Little Secret
Request by: Shahar Mystral
Genre: Romance
Rated: T
"Lavi! Wake up!"
Lavi groaned, rolling over and yanking his pillow over his head. He heard someone sigh, but was too tired to care.
"Come on!" Someone took hold of his shoulders and began to shake him violently, but he simply swatted away their hands.
Another sighcame, and suddenly the mattress was being pushed upward and he was rolling off, onto the ground, falling into a clump along with his sheets.
"I'm up! I'm up!" he cried, yanking himself free of the blankets' grips and sitting up, opening his eye to see Lenalee standing, in her pajamas, next to the bed, placing back down the mattress, seeming pleased that she had been able to wake him. Lavi leaned against the wall, waiting for his senses to return to him. "What's all the ruckus about so early in the morning…?"
Lenalee laughed lightly, walking around the bed to take seat on its opposite side, near where Lavi was. "Don't you remember, silly? We're on a mission!"
"Oh, yeah. That." Lavi yawned, standing up, lifting the blankets with him. "I guess I forgot I was on one, with last night and all."
Lavi tossed the sheets onto the bed, not bothering to put them back in place, and was about to head towards the bathroom when Lenalee caught his arm, pulling him back.
"What?" he asked, stopping to turning back at her. "Do you want to start back where we left off last night?" he asked with a devilish grin.
Lenalee blushed, shaking her head roughly. "Lavi! Quit it for one second! I want to ask you a serious question!"
Lavi sighed, plopping down next to her on the bed, biting his tongue to hold back the thousands of sarcastic responses he had to that.
"What is it?" he asked when she didn't say anything.
Lenalee reached forward, brushing her fingers over the right side of his face. He cringed a bit, watching her hand as closely as he could (considering the angle). He seemed to become uneasy as her fingertips crossed over his eye patch.
"You never take this off," she commented. "Not last night. Not when you sleep. Do you keep it on all the time?"
"Pretty much," he muttered. "I mean, when I'm alone, I take it off. Otherwise I don't. No one needs to see that."
She raised an eyebrow. "See what?"
Lavi laughed in disbelief. "So that's what this is about. Well, it doesn't matter. It was years ago."
"I want to know!" she cried, pulling him back down when he tried to stand up. "Come on, Lavi. If you can't tell me something as simple as this, you can't tell me anything! I promise not to tell anyone! If this is going to work, you're going to have to trust me!"
"Pushy, aren't we?" he teased, though he sat back down. "It's no a big deal."
"Lavi!"
"Okay, okay." He laughed, looking off as he recalled how he had come to get the eye patch. "Well, one day, I went to the store, and I asked if they had any eye patches-"
"I mean why you gotyour eye patch!" Lenalee snapped, resisting a laugh so he'd take her seriously.
"Oh! Why!" he laughed, ignoring her pout. He smiled a moment before becoming serious. "I was six when it happened. I was shot in the eye by a stray bullet."
Lenalee gasped, clasping her hands over her mouth. "Oh, Lavi! That had to hurt!"
"Obviously." He shook his head and shot her a smile as he watched her expression become terrified. "At the time, it seemed like the worst pain possible. At this point, that seems like nothing, really. Not after all we've been through. Besides, I kind of like the eye patch. It's sexy, right?"
Lenalee smiled, easing down a bit. She continued to smile at him, but he stared at her as if he were expecting her to say something.
"What?" she asked after a moment.
The corner of Lavi's mouth twitched as he resisted a grin. "You never answered my question."
Lenalee laughed, breaking the awkward moment, and took his hands, leaping to her feet and pulling him with her. "Oh course I do!"
"That's more like it." Lavi smiled back at her, tilting his head towards the bathroom. He leaned down, planting a quick kiss on her lips before asking, "Can I go now? We need to get ready, right? You were the one who was so anxious to get up this morning."
Lenalee released his hands, still grinning. "Thanks for telling me the truth."
Lavi walked into the bathroom without another word, walking to the sink to brush his teeth. He glanced in the mirror as he lifted his toothbrush, closely examining the eye patch with a thoughtful look on his face.
He brushed his fingers over it, staring deeply into his reflection, all trace of a smile wiped from his face.
After a moment, he began to nod in approval. "Yep, she was right. No worries – I am a sexy beast in an eye patch."
Author's notes: Yes, Lavi, you are. So much that you have no idea LOL
It seems that I am done with all the current requests! Which means I need some new ones ASAP! I don't care if you've already requested one – go ahead and ask for another one. Even if it's totally different than everything I've written so far, go for it! I'm up for a challenge!
Thanks for reading, and I hope you'll drop me a review (and hopefully any random request you can think of)