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Immortal
Chapter 14- Interview

Lavi sat silently in his and Bookman's rooms within the Black Order's Castle Head Quarters. He had completed his reading set by his master and had then moved on to do his own additional research on Allen Walker. After working his way through any material he could find on the immortal and a brief respite Bookman had found him and told him he was to sit in on an interview. Curious the red head followed the old man throughout The Order's corridors until they entered the library where Allen was sitting at a desk; book in hand and Timcanpy settled upon his head.

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"I thought it was just to be the two of us. Can the junior stay professional?" Allen asked, tilting his head to one side with an aggravating smirk in place.

"Lavi will only observe. He will take no part in this interview." At no further objection from the immortal Bookman directed Lavi to sit a little way away with orders to do nothing more than breathe and watch.

Bookman then moved to sit opposite Allen and opened a notebook with a pen in hand at the ready. He had a few more books ready to be filled to one side.

Allen watched his preparations in some amusement.

"So where do you want me to start?"

"From when you last were interviewed by my master."

"Hmm... that would have been eighty years ago?"

"Eighty four."

"You were just a junior then yourself. Couldn't stop interrupting could you?" The same infuriating smirk easily twitched at the 'boy's' pale lips. Lavi observed how his master seemed to take a deep calming breath, something he only usually did when putting up with his own antics.

"Lavi knows better than to go against my orders."

"I would have thought you would have too given your master used to do far worse than kick you around as you do Lavi. I still remember you scream when he dropped you out the window that time..."

Lavi stared at the two with eyes wide. Had his master's master really been that bad? He gulped and resolved not to interrupt the interview no matter the reason.

"Anyway, there's not an awful lot of time I can cover for you. As you know I planned to put myself into hibernation shortly after my last interview, but I'll tell you what I can."

"I see, regardless your view of recent events will be appreciated."

"Shortly after I left your master and you my... soul mate died once more." He glanced in Lavi's direction. "As I planned I locked myself into the innermost chambers of my white Arc, shut her down and slept.

"I drifted in and out, catching some glimpses of the goings on of the outside world through the screens in my room. I also sent Timcanpy out to monitor the changes in the world to catch me up if I ever wanted to join the living once more.

"But that insufferable red headed General of the order had to come across Timcanpy and meddle. He decided to do some tweaking and the bloody man managed to break Tim's speech mechanisms. Also damage his memory banks. Took Tim over twenty years to regenerate himself to the point where he remembered his orders and when he did he came back to me."

The white haired immortal fumed and took a moment to pat the golden golem nestled into his locks.

"I really started to gain more of an awareness for my surroundings around five years ago. The Noah found a way into my Arc and set up base there. Of course they soon became frustrated when they realised they couldn't find her controls. Not that they were capable of controlling her. Nevertheless they continued to investigate and it made me restless, especially when they were searching close by.

"But what really woke me up was when they began the download. The grey pigs thought they could have her? My Arc!? I started off by isolating each of the lingering Noah with one of the exorcists each that had stumbled on board. I chose carefully making sure the exorcists had the advantage based on their innocence. Seems I overestimated them though. The only fight that really went reasonably according to plan was Yuu's. But I had to restore even him after he didn't make it out of the room before it was downloaded.

"I think the red General knew I was there all along. I knew he was. Probably confused poor Tim to the point where he revealed things he shouldn't. Anyway he started yelling at me to stop the download. Called me a brat of all things. For that I let him be downloaded, let him feel himself be torn apart and reduced to particles, before I reversed the process. He deserved it."

The immortal paused, observing Bookman's pen dance across the page, noting everything down in some secret shorthand language.

"And then?" The old man eventually questioned his pen motionless but poised ready for more.

"And then I moved the Arc to the order, opened a gate and gave the remaining trespassers a little helping hand leaving-"

"That was you!?" Lavi exclaimed. "You tipped us all out through the door and into open space above Hevlaska's chamber? Do you kn-" A swift kick to the face silenced the red head temporarily.

"Hmm, still no dropping out the window." Allen mused watching Lavi peel his self from the stone work.

"I hit my head when I was thrown from the window once. Forgot most of that week and all I had researched during that time." Bookman explained grudgingly. The white haired boy nodded knowingly.

"I can see how that would be a major inconvenience for someone of your profession."

Bookman grunted in agreement and motioned for Allen to continue.

"After that I released all the Arc's anchors to this world so it was only accessible through the gates I alone can open. I spent a while there observing Tim's memories and repairing what damage I could at the time. His memories are almost back to the norm but that General really did a number on his speech mechanisms. It will take a while yet before he can talk again.

"About a month ago I opened a gate and went about tracking the Noah. I was never able to catch up to them as they only appeared fleetingly, spending the majority of their time in an alternate dimension, a new Arc they have constructed. Subsequently they would appear at random locations. It was pure luck that I was nearby when two of them appeared.

"Originally I was there because of reports of strong Akuma in the region but when I arrived three Exorcists were already there although they were certainly fighting a losing battle. They fought for a bit and I observed from a roof top. Then the two Noah appeared, Rhode I recognised from before but the man must have been a new incarnation from before my hibernation. He was on the Arc during the download though.

"I intervened upon their arrival, destroying the level fours with ease and sent the two Noah packing with a threat to deliver to the Earl. Then I left the Exorcists to deal with their own injuries. Of course I had recognised your apprentice upon sight what with Timcanpy keeping a special eye on the Bookman Clan for me.

"I returned to the Arc and remained there for three days during which time I recovered from one of my relapses after using my innocence. I then dropped in on your apprentice and Kanda Yuu's mission during their train ride.

"I'm sure you already have Lavi's report of how I 'advised' their battle and then healed him. I then proceeded to try and heal Yuu and ended up sighting the Lotus Curse marking on his chest. I left realising who he was."

"And that leaves us at when you revealed yourself in Komui's office?" Bookman questioned after a long pause in which he completed his notes.

"Yes."

"And could you divulge any of these 'glimpses' of the outside world you saw during your more aware moments of hibernation?" The old man probed.

Lavi hardly listened to the details of events that went on throughout the world over the last eighty or so years. He was too busy deciphering every detail Allen had revealed and those he had only partially done. He was particularly conscious of the facts that were left out because of his presence and subtly hinted at enough so that someone in the know, apparently Bookman, would know what he meant.

A few minutes later he was dismissed from Bookman's presence and ordered to bed along with a new list of reading for the following day.

The redhead paused outside the door as it swung shut behind him and bent over to tighten his boot lace. He honestly had no intended to eavesdrop on the private conversation that was bound to follow his departure. But intentions or not that is what happened.

"What do you intend to do regarding Kanda?" He heard Bookman ask.

"I don't know yet... but I can honestly say I cannot live through another death." There was a brief pause. "You know I promised him something last time. Every lifetime he lives though he is so strong and I am always incapable of keeping him safe when it matters. I promised him I wouldn't find him, that I would let him live out his life without having to remember all the awful ones of his pasts."

"You really had no intention of finding him?"

"Yes."

"Then why are you here now?"

"I don't know..."

"What will you do now?"

"He almost remembered last night. I saw it in his eyes, the way he was trapped in a memory just as he always is when the awakenings begin. I sent him away before it could progress any further. I hope that will be enough."

"You are going to fight for the black order with his so close and do nothing?"

"Not for the black order, I fight for him alone. After all he is my soul mate. I will fight this war and finally bring an end to it and once it is over I will leave Yuu in peace as he deserves.

The sound of rustling fabric and the scrape of the chair across floor and then boot heals on stone growing louder.

"Goodnight Bookman, your Master would have been proud of you."

Lavi ran.

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