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I got a bit of writers block half way through this chapter and I fear I may have began my rammblings at some point :/ I dread to think what Chapter IVs gunna be like...

Again, written in a rush so I do apologise for mistakes ^^

Disclaimer: Yup, still don't own Death Note...Don't think I ever will :( I'm going to go cry now... I own my OC Secret (otherwise she wouldn't be 'my' OC, she's be someone elses ...) and also I own this story as it came out of the puzzlement that is my mind ^^

I'll shut up now...ENJOY!

CHAPTER III

"What do you mean, he 'seems' to have killed himself, I was talking to him a little while ago!" I said to Eru.

"Like I said, he is dead." Eru said. He didn't even sound upset at all.

I felt the tears suddenly prick at my eyes. "You're lying." I denied what he had said.

Eru frowned "I do not lie." he said.

"No, but...but..." I muttered. I felt a tear finally roll down my cheek.

"Where's B?" I said quickly, he must be feeling horrible right now, I needed to go and see him.

"I do not know where Backup is." Eru answered me.

"Does he know?"

"Yes, he is the one that found Alternative." He told me.

Oh, poor B, poor A.
I felt another tear fall from my eyes.
"I need to find him." I said quickly as I tried to push past Eru.

"But I would like to talk to you now, if you will." Eru said.

I frowned "I won't." I said, and then added "Sorry" quickly so not to sound rude.

"But I am planning on leaving later on, and will not get another chance to do so." Eru argued.

I ignored him and rushed quickly down the hallway not looking back at Eru.
I needed to find B.
I quickly looked out of the window. It was dusk outside. How long had I been asleep for?

I suddenly spotted B sitting under a tree outside with his head buried in his knees.
I ran down the hallway and rushed to the front entrance of the house.

I pushed open the door quickly and stepped outside.

The cold immediately bit at my skin under my sleeves but I ignored and ran over to where I had seen B.

I wiped the tears away from my eyes.

"B." I whispered as I saw him still sat under the tree.

"Go away." He muttered not looking up.

"B, it's me." I muttered and shuffled closer to him.

"I know, I said go away!" B then said.
I put my hand on B's shoulder, and he quickly moved away from me. "Don't!" He said raising his voice, not looking up at me still.

"B." I sniffed in to control the threat of further tears. "B, please..."
I didn't know what to say. I couldn't exactly tell him not to be sad, when I was really sad myself and I had only knew A a day.

"GO AWAY SKY!" He suddenly shouted at me finally looking up at me.

I flinched away quickly.

B slitted his eyes at me as a further warning. I gasped from his glare.
You could tell B hadn't been crying, I didn't know what that meant exactly, did he also believe that crying made you weak, or did he just...not care. No he did care I could see it in his eyes, he cared a lot.

I frowned "What did you just call me?" I asked suddenly realising he had called me by the same name the voice in my dream had.

"Nothing." He muttered and put his head back in his knees. "Just leave me alone."

"Is that my real name?" I asked him.

"No, it's not." He muttered, "and I said go away!"

I sighed and wiped another tear from my eye before it managed to fall.

"Fine." I muttered and turned away.

I ran back to the house. What was his problem! I was only trying to comfort him, at least A had told me to go away nicely.

I sighed. Oh A. Why?

I stopped by the front door and suddenly fell to my knees.

I shouldn't have left him, it was my fault, I shouldn't have left him alone! I should have insisted on staying with him, then maybe he wouldn't have...

I couldn't control myself anymore, right there and then I broke into tears.

I looked up at the night sky. It was snowing again, so I had gone outside.

"You said it would snow again A." I whispered into the darkness "Maybe you got the time wrong, but you still said it would snow again."

I pulled my sleeve down over my hands to try to block out the cold.

I suddenly heard shuffling behind me.

I turned quickly and looked to see who it was.

I half expected it to be A. No i didn't expect it to be A at all, I wanted it to be A, I wanted Eru to have lied to me and A was still alive.
But it wasn't A...It was B.

"Your hair..." He muttered.

I frowned "What?" He was being confusing again.

