Introduction to Madness

AN: well, after quite a bit of prodding and some minor swearing, my friend convinced me to try the 100 theme challenge... just like Dhampir72! Only crappier. A lot crappier.

Like Dhampir72 I will be doing 100 different themes involving the Lavi/Allen pairing and if you don't like it too bad, don't read it. Flames will be used to roast marshmallows if they are not constructive flames (if that makes sense).

I would also like to thank Dhampir72 for BETAing this for me. you rock harder than a boulder ma cher! :D

Don't own DGM or pirates of the Caribbean

Anyway~ I hope you all enjoy my take of the first prompt: Introduction

AU

They are both 17 in this one, just to make it easy for me. Though, they all still have the same birthdays which means that yes, Allen is still the youngest.

^^ crack humour

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"He is an idiot!"

Lenalee sighed as her disgruntled friend ranted about the boy he was assigned to be lab partners with in their science class. Allen was usually a very calm, collected boy, one who did not stomp all over her room, or run his fingers through his hair stressfully, or attempt a moody teenaged scowl but have it come out something of a pout. Really, if she had known he was going to complain the entire time they were 'studying' she wouldn't have invited him over.

"He didn't know what he was doing! He damn near lit me on fire!"

"Allen..."

"And that eye patch was just stupid! Who does he think he is?! Jack Sparrow? And who wears orange when they have red hair?!"

"Allen..."

"That clashes! And the stupid, STUPID smile! God! It made me want to rip my hair out!"

"Allen!" The white haired Brit finally stopped his venting and turned from his erratic pacing to his half-annoyed, half-amused friend.

"Yes, Lenalee? Can I help you? Or could I get back to my rant?"

"Honestly, if you like him, just say so. I know you're gay, so I'm not going to get freaked out about it. I thought he was pretty cute, too." The boy went beet red and sputtered, choking on air and staring at the slightly older girl in shock and horror.

"L-like him!? Like him!?! Like HIM?!"

"Yes Allen, like him."

"I don't like him! I've been telling you for the past twenty minutes how he is the bane of my existence! How could you think I like him!?"

"Well the fact that you're denying it so much is a good indication that I'm right." The Chinese girl smiled triumphantly as Allen huffed in indignation and crossed his arms in annoyance.

"I do not like him! He is a total..." a pause as Allen searched for the right word: "Doofus!"

"Doofus?" Lenalee giggled, "What are you, twelve?"

"I am seventeen thank you very much! And there is no other word to describe him! He's goofy and stupid and I'm going to end up doing all the work!" the exasperated youth flopped onto the bed beside Lenalee and glared moodily (pouted) at the ceiling.

"Why do I have to get stuck with some weird new kid who doesn't know a frog's leg from an octopus?" Allen grumbled as Lenalee giggled, looking back to her notebook.

"Because Mr. Wenham knows you're the nicest guy in class and will help the poor guy make friends?"

"He doesn't need help... I saw him at lunch... he seems to be fitting in fine."

"Aw, Allen! Don't be so bitter... I'm sure with your help he'll be getting good grades in no time! Besides... he seems like a good guy... you should give him a chance!" using said notebook, Lenalee tapped Allen lightly on the head, smiling as he childishly swatted at it.

"Give him a chance to copy my homework?"

Lenalee giggled, poking her sulking friend playfully, "No. Give him the chance to be your friend. First impressions are not always accurate."

"Yeah... well they're usually pretty close. I mean, did you hear the way he introduced himself? 'Hey there everybody~ the name is Lavi, Lavi Bookman! I like hot dogs, long walks on the beach with pretty ladies and Lucky Charms! Anyone want my phone number?' ugh..."

"He... has personality!" Allen snorted and rolled his eyes.

"Yeah... sure... 'Personality'."

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"Hey there moyashi-Chan!" Allen twitched, cursing every god he could think of for allowing Lavi to overhear Kanda using the offensive nickname.

"It's Allen."

"Yeah, yeah whatever." The bell rang and Allen grudgingly took his seat beside the overly hyper redhead.

