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Credit: Original idea by Yami Yugi Alexander the 4th.

Chapter 36

Speak

It had been three days since Misa was confined. The task force members had given up protesting but something about it still bothered me.

Maybe it was the torture, L hadn't asked to be send the video or audio of the interrogation, because that's that they called it, 'interrogation' is a fancy word for torture that's accepted because the interrogator is asking a question or two.

But I don't think the torture was really the problem for me.

It was bad, of course, but I think the real reason was that Misa was stupid, she wasn't devious or evil or trying to take over the world, she wasn't even the root of the problem. What bothered me was that she was being tortured in Raito's place because she's too stupid to see that he doesn't care about her.

Misa was twenty, so she wasn't a child anymore but she looked like she was my age, she was almost shorter then me, and the fact that she looked like a little girl being tortured really bothered me.

The task force was exhausted after three days of sitting in the main room, waiting for Misa to talk about Kira. She hadn't said anything and the frustration showed on everyone's faces.

Matsuda, Aizawa and Yagami were lying on different chairs around the room, trying to get some sleep while they waited, L was sitting in the chair closest to the coffee table, completely awake and drinking tea with tons of sugar.

"Ryuzaki." Watari called through the computer, L was instantly alert and listening "Amane is speaking."

"What?!" He actually sounded surprised. "Visuals and audio now!" L had leapt across the room to the laptop, leaning in to hear the words that Misa was barely mumbling.

Yagami was the first up behind him, he had to put his glasses back on before he could watch because he'd left them on the table during his nap.

"I... can't take it anymore." Misa mumbled, I couldn't see her eyes, because of the blindfold, but I could tell that she'd have deep bags under them like L always did. "Kill me!" She ordered.

There was general shock expressed in the room, even from L, he probably hadn't expected her to beg for death.

"Kill me. Hurry up and kill me."

Did she really expect L to just kill her? Or was she talking to someone else? If every notebook has a shinigami then she could be talking to her's and no one else would be able to see it.

"You said she hasn't had water in three days, right...?" Aizawa asked.

"That's too much for a twenty-year old girl... she must be at her limit..." Matsuda added.

L pressed the button on his computer microphone and addressed Misa directly.

"Misa Amane, can you hear me?" He asked, his voice was probably scrambled on her end, it must be terrifying.

"Yes... please... kill me now..."

"Does this mean that in the face of overwhelming evidence, you are acknowledging that you are the second Kira and giving up?" L asked, he seemed excited about this new breakthrough.

"No, I don't know anything about that..." She murmured "I can't take this... I'd rather be dead..."

She could really die if she keeps asking for it like that... if all shinigami are like Ryuk then it'll laugh at her then kill her, or not kill her so it can stick around and watch her suffer...

"Now! Hurry! Kill me! You can do it immediately, right?!" She shouted, straining against the straps.

She's really asking to die, she expects to die... compared to that, my fear induced nausea looks way more pathetic then before.

"Yes, kill me."

Misa's way braver then I'd thought... I'd seen death all my life and I was still afraid to die... maybe that's how Shinigami feel...

"Yes... kill me..."

L and the others watched her with interest, but no one responded, did they even notice that she wasn't talking to them?

"I can't take it... kill me."

She really looked desperate... maybe no one expected her to be sane after three days of torture... maybe talking to herself and begging for death was a normal thing at this point.

"I was supposed to die that day anyway..." She whispered, What was the Shinigami say to her?

"She must mean when the burglar killed her parents..." Aizawa guessed.

"Poor girl, I feel sorry for her..." Matsuda seemed really upset about her situation.

L just watched silently.

"I would die happy now... while I'm still young and pretty... kill me..."

I hadn't thought much about getting old... but I'm going to die you anyway, in fact I won't be much older then Misa is now, but now that she's mentioned it, I wouldn't want to get old, I would feel useless if I couldn't blend in with crowds or yell at Mello over eating all the chocolate cake... being old must be terrible...

"I don't care, just kill me!!" She shrieked.

What had the shinigami said? Had it said no?

"If you won't kill me, then..." She opened her mouth, but L caughther fast enough.

"Watari, make sure she can't bite her tongue off."

"Yes." Watari gagged her from behind with a piece of cloth, she couldn't close her mouth so she couldn't bite her tongue.

"Could these already be the actions before death, controlled by Kira...?" L asked, no one in particular.

It could have been Raito controlling her but if that had been her set time of death and Watari had stopped her from committing suicide, then she would have died of a heart attack...

She had really wanted to die, and she had asked her shinigami to kill her... I'm positive.

None of the task force members said anything.

Watari continued to hold her mouth open with the cloth, and L continued to watch.

Suddenly Misa shook her head, like she was saying no to something, was her shinigami still talking to her? Maybe it wasn't like Ryuk...

No one spoke.

A few seconds later she nodded and did her best to smile through the gag.

A single tear slid down her cheek before she lost consciousness.

That got a reaction out of the task force members, they surged forward when her body slumped over and began to speak all at once.

"Watari, is she dead?" L asked, He seemed excited, worried and a little upset all at once.

"No, she's only passed out." Watari responded.

"Thank goodness..." I heard Matsuda mutter from behind me.

Aizawa snapped at him for it, but I was relived too, Misa was stupid, and that wasn't a good enough reason to die.

Would Raito come to save her?

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Author's Note: This one's short too, but I had homework again, I'm proud that I'm even able to update during school this year. Thanks for reading and thanks for the reviews!