"You stupid, stuckup, overconfident, morally bankrupted jerk!"
Allen and Lenalee flinched at the yelling as they entered the dining hall. "Well, he sounds so cheerful this morning." Allen moaned and Lenalee nodded. "I wonder who it is this time."
As in que, Lavi stormed past them tears falling from his eyes and face red from yelling. "Hi Lavi." Allen said. "Shut up!" Lavi yelled back at him and walked out of the hall.
Both sighed after Lavi was gone. These had been happening a lot lately.
They ordered food and went to sit with Kanda who seemed to be the latest victim of Lavi´s crazy mood swings. "Hi Kanda." Lenalee said smiling. "So it was you this morning?" Allen smirked. "What did you do?"
Kanda sighed. "He kept rubbing his neck often and I just asked if he was feeling okay and then he exploded saying things like just because he´s pregnant, I assume he´s weak and powerless and unable to protect himself." Kanda explained and took a sip from his tea. Lenalee and Allen glanced at each other. "Maybe we should take Lavi to the town?" Allen asked. Lenalee nodded. "It would do him good. And the rest of the Order." She sweatdropped.
By now, lavi was on his fourth month of pregnancy and practically the whole Order knew about it. And those who didn´t...well let´s say that the mood swings took care of it. Lavi could be happy ja smiling one minute and the next a flaming ball on anger.
"We need to get some baby stuff anyway, so might aswell do it today." She said and began eating her breakfast.
After leaving the dining hall Lavi had ran back to his room and slammed the door shut. "Stupid Yuu..." he muttered. "What the hell does he know?"
Lavi sat on his bed and sighed. "Damn these hormones, they´re making me grazy!"
A knock was heard from the door and Lavi stood up and went to anwer it. "Hi Lavi...can we come in?" Allen asked carefully incase Lavi was still mad. "Yeah sure, come on in." Lavi said and stood aside. Lenalee and Allen exhaled quietly. So he wasn´t angry anymore. Hope he´ll stay like that for a while. "So, what´s up?" Lavi asked and sat on the bed again. "We were wondering if you´d come shopping with us?" Lenalee asked smiling. "Shopping? For what?" Lavi asked. "Baby stuff. And fresh air will do you good. You´ve been inside for a month already." Allen said smiling. Lavi nodded. "Maybe it´ll clear my head. I hate feeling this hormonal." He confessed. Lenalee placed her hand to Lavi´s shoulder. "Don´t worry, it´s all part of the pregnancy and it´ll past sooner than you think." She said. "I just hope we´ll live to see the day." She added in her mind. Lavi smiled. "Thanks you guys." "Hey, that´t what friends are for. Now come on, let´s get going." Allen said and stood up.
The gang had been shopping almost and hour now and Lavi had been nothing but in good mood. They were right. Fresh air was just what Lavi needed. Lavi had already gotten few blankets, pacifiers and bottles. In the shop of course it was Lenalee who had picked them out knowing that Lavi didn´t know anything and the fact that she was a woman so it was less awkward for the men.
"Okay I think we´re done for today, right?" Lenalee asked. Lavi and Allen nodded. They were getting tired and Lavi was once again emotional. When he saw the pacifiers, he had almost started crying. The saleswoman had seen it and told that he would make a wonderful father. Of course she had assumed that Lavi was the father of Lenalee´s baby.
They were just about to head back to the Order when explosion was heard. People were screaming and running away from the fire. Allen´s eye activated. "Akuma!" He gasped and started running towards the fire. "Allen, wait!" Lenalee yelled after him. "Lavi you go back to the Order and stay inside." She told him and activated her Dark Boots and went after Allen.
Allen had alredy taken down many Akumas but they just kept on coming. Lenalee was there after a while and started fighting aswell. "Damn you!" She cursed as she kicked them one after another. "Where did they come from?" She panted and jumped back down next to Allen. "I don´t know, but we´ll have to deal this soon or else..."
"Watch out, behind you!"
Lenalee and Allen gasped at the voice and jumped away from the spot they were standing. Akuma was just about to attack them, but Allen destroyed it.
"Lavi! What are you doing here?" Lenalee panicked. "I told you to go back to the Order!"
Lavi frowned. "Like hell I´ll leave you alone to fight these!" He argued back. "Lavi get back!" Allen commanded. "You can´t put yourself in risks!" He said taking ddown the last of the Akuma.
Lavi was about to say something back when Lenalee shrieked and told him to move. Akuma was coming towards him. And fast. Lavi´s hand searched for his hammer, but found nothing. "Great! What a day to leave it at home!"
"LAVI!" Allen and Lenalee yelled. Lavi closed his eyes waiting for the blow.
Nothing.
Lavi opened his eyes and saw a tall, dark figure standing infront of him facing the Akuma. Lavi focused his eyes and gasped at what he saw.
"T..Tyki!"
Tyki turned his head and smiled. "Hello lovely." He said. "What the hell are you doing!" Lavi demanded. "No time to argue." Tyki said and with the wave of his hand, he had destroyed the Akuma.
Lavi watched as the Akuma disappeared and Tyki stood panting slightly infront of him. "Tyki...?" Lavi started and then saw blood coming from the Noah´s abdomen. "Hey...Tyki?" Lavi raised his voice a little incase Tyki didn´t hear him the first time. Tyki turned his head once again and smiled to the boy. At the corner of his mouth, blood was coming out. Tyki´s legs gave away and he fell to the ground.
"Tyki!" Lavi panicked and moved next to him. "Are you okay?" He asked. "Of course you´re not okay, you´re bleeding, why the hell did you do that!" Tyki started laughing quietly. "My my, your panicking almost seems like you care." He joked. Lavi gritted his teeth. "Shut up or I´ll smack you." He said. Then he turned to search for his friends. "Allen, Lenalee! Help me!" He asked. The other Exorcists had witnessed the whole scene and couldn´t believe their eyes. Had a Noah just saved and Exorcist?
