#ill probably post smth dgm this week every second day!!!!

[alienaiver]

[D. Gray Man] How you met

Made for dgm week 2022! first prompt was beginnings. Includes: Allen Walker, Lavi and Komui Lee! (all set in modern AU with a GN!reader!)

wordcount: 1.2k words warnings: not much! pure fluff, lavi’s a little bit silly billy.

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Allen who meets you for the first time at his usual coffee shop. He didn’t mean to be rude, really, he never is with strangers! But he just so happens to be late for that terrible morning class he’s dreading every Wednesday morning and does not have the patience required to handle having spilled coffee on his jacket. A swear word or two filled his very... colorful sentences.

Allen who recoils the instant he realized the coffee hit you both and starts apologizing profusely. You send him a warm laugh as you reach behind him for napkins, “yeah, mornings are the worst, right?”

Allen who immediately starts blushing and stuttering, as he tries (keyword: tries) to help by taking the cups and putting them on the counter but as he reached for napkins as well he knocks over the cup again – it’s empty of course, so it didn’t give more work per say, but it did make him more embarrassed.

Allen who is completely enraptured by your easy-going attitude and kind smile – and your eyes, they were so pretty! But as soon as you’re done drying your jackets off you look at your watch, “shoot!” is all you get out before running towards the door, “sorry, I’ll buy you a coffee next time we meet!”

Allen who stands dumbfounded and frozen in his spot until a barista gently nudges him and he realizes that he too, is very late for something.

Allen who arrives and opens the door for the class, ready for an earful but barely registers the yelling about yet another “late-comer” because the first thing he sees is you, on front row, smiling sheepishly with a pen in hand.

Allen who makes it a point to sit next to you from then on, even timing his coffee runs Wednesday mornings so that you can go to the class together. One day you propose the idea of doing the coffee runs separately, taking each other’s orders with you on differentiating weeks, and his reaction was equal parts distressed and embarrassed.

Allen who gathers the courage to confess his feelings as the argument as to why you should do the coffee run together. You bark out a loud laugh at this but he didn’t miss the way your laugh had a nervous tint to it and the way you – almost like you’re shy – tells him you feel the same way about him and if he wanted to maybe have a coffee date tomorrow?

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Lavi who meets you through Kanda, and who can’t really wrap his head around the fact that Kanda had a friend he didn’t know about for years. Turns out you were neighbors through childhood and he’d begrudgingly accepted your company early on as the path of least resistance.

Lavi who immediately gets heart eyes but before he can yell out “strike!” is punched in the gut by Kanda who, with a trademark Kanda Glare™, threatens to kill Lavi if he even so much as finishes that thought.

Lavi who immediately panics because oh no, the most beautiful person he’s ever seen has Kanda freaking Yuu as a pseudo big brother, how will this ever work out in his favor?

Lavi who dramatically goes through a romantic stupor that lasts weeks and, much to the distress of his friends, doesn’t end until the next time he sees you.

Lavi who gets Allen in on his plan to talk to you without Kanda nearby, Allen happy to oblige to a plan that would piss Kanda off in the process and get his friend to stop talking like he was a knight in a shitty romantic fantasy book.

Lavi who gets to ask you out and while you look excited for a second tells him that you’d only heard bad things about him, “I hear you don’t take relationships seriously”, “you fall for every attractive person you meet” and – with a small smile, “is beauty all that matters to you?” said in the exact same tone as Odette in the swan princess (he’d know, he’s seen it a thousand times).

Lavi who realizes you’re into him as well but is apprehensive based on his not-so-amazing track record of romantic relationships (he’s sure Kanda isn’t helping him out either)

Lavi who sets up a movie night for you all, purposely putting on Richard Rich’s The Swan Princess and ends up singing the entire “This is my idea” with you – and the rest of the songs, for good measure.

Lavi who, as everyone’s going home for the evening gets a slip of paper from you with your number on and, with stars in his eyes, goes home, ready to text you and really woo you.

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Komui who agreed to accompany Lenalee on her event with her art class. They were having a showing of their works from the past semester where friends and family were invited. After the introduction and talk from the teacher, Komui finds himself alone as Lenalee is standing with her friends.

Komui who has a hard time… interpreting the art in the way he was sure it was meant to, feeling like his mind is far too mathematical and square for these kinds of things – but wanting to support Lenalee nonetheless.

Komui who dazes out in front of a painting, not sure what it was supposed to symbolize. “I think that one means exorcising the devil within us all,” a voice next to him says, making him turn his head in surprise. You smiled gently at him, mirroring his pose.

Komui who looks at you dumbfounded, admiring your features and the way you drank from the glass in your hand. “Oh sorry, I’ll leave you to interpreting, you just looked kinda… lost to me,” you laugh, raising your arms.

Komui who ends up chuckling while looking back at the painting in front of him, “yeah, I’m not… good with… this,” he gestures to the art on the walls, “I’m merely here as support.” You smiled while raising your glass to him, “supporter here as well, though I do lean to the creative side myself.”

Komui who nods and ends up spending most of the night walking around with you, listening to your takes on the art, smiling and as you both walk up to the snack table for another glass, Lenalee stands partially hidden behind a wall, observing the two of you, secretly happy for her brother and snickering with Allen and Lavi about it.

Komui who completely forgets Lenalee’s art while observing you until the last minute, subconsciously taking you by the hand and dragging you to her art. He gets lost in your analysis of it until you speak again after a pause, “this one’s very… homey… feeling,” you smile, leaning forward to read the small plague underneath it, “To my brother, for making a home, it reads,” you say, turning to him.

Komui who completely tears up as you read it out loud, looking around the room for Lenalee who, as if on cue, stands before him (as if she’d perhaps followed him around without his knowledge) and try to calm him down while apologizing to you for this outburst.

Komui who barely registers you handing him a handkerchief while smiling, “I don’t mind emotional men,” you’d winked before turning around and leaving. Komui was about to blow his nose on the handkerchief before Lenalee took it from him hastily, “don’t! This got their number on it!”