B looked up into the sky "You're hair reminds me of the night sky." he said.

I stared at him and didn't say anything.
I then turned and looked up at the sky too.

"A stars gone out." I muttered to him.
I looked up towards where I had seen a star the previous night where there was now a blank space in the sky.

B nodded. He didn't even question me. He didn't say I was strange, he just nodded.

"I knew he was going to die today." He told me.

I frowned "How?" I questioned him.
Truth was I had too though. I just didn't know it was him exactly, but the voice in my dream and told me someone was going to die and then A killed himself, I couldn't class that as coincidence.

B shook his head, "I don't now if I can tell you." He muttered.

I bit my lip "Please B."

B sighed giving in quickly "I see lifespans. I see when every single person everywhere is going to die." He told me
I frowned and tilted my head to the side, which was what B normally did so I guess I'd picked it up from him. "I also see names." he added "It's enough to drive you crazy."

I didn't ask for a explanation. I just suddenly believed him, just like that.

"Is that how you knew my name?" I asked him.

He nodded. "It's not Sky." He told me.

Of course I'd suspected him of lying before when he said it wasn't before, but the way he said it just then, I know he was telling the truth.

"Then why did you call it me then?" I said.

B shrugged "I don't know, it just suits you."

I gave him a weak smile, it was all I could manage, I was still too broken.

"You like giving me names, don't you?" I muttered to him.

B shrugged "For some reason I don't give myself credit for that one, it was just there as clear as your true name."

I frowned "A voice called me 'Sky' in a dream." I told him.

B widened his eyes slightly. "Really? I wasn't the voice I swear."

I let out an amused sigh. "I never said it was you." I said.

B smiled very briefly but then dropped the smile quickly.
He let out a long sigh.
"Look Secret, I'm not one for apologising, but I just want to let you know that I didn't mean to shout at you." He said.

I bit my lip "It's fine B, I understand how upset you were."
B nodded in thanks for me understanding.

I looked back up into the sky.
"Secret..." I heard B whisper.
I brought my forefinger to my lips and made a 'shhh' sound telling him to be quiet.
He frowned at first, and for a moment I thought he was going to shout at me for telling him to shut up. But then he didn't say anything. I bit my lip.
"I like the snow." I muttered to B.

I heard B sigh. "I noticed." He said.
I tilted my head slightly, but then shook it quickly and straighten my neck up. I seemed to be picking up habits from B.

I suddenly saw a shooting star soar across the sky. I smiled.
"It's A." I whispered.

B didn't say anything. I didn't even know if he had heard me.
I then started to walk off in the direction the star had gone.
"Where are you going?" B quickly asked me.
I brought my finger to my lips again and gave him a weak smile through it.
"It's a secret."

I sighed and took a step further into the woods, it was too dark, I couldn't go any further.
Come on Secret, be brave! I thought to myself.
I inched myself forward shuffling through the snow. Then I stopped and suddenly shook my head quickly, no, it was way too dark!
I sighed and spun on my heel. I turned back briefly to the woods and then ran.
There was no way I would be able to walk away calmly when I didn't know what exactly was lurking in the shadows.
The Wammy House came back into view and I took a sigh of relief. I slowed myself down until I was just walking again.

As soon as I was back inside the building I darted as quickly as I could through the corridor so that I wouldn't get caught out of bed so late at night.
I flicked the light switch on before I was fully in the room so that I wouldn't have to spend a single moment longer in the dark then i needed to.

Straight away I saw B sitting on the chair at my desk with his jar of jam.

"What are you doing in here?" I hissed at him.
What if he was caught in here? It was a rule that boys couldn't be in girls rooms after curfew, and vice versa of course, but it was well past lights out. Roger would be furious.

B slowly licked some jam off his fingers, taking his time doing so.
He continued doing that for what seemed like ages.
I sighed loudly and raised an eye brow.
Was he being serious? Why couldn't he just answer.
He waited until he was completely finished with his jam (and when I say finished, I mean finished the whole jar!) before he decided to answer me.
He place the jar down on my desk and looked up at me.

