Hey, Nukia here!

This fanfiction is a side story to Beyond This Love.

I don't know if any of my old readers are reading my rewrites anymore, but I am going to tell you what happened in the Midnight Slasher case in The Wammy House Memories. This chapter is short, I hope it doesn't sound to rushed.

But thank you for the reviews, favorites and the alerts! Also to the unknown people who read my fanfictions, I promise it will pick up at some point! If you don't like it, then don't read it.

Chapter 14!

I can hear birds chirping, they're singing such a peaceful melody to me. I can feel the warm touch of the sunlight on my skin, I can smell sweet scent of grapes filling my nostrils for some reason. I slowly opened my eyes, all I could see was a bright light shining down on me. Am I on my way to heaven?

" Hey Elizabeth, can you hear me?" I heard a voice whispered in my left ear. " It's time to wake up, you've been asleep for hours now. Aren't you hungry yet or tired of sleeping the day away?"

I turned my head to the left, I saw a blurred outline of a face staring at me with bright blue eyes and big smile across their face. I slowly rubbed at my right eye as I reached my hand towards the person's face, I softly ran finger tips down the person's cheek with my hand and slightly smiled.

" Mummy?" I asked quietly." Have you come to take me home?"

" Mummy?!" Laughed the person. " You must have banged your head harder than we thought, how are you feeling?"

" A, is that you?" I asked and pinched the person's nose with a giggle. " I'm feeling great and all silly inside right now! Do you have any toffee? I feel like eating a big bowl of lemon jelly with whipped cream and chocolate drops sprinkled over the top of the whipped cream!"

" Yeah, it's me..." He replied with a smile, he took hold of my hand and placed it down next to my side. " Of course you're feeling great, you've been given a small dose of morphine for the pain which will make you feel spacey for a few hours. But you've had us all worried, your housekeeper Rose is coming to visit you this evening with your Aunt. I think you're going to stay here again for the night under the observation of Nurse Clark, she's really nice..."

" Where am I?" I asked.

" You're in the hospital wing of The Wammy House, don't you remember what happened?" He asked. " You fell and banged the back of your head really hard on L's desk in his office, you may have a mild concussion which may explain your short-term memory loss right now. Can I ask what you do remember from last night?"

" I don't know, my head feels fuzzy..." I answered, I placed my finger tip on my bottom lip and looked up at the ceiling. " But I can remember Backup, he was with me in L's office..."

" He was with you, but what else can you remember?" He asked." It's important, you'll be questioned by Watari and L again. That's why I'm trying to jog your memory, if you tell me what happened I will be able to tell them on your behalf..."

" I wish I could remember what happened, but my memory is like a jigsaw right now..." I sighed.

" It's alright SJ, I'm sure the blank parts of your brain puzzle with slot back together soon..." He chuckled and got up from his chair. " I've got to go now, I was only meant to be checking up on you for Watari. But I ended up sitting with you for half an hour, I kind of ate most of your grapes though. I'm sorry about that, they looked delicious just sitting there in a bag doing nothing..."

" I had grapes?" I asked.

" Yeah, they were purple seedless grapes..." He answered, he rested his hands on the side of the bed and smiled down at me. " The ward nurses at The Wammy House are pretty good when it comes dietary, they always make sure that when a student is sick they get plenty of fresh fruit and drinking water. It's nice knowing they care that much about the children's health here, but sweets are a must for recovery..."

" I guess so..." I muttered.

" Why don't you try to relax, you'll need your rest for when your Aunt Thora get's here..." He smiled with a chuckle. " She's been frantic over what happened last night, I've never seen Watari put his phone down quick enough after he'd been on the telephone to your Aunt. She's a firecracker, you know for an old lady dude..."

" My Aunt Thora is coming to visit me?" I asked and leant on my arms as I slowly sat up in the bed. " I need to get dressed, she disapproves of me sitting around my nightie in the daylight hours!"

" But you've got an excuse to lounge around in your nightwear, so just relax and enjoy it for once..." He smiled.

