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Nature Bites

"How unlucky can one person possibly even be?" Lavi complained to Allen as the two of them set about gathering fire wood, his single green eye focused on the other teen who was working beside him. Of course he knew that the white haired boy had some of the worst luck of anyone he'd ever met but he'd thought, mistakenly apparently, that there had to be a limit to it.

Apparently not.

"Yea it amazes me too," Allen said quietly as he picked up a few more branches to add to the stack that he was balancing in his arms.

The day hadn't started off too badly but then Komui had informed them of a mission and since Link was currently doing something else, God only knew what, that only left one other potential babysitter for the teen that was still under suspicion of being a threat. That man was none other than Inspector Malcolm C. Leverrier, a man that was loathed throughout the Black Order.

Especially by the two teens that were currently stuck in his company.

"Okay so we all know that YOUR luck is awful but why am I stuck in this mess with you?" Lavi whined, the redhead still picking up larger pieces of wood so that they could actually keep warm that night.

"Because you drew the short straw," Allen said with a shake of his head and a roll of his eyes. And he meant that in the most literal sense of the phrase, the other candidates for this assignment had actually drawn straws to see who got stuck with Allen and more to the point his unwanted babysitter.

Lavi had been the 'lucky' winner of that.

"Ugh, I think Kanda cheated," Lavi said with a shake of his head.

"Anyway," Allen said, hoping to forestall any further pointless complaining by interrupting. "We should probably head back before he starts getting suspicious and comes looking for us or something."

"Right," Lavi said, the redhead heaving one final sigh before heading back toward the campsite with Allen, his arms laden with the wood that he had gathered. Upon arriving back at camp the pair of Exorcists piled the wood up beside the spot where they were going to build their fire that night. After completing that task the pair of teens looked around, noticing that Leverrier wasn't actually leering over them the second they walked back, the way that they had been expecting.

But that was only because his attention was currently focused on something else.

A red fox was sniffing around the perimeter of the camp site, the animal not seeming to be afraid of the humans. Which was an immediate red flag to Lavi and was clearly not something that Leverrier was even giving any thought to right now. The mustached pain in the neck was attempting to shoo the fox away, with absolutely no results. Which prompted him to get closer and closer rather than to stop and evaluate the situation the way that a smart person most likely would have done.

"Um, I wouldn't do that if I were you," Lavi said with a shake of his head. "Foxes don't typically show this much disregard for humans…"

Even as he offered up that warning Leverrier made the wrong move, attempting to kick the fox, and rather than running off into the forest the animal actually whirled around and bite him. That elicited a scream of pain from the man and a simultaneous groans from Lavi and Allen both.

"I think we need to go back to headquarters," Lavi said after a moment. "We aren't that far away and it probably has the closest medical facilities." He said this in a matter of fact tone of voice while at the same time tossing the man a roll of bandages so he could stem the bleeding.

The trip back to headquarters took the better part of the night and when they arrived Komui decided that it was probably a good idea to quarantine the man once he had been treated for the bite. It turned out to be a very good thing that the Chief made that call because Leverrier began to show signs of having contracted rabies, the man foaming at the mouth and thrashing around on the bed where he was laying.

"I did try to warn him," Lavi said as he glanced through the glass on the door at the frothing Inspector.

He did not say just how hard that he had tried, simply that he had put forth some effort.

There was unfortunately nothing that could be done for Leverrier aside from attempting to make him comfortable and he ended up succumbing to the disease that he had contracted through his own stupidity. There was a slight attempt to act as though they were in mourning from a few members of the European Branch of the Black Order but most couldn't be bothered to even feign it.

And a few had to be talked out of having a party the day that they found out about his untimely demise.

A/N: Okay this one was fueled by a meme

Hey, I just met you
And this is crazy.
But I just bit you,
And I have rabies

A/N2: Also still have a poll up on my profile that I would love some input on, thanks for your time.