I do not own Death Note (I'm not trying to claim it!) because if I did-no offense to Light fans-but Misa-Misa would somehow *magically* get with L. (Sorry, Sawyer.) Oh, and Matt's OOC.

It was-Angel looked at the clock-6:00 A.M. when she finally broke through the police's firewall.

Angel stretched. She didn't feel tired, just….Blah. She got up, noticing her back ached, and made her way to the kitchen. She was feeling creative (You would too if you hacked into a computer system!) so she dug through the fridge, finding her materials to make a good breakfast. Scrambled eggs.

Angel's mouth watered just thinking of food.

Angel nearly dropped everything she was holding to the ground when someone cleared their throat loudly behind her. She stood straight up, hitting her head on top of the fridge, and turned around.

Matt smirked at her from the doorway. "I see you're up early."

Angel glared at him as she set the food on the counter. "More like didn't sleep." She sighed as she got a bowl out. "What about you? Where are you off to this early in the morning?"

Matt shrugged. "No where really. Just thought I'd get some breakfast, but I got an eyeful of your assets." Matt grinned, waggling his eyebrows. "Very nice by the way."

Angel rolled her eyes, hoping her face wasn't on fire as much as it felt, and cracked some eggs in the bowl.

"And look!" Matt's lips took an 'O' shape. "You're even cooking me breakfast, too!"

Angel laughed. "Yeah, right! Who stayed up all night?"

Matt shrugged nonchalantly. The phone rang and Angel picked it up.

"Whammy residence." When nobody answered her, Angel tried again. "Hello? May I help you?"

After the soft 'click' Angel stared at the phone. "Wrong number." She murmured to herself.

Matt stretched, giving Angel a good look at his toned stomach when his shirt went up, which she blushed at, and ran his fingers through his hair. "Mello and Near should be up by now."

Angel yawned. "Usually Cassidy is too. But she must have stayed up late waiting for me to go to bed." She added the eggs to the pan she set on the stove, grabbing a spatula.

Matt nodded. "I heard her reading out loud." And I heard Mello in the hallway, probably listening to her. Matt thought.

Angel smiled. "It's normal. She loves horror stories. They help her sleep at night."

Matt's laughter startled Angel. "Seriously?!"

Angel smiled. "Yup! She's weird like that."

"I am not weird!"

Angel whirled around. "Cassidy! You almost gave me a heart attack!"

Cassidy stomped over to her, dressed in her school girl outfit. "Good! That's what you'd get for calling me weird!"

Angel turned around, sighing, and stirred up the eggs. "Ok, I'm sorry. I forgot you're a DORK!" Angel turned around fast and poked Cassidy in the stomach.

Cassidy yelped and covered her stomach. "Don't do that!" Cassidy yelled at Angel's giggling face.

Angel, satisfied, turned around and stirred the eggs again. Matt watched in amusement as Cassidy glared at Angel behind her back and was about to hit her with a book. Angel turned down the heat, and deadpanned. "I wouldn't if I were you unless you want to get poked again."

Cassidy froze and stared wide eyed at the back of her head, then rushed out of the kitchen. "See ya!"

When she was gone, Angel let out a burst of laughter. She grabbed a plate and emptied the eggs onto it. "That's what I thought!" She chuckled to herself. She then got out a skillet and went to the fridge to get out bacon. She laid the strips of it in the skillet and turned the stone back on. Matt turned on the radio sitting on the counter. He grimaced at the rap song currently playing and turned the tune button until he got to a rock station. He listened for a little bit then shrugged, deciding that the station was okay. Angel rocked her head to the music, surprising Matt. Sometimes her lips even moved to the words. When the song was over and the first words of the next song started to play, Matt changed the station.

Angel looked up sharply. "Hey! Change it back. I like that song."

Matt raised his eyebrows. "You know Avenged Sevenfold?"

Angel crossed her arms. "Is that a bad thing?" She flipped over the bacon strips, the grease sizzling.

"No. Just… very surprising."

Angel glanced up at him and smiled. Cassidy strode into the room. "I smell bacon." Angel laughed and offered her some. Cassidy took a strip and then rolled her eyes. "How can you guys listen to this stuff? You can barely understand it!"

Angel pulled the plate of bacon away. "Excuse me! This is a good song." Cassidy tried to get another piece but Angel held it out of her reach.

Cassidy sighed and surrendered. "Okay, it's not that bad. Can I have more bacon?"

Angel set the plate down, putting bacon on her own plate. Grabbing a fork, she exited the kitchen.

Matt watched Angel walk away, his gaze running over her. "Maybe having girl's here isn't so bad."

The man's face, shadowed by a lamp on the desk in front of him, unfolded into a sneer. "So," he said out loud to himself. "She is there."

He set down the phone and stood up from his squeaky computer chair and stretched. Flipping on the news, his sneer grew as the camera showed a video of a blue house with a white picket fence being swallowed by flames. The words on the screen read: THREE BODIES FOUND. Scratching his chin, the man let out a breath, letting out a slow 'oops'. Then, turning off the television, he walked over to the map pinned to his wall and picked up a red marker. Crossing off the house on his map with a big X, he laughed.

"This isn't the end."

Angel's head slammed into the desk with a loud "thump!" for the third time that day. Cassidy sighed and looked back to the math teacher currently giving a lecture.

"Does she always do that?"

Cassidy glanced over at Mello and rolled her eyes. "Pretty much. She has no will power when it comes to staying awake or going to bed." Studying Angel's now snoring form, she added, "After two days of hacking into the police files you'd think she'd be rejuvenated." Cassidy shrugged. "Oh well. I guess blondes are always lazy."

Cassidy suddenly yelped. Angel smirked. "What about blondes?"

"Nothing!" Cassidy opened her notebook and put her full attention to the teacher.

Angel yawned and pulled out a map of the town. She took out a blue marker and put an X on a house. Studying it, she frowned. The houses can't just be random. There must be a reason for the House Burner to burn in this pattern. Angel scratched her head and sighed. Just her luck to be the one to figure out what the houses have in common!

"Angel!"

Angel's head snapped up to look at the teacher who was glaring at her.

"What is the symbol for a square root?"

Angel glared at the teacher, suddenly pissed. Was he serious? Did he honestly think she knew nothing?

"It's a small two on the top of the number." Angel was about to go back to the map, but the teacher interrupted her again.

"The right side." Angel gritted out.

The teacher had an amused twitch to his mouth. "That's right!" His eyes turned hard. "Pay attention and stop doodling."

Angel rolled her eyes and went back to studying the map when the teacher turned back to the board.

Symbols, my ass! Like he needed to know the symbol! Symbols are stupid, anyway!

Wait….symbols….

Angel looked back at the map, a new idea in her head. Giddy with excitement, she grabbed her things and stuffed them into her backpack. Cassidy looked at her in shock. "Angel, what are you…?"

"I'll tell you two later!" Angel waved at Cassidy and Mello and ignored the teacher's yelling. "Bye!"

Angel barged into the Whammy residence and ran up to Near, who looked at her with surprised eyes set in an expressionless face. "I found something!" Angel huffed out as she bent over to put her hands on her knees and catch her breath. After breathing deeply, Angel's blue eyes met Near's nearly black ones. "The houses burning. It means something!" Angel showed him her map, and pointed to the blue X's. "Do you see that? It's almost in a line. Just like up here." Angel pointed to an upper section of the X's.

Near put his thumb to his lip. "And what are you trying to say?"

Angel smiled. "It could be a symbol! Or a sign! Something that can maybe be a message to tell us who he is or what he's after!"

Near nodded. "You may have something here."

Excited, Angel hugged Near, who almost toppled out of his chair.