Well, here's a new fic for you guys. Dunno how long its gonna go for, probably not long, but we'll see.

Don't own it.

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Lavi yawned widely as he pushed open the communal shower door and walked across the tiled floor. Down through the hall past the toilet cubicles it seemed as though every shower was going at once, spilling hot steam around the bathroom and fogging up the mirrors in front of the sinks. Lavi wiped the steam away with his sleeve but it immediately fogged up again, giving him no more then a brief glance at himself. He shrugged and started brushing his teeth.

'Morning Lavi.' The redhead whipped around at the sound of Allen's cheerful voice. Lavi couldn't help but stare as Allen went up to the sink and washed his face. He was shirtless and a little sweaty, his white shirt slung over his left shoulder like a towel. When the white-hired boy felt the gaze upon him and looked up Lavi hastily grinned to cover his stare.

'Decided to go without a shirt today Allen?'

'No,' The shorter smiled, blushing faintly, 'I just got back from training. I want to have a shower but it looks as though I'll be waiting a while.'

He gestured towards the showers, and then went back to washing his face. Lavi couldn't help but stare at his bare torso.

'He doesn't look that bad... Wait, what did i just think? Ugh, maybe I should start drinking coffee, I'm having weird thoughts i'm so tired in the morning...

'How you can bare getting up before dawn and doing all those push-ups...' Lavi shook his head in disbelief and turned back to look in the sink below him. 'I'll never know.'

'I'm just a morning person I guess. Ah, Lavi, you have ink on your face...'

'Hm?' Lavi blinked and tried to wipe the steam from the mirror to look at his reflection, but it fogged up before he could get a chance to look at himself. He'd fallen asleep on the parchment he'd been writing on last night, but he still couldn't see it.

'Right there...' Allen reached forward with his left hand to point to Lavi's cheek. As he did, his shirt slipped from his arm, revealing the scaly redness. Lavi was still quite tired, and it was foggy, and when he saw Allen's arm coming at him from the corner of his eye, it didn't register that it was his innocence. He gasped in surprise and backed away quickly from the touch, staring at it in shock.

Immediately, Allen's face fell and he withdrew his hand. He turned around, hastily pulled on his shirt and left the bathroom in a hurry. Lavi blinked, realising his mistake.

'Ah shit! Allen wait!'

He ran after the boy, but once he got out of the bathroom Allen had disappeared. He swore loudly, chose a corridor and ran down it, hoping to find the shorter. He wasn't scared or disgusted by Allen's arm, but he'd never seen it fully before and it had caught him off guard.
But he knew Allen had received a lot of unfair abuse because of that arm and he had probably just upset him badly.

Lavi tried searching for the exorcist in his room, in the cafeteria, in the library and even in the science department. He asked almost everyone he passed if they'd seen the white-haired boy, and he was getting quite worried. He stopped and took a deep breath and leant against the railings around the hole in the centre of the order, trying to think.
Allen was made of stronger stuff; he wouldn't freak out over something like a person being shocked by his arm. Surely the hurt look he had when Lavi had backed away from him was just his imagination...?

'Lavi!'

'EEK!' Lavi jumped in surprise and turned around to see Lenalee smiling at him.

'L-Lenalee...' Lavi smiled brightly, 'Hi... What is it?'

'Nii-San has a mission for you; he wants you in his office as soon as you can get there.'

'Ok...' Lavi nodded. The Chinese girl bade farewell and left. The redhead hesitated for a moment, then started walking towards the staircase that would lead him to Komui's office. Yes, Allen had to be fine. He wasn't going to care about something like this.

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When the Bookman arrived through the large oak double doors, to his surprise, Allen was standing there, talking to the older scientist.

'Ah! Lavi!' Komui smiled, 'Glad you got here so fast. You and Allen-Kun have a mission in Germany!'

'Ok...' he wasn't really paying attention though. He was staring at Allen, who was staring at his feet sadly. He felt a pain in his heart, knowing he was most likely the cause of that expression. He sighed heavily and went with Allen to sit on the couch in front of Komui's desk.

'Basically, there is a town in the middle of a forest in Germany, where the women are turning into vampires and attacking their lovers, boyfriends and husbands and such.'

'More vampires?' Lavi groaned loudly, 'But we just got back from that thing with Krory... Can't you send jhim? He might be able to relate to them better...'

'Well, Krory isn't really a vampire Lavi, his teeth is just his Innocence. And we can't send him because he hadn't finished basic exorcist training yet.'

Lavi pouted, making Komui chuckle. He cleared his throat and continued.

'So yes, there's no known cause for why this is, as it randomly happens. The men are usually just sitting there and suddenly the women will come along and attack them, draining their blood, then disappear. The next day the women turn up dead with the blood sucked from their bodies in a lake outside the town. We suspect Akuma, as well as Innocence, and we highly doubt it's another vampiric exorcist. You'll take a train to the stop nearest to the forest but you'll have to walk from there.'

'Ok.' Allen got up and took the mission guide from the scientist. He looked back at Lavi with an unreadable face.

'Let's go Lavi.'

The redhead nodded and jumped up to follow Allen out of the office. He jogged to catch up with the smaller exorcist, unsure of why he felt so panicked to right his mistake. He'd teased plenty of other peole about their looks before, and it had been fine, but he had the creeping feeling that this was different.

'Ah, Allen wait!' He grabbed Allen's shoulder, making him turn to face him. The shorter stared up with silvery eyes, mixed emotions swirling within the deepness. He'd never really noticed how deep Allen's eyes had been before.

'Listen Allen, out earlier; I'm sorry I reacted like that, it's just I'd never seen all of your arm before, just brief glimpses of your hand and I guess it just shocked me a bit and...' he paused and sweatdropped and waved his hand quickly, 'Uh hold on that came out wrong...'

'It's fine Lavi.' Allen smiled.

'I... It is?' Lavi blinked in surprise.

'Yeah. I'm ok with the way my arm looks. Anyway, we'd better get going before we're late for our train yeah?'

The fifteen year old smiled again, shrugged out of the bookman's grip and hurried down the hall towards the canals at a brisk pace. The redhead stared after him, before snapping out of it and following. Why was it that Allen's smile did not reach his eyes?

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Uh, this chapter wasn't the best, but I suck with first chapters, I promise it will get better.

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