Me: Lavi, will you say the honors?

Lavi: Crowsnight doesn't own DGM or the characters, just the plot.

Me: On to chapter 16!

Situation

Chapter 16: Snow Day

I feel hands shaking me, and I open my eyes, blinking away the blurriness. Kanda was next to me, "Allen, come look at this."

I sit up and stand. He leads me to the balcony and I immediately see what he was trying to show me. The town under the Order was a winter wonderland, the snow falling loosely like pixie dust being blown off a table. I glance at the clock and find that it's about ten, and decide to ask, "Can we go play in it?"

He says, "Yes, we can do whatever you want."

I smile, darting around to put on the warmest clothes I owned. I took a pill, and eventually, I was wearing a turtleneck, heavy coat, snow pants, boots, and gloves. Kanda merely had on his exorcist uniform, and I was about to tell him to put on something warmer when he began to pull me out of our room. We have to stop by the cafeteria and eat. I ate every hot thing Lenalee had on the list I gave Jerry. There wasn't anyone else in the dining room other than a finder, and I assumed they were out in the snow.

Once Kanda and I were at the doors, I say, "Do you want me to show you my favorite place at the Order?"

He looks uncertain for a second, and then he nods as we push open the huge doors. Instantly, we're blasted with cold air and the snow flies in. I laugh and run out into the white wonderland, twirling around in the snow up to my mid-calf. The bluenette follows, not nearly as enthusiastically.

I let myself fall, a soft thud sounding before I sink into the cold flakes. I didn't really feel the cold, and I begin moving my arms and legs, making a snow angel. "What are you doing?"

Pushing my body up, I sit in the snow and look at my confused boyfriend. I tilt my head, "You never made a snow angel before?"

He shook his head, "No, what is it?"

I reply, "Lay down on your back." He hesitantly followed the instruction and disappeared under the thick blanket of icy fluff. I call, "Now act like you're doing jumping jacks."

I stand, peering at Kanda in the snow as he made his first snow angel. I gesture for him to stand and he does so, looking down at the imprint. He says, "That's a snow angel?"

"What kind of childhood did you have? Have you ever made a snowman or had a snowball fight?"

He shakes his head, snow falling out of his long ribbons, "I know what they are, but never made or had one."

"Well, I'll have to do something about that," I say as I pull him down the hill. We got to my field a few minutes later. He asks, "Where are we?"

"It's a field under the Order. I come down here every night during the summer," I tell him as I drag him to the clearing I lie in to watch the fireflies. The grass was as tall as my waist since it was never cut, and it swayed and swished around Kanda and me. We finally got to the small clearing where I sit in the summer. I say, "This is it."

He looks around, "This is your favorite place at the Order?"

I nod, "I know it's not much, but I love it here so much." He looks like he understands and I ask, "Okay, which do you want to do first: snowball fight or a snowman?"

Kanda shrugs, "Doesn't matter to me."

I smile, "Snowman it is then." I bend over and get a big handful of snow, patting it down. I say, "Get one like this."

He glances at the ball and makes one of his own quickly, copying my movements. I instruct, "Now, put it on the ground and roll it like this."

I begin to revolve the snowball through the icy blanket on the ground, picking up as much as I could. Once I was satisfied with it being the base, I leave it and turn to find Kanda struggling to get the snow to stick. I laugh as he curses the frozen water and punches through the nonexistent middle piece of the snowman. I kneel next him, forming a new ball, "You can take out level three akuma, but have the most difficult time trying to make a snowman."

He growls something under his breath, and takes the ball from my hands, setting it on the ground and pushing it. I put my gloved hands over his bare ones, and begin to use his hands to roll the ball. Catching on to the trick, he finishes the middle himself, setting it on top of the base, and then he makes the head, too.

I smile, "Great, now to make the face." He raises an eyebrow at me as I begin digging in the exposed earth for pebbles. I continue to mine until I found I small jackpot of gravel. Taking a handful, I give Kanda a few and say, "Put them on the middle."

He does this while I make the face and attach arm twigs. I stand back and laugh, "See, it's pretty!"