"So, I'm assuming I'm going to have to do all the work again-"

"Not quite." Lavi smiled warmly as Allen eyed him suspiciously, "See, yesterday, I wanted to see how smart you are. I hate lab partners who don't do anything."

"What?"

"I was pretending to be stupid. In all actuality, I'm a genius."

"... Come again?"

"I am a genius."

"Yeah, sure, and I'm the queen of England." Allen rolled his eyes and opened the textbook to the page.

"Is that so? Send my regards to the prince then, yeah?"

"Look, Lavi you really expect me to believe-"

"Page 189 is the one we're working on today, right?"

Allen nodded with a slightly annoyed look from being interrupted as he replied: "Yes."

"Well let's see..." the older boy leaned back in his chair and closed his eye thoughtfully."If I remember correctly... that is the page with the diagram of the human body, the different glands, and their functions. Listed is the pituitary gland: it produces growth hormones and stimulates growth; the thyroid gland produces thyroxin and controls your metabolic rates; the pancreas produces both glucagon and insulin while also causing the liver and muscles to take up glucose, which restores blood levels to normal..." the white-haired Brit just gaped at Lavi as he listed off every gland in the human body, some not even mentioned in the book.

"H-how... do you know that!?" Lavi just grinned and tapped a finger against his own forehead.

"Photographic memory. Well, that and my dashing good looks."

Allen blinked, tilting his head to the side, asking: "What do looks have to do with memory?"

"Dunno," Lavi grinned. "Just thought I would point out how attractive I am."

"Uh... right..." Allen shifted uncomfortably, unsure of how to respond to Lavi's ego.

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"Allen, are you still sulking?"

"Yes, I am," the younger boy sighed as Lenalee sat beside him in the library. "How could he be so smart? He acts so... un-smart!"

"Well... sometimes people aren't exactly what you expect. Weren't you complaining when you thought he was an idiot? Why are you complaining now that you know he's intelligent?" the Chinese girl smiled in amusement as Allen glared at the textbook he had been reading.

"Well... What he pulled in there was just... Gah!"

"Gah?"

"Yes! Gah! It doesn't deserve real words!" Lenalee giggled as the boy sighed and slumped over his desk with a defeated expression.

"You must really like him..."

"Yeah, sure... whatever..." Allen sighed, fingering the pages of the book beneath him absentmindedly. "I don't get why I always fall for the guys that irritate me though... I mean, that whole thing with Kanda was just messed up... now this Lavi guy comes in... And he's like a nice, smiling version of Kanda..."

Allen sighed as his mind drifted back to his first, and so far only boyfriend. Kanda Yuu, the most handsome and arrogant boy in school who had just so happened to be bi-curious at the time. Allen had been harbouring a crush on the Japanese teen since they were in middle school, and despite their frequent... Disagreements, when Kanda had grudgingly asked Allen out the white haired teen had more than eagerly agreed.

Of course that hadn't been a very good idea, seeing as that their 'relationship' ended about three weeks later with a fist fight.

"Who isn't quite as attractive." Lenalee's voice snapped Allen out of this musing and he shrugged, thinking over her words.

"I don't know about that... Kanda is beautiful in the exotic way, but Lavi... he's more... I don't know... warm. But that's beside the point. He is annoying in a friendly kind of way..."

"Then why like him?"

"I don't know! I just... there is something about him..." Allen sighed to himself, "I guess I'm overreacting the whole 'I'm not really stupid' thing... aren't I?"

Lenalee giggled, "Yeah, just a little. Though, not as bad as your rant from yesterday though..." the girl trailed off as the thought to herself for a moment. Was that red hair she saw poking out from around the bookshelf closer to them? A small smile worked its way onto her face and she stood, an excuse for a quick retreat on her lips, "Oh shoot! I forgot that Koumi needs me home early today... I'll see you tomorrow all right, Allen?"

"Sure thing Lenalee, have a safe walk home." Allen smiled as she walked away, and turned back to the textbook. Thinking back on the past two days, Allen couldn't help but sigh at himself. Reacting so childishly to Lavi being stupid, then intelligent was somewhat out of character for him. But then again everyone acted a little differently than their norm when around or talking about the person they fancied. His reaction was a little comical though, now that he was reflecting on it.

