Tevious swiftly strode toward her seat, not paying attention to anything but the dim carpeted floor. She absentmindedly took a comfortable seat; but felt a living presence next to her. She lifted up her head slowly to what was revealed to be an odd-looking creature. The jagged places where rotted skin grew and rags of different worlds covered it's unfamiliar body. Tevious held her quick gasp of air, but tried to act as calmly as possible; she stood up calmly and exited quietly through the door, and began the walk to the tall building that she saw that held the best detective in the world.
So many questions... So many cases to solve... L sighed and pressed his thumb to his lips as he watched the television in front of him as it flickered the crime scene footage again and again. This night would most likely be the same as any other, as long as he sat in his chair, eating the creamy strawberry shortcake that had just been placed in front of him by Watari.
Tevious' speed grew as she neared the tall building; every step she took shot more anxiety through her body. The only thing she could think, was how she knew she could see shinigami, but only on rare occasions; when they were truely up to something bad or good, to have a plan. And even though she could see and hear them, she wanted to know why they were there. One step until the silver edged doors that led her to her helper.
"Watari, rewind it to the 4th, please. About 7 AM." L commanded, through a mouthful of cake. The old man did as he was told, nodding and pressing the button to reverse the tape to the time specified. L watched closely, balancing his fork in one hand, and his plate of cake in the other. On the desk in front of him lay files on all of the suspects that could possibly have committed this crime.
"Umm, I have an important report-," Tevious stuttered to give out the correct words. "about a shinigami. I need to talk to L about it- quickly." Her eyes were serious as the clueless woman led her through various halls of luxurious decorations, and stopped at the wooden oak door. After two knocks the woman made, and old man appeared in front of the two, nodded and went inside.
"Who is it, Watari?" L asked flatly, not bothering to glance over his shoulder. Watari led the girl to L's chair, putting her in the detective's view. L turned his head slowly and, still looking at this girl, picked up the remote with one hand and paused the tape. "Hello." He said shortly.
"This young girl was here about a shinigami." Watari explained, making L turn his head to look at him.
As soon as Watari was finished, L whipped his head back to look at the girl. "Shinigami?" He asked, interested now.
"Umm, yes." She narrowed her eyes at the sudden change of excitement in L's voice. Taking one breath she continued, "It was down there, somewhere in the city. I'm not sure what it was planning; but, it had to be planning something, for me to see."
Matsuda, the young policeman, piped up from behing them, "You saw a shinigami?" He got a dissaproving glare from Cheif Yagami in return. "Just wondering..." Matsuda said meekly, looking up at the cheif from behind his black hair.
Tevious shrugged back the look of curiosity of the excitement going on. She had only come to this world, to see for sure what the girl she met earlier had said about it. And the only reason she could see her was because they were in different worlds, not the real one.
L looked back at the police and Cheif Yagami's son, Light. Matsuda's eager expression oozed unprofessionalism, sending him thinking again about why the young boy had gotten the job in the first place. But he supposed some things just happened, and he looked back at the girl, waiting for a response to Matsuda's question.
Tevious noticed the glance that the young officer gave her and exchanged a quick glance between L and the one he was eyeing, hoping for him to understand, that she did not want to interrupt.
L merely looked back at the screen, studying the picture closely. "Light..." He trailed off smoothly.
"What is it, Ryuzaki?" The cheif's son answered from the back of the room, breaking the tension. "Remember those notes that the prisoners left? The ones with the hidden messase?" L asked thoughtfully.
"Yes. Why?" Light asked.
"They revealed something about shinigami. So it's only safe to assume that Kira has something to do with this." L said simply, making a few officers gasp.
Tevious kept her mind on the two's conversation, hoping to near some sort of short conclusion on their case, taking the sight of the shinigami and putting it together. Tevious leaned back calmly accepting the normal exchange of words between the officers.
"L- Er, Ryuzaki... We all know very well that shinigami don't exist." Light argued, looking fiercely at the girl with burning eyes. "Hmm... I suppose that is true. But right now, there really isn't any other explanation." L mused quietly.
Tevious opened her mouth about to object, but figured that the officers still needed to discuss something.
Light shrugged back into a more casual position, still half glaring at the girl.
L turned to the girl once more. "And how do you see shinigami? What do they look like?" He asked calmly.
Tevious brought her eyebrows closer together, trying to remember the short sight of the absentminded shinigami, "Well, they look nothing human. Their skin looks rotted, if it is skin. The colors of them look dead and dim, nothing about them seems alive. But I can only see shinigami here if they are sure to be planning. But, I am not sure of what that may be." Tevious concluded and flashed a curious glance at Light, then looked politely back at L.
