She walked down the corridor slowly the only sound was the click of her heeled boots echoing off the stone walls and floors as she walked around to the library. She wanted to read more about her father, it made her so curious.

Entering quietly she looked for Bookman but instead she found no one. "Well this is a rather large library." She muttered to herself as she walked to where she had found the book along with a few other files to do with her father. Taking them out she sat down on the sofa and started reading through everything. She couldn't help the tears that spilt as she paged on. The pain in her chest growing with each page she turned. It was tough to read everything she had read as she sat quietly crying having lost track of the time.

Lavi had grown worried when she wasn't in her room and had run the entire building upside down until he remembered the library. He ran as fast as his legs could carry him to the large double doors, opening them as quietly as he could, he was greeted by the sound of muffled sniffs and sobs. He walked to the edge of the row of books and that's where he found Sera sitting staring at paper's all over in disbelief. Kanda had soon joined him in the library and so had Allen who stood silently watching her as she didn't even flinch.

Lavi was the first to move, then Allen who helped him pack up all the papers and books and put them where each one belonged. They then both turned to Sera and looked up at Kanda.

"Hey woman don't you think it's getting late for you to be walking around here, we do have vampires on the premises that would like to get a bite out of a young woman like you." His cold voice snapped her out of her thoughts as she looked up at him silently.

"Jerk." Was the only word that left her lips as she pushed past the two men trying to help her and ran as fast as she could to get away from everything, the promise she had made Kanda to stay played over in her mind as she looked up at the giant gates.

'Screw it.' She thought when a robotic voice interrupted her. "Excuse me Miss Cross-chan but don't you think it's a bit late for a lady such as yourself to be out on your own." Kumoi spoke through the strange looking black golem.

"Let me out of this place no Kumoi or I will blow these gates down." She demanded, the anger fueling her. She was a woman with a vendetta she had to sort out. It was a dangerous one but she knew it had to be done. The sound of boots distracted her when she spun around to find Lavi staring at her, his green eye pleading with her.

"Sera-chan don't do this, your upset and it could cost you your life if you do anything to brash." Lavi tried to reason as he approached the woman who stood looking bewildered, scared and royally pissed off. She couldn't bring herself to meet his gaze she knew she wouldn't be able to face the red head.

She turned her back on him and looked up at the gates when she felt his hands on her shoulders. He spun her around and brought her to look up at him. "Lavi, please don't give me that look. I can't do this. I have to go, I have to do this." She looked away.

"For what Seraphim, you know your father wouldn't want this. He knew that Tyikk was going to you every time he got the opportunity. If anything, you distracting him all the time made your father's work easier. He knew you would never betray him and he wouldn't want you to do anything stupid, personally I don't want you to do anything stupid either, we promised him we will look after you and keep you safe if something happened to him." he pulled her close to him. "And if you think it's going to be easy I can tell you this now Seraphim, I'm not letting go. No matter how much you fight me, I'm going to keep you here and look after you and keep the promise made to Cross."

With that he felt Sera give in. she couldn't fight him, not when he was looking at her the way he was. It ate at her to see him gaze down at her the way he was. She had never had anyone look at her the way he was looking at her. She had known Lavi for many years as well as Kanda since she was always ruining their missions. A deep sigh escaped her as she looked up at Lavi.

"Remember that night you rejected my sorry ass so badly Sera-chan? How when I shouted Strike you literally hit me with a fist in the stomach. Well since that day I liked you a lot more than what been a bookman allowed me to, so I stopped and decided to be an exorcist instead that if we ever came across each other again I wouldn't have to hide my emotions from you."

She looked up at him shocked. "Lavi I don't understand." She said softly as she watched him.

Lavi sighed. "I thought you wouldn't Sera-chan." He said softly before he crashed his lips down onto hers without any warning.

Kumoi sat in his office grinning as he watched what was happening in the front yard of the building in the icy pouring rain.

When Lavi pulled his lips from Sera's she looked up at him confused and unsure, both of them dripping wet and cold when she pulled Lavi down to her to kiss her again wrapping her arms around his neck. He chuckled when she gently started shivering as the relentless cold kicked in. Picking her up he carried her to her room where he kissed the top of her head before closing her door behind her.

Inside she fell down against her door, her cold fingertips on her lips brushing over them gently. She was shocked, confused by the turmoil her emotions were in as she dragged herself to her bathroom. Climbing in her bed she was instantly taken away by sleep as she curled up under the covers.

The light grey sky woke her as she looked at the figure that stood in her room grinning like a Cheshire cat. "I see you had quite an eventful evening Miss Cross-chan." Kumoi commented with Lenalee standing beside him.

"You know you are such a pervert, honestly you should have been sleeping at that hour." She commented sarcastically.

"I could say the same for you my dear but instead you were standing outside ordering me to open the gates and let you out, next thing when I look again your standing lip locked with Lavi in the rain after he so bravely told you that he won't let you go." He smirked at Sera clapping his hands together happily in his strange fan girl manner.

"You really take perversion and stalking to the next level, your one sad excuse of a man." She sighed exasperated as she rubbed her head.

"No I just want to know what made you so upset, I told you to think of me as a big brother didn't I, someone you can share your troubles with." he stated simply as he looked at Sera.

"No and No both not happening no matter how nicely you ask now will you please leave I have to get ready for the day ahead of me doing nothing since this weather decided to give us all the finger." She grunted as she pointed to the door smiling in mock politeness.

Sera knew all too well she had a terribly long day ahead of her and knowing her luck she knew Kumoi was going to try and antagonize her with Lavi. She looked out her window as his name left her lips in a simple whisper. She felt her cheeks heat up at the image in her mind of him kissing her and how it had been the most amazing first kiss she had ever experienced like something out of a children's story book.