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Hel sighed, pulling herself up from bed, hearing the incessant knocking against her thick, wooden door. She heard A's voice from the other side of the door.
"Open up Hellie! You cant mope just because L is still gone!" A called, still banging on the door. Hel twitched, laughing to herself quietly.
"I'm NOT moping!" She called, running her hand through her still short black and red hair. She contemplated growing it out long, then dyeing it all red, or all black. She shoved the thought off to another drawer in her brain and slowly got up out of bed.
It had been about 5 days since L had left. Hel was taking his leave quite well, but she was having some slight issues that she knew wouldn't be going on if L and her father were here.
She blinked.
'Did I just think 'my father' when thinking of Watari? Oh well..I suppose he is anyways.' She though, going over to her closet and pulling out some black 'gym' shorts, and a blue t shirt with black musical notes drizzled in every which way. She didn't bother with shoes and went over towards her dresser-vanity and sat at the chair, brushing her hair while dreaming off, staring at her one purple and green glass wind chime.
Hel knew she was very superstitious. She had multiple wind chimes around her room, because her mother used to think that they were good luck. She had them at each corner in her room, and then one right in the middle of the room. The purple and green one, the blue and teal, yellow and red, orange and pink and then black and clear.
She had a large blue and brown dream catcher above her bed, one that her and her old father had woven together. Long, elegant feathers and beads hung from the bottom and on the strings on the woven threads. She had a horse shoe nailed to the wall inside of her closet as well.
She had started, in what little spare time she had in the short weeks she's lived here, she began to paint small red and black lady bugs along the bordering of the walls and ceilings. There were also of the few luck-bugs on some random places on the walls, which she had painted two walls a pale blue and the other two a pale green.
Her father thought stars were lucky, so she had stuck little glow in the dark stars on her ceiling, which she had painted a sky blue, then with help from a sponge (and sitting on B's shoulders, and him standing on a few phone books so she could reach the ceiling, if she stretched) and lightly puffed clouds onto her ceiling. Clouds during the day, stars at night.
At the two bottom bed posts, were two small red dices on each small, greenish black metal leaves and black iron roses. The dice were red with white dots on each side. A small, red Chinese lantern hung on the back of the door.
On one wall of the room, that was slightly empty, without any posters, and only a small pale blue and green love seat was pushed against the wall, was a mural. The mural started in a large cloud, with a bright rainbow pouring down like water, revealing a large tiger, with shimmering green eyes, and grinning triumphantly. The tiger, was hidden in a small forest of fresh bamboo.
Next to the tiger was a large, young elephant. The elephant wore a cape like coat, with a large number seven on it. The elephant was smiling as well, its trunk in the air, and blowing out glitter and coins into a black pot, creating a pot of gold. Underneath the elephant appeared to be a field of four leaf clovers.
Hel sighed, looking around her room happily. It wasn't home just yet, but the decor of 'luck' brought her the comfort that she needed, along with her 3 new friends, blankie (which she knew L had giving her, that's why she loved the blankie.), and her new father figure.
Hel sighed, opening the door and scurrying to B's room, then to A's room, making sure that no one was in there. She sighed, knowing that they probably all went to breakfast. She sighed, not looking forward to seeing that man. She closed her eyes and remembered the first day that L had left.
~*~
A dreary Hel was awakened by a shaking against her shoulder. She moaned, and turned to look at whoever was bothering her. An always happy looking A was smiling down at her, hand still clasped around her shoulder. Hel squinted up at the brown haired boy and raised an eye brow.
"What is it A-bear?" Hel asked, yawning and stretching out her legs, sitting up, A's hand falling from her shoulder.
"Hey Hellie-bear. Rogers here. L's gone and Rog wants us to all meet in the kitchen." A said, happy but groggy, and with that said, he left the room, leaving the door wide open behind him. Hel moaned, feeling the draft from the hall swiftly nimble into her room, causing her five wind chimes to clink and clank in the breeze.
'L always closes my door.' Hel thought automatically sitting up and going over towards her closet. She pulled out a small, black t-shirt dress, that went to just below her knees, with neon pink tights in a floral lacy pattern underneath. She put on fingerless gloves that went to the elbow which was made of the name neon pink lace. She didn't bother with shoes, as she slipped out the open door, closing it after her.
