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[Recap] "I missed you!" I laughed. I heard a small grunt in response, and he muttered, 'until our next meeting'. And the screen when black. I smiled to myself as I got up to turn the TV off and walked back up to my room. Unknowingly to me, on the other side of our conversation. L now held a hand up to his mouth as a prominent blush was painted on his face, and he looked more vulnerable than he had ever looked in his life.
I continued on in my day as though I hadn't just encountered the single person who I couldn't stop thinking as well as dreaming of. Before I knew it, it was alright night time and both me and Linda were getting situated for bed.
"hey Abbie…You promised to tell me what you and L's first case was about," Linda whimpered.
"Ack! Shhhhhh," I shushed her as I quickly stepped out of our bedroom, making sure that no one was around. She rubbed the back of her head nervously.
"ahahaha, I'm sorry. I forgot that it was a secret here…" she laughed nervously as I simply let out a frustrated sigh.
"are you sure you want to hear that story? It's not really…errr…bed time story appropriate," I laughed out as I got into my large king sized bed, allowing the white comforter to cover us while she snuggled in beside me.
"of course I want to know!" she explained childishly. I sighed again, rubbing my head. "I wanna know about all of your adventures with L," she looked up at me with a expecting look. I pouted, no avoiding it now.
"Okay, but you asked for it! So no turning back, got it?" I explained as she nodded her head enthusiastically.
"of course not! No turning back, no start before I get sleepy!" She grabbed a pillow and held it up to her chest as she got comfortable for her 'story time'. I laughed inwardly.
"okay then…I had worked with L for 2 years, you remember I told you that much right?" I continued when I saw her nodding, "our first case was about a number of killing in New York city. When I had first arrived at the city there were a reported six killings that were said to have been killed the same way. They were all middle-aged men and they were first robbed, and then murdered. Although it was pointed out that they had…errrr…participated in…certain events before they were killed…" my voice trailed on as my face turned a cherry red.
"what kind of events?" Linda asked curiously.
"umm," I coughed, "let's just say, 'sexual activities', ok?" her face turned a light pink and I decided to continue on. "At first, we decided to profile the killer as a man who had participated in many crimes before, so he was bound to be in the police's records. But as we were overlooking all of them, murders continued to happen in the city. By then, it had been three months, and five more dead men. So I decided to look deeper into the places were the men were reported. We couldn't find anyone who had seen what had happened at the times of the murders, but they were all places where men would go to participate in…'sexual events' with mistresses, so everything was rather discreet about the place. No camera's that we could find of the places until we decided to look at the first murdered man. His name was Richard Mallory. He had owned a electronics store owner and a convicted rapist. His body had been shot once in the back of the head. When we looked at the footage of him on the day that he died through the street cameras, we noticed a blonde woman that had conversation with him, and then they walked off to where we presume is the murder scene. Where there were no cameras. On the second man, he had been shot twice. One in the arm, and the other in the back of the head. The third had been shot three times, one in one arm, and one in another, then one in the back of the head. As the number of the unsub's victims grew, so did the number of gunshot wounds. Each man had been seen by camera's, talking to the same blonde woman. Within 2 more months, we were able to ID our serial murderer. It turned out, it wasn't a man. But instead, a rare event. The serial murderer was a woman name Aileen Wuornos. She had killed 15 men before we were able to catch her. It was strange too. She kept sticking to her case that the men who she had killed, had raped her although it was a well known fact that she was a prostitute. So within 5 months, we were able to catch the murderer. Our first case was a success," I smiled to myself before looking down at her amazed expression.
"how wonderful…" she breathed out, staring at me as though I were a superhero. "so, what about the other cases within the two years you guys worked together?" She asked.
"well, most of them I worked undercover for him, but that is another story. And…it's already 11, way past your bedtime!" I concluded as I turned the lights off.
"fineeee, goodnight!" She giggled before snuggling up to my arm as I stared up at what I presumed was the ceiling in this dark room. I closed my eyes, hoping that I wouldn't dream about the cases that I had worked on and the victims I had encountered. Every night she would ask about my cases that we participated in, sometimes she would ask me about a story that my Ninna would tell me when I was younger. I would only tell her about my cases, once a week so she wouldn't be haunted by them in her dreams. I preferred telling her stories that didn't involve murdered, slaughtered, raped, or butchered bodies. No, I had already saved her from one horror story. I want her to be raised off of warm fairytales, whether they were real or not.
"So, what case are you going to tell me tonight?" She asked excited. I set a finger to my mouth in a thinking motion.
"what do you want it to be about?" I asked.
"I dunno, surprise me!" She giggled, loving it when I made up a story.
"Okay then, once upon a time…there was a sweet little girl. She loved to paint and draw everything around her, every moment and every feeling. She was a artistic one indeed. But her mother was a lawyer, and her father a doctor. So one day, her mother, fed up with all of her daughters art decided to go and talk to her. 'why don't you stop this childish act! You are already 14, start acting your age and quit these flimsy drawings. Me and your father have let you do what you want so far, but now you need to focus on your studies if you're ever going to do something with your life!' her mother ranted. But the girl simply said that she couldn't and that art was the only thing that she enjoyed. This angered her parents so much that they decided to lock away all her art utensils. This saddened the girl very much and so one day, she decided she didn't want to go back home to where there was no art. So after school, she got on the metro station and rode it as far as it could. When she finally got to her unknown destination, she found a man sketching children playing in the park. Surprised by the girl, the man asked her if she would like to draw something. Excited she said 'yes' and decided to sketch two birds washing in a near by puddle. The man was astonished by how well she could draw and asked her name. She told him her name was Anabell Rose and with that, they parted with a 'goodbye'. At home her parents, instead of going out and looking for her, simply yelled at each other, blaming one another for their daughters disappearance. Young Anabell walked around the park for hours until it was nearing dark. She finally decided that she would go home and apologize to her parents, and tell them of her love for art no longer caring about their anger. But as she headed home, a man came out of no where and led her to a dark alley where he raped and murdered the girl. The parents were horrified when they found her body and a private investigator attempted to calm the girl's parents when a young man appeared out of no where. He told the parents about the girl he had encountered, she spoke about her deep love of art and her parents who were strict and hated that she loved art so much, yet loved her ever so much. He then gave them her picture that she had drawn beside him and they wept silently, crying out in pain. Asking themselves why they couldn't just accept her, and why they had to push their own dreams on her instead of let her make her own dreams. The private investigator, promised to find their daughter's murderer, and she kept to her promise. Although they couldn't bring back their daughter, they were glad that no one else's daughter was ripped away from their future. Together, the couple started a art school with their daughter as their inspiration." I smiled as I wiped away the girls tears as I shushed her.
