i just want to make a change

[meansprout]

[Road's little prophecy did, pretty much, hold true in the end, once the illusion wore off and the mark faded.  Allen certainly felt as if maybe it would best if he just quietly passed away somewhere.  It would make his life infinitely easier, really.  Or maybe he could just officially renounce human contact altogether and become a hermit

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[besomeothername]

[Someone will tap him on the shoulder from behind]

Did you treat all those wounds yourself?

[besomeothername]

Allen's upset that you were able to sneak away from him, yeah. You're going to go see him, right?

[And there was that nick from the blade, but considering how bad it could have been, Lavi considers Hobollen to be a very very lucky vampire]

[meansprout]

Yeah...

[Not sure he could live with himself if he didn't at least try to apologize, after all.]

[besomeothername]

[Smiles at Allen, though it's a bit strained with the events over the past few days]

He was just worried about you.

[meansprout]

I wasn't the one he should have been worried about.

[He glances up at Lavi.] ...Who else ran into that Kanda?

[besomeothername]

Why not? You're friends, yeah. He wants to worry about you.

[Lavi sees the question as a bit of a diversion to keep the topic off Allen himself, but yeah. He'll go along with it for now. Allen probably needed some time to distance himself from it first]

A close friend of mine. She was marked like you, yeah.

[And she also stumbled off on her own when her self-appointed protector wasn't looking. Seems to be a running theme]

[meansprout]

[Allen doesn't get why anyone would worry about him when he was the one going around attacking people... But yes. He is changing the topic.]

How is she...?

[besomeothername]

Honestly? [Small fake smile that Lavi uses when he's too afraid of showing whatever real emotion is churning up inside of him] I think her death bothered me more than it did her.

[meansprout]

[Almost flinches at the word 'death'. Fuck... He hesitates, not really sure what to say.]

...I'm sorry.

[besomeothername]

[Lavi won't say it's fine because it's not. It really isn't okay that this is the third time Yupunzel's been a Noah punching bag and frankly, he's quite sick and tired of being powerless all the time]

[But he nods at Allen in acknowledgement]

It's over. And that's not why I'm here, yeah. It's too apologize to you.

[meansprout]

[Frowns; he knows it's not 'over' just like that, not when someone close to you dies.]

...You've already done that. [Though no indication whether or not he's accepted the apology.]

[besomeothername]

... It doesn't mean much unless I do something to make up for it though, yeah. Will you let me take you out sometime?

[meansprout]

Take me out...?

[besomeothername]

Yeah, somewhere nice. What kind of things do you like to do besides eating and training?

[meansprout]

[He is obviously almost entirely unfamiliar with the concept of being taken out somewhere.

Or doing things for fun in general.]

I... I dunno... [No, eating and training might be about it...]

[besomeothername]

Does that mean I get to pick?

[Taps his chin and tilts his head to the side]

Well, what do you not like doing? That'll help me narrow it down.