She calmly walked down the hall, her face neutral as she viewed the stairs. She didn't even hear the footsteps coming from behind her.
"Hellie-bear..are you okay?"
Hel looked up, her black and sky blue eyes fixing on Beyond. B smiled, tilting his head slightly to the side, crimson eyes looking down at the small girl. She smiled back up at the copy cat L. His company calming the girl even more, even though if the reason was that he just looked like L. The idea made Hel feel a little bad, but she knew she liked B for himself, but the image of L made her simmer down, angry or not.
"Yeah B box, I'm alright." She said, giggling as he grimaced at the nickname she had started calling him. He eventually smiled, rolling his eyes.
"B box..never again.." B laughed, scratching the back of his head, that made Hel roll her eyes.
"You've only said 'never again' about ten times. When will you know Ill call you whatever, whenever I want?" Hel laughed, patting B's arm, while they both began ascended down the stairs. Hel stared down the stairs, while she felt B's red eyes on her, while they walked side by side down the stairs. He cleared his throat, causing Hel to turn her eyes to the right, looking at him in her periferal vision.
"You're....so..graceful." B muttered, his cheeks becoming a bright cherry red at the amount of emotion he placed into the simple sentence. Hel blushed, but tried avoiding the awkward situation and giggled, patting his head.
"B box, in no way are my name to be used in the same sentence as 'graceful', hahaha, so sil-Ahh!" Hel began, giggling, poking him in the cheeks, but right when they were on the last step she tripped. She fell backwards, hitting her but on the soft carpet at the bottom of the stairs. B looked down at her with round, red eyes and she looked up at him with wide, black and sky blue eyes.
Then they both began laughing hysterically.
"You-you-you! You- jinxed me!" Hel laughed, clutching her stomach as B flounced onto the carpet next to her, hiding his face into the carpet. Muffled laughs could still be heard anyways.
"Of course, you'd loose your grace on the LAST step!" B laughed, patting the girls red and black striped hair.
Eventually the two got up, B handing Hel his hand and pulling her up. After he pulled her up, she noticed that he did not let go of her hand, and he instead chose to apprehend her hand, and begin to walk with her to where Watari's office was, and apparently where this 'Roger' character was. A was standing by the dark wood door, a look between boredom and happy mixed together as B and Hel walked up to him. He rose an eyebrow as he saw their hands, but quickly decided that it wasn't important, and turned and knocked on the door.
"Come in!" They heard a man from the inside shout, and A opened the door, the duo trotting in after him.
The man sitting on the deck chair was not as old as Watari, he was maybe..late 30ies, early 40iest Hel presumed, as she saw some of his brown hair graying and some slowly becoming bald spots on his head. He had thick eyebrows and wore small spectacle like eye glasses. He seemed stiff and out of his element. Hel noticed that he had only a small suitcase with him, and in front of him he had opened a book about bugs.
"Hello Roger." A said politely. Roger barely looked up at the chipper little boy, and hummed, flipping the page of his book. Hel rose an eyebrow as she believed A was just brushed off, A seemed a little shocked, but still kept up his chipper mood.
"Hello..children.." He said slowly, putting more thought into reading than greeting the small group of geniuses. Hel glared slightly, as B just rolled his eyes at Roger, keeping his grip on Hel's hand.
'Alright..how do I yell at Rog and make B let go of my hand at the same time..?' Hel thought, the gears in her mind cranking.
"Do you want to come to breakfast with us Roger, we're just probably going to eat candy, but there might be some breakfast food in the fridge." A asked politely, rolling on her balls of his heels. Roger looked up calmly, before sighing.
"I guess..Watari told me to watch you. So keep quiet...I must read." Roger said, making no move to stand up. A seemed satisfied, and rushed out of the room and into the kitchen, Hel hearing him open the fridge and scavenge around the food.
"So..what are you reading Rog?" Hel asked, rushing up to his desk, and loosing B's hand in the process. She heard him mutter 'a book about insects' and not even look up at her. Hel sighed, feeling the vein in her head pump a little in irritation but opted to keep her temper down, remembering the first anger explosion she had at A for almost breaking her clear and black wind chime. She sighed, remembering L's 'Hel...calm..breath.." and she opened her now calmer eyes at Roger.
