Chapter 6: Compromising Positions

Lavi and Jonathan paced in silence, something really uncommon for Lavi but he couldn't help it, he was feeling really bad. Jonathan turned to him and smiled and Lavi faked a smile back, it wasn't after all Jonathan's fault that he felt bad.

After some more awkward moments of silence they arrived out of the practise room. Lavi opened the door for Jonathan and then they proceeded inside. The practise room was really big. It had something like a ring for the exorcists to fight without weapons and practise their martial arts. On the other side of the room there were supposed to be some dummy dolls to practise with weapons and innocence but the poor dolls always ended up on fire or cut in two so Komui stopped replacing them. Jonathan paced silently around the room for some minutes admiring the place, it was an adequate room for training and felt comfortable.

Lavi let him wonder for some minutes while he studied the young man closer. He was definitely well build and could handle himself in combat and it was obvious that he didn't need much practise with his innocence. Lavi felt a little relieve, maybe they wouldn't need to stay for far too long in the training room and he could catch up with Allen in a short time. Hope he won't be angry with me...

Lavi decided to break the silence and Jonathan's concentration on the room "Well what do you want to do?" Jonathan stopped his pacing and turned to look at Lavi with a thoughtful look on his face "Um... Well I don't know... What can we do?" Now it was Lavi's turn to make a thoughtful look as he was thinking with what they could start with "Well as you see there were supposed to be some targets in here about innocence but unfortunately we... uhhh... we run out of them" Lavi said smiling. He didn't want to say to Jonathan that the reality was that Komui got bored of replacing the dummies. The man would try to smother him with his bare hands if he said something to destroy his image to Jonathan, it was obvious that Komui was really proud for the latest exorcist and he really wanted to have a good image. Well at least until he would learn about Lenalee's crush with Jonathan. Lavi smiled even more widely at the thought of Komui learning about his sister's latest crush. That would be worth seeing...

"So we will train in combat?" Jonathan offered with a small smile playing on the edge of his mouth. Lavi thought about and the truth was that he wasn't really in the mood for combat but there wasn't anything else, wasn't now? "Ok good! But I don't think that you really need practise with that!" Lavi said and laughed a little. Jonathan laughed as well and felt proud for Lavi's comment, yes his physique was simply excellent and he worked hard to get it like that. "Thank you for your kind words but practise is never enough" Jonathan said with another smile. "You are right so let's get start" Lavi said mirroring his companion's smile and walked a few feet so that he was opposite of Jonathan and there was enough space between them so that they could fight.

Jonathan stood in a pose as well and waited for Lavi to do the first move. Lavi lunged forward and threw a punch to Jonathan's way but Jonathan was faster and ducked down to the floor avoiding the hit. As Jonathan was on the floor he used his hands as leverage to move his foot circularly and try to trip Lavi but Lavi jumped backwards. Seeing that that failed, Jonathan tried to throw a punch to Lavi while he was going to stand up but Lavi saw that coming and did a back flip landing on his feet. Jonathan though was faster and just after Lavi landed and was trying to balance he looked up to see Jonathan's fist coming to his face. Lavi's eyes widened in horror and he could feel his heart pounding in his ears, yes he did get injured before, pain wasn't something new to him but by Akumas not by a human. Lavi's eyes were still wide with terror until he realised that the fist was just in front of his face and wasn't moving, like a predator that corned its pray and was lingering to feel better the fear of it. But Jonathan simply lowered his fist and greeted Lavi with a wide smile "Guess I just got the first point!". Lavi's heart was returning to the normal pace and he could feel the sudden panic that raised in his body slowly going away to be replaced by joy at the sight of Jonathan's happiness "Yeah I guess! But next point is mine!".

Allen glanced an annoyed look on the door of the cafeteria What is taking him so long? He was staring so impatiently on the door that Lenalee needed to move her hand in front of his face to snap him out of it. "Helloooo Earth calls Allen!" Lenalee said and waved her hand in front of Allen's face amused.

