[D. Gray Man -208 SPOILERS] Playing Heroics
A/N: Small 2 page (or so) drabble when Allen and Kanda meet up and decide that hey, maybe they should go save Lavi. Yeah. That's kind of important. And kind of maybe will end very, very badly. Not sure if this drabble will get any longer (it probably will when I have time) but hey when was the last time I wrote something (and posted it) for this fandom? With that said, enjoy! I hope XD;
"Since when did Moyashi's grow wings?" Allen wanted to smack Kanda upside the head but he doesn't. Even if technically he had every right to. He'd thought Kanda was dead, after all, but no. He wasn't--isn't--and now they're standing toe to toe nearly, in a cramped alleyway in a city Allen can't even remember the name of. At least not right now. Regardless of any of that, however, Allen still wanted to smack Kanda upside the head. Stupid bastard --not even deigning him with an appropriate 'hello' and scaring the ever loving hell out of him.
Oh. And he was bleeding. "You're bleeding." Or was that…crystalized…? Like Lenalee?
"And you have a fucking wing growing out of your arm." Kanda took two steps forward and Allen really wanted to jerk away. Kanda shouldn't-shouldn't touch him. Not like this.
"Don't-"
Kanda frowned, but didn't stop.
"I said-" Allen felt distinctly cornered. It was a feeling he'd grown used to (being trapped in tight quarters because, after all, how can he be picky when he's on the run?) but this felt distinctly different. "Don't. Kanda, I'm serious. If you touch it -"
"Then what?"
"He'll find you too."
"Who? The Order? You've hid from them before, why the hell is that," He motioned to the arm with a snort, "going to keep you from hiding? If they find you because of it-"
"I never said they." Allen didn't mean to butt in but, really this conversation can only go on for so long. "You want to find Lavi, right?"
"Lavi?" Allen paled ever so slightly. So they hadn't told him…? But why? "Don't tell me that stupid rabbit got himself into a bind again. Fuck, I swear you'd think he had rabbits luck, but no." Kanda shifted his weight to his other foot, and Allen vaguely wondered if it was sensitive. How long had it taken Kanda to recover? He looked a little worse for wear, yeah, but he was still Kanda. At least in appearances. "So you know where he is?"
Allen jolted back to awareness and slowly, ever so slowly, shook his head. "No. But I have an idea." After all even he'd heard of what had happened to Lavi and Bookman-and Chouji too. Link had gone through painstaking detail on the account-how Chaoji was found, injured in a way they couldn't identify. Lavi and Bookman missing. Thoughts of mutiny had sprung up almost instantly in the untrusting clutches of the Order, but still somehow -somehow they hung on.
"It sounds more like you fucking know but are afraid to tell me." Kanda was there. Kanda was so very much there, up in his face (surprising. When did he get so confrontational? Didn't he hate being touched?) glaring like Allen had committed some great crime against humanity. "Well?"
"Noah." Allen wasn't even sure why he'd answered. Only that it made Kanda back off and -was he a little paler than usual? Allen's eyes darted back down to his rolled up sleeves. The Cross insignia there on both arms. How could he have missed it? "Why don't you tell me when that happened?"
"Later." Kanda didn't sound particularly angry. Or particularly anything for that matter. It was almost unnerving but maybe -maybe it was normal, too? "We have to find the idiot first. Do you know why they took him?" Somehow it seemed like a rhetorical question.
"Link didn't tell me much about that."
"Tch, you really don’t know anything, do you?"
"Not my fault if you keep being so…elusive." Allen didn't mean to snap, but really -it felt almost too easy to. "That was a rhetorical question wasn't it? Why don't you tell me what they need him for?"
"Information." The answer was instantaneous, "You're forgetting who he is again, fucking typical." And maybe it was a sense of finality that the words finally sunk in.
Lavi was Bookman's apprentice, after all.