Chapter 4:
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Lenalee's POV:
Just before I opened the door, I took a deep breath.
I let it out, and put a smile on my face. The heavy brass door opened with a hefty push, and night air rushed at me, pushing stray strands of hair away from my face.
I saw the girl only a few meters away, taking the tiniest steps ever. Her head was slightly lowered, as if she was thinking about something. Her hair went all the way down to her bum and was framing and covering her pale face from my sight. I started to walk toward her and she raised her head, noticing me. It was then that I realized what the 'mark' on her face was…
It was a blood red, starting at a pentacle above the girl's right eyebrow, down to her cheekbone, marring her eyelid, and then hooked slightly thicker to her chin.
Her eyes… were beautiful… a blue-grey…. Like rainy clouds…
I never really realized that I was staring until she spoke.
"Umm… hi, this is the Black Order, right?" I snapped out of my thoughts and shoved a bright smile on my face.
"Yes! This is the Holy Black Religious Order. My name is Lenalee. I am the Supervisor's assistant." I offered my hand, and she shook it gratefully. "My name is Annie, by the way."
I smiled; I liked that name. "Just a few questions I have to ask you, Annie, if you don't mind..." I trailed off, waiting for her answer. I got a nod and a small smile. "Well, first off, how do you know about this place?"
Her smile widened. "Someone told me that I would find my friend here."
"Oh… how did you know where to go to get to here?"
"I actually had to travel for around….. Six months I think..."
"Six months?" I asked in astonishment. True, the Order was hard to find, but not THAT hard… "Why that long?"
"Well, I started off with no money, so I had to work a lot to pay for expenses, and Europe's security systems are bitches…"
We were now on our way back to Nii-san's office, walking slowly. Scientists and staff walked past me, smiling and occasionally waving. I waved back.
"You really love this place don't you?" I heard Annie ask from next to me. I jumped, having completely forgotten about her.
"Ya I do… but I've also got really early and very bad memories about this place too" I racked my brain of another question to ask her.
"Oh… What do you mean..?"
I smiled "It's a story for another day, but you'll know soon enough." I smiled a confident smile at her, but inside I was wailing NO! I DON'T WANT ANOTHER PERSON TO THINK I AM WEAK! Just as we entered Nii-san's office, an ask-able question popped into my head. But now Nii-san was questioning her, so I left to get something to eat.
Allena's POV (fem Allen, for those of u who think this is new character, it's not):
I had just told Kanda about my pregnancy, and we were talking about how we were going tell the rest of the Order. We decided that we would wait until the bump was relevant, and then tell them. Because 1. It would be too much hassle to tell them now; they would treat me like I would die if I got hurt, even in the slightest, and 2. What if I miscarried, how would they feel? Kanda pointed out that I would feel worse if I miscarried while everyone knew because I would feel like it was my fault because I wasn't careful enough. I tried to protest, but then I realized how true it was.
A few minutes later, Kanda's golem started buzzing like crazy. BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ! I love golems, they make life so easy, but all good things must have flaws. The problem with golems is that they work like an intercom system. The sender of the message can push the damn button as fast and as much as they want to, until the receiver picks up or at least responds to the call. There was only one person who would, or even COULD, buzz like that.
Komui.
He didn't usually call Kanda like that; usually it would be a simple buzz, knowing Kanda had keen ears that would pick up the sound immediately. He never called this crazily before. Kanda and I exchanges quick glances. What if it was important? What if someone was dying?
Okay okay, I was being melodramatic, I know, but still…!
We lived in a world where even the tiniest second mattered, because we might not even be alive the next.
Kanda picked it up quickly.
"What?" he demanded into the golem. A moment later, Komui-san's voice rang throughout the room.
"KANDA-KUNNNNNNN! HELP MEEEEEEE! LENALEE IS MISSING! PLEASE TELL ME THAT YOU KNOW WHERE-"
"Komui shut up!" Kanda yelled into the poor golem. The black contraption fluttered back a few inches, away from Kanda. He sighed and reached out to the golem, bringing it closer. Komui had stopped hollering words, and was whimpering pitifully on the other side of the line.
"What do you want Komui?" Kanda asked, his voice back to the normal baritone.
"Le-Lenalee is missing…" a pause, and Kanda sighed.
"Isn't she on a mission, you baka?" he asked.
"Nooooo, she came back earlyyyyy… she was helping me and the science teams pack for the move ever since she stepped back into Head Quarters..."
Kanda sighed again, this time out of frustration. "You idiot! She came back, from a 2 week long mission, probably exhausted, and she was helping you, and the science team, to pack potions and papers, and she went missing, and you don't know where she is?"
"No..." Komui replied.
"Not a clue as to where she might have gone?"
"Not really…"
"God Komui, do you have any brains at all?"