" Okay, I will enjoy it just this once even if it's not ladylike..." I smiled as I pulled some blankets of me and swung my legs out of the bed. " I need a drink of water, would you get me a glass of water please?"

" Sure, I'll grab you a glass and a jug of water from the nurse's kitchen..." He replied." I'll be right back!"

I watched A disappear behind the blue curtain of hospital curtain track, I touched the back of my head and whined as my fingers brushed against something that felt like a scab on the back of my head. I took a quick look around the cubicle, there was a over-bed table at the end of bed with a sick bowl and many rolled up bandages inside of it. I turned my attention to the cabinet next to the bed, I rolled my eyes at the half ate bag of grapes and picked a purple grape from its stem. I glanced at the green IV needle in my hand, I popped the grape into my mouth and chewed it slowly.

" I'll get you some more grapes, I promise!" I heard A say. " I've brought you a few books from the library too, I'm not sure which one you've read though..."

I turned my attention to A, I watched him place a yellow glass jug of water and a plastic cup down on the cabinet. I heard a snigger come from behind the hospital curtain, I watched A pull the blue curtain back with a chuckle and was greeted by a girl with long blonde hair. I gave her smile as she slowly walked into the cubical as she carried a vase full of pink roses, she had dark brown eyes and was quite skinny. I slightly tilted my head as I watched her place the vase on the cabinet, she looked very familiar to me.

" Don't I know you?" I asked the girl.

" Yeah, I met you about a month ago when you delivered a parcel for Watari..." She replied. " I'm Nonie, I'm the girl who took the parcel from you and delivered it to Mr Ruvie. The roses are from Watari, he said they would brighten up the cubical and make you feel more at home well you stay here for another night..."

" Are you the girl from the gate?" I asked and took the plastic cup from the cabinet. " But if I remember correctly you couldn't talk, you were using sign language to communicate with Backup when I delivered the parcel. Am I right?"

" Yeah..." She nodded.

" You don't sound English, where are you from?" I asked.

" I'm from Canada originally, but I've got English and Irish blood running through my veins..." She answered and tucked some of her long blonde hair behind her ear as she glanced at A over her shoulder. " I'm year young than A, he's my..."

" Nonie! We've got to go..." Interrupted A. " Watari wanted to see us both in his office before 4pm, don't you remember?!"

" A is your what?" I asked.

" It's not important! We really need to go now, come on Nonie!" Said A through his teeth, he placed his hands on Nonie's shoulders and led her out of the cubicle as he gave me a quick wave. " I'll come back at tea time with some more grapes, get some rest until then!"

" Bye!" I waved Nonie.

I watched them both leave the cubicle, I wonder what's up with A? He seemed to not want Nonie to finish her sentence to me, maybe they were in a hurry or maybe A was hiding something from me. I sighed to myself, I took the jug from the side cabinet and carefully filled my plastic cup with water. I placed the jug back on cabinet, I slid from the bed and walked to the bottom of the bed. I took a sip of my water as I looked through the books, I picked a book called Treasure Island and placed my cup down on the over-bed table.

" Finally, you have awoken..." I heard a male's voice say. " I thought for a moment that I would have to hide until the midnight hour before you woke up, it didn't help much with Alternative visiting you. Listening to him eating those damn grapes and constantly passing gas well you slept was not very amusing for me. He can be vile at times, he as no manners at all if you ask me. Yet you choose to be his friend instead of mine, that puzzles me... "

I quickly looked up from the book, I saw Backup standing at the other end of the over-bed table with a smirk on his face. I partly opened my mouth when he held a small jar of strawberry jam towards me, he took a packet of cookies from behind his back and placed them down on the bed.

" I brought you a present, I thought you may be in need of something sweet after you accident..." He said. " Tell me, how does your cranium feel after your collision with L's office desk?"

" My head hurts, but thank you for the present..." I answered quietly, I walked back over to the cabinet and climbed into the bed. " I need to rest, so if you would please excuse me well I lay down for a while and let me read this book in peace. I'm meant to be getting some bed rest, but take a seat if you plan to stay and keep me company for a while well I read..."