"I didn't want to stay in my room." He said quietly.
I blinked. Oh.
He stared at me in a way that was begging me to understand, but I didn't need that. I knew how hard it would be for him to stay there after...what had happened in there.

I sighed.
"Well you can't stay in here." I reminded him.
He nodded. "I know." He muttered.

He stood up from the chair.
"Come on." He then said as he passed me as he walked to the door.

"What, where we going?" I asked quickly. Surely he knew we would be risking it if we snook out together at this time, it would be hard enough for just one of us!

"I'm out of jam." He said.
I raised an eyebrow. What kind of explanation was that? What kind of reason was that?

B rolled his eyes and tugged on my sleeve telling me to just follow him.
I bit my lip and let him lead me down the corridor.

"Do you want to raid the kitchen?" B whispered to me and we rushed down the corridor now side by side.

I let out a short laugh "What if we get caught?" I muttered to him. I already knew what would happen if we got caught - we'd be in big trouble.

B shook his head "We won't get caught." He promised.
I frowned. Why was he so confident about that? How many times had he done something like this?

B pushed the kitchen door open slowly and peered inside.
"All clear." He muttered and slipped inside the kitchen.

I followed him inside. He didn't turn the light on but there was enough light coming from outside the window to see. The kitchen was quite a large room. I'd been told that we weren't suppose to come in here without permission - that was something we obviously didn't have. I bit my lip and frowned as B trotted over to the refrigerator and pulled it open.
The room was then filled with the soft glow from the little light from inside the fridge.

I walked quickly over to where B was and watched what he was doing. He looked around the fridge humming a tune to himself, until he spotted a jar of strawberry jam sitting on the top self. He reached up and pulled the jar down and closed the fridge.
He grinned at the jam jar like it was a prize.
He then closed the door quietly and trotted up the counter which he hopped up and sat on.

I sighed "Can we go now?" I hissed at him, although he had seemed confident that we wouldn't get caught, I was still quite nervous. I didn't particularly want to get in trouble after only being here just over a day.

B rolled his eyes at me. "It will be alright." He muttered to me "Just find something you want."

I pouted "I don't want anything." i said to him.

B raised an eye brow. "You haven't eaten at all since you arrived." He pointed out.

I sighed. I wasn't hungry still.
But I stepped forward and opened a cupboard anyway to keep B happy. Most of what was in the cupboard was tins of stuff. I sighed, there was nothing in there. I closed the cupboard.
I looked over to B who was half way through his jam jar already. I raised an eye brow at him to tell him that there was nothing i wanted in there.

B sighed and suddenly kicked open a draw. The draw rolled open revealing that it was fully to the brim with sweets. I felt my eyes widen.
"How did you know that was there?" I mumbled.
B rolled his eyes again "Found that the first time i came in here, not been too bothered about it." He said as he shrugged "But everyone else seems to go nuts when the find it."

I suppose people with a sweet tooth would defiantly get a thrill out of discovering a draw FULL of sweets.

B placed his jam jar besides him and hopped down on the counter. He crouched down in front of the draw and started to rummage through it.
"Let's see..." He muttered to himself as he did so. "Everyone seems to have a favourite sweet. Lets find out yours."

He pulled something out of the draw and held in up to me.
I frowned and took it from his hand.
I looked at the label. It read 'Milk Chocolate'.
I opened the wrapper carefully and snapped a bit off.
I popped it into my mouth and let it melt onto the warmth of my tongue.

"Its edible," I muttered as I handed the rest of the chocolate bar back to B "But I don't enjoy it." I told him.

B frowned and put the chocolate bar back into the draw. He then pulled something else out and handed me that instead.
Toffee.
I pulled a face.
"Nope." I said as I handed that back as well.

B sighed "You are a hard one." He muttered. He started chewing on his thumb nail as he thought.
"Not sweet then." He said "What about something sour."
He quickly looked through the draw until he found what he was looking for and then held it up to me.

Sour Strawberry Laces - the label read.
I bit my lip as i pulled one out of the packet. I grabbed hold of the end with my teeth and pulled it until it snapped in half, and then i ate that part.