"So..do you..like bugs?" Hel asked happily, watching as Roger actually lifted his head from his book to look incredibly at Hel.
"Yes. I like bugs. Better than annoying little children, girls especially."
B gasped behind her as Hel felt her breath stop. Roger looked up at her annoyed, while her breathing soon became shallow and the veins in her neck, for head and arms became visible and tense.
"Ex..cuse..me?" Hel asked, grinding her teeth and glaring at the elder man who seemed un-shocked. He looked back up at her.
"You heard me."
That was it.
Hel let her fist fly and smash the man in the face. B winced, knowing that Rog wouldn't be expecting that Hel was actually quiet strong, and Rog went wheeling. The chair he was sitting on (being a spinney, wheelie chair) was send spinning and flying backwards, and slammed into the wall. Rog sat down, looking shocked at the little girl as she stood on the desk, her breath still shallow as she fist-ed and un fist-ed her hands at her side.
B muttered a brief "excuse her..you've rubbed her the wrong way." before grabbing her around the waist, and pulling her off the desk. She didn't put up a fight, rather she curled against B and kept breathing heavily, clutching at the front of B's shirt. B rushed her into the kitchen, A looking knowingly, as he heard the whole ordeal from the kitchen.
B sat her down on the kitchen counter and went to the phone in the kitchen, throwing a "A keep looking for food for Hel and Rog." Before clicking down a few numbers and escaping into the other room. A giggled, opening a sleeve of white bread and plugging in the toaster. He pulled out three different types of jam, and placed four pieces of toast into the multi toaster.
"Who's he calling?" Hel asked, sipping on some chocolate milk that A had given her to calm down. A smiled, stirring the grape jelly with a knife.
"Watari-san. You wont be in trouble. But he just wants to tell him that Rog and you might not get along so great." A giggled. Hel giggled too, knowing that she did go a little overboard, but Rog did provoke her and there was no way in sweet hell she was going to apologize. She nodded, going through the cabinets and pulling out a small, black and silver blender. She went into the fridge, pulling out some fruit and milk and other odds and ends.
She poured the milk, the strawberriesies and the bananas into the blender, before stabbing at the red button with her pale finger, the contense slamming against the stainless steel blades and making a thick gloo. She took out a cup and poured the contense into it, then snatched up some toast that A had made, and grabbed the jar of blueberry jam and sat down. She spread the thick jam onto the toast and began eating it, sipping occasionally on the shake that she'd made.
B suddenly came back into the room, holding the cordless phone against his shoulder and a smirk on his face.
"Hellie..L wishes to speak to you." B giggled, holding out the cream colored cordless phone, while Hel bounced up, grabbing the phone and walking slowly into the other room that B had went into, which happened to be the living room. She answered with a sighing 'Hello L-y.' as she flopped down onto the couch. She heard him happily sign from the other line.
"Hellie..come on..punching Roger?"
"B-but L! He said that he liked bugs more than us! Don't you think that you should have someone here that actually LIKES kids!"
"But Hellie..he's 'babysat' B and A before, and he proved to me efficient." L droned, and Hel could hear the almost silent sound of the computer monitor humming.
"Well...he insulted me.." Hel said, slightly embarrassed. L sighed, but then chuckled a little bit.
"Alright Hellie..I have work to do. Play nice. No hitting Roger..."
"Yup." Hel replied quickly, knowing that cutting him off would irk him.
"..and no drawing on the walls..."
"We were out of paper but alright."
"......no putting peanut butter in the drain in large amounts..."
"I was curious."
".....Put on sunscreen.."
"Yes mommah L."
"...You know...you're constant cutting me off is quite..annoying.." L said with a little bit of venom and a little bit of humor in his tone.
"I know." Hel said giggling.
"Well, I must go. Play nice Hellie." L stated again. Hel went and pulled the phone away from her ear, and was about to click the off button when she heard a muttered 'hello?' from the phone, so she quickly brought it back up to her ear.
"Hello? L?" She asked, her brows furrowing in confusion.
