Welcome to chapter 22! I'm currently hooked on the song called 'pocketful of sunshine' by Natasha Bedingfield. It's really great, and I usually don't listen to songs like the ones she writes, but this one is a very uplifting, and not very pop-ish. I'm not a huge fan of pop. Lol, but her song talks about people creating a place to get away from all the negatives in someone's life. I really respect her, and I think it's a great listen! I was listening to it while I was writing this! Yay! Lol.
Anyways…
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Chapter 22- a small predicament
"Lavi!" Linali's voice was released in a sharp cry, but Lavi couldn't seem to pinpoint the location.
"I'm fine Linali, its ju…" Lavi's voice trailed off suddenly, as he fell towards the floor, blackness obscuring his vision entirely, and Lavi could no longer hear her words of concern over his collapse.
Nor, did he hear the small cry that came from the still motionless body lying on the bed.
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Struggling to lift the heavy body, Linali grunted with the effort, and let out a frustrated sigh when she realized that Lavi was HEAVY when all of his weight was draped over her.
She just hoped that Komui didn't see them like this. He would, as he was wont to do, immediately jump to all the wrong conclusions. And then, would have a hate on for Lavi for a long time.
She tried to heft the unconscious boy up a little to keep him from falling, but made a sound not unlike to an angry cat when she found that almost immediately after, he started to slip again. She paused however when she heard a voice from the doorway.
"Linali?"
She turned to look, and her green eyes fell on her savior. "Krory! Can you help me get him onto a bed?"
"Sure!" Krory gracefully walked over to her with long strides. Lifting the body lying on Linali easily, Krory carried the boy over to the bed that was still beside Allen, and almost dropped Lavi when he glanced at the bed, and gray eyes were staring feverishly over at him.
"Allen!"
His cry alerted Linali, who ran over, and also noticed that Allen was awake, and staring at them.
"Allen! You're awake!" She yelled with joy. However, when Allen didn't answer, she took a closer look at him, and noticed that his eyes were hazy, and his face was flushed, sweat making the small boy's hair cling to his forehead. "Oh Allen." Linali sighed softly.
Dealing with one thing at a time, Linali looked at Krory, and saw that he was doing just fine with Lavi, and wondered what to do about Allen. The boy was just lying there staring at them in his fever induced state, and wasn't saying anything. The only thing he was doing was blinking. Walking over to push the little button on the stand beside the bed, Linali was hit by how bad Allen looked up-close. She could clearly see that the smaller boy was in a bad state.
"Yes?" a doctor appeared at the doorway, and Linali called him over.
"Allen's awake now, but he doesn't look too good."
"Hmm." The doctor checked Allen over, and frowned. "Looks like he's gotten sick pretty badly here."
"What's wrong with him?" Linali asked, worried.
"He seems to have caught something during the time when he was focused on his mind, and his body was too weak to fight off the invading germs. I'm not sure what it is right now, but it looks like a cold, or something similar to that. It doesn't look like the flu, since he isn't throwing up."
"So it's only a cold then?" Krory asked, coming to stand beside Linali.
"That's the way it looks, yes, but I'll have to run some tests to be sure. You can never be too careful." The doctor smiled, and pulled a needle out of his case, and taking a blood sample from Allen.
Linali frowned as she noticed that Allen's hazy eyes followed the needle, but he didn't shrink away from it, as he used to. Allen didn't like needles.
But, Linali reasoned. That might have had something to do with all the crazy drills and machines that Komui used to 'heal' Allen's innocence.
The pale girl watched as Allen didn't even flinch when the doctor carefully stuck the needle into the boy's arm.
Frowning, Linali backed off, and went to check Lavi. Putting a slender hand across the redhead's forehead, Linali winced as she felt how warm it was. Looking at the boy's flushed cheeks; she wanted to groan in frustration. It appeared as if Lavi and Allen were both sick. "Krory?" she called.
The 'Vampire' turned at the sound of his name, and raised an eyebrow in question.
"Can you go get Bookman for me?"
"Sure." Krory turned to leave, and gave one last glance at Allen and Lavi before gliding out the door gracefully.
Few minutes had passed when Krory returned with a grumbling Bookman, muttering about how his idiot apprentice, and the reason they were there in the first place (Allen), had both gotten sick.
Linali knew that he cared for both Lavi and Allen more than he let on. He really was like a grandpa sometimes, only with a lot less 'when I was your age' stories, and a lot more kicks to the head…..moving on…
Bookman stepped forward to have a look at both the two sick boys, and frowned as something tugged on his memory. Searching for the fact that gave the older man the memory tug, his eyes widened with realization.
"What is it?" Linali had seen the expression on the elder's face, and knew that he had discovered something.
"Lavi isn't sick." The old man said, placing a hand on the redhead's forehead.
"What?" Linali was confused.
"Yes, he looks sick, but he really isn't. He only exhausted himself."
"Then what…" Linali trailed off, looking to the elder man for answers.
"Look at Allen." Bookman nodded in the young boy's direction. "He and Lavi have the same symptoms, only Allen's is worse than Lavi's."
"What are you getting at?" Linali muttered, thinking, but not coming up with a rational explanation. "I mean, Lavi could've gotten sick from Allen, but I don't think that's what this is."
"You are correct in thinking that Lavi did not get sick from Allen." Bookman nodded at her.
"Then can you please tell me what's wrong with both of them?" Linali inquired.
"Let me examine both of them closer, and then I should have an answer for you." Bookman walked forward to take a closer look, and took out his acupuncture needles. Stepping in Allen's direction, he was forced to stop when the redhead on the bed beside Allen's opened his eyes, and growled at the older man.
Gasping with shock, Linali noticed that Lavi's eyes were blank, and he wasn't acting like his usual self.
Backing away slowly, Bookman frowned when Lavi settled down, and stopped growling at him. Experimentally, Bookman stepped closer to Allen, and once again was rewarded with a deep growl from Lavi, and the boy shot up into a sitting position, glaring at the intruder that had dared to come back a second time.
Backing away again, Bookman frowned again, as Lavi settled down after making sure that the intruder wasn't going to come back again.
"it seems like we may have a problem curing either of them if Lavi won't let me get near Allen." Bookman frowned at the possible setback.
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-TBC-
I know, I haven't updated in a long long time! And I'm so so sorry! But I've been really busy lately. And I bring you some more bad news. I won't be working on the story for a little while. Don't worry, I haven't abandoned it, I just have a lot of stuff to work out before I can even think about writing more for it. So, I know it's not really fair, but, I don't want the quality of my story to suffer because I don't have my full attention on it.