Got an update for y'all ^^ hope it's not too fast or what not
A month had passed since the capture of the vampire, a month of tests, talks, banter, shouting matches, and all nighters, the two exorcists traveling down to meet the young vampire frequently, Kanda more so than Lavi.
It was only a few strokes past midnight when a piercing scream filled the normally silent stone house, the Japanese waking with a heart beating like a rabbit's. Kanda fled down the stone steps, the ungodly screaming unceasing as the large bed came into view, his eyes widening as he watched the body on it thrashed relentlessly, Lavi keeping his distance as he watched with a mixture of both fascination and fear, the camera in his hands shaking lightly as the flash bulb went off repeatedly.
"What happened?" Kanda demanded, his hand on the hilt of his katana as he looked from Lavi to the figure, the skin seeming to darken before his eyes while the body was arched across the bed like a taunt bow, his vocal chords strained as his echoing screams passed his lips.
"He-he just started-" Lavi swallowed and turned to look a Kanda before the screaming figure caught his attention, the camera falling into his bag, "he just started…"
Another scream pierced their conversation, Allen twitching painfully on the bed as the other two were startled into action, Lavi stepping swiftly in front of Kanda and his unsheathed sword.
"Lavi-"
"No!" Lavi yelled over the screaming boy, "not yet, Kanda-"
"He's changing, I have to kill him-"
"No, I can stop it, I need this for samples!"
"Move!"
"No!"
The figure screamed once more, glistening tears rolling down his face as he writhed in pain, the cobalt and green eyes looking towards the transforming vampire.
"Help get some samples," Lavi ordered, running from Kanda to his black back, his hands retrieving the syringes and test tubes, his body careful to stand between the samurai and the demon.
Kanda stood frozen for a moment, looking from the creature to his partner, his lips curling into a sneer before he stowed Mugen, his mind screaming at him that he would surely regret his actions.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Hold him," Lavi told him demandingly, "I can't get the vein when he's moving around like this!"
Kanda approached the thrashing halfling, his body and mind weary of just how to approach the struggling boy.
Large hands gripped the thin wrists, the lithe body still writhing wildly about while his screams echoed off the stone walls. Kanda gritted his teeth as he tried to force the vampire down, his hands retracting the minute he saw elongating fangs lunge for him, saliva dripping from the pointed canines.
"Damn it!" Kanda glowered at the snapping creature, the fangs postponing their wrath to emit yet another ear shattering scream, the shackled hands digging into the bed sheets, the cotton ripping against the growing claws.
"Yuu-"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Kanda roared above the anguished screams, his determined cobalt eyes looking at the writhing form, his mind configuring his successful method.
"Loosen his binds."
"Wha-"
"Loosen. His. Binds," Kanda repeated through gritted teeth to a now stunned Lavi, his face looking at Kanda as though the other had clearly lost his mind.
"But-"
"JUST DO IT!" Kanda roared, startling the poor red head even further, complying none the less.
Allen's arms thrashed around wilder as the dull silver chains were let out, the freedom of movement it gave him; the freedom short lived when the same pair of hands grabbed his wrists once more, this time pinning them above his head as the strong and well-muscled body landed harshly on his hips, Kanda straddling the boy to restrict any movement he had. Outstretched fangs lunged for the man on his body, the white teeth stopped by a hand gripping his skull, the palm on his forehead while the fingers threaded through the fine white strands, the strength in his arm enough to still the transforming creatures head and throw it to the pillow.
"Better hurry up rabbit!" Kanda yelled while Allen remained pinned to the bed, his body still twitching violently under Kanda while the Japanese held him as best he could, "I don't know how long I can hold him!"
His red headed partner said nothing but moved swiftly over to the still twitching arm, his hands swiftly tying the band around the bicep before his fingers looked for the vein, the needle finding it with ease as the blood vessels had, in their master's transformation, grown and protruded from the now tanned flesh.
