Chapter 10: Note de la Mort
Thanks so much Sayomi2 I'm really glad you like the way I write lol, been trying to keep stories posted, but without a real Internet access I can't really do it easily, finally I think we have some steady internet though :P . Thanks also Draco MalfoyGirl 16 for your review, and also -2-Rena-Paranoia-2- and SimonCatGirl for your helpful reviews. I do not own Death Note or its characters, but I do own Ellie, the lasagna cooking in the oven, and two very silly cats.
Ellie awoke the next morning alone. She almost wanted to believe that the night before was another dream, but looking down at her blood soaked sheets told her otherwise. She sighed pulling the sheets of her bed. Today was going to be a very important day and she needed to be on her toes. Today was Saturday, they had to wait until Saturday to get on Sakura television it seemed that someone else had the Friday slot, which worked out a bit better anyway. Ellie picked up her sheets and put them in her overflowing laundry hamper. "Today is the day I have been dreading," she thought to herself. "It's laundry day."
She took time taking a shower and getting dressed before she made her way over to the overflowing laundry hamper once again. She poured the contents of the hamper into her laundry basket and walked down the stairs. She tripped over Matsuda's foot and tripped at the foot of the stairs causing her and the laundry to go flying. Matsuda tried to help her pick up the sheets as she had now gotten the attention of everyone in the room. Ellie hurriedly got her laundry together not wanting any one to see her undergarments. She had gathered most of it up and then she looked up and saw Matsuda holding her bloodstained sheets with a very shocked look on his face. L was concealing a shocked look as well. Ellie snatched her sheets up as the other members looked away not saying anything at all. Ellie blushed and walked toward the laundry room not saying a word at all. Matsuda was still standing with a very shocked and embarrassed look on his face. He guessed she must have been on her monthly cycle or something, but still holding sheets covered in her blood made his skin crawl whether it was natural for it to be that way or not. Matsuda shook it off and walked back to his table to type and get ready for his interview later that night.
Ellie rubbed a strain remover into the sheets and put her darks in the washing machine to be washed. She got almost all the blood out when Misa tapped her shoulder.
"Ellie I noticed you were, uh…, riding the crimson wave, would you happen to have a tampon I can use, I haven't been out to get some in a long time, you know, I don't want to get mobbed in public and I just haven't made a day to go out shopping for those kind of things," Misa said. "Not that Ryuzaki would let me leave the building anyway," she added.
Ellie nodded and put the sheet down to be put into the next load of laundry. She walked upstairs with Misa and gave her a handful of tampons.
"That should get your through until you can get some," Ellie said. Ellie walked back to the laundry room and finished her laundry relieved that all the bloodstains had come out.
Matsuda was getting ready to leave to go to the studio. No one said anything, perhaps no one knew what to say, and perhaps there was nothing to say.
"I'll drive you," Ellie said quietly. All the members looked up and then looked to L. Everyone had expected Watarai to drive him.
"How many dangerous people do you know that drive around in beat up station wagons?" Ellie asked. "Not to mention it's fairly inconspicuous." She added.
Most members nodded. L ignored it and Watarai nodded for him. Ellie grabbed her car keys and she left with Matsuda.
L watched her leave and let himself breathe. He could now concentrate completely on this mission without her interrupting his thoughts. His inability to stop thinking about her had become a problem lately, but hard as he tried to just stop he couldn't. He cleared his mind for the first time in a few days and readied himself for one of the most dangerous days of his life.