"So, you like me huh?" Allen stiffened visibly, turning to face the person who had slipped into the seat Lenalee had just vacated without Allen noticing. His silver eyes widened in shock as they took in the sight of Lavi's floppy red hair, that caught the late afternoon light streaming in from the windows. His face had a cheerful smile, and his emerald green eye seemed to glitter with something Allen couldn't quite read. He really was beautiful, maybe not the same type of beauty as Kanda, but Lavi had a natural attraction to him, and it was something that drew Allen in, no matter how hard he tried to deny it.

"Wh-what?" Allen blushed slightly at his own thoughts.

"I heard you talking with Lenalee, that's her name right?" Allen nodded and Lavi smiled, seemingly happy to have remembered correctly. "I didn't think you swung that way."

"E-excuse me?" Allen blushed as Lavi leaned forward grinning.

"I didn't think you would be the type to like guys. You're British, plus you seem a bit uptight."

"What does being British have to do with my sexual orientation?!"

Lavi chuckled as Allen huffed, embarrassed by what he had just said, "Well, nothing really. Like I said you just don't seem the type."

"W-well... whether I am or not really isn't any of your concern..."

"Well if you like me, then it kinda is my 'concern' moyashi-Chan!"

"My name is Allen, damn it!" Allen was promptly shushed by everyone in the library. Or well, that was what it sounded like, because of the sheer volume of the hissing "Shhh".

"Yeah, I know!" Lavi grinned, amused by Allen's obvious embarrassment.

"Well... then don't call me 'moyashi'." Lavigiggled at the face Allen made as he said the word. "It's annoying."

"In a friendly kind of way?"

Allen flushed and averted his eyes. "Look, if you're just going to make fun of me-"

"I'm not making fun of you! Just teasing affectionately!"

"I don't really see the difference..."

"Well then let me explain!" Allen twitched, remembering back to their science class where Lavi had told him just about everything he ever wanted (or didn't want) to know about the glands of the human body.

"See, 'making fun of' is more negative and can often be equated to bullying. 'Teasing affectionately' is something someone, a sexy redheaded beast for example may or may not do when he likes a certain British moyashi back."

"What?" Allen stared at Lavi blankly, trying to make sense of the older boy's weird explanation.

"In other terms, teasing is something I do when I like someone." Allen blinked once, twice then-

"WHAT?!" he practically shrieked, ignoring the hissing from the other library-goers.

"Yup~ I love to give them nicknames too. I had considered a couple different ones for you, marshmallow was tempting... but when I heard Yuu-Chan call you moyashi, well, I was sold." Allen twitched at the thought of being called marshmallow, but he let that slide for now.

"W-wait... you mean...?" Lavi blinked at Allen's confused face before grinning.

"Aw, you're so adorably dense! Okay, I'll spell it out! I like you Allen, in the same way you like me. And," Lavi pulled out a slip of paper and put it in Allen's hand: "If you're interested in hanging out sometime, here's my number." Allen looked down at his hand, then back up at Lavi, completely and utterly shocked. The older boy just grinned as he leaned forward to lay a quick kiss on Allen's forehead.

"That, my dear moyashi, was just to make sure you get the point." Lavi grinned as he stood, laughing as a blush stained Allen's pale cheeks.

"See you tomorrow Allen~!" and with that, the eccentric redhead walked out of the library, whistling merrily to himself. Allen looked back down at the little slip of paper with a phone number and a messily drawn heart scrawled on it. A small smile found its way onto the white haired boy's mouth as he murmured to himself;

"Lenalee was right... first impressions aren't always right..."

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AN: aaaaand that's all folks! ^^ hopefully this doesn't suck too bad... it was starting to feel a bit forced by the end... and it's so short! D:

The other ones will be longer! ... Probably...

Oh and by the way, I'm doing these in no particular order, just to keep the readers on their toes ;)

The next prompt is number 59 on the list, so if any of you can find it on deviant art, ^^ you'll find out what's going on~

^^ oh and on that note, if any of you want to take a little gander at some of my artwork, my username on DA is Nella333 (creative, I know)

Till next time all!

Oh and please review! It would make me a happy panda! :D