My Heart
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Chapter Seventeen: Tim's Memory
Kanda brushed hair from Allen's face, showing her pale features to his concerned eyes. Looping his fingers in hers, the Japanese man sat down next to the sleeping figure. He was fully dressed and ready to leave for Komui's office, to ask the man permission (sort of) to marry Allen, but found himself reluctant to leave her side.
He couldn't help but think that this pregnancy was killing her.
True enough, it wasn't the pregnancy, it was the Innocence inside of her, the foreign Innocence that was eating away at her life force, striving to form itself inside of their child. Nevertheless, it concerned him greatly. He didn't want to lose Allen, or even think that he was going to lose her. She was everything to him now.
The Head Nurse had told him in confidence, the last time that they had spoken, that Allen wouldn't last another two weeks in this state. Kanda had felt his heart freeze at that statement, but his mind had already started trying to formulate ways to save Allen and the child both. The older woman had assured him, though, that the child was due in a week, or less, and that there weren't any problems expected, though she also said that they were prepared for any scenario that might crop up.
Nevertheless, Kanda was not going to relax until the baby was born and Allen was finally able to start getting her health back.
He carefully stood up from his bed, brushing his fingers against Allen's cheek once more, and left his room silently. While lying awake during the night and a small part of the morning, Kanda had thought about what the ceremony would entail, and had come to the conclusion that there were several aspects of each different tradition, Japanese or British(Christian) that he didn't think would work.
For one, it obviously could not be elaborate and showy, because they were going to have to keep it secret from Central.
Second, Kanda did not wear jewelry. So, therefore, the typical Christian exchange of rings would be out. Allen could not wear a ring on her left hand, either, due to her Innocence being based in her left arm.
Allen had neither father nor mother to "give" her away, so, again the Christian approach was out.
Kanda figured that a simple vow-exchange, a simple Japanese ceremony, without any elaborate aspects, and then an official "seal of approval" from Komui would work. He didn't like the lack of formality or legality of it, but it would have to do. Sometime in the future, he would make sure that it was made more official, with a more public ceremony.
What mattered now was to salvage both his and Allen's religious (as much of it as was there) obligation. Already, he had broken a few of the "rules", what with impregnating Allen before marrying her. And then, there was the whole part of not protecting her for seven of the nine months of her pregnancy.
His pride -no, his morality, his obligation as the father of her child- demanded no less.
Before anything, Kanda had to confirm it with Komui that he would be able to finalize the marriage, however crude of one it might be. Next, he had to get a marriage contract written up and prepare a priest who would do an anonymous ceremony.
After that, he wanted to have Jerry cook up a feast, under the guise of a "welcome home, Kanda, Lenalee and Marie" feast, for Allen. He would tell Jerry the purpose of the feast, since the chef already knew of Allen's pregnancy, to ensure vast amounts of nutrition and vitamins in her diet.
Kanda made his way to Komui's office, feeling the warmth of the early morning sun seep into the stones of the Dark Order Headquarters and warm the air inside. He wasn't wearing his exorcist coat, just a white, button-up shirt and black pants, so the heat soaked right into his skin with a pleasant feeling. Judging by the way the breeze blowing in from the close-by windows, it was actually a very nice day outside, perfect for a few hours of training.
The Japanese man shook those thoughts out of his head; he had something planned, and that didn't involve training, as much as he might need or want it. Though, he couldn't help but admit that it had been a long time since he had trained properly. Perhaps sometime later in the day and he could take Allen outside to where he trained so that she could enjoy the nice day as well.
Kanda froze in mid-step, evaluating what he had just thought. Since when had he become so thoughtful and....kind? Shaking his head helplessly, Kanda continued on his way to Komui's office, his thoughts inevitably on his Moyashi.
"Timcanpy! I'm sorry! It wasn't my fault!!" Kanda heard Komui shout from inside his office as he approached.
"Ow! OW!! Really, Tim, I am sorry!!"
There were some wordless shouts of pain followed by a loud crash and then all that could be heard was a low moan and the sound of metallic pins clinking together.
"Komui? What the hell is going on?" Kanda demanded as he opened the door.
"Kanda? Oh, Kanda it's you!! Save me, save me please!! Timcanpy is trying to kill me!!" Komui begged from the floor, flailing his limbs pathetically.
"Timcanpy?" Kanda questioned, taking a step closer out of sheer curiosity. He then spotted the little golden ball of terror, chewing on Komui's left ankle, his wings folded behind him complacently.