I smiled. "Yeah I like these." I told B.
He nodded and stood up.
He hopped back up onto the counter, and I hopped up beside him.
I took another Strawberry Lace out of the packet and chewed on it.

I heard B sigh then.
"What's up?" I asked him. Stupid question really, after all that had happened not to long ago,I was surprised that he actually wanted my company, usually people would want to be alone, like he had before.

B shook his head "Just about everything." He muttered.
I bit my lip and nodded. I considered putting my arm around his shoulder and trying to comfort him, but I decided against it because B seemed unpredictable and I didn't know how he would react to physical contact.

B looked up and blew his fringe out of his eyes.
"A left me." He muttered "I knew he would, but I hoped something would change this time. I just hoped my eyes had been wrong."
I bit my lip again. I really didn't know what to say to him. I couldn't comfort him about something I knew nothing about. I didn't know what were different about his eyes so that he could see names and lifespans. I also didn't know how deep A and B's friendship had been. They may just have been roommates really.
"I guess I'm all alone now." B sighed loudly.

"No you're not." I said to him. I nudged him with my elbow.
B looked at where I had nudged him, and then looked up at me and frowned at me.
"You got me," I said. I picked up the jar of jam that was beside me and pasted it to B. He took the jar off me and stared at it. "and you got strawberry jam."

B smiled and let out a small laugh.
"Thanks Secret."
I gave him a weak smile.

"Em...Secret," B then muttered.

I looked up at him and made a 'hmm' sound as a substitute for 'yes?'.

"I blame L for this." He said quietly.
I bit my lip and frowned. I wanted to ask his what exactly had L done to A to push him to the state he had been in before...
I shook my head to myself. I didn't want to say anything that might upset him further.

I cocked my head to one side slightly to show him I didn't understand what he was getting at.

"I want to make L pay for this." He then said.

I bit my lip.
"Don't do anything you'll regret." I warned him.

I highly doubted B would do anything considered stupid, but I just didn't want him to do anything that would get him in trouble.

B rolled his eyes, "I would never regret what I'm thinking of doing." He then smirked to himself.

I frowned, "B...what are you planning?" I asked him.
That smirk he had done was quite creepy and if I was honest, it scared me a bit.

B shook his head "You'll see." He muttered.

I bit my lip, "I don't like the sound of that." I muttered aloud.

B laughed slightly. He hopped down from the counter.
"I need to run away from here." He said.

I felt my eyes widen. "No B, they'll notice and you'll get in trouble." I said quickly, leaving out the part I wanted to say about that I didn't want him to leave me here alone.

"Of course they'll notice." B smirked at first but then dropped it "I'm the only successor L has left now." He let out a sad sigh.
Of course he was now. The original copy was gone, it was time for the backup to be brought into play. It was a horrible and sick way of putting it because it was talking about living human beings in that way, but that is the way the people around here had chosen to refer to everything - The Original, The Copy and The Copy's Backup.
"It's like it matters though." B then said "There's plenty of potential successors around here that would love to step up to the post."

I frowned but then just let out a sigh and let B continue. I didn't think anything I had to say would make him change his mind.

"Me and A were just the first attempt at copying L, we were practically deemed failures from the moment we were given the title." B said "Otherwise they wouldn't have already made a second and third generation of successors already, all failures too."

How many kids were there around here that were training to be like L anyway? And judging by what B had just said, it must have been very hard to actually get anywhere near where they were all aiming for.

B began to chew on his thumb nail, "They've already started trying to assemble a fourth generation of successors." He muttered "But no one will ever be able to be a exact copy of L like they're hoping for." He continued to mutter
B then pulled his thumb away from his mouth. He kept his hand in the same position and held it out to see. He stared at his thumb for a few moments and then tilted his head to one side.
"A copy of L." He muttered very quietly.

A huge smirk suddenly appeared on his face.
He brought his thumb back to his lips and suddenly hunched himself over. He dropped all expression from his face and then looked at him.
"Maybe the best way to beat L..." He said "Is to copy him."

He continued to stare at me until I frowned.
The way he was standing...
It reminded me of someone.
But who?