"Well you didn't say goodbye.." L said, sounding a little sad. Hel was extremely surprised, Hel had seen L answer and talk on the phone before, and he never said goodbye himself, let the other speaker say goodbye before he hung up.
"Oh. I'm sorry, I thought you hung up! But goodbye L." Hel sighed happily into the phone. L cleared his throat.
"Goodbye Hellie...crap." As L said goodbye his voice cracked slightly, further embarrassing himself before he quickly hung up the phone. Hel giggled, hanging up and walking back into the kitchen, hanging up the phone.
When she got back A, B and Roger were sitting at the table, eating their respective breakfasts. Roger coughed, sipping on some milk.
"I have been informed to tell you that L's current case is a drug ring. He'll be breaking it soon and will return to you in a matter of days." Roger said, still munching slightly on his toast. A's eyes widened to incredible size as B took an intake of breath and Hel just looked worried.
"Drug ring! Like with drugs?!" A shouted, slamming his hands on the table. Roger rose a thick eye brow at him as B slammed his head on the table and Hel slapped her hand against her face.
"NO! A-bear, with unicorns! Of course its drugs my dear A." Hel said, slightly muffled by her hand.
"Sometimes I wonder if you cheated on the entrance genius test." B said jokingly, poking at A in the side, making him squeak and giggle.
"Well..That's about it..come to the office if you need me.." Roger said, producing the bug book that was placed in his lap the whole time, and wandered back towards the office. Hel snorted, munching on her toast and B rolled his crimson eyes.
*~*
As Hel walked towards her closet, thinking about the first day L left. She sighed, slipping on a neon green shirt that said "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." She slipped on some black skinny jeans and waltzed barefoot down the stairs and into the kitchen, where the three men sat.
"Hellie!! Can you make me one of those chocolate thingies!" A shouted, placing his chin in his hands and pouting. Hel giggled as B raised his hand to ask for one too, with a shy smile on his face. Hel pulled the blender forward, not bothering to put it back into the cabinet, for the blender had seen more use since Hel showed up, than it had seen its entire life.
Roger didn't say a word as Hel quickly spun a chocolate milk shake for A, then quickly making a half chocolate, half strawberry milk shake for B. She rinsed out the blender, and proceeded to put her fruits in there, making another smoothie for her. They all sipped contently at their drinks while Rog cleared his throat again.
"L will be here late tonight, if not early tomorrow morning." Roger said slightly happily, his small smile leaving when the three kids cheered. Hel was happy! L had been gone for about 5 days, and each day was exactly the same.
She'd wake up, thanks to A to make her two comrades something via the blender. She and Roger would have a stare down, before he snorted and walked back into the office. Then A would drag her upstairs to the play room, and either make her color something with him, or play a board game or a different game.
Sometimes B would join them, because after the game B, A and Hel would go sit outside on the playground, playing on the swings, teeter totter, slide and all the other equipment. Then they would go inside for lunch, eat then just go back outside until it became dark and chilly, and Hel would usher them inside, where they would watch tv and eat dinner, before it was time for them to get ready and go to bed.
Hel sighed, knowing that she was getting sightly annoyed. Ever since the second day of L's absence, it was quite obvious that B was flirting with her.
'Geeze. He never does this when L's around, so I hope he comes home soon!' That was what she thought of the subject and nothing more.
She was currently walking down the hallway, curious to go see the music room, which she hasn't spent much time in. She felt a presents next to her, and looked to see B.
"Hello Hellie, going to the music room?" He asked politely, grabbing ahold of her hand. She twitched slightly, not used to contact that she doesn't make herself.
"Yup." She said quickly, turning the corner and closer towards the room. She attempted walking faster, hoping that B would let go, but instead he just kept up with her quickened pace. She cursed mentally, but wretched her hand away from his as she opened the door. She raced towards the piano, tapping lightly on some of the higher keys.
She saw as B leaned up against the door frame. She watched him smirk as she began to play a slow, slightly sad song. B slowly began to waltz towards her, leaning up against the side of the piano. He sighed, turning his head to look at Hel as she tried to place as much focus as she could into her hands and the keys. Beyond slowly leaned forward and spoke in a quiet voice.
