Disclaimer: Don't own. But want to own.

Note: Lol so I read in Death Note 13 that Gevanni doesn't like unreasonable superiors. And then…well. How much more unreasonable that Near can you get? Except, like, Mello. But he's proper crazy. Like, batshit crazy.

And also that they asked him to join the SPK because he was this young talented hotshot. I'm in love. And suddenly want to write Gevanni/Matsuda even though it has no basis in canon, just for the prettiness factor.

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Occupational Hazards

Chapter 2

March 14th 2009

So I go up to the Director's office, but half way there I bump into him in person. He was coming looking for me to ask me to join up to this SPK that's started.

Like he needed to ask.

Nine a.m. sharp tomorrow, we have a meeting. Everyone involved is going to get together. I wonder if that's safe. What if there's a spy? We could just all be ratted out to Kira in a heartbeat.

…Heartbeat. Bad choice of word.

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March 15th 2009

They gave us all fake names and identification. Which makes sense, really. It's Kira after all. The ability to kill with a name and a face is slightly daunting, and even though it's little more than some paper and plastic, the IDs are at least some form of security against it.

Stephen Gevanni, at your service.

Turns out they've pulled us all from different departments, and even the CIA have put some people forward. Barely any of us actually know each other, so ratting us all out is going to be troublesome, if not impossible. I suppose the thinking is that by the time a guy has pulled that many files, someone will have cottoned onto the fact that they're all members of the new SPK, and look into it.

It's better than nothing. Tomorrow we meet the guy behind all of this. Our new boss.

March 16th 2009

Our new boss is a psychopath.

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March 17th 2009

I was not aware, that in our fight against Kira, our last line of defence was a child. My new boss, 'Near' (which is not a proper name, by the way) is apparently 17. However, he looks 8. And he acts 8. Actually, no. By the age of 8, most children don't feel the need to hunch on the floor and obsessively play with toys. By the age of 8, most children have learnt vaguely basic social skills.

'Near' has not. 'Near' seems to believe that being a child prodigy exempts him from the normal rules people have to operate by.

The bit that smarts most is that, for now at least, it does.

I wonder if L is this bad.

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April 17th 2009

Last month has pretty much been spent gathering intel for Near. Literally been looking up as much information as has been available on the criminals. It's mundane work and I wonder why Near is even interested in it. The stuff this kid has worked out already…

In short, it's supernatural. Real occult stuff. Kira's method of killing is a notebook, of all things. It's called a Death Note, and apparently is possessed by a shinigami. Nobody seemed about to translate for us non-Japanese speakers, so I looked it up. It means God of death.

So Kira has the notebook of a God of death and is writing names in it. And then people die.

Bullshit, right?

I thought so too. But Near…he's got so much evidence. And you get the impression that as immature and as juvenile as he is, this guy isn't going to say anything he hasn't got good reason to believe is fact.

So God knows what we're dealing with.

Actually, yeah. Gods of death.

I have to stop making bad Kira puns.

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August 23rd 2009

So months of dedicated information-gathering and the occasional bout of counterfeiting has put me somewhere near the top of the organisation. I'm not saying this out of arrogance - this is just what I've been told. Because I've been told something else, as well. Something only a few people know, and only the people in the SPK that Near trusts as being near the top have been informed.

L is dead.

The L who's been issuing orders is some kind of 'second generation' of the name, and Near thinks it's a member of the Japanese task force working on the Kira case, or someone affiliated with them. This would make sense, considering that task force was working with L before his death.

I really can't get used to that idea. L being dead. And Near - Near, apparently, is one of the kids who was being groomed to be his successor. He was the top, unsurprisingly, followed by this kid called Mello. Near keeps brandishing a photograph he has of Mello, and asking Rester (this big guy who looks like he used to be a bodyguard, he's ended up as Near's right hand man) if he's found anything on him. So I think we can say there's the chance that we'll be dealing with that guy in the future, too.

Near won't tell us much, but from what he's said, he's not so much Near's style of passive-aggressive, and more and out-and-out beat 'em up kind of aggressive.

Well, variety's the spice of life, after all.

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September 20th 2009

And the shocks just keep on coming. The Japanese task force apparently has a Death Note in its possession.

Near says we're not ready, as an organisation, to contact them yet. A few people are getting really disgruntled about the fact that nothing's happening, but I think I understand - there's a strong possibility that Kira is monitoring the Japanese task force. They have the second L (he presumably killed the first), they have a Death Note, it'd be stupid not to. And it'd be stupid for us to make some kind of move towards contact before we have more information.

But ultimately it's pretty clear what Near plans on doing. Demanding the notebook, and if (come on, 'when') they don't hand it over, taking it by force. Unless Mello gets involved. That's what he keeps saying, "unless Mello gets involved". This Mello guy, the way Near is always going on about him - he's starting to worry me, too. And I've never met the kid. This kind of anxiety can't be good for you.

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October 10th 2009

Apparently, we're ready.

An agent called McEnroe is headed for Japan tonight, set to contact the task force tomorrow.

We'll see how it goes.

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October 11th 2009

It went badly.

Apparently, the director of the NPA was kidnapped, and the ransom is the notebook.

God, I hope they're not stupid enough to trade for it.

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October 12th 2009

Out of the frying pan, into the fire, as they say.

The director of the NPA is dead, and the kidnappers have moved to a new pressure point, in the form of a girl called Sayu Yagami.

Yeah, this is bad for one reason: her dad's the guy in charge of what happens to the Death Note.

Near contacted the second generation L, and pretty much showed his hand. In the obscure, non-revealing, infuriating way Near reveals everything. He doesn't think much of this new L. Has a tendency to call him farcical or 'stupidity itself'. He'd know, being the genius and all.

I don't think the new L likes Near, either. I can practically see the cogs in that kid's head working. If I didn't know better, I'd say he was enjoying this. At least there's progress now. We're moving. We're doing things. Every step away from inactivity is one step closer to Kira.

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October 13th 2009

Shit. They're giving the Death Note to the kidnappers. I think Near knows who the guys behind it are, or has a pretty good idea. I know I do. The name 'Mello' springs to mind. The way that white-haired lunatic has been raving about, it has to be.

So today's the day.

October 13th 2009, again

Fuck. Shit, fuck, fuck, fuck , shit.

I'd apologise for the string of profanity but not today.

They got us. He got us. Mello. Near seems sure now he's behind it, he just needs proof.

Jesus Christ.

They're dead. All of them. God, I've seen people killed before, but…thirty people around you dropping dead. It's fucking sickening.

And then there's the bodies.

They had to be dealt with. They still do. All we've done so far - Rester, Lidner and me, the only ones left apart from Near - is move them into another room.

We're gonna have to start contacting families.

Shit, fuck. This is insane.

Mello has - God, all of them. And we're carrying on.

We're fucking carrying on, because that's all we can do. Because if we stop now, then it won't just be these guys, it'll be things like this all over the world for God knows how long. Mello and Kira both, though at least Mello's probably going to show signs of stopping.

And at least Near had the good grace to look appalled, to sound sick.

And so - so that's how shit goes. It happens, and that's it. People die, and it's not fair. That's why we're in this, right? To protect and to serve.

But, shit. I don't feel like we're doing a very good job of that so far.

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AND SO THE REAL PLOT EMERGES. Excuse massive swearing in last entry. If all the people I worked with dropped dead around me, I'd be swearing like a sailor, so Gevanni gets to as well. Short-ish chapter this time, we'll get to the proper case after this. Hope it's still relatively in character, and not straying too far from the plot.