- Anna PoV -
It was disgusting. She could not bear to watch. But she had to. That girl wanted her dead. Wanted the man she loved dead. She would have killed them both already if she just had the chance. If she wasn't held captive and immobilized. She was a monster.
What was disturbing though, was that she turned them into monsters as well.
What were they doing?! Torture was not something they would ever EVER consider proper. But there they were. Watari performing it, L coordinating it, and her, the meanest and most coward of all, watching it.
The computer screen showed for three days a silent girl. Anna hoped for her to talk. She wished to ask Watari to be more tough. At the same time, she didn't find the courage to say it.
She should have continued her job in finding evidences but it was necessary to look at that horror show.
Anna gazed at the cookies her mother left her to eat. She unwillingly took few bites. Since the second Kira was arrested, the only thing she wanted to digest was a confession. That girl had to say how she killed all that people. If Anna didn't receive an explanation she would have gone nuts. Every ticking second, every lost minute, every hour without a word spoken just closed her stomach and made her want to puke.
A word. A sign of breaking down. That was all they asked for.
When Watari heard her whispering something she jumped in expectation.
But what Amane said was not what they wanted to hear.
"Kill me"
The girl was not crying. She said it quietly and consciously.
"I cannot take this anymore. Just kill me, do it now"
What was she thinking? SHE was the killer! Normal people do not murder a human being just like that. She was the one capable of taking someone's life. If they could kill her she would have been already dead!
"Amane, can you hear me?"
Anna tried to catch the variations in L's voice. He was...she couldn't say. Maybe he felt just like she did. Angry.
"I beg you...please kill me"
"Are you confessing your identity as the second Kira because we found a lot of evidences against you?"
"No... I don't know anything about the second Kira"
That was a lie! She really hoped to die to take her secret in the grave? Even if they could kill her, they would never let her do that.
"I can't take it anymore... death is a relief for me...COME! KILL ME NOW! KILL ME INSTANTLY!"
Anna was about to grab the microphone. She wished to answer back. To tell her to forget about it. Because they needed her to stop Kira. To survive.
"OK DO IT! IF YOU DON'T I..."
"OH NO. WATARI DO NOT LET HER BITE HER TONGUE!"
Thankfully L said that before she did. She would have given out that Watari was not the only person outside the HQ supporting L.
She observed the girl being restrained from committing suicide and felt sick. That was ridiculous. They caught the second Kira but that was useless. It was an unending torture for them as well.
Amane passed out, and when she regained consciousness things got even worse. If before she didn't say a word, now she was pulling the stalked diva scene.
She kept calling L a perv and made stupid proposals like being released in exchange of an autograph.
"Before you fell asleep you were screaming 'Kill me. Kill me.' Why are you putting up such a worthless struggle now?", L asked impassive.
"What are you talking about? You were the one knocking me out and bringing me here!"
"Why are you tied up?"
"Uh? Because...I am your idol?", she answered stunned, "but you are the first stalker to do such a thing to me"
"AMANE! STOP JOCKING AROUND! THIS IS SERIOUS!"
Matsuda shouted the words Anna did not. The words she had not the resolve to say. Who cared if they discovered about her? Kira was Light Yagami. The second Kira was Amane. If they just made them talk that was the end of the story. She stayed silent only because of fear.
"Wha...so...so scary! What do you want from me? I don't want this! Please release me..."
Amane continued whining for a while. Something happened. But Anna refused to believe it. That she was not going to talk. That they were back at ground zero.
She ran out of the room and threw up the little food she managed to eat that day and started crying.
She refused to listen anymore. She held on to the sink to not fall to the ground. For some reason she felt like the events experienced last December were repeating. Faster. More painfully.
Last December...as she thought that, a sudden realization crossed her mind.
They had not lost yet. There was still time to make Amane talk. The battle barely began. Why was she so scared? So pitiful to not even bother listening to Amane, while L was doing all the job.
She threw up again.
"MOM COME HERE!", she cried out, "MOM!"
She needed someone. Anyone. Even if that moment she wanted L to be by her side more than anyone else. She couldn't bear to be alone. That was a nightmare. No way she was going all the way through it again.