"Ah..um..would you..ah.." Beyond mumbled, his usually calm face flushed. Hel continued to play, and did not look up at him, but raised her eyebrow and tilted her head.
"Would you..be.."
"Hmmmmmm?" Hel tried to get him to continue.
"W-would you..kinda..sorta go out with me,.." Beyond said, flushing a bright red rose. Hel accidentally pressed a few wrong keys in shock, and her eyes widened, but she eventually calmed down and and continued to play.
"I..don't think that's a great idea..I've only been here a few weeks. And I cant." She said calmly, but heavily blushing. B looked down at her depressed.
"Why cant you?" He asked sadly, but with a little twinge of anger in his voice.
"B! A! HEL! L's HOME!" Roger called from the bottom floor as they heard a car engine pull up along the house. Hel looked up at B gently.
"That's why.." She said, before delicately standing up and walking towards the door. She stopped at the fresh hold of the door and turned around. B was just standing at the place he was before, starring out the large, clean window.
"B box..you a comin'?" She asked happily. B twitched, but turned around with a smile on his face.
"Heck yeah!" He said "Race you!"
They raced down the stairs, having met up with the ecstatic A in one of the hallways and ripped open the front door.
A screamed in happiness. B's mouth dropped open, and Hel looked out with loving eyes and a huge smile.
"Well..welcome home..you..three." Hel said, looking up at the bundle that Watari had placed at his hip.
'Thank god..' L thought, as he looked back at yesterday.
~*~
L sighed happily. After days and days of calling all the right people, not to mention tricking all the right people, the plan was set. He had the girl who signed up to be the decoy in the sting operation all set up in the back seat. L shifted comfortably against the seat of the large, grey van, the black filled with camera monitors, and computer monitors.
Detective Natari was driving the large van, pulling it along side the place that the locals called 'The Kote Kallings', where all the kidnappings of the carrier children had taken place.
L was sitting in the back, nestled up with all the high tech equipment, while the young girl sat in the back seat, seemingly not scared at all and actually brave. Natari had placed a wig of long, thick and curly blond hair on her head, done in piggy tails and braids. They didn't need to put blue contacts in her eyes, as she already had sky blue eyes.
L didn't like those eyes on her. He thought of them as Hel's. He sighed, knowing that thinking of such was psyhco, as he replaced his focus back onto the camera monitors.
"Now Lissa..no need to be scared. The police are coating this place, and there's no chance at all of you being hurt." Natari said, pulling alongside an old brick house, scattered in graffiti. She nodded, before she opened her door and slipped out of her seat. L watched as the image of Lissa walking down the side walk appeared on the 'camera one' monitor.
Natari climbed over the back and front seats and sat in the back next to L.
"Units units, The lady has left the car and is strolling down Noakes road. I repeat Noakes road." Natari spoke into a walkie talkie that connected him with the police. They responded with a "yes detectives." and the two went back to watching the multitude of screens.
They watched the girl slowly walk around most of the streets of the Kote Kallings for almost an hour, then they saw a shadowed man come out of a sketchy looking alley, and begin to follow after her.
"Look Ryuzaki! The symbol!" Natari said, pointing at the back of the man's jacket. L narrowed his eyes in victory, as the man had the obvious red and yellow symbol that the drug ring lords used. Natari picked up the walkie talkie.
"Move in Move in. The lady is being followed by a lord. On...Favaron Ferris. And surround the alley on Hitchcock, that's where he came from, so the other lords should be there." Natari said happily, clicking off the walkie talkie after he heard a "yes detectives, thank you detectives."
"Thank you so much for solving this case Ryuzaki. Now the children are just that much safer." Natari said, watching on one screen as five officers jumped on the lord stalking after Lissa, and a female officer picking up the small child and running her back to the safety of the cruiser, where the girls mother and father sat, teary eyed.
L hummed happily, as he watched at least 20 armed police men and women rush into the alley way, pulling out all six other ring lords. The walkie talkie sizzled in a message.
"Detectives..we have an issue..watch the screen please." Came a police woman's voice as presumably the same woman walked out, a small blond haired boy attached to her hip. The boy was dirty, and covered in blood, dirt and grime.