L nodded slowly. "You seem to know alot about what they look like... At least we know she's sane." He said, saying the last sentence to the police more than the girl. Light merely tightened his glare on the girl, hearing Ryuk's deep laughter filter through the room. He was glad that this girl didn't seem to see his shinigami.
Tevious nodded nervously back, trying to keep back the hardened glare that was meant for Light. Something was behind his mind and eyes that one of the people in the room was thinking, but other than her was L that seemed to know what was going on. To her sense, it was probably him that brought Light into the mess of the police, suspecting him as the 'Kira' that the girl she saw earlier was talking about. But if Light were to be the Kira of this world, how could she not see his shinigami? It might be because it was the one she saw earlier, but that one seemed entirely different than the one she thought fit for Light. Light was probably planning this on his own. And not his shinigami. These thoughts passed Tevious' mind quickly, but decided not to reveal them, until needed.
Aizawa spoke up suddenly, making Matsuda jump next to him. "But really... Shinigami?" He asked skeptically. L turned to look at the officer. "We have heard alot of that word lately... What with the second Kira's response and all..." He stated, waggling his fork for emphasis.
Tevious took back her breath but released it quickly. That was probably the shinigami she saw earlier, the one that looked kind but had a menacing look in it's eyes. Tevious' breath slowed, but as she looked back at L, it seemed all his attention was suddenly on her.
Noticing the spike of anxiety in the girl's eyes, L tilted his head to one side, asking the question, 'What's wrong?' silently.
Tevious pursed her lips tightly together, hoping to get away in some way, "Its just about the second Kira. What is it doing currently? What is it trying to do?" This seemed like getting off the real subject in Tevious's mind, and it was good enough for her at the moment.
"Well they was driven on meeting the original Kira at some point... But now they suddenly accept that they cannot. I assume that the two Kira's have somehow met." L said simply, taking another bite of cake.
"Ah, alright." Tevious simply accepted the explaination, but kept her eye on Light's expressions. Not wanting to gain more attention Tevious laid back again trying to finish their conversation. She would keep the information to herself, and try not to give it away to the others.
Light bit his lip, thinking about Misa. What a fool she had been... He narrowed his eyes in the direction of Ryuk, trying to make it look like he was thinking about something important. Ryuk laughed suddenly, breaking the silence.
Tevious briefly nodded toward the others, "If you needed anything else, I am in a rush at this moment." She was lying but thought this could get her away from the tension. She could go ask the girl she saw earlier about what this could mean, but she would need an excuse for that as well.
L nodded shortly, turning back to the TV screen. "Light, could you please lead her outside?" He motioned towards the door with his fork. Light frowned slightly and huffed under his breath as he moved towards the door, assuming the girl would follow. As his hand touched the doorknob, L speaking turned him back around. "Oh, and... What was your name?" L asked the girl without looking at her.
Tevious smiled politely at L and the other officers as she was lead near the door. But held her back straight as L asked her the question she knew she couldn't answer right. She was in a real hurry now, to ask the girl what this could mean. But it wasn't likely that these people were used to seeing magic used here, "It's nothing too important, as it is to other things in this investigation, I suppose." and continued her walk behind who she knew as the ambitious killer, Light.
L nodded thoughtfully before calling over his shoulder, "Come back if you get any more information." Light frowned a bit more and led the girl down a hallway, reaching the elevator quickly. 'I have to try to seem like I'm not in a hurry to get her out of here...' He thought calmly, hearing Ryuk's complaint about apples very vaguely only. "C'mon, Light, if you don't get me any, I'll sneak out..." The shinigami was whining. He was planning his escape in his head carefully, although most of it was just apple-driven.
"Hmm?" Tevious lifted up her head from the sight of the ground. She could have sworn she heard a vague sound around Light. But the sudden mishap of what she just did would have led her to more trouble. Gasping at the quick glance of the ragged monster in front of her. She pursed her lips, not meaning anything of it. But couldn't help noticing Light's eyes narrow.
Once inside of the elevator, Light pressed one of that many glowing buttons. 'LOBBY', it read. He looked at the girl out of the corner of his eye, noticing her slightly frightened gasp.
Cautiously, Tevious stepped into the crowded elevator, which now held, to what she knew, 1 wizard, 1 'Kira', and 1 shinigami. She couldn't tell the others about this unless her plan went smoothly finding her friend she met and asking the needed questions. She would only come and deliver the information afterwards. But for now, she would have to deal with the glance of frustration by Light.