Ellie was tempted to drive quickly to the Sakura television station to avoid any awkward time in the car with Matsuda, but quickly decided against that idea when she remembered Matsuda was still a policeman and would not approve of her breaking the law no matter what the situation may be. They were going to arrive early no matter how fast she drove, at this point even if they crawled to the station they would still make it 10 minutes early. Ellie kept her gaze off of Matsuda. She couldn't stand to see someone who was about to throw his or her life away look so calm. She knew in his mind he was not calm whatsoever; she wasn't sure why he felt the need to put this front up now. He was away from the chief whom Ellie knew made Matsuda nervous, but also made him risk his life and keep a cool face about it so as to not look like a weak link. Ellie fought back the urge to pull the car over and slap some sense into Matsuda. She wasn't sure she could handle losing another person she cared about. She had already spent too much time around him and try and she might she couldn't stop from becoming his friend, a pretty good friend at that. She sympathized with him though never really admitted it to him. She sighed to herself and rolled down the windows letting the cold wind pour into the car and for a few moments she let the cold dry air into her lungs feeling herself become more aware of the air currents, and the weather around her. There was a storm coming that was for sure.
Matsuda crossed and uncrossed his ankles nervously in the station wagon. The front seats were a bit cramped and Matsuda was fighting the urge not to reach over to Ellie's free hand and grasp it. She was driving with one hand, which Matsuda could see must be her preferred means of driving except when she needed to make turns. He was fighting between grabbing her hand and asking her to put both hands on the steering wheel in the ten and two position as the law states hands should be at. He instead said nothing trying not to show any interest, but glad that she could at least keep his mind off of the fate he had chosen. There was a good chance nothing would come of it, they would catch Kira and Matsuda would stay safe and alive. There was also a chance that he would just become another pawn in the game to catch Kira and nothing would come of his death.
Ellie glanced over at Matsuda and saw that he was shaking. She wondered if maybe he was scared of what he was about to face and then she remembered she had never rolled the windows back up.
Kira had taken the bait just as it had been expected. Ellie had been shooed away from the Sakura television station. Angrily she gave the security people a small snarl and escorted herself off the premises. Matsuda wasn't going to be so happy about not having a ride back so she was going to have to find a way to get him out later.
Ellie drove around for a little while and then as she got into some heavier traffic decided to lean in and turn on the radio. She listened to soft rock pour out of her radio and bobbed her head as the traffic began to thin a little and she saw her chance for an opening onto another less crowded street. Just as she had turned off the road the truck that had been behind her had a cop crash into it. She saw a car in the distance that had just flashed by a moment ago. She recognized the car from the pictures that Wedy had. She backed her station wagon up and took a few side streets to keep up with Kira without breaking any laws or being noticed. She wasn't afraid of death by any means, but she wasn't going to die by Kira's hand.
She continued to follow him, seeing that she wasn't the only one. Mogi and Aiber had been following him as well though now seemed cautious, as Ellie was to follow not to close behind him. Ellie saw Wedy on her motorcycle driving toward the Sakura television station. She guessed that his Kira powers must have worked like the second Kira she had heard about who could kill just by seeing a face and not necessarily a name. She heard her cell phone ring. She picked it up.
"Chief Yagami is evacuating so could you pick me up now?" Matsuda said with a nervous voice. Ellie knew how close he had just come to dying and couldn't be happier to hear his voice.
"Of course Matsuda I'm on my way now," Ellie said driving the station wagon just a little bit faster through the alley.
Ellie reached Sakura television quickly taking all the shortcuts she had learned in the city by being almost late to class so many times. She picked up Matsuda and she drove behind Chief Yagami to the scene of the capture.
Matsuda waited in the car with Ellie. This was just a precaution in case for some reason Kira managed to escape. There would be a car to track him. Ellie and Matsuda placed helmets on their heads to protect both identities. The car was idling in view of the red Porsche that had just pulled in. Matsuda held his breath and watched Kira enter the building.
"They will be fine Matsuda, they are going to have him surrounded She said noticing that just a few moments after Kira pulled up in his car, Mogi and Aiber were rushing in the building as well.
Minutes passed and then gunshots were heard. A yelp from inside the building and running alerted them soon enough that it wasn't Kira who had been shot, and that one of the other members had been. Ellie heard through the walkie-talkie that Matsuda had with him that he the chief had been shot and that Kira was escaping from the building.
