Ewiituntmay: Hi :3 Okay, so updates will be slow for a while, and I'm not sure of how long, but if you want to know why and complain to me about it, there is a note on my profile. Anyway, this chapter is dedicated to the following: happy-smiling-cookie, Sen Saruwatari, Daydreams Become Realities, Merrylex, deathnoteaddict (glad you liked it c:), Ayame (Aw, you're making me blush -//- thank you)and queenofspades19. Um, nothing extreme to warn about so...hope you enjoy!
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Recap: I collapsed to the floor as well, I fell to my knees and absently felt arms wrap around me in a comforting gesture, however the only thing I felt was the burning pain in my throat from dry heaving and a great new void in my chest, and a new overwhelming darkness that was coming to swallow me up. Within seconds I must've blacked out.
~3rd person point of view~
L, Beyond and the man watched in slight horror as Kayle and the man fought. The woman, Aliah, was already dead, that was easy to see, and the girl moved forward a few steps, seemingly in a trance. The older man and police officers who had just caught up to them went into the room to arrest the man and check on the woman and Kayle. The girl fell to her hands and knees, Beyond instantly moved forward to comfort her as best he could, leaving L to stand in the doorway and watch the goings-on.
L wasn't really sure what to do for once in a long, long time, Beyond was a bit panicky, the older man was overseeing the arrest of the sick man that held his own daughter captive and murdered his own wife, if indeed that's what the woman was. Kayle was apparently alive though he too was unconscious, there was a stretcher brought in to take him to an ambulance that would take him to a nearby hospital for treatment of the wounds inflicted by his father and probably slight malnourishment. The girl had already blacked out again, L looked away, slightly embarrassed that he was actually jealous of Beyond who was holding the girl.
He watched as another stretcher was brought in for her, Beyond wouldn't let her go alone, so the medics had no choice but to take him along, Watari, after assuring that the man was under arrest, walked over to stand by L, watching as Beyond followed the stretcher holding the girl out of the room and soon out of the building. They followed at a bit slower pace then anyone else.
"L…are you alright?" L nodded to Watari vacantly, still thinking about the girl and her demented father.
"Yes, I am fine." he stared at the ambulance that was carrying Beyond and the girl away, and the one way ahead of it, that carried Kayle, "That girl…she could be my first successor…" with that L headed toward a black car that was waiting not too far away, before the police and other people running about could notice him. Watari seemed surprised, he hurried to open the door for L to get in, then hurried to get in the driver's seat.
Once he got into the driver's seat he asked L, "Where will we being going now?" L bit on his thumbnail for a second as he contemplated this question.
"Please take me to the prison, I would like to hear why that man did what he did." Watari nodded, not entirely surprised by this reasoning, after all, this is what L was usually like, wanting to know why criminals acted the way they did.
They arrived at the prison within an hour and Watari escorted L into a room that looked in on an interrogation room where the man responsible for controlling a section of the human trafficking and black market that was the held accountable for over twenty-three thousand disappearances in the last twenty years. However they had been very careful about how they captured their 'products' and they were very good at covering their tracks, so despite how much the police knew that they were running illegal businesses, they could never get any proof to get a warrant, much less convict them in any way…that was until the woman Aliah Raen had called the police.
They still didn't have enough evidence to convict everybody involved though, there had been one man who had been completely cleared, and that one man was the only one that really needed to stay out, because he ran the business. After that call from the woman though, nothing else came, nothing that could catch the boss and by doing so, bring down the entire section of illegal business that spread over at least three hundred miles in any given direction.
L stared at the man blankly, however his emotions on the inside were a whirlwind of emotion as he listened to the man's story. Apparently, after the girl had collapsed the man pulled Aliah back to her room in the western wing of the building they had been kept in, he had forbidden her to leave that room unless he was with her, so that he could monitor her closely. She had tried to fight and argue with him, she was trying to protect her child. He told her that he was only punishing the girl for telling the police about his business and causing him to lose some of his best workers.
The woman, knowing this wasn't true, had told him the truth, that she had been the one to call the police and talk to them about the business he ran, this mad the man furious beyond rational thought, that the woman he loved could betray him in such a manner. He immediately began to hit her, she in an attempt to defend herself, grabbed a knife from a tray that held her breakfast nearby, and tried to stab him in order to get away. The defiant act only angered him further and before he could even try to think rationally he took the knife and stabbed her at least forty seven times, mostly in the chest/torso area.
Kayle happened to come in during this struggle and immediately ran to his mother's aide, he was too late to save her, but the man, knowing that Kayle wasn't his child, just as the girl wasn't, he tried to kill Kayle as well. He had planned on killing Kayle and then the girl, but by this time Watari and the police had arrived. Knowing that he would be unable to escape, and losing hope after realizing that he'd killed the love of his life and almost killed her two children, he had allowed himself to be arrested.
