Chapter 1: Third Kira?

I don't own Death Note, this computer, or my own home.. funny isn't it? Oh yeah I updated this a bit noticed when I looked at the anime again that I had a few things mixed up. Sorry for the confusion.

Background Information: Follows the Death Note anime completely, but throws another character into the mix. Her name is Ellie Johnson. She is the same age as Light. She comes into the story after Light and Misa are released. She joins the team for a while then disappears. And the story begins.

Ellie Johnson had always wanted to help people. She was disgusted with the way the world had tuned out and she felt it was her mission to help people. Volunteering and donating whatever she could. She had spent most her high school time getting ready for college and volunteering to her favorite causes. She had always been a bit odd. She was an orphan girl who had been in almost every foster home imaginable. She had survived many things and for some reason all her life had been a vegetarian. She had spent the beginning of her life with ex-hippies until they died when she was 7. Then she was from place to place every year death seeming to always follow close behind her. Still she seemed to survive. She was very happy when she was able to live with some stability in her dorm in college. She was majoring in nursing and Japanese and minoring in criminology. After her freshman year in college she had been on the dean's list with good enough grades to qualify for the study abroad program in Japan. She gleefully accepted and was on a plane the next week. And the story begins…

Little did she know when she got there just a few months later she would be recruited into a program that she had little knowledge about. The first thing she heard about upon arriving in Japan was Kira. After a few weeks she was up to speed. She wasn't sure whether to be disgusted by Kira. She had thought about it from both perspectives. On one hand Kira was very choosy about whom he killed and brought many to justice. However, Kira was still a murder and wasn't allowing the convicted to prove themselves as human beings. Some would never reform, but some could find themselves in prison she knew that. She had met a man in a prison her freshman year. Connor O'Keith had been in a lot of trouble with the police and felt no remorse for his actions. He had killed his family, destroyed many families, and all without thinking. Ellie was brave enough to visit him. She talked with him. She found out he had a lot of emotional problems. This man was had a few more years in prison before he would be free. He had committed these crimes as a minor so his punishment wouldn't be as severe, but he was still looking at 5 more years.

Watarai had contacted Ellie. He seemed to think that she had a lot in common with L. She was very clever, but not always to details that were right in front of her face. She accepted the job. She knew she needed the money as a struggling college student. She also wanted to know more about this Kira. She had a strange feeling about Kira.

She was introduced to the team members. She allowed a smile to cover her face, but this smile faded as she was greeted by the unfriendly stares of the members. She quietly moved into her room and then walked back downstairs to join the team members, doing whatever possible to keep herself busy.

She picked up before the death note. This was during the incident with Yostuba. She was eager to start the case. She wasn't sure why, but something about catching Kira really made her determined. She smiled at Matsuda and he was the only the member that ever smiled back at her. She worked there, as well as nursing classes in college with clinical calls every now and then working in the hospitals. She constantly heard the rumors about Kira in the hospital talking about people in a room of the hospital called the Kira room. These were for victims that had obvious Kira related heart attacks rather than normal heart attacks. Other injuries were taken into account, but mostly the patients in the Kira room had died of heart attacks. This as well only adding to her determination on the case disgusted her. All the members had been noticing and Matsuda approached her one day.

"Ellie-chan, when you first came in here not one member took you seriously. You have really proven everyone wrong, great work," he said with a big smile. Ellie smiled beginning to feel a bit more comfortable with her environment.

Ellie was also pretty good with her hands, she learned to knit early in her life. It calmed her and allowed her mind to be cleared so she could focus on one thing at a time, which was very useful in a case like this. L had a similar way of doing things but he consumed sugar. L watched her curiously one day as she sat down next to him and began knitting, then turned his head back to the computer screen consuming gratuitous amounts of sugar, which was his way of concentration. Neither person looked at one another the entire time and eventually Ellie got up and wandered somewhere else.

Ellie got along with almost all the team members even Misa who gave her a headache at times. Ellie was somewhat of a tomboy and Misa constantly tried to do something to make her look more "girly". Ellie generally avoided Misa if at all possible without hurting her feelings.

Matsuda and Ellie generally worked together if at all possible because Ellie sometimes missed things that were right in front of her face, but always was able to dig in deeper to a situation once she realized what she had to work with.

Light and Ellie didn't really speak to each other. He gave her a creepy cold feeling that crawled across her skin. She didn't see him smile much. L had still suspected Light of being Kira, which Ellie herself saw a big possibility in. The only times Light wasn't handcuffed to L wer the times that Light had to go to the bathroom or sleep, in which most of the places except perhaps the bathroom were camera monitored. Most rooms were not bugged, but Misa and Light were an exception. Ellie had noticed that L and Light were quite different though some could say they were similar. Light just seemed a lot more manipulative especially of Misa and perhaps that was the reason she didn't like him very much. She had been manipulated before though she had overcome that only with the cause of a tragedy though.

Ellie had remembered one foster home she had been forced to stay in when she was 18. She had tried to emancipate herself because she was still in high school and she didn't have enough income to file for financial independence. She stayed with a man named Josh and his wife Priscilla. Priscilla was a career woman and was gone a lot. Josh and Priscilla had had a hard time having children and after a while Priscilla decided she didn't want to have children at all. Josh was very angry with his wife and took it out on the only person around. Ellie had been beat up pretty badly some days especially if Josh had been drinking. Ellie kept waiting not knowing what to do. Josh was a church going man, and was spotless in public. No one would believe here even if she did try to tell the truth. One day Josh went too far.

