Why hello, there readers :D I know, my updates haven't exactly been regular, but the term break finished so I'm back at school for term 4... *grumbles* Oh well, I've got 9 weeks left till the summer holz' at least :D

Yeah and I wasn't bothered posting anything about the ghost tour on my deviantart... (sorry for those who were interested) (BTW, the link to my dA account is on my profile, right at the bottom methinks.)

Disclaimer: Anyone who touches Beyond's or L's asses WILL PAY!

Chapter 10: Property

"A? I knew I'd find you here."

That monotonous, empty voice could only belong to one person, and one person only... L.

A turned from his perch right on the gutter of the roof of the Wammy's Orphanage.

"L? What do you want." He replied bitterly. "Shouldn't you be in bed, fucking B! Or has he already had enough of you..." He growled lowly.

L worked on keeping his expression blank. He sighed and tried heading over to the upset teen on the edge of the roof. The only problem was, he couldn't walk properly; he was limping.

L grunted, and tried to sit himself next to A in his crouch. He tried to suppress a grimace from the throbbing of his injuries that Beyond had caused him.

"Why are you here?" The brunette muttered, clenching his teeth and eyes. His heart was swelling with pain at the thought of those two together. He could already feel his eyes wetting.

"I wanted to talk to you." L answered. He kept his finger underneath his bottom lip and stared at the younger teen intensely with his dark grey eyes, absorbed by almost black holes of pupils.

Saying nothing, A briskly turned his head, and looked at the field underneath the roof. "...Do you think it'll hurt..." He whispered.

L hadn't replied. He kept his dark, almost hollow eyes on him.

"L?" A whispered sadly. He could feel his tears begin to slide down his cheeks.

"What will hurt?"

A trembled and began to sob. The thought of answering L's question hadn't even crossed his mind. It was because his answer nearly killed him inside, not that anybody else would care.

Awkwardly, L reached a half limp hand over to him and patted him on the back. "Everything will be ok, Alternative."

A pushed L's hand away from his shoulder. "Don't touch me! How can you say that! I love him and all he did was toy with me, then cut me down!"He screamed. "He's a sadistic fuck, and why would he do this!"

L stayed quiet for a few seconds. "Because it's all a game to him." He replied. "Everything. Emotions, love, life. Ours and his. A, Beyond Birthday feels nothing. He cannot love, cannot hate. He thinks hurting people, maybe even killing animals could help him with this problem. Make him feel something, anything. That's why he does this. He tests himself, to see how far he can go without scaring himself."

A few more tears fell from A's brown eyes before they somewhat dried. "He told me so many times before that he loved me, and he didn't even mean it." He muttered. "Now he's got you. L, please be careful with him..."

"Firstly, I'm not with him, and secondly, you don't need to tell me what I already know."

A ignored L's rudeness. It was a usual thing with him and everybody had already gotten used to it. "You're not with him?"

"No. And I would never attach myself to anybody. I don't need it" He snapped, along following was a sigh. "A... I didn't want what B did to me to ever happen..."

"You mean you didn't want me to walk in on you and B?" A growled.

L sighed. "What happened earlier was out of my control. I had not planned, nor expected this to happen.

"As much as I'd like to believe you... I'm finding it hard..."

"A, he broke into my room and restrained me against my will." The raven haired teen explained. "I don't love B. He doesn't love me. We are not together."

A felt his heart ache once more. 'So... B and L aren't as one... I guess he wins this argument...'

He stared over the edge of the building again. "Although it relieves me to hear that from you, I cannot escape the pain I already feel. But still... I wonder..." The brunette tried hard to keep his voice steady, and empty; although it pained him to do so. He tried to make his voice an exact copy of L's but knew it wasn't working. His voice was too shaky.

"What is it you wonder?"

"I wonder still, if it'll hurt those around me..."

L tilted his head. "A? What is it that's going through your mind right now?" L's voice was empty and seemed uncaring. A tried not to let that get to him, but could not doubt it already had.

The brunette closed his eyes and felt the earliest few drops of rain hit his face and slide down his body. "... Nothing..."

.-.

Hood growled to herself many cusses and insults about Roger. She stomped up the staircase with loud thumps from under her boots.

"I will find this orphan. I will make this orphan pay." She hissed.

"Which orphan?" Came an almost unfamiliar voice. One that sounded bittersweet and forced.