L listened intently as the man spilled everything, he didn't hold anything back and confessed to all charges against him, he no longer had the will to fight, most especially because his most beloved wife had died, or at least that was how he put it. L looked away from the room as the man was led out, he felt disgusted by the man and the way he had treated his own family, whether they were completely related by blood or not.
After a few seconds of thinking this way L realized that his perspective was probably biased because he felt connected to the girl somehow. He looked at the floor, trying to fight the small blush that threatened to appear when he realized it, then began thinking of when and how exactly this could have happened when they were imprisoned in such a place as they had been. After much thinking he figured that it must have been when he had willingly closed his eyes after seeing that the man was going to torture her for protecting both L and Beyond. This was because he had actually placed his trust in her by doing so and that had been the ultimate test for him.
L couldn't help the small blush this time, knowing that he had willingly placed a large amount of trust in the girl, and she hadn't done anything specific to earn his trust, though she had done nothing to cause him to remove it. Though he wouldn't admit to it, L felt that placing trust in the girl was somewhat natural and he felt comfortable trusting her.
The police announced that the man's interrogation was over for today, so L and Watari left the room and headed back out to the car, "Watari…please take me to the hospital. I would like to check on the girl and her brother." Watari nodded without speaking and they left for the hospital that the girl was located at.
~Kayle's point of view~
The nurse tried to smile and act sweet to me, I could tell it was fake and it pissed me off, but having grown up with my father I had learned to keep any emotions from my face or at the very least to mask them with a different emotion. It had taken him years to train me this way and for any single time that I could not do as he asked or demanded I would be punished severely. Almost as much as my little sister, but she suffered much worse than I ever had.
It was always quite obvious that the man enjoyed me and my little sister's pain and suffering, when I was younger I used to wonder why he treated me this way, and after that cop incident I wondered how he could possibly be so evil as to punish his own flesh and blood in such a manner…then I learned that my little sister was not that man's daughter, which made everything else start to fall into place. That man, whose name was actually Julius Punire, which ironically meant punish in Latin, had eloped with my mother, against her will. I had only been three at the time, so I didn't remember much, what I did know was that I was not Julius' son and he delighted in hurting me in some way or another because of it.
Then when I turned six my mother had another child, a girl, I was happy to have a little sister and almost immediately became very protective of her because of Julius. I noticed that he seemed happy about her at first, but there was some underlying unease that he wasn't as happy as everyone had thought he was.
~Flashback, Kayle's point of view~
I was walking down the hallway when I heard someone shout, it sounded like Julius and one of the guard guys, I was just going to walk by the room when I heard him say something about mother and little sis. I slowed down and listened to them argue for a few minutes.
I was a bit surprised, for as long as I had been here I had never heard a guard argue with Julius, only his business partners would dare to even speak up to him, let alone straight out argue with him, "She just turned three years old, you can't know that she isn't yours!"
"Lies!! I know she isn't my child! Neither Aliah or I have such inky black hair or silver gray eyes! You are the only person in the whole section that has this exact combination! You two, despite her young age, are almost identical except for gender and age." I gasped, then quickly put my hand over my mouth to stifle the sound, though the others were so caught up in their conversation that I doubt they would've heard it anyway.
What's going on?! Are they telling the truth?! But…if Julius isn't sis's real dad…is that really a bad thing? I thought about this for a few seconds, then realized that it was bad, but only because he knew that she wasn't his daughter. Now he'll treat her as bad as he's treated me. I frowned and decided I couldn't just stand there and accept that, I needed to make sure that the guard and sis really did look more alike than Julius and sis.
With this thought in mind I leaned back against the wall next to the door and slowly peeked around the corner, when the guard came into sight I nearly froze, Holy shit!!! They do look almost exactly the same! I pulled away from the door quickly and put my hand over my mouth to keep any stray sounds from escaping my mouth. Now the reason he was always nicer to sis than necessary made a lot more sense.
~Present Time~
As it turned out, a few weeks later the guard had been deported to another section of the black market and within a few days there he had been killed while scouting for potential stock. That particular week Julius had been in an extremely good mood and I had no doubts as to why, after all growing up with him you had to be very clever, or you wouldn't live long at all.
A/N: So, let me know what you think, especially about the Kayle point of view and learning about him! If I get at least four reviews I might ignore/procrastinate from my schoolwork long enough to at least post one chapter here =D Umm...oh, to clear some things up, Kayle is currently fourteen years old, L is twelve, Beyond is eleven and Alizea is eight, just in case you were curious or felt the need to know c: Alright, I'll talk to you later!