Blake's baaaccckkk~~! Seeing as S was nice enough to give ME a cliffhanger, she can have one too!
Warnings: Shinigami, Way, L, Graves, Getting caught in the act (LOL), and Implications.
And another double update? :)
Oh, PS: Happy Birthday Mello!
As B walked towards us, I knew he wasn't going to talk. But Rue seemed really talkative.
"Hi Believe! Hi Bandit!"he cheered.
"Hi Rue!" Bandit called back.
"Now isn't the time, Rue. I want to know why the hell my brother has this," I said, pulling the Wara Ningyo out of my pocket.
"Uhmm, who are you talking to?" S whispered.
"Shinigami business," I said.
"We were wondering when you'd find them!" Rue laughed.
"How long?!" I pressed.
"Three months,"Rue answered.
I let the shock wash over me and started walking away from B and Rue with S.
"Wait! Be-" B called out.
"No!" I snapped. "I'm not just that little kid who would follow your every order anymore! I'm your little sister! And if you can't accept that, then I no longer have a brother by the name of Beyond Babbitt Birthday!"
I walked right into my room, leaving Rue, B, and S in shock.
After ten minutes, I got a knock at the door.
"Hey, Blake. They've buried A. You wanna come?" asked a voice. I smiled.
"Yeah, gimme two minutes and I'll be at the gates."
I grabbed my black hoodie and pulled on my boots, then jumped out my window. I ran straight to the gates and when I got there, there was a little golf cart with three people in it.
"Hey Matt, hi Way. Why's S here?" I asked, sitting next to S.
"Remember, only the kids that don't want to be L can come," Way said, starting the cart.
"Yeah. I guess she fits," I said, sitting back.
"I'm sorry for my outburst before. I guess I don't like seeing the truth… not when it's something like this…" I said.
"It's ok, it's someone you've know for a long time. But why didn't Roger seem that fussed?" S asked.
"Didn't you ever wonder why there were only five people in the first generation at the house?" I asked.
"Hey ladies, we're here," Way said, stoping the cart.
"Welcome to the Wammy's House Cemetery," Matt said, bowing as he opened the gates.
"Anyone who has been to Wammy's House is buried here. People from all four generations. We need to go to the first generation. They're at the back," I said, taking S to the back.
We soon made it. There was one freshly finished grave with a clean stone sitting near the very end of the row.
Here lies Avery Azure Above
Ranking: 1st
Alias: Alternate
1986-2001
May he rest with all the happiness he could not achieve in this life
'Your misery and hate will kill us all'
"Why are there five empty plots in this row?" S asked.
"Because they're for the living first generation members," I said. I walked to the two empty ones at the other end of the row.
"These are for me and my brother..." I told her. "The grave stones here are always made ahead of time; they just leave the name and ranking until you do die."
Here lies …. … …..
Ranking: …..
Alias: Before
1990-
May she rest with her truth and misery left behind
'Just be yourself, don't take shit from anyone, and never let them take you alive'
"I hate saying this, but your grave is kinda cool," S said.
"Hopefully you won't have to come here… not while you're in the Wammy system, anyway…" I whispered.
"Really, Blake, looking at your own grave again?" Matt asked.
"Be-"
"Don't say that name!" I yelled, interrupting Way. "I… I'm sorry… Bandit and I…"
"Is she here?" Way quickly asked. I shook my head.
"We need to go!" he yelled pulling me and S away, as well as Matt.
"Why do we need to go?" I heard S ask.
"She hasn't developed her 'link' with Bandit properly, so if she and Bandit are too far apart for too long, she gets sick. You saw her faint yesterday," Matt explained.
Way drove as fast as he could. Both he and Matt built this thing from scratch, so it was a fast little thing. We had to sneak up the fire escape to get back inside.
"Why were you out?" asked a deep voice. S was behind me, and the boys hadn't made it up yet.
"We went to A's grave," I answered, head down.
"You know better than that, Before. You could have waited like the rest of us for the ceremony," said a female voice.
"You know I never go to those, you know I can't stand L," I snapped.
"You used to love L. You used to always be first place, head held high, studying dawn til dusk," said the female voice.
"Well I'm not like that anymore! Skalita, Olive, I'm not that little girl anymore. I've seen that L's an asshole, and I've seen he doesn't care. It's time you two woke up and smelt the roses," I hissed, pulling S to Hall A (down stairs).