I hit Kanda's arm, whispering, 'No need to insult!'
There was silence on the other end, where Komui was probably thinking over the idea of where she might have gone.
"Komui-" Kanda started again, but was cut off by a scream from the supervisor.
"OH MY GOD THEY HAVE TAKEN LENALEE!"
"Ummm..." Kanda wasn't really sure what to say. "Who has taken her?"
"Those new science team boys! Who knows what they could've done! What if THEY RAPED HER-" It was now Komui's turn to be cut off by a pissed-off Kanda.
"Komui, stop blabbering stupid stuff already! For God's sake, where on earth do you think she would be?"
A few moments. There was no answer from the other line.
"Komui, what does an exorcist do when they come back home?" I couldn't help but notice how he called Head Quarters 'home'. He had never done that before. I smiled. Kanda looked at her puzzled, but I shook my head, signaling that it would be hard for him to get it out of me. He rolled his eyes and turned his attention back to the golem.
Komui didn't answer, so he sighed again and said very slowly, "Komui, unless you want her to completely overwork herself like usual, one would think that she would have gone to her room to rest, or at least to take a shower. But there," he paused to let it sink in, "Is where you have your problem Komui, you DON'T THINK."
"Kanda-kun?" Seriousness was slowly coming back into Komui's voice.
"What?"
"Could you please get her and tell her that she is needed?"
"Whatever"
"THAAAANK YOUUUUU KANDAAAA-KUNNNNNN!" All seriousness was gone, just when the couple thought he would be serious for once in his life, and you could practically hear the smile in his voice.
Kanda disconnected the connection before Komui could say anything else, not wanting to hear any more of that sister-complex's talk. I smiled, and he looked back at me.
"What?" he asked.
"Nothin'" I said.
He rolled his eyes again.
"I'm going to the Library, seeing if anyone need help packing anything." I continued.
He nodded, and closed the space between us to deliver a kiss on my forehead. "Be careful" he whispered, then left in search of Lenalee. I walked over to the bed and sat on it for a while, thinking. Then I suddenly remembered Timcampy. I hadn't seen him for quite a few hours now, come to think of it. I made a mental note to find him. I let my mind wander. It drifted off back to two weeks ago. Again… but I allowed it to. Not that it would hurt to remember…
Flashback:
Allena and Kanda had just come back from a mission, and were both exhausted. The normal coming-back-from-long-missions routine was refreshing after all those weeks on the front line. The dinner Jerry had cooked for her was splendid and had been consumed within ten minutes. Nobody gave her looks or told her to slow down, they knew it wouldn't affect her and that they would have a pissed off Allena telling them very scornfully to mind their own business. When dinner was over, she went to her room, right next to Kanda's, and headed straight to the shower. Getting out, she wrapped herself in a big, fluffy towel. She went to her wardrobe, half-filled with clothes from shopping trips with Lenalee. She picked out a pair of black leggings and an oversized multicolored tee. She took a belt and wrapped it around her waist, then took her black trench coat and draped it over the outfit. After hastily pulling on her Exorcist boots, she went to Lenalee's room, where she knew she would find the girl before her usual lunch hour coffee handout.
3 hours later (still in flashback):
Lenalee's golem started to go off. She frowned at it, muttering that she told Komui not to call her today. She excused herself to connect it to a phone while Allena browsed around the shops, looking for a restaurant. She entered a hub called 'The Old Haunt'. She sat there, shopping bags on either side of her, looking at the menu, when Lenalee came in, a slight frown on her face. It turned out that she had a mission and had to leave after lunch. The two had a filling meal, teamed with uncannily huge desserts that could just about rival Jerry's. The two female exorcists reached the Order and dropped off the bags of shopping. The said good-bye and Lenalee went to her brother's office. Allena went to her room, but finding nothing to do, she went in search of Kanda, hoping he would find time to fulfill his promise of sparring with her, so she changed into her training outfit (a half-sleeved black shirt with black slacks). When she didn't find him in the training room, she went to his room, where she found him coming out of the shower the second time that day. He had on black slacks, but he left his long black hair open to dry, and he wore no shirt. Allena smiled and opened the door further. She glanced at the clock, it read 7 p.m. Kanda, sensing movement, turned toward the door to find her, smiling, leaning on the doorway.
"Hey" He said, lackadaisical, and turned away from her. She grabbed a hair tie from his dressing table and started to pull her long hair into a ponytail. She caught a glance of herself in the mirror and smiled. She had been growing out her hair since she had arrived here and it now reached the end of her rib cage.
"Hi…" she trailed off, "Any chance you have some spare time to spar?" she asked, and let go of her hair, now a neat ponytail.
He turned to her and smirked.