"ARG – IT-IT HURTS!" the normally sweet voice screamed suddenly, words finally coherent in and amongst the echoing anguish that filled the room.
"He's just taking blood; you've had it done before!" Kanda told him curtly, his own body strained as he restrained the thrashing halfling.
"NO!" Allen scream, the voice catching as tears began to bloom in the corners of his eyes, "EVERYTHING – HURTS!"
"LAVI!" Kanda warned, his eyes never once leaving the now crying vampire, the chains on his feet straining as the boy kicked and struggled against the Japanese.
"Just a minute," Lavi muttered worriedly, the tube slowly filling with the dark liquid, his hand covering the injection sight, hoping that the needle didn't move around inside the boy's vein, "it's almost done."
"Hur-"
The boy beneath him screamed in agony, cutting Kanda off and bringing their attention back to him, tears now rolling freely down his face, his screams intermingled with choking sobs, the taunt body twitching uncontrollably in under Kanda's.
"Damn it Kanda! I'm trying! I almost have all the blood, but I still need to examine his fangs!"
"WHAT!-"
"Done!" Lavi announced proudly, the small vial of blood stowed safety away in a small container, "I need his saliva and we're done!"
"His what!"
"His-"
Allen screamed even louder, his head starting to thrash in Kanda's hand, the man torn between ripping out the gossamer white strands or releasing him all together and tightening his restraints.
"PL-PLEASE-" Allen begged, "PLEASE- STOP THIS, IT-IT HURTS!"
"LAVI-"
"LET ME TAKE A SAMPLE FROM HIS MOUTH!" The one-eyed red head screamed a second syringe in his hand, "OPEN HIS MOUTH!"
"HE'S IN PAIN-"
"NOW!"
Kanda froze at the harsh words coming from Lavi's mouth, the normally easy-going and happy person had been replaced with the serious and studious one, the determination on his face enough to convince the samurai on the vampire.
"After this," Kanda whispered dangerously, "you sedate him, got it!"
"HIS MOUTH!"
Taking the demand as the acceptance, the hand in the fine hair moved to grip the throat harshly, the fanged creature's screams quieted as he sucked in minimal oxygen from his clutched throat. Slowly, the hand worked to the jaw, his fingers sliding between the joints of the jaw through the soft flesh of the cheek skin, the creature's mouth forced open while he desperately tried to close it, Kanda gritting his teeth out of strain and determination.
"THIRTY SECONDS LAVI!" Kanda screamed at him, "Then I close the jaw and I'm sedating him, got it!"
"I GOT IT!"
The second man bent over the creature, the syringe plunging into the fanged mouth, the clear liquid pulled out of his warm cavern slowly, the fingers in his jaw squeezing hard enough that it would leave bruises on his normally pale skin.
"I got it! I got it!" Lavi yelled at Kanda, excitement unable to contain itself and ebbed slowly into his voice.
"Get off!" Kanda growled, his shoulder pushing Lavi away while the hand on his jaw moved to grab the syringe of clear liquid, the needle stabbing the arm as the demon screamed mercilessly, his body still twitching violently in pain as the plunger depressed, the sedative quickly filling his veins before the empty syringe was tossed to the side.
Cobalt eyes watched as the tearing gold irises morphed into the shining silver that was Allen, his skin taking on its normally pale pigment while the dark tan slowly ebbed away. Fangs shrunk to their normal size, the long claw-like nails becoming shorter as Kanda felt the body beneath him still its thrashing, his breaths coming in deep inhales as the lungs shuddered periodically from the sobs he took, his spasms becoming quivering as he looked around in what Kanda could only call fear.
"K-Kan-da," Allen sniffed, his shaking wrists still in Kanda's grasp, deep mercury looking up at him while tears streamed down his face, "please-please don't let him come b-back."
Shock met the Japanese's face while he looked on at the sobbing vampire, the normally strong-willed creature reduced to a crying mess, the quaking from the body enough to tell him just how petrified the vampire truly was.