Hey… why were those two up on the fifth level…? Meh, they're dating, so they may have been fucking up there… It wouldn't have been the first time.
"Good night, S. It would be best if you didn't leave the house tomorrow, but if you want to go to the ceremony with everyone else, you can. I can't go to them. I'll give you a list of who's not going," I said, going into my room.
"And where were you?" asked Bandit.
"Now isn't the time," I said, climbing into bed.
The next morning I wrote up a quick list of who I knew wasn't going and handed it to S on our way to the dining hall. Before we got there I stopped by the Rankings, to see how they changed.
1st, B
2nd, Before
3rd, Mello
4th, Matt
5th, S
6th, Skalita
7th, Way
8th, Mango
9th, Linda
10th, Olive
Near hadn't taken his exam yet, so he wasn't on the list yet, but how had I made it to second?
"I absolutely hate you two more than I did before!" yelled an unnaturally high pitched voice.
"Mango…" S and I groaned in unison.
We looked up at her. Her hair was back to red and she had shaved the rest of her hair to make it match.
"At least L is here so he can clear up the fact that I am smarter than vermin like you two," she announced, walking outside.
"How is she related to Matt?" S asked.
"I have no idea. I usually refuse there are such things as 'The Jeevas Twins', but sometimes it's hard…" I answered.
"So, the siblings in this place are the Birthdays, the Keehls, and the Jeevas…es?" S said, picking up some toast.
"And there are the Lees and Bryars," I added, picking up some strawberry jam for my toast. What? It tastes good and I'm a Birthday.
"Who are they?" she asked as we sat at our normal table.
"Way, Mikey, and Sass are the Lees, and then there's X and Y, who are the Bryars."
And then there was silence in the room as someone walked in.
It was L and B.
They looked identical, as usual. Baggy white shirt, faded blue jeans, messy black hair. But I could see the difference. One with grey eyes and the other with red.
That reminded me.
"S, when we first met you said my eyes were red. Are they fully red or grey with a hint of red?" I asked quickly.
"Fully red, why?" she answered, head tilted to the left, confused.
"You're different. Most people see my eyes as grey with red, but you and B can see them as full red. You don't have the eyes, obviously, so I'm a little confused…" I trailed off, holding up a piece of toast that seemed to disappear into thin air.
S didn't ask how. She seemed to know that it was Bandit.
"Good morning Before, Secret, Way, Matt, Mello," L greeted our table.
"Stuff off," Way spat.
"Leave," Matt glared.
"Door's the other way," I snapped.
"I think you're at the wrong table," S barked.
"Morning, L," Mello cheered.
We all looked at him like he grew another head.
"You need to go to a different table," Way said.
But he couldn't. Every table had five seats, and the only one with four people at it was where Mango, Olive, Skalita, and Near sat (they were the kids that wanted to be L).
Mello put his head down and ate his chocolate. He didn't ever not eat it.
"So… how'd you guys get here?" Mello asked.
"Well, my sister was brought here, but she had a hissy fit about me and Mikey not being here so L and Mr Wammy went looking for us," Way said.
"Yeah… she nearly blew up the church," I added.
"My step mother hated me, murdered my father, and told my step sister to send me and Mango to an orphanage. L was on the murder case, found out about me and her, saw that I built a completely functioning robot, and that she had mastered hypnosis, and brought us here," Matt said.
"You know, we've heard how Blake became an orphan, but not how she got here," Way said.
"B and I were just sitting in the staff office and we heard about some murders going on. I'm pretty sure we've all heard of the London Police Murders. We decided to sneak into the police station, get the files, and wrote a letter of who the murder was. They caught him, and L found out it was us, and we ended up in this hellhole," I told them.
"How old?"
"Me and B were four and eight."
"I was nine," Way said.
"Eight," Matt said.
Then Rue came up to me.
"We all know the truth. How can you live with him as your brother? Seeing him every day, knowing what he's done. And you know it's not the first time. And it certainly won't be the last time. You know why he had a knife with him last night. It's not that hard to figure it out. So, what are you going to do about it?" and with that, he left.
"I have to go," I said, leaving the hall.
I ran up two flights of stairs that seemed to take longer than usual to finish and made it to B's room.
I looked though B's room, and saw everything.
I saw what he'd done, and I saw who he was planning to be next.
It was me.
"BEYOND!" I yelled.
I was sure everyone in the house could hear my scream.
Next thing I knew I was being strangled.