It was by far the ugliest snowman in the world, his head lopsided, and my boyfriend had put the gravel buttons on unevenly, but I was proud I made it with Kanda. He looks it up and down, and scowls at it like it was diseased. I back away from him while he was still inspecting the snowman and scoop up some snow. Patting the frozen water into a ball, I throw it at my boyfriend, hitting him square between his shoulder blades.

I was so dead. He whips around, scrapes up some snow, and hurls it at me. After many years of training, I was able to dodge it by a millisecond. Then, out of nowhere, I feel the impact of a snowball on the back of my head. The laughter assured me it was the rabbit and Lenalee. Though, it was immediately replaced by quiet whimpers as Kanda sends the head of the snowman soaring over my head. This wasn't going to end well. With Lavi in this, someone was going to die, and it wasn't going to be me.

I creep into the tall weeds behind me, making sure I was thoroughly concealed before I began to make a small supply of snowballs. Once I had five, I scan the clearing. Kanda and Lavi were having an all out war, and Lenalee was in the background occasionally throwing a snowball at Kanda, which he dodged easily.

Carefully, I aim and fire. I got my boyfriend in the back of the head. He whirls around, probably certain it was me, but couldn't find me and turned back to Lavi. I giggle and chuck one at Lavi, and it went in his mouth as he battle cried.

He was frozen for a second, which gave Kanda the chance to hit him between the eyes. I double-over laughing at Lavi's facial expression, and regret it as a huge snowball, probably the middle of the snowman, landed on top of my rolling frame. Sitting up, I shake my head of the snow and shout, "No fair, Kanda! You threw part of the snowman!"

I part the weeds to see him smirking at me, another snowball in hand. Yelping, I duck just in time to avoid a hard face-shot, and dive into the weeds to hide. I crawl through the tall grasses until I was behind Lavi and Lenalee was beside me. She whispers, "Are you okay? It didn't hurt the baby, did it?"

I shake my head, "No, she's fine. Besides, with Kanda as a father, she's going to be a fighter."

Lenalee opens her mouth, but is cut off by a high-pitched scream coming from the clearing. We spread the weeds enough to see the source of the squeal, finding Lavi with a squirrel on his head. I laugh, and even though the rabbit had his hands around the critter, it refused to let go of his flaming hair. Kanda was actually laughing at the sight, which surprised me, because I hadn't seen him do more than a quiet chuckle on rare occasion.

Lavi cried, "Lenalee, help me!" I can see that it wasn't happening since the requested girl was on her back with her feet in the air, laughing hysterically. Eventually, the rabbit pulls the squirrel off, some red hair coming with it as he chucks it somewhere in the weeds.

I take the moment Kanda was laughing to throw a snowball, hitting him on his cheek. He stopped immediately, scooping up a handful of snow and glancing around. I look at Lenalee, and she nods, crawling in the opposite direction as me. Kanda was staring towards me even though I was invisible in the grass, and right when he was about to fire, he gets it from the side. Poor Kanda, I hit him in the back of the head while he was searching for Lenalee.

Lavi was laughing at Kanda in the open and I watch as he's pelted by snowballs. I wasn't sure he survived as I stare at the pile of snow with two legs sticking out of it, but soon he pops his head up, shaking the snow out of his hair.

Unfortunately, I begin to feel a cramp coming on and pretty hard this time. I stand, hiding the pain from my face. Kanda was about to fire, but I raise my hands in surrender, "Truce."

He couldn't help himself from one shot to the chest and I didn't blame him. Lenalee volunteered to get us hot chocolate and ran off with Lavi trailing behind her. Kanda sits in the snow, his legs kicked out in front of him, and I plop down beside him. I ask, "Was that fun?"

He glares menacingly at me, "No."

I look down at my gloved hands and feel his arm wrap around my waist, pulling me to him as he whispered in my ear, "It was better than fun."

I beam up at him, circling his waist with both my arms and nuzzling against him. He says, "I would kiss you, but it'd be awkward walking back to our room with our lips stuck together."

I giggle and regret it as the pain in my stomach grows. "We could always do Eskimo kisses," I suggest.