"Che. Stupid tennis ball," Kanda sniffed, "Stupid Supervisor." He stalked over to where Komui lay sprawled out and pulled Timcanpy away, none to gently. He held the struggling ball up near his face...and regretted it. Tim lashed out and bit down on Kanda's cheek, making the Japanese man's eyes widen in shock. His hand shot up and took hold of the golem, squeezing at the hinges of Tim's mouth.
"Let go, you damned ball!' Kanda growled, pulling Timcanpy away from his face. Tim released his hold, but then turned right around and started struggling, trying to get free to attack Komui.
"What the hell did you do to the Moyashi's freak of a golem??" Kanda demanded.
"Well, about a month ago, before we found Allen in the Innocence, Timcanpy showed up here, looking rather beat up. Given what Tim showed me through his recordings, he was with Allen when she disappeared...." Komui trailed off, frozen half-way up from the ground. He looked up at Kanda and the struggling ball of vengeance.
"He was badly damaged and couldn't play back any of the video that he had in his memory. I had to work on him, but since Cross made Tim, I didn't really know his components that well. He is quite different from the standard issue golems that I have made in the past. It took all this time just to fix him so that he could play back the video. He hasn't yet....if you want to see." Komui offered, moving again to stand up and watch Tim, who had finally ceased in fighting, as though he knew that his services would be required soon.
Kanda finally got a good look at the little golem. Several patched of golden metal were missing, replaced with unscratched metallic plates welded very carefully in place. One of the wings looked like it had had to be welded back on as well.
"What happened to it?" Kanda asked, analyzing each little scratch, dent and weld-mark.
"Well, I think that something was chasing him before he got here, maybe an Akuma or something. Allen has said that he tends to get eaten by cats a lot. Who knows?" Komui said, shrugging as he shuffled in his slippers over to his desk.
"So you repaired it."
"Yes, indeed I did. But, a little while ago, while I was sleeping, I accidentally knocked over a pile of books on top of him. A few minutes ago, I picked them up; he got free and attacked me...." Komui trailed off again.
"And then you saved me!!!" he cried gleefully, hurrying over to Kanda's side, presumably to hug Kanda.
"Touch me and I will sick this freakish ball on you." Kanda threatened, waving Tim in Komui's face. Tim bared his metal teeth at Komui, who backed off, hands up defensively. When Komui was a safe enough distance away, Tim fluttered out of Kanda's grasp and landed on Kanda's shoulder. The "look" that he gave Kanda when the Japanese man glanced over basically said that he would, under no circumstances, be moved. Kanda sniffed dismissively and turned to face Komui.
"I think, now, that Timcanpy can show us his memories. The repairs that needed to be done on his circuitry are complete." Komui said, sitting at his desk once more. To confirm, Tim nodded on Kanda's shoulder. He fluttered down to a clear space on Komui's desk and opened his mouth, a projection flickering to life as he wiggled his feet to get comfortable.
A figure in shadows stood up from a small bed and began walking towards a window. Moonlight brightened the outline of the figure, revealing a small figure with white hair.
"Allen..." Kanda whispered to himself.
The window was opened and the figure slipped out. The view changed from a dark room to an only slightly lighter street, where two figures stood. Kanda immediately recognized both of the figures as Tyki Mikk and Rhode Kamelot. Kanda felt fury rise up inside him, seeing the two people who had hurt his Moyashi time and time again. He clenched his fists angrily, trying to restrain himself.
He realized that this was where Allen had been captured in Vienna when Lavi hadn't been paying attention. His only question was, where the hell was Lavi during this??
"Ha! That was too easy!" he heard Rhode mutter happily, breaking through Kanda's thoughts.
"Check her first, Rhode. Make sure that she doesn't have any tricks up her sleeve. This one tends to be filled with surprises." Tyki said softly, exhaling a puff of smoke.
Kanda watched as Rhode walked over to a collapsed body on the ground and aimed a kick at its side. The angle changed and the scene grew bigger for a moment before the motion stopped. Kanda now saw that the body on the ground was Allen.
"Well. It really was too easy. Now, let's-" Rhode began, but was interrupted by the gravelly voice of an Akuma.
"Lady Rhode! Something is happening to the crystal!! Light is coming out of it and seems to burn the skin of anything that approaches! The Duke requests that you come back to Budapest immediately, and leave off everything here in Vienna!!" the level two cried, appearing from a doorway behind Tyki. Tyki and Rhode both turned to face the Akuma.
"Ohhh...Do we have to??" the eldest Noah whined. Tyki breathed out another puff of smoke, tipping his hat slightly. After a brief moment of silence, Rhode spoke again.
"Well, Tyki-pon. Let's go. Hey, grab that exorcist, now." She pointed at Allen as she spoke the last part, her tone that of a bored child. The Akuma nodded and made its way over to Allen.