Two hours later (still in flashback... urgh...):
A blur of black and white. That was all bystanders saw. The swords had been long abandoned; it was now technically a fist fight. People cheered for Allena, not wanting the usual result of Kanda winning. There were moments where people really did think that Kanda was going to lose, and moments where Allena was about to fall and lose, but both were not only stubborn people, but proud warriors. They had actually attracted quite a crowd, people coming from all over HQ, from the science team to nurses (who were there to make sure no one got hurt, though there weren't any guarantees).
Kanda punched, Allena blocked, he jumped toward her, she threw him over her shoulder and tried to punch his shoulder, and he dodged and grabbed her wrist. She twisted and yanked her hand back. Throwing a punch toward her, he fought her toward a wall, finally touching it when he grabbed her punch and pushed her against it. The couple stood there for a second, and the audience was silent in Allena's comeback. But she made none. She looked into the cobalt eyes of her lover and closed the space between them to deliver a kiss to Kanda's lips. He eventually responded, hesitant at first, but growing more and more passionate. The room was silent for a moment, people not sure whether to cheer or walk away (some even had the intention to take snaps ;D), but after some indecision, there was clapping and a hell lot of wolf whistling going on. People started to clear out when the kiss became a little too deep to even occur in public. When everyone had left the training room, the couple broke apart, only to catch their breath. Allena smiled a cheeky smile, biting one side of her bottom lip.
"Catch me if you can" she whispered into his ear. She started to sprint away from the training hall to their rooms, which had a big sliding door between them. If they wanted it to look like two different rooms, all they had to do was slide it closed. If they felt like sharing a bit more room, it would be opened, and the rooms would look like one. It took less than a split second for Kanda to race her to the rooms. He caught up with her midway, but didn't bother to stop the race. When they reached the rooms, the doors were open, not unusual; the inhabitants of the Order often left their doors ajar. They trusted each other like family and treated the building like their own house. Here Kanda ended up being a step behind Allena by closing the door with a SLAM and tackled her to her bed, right on top of her. Breathing hard and smiling, she turned around and kissed him once again. Her hands went behind his neck as she deepened the kiss. She started to turn them around, wanting to be on top. But before that could happen he carefully pulled out her hair tie and let her long, soft locks flow around. Her hands were fumbling with the buttons on his jacket, but finally managed to open it.
Hmm, Kanda thought, why so keen today?
His pony tail was starting to slip, so Allena pulled it out. He started to slip up the cloth of her tee, exposing bare ivory skin. His hands roamed it, tracing circles. She shivered, adding to his pleasure. In response, she unbuttoned his shirt. He turned so that her back was again on the bed. The flaps of his shirt opened to reveal a toned, muscular chest. Allena let her hands roam that chest, touching everything. In the meantime she hadn't noticed Kanda taking off her tee until he tossed it to her right. She slipped the shirt off his shoulders, and their kiss was brought so deep that she felt a fire start to flame in the pit of her stomach.
His hands played with the ribbon on her slacks, the only thing keeping the clothing on her, and she realized what was going to happen. This had happened many times before, but all at times where pure bliss was the most pushing factor to lead her to do... that… but now she was perfectly aware of what was happening. Going completely against what her brain told her, she acted on what she really wanted. She slowly started to slip out of her slacks, painfully slowly, a smirk fixed on her face, eyes narrowed slightly. It was too much, too much for Kanda. He diverted his attention to her pure white neck, biting and sucking to his pleasure. His hands went behind her neck, the other one going down to the slacks to pull them off, and his lips on hers. One of her hands went to his belt, the other resting on his back, playing with his long, raven hair. The hand on the belt unfastened it as fast as she could, sliding the belt from the pants he was wearing. She slipped them off him and tossed them to a place in the room unknown to either.
"Shall we?" he asked, his baritone voice husky.
She smiled softly, "We shall"
Somehow, all was removed and Allena's lips went to Kanda's collarbone, experimentally licking. Kanda shuddered, and Allena enjoyed every shake. She bit down, and Kanda couldn't hold out anymore. He went for it. Allena's breath hitched, but then sighed contently. She wrapped a leg around his waist, and he pulled out. He took her other leg and caressed her thigh, looking at her. She had a smile on her face, and then lifted her head to kiss him, white hair a curtain behind, asking for more when her hands roamed his back. He went in, and out halfway and in again. Allena shuddered, her hand pulling slightly pressing his head, the other going lower to ghostly caress his thigh. She lifted her head more, pushing Kanda to sit on his legs, hers wrapped around his waist. He went again, this time hitting the spot. By now both were starting to reach their climaxes. But the lust was just increasing more and more. She lowered her head to his neck, and bit down on a spot. He buried his face in her hair cherishing the smell of lavender. She rolled her head back and he lowered her back onto the bed again. For what felt like so long, they took it slow, unlike before, where it was frenzied. The thrusts and pulls, the moans, the love bites. Kanda pushed in one more time, then decided to surprise his lover a bit. He thrust in and out fastly, hotly, the moans coming from Allena turning him on all the more. Her nails dug into his back, she grinded against him for a few seconds, creating more friction. She licked her lips before crashing them once more unto Kanda's. Faster and at the same time slower, they were enjoying it thoroughly. Finally at his climax from a rather loud moan from Allena, he released into her, and the hot, lusty fire within her was quenched. Her breath hitched, and for a second, she didn't dare breathe. He was now lying next to her, both covered in a thin layer of sweat, breathing.