He looks at me strangely and I roll my eyes, "You've never heard of an Eskimo kiss, have you?"

Kanda shakes his head. I huff and raise up so our foreheads are touching as I rub my nose against his. Pulling away, I inform him, "That's an Eskimo kiss."

He raises an eyebrow, "It's not even a kiss though."

"You're hopeless. So much to learn, so little time," I say as I slump back down beside him. "We're back!"

I turn to see Lenalee and Lavi walking toward us, a cup in each hand. She hands one to me and one to Kanda, but I notice his is different, the liquid almost clear. I stick my nose over the rim, taking a whiff and determine it's tea. Taking a sip of my hot chocolate, I hear Kanda ask, "What was that?"

I blush furiously, realizing how weird that must have been. I reply sheepishly, "Sorry, I used to do that to Mana a lot to figure out what he was drinking."

"What did he do?" he asks, not seeming annoyed at all. I reply, "He was fine with it. Except for one time when he was drinking really hot coffee filled to the brim, and I burned my nose."

Lavi and Lenalee burst out laughing, and Kanda says, "You're adorable."

I smile and look at him just before he rubs our noses together. Purring, I take another slurp of my hot chocolate, and watch him drink his tea. He looked at peace when he drank, just like when he slept. The bluenette glanced at me and I looked away, embarrassed that I was caught staring. Chuckling, he said, "Am I that good looking?"

I nod, "You look so calm when you're sleeping or drinking."

"Really, and do you watch me sleep, too?" he asks, hints of amusement in his voice. I mumble, "Maybe…."

He whispers in my ear so no one could hear, "Did you know you say my name in your sleep? A lot."

I feel the blood rush to my face a dam breaking. I stutter, "I-I-I do n-not."

"Yes, you do," he murmurs and reenacts my voice in a seductive tone, "'More, Kanda', 'Kiss me, Kanda', 'Kanda, don't stop'."

I whimper quietly, not wanting to admit that I have those dreams a least every other night. This was war, and I had the perfect come back, "So is that why I wake up with something poking my leg sometimes?"

He stops the verbal abuse and pulls away, taking a drink from his cup. I hit the nerve and I wasn't going to let the chance go, "Kanda, is that the reason? I'm just dying to know."

He growls, "Shut up."

I shake my head, "Nope, not until you answer my question." He curses under his breath before muttering, "Yes."

I stick my tongue out at him, "Serves you right."

He doesn't say anything else the rest of the time we sit there until he says that I should eat when my stomach roared.

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I sit on the bed and begin to pull off the suffocating clothes, tossing them to the corner of the room until I was down to my underwear. Crawling under the blankets, I curl in on myself since Kanda was in the bathroom. The cramp was worse than any of the others and I was thinking about taking some sort of pain pill, but decide against it in fear of hurting the baby.

I clench my teeth together to keep from whining in pain and though I had felt worse, this wasn't external, but on the inside. I could deal with inflicted aches and such, but I was a wimp when it came to the slightest stomach illness.

I rolled to my other side so I was facing the wall as a tear slipped down my cheek. It was official, I hate being pregnant. The bathroom door opens and in a couple seconds, I felt Kanda's heat against my back. I feel another teardrop slide down my cheek from the pain, followed by another and another.

I close my eyes as his arms wrap around my waist and I involuntarily yelp. My boyfriend pulls back, "Are you okay?"

I nod, not trusting my voice, and I lead his arms around my chest. After the pain subsides ever so slightly, I'm able to fall asleep.

I wake up screaming in pain. The ache in my stomach was far past excruciating, almost like it was on steroids. I can barely hear Kanda's voice as I feel my body being moved, and it seemed like forever before I was laid down again on a cold surface.

A light is over me and I'm hardly aware of the prick in my arm as I begin to lose consciousness. The last thing I remember was Kanda's worried expression as I whisper, "Don't let…them hurt…her…."

Darkness. A painful darkness.

Author Note: Who else loves cliffhangers? *Ducks as a chair is thrown at my head*. Okay, so I'm the only one. I will have the next chapter up either tonight or tomorrow morning!