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[promisedlotus]

Characters: Kanda Yu [promisedlotus], Allen Walker [tothelastbreath], Lavi [looseleafbook], Lenalee Lee [fallforthesky]
When: May 12th
Where: Kanda's room, 406
Rating: PG
Summary: Kanda finally tells the others about Alma.

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[tothelastbreath]

Mere minutes after sending that message, he'll hear a perfunctory knock on the door, followed by an equally perfunctory pause before it swings open to admit Allen and Timcanpy. Both boy and golem look slightly worse for wear. Allen in particular isn't looking half as... put together as he usually is. Scruffy, even.

He's wearing dark trousers, an open-collared, long-sleeved shirt with its unbuttoned cuffs rolled up to his wrists, a rumpled sweater over it, and no tie. Ties are a luxury here. Oh, and he should really go steal a pair of boots sometime. Those flats he had to wear in prison aren't all that sturdy. His right sleeve looks strangely lumpy, as if he'd tried to re-bandage his arm one-handed and managed a very mediocre job of it. The bandaid on his left cheek is gone, leaving a still healing welt in plain view, but the fact that Allen would rather ration medical supplies than hide it means it doesn't hurt too bad

[looseleafbook]

While eager to hear what it was that had been going on at home, the things that had been kept from him after they happened to his friends, Lavi found himself dragging his feet to this meeting. Maybe there was a good reason behind it, him not knowing, and what could he do knowing here but unable to do anything to change what was happening or would happen. It made him feel damn helpless when he knew he was supposed to be doing all he could to help his friends, it was the Exorcist in him.

But the Bookman in him also wanted to know, needed to know in order to make a complete record. He and the old man hadn't been present wherever things had gone down that he knew of, the whole incident wouldn't be recorded if he didn't go to Kanda's room now and listen. It could very well clear up all the blank spots that seemed to have created themselves in such a short time away from his friends. They weren't much older than when he had last seen them so it couldn't have been more than a few months, could it? But maybe it would help clear up why

[fallforthesky]

It's a little funny, but it seems like the closest resident to Kanda's room may very well be the last to arrive for the 'talk'. Things have just been so exhausting lately; it takes the extra time that everyone else uses to make their way to room 406 for Lenalee just to work herself up to leaving her own. She simply stares at the PDA in her hand for a long while after finishing her brief (very brief) exchange with Kanda, listening to the sounds of the apartment complex creaking and settling.

Finally, there are questions that are going to be answered. Not just evaded or brushed off. Answered. And she's been waiting desperately for this moment for weeks-- why is she so afraid?

(Because Kanda should be dead, and she thinks this will be when she finds out why.)

And then it's Lavi's voice coming from the hall outside, and she feels a jolt go through her like landing barefoot on concrete, and oh, damn it, don't get lost in thought now. Lenalee tosses her PDA onto the sagging mattress that is her bed and cracks her door open. By some

[promisedlotus]

Kanda only gives a simply nod in reply to Allen's question. He's nervous. Anxious. And really, really doesn't want to do this. But he would have to swallow his own pride and put in a little trust to his comrades. So when there's another knock on the door, Kanda walks past Allen to open it, wordlessly stepping aside to let the others in. Because, really, what was he supposed to say? He wasn't one for words.

Well. Except for today, he guessed.