"Yuu…" she whispered. He turned his head to her in surprise.
"I love you."
He usually replied with a grunt or a kiss, being too shy to say it, but this time…
"I love you too"
Those words. They had finally come out of his mouth. She smiled. Those were the words she had wanted to hear for so long. He had only said them once, at the beginning of their relationship.
She smiled, and kissed him once again. Then, with a tired and content sigh, she laid her head on his arm and closed her eyes. Little did she know that he stayed awake long enough to know she was asleep, then lifted her inside the blankets.
End Flashback:
Allena's POV:
There was something flying around my head, trying to get me to snap out of my daydream. I looked up, and there was Timcampy. I smiled softly, but my smile slipped off when I remembered that I had to help the science team pack their papers. I groaned inwardly, hoping nothing went wrong. No point hoping, or even praying I thought, something bad is going to happen…
Upon reaching Lab 5, all I saw was chaos. Scientists and newbies were all running all over the place, waving papers and packing boxes of bottles with multicolored liquids in them. Garbage bins all around were overflowing. The first thing I thought of doing was getting a ton of garbage bags and emptying up the bins, until Reever walked up to me. "Allena! Hello! What brings you here?"
"Hi Reever, just thought I could help out here. Any tasks in mind for me?" I smiled brightly. The Australian thought for a moment before bringing me to a couple of tables with papers on them, asking me to go through them and sort them out. I saw a newbie there, whom I didn't know the name of, marking boxes like 'Test Results' and 'Official Documents', then he got a big garbage bag and taped it the table, and kept crumpling up papers and dumping them in there. I stood over the table and began to sort through a stack of papers that looked decades old. Picking up the first one, I put in a box. I heaved a sigh; this was going to be a long afternoon.
About an hour later…
Allena's POV:
Timcampy was beside me, snoozing, something I was about to do right about this second. I now understood why the science team was always lagging behind and begging for coffee breaks. This work was as boring as hell! Suddenly the golem was buzzing, flying like a tornado around my head. I caught him, shaking the drowsiness out of my eyes. The newbie beside me had long fallen face first into his stack of work. Timcampy buzzed once more, before Komui's voice spoke out, loud and clear.
"Allena Walker, please report to my office immediately, a mission has been assigned to you."
I did a silent dance, and then dashed off to see Komui.
The second I entered his office, he ran to me and began to hug me, shrieking that he hadn't seen me in sooooooo long and all sorts of rubbish like that. I pried him off me, and after a while, I managed to get him back to his desk, and he started to brief me on the mission. Just when he was about to tell me where it was, the door opened. I turned, and my eyes widened.
I saw someone I thought I would never see again.
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
OK guys, I need help.
This scene was incredibly DIFFICULT to write. No, I've never written a scene like that, hopefully, I won't have to in the next two weeks… but let's see where my imagination takes me…
You're all probs gonna have to read another steamy scene soon… sigh... God I'm crazy…. I need coffee…
Kanda wasn't too OOC for Lenalee right? I mean, I know I made him lack his usual get-to-the-point-or-I'll-kill-you attitude, but that was Lenalee we are talking about. Considers her his little sister, and is thus a little protective and calmer when it comes to her wellbeing.
And I just remembered…
I got a review from someone who didn't have an account, telling me that when it comes to hair color, genetics don't work like that…..
Seriously, I really appreciate the fact that you told me (cuz I really didn't know) but I'm still gonna keep it that way cuz …..
I've never seen it on FF
It's something new, so I decided to try it…
It's really cool…!
Anyways, I hope you all loved this chapter, cuz I don't… :(
I really need reviews telling me it was alright, not a total flop…
Btw, if u think that IT WAS a total flop… tell me but try and tone it down a bit cuz I'm bad at taking flames the easy way… :)
Author-chan runs after Thor
Lavi: I think she's lost it
Kanda: she never had it, Baka
Lenalee: Kanda! Stop insulting!
Allen: Unless he doesn't have the brain capacity to store anything more than insults in that pretty little head of his...
Kanda: shut up and die, Moyashi.
Cue fight begins...
Until next chapter, CHAW! :D