It seemed like forever until the elevator finally reached the bottom floor where Light stepped out quickly and motioned with his hand towards the large silver-rimmed hotel doors. Ryuk laughed loudly, filling the air with a certain tingle of presence.
Tevious blinked and flinched back slightly at the loud laughter, but nodded at Light before stepping back out. Her heart felt hard, and heavy. She knew this world was looking for the killers she could see, but that would ruin her purpose here, to figure out what the police is fit for doing, and is accustomed to do.
Light watched her flinch at Ryuk's laughter and the moment seemed to freeze. 'She can hear Ryuk...? This can't be good.' He thought sharply, smiling and waving goodbye to the girl. He stepped back into the elevator to get back to the hotel room, thinking of plans in private. What would he do? This was not something he'd ever dealt with before. He gulped and waited for the elevator to reach the 7th floor.
Tevious looked around her surroundings before entering, to what seemed, an abandoned building. She gave a deep sigh and shut her eyes tightly before finding her wand safly stored in her bag. Lifting up the fragile piece of magic, she memorized the words used to teleport. Lastly she added her destination, but this time, she added the name of the girl.
Lucizzle jumped when she saw a poof of smoke appear next to her. She couged and waved her hand back and forth to clear it, then saw the girl she'd talked to before. Tevious, was it? Yes, that was it. She smiled warmly at her visitor. "Hello, Tevious." She said cheerfully.
Tevious looked around anxiously until she found the familiar voice that ringed in the air. She followed it out of the smoke, and smiled kindly back at the warm welcome, "Hi, ummm do you have time for some questons? You know." Her words came out quick but she gave a quick nod at the end.
"Oh, of course!" Lucizzle grinned, always happy to have company. She laughed shortly, only a breath of air.
"So, umm......do you know what would happen if the people of the world, in which Kira lives, would know of a person seeing shinigami? Do you know what could possibly happen to that person? Anything at all?" Tevious was quickening her words, but knew Lucizzle would understand soon.
"Umm... Well, they'd see you as strange, but it depends on who you talk to. You just never want to give out your name. To anyone. It's too precious a thing to be thrown around in the human world." Lucizzle explained, a little less cheery now.
"Oh, alright." Tevious concluded, her breath heaving. She was very thankful to herself that she didn't give out her name, too much trouble, it could have ruined everything.
"Is that all you wanted to ask...?" Lucizzle said, tilting her head to the side slightly. She smiled at her friend, eyeing her nervous expression.
"Yes, yes thats all. Thank you." Tevious stuttered over her words. And smiled slightly, she knew she didn't have to even return to the world. So, that wouldn't matter at all. But - she cut her thoughts off short. She would HAVE to go back if someone asked her.
Lucizzle smiled. "Alright then. I'd better get going- my mentor won't like it if I'm late again... Bye!" Lucizzle smiled flying off into the distance of the murky world.
Tevious nodded after the kind girl. It was hard to believe she was a shinigami as well. But it didn't matter much now, she would return to her own world and explore normally as she did before. Taking out the glowing wand from her bag, once again,she mumbled the words out loud, and returned to her home.
Light entered the dim hotel room with a heavy heart. He felt like he'd been through so much in the past few minutes, even if it was only an elevator ride with that girl. Ryuk piped up from behind him, "Hey Light, that girl looked at me... Y'think she saw me?" He asked, making Light furrow his brow in frusteration. The shinigami knew very well that he couldn't talk to him in public. Especially in front of L. "Welcome back, Light." L said through a mouthful of doughnut.
Tevious dropped herself onto her couch. She looked around her room, and remembered it had been customized for her, as a gift, of becoming a high-wizard. She knew very well she couldn't waste all of her work on this one world. But she thought through the situation again, and relized it was also her fault for letting her curiousiy lead her into the world.
Light frowned a bit. "She left in a hurry... I guess she was frightened about the 'shinigami sighting'... Poor girl." He lied, trying to sound sympathetic towards the girl who knew his secret. "Hm. Guess so." L mused quickly, taking another bite of his doughnut thoughtfully.
Tevious sighed and decided to take a quick nap after all of the commotion today. Gently she set down her wand and hat, that were sitting on her lap, and set her head down on the back of the couch comfortably, before falling into a deep sleep.
Light noticed that everyone had already left. "The Cheif asked me to tell you that he went home. You can stay or go, if you'd like..." L said calmly, sighing midscentence. He picked up a new doughnut and turned it in his hand slowly.
Light nodded. "I'll stay. Anything to clear my name." He said sharply, taking a seat next to L.