" I don't plan to stay, I just wanted to check on your lifespan..." He smirked. " You're a very peculiar human, why is your lifespan frozen? Does it mean something important or are you broken in some way?"

" Don't start that lifespan business again, I don't believe that a person can know when someone is going to die!" I sighed and opened the book. " Just go if that's all you plan to talk about well you sit with me, but you can stay if you tell me what happened in L's office..."

" You can't remember what happened in L's office?" He asked and closed the blue curtains of hospital curtain track around the cubical. " How delightful, I find that quite amusing that you can't remember about how you saved me or maybe saved yourself from The Midnight Slasher. How ironic, don't you think?"

" I saved you?" I asked.

" Yes, you pulled me away from the window before you fell..." He answered and walked slowly to the other side of the bed as he ran his finger tips along the blankets." He pulled a very large steak knife from his mackintosh coat, I didn't get a chance to see his face before Watari shot him dead with his sniper rifle. A single bullet to the back of his head, the bullet passed straight through his skull. His blood splatter across the window like paint being flicked from a brush onto a sheet of paper, he didn't even get a chance to scream. He was given a warning shot by Watari, but I guess he was to determined about finishing his game after all of those long years..."

" How awful..." I muttered.

" It wasn't awful at all, I've never seen anyone get shot at close range before which was fascinating to me..." He smirked. " It's given me the thirst to look up criminal psychology, I want to know what makes a person commit crimes or murders in this case..."

" You're twisted, why would you want to learn about things like that?" I asked.

" Because I want to be the best, I want to be number one!" He replied. " I want to achieve as much as possible well I'm still young, I want unlimited knowledge about everything in this world!"

" Okay, good luck with that I guess..." I muttered.

" I don't need luck, I make my own luck!" He chuckled.

I watched him stop dead as he looked up at the ceiling, he glanced down at the floor and fell to his knees. I sat up straight in the bed, I watched him quickly crawl under the bed in the next cubical and disappear out of sight. I looked over at the curtain when I heard it get drawn back, I watched a nurse walk into the cubicle and smiled when I saw Rose following behind her. I climbed out of the bed, I was pulled into a tight hug by Rose and snuggled my face into her chest as I smiled.

" You little rascal, you've had me and your Aunt worried like there was no tomorrow about you!" She said softly. " I was dreadfully worried when we got the call about your accident, something about you playing pirates with a few other children in one of the offices and you fell off a desk! My heart was in my throat, don't ever do anything like that again..."

" I was playing pirates?" I asked.

" Yes, but Mr Wammy told me that you're suffering with a mild case of short-term memory loss at the moment..." She replied. " My poor girl, how is your head feeling?"

" My head is fine, well it's kind of sore right now..." I replied and pulled myself away from her. " But you're here now! I got told that you were going to visit me today, where is my Aunt Thora?"

" She is with Watari, but she will be along soon to see you..." She answered as she cupped my face. " My poor little Elizabeth, I don't know what I would have done if I lost my little kitchen assistant!"

" You're weird..." I smiled.

" Pish posh!" She laughed, she gently kissed my forehead and sighed. " I've brought you a box of chocolates and some of your favorite soup for your dinner. I've packed all of your belongs in the room you were standing in, they will be brought down here to the ward before you go to sleep tonight. Remember to have a wash too, clean behind both of your ears or you'll be growing mushrooms from behind them..."

" Rose, you're embarrassing me!" I giggled.

" Now then little Miss, get in that bed before your Aunt gets here..." She smiled. " You're meant to be resting, so get your little tush on that bed!"

I climbed back onto the bed, I covered myself up with the blankets and watched Rose sit down on the end of the bed. I listened to her talking about what had been going on at home well I had been staying at The Wammy House well she flicked through a magazine, she even told me about a little stray cat that had been hanging around in the cottage's back garden. I began to curl a piece of my hair around my finger as I looked away from Rose, she sure knows how to talk a lot sometimes.