Poll's up now, so you can vote on that if you want. By the way, sorry if this chapter's rubbish or short or there are spelling mistakes... you get the idea. I'm pretty tired and my brain's not working too well at the moment. I need caffeine...
...
Elle
"Matt and I will see if we can find any information from Misa and the others. Elle, you can see if you can find out who this stalker is." Mello says.
"Why me?" I ask. "I want to help Matt!"
"The stalker said he or she knew either you or me, but not Matt. If it's someone I know..."
"Yeah, I know. Matt would probably know them too, so it's more likely I know them. Alright, I will see what I can do. Can I have your phone, Matt? It seems like a good place to start."
"'Kay." Matt hands me his phone and I look at his inbox, reading the anonymous text messages.
"I don't suppose any of you know how to find out anonymous numbers?" I ask.
"I've already tried that, and whoever it is has made it impossible. Do you really think I'd ask you to find out who it is if I could do it myself?" Mello says.
"Alright, alright. So you're letting me do this because you can't do it? What if I'm unable to do it?"
"It won't matter too much if they don't get any important information out of us, will it?" Matt says. "They're not exactly doing anything."
"No, but we can't take the chance of them finding anything out. Besides, if they're on our side why keep their identity a secret? It doesn't make sense." Mello says. "So we can assume they're either on Kira's, Near's or the Task Force's side."
"I know. I'll have a go, but don't expect too much. There's just one thing that's bothering me, though."
"Which is?" Mello asks. He already knows, I can tell.
"You know what I'm talking about. How did they know we were going to break in? We're being watched." I flip Matt's phone over and prise the back off. I remove the battery, and smile as I see a small device attached to the SIM card. (A/N I have no knowledge of phone bugs or where they go or what they look like, so if this description is totally inaccurate, whatever. Sorry.)
"You knew that was there, didn't you Mello? You wanted to see how useful I am, and also double check that I'm not working with the stalker against you. If I was spying for them, I would hardly point out that they've bugged your phones."
"Yes. I needed to make sure. I checked our phones as soon as we got back, and they're all bugged, even your mobile Elle. I removed the bugs from all of them except Matt's phone."
"And then you gave it to me to check. Well, I passed." I don't voice the fact that I have a pretty good idea of who the stalker is, and that I don't think they mean us any harm. That kind of information is best kept secret at the moment, until I'm sure. I'm only about 36% certain at the moment. I need more evidence.
"Mello, don't you trust her?" Matt says.
"Unlike you, not entirely. Remember, she came out of nowhere, and has been in contact with the task force before. She could be anyone."
"Yeah, but we know she's not helping the task force! Light Yagami is leading the task force, and he's Kira! Why would Elle help the guy who she knows killed her father?" I shrug.
"It doesn't matter. Mello, you can keep an eye on me as much as you want. I can guarantee you won't find anything, because how can you find something if there's nothing to find?"
"We'll see." Mello says. "Well then, get to it. Search the house for any more bugs, and see what you can do."
"Fine," I sigh. "I get the boring job..."
"No, you get the job that will convince me you're not spying for the task force if you do it right." Mello snaps. "We're not getting anywhere. At this rate Near will beat us to Kira. We can't let that happen. This is the only lead we've got, so Matt and I will investigate that, while you prove that you're not spying on us. I am not coming second to Near yet again. Just this once I'm going to beat him. This is the most logical course of action." Matt and I exchange glances. Mello sounds slightly obsessed. Well, more than slightly. I knew he really wants to beat Near, but I didn't know he was this obsessed.
"Fine, fine, I'll look for the bugs. Good luck with watching them." I exit the room and begin my search.
I remove yet another bug from under the table. Whoever the stalker is, they've done a very thorough job of it. There are bugs everywhere. I enter the living room, where Matt is playing on a gameboy and apparently watching several screens.
"Busy?" I ask.
"Yeah. Now shush. This bit's difficult, don't distract me!" I ignore him.
"I thought you were watching the screens."
"I am. It's kinda boring though, so I'm playing this too. I thought you were looking for bugs?"
"Yes, but I'm almost finished."
"You know that after you're done Mello will comb the house and if he spots even one bug that you didn't find he'll accuse you of spying on us, right?" I laugh.
"Yeah. I'll just have to hope that I find them all. Is he normally that obsessed about beating Near?"
"He was to begin with, but then he calmed down a little. I don't know what's got him so worked up recently."
"Maybe it's because I beat him in that race. Maybe he wants to do better than me as well," I joke.
"Maybe. That might be part of it, but I think he's agitated because we haven't really made any progress, and from the sound of it Near's almost cracked it. It's kinda frustrating, isn't it? We know who Kira is but we don't have any proof. Like when there's a really useful item just out of reach..." he grimaced. I peek over his shoulder and watch his character leaping hopelessly at something that looks like a power up. I laugh.
"It's not funny. It's a pain in the backside. Like Kira."
"Yeah. Like Kira."
...
Oh by the way, just a quick word of warning: I LOVE lying to people for my own entertainment. So, when I said it wasn't a random OC that I just made up, was I telling the truth? Or am I just saying this now to try and make you think it is? :P Ponder that!