Hood looked up, finding herself at the nape of the staircase, right on the hallway in which her room was built into. Standing in front of her was Kay, right at the top of the stairs.

"Nothing. Don't worry." Hood tried to manoeuvre her way around the brunette, but Kay wouldn't allow that. She kept stepping in the way of Hood's path.

"Why won't you tell me?" She tried to keep her voice friendly, but it had a sharp edge to it.

The blonde gritted her teeth. "None of your business!" She snapped, trying to push her way through the older girl. Kay pushed her right back with as much force as she could muster. The girl stumbled, nearly down the steps. She quickly grabbed hold of the banister to steady herself.

Hood looked down the stairs to measure its steepness and to think up of how much damage that would have caused her if she hadn't grabbed the railings.

It was a very long staircase, and if she had fallen, she may have even broken her neck.

"Kay, what was that for?" She snapped. The blonde could already feel the adrenaline pumping to her limbs from when K nearly killed her. "You could have really hurt me!"

K didn't seem too affected by what could have been. "You shouldn't have been threatening other orphans. If anything, I think you deserved it." She said.

Hood could feel sweat begin to form on her forehead. What's up with this girl?

"Well, you shouldn't have been eavesdropping on me." She snapped back.

Kay raised a chestnut eyebrow. "And you shouldn't be getting smart with me." She growled. "Especially in your position. Look at you. You're standing right on the edge of a staircase... Anything could happen..." Kay leant in close so she could whisper in her ear. "All it could take is one little push..." She giggled. "One little push and you could be popping daisies from underground!" The brunette was finding it hard to contain her laughter. "And they'll never know it was me who pushed you! They'll think you fell!"

Hood's eyes were almost on the verge of popping out. She could hear her heart beat drum loudly in her ears, and her limbs began to shake and tremble with fear.

"A-and you would t-take a human life? You'll be burdened! Y-you'll have blood on your hands!" She stammered.

"So? I'm not afraid of that." She began to grin widely, and through her teeth she tried to hold back a laugh. All Hood could do was shake and watch.

"They'll know you did it!" The blonde yelled. "L will know! He'll figure it out! And do you really think everyone would believe you if you said otherwise?" She argued.

Kay's grin was wiped off her face. "I've had enough of you." She grabbed on the younger girls collar and raised her off the ground.

"What do you have against me!" Hood struggled, trying to break out of Kay's grip, but coming unsuccessful.

"I saw. You're trying to get everyone against me!" The brunette hissed. "You're trying to steal A from me!"

'What? We've spoken once! Is this what this is about?'

"You're crazy! I barely know him!"

"He trusts you more than I!" By now, Kay was shaking Hood around. "Why!" She hadn't noticed that her eyes had began to water up.

"You're overreacting!" Hood yelled. "All this is silly!"

"No!" Kay tried to stop shaking Hood. She took a breath. "You don't understand. He doesn't trust anybody. No one! Not even me and I've been his friend longer than you've been able to talk! And I saw your conversation with him... He let you see him cry! He told you to be careful! He acted like he cared about you, and you've only been here for 3 days!"

"This is stupid. Please, just put me down and we'll talk this over maturely." The blonde tried to reason, but sadly, K wouldn't hear of it.

"Shut up!" She yelled. She was just beginning getting ready and warmed up enough to throw her down the stairs.

Hood swore that her heart was going to explode. She clenched her eyes shut and whispered; I'm coming, mum.'

But nothing happened. She heard another voice.

"Oi! What's going on here!" Someone yelled... Could it be...?

Kay's whole body stopped movement and she felt her heart crawl into her mouth.

"Oh, Backup!" She greeted nervously, trying to keep some cheer in her voice.

B grabbed K by the collar on the back of her shirt, and pulled her down. The brunette tumbled to the floor.

Hood, realising her freedom, tried to crawl away from the girl who tried to kill her. Her legs felt heavy and shaky; she kept falling, and found it extremely hard to move.

"B-Backup! We were j-just playing a game!" The older girl began to unreassuringly nod her head. "W-we were just having some fun, is all! Right, Hood?" Through false cheeriness, she gave the blonde a hard stare.

Hood was sitting, back pressed against the wall, as far away as she could get from her attempted murderer. "Apart from the fact that you wanted to kill me!" She tried to sound strong, but couldn't help that her voice wobbled at every word.

K tried to stand, but B pressed his bare foot in the centre of her chest. "I don't think you're going anywhere." He growled. Kay layed on the ground; frozen out of fear.