"If there is one extra scratch on her body, I will rip your body to shreds." Rhode warned in a light tone, walking over to her door. Tyki followed along behind her, still puffing away at his cigarette.
The view focused on the Akuma about to pick up Allen, somewhat cutting Tyki and Rhode out of the picture. The Akuma used it's clawed hands to pick up Allen, but dropped her, shrieking in pain.
Kanda glanced at Allen's body, then back to the Akuma. He couldn't see that Allen was awake, and he couldn't see what was wrong with the Akuma. It shook it's hands, screaming in pain. It smacked at it's skin, as if trying to put out a fire that was slowly spreading. Out of the corner of his eye, Kanda saw Tyki and Rhode turn around.
"What is wrong with you?" Tyki asked in a cool tone.
"The fire!!! It burns!! Aaagh!!! I can't-!!" At that time, the pain seemed to have spread to its throat and mouth and it could only screech in terror and agony. Rhode sent a flaming candle to pierce the thing's forehead, silencing it.
"Hmm." she murmured, arching an eyebrow. She approached Allen's sleeping body and poked it with her foot. Nothing happened. Tyki watched silently.
Rhode looked between the exploding corpse of the Akuma and the sleeping form of Allen Walker and made a small noise of interest. She reached out and poked the thin shoulder with a singular finger. At first, she didn't do anything.
Suddenly, she flinched away from her arm and stared down at the limb in confusion. Kanda watched her arm intensely, trying to see what made her twitch, but saw nothing.
"There is certainly something interesting going on here." Tyki said softly, exhaling a puff of smoke. Kanda saw Rhode nod vaguely as her eyes grew distant for a brief moment.
"It must be her Innocence," Rhode said quietly.
"What do you think it means?" she asked as she wrapped her hand around Allen's shirt and began dragging the not-so-heavy body towards the door.
"I am not sure. In any case, let us go home and figure out what is going wrong with the crystal." Tyki said, heading for the door.
The view changed yet again, to a large marble ballroom that Kanda had seen somewhere before. In the middle of it, a crystalline shape stood, emitting a pulsating glow that was almost like a heart beat. Surrounding the base of the crystal, about six feet away from it, though, stood three figures, with four more a few feet behind them. Kanda recognized the three figures in the center (Tyki Mikk, Rhode Kamelot, and the Millennium Earl), and thought the other four to be Akuma.
"She has been trying to get at this for the past three weeks, Duke." Rhode said unhappily, pointing at the door in the corner of the marble ballroom that Kanda could just barely see.
"Oh really? I wonder why." The fat shape of the Millennium Earl moved away from the crystal and waddled over to the door that Rhode had pointed to.
"Tyki-pon, Rhode dear, please move away from that cursed Innocence."
"What are you going to do, Duke?"
"I am going to see what happens when Allen Walker comes in contact with that vile substance. We shall see if what happened to my precious machines happens to this cursed exorcist." the Earl said calmly. Tyki and Rhode watched the Earl as they took three or four steps backwards.
The door in the corner was opened, showing a small figure. It immediately began walking forward, almost like it was sleep-walking. It came closer to the pulsating glow of the Innocence, revealing the figure, none-to-surprisingly, of Allen Walker, a slight bulge beginning to show in her stomach.
Two Noah that Kanda didn't recognize followed along behind Allen, looking confused.
"Duke! Why did you let her out?" the two whined in unison. The Earl chuckled, but said nothing. He stopped the two and just watched as Allen approached the Innocence. The small girl padded over to the Innocence, her eyes open but blank and expressionless. She reached her hand out to touch the crystal when she got close enough. Her hand pressed against the glass-like surface and, for a moment, nothing happened, except a small smile that crept over Allen's face, one of sincere pleasure. It seemed out of place in a building filled with more Noah than what would require to kill just one exorcist, the Millennium Earl, and enough Akuma outside, without a doubt, to fill the marble ballroom to overflowing.
Tim's projection suddenly went blindingly white, causing Komui and Kanda to flinch back. A few seconds later, static took place of the white, but no sound could be heard.
"Good God..." Komui whispered, staring at the static-filled projection. He suddenly burst into motion, jumping to a pile of papers, frantically searching through them.
"What the hell?" Kanda demanded, looking at Komui.
"Think about it, Kanda...Why were the Noah Clan holding Innocence??" Komui demanded in return, throwing a file off to the side as he spoke. Kanda's eye twitched briefly.
"I don't really care their reasons for holding it. I would prefer to kill the bastards than ask them questions." Kanda responded irately. Komui laughed, but it held no humor.