"Um what? Uh ohh sorry Lenalee..." Allen said blinking a few times surprised, glared at the door one last time and turn to face Lenalee with a smile. Lenalee now was a bit confused and looked at Allen like he was a code that needed to be deciphered. Allen blinked again a few times at Lenalee's puzzled look and asked her "Um what?".

Lenalee narrowed her eyes and closed the distance between them a little so that she could stare a little better at Allen. Allen smiled inconveniently and pulled his head a little back from Lenalee's intense stare. Lenalee kept staring unaffected and said "Something's wrong with you". Allen gulped and tried to smile more properly but failed "What do you mean?" his voice sounded a little anxious, not that he wasn't.

Lenalee said nothing and kept staring at Allen, then she broke her intense gaze, looked for a couple of seconds to the door and turned to face at Allen with a satisfactory smile "I know what's wrong". Allen gulped again out of fear that Lenalee's smile and the idea of her knowing was causing. Allen squirmed in his chair something that Lenalee noticed causing her to smile more broadly.

"I... Um... What do you mean? Nothing's wrong" Allen tried to sound nonchalant but failed again and now he sounded panicked. Lenalee laughed, really laughed, and that startle a little Allen. "Jeez you should have seen your face Allen! It's like you got out of a horror movie or something" Lenalee said between gasps for breath from her laughing.

Allen's eyes were wide and his face was a confused frown but then he realised that Lenalee was just picking on him and relaxed. He started laughing as well as he felt more relaxed by the moments but then Lenalee stopped laughing and set with a simple smile "You miss Lavi" and just like that Allen felt like he could be smothered with his own laugh. He coughed a couple of times and Lenalee amused patted his back and said, more to herself, triumphantly "Yep that's it".

Allen inhaled deeply and looked to Lenalee "What?! Noooo!" Lenalee smiled again now more normally "Oh come on Allen I know you like him! I mean... like a friend of course" Lenalee said and then suddenly she was in front of Allen's face who was blushing with a big grin "Right?"

Allen gulped again and looked down "Yeah right". Lenalee smiled with a somewhat sad smile that showed apprehension "Well then let's go find him! He is late! Maybe he stumbled across Jonathan too!" Lenalee said with excitement at the word Jonathan. Then Allen's eyes went wide again but this time it was from sudden realisation Of course! Jonathan... practise! He must be with Jonathan training! Shit! Why did I think of it earlier! I must hurry! When Allen finished his inner monologue he stood up almost knocking the chair off with the sudden force. Lenalee was looking at him blinking surprised "What is... Hey Allen!" she couldn't finish her sentence since Allen grabbed her hand and rushed out of the cafeteria.

Lavi stumbled a little from avoiding Jonathan's last attack but he regained his balance in time to see Jonathan launching at him. He was tired and he didn't dodge in time. As a result Jonathan collapsed on him and they fell down on the floor. Lavi put his hands on Jonathan's strong torso and tried to push him back but Jonathan was heavier and in addition with his tiredness he didn't move him even to the slightest.

Jonathan balanced himself on his hands removing some of his weight from Lavi and looked down at him with a big smile on his face "Well another point for me! Are you giving up?" Lavi felt relieved at the removal of some weight from his body but Jonathan's body was still pressed to his with his hands trapped between their torsos.

Lavi exhaled inaudibly not wanting to show his vulnerability and with a smile he said "Arrogance won't get you anywhere" Lavi's smile now turned into a mischievous grin and as he gathered some energy he pushed Jonathan with all the force he could master and flipped them over. Now he was on top straddling Jonathan. With a victorious grin he said "Ha! See? Who's giving up now?" Lavi failed to notice their compromising positions until he felt Jonathan's hand resting on his hip. That made Lavi realise that he was sitting exactly on top of Jonathan's crotch. Jonathan's hand on his hip was resting innocently there but still the move was hiding a more sinful innuendo. Lavi blushed and froze for a moment until he heard the door opening to relieve two surprised figures. Allen and Lenalee.

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