Ellie saw Kira jump in his car and she revved her engine ready to follow him on the side streets. She knew her station wagon couldn't keep up with a Porsche, but with these shortcuts she could have least track him easily and quickly and help with the blockade that was sure to be forming.
The other members were following close behind Kira. Soon even Ellie was forced to follow beside him almost trying to be as inconspicuous as possible until she could cut him off and surprise him.
She saw the police blockade and Kira's sad attempt at a u-turn. She took the moment to start the blockade on the other side. Then she saw the huge helicopter spotlight and knew that it was all over for Kira. She smiled inside the helmet and let out a sigh of relief. Finally, it was over.
She spoke to soon as she saw the car try to speed past her pathetic attempt at a blockade. She heard a shot from the helicopter however that evened the odds once again. Kira's car crashed into the cement divider and Kira was asked to step out of the car as the police surrounded him. The helicopter landed after a suicide attempt by Kira was stopped.
Ellie listened in suspense, as she was about to hear how Kira carried out the killings. The police had him blindfolded and secured with handcuffs. A headset had been placed on Kira's head and L was talking to him. Matsuda and Ellie crowded around the walkie-talkie in the front seat.
"The notebook," Kira finally said.
Ellie's heart skipped a beat in a horrified way. Notebook? She almost couldn't believe that there was a notebook out there that could kill people. Chief Yagami picked up the notebook and examined it pointing out that there were indeed names in it. Chief Yagami then suddenly fell down in fear dropping the notebook. Ellie and Matsuda rushed out of the car. Chief Yagami seemed to be suffering from some sort of hallucinations caused by the notebook. Ellie gasped. "What if that was a trap," she said quietly to herself. She knew that some plant oils could be absorbed through the skin, perhaps something on that notebook had seeped through his skin and was now causing him a horrific hallucination perhaps even poisoning him. Ellie tried to stop Mogi from touching the notebook, but she couldn't get through the police officers quick enough and it seemed he had been poisoned as well.
Then Ellie couldn't believe what she was hearing, L wanted to see the notebook, wanted to touch it to see the same hallucination. Ellie realized that after hearing the two men speak of the same monster that maybe this wasn't a poison at all, maybe there was something really evil about that notebook. Obviously there had to be something evil about a notebook that killed people, but she couldn't comprehend what was going on. She too would have to touch the notebook to be able to understand just how terrifying the evil creature they were seeing was.
She watched the notebook get taken to L. She held her breath and did not hear a scream of terror from him at all, just his whisper over the walkie-talkie. "Shinigami," he said quietly.
Ellie gasped herself at hearing the word. "Death God," She thought to herself. She had heard legends about death gods. She had at one time been very spiritual and liked to look into the supernatural stories around the world. She had come across many her freshman year of college, afraid to make any friends that year. She spent most of her time in the library researching for fun or for college. She remembered reading only a few stories about death gods and seeing rough sketches in the book she picked up. They were terrifying, but the pictures were so rough that you couldn't make out much. She knew that they had the power to kill anyone at any time, and were though to be the ones who brought death. She had read very little about humans coming in contact with Death Gods, most of what she read was legends, but she had come across one story of a man who had come into contact with a death god, and was granted the powers of the death god until he decided to give them up, and then he lost his memory of the powers all together. She assumed that this story was just myth as the others and didn't give it much attention because the other stories had talked about death gods being in another world separate from humans and didn't make contact, not even to kill in the human world.
The notebook was passed to Light and she heard his screams of pain it sounded like mixed with terror as he touched the book. His screams lasted the longest and sent a shiver down her spine.
She watched Kira begin to be taken away. She lifted the face covering on her helmet and smiled at Matsuda. Matsuda lifted his face covering as well and smiled back. Her whole body relaxed and then suddenly she heard a horrible pain-filled screech from Kira. She realized at that moment that he was dying of a heart attack. She looked around and everyone was surprised, but her face held the most shock. She thought this was over. She had killed him! She felt vomit start to come out of her stomach, but she forced it down painfully. The man that had held Kira's power was dead as she had another tally on her list of deaths.