Allen was the first to rush to them. Kneeling down next to them, he studied the wound. "Poison." He breathed. "I know." Tyki said. "This poison is made to kill humans instantly." He coughed blood out of his mouth. "But I´m only half human so it won´t kill me." Lavi started to panic as he saw the Noah´s eyes shutting. "No, stay awake you jerk!" he yelled. Tyki still closed his eyes, passing out.
"Allen we have to take him to the Order." Lavi said earning a death glare from the younger boy and Lenalee who had just now walked next to them. "Are you grazy, Lavi?" Lenalee spat. "he´s a Noah!" "I know that!" Lavi yelled back to her. "But..he´s different from the rest of them. Please just trust me on this one." Lavi begged them. Allen sighed and activated him arm to carry the unconcious man.
Lenalee frowned at this and glared at Lavi. "I hope you know what you are doing, Lavi." She told him. "They will kill him." Lavi looked at her and said. "Not if he´s on our side."
Lavi sat on the chair next to Tyki´s bed looking at the older man confused. He himself was confused. He didn´t know what he was supposed to feel for the man. Pity? Maybe. Compassion? Maybe that too. Love? definately not!
Lavi sighed and placed his head to rest against the bed. This pregnancy was one grazy thing. Before it, he wouldn´t hesitate to kill the man. But now. He wanted to be his friend. "This is grazy..." Lavi told himself.
Everyone at the Order were ready to kill the Noah when Lavi, Allen and Lenalee had taken him in. But after Lavi explained that they could keep him here to supervise him and get information from him, Komui had agreed although he knew Lavi had his own reasons for wanting the man there.
Lavi sighed again. He stood up and examined Tyki´s face closer and ran his index finger from his hairline to his nose and cheek and his lips. Lavi blushed as he remembered the kiss they shared when Tyki had first appeared to Lavi´s window. Why would he do that?
As Lavi was in deep thoughts, Tyki moaned and opened his eyes slowly. "What the...?" He breathed and observed the room. And then Lavi, who had just noticed that the Noah was awake, blushed and pulled his hand away.
"Hi..." Lavi said timidly. Tyki smiled. "Hi yourself. What am I doing here?" He asked pushing himself to sit. "We brought you here." Lavi said. And we treated your wound." Lavi was trying to look everywhere else, but Tyki. "You brought an enemy to your headquarters? Not very wise move." Tyki said smirking. Lavi finally looked at Tyki and sighed. Tyki frowned slightly noticing the dark rings under Lavi´s eyes. "I know it wasn´t but I just couldn´t leave you there to die." He said. "I said that the poison couldn´t kill me." Tyki said. Lavi pouted. "Well excuse me, if I was worried about you! Won´t happen again you jerk!" Lavi shouted and stormed out of the room leaving a very confused Noah behind him.
"Don´t worry. It´s just the hormones." Allen said and walked to the room. He was just about to open the door when he had heard Lavi yell and saw him ran out of the room.
"Hormones?" Tyki repeated. "You sure there´s nothing else?" He joked. Allen smiled slightly. "Nope, Lavi is the most cheerful man I know, but the mood swings are making him worse than Akuma." Allen said remembering all the times Lavi had snapped. "How are you feeling?" He asked. Tyki shrugged. "Alright I guess. Not really sure what I´m doing here." He said hoping that the white haired boy would give him some anwers.
Allen sat down to the chair where Lavi was sitting a while ago. "Lavi convinced our supervisor to let him keep you here. He told Komui that we could get some information about the Earl from you." Allen explained. Tyki nodded. No wonder why he was here. He was a valuable prisoner after all.
"And Lavi told us you´ve been visiting him a few times and that he suggested you join out groups." Allen continued. Tyki stared at the boy. "He said that?" He asked. Allen nodded. "He told me what you guys talked about. About your family and the Earl. And I think you should do it."
Tyki sighed. "I told him that I have no reason to join you." He said.
Allen sighed and stood up and was about to head to the door, when Tyki spoke again. "The Earl must know by now." Allen turned around and shot a questioning look to the man. "What do you mean?" Allen asked. "I saved Lavi´s life." Tyki said. "The Earl knows that the child can make a force field around Lavi so it can protect itself. So I had no reason to save Lavi. And I destroyed Akuma." Tyki continued. Allen could swear he heard sadness coming throught tyki´s voice. "Are you sure?" Allen asked. Tyki nodded. "They were Level 2 Akuma. They collect information and it´s passed directly to the Earl. So he knows. I only wonder why hasn´t he killed me yet." Tyki said. "How long was I out anyway?" He asked. "Three days." Allen answered.
After a minute of silence, Allen spoke. "This could be enough reason for you to join us, right?" Tyki looked at the boy. "You know I keep hearing that sentence really often nowadays." He joked. "I´m serious, Tyki." Allen said "You have nowhere else to go." Tyki fell silent. He was starting to think that maybe joining the Exorcists wouldn´t be so bad afterall. "And besides." Allen started smiling. "You could see your child being born and to grow." That almost stopped Tyki´s heart. He had thought about what it would be like to see his baby to grow and to learn new things. And to see it´s smile and talk for the first time. But as long he was working for the Earl...
The Earl wanted to make the child a living weapon. With the combination of Noah, Exorcist and Bookman blood, it would be powerfull. But still it would be his child.
Allen smiled and walked to the door once again. "I´ll give you some time to think about it. I know, you won´t make the wrong choice." And with that, Allen walked out of the door closing it behind him, leaving Tyki to think about his future.