This chapter will explain what Lavi Lilly and Adam were doing whole Kanda and Allen got frisky.
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After leaving Allen and Kanda to their own devices, Adam led Lilly and Lavi to the bathroom then up to the deck. The ship has set sail at first light and the only thing visible was water.
"Wow I had no idea the ocean could be so pretty!" Lilly cheered, climbing up onto the railing to look into the blue waters.
"Lilly this is the English channel, and in the distance over there is your new home and family." Lavi grinned, pointing in the direction they were headed.
"...w-what if they don't like me" she sighed, looking down at her reflection in the water.
"Won't like you? Are you kidding me? Everyone is going to love you Lilly. I just know it." Lavi smiled. "But first things first we have got to get you cleaned up."
Adam had grabbed a very large bucket of seawater and set it down behind Lilly.
"...this is going to suck..." She grumbled, but didn't attempt to run away.
Adam grabbed a rag while lavi got busy trying to detangle as much of her hair as possible. After Adams constant scrubbing, one of her arms was clean. The saltwater stung the multiple cuts she had.
"I'm a little surprised these are still here, don't your wounds heal quickly?" Adam asked.
"Only if they're really bad, normal cuts heal just like they would normally." She explained, staring at her now clean arm. "I never really realized just how many cuts there were.
"This is taking too long, we need a better game plan." Lavi groaned. Having very little success with his attempts to fix her hair.
"What do you suggest?" Adam asked.
"Well she is about as tall as one of those barrels over there, if we just let her soak it may be easier to get all the dirty off." Lavi pondered out loud.
"Why me..." Lilly grumbled.
"Because little Missy, you are one big mud pie that needs a major scrubbing. When was the last time you even took a bath?" Adam lectured.
"Ummmmm last fall?" She shrugged.
"If you have to think about it it's been too long!" Lavi yelled as he brought a large barrel over. A few crew members began to bring over water they pulled from the channel. After the barrel was almost full Lavi picked up Lilly and dropped her inside of the frigid water.
"Cold!" She yelped and scrambled trying to get out. Unfortunately Adam saw this coming and held her in place.
"Just sit still an leery the sun warm it up." Adam smiled.
A small bat shaped golem popped out of Lavi's pocket.
"Hello? Lavi are you there?" Lenalee's voice came through the golem.
"Hey Lena! What's up." Lavi replied cheerfully.
"I've been trying to reach you all morning, how is the mission going?" She replied.
"Great, well we hit a few hiccups but it's all good."
"What kind of hiccups?"
"Well Allen kind of got hurt by mistake. Nothing serious though."
"That's good, how's Lilly?"
"She's actually giving me a pretty good glare right now, wanna talk to her?"
"Yes, I want to talk to her privately though."
Lavi grinned and grabbed the golem, taking it over to Lilly.
"Hey Lilly, Lenalee wants to talk to you." Lavi smiled.
"Where is she?" Lilly questioned.
"I'm right here Lilly." The golem chirped with Lenalee's voice.
"W-wha! How are you doing that?!" Lilly gasped, the golem perched itself on the edge of the barrell.
" it's like a telephone. So how are you don't Lilly? " Lenalee asked.
"I'm okay, Lavi is making me take a bath... The water is coke and it stings a little bit."
Lavi decided to head back to their cabin to let Kanda and Allen know how close they were to landing. After hearing plenty of moans and panting Lavi got the hint and turned right around. He walked back up to the deck of the ship, an embarrassed blush painted on his cheeks.
Much to his relief, he found Lilly chatting away with Lenalee. He was sure they would get along. Hopefully Lenalee could erase Lilly's worries, she was good at that.
"Lavi! Lavi! How much longer until we get to the order!?" Lilly was so excited to get to meet her new family she could hardly contain herself.
"I take you are excited to meet Lena huh?" Lavi chuckled.
"Lavi you better take good care of her! No more pulling on her hair!" Lenalee yelled from the golem.
Lilly giggled and stick her tongue out at Lavi.
"What did I do?" He blinked.
"You have to be gentle with a girls hair, it's delicate."
Adam had been washing Lilly off of the now loosened mud. Trying to avoid the abundance of still fresh cuts on her limbs.
"Looks like it is time to change the water. Can't even see her feet anymore." Lavi sighed.
One of the sailors handed them a big enough blanket to wrap Lilly up in. Adam pulled Lilly or of the water and wrapped her in the blanket to keep the chilly sea air from making her sick. Lavi rolled the barrel of dirty water to the side and dumped it overboard.
"Is that England over there?" Lily asked and pointed to a blurry land mass in the distance.
"Yep, sure is. That is your new home Lilly." Lavi grinned, pulling up bucket after bucket of clean seawater and filling the barrel back up.
"Yay, I'm so excited to meet you Lilly! I'll see you guys when you get here. I've got some stuff to do so I have to go. Bye guys!" Lenalee cheered.
"Bye Lena!" Lily laughed and waved at the golem. With that the golem flew back to Lavi's pocket.
"Alright Lilly time to finish getting cleaned up, you wanna look your best right?" Adam smiled and lifted her back up over the barrel.
"Yeah!" Lilly grinned and dropped down into the barrel and started to wash herself off, motivated by Lenalee no doubt. After about ten minutes of Lilly's determined scrubbing, she was all clean.
Adam lifted her out of the barrel and wrapped her in the blanket again. With the mud gone her features were much more pronounced.
Her dull blond hair glistened, still wet from her bath. With the dirt and twigs finally gone her hair was curly and reached down to the middle of her back. Her entire body was littered with small scars of old wounds. A soft rose color covered her pale cheeks. Her soft hazel eyes glimmered with hope and danced with excitement. "D-do I look okay enough to meet everyone?" She asked shyly.
Without her mask of dirt she felt exposed in every aspect.
"Cute as ever, now we just have to find you some clothes." Lavi smiled.
"You mean you didn't have that figured out before you decided to give her a bath?" Adam groaned.
Kanda and Allen finally made their appearance on the deck. Allen had a dress in his arms.
"I thought this would come in handy, it's Lenalee's old dress." Allen smiled. Glad to see that Lilly was clean.
Lilly ran over, snatched the dress from Allen and managed to put it on while huddling underneath the blanket. It was a little bit loose but better than nothing.
She smiled and pulled back up from under the blanket fully dressed. "Ta-da!" She giggled and twirled around. Kanda cracked a small smile. "Do you think Lena will like it? I hope so I wanna look my best when I finally get to meet everyone!"
"Huh?" Both Kanda and Allen looked over at Adam and Lavi very puzzled.
"While you two were um preoccupied she called to get an update." Lavi coughed trying to brush off the embarrassment returning to his cheeks.
Allen and Kanda looked in shock, both of their faces lit up bright red.
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Welp Lilly is finally clean, kanda and Allen have been found out and there are more adventures to come. Let me know if you guys want Lilly to stay with Allen and Kanda or not. I still haven't decided. Toodles for now!