Backup could be quite the scary (extremely) scary kid when he wanted to be. (or all the time)

"Kay, everyone is sick of you. Go fuck off. Stop annoying A, stop annoying L, stop annoying me and stop trying to kill Hood!"

Obligingly, the girl nodded, but B did not release her.

"Hey, H, are you alright?" He asked.

H, that was new. It wasn't any better than Hood; actually, it was worse. She didn't like it and frowned upon being called.

"I-I'm ok, Backup." She replied. Now it was his turn to frown.

"I'd rather B."

"I'd rather Hood."

He briefly nodded and turned his attention to K, who was being awfully quiet.

"Hood is under my protection now. If I find her with one little scratch, on any part of her body, I'll make sure you know I've found it. Even if it wasn't you who caused the damage." He explained bitterly.

Kay's eyes had widened horrendously. "Y-you can't be serious!"

"But I am." He sneered. He leant down, pressing her arms to the ground with his knees. He pulled something out from his waistband; a knife.

Hood nearly felt her jaw drop as she watched him pull open her shirt and began to carve something on her chest.

The brunettes screams were muffled by his hand. Even when she tried to bite him, he didn't respond to the pain.

On the last letter of the message he was giving her, he dragged the knife down, so it pierced the skin all the way down her breast, and stopped right where her bra began.

He grinned at his handy work. "Consider this a warning and a reminder for the rest of your life." He told her.

Hood sat dumbfounded when he let her go. She jumped to her feet sobbing, and pulled her shirt over the cuts he made. The blood already had soaked the article of clothing like a sponge dropped in water.

Backup turned to the blonde. Hood suddenly remembered where she was, and realised that this was not some cheap horror movie or some joke they were both in on. He was going to hurt her!

She tried her best attempts to crawl away when he began to slowly walk to her as her limbs were not yet in full function. She dragged herself across the floorboards, just trying to get away from the red eyed, black haired creep with a bloodied knife.

She was finding it hard to move; her whole body was in a heavy state of shock. It almost reminded her of the time when-

Her thoughts were sliced in 4 when a large, warm hand grabbed at her ankle.

She immediately stopped. She began to feel sick and felt as if she was going to throw up, but didn't.

With quick, strong flexes, Backup pulled her towards him.

The blonde screamed and tried to dig her fingernails into the wooden floorboards, but gained no grip. B dragged her right underneath him and flipped her onto her back.

The blonde was so scared she couldn't move. She could feel his body heat over hers. His disturbing, unnatural eyes that were almost as red as blood and almost as mysterious as a shadow in a dark alleyway absorbed her blue, going on grey eyes.

"Why no screaming? You did it gladly when I dragged you to me." He chided.

Hood could feel her whole body soak with cold sweat. At least 3 chills were pulled down her spine as he spoke so softly, so gently, even though he meant harm.

"Oh well... Haylee Heartley." He smirked.

Hood's mouth fell open, and the shaking of her limbs became more noticeable.

"Yo-you knew my name." She said quietly.

"Of course. I know everyone's names." He laughed, gently pressing his cool blade against her lip.

Hood refrained from saying anything.

"You're under my protection now... I guess I should give you my business card..." His smirk turned into a grin when he forcefully turned her on her stomach and lifted up her jacket and shirt, exposing the tender flesh of her back.

Hood let out a breathy gasp as she felt the point of his blade poke into her skin.

"And let me just say, this one, you'll never lose." He laughed, holding the knife in deeper, so it was guaranteed that his mark would not be just a scratch that will heal over in a couple of days.

The blonde screamed, as she realised he wasn't just going to cut something small in her back. He was using the whole space! Like her body was a canvas!

"Shh, shh! No time for screaming now... You shouldn't waste your energy, no one will hear you. Everyone is outside!" He told her, finishing the last few cuts and slices.

He wiped his knife on her bloodied jacket and placed it back in his waistband. His hands, face, neck, hair, and shirt had drops and splatters of her oozing blood, which had began to dry already.

"Now, if you were older, I'd help you clean up. I'm going to let you do that yourself, for now. But just remember; I own you."

I decided I shall leave it here :D

What a lovely bonding scene that was XD I'd like that thank everyone who reviewed last chapter =^-^= Thankyou guys :D

And 'Ghost' Inspired one of my readers to write a BBxOC story; Chosen, by My Lipstick Tastes Like Jam

You should check it out :D

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