amused.
"Go away Tyki." The redhead once again tried to push the man away
"Getting violent are we? I bet you would enjoy some S&M boy."
"Tyki. Get. Off." He yelled.
Suddenly something hit Tyki in the back. He turned around and saw Allen standing there looking a bit frightened.
"Oh hey boy, decided to join the other outcasts?" He teased. The whitette's response was to kick him behind the knee, making his leg buckle. "That wasn't nice boy." Tyki said darkly.
Before it could get any farther, Lenalee came down the hallway calling Allen's name. Spotting the trio she made her way over. "Tyki, shouldn't you be with ?" She asked.
"I'm going girly, I was just asking Rabbit here something. See you later Rabbit, Boy." He said walking down the hall.
Lenalee walked up to the duo. "What was that all about?"
"Oh just Tyki being Tyki." Lavi said nonchalantly.
"Okay then." She turned to the mute one. "It's time for your meds, Allen." She said smiling.
Allen held up his index finger as if saying 'one minute'
Allen grabbed Lavi's hand and wrote on it with his finger. 'Thank you.'
Lavi was confused."For what Beansprout? I should be the one thanking you."
'Then we're even' He wrote.
"Okay then Beansprout." He said and ruffled Allens snow white locks.
TBC…..