"that was both a story and a case wasn't it?" She asked, surprising me. "the private investigator, that was you wasn't it?" She stared up at me. I nodded my head.
"yes, yes it was. Although I couldn't help her, I was able to avenge her murder," I said as I held her close to me.
"I never want to lose sight of my dreams," Linda sniffled.
"and what is that?" I asked curiously.
"although I'm supposed to be aiming to become L's successor…I wanna become an artist! Just like the girl from the story!" She concluded before sleep over came her and short even breaths soon emitted from her.
"I know that you will," I smiled, wiping a strand of hair away from her forehead before following after her in sleep.
"Where do you think you're going with Linda, Abbie?" A old woman asked me.
"I know I'm taking Abbie with me to the lake, and where do you think that you're going to be going today?" I asked coyly as I stared down the woman.
"Residents of this school are not allowed to leave without-"she began before I glared at her.
"I know what the rules are! Don't think that you can simply recite a couple of lines from a book and that it will stop me. I brought her here, and I choose I can take her away from her. I won't though because there is a greater chance that she can get into a good college from here and she has friends here. But I will be taking her with me where ever I decide to take her. I am a legal adult at the age of 19, and a partial owner of this place where you currently work at, so if you don't want to be hurt in any way, I would step away from the door before I force you to step away from the door," I growled out as she gulped nervously yet still glaring at me.
"may I come as well?" A voice asked out. I turned around to see a small white haired boy.
"oh, why hello Near. What do you want to do? We plan to go to the lake to have a picnic and go look around the city for awhile," I shrugged.
"wait! You can't take him out of here either!" The old woman yelled out.
"I want to get a new toy. Mello broke my robot, and stole a piece of all my puzzles, making them useless," Near shrugged, talking over the woman who continued to yell out the rules.
"hmm, I'll have to talk with Blondie, but sure. Go get your coat, I'm not sure if it will be cold or not," after he nodded and returned with a large green jacket, I grabbed his and Linda's hand and walked out of the building, leaving the babbling woman behind us. Linda spread a blanket on the short grass and we all sat on the red clothe.
"So you guys enjoying that you're out of that stuffy building?" I grinned as they simply nodded at me. Linda kept blushed and giving side glances at Near. I giggled until I saw the sketchpad in her hands. After eating I finally got too curious and took it from her hands. "what this?" I asked as I stared at the sketched out picture of Near. "wow, so good!" I yelled out as she simply buried her head in her hands.
"yes, it's quite realistic," Near mumbled, causing steam to roll out of her head. I laughed at all of this and we headed to the main part of the city. After a couple of hours in the city, we finally returned back to our 'home' with a number of bags in my hands.
"it's about time you returned home!" the old woman yelled out.
"oh, thanks for waiting up for us, can you take this to my room?" I asked as I handed her my coat. She yelled out in anger and threw my coat down before stomping else where. "jeez, all she had to do was say no," I pouted and grinned as Linda laughed at me and Near had a barely visible smile on his face. He reminded me of L so much…I was caught off guard when I saw Roger approaching me.
"Here's your passport you were asking about," he said, handing me a small book like object and walking away so I was alone with a number of bags in my hands, and two children staring at me suspiciously.
"oops, caught?" I laughed out as I began to run to my room. Although I had ran to the room, I was cornered by the children, how sad.
"what do you need a passport for?" Linda asked sadly. Causing me to sigh, I was hoping to avoid this conversation.
"I'm going back to work along L's side," I said causing Near's ears to perk up at the mention of the name of the man he wished to succeed.
"But," Linda began, but she knew she couldn't hold me back. So instead she allowed her tears of sadness to run down her face, not moving to wipe them. Just, standing there and letting them fall. I moved to wipe away her tears but it seemed someone else beat me. Near pushed away the tears on one side of her face.
"there's no need to cry over it. It's not like she's dying. So, you might as well make the best of the time that you guys have together," he said, his eyes averting all of ours, a light blush on his cheeks. I smiled at him."I'll miss all of you, truly. But for now. I'm still here with you guys, our time isn't quite up. So lets make the best of it, ok?" I smiled as I sat my palm on top of each of their heads. Hoping that through some possible way, I could pull out all their sadness and pain and take it into myself through the contact. But sadly, things don't go that way. So I made a silent promise to myself, to make the best out of the time we had together, just as Near had said. Because, I'm unsure of the events that are to follow after I return to L's side. Whether I'll be able to see them again, is unsure to me. So for now, I'll enjoy these moments of ours. Together.
Me: hehe this one was much shorter than the rest of the ones, but I liked it none-the-less ;P
The murder case I spoke about in the beginning is one of a actual case. Although I had altered it in quite a few ways, it was one that actually existed…But the second case was one I made up so rest assure good citizens! Haha xD Don't forget to review!