"Please," Allen whimpered, his voice breaking as he cried, "his v-voice, i-it's still in my head. He w-won't be quiet."
The usually stoic samurai felt his mask slip at the begging words of the boy beneath him, the hands on the slim wrists slacking slightly as he eased up on the Halfling, his legs lifting up and released the pressure he was placing on the abdomen.
Without warning, the mismatched hands found their way to the shirt covering Kanda's chest, the nails gripping the cotton fabric while his body froze at the sudden contact he had with a creature he had sworn to slaughter.
"Please," the now silver-eyed vampire sobbed into his chest, his lithe body still shivering, "I d-don't want him i-in me, I d-don't want to be a-a-"
Fresh sobs cut off his final words, his body desperately pressing closer to the samurai's, tears soaking through the white material.
"Kanda," Lavi asked softly, snapping the Japanese out of his stunned mind, "do you want to give him another sedative to-"
"No!"
Both men looked at Allen in shock; the quivering in his small body remained while his determination seemed to find him, if only for a moment.
"No, please," the vampire begged quietly, "he-he'll come back. Don't let him come back."
The crown of white hair buried itself in the well-muscled chest once more, his body racked with sobs as he cried openly in front of the other two.
Strong arms slowly slid around him, the green eye watching them in shock as Kanda of all people slowly embraced the creature he was supposed to despise.
"Okay," Kanda murmured softly, "we won't drug you, understand?"
The small creature hiccoughed, but nodded into him all the same.
Cobalt eyes shot daggers at Lavi, warning him that whatever transpired between these three was to never leave the confines of the stone room, something Lavi slowly nodded in agreement. The contents of the black bag rattled slightly as the red head picked it up and strode up the stone steps, leaving the two curled on the bed.
"K-anda."
The small voice brought the samurai back to his senses, his eyes looking down at the vampire shuddering and crying into his chest.
"Pl-please," Allen sobbed softly, "please don't let him come back, it-it hurts so much."
The man chose to let actions speak for themselves, his fingers running through the soft hair gently, the comforting motion enough to ease Allen, his vice-like grip on the button up shirt relaxing but not leaving all together, a comfortable silence falling between them.
"Kanda."
"Hm?" was the response he gave to the soft voice that had disturbed the peace between them.
Silver eyes met his, fear wrought through them as the tracks of tears remained on his face, "can you stay with me?"
Kanda visibly froze at his request, his mind waging a war between granting it or throwing the monster off of him and tightening the arm binds, fear in the boy be damned.
"Please," Allen whimpered softly, "please, I don't want to be alone, I don't want him to come back, please!?"
Cobalt eyes widened as the body began to tremble in his arms, the torso pressing closer to the other ones while tears started to flow again from the liquid mercury eyes.
"D-Don't," Kanda heard him cry, "don't leave me alone."
Allen's sensitive ears detected the sigh that passed Kanda's lips, his body stiffening at the renewed fear that he would be thrown aside and left alone in the dark chamber, him and cruel torturous voice that was fading softly away alone, the horrid thought and notions to whispered cruelly to him. The small demon curled into Kanda, silently begging him to stay as though he hadn't already vocally done so.
"Alright."
Silver eyes widened in surprise at the soft compliance Kanda gave him, his body adjusting as the one he cling to did, the Japanese bringing his back to the headboard while Allen remained comfortably in his chest, the rhythmic throbbing in his ear oddly soothing, the heartbeat of the samurai lulling his already exhausted body further into sleep's embrace.
"Thank you," he mumbled to the man who had wrapped his arms around the pale body, a small but distinguishable 'Che' reached his ears, a small smile slipping onto his own.
'So this is what it feels like, Allen thought as he fell asleep, the warmth around him comforting and heavenly 'to be alive. This is how warm the living truly are.'
Cough* so yeah... that was sort of... fast... reviews?