"I'm guessing he's the last living carrier." Natari said sadly, his eyes following the child's. L bit his thumb, and pulled out his cell phone. He clicked the speed dial.
"Watari, hello. Make another ticket back to England with us." L said happily as he clicked the phone shut.
"Ryuzaki..wha-" Natari didn't get to finish his sentence as L opened the back of the van and slowly walked out towards the woman. Watari pulled up in the limo and walked towards the woman. Watari got to her first and flashed her some papers. Her eyes grew wide, and she handed the small child to L.
He held the child an arms length away from him, crinkling his nose at the scent of the blood, sweat and dirt the boy carried.
"Come child, we'll get you back to your new home. What's your name?" L said, picking up the small boy, who looked about 6 years old. He looked up at L with intelligent eyes.
"Mihael Keehl.." He muttered. L's eyes widened. He'd heard about the Keehl case. The parents bodies had been found, face down, with about 60 stab wounds each, and the child was gone. The police had assumed that he child had been kidnapped, killed and buried or sold into the child slavery or the child prostitution ring.
"Well..we'll need a new name for you..but first to get you cleaned up. I am L." L stated, as he placed Mihael in the limo, placing the seat belt around the small child, before crouching and putting his own on. Mihael's eyes wandered around the limo, smiling as Watari waved at him from the front seat.
They pulled into the hotel that L was staying in, and quickly raced towards the elevator, Mihael hiding between the two older boy's legs. When they got to the room, L handed the young one off to Watari, who took him into the bathroom to clean him up and his wounds.
'Well..' L though, going into the kitchen and pouring himself some hot, sweet coffee. 'Hel always would make a good mother.' At that thought he blushed bright red and almost spit out his sweet coffee.
'For Mihael! She's be a great mother for the boy..' He though, blushing still, and turning on the tv. He finished his coffee and went into his room to pack, they were leaving very soon, so they could get back home by 6 o'clock at night.
L sighed, sitting back in the limo in England. It was just around 5.30, and they would be back home at Wammy's by 6. Mihael had taken the plane ride quite well, only shaking slightly and grabbing onto Watari's arm when they hit serious bumps in the air, making the whole cabin shake violently.
The young child had fallen asleep as soon as his head hit the soft, leather car seat and L couldn't help but find him adorable.
"Has he thought of an alias yet?" Watari asked, driving closer and closer to Wammys.
"Not as of yet. I bet that Hellie will come up for one that he likes." L said, stretching his own arms slightly over his head. Watari smiled, as he pulled up the driveway of Wammy's. L sighed happily and smiled when he heard Roger shriek.
"B! A! HEL! L's HOME!" Rogers call sounded all around the home.
As soon as the door parked and L, Watari got out, Watari went in and picked up the sleeping boy. The door ripped open, showing a screaming in happiness A, a shocked B, and a loving and hyperactive Hel. She was the first to speak.
"Well..welcome home..you..three." She said, rushing forward and jumping on L, wrapping her arms around his neck, and her legs around his hips and clutching into him tightly.
"Its good to be home love..now lets get inside, someones really tuckered out." L said, his arms wrapped around Hel, as he walked inside, still carrying Hel along with him, as Watari carried in the boy, and Roger rushed out, carrying in their bags.
Watari set the small boy down on the couch, going over to the closet and pulling out a black and red checkered blanket, and setting it over the young boy, who snuggled into the couch. L plopped down onto a chair in the room, now Hel sitting in his lap.
"It wasn't nice here without you.." She muttered, her eyes slowly closing. L chuckled, rubbing her back slowly. He sighed, his warm breath hitting Hel's neck.
"Don't worry, I'm not leaving for a long time..." L said. Hel smiled, curling up against L in a tighter ball and slowly falling asleep.
Roger left with a silent wave, not wishing to wake the two kids. Watari looked upon them happily, as A smiled and walked up the stairs to his room. B stood on the steps, growling in anger and glaring at the two as L slowly placed his head onto hers and they both slumbered together.
The crimson eyed boy's glare intensified, as he rushed up the stairs.
The two raven haired (well, one was half raven hair, the other half red.) couldn't have cared, even if they saw. The smiled in their sleep, cuddling up in their sleep.