Ellie had been writing in her notebook. She was a bit of a songwriter and planned on using her songs to help her through college either by singing them herself or selling them to bands. Josh walked in the room and Ellie tensed up. She knew that he had been drinking and she knew what he was probably coming to do. She was wrong in her assumption because what he hand planned was so much worse.

Ellie set down her notebook and stared hard into his eyes. She was hoping to overpower him this time. She had been taking classes in self-defense in her free time. It also helped her stay away from this place though he beat her more if she missed curfew because of her "classes" as she called them.

"You're not going to those classes tonight," Josh said in a drunken stupor.

"Its for my education you can't deny me that," Ellie said still staring hard into his eyes trying to overpower him using mind tricks if at all possible.

"A woman doesn't need education, she just needs these and a man," Josh said grabbing one of her breasts. "And it looks like you have both, so your not going," Josh said pinning her against the wall as she tried to make an escape out of the door.

He took her into his den area and she found horrifying things in there. She had never been in the den before. She made it her personal mission to stay the hell away from anything that had anything to do with Josh. She saw wrist and ankle restraints built into his wall. She wondered how many women he must have tortured in those. It looked as if she would be next. She tried to escape once again but in vain. He pinned her against the wall in that room as well. She tried everything to get away from him including biting him. She was slapped hard in the face for her efforts and she couldn't find a clear way to escape. He grabbed her breast hard again.

Ellie whimpered. He started to pull her shirt off and she did anything in her power to get away. She tried every technique she had learned, but Josh was a bigger man and he was very strong when he was drunk like this. She felt tears come to her eyes and she felt her bra come off next. She screamed as he grabbed one of her breasts hoping someone, maybe one of the neighbors would hear her. She cried harder and begged him to stop and she slipped her jeans off next. She felt her jeans fall to her ankles. She was going to lose her virginity to this drunken man or at least be severely molested. After he got her underwear off he picked her up as if she weighed nothing and put her into the wall restraints. She fought him and even spit in his face trying to get away. All she got for that was a punch in her face causing her to get a black eye. She closed her eyes tight waiting for it all just to be over her mind screaming in anguish and the something very strange occurred. As Josh felt something strange happen in his chest, he grabbed Ellie's neck. He squeezed her neck harder and harder strangling her and then he fell over backwards finally releasing pressure from her neck. He had grabbed his chest and then he promptly died right there. This hadn't been the first time this had happened to someone in her life. For some reason people around her died of unexpected heart attacks. Especially in situations like this where she was in danger.

She tried to break free of the restraints, but it was no use. They had to be opened by another person. She cried and screamed for help hoping someone anyone would hear her.

A few hours later she heard the door open. She didn't care who it was she needed help now. She opened her mouth to scream. She realized that she had lost her voice. Her voice was barely a whisper more of a sad pathetic little moan.

She heard footsteps around the house and the pastor of the church that Josh attended so frequently was in the house looking for him.

"Josh, your neighbors have been worried about you. They called me to come over and see if you were ok. They heard a lot of breaking things and screams. Are you and Ellie ok?" the pastor said calling through the house. He finally made his way to the den and looked in horror upon the scene. Ellie hung her head in shame. She couldn't even cover up her body. The pastor looked down at Josh and looked up at Ellie. Ellie opened her mouth and with a very small raspy voice in an almost whisper said, "Help me."

The pastor released her and he had tears in his eyes. He couldn't believe that Josh was dead, but most of all he couldn't believe that Josh would do this to his own foster daughter. At first he believed that she must have seduced him or something, but he clearly saw the bruises on her neck and her black eye. The tears in her eyes were a clear sign that this had been forced upon her. Priscilla walked through the door with anger in her eyes at the sight. She went to see her husband.

"He's dead," She said quietly. Then she angrily pointed her finger at the still naked Ellie. "You little slut!" Priscilla said coming toward her trying to cause more abuse to her. Ellie covered her head instinctively. The pastor stepped between them.

"Priscilla, he died of a heart attack there is no way she can be linked to that," the pastor said.

"Oh so your having sex with the little vixen too? Pastor Howard, I'm disappointed that you were so easily seduced by this WHORE!" She said angrily.

"Priscilla, Ellie is leaving." Pastor Howard said. "Tonight, I'll keep her for a little while until she can get into another foster home."

Ellie's flashback ended and Matsuda stared at her strangely.

"Lost in thought Ellie-Chan?" Matsuda asked curiously.

Ellie was glad that Matsuda missed some thing in his investigative ways. If he hadn't he might have noticed the tears in her eyes. "Yeah, you could say that. Will you excuse me Matsuda I need to go to the restroom," She said.

He nodded and she left. She walked into the rest room and rolled her sleeve up. She had so many cuts on he wrists. She rolled her sleeve back down. Those days were long over. She wiped her eyes and made sure she was presentable. Ellie walked out of the bathroom and made her way down to Matsuda again so the investigation could continue.

Chief Yagami passed Ellie by and turned to say, "L wants to see you."

Ellie thanked him and walked over to see L. He had been alone at his computer area and he looked straight into her eyes. L motioned for Ellie to come closer so that Light wouldn't hear what he said, though Light was so far in concentration that he probably wouldn't have heard it anyway.

"Why did you kill Josh Barker, Ellie?" L whispered in her ear. "Or should I call you Kira."