"Come on." B suddenly said as he grabbed a hold on my sleeve and tugged me off of the counter.

I grabbed the pack of Strawberry Laces off the side and followed him out of the room quickly.

B darted through the corridor until he arrived at the door to his and A's room, well I guess it was just his now. I sniffed in quickly to stop myself from crying again.

He opened the door slowly. The room was in complete darkness. B let out a sad sigh.
He flicked the light switch and suddenly you could see the whole room.
I felt like closing my eyes. It's not like there was anything in there though, there was nothing different from the last time I had been in here, no blood like I'd been expecting. But I felt my eyes hover over to the corner where I had last seen A. Where he had been sitting when he was crying his eyes out over something L had said to him.
It was right then that I think I felt how B had been feeling when he decided he wanted revenge on L.
A had said he couldn't take the pressure...that L was putting on him!

I bit my lip - but still didn't know who this 'L' was properly. Roger had said something about him being a detective. But what was so great about him that they were so desperate to create a copy?

B trotted inside the room and started rummaging around.
He pulled a bag out from under his bed and started to fill it was various things from around the room (including several jars of jam that suddenly appeared out of nowhere - and I thought he said that he didn't have any left!)

He then came quickly out of the room and switched the light off before pulling the door shut.

What was he planning on doing now? He had nowhere to sleep tonight if he didn't want to stay in his room, which was completely understandable.
Why had be got all his stuff already? Suddenly I realised...

"You're not planning on leaving tonight, are you?" I said quickly.

B nodded "Of course I am."

I shook my head in disbelief. "B, you really need to think this through properly before you go anywhere." I told him.

He rolled his eyes at me, "I know what I am doing." He said trying to assure me.

"But do you though?" I said as i bit my lip and frowned.

B paused for a minute and frowned back at me.
"Of course I do..." He muttered.
He didn't sound so sure though that time, I could hear it in his voice - I'd made him think about it deeper.
B shook his head "Yes, I am sure I do." he said.

I rolled my eyes - guess there was no convincing him then.

B started off down the corridor at a brisk pace. I quickly trotted after him.

We made it to the front door and B quickly tested it to see if anyone had locked it since we had last been out - it was open.

"Okay then..." B muttered as he pulled open the door just enough to fit through.

"B!" I said suddenly grabbing a hold of his sleeve "Do you have to go?" I said, pleading in my voice for him to stay.
I couldn't hold it any longer - why did he have to leave me too?
There was only two people I had grown attached to since I came here them few days ago, and now I was going to have neither of them. No friends, nothing familiar for comfort.

B frowned "I'm going to go Secret, I knew what I want to do. Please don't try to stop me."

I let go of his sleeve and looked after from him so that he wouldn't see may eyes what were close to tears. "Fine." I muttered "Just be careful."

B nodded "I always will be." he said.
"I don't like goodbyes" He muttered then "But you probably won't see me again so I'm going to say it...Goodbye Secret."

"Why not?" I asked quickly referring to the part about me not seeing him again.

B shook his head "Because hopefully, everything will go to plan."

I frowned. That wasn't a explanation?

"You confuse me." I muttered quietly.

B let out a laugh then "Yes, I think I understand why now."
B then sighed again. "Little Secret...Little Sky..." He muttered very quietly

"Oh won't you at least tell me my real name." I muttered quickly before he had chance to leave.

B laughed "No. Your names a secret, literally now."

I bit my lip "What's your real name?" I asked him then.

B sighed "Not even I know that." He muttered

I sighed then and began rubbing my arm because of the cold from the draft through the gap in the door. B frowned and stepped half way through the door.

"I've already said goodbye." He muttered.

I nodded "Yeah. Goodbye..." I didn't want to say 'B' - B stood for 'Backup', that's something he wasn't anymore.

B sighed and slipped fully through the door.

"I call myself Beyond Birthday." He said finally and then closed the door.

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That's chapter III ...

Terrible I know LOOOL ...

I'm gunna tell you now that the story won't start properly until Chapter V so hang in there pleeeeaaaasssseeeee ^^

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