"Wouldn't we all." He muttered, going through another file. He was silent for the longest time, still searching through files.
"Tell me then, Komui. Why were the Noah holding Innocence." Kanda asked shortly, eye twitching again.
"Because they couldn't destroy it! For some reason, they couldn't destroy your daughter's Innocence! If that is true.....then that means that....her Innocence-" Komui froze, looking at the projection, which had started again. An otherworldly voice spoke calmly:
"...You cannot touch me, this child, or her mother, Earl of the Millennium. My powers are far greater than yours, your precious Noah, or your precious machines. To try to destroy me would be foolish, and you know this. As you have learned over the past year by using your Noah and machines. I am the He-" the otherworldly voice stopped. It's host that it had been using to speak suddenly crumpled to the ground.
"What an arrogant piece of vile material." the Millennium Earl said slowly, his voice sounding pleasant, but there was an underlying tone of utter fury that made Kanda's blood run cold. The Earl began walking away, but spoke to the Noah surrounding him.
"How are the campaigns in South Africa and the Americas looking?" he asked in that slow and pleasant, but dangerous, tone. Tyki turned to follow, responding to the Earl's question.
"Well, Duke, the exorcists haven't noticed the one in South Africa yet, but I think they know about the one on the east coast of the United States. As for the one in Brazil, I do not think that they know. They are all in the beginning stages, though, Duke." The Earl nodded.
"Send an additional thousand Akuma to each, please." the Earl said rather loftily, waving his hand as he disappeared through the door that Allen had entered from.
"Y-Yes, immediately." Tyki responded, looking rather shocked. Rhode and the twin Noah stared after the Earl silently.
"Stupid Allen." Rhode said briefly, crouching near the body in the middle of the marble ballroom. The twin Noah giggled to each other and began chanting.
"The Duke is pissed and he's gonna get 'em! The Duke is pissed and he's gonna get 'em! The Duke is pissed and he's gonna get 'em!" They cackled manically and skipped off through another door. Tyki shook his head, lighting a cigarette.
"Duke said you should give those up, Tyki." Rhode said, standing up and turning around to watch her Uncle.
The projection faded out, leaving Tyki's response a mystery.
When it came back into focus, the view was of a closer view of Allen, still sprawled on the ground, unconscious. It moved forward, even closer to Allen. It stopped when Allen began moving, slowly moving to sit up. She opened her eyes and then slowly looked to the side.
"Oh....Timcanpy. There you are. I was looking for you. Huh? Who is that speaking?" she asked looking around the ballroom.
"Do you hear anything, Tim?" Allen asked, looking back down. The view moved from side to side as Tim shook his head.
"That's weird. Yes, I would say so. Where are we anyway, Tim?"
Allen stood up and offered her hand to Tim, but was denied. The view flew up to above Allen and followed her. She spoke again, but didn't seem to be aiming her question at Tim.
She was talking to herself. Or, rather, talking to someone else who didn't seem to be there.
The projection faded out and Tim closed his mouth, sprawling his tiny legs out in seeming exhaustion.
"Who was she talking to?" Komui wondered aloud. Kanda shook his head. This was far above what he wanted to know, far beyond what he had come to ask Komui. Tim stood up wearily from the table and took off, flapping his wings until he was high enough to land on Kanda's shoulder. The golem twisted his feet into Kanda's shirt and didn't move except to fold his wings back.
Komui went back to searching through his files and Kanda was about to leave when Komui stopped him.
"Kanda, did you need something? I know you didn't come in here just to gain a shoulder attachment." Komui asked, still looking at his files.
"Che. I intend to marry Allen. I need to know if you can finalize our marriage." Kanda said.
"Oh really? That is exciting! Yes, of course I can. What do you plan to do?" Komui grinned, looking up at Kanda. That grin made Kanda slightly uncomfortable, like a version of the maniacal glint of the eye that he got when he was inventing some new machine of destruction.
"As you surely realize, this can't be public. We have to keep it secret. Allen will keep her last name, for the same reason. There won't be an elaborate ceremony because there are aspects of either Japanese tradition or Christian that we can't follow...." Kanda explained the details to Komui, who nodded in agreement.
"I can certainly help you with that, Kanda. But, have you proposed to Allen yet?" Komui asked, another grin forming on his face. Kanda sniffed.
"Not yet, no. She is sleeping, baka."
"Well, maybe not now. You have spent about an hour here." Komui said, shrugging.
"Che. Whatever."
Kanda left Komui's office, Tim still attached to his shirt. He headed straight for his room, where he had left Allen.
Yeah....I realize that this chapter is significantly different from the other one...
The next one will have Kanda proposing for sure.^_^
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