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Plot: CHAPTER 18!!!

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Kanda's eyes widened, hearing the roar. The loose sense of peace that surrounded him whenever Allen was so close dissipated. How the heck did he get here so fast? "We'll take the back way." Kanda stopped, re-directing Allen up the stairs and through a few hallways that lead to an emergency staircase. That would at least give them a few moments before Solen re-directed himself in their direction. "Damn, he's quick." He cursed, it hurt to run because he had to breath so hard. Looks like they didn't have time to do anything but change, no packing anything up and preparing for this chase.

Allen ran in front of Kanda and held open the door, closing it quickly. He looked for something to seal it shut, at least for a few moments, then saw a cinder block. It wasn't much, but it would do. Allen placed in in front of the door poised to fall when the door opened. Allen ran forward, quickly catching up to Kanda, grabbing his hand and leading him down the street, where he had seen a "motel" when they were on the long rectangular metal box with all the staring people. "Come on Kanda!" Allen ran forward, bumping into a few people. Purposely, however. He knew that things like this cost money. He had seen enough peoples dreams to know what it was and how to get it. He also knew that Kanda didn't have much of it. So what was he doing, running into all these people? Why, pickpocketing of course.

Soon, the two stopped in an alleyway where they could catch their breath, and Allen looted the wallets he had stolen. Their loot wasn't much, but it was a little over two hundred dollars and a few credit cards. Allen would sign for whatever he needed to, because they couldn't trace anything back to someone who doesn't belong to this world. Allen looked up and his eyes softened when he saw Kanda breathing hard, struggling to hold on to his breath. Allen pocketed the items he found and helped Kanda up, walking to a nearby drug store, where he could get some medicine. "Come on Kanda, we need some ointments for you."

Kanda forced himself to run, closing his eyes at the quickly growing pain where his growing bruise was. Ugh, if he managed to fracture his breastbone that would take a hell of a time to fix. The raven took a shuddered breath, trying to hold in as much air as he could without taking too deep a breath. It worked for a bit, but the breaths afterward weren't at all worth the effort. "I'm right beside you," He said between gasps, refusing to be left behind. When he looked over at Allen, he seemed to be..was he pickpocketing? When did he pick that up? Kanda would have stopped him, he had his wallet, they were good for almost a couple weeks on the road with the money he had and his own credit card. Seems like some sort of family overseas liked putting money in his account...

When they pulled into an alley, Kanda leaned against the wall, looking over at Allen. "No more pickpocketing, we don't need to add thievery to our list of crimes today." They already had destroying public property and murder down... The raven sat down, closing his eyes for a moment. "No, we should keep going, the further away from my old apartment we get the better." It was better if they got out of this city, but he doubted he would make it that far without wearing himself out...but that meant that he was holding Allen back, right?

"I can wait."

Allen was not happy with Kanda. So, he grabbed him by the hand and dragged him to the store. Little man got awfully vicious when he wanted something done. He needed bandages so Allen could wrap Kanda's wounds this time, and damn it, he was going to do it. Entering the store, Allen made a quick survey and saw no one from his world. He sighed in relief, but the tingling feeling of something just being off wouldn't leave him alone. He looked around, but again, there was no one here from his world. No one here that meant to do him harm. Allen looked at Kanda and pushed him forward, to the medicine aisle.

"Go get bandages and numbing cream. You know, that stuff the nurse gave us." Allen muttered distractedly. All the while he was trying to figure out what was wrong. To make himself feel better, he created an illusion around himself and Kanda to everyone in the store. Now they were just normal kids, playing around in a store. The feeling of something being off never went away, but Allen felt better. People from his world would see right through it. Someone from his world would have to reveal themselves in order to reveal Allen. Allen smiled at one lady, dodging around her and going towards the drinks, pulling out some random items and studying them.

Fanta. Hm, he wondered what that tasted like. Allen opened it and took a drink, immediately frowning and placing it back. He wasn't sure he liked the orange one very much. He took out a purple one and tried again, but still, the fuzzes on his tongue made him cringe. He would just stick to his lorknoshma. Allen dug thorough the fridge again, coming out with something called Arizona Iced Tea. Allen tipped his head to the side, but opened it and drank some.

Huh. It tasted just like his lorknoshma. Only more...lemony. He liked it. Allen took it with him, traveling through the store to find Kanda. They needed to get to the motel tonight. Being out in this world at night was dangerous. Allen had seen plenty of nightmares to back it up. Allen took another drink of his "tea" and swerved through the store, eventually finding Kanda.

He frowned when he did find him, however. Of course Kanda would be hiding how bad his injuries really were. Then again...did he really ask? Allen frowned again and looked at Kanda, watching as he struggled to catch his breath. He took another sip of his tea and smiled dryly when Kanda eventually looked at him. Boy, did Kanda look like crap.

"It's your chest." It wasn't a question. "He didn't fracture the bone, but the pressure he put on it caused a bruise that's going to ache for days. At least, if you heal normally." Allen took another sip of his drink and watched Kanda agian. "We're getting to a motel tonight. We should be able to stay there for a couple days before Solen finds us agian. Maybe a couple weeks. Who knows. He'll send another crony first. A stronger one. But don't worry." Allen smiled and walked up to Kanda, hugging him a bit before letting go.

"We'll get through this. Together."

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Okay, so after the doom and gloom of the last chapter, he's some...less doom-y and gloom-y things to feed your little Yullen spirits. A little later today, my story for CrimsonKitsune333 is going up. It's called "Angel Wings" and...well, it's taken a little while, but it's finally up. For now, I have to go to work, so enjoy my darlings.

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