Really sorry about the late update, I've had so much going on and not much time to write. I don't feel this chapter was worth the wait, but I guess that's up for you to decide.

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I own Secret. I own this story. I do not own Rye as she belongs to Flik98 from her story Regrets Of Rye.

CHAPTER VII

I pulled the last bug device off the lampshade.
"There." I mutter quietly as I dropped the listening bug onto the floor and crushed it under my foot.
No more spying for L!

I chewed my pyjama sleeve and sat down on my bed. It was getting late and I was unbelievably tired!
I closed my eyes for a split second and felt myself drift off straight away.
I shook myself awake. I didn't want to sleep just yet!

It was getting close to the curfew deadline, and Rye still wasn't back.
I bit my lip. Usually I would have just gone to sleep and she would come in her own time, but tonight I wanted to see she was okay.

I sat down on my bed and pulled A's blanket up close to me and hugged it like I usually did.
I watched the door like a hawk what seemed like ages. Where was she!?

I bit my lip and rested my head and the headboard of the bed. I knew I wouldn't be able to stay awake much longer.
I closed my eyes as I felt the sleep pulling at me, I'd have to wait until morning to see if Rye was okay. No, I shook my head to wake me up again. I needed to see her as soon as I could.

I waited longer, but still she didn't come back.
I checked the clock. It was passed curfew now.
I began chewing on my sleeve again nervously.

I was so ready to sleep, as soon as the bedroom door opened I settle down quickly and closed my eyes without even checking that it was Rye.

Everything was black other than the tiny stars high above my head.
The stars flickered like candle light in the dark.

"Four..." One of the voices said so close I would have said it had whispered directly in my ear.

I jumped back in shock, to try to get away from it.

"Fourth day, of the eighth month." Whispered the other voice suddenly, seeming right behind me.
I spun around fast to face the voice but of course nothing was there but the ever-present darkness.

Fourth day of the eighth month? That was the 4th August.

"Four days from the first..." Said the first voice back whispering in my ear.
"Which was nine days from the start..." Whispered the other voice this time appearing in my other ear.

"Four and nine make thirteen." Said the voices now in unison, "The 1 and 3 that make the B."

I bit my lip and took a step back.
Thirteen. B. I'd heard that all before, B had said it himself that the number 13 looked like a B.

"The 2, the Q, the child." The dream voices muttered louder.

I closed my eyes tight shut now wishing the dream would hurry up and end.

"For 1 we had a 4, for 2 we have a 3." The voices continued to whisper into my ear, always following me no matter where I moved to.

"Four...three..."

The dream ended there. Half way through the count down it had started four days ago.
Three.

I bit my lip and sat up very slowly.

I noticed Rye in her bed asleep, and was glad she was safe.
She didn't seem to be sleeping peacefully, but at the same time she wasn't restless. I could just see the worry written on her sleeping face like something was bothering her, like something was haunting her dreams. Someone like my dreams.

I looked away from Rye and checked the clock quickly. A lot of time had passed and it was now early morning on the 4th of August. The date the dream had mentioned.

I got up quickly and left the room so I could go to the showers before everyone else would be up.
As soon as I was washed and dressed I made my to the dinner hall for breakfast. I really didn't care how early it was, I needed to keep my mind off the dream!

I was glad to see a couple of other children already waiting for their breakfast which would be served in ten minutes. I slipped myself onto a table by myself by the wall and lent myself again it.

I closed my eyes for a second and suddenly heard someone sit down at the table.

"Hey Secret!" I heard Matt's voice say.

I opened my eyes and saw Matt sitting at the table opposite me.

"Hiay." I muttered quietly.

Mello was standing behind Matt, glaring at me.
I bit my lip and looked away from him careful not to make eye contact.
It's not that I was afraid of Mello or anything, more like didn't want to deal with one of his tantrums right now.

"Have you seen Rye anywhere?" Matt said, getting straight to the point.

I nodded "She's still asleep." I told him.

"Oh..." He muttered "Was she okay?"

I frowned "I think so, I'm not sure." I muttered. I then raised an eyebrow, "Why?"

"Oh em...No reason." He said quickly and stood up from his chair.

"See you later Secret." Matt then muttered as he ushered Mello away, and the both of them left as quickly as they had come.

I frowned.
"That was weird." I muttered aloud.

It made me wonder why those two were up so early anyway. It was still summer break, and as far as I knew the two didn't have lectures today at all, which would have usually meant they wouldn't be getting up before at least 10am, but here we were at 6:50 in the morning and they were up!

I shook my head and stood up to get some breakfast. I got a piece of toast as a cover up for the strawberry laces I was actually eating.

Near joined me ten minutes later, with his usual none existent breakfast.
He sat down without greeting me or asking how I was. I rolled my eyes, typical Near.

"Why were you in Roger's office yesterday?" Near then suddenly asked.

I chewed on a strawberry lace and looked down so not to make eye contact for my lie.
"I wasn't." I said.

"Yes you were." He then said, no a single hint of doubt in his voice at all.

"No, I wasn't." I repeated.

Near raised an eye brow. "If you don't tell me, I'll just go ask Roger why you were in his office."

"Ow...blackmail!" I muttered.

Near didn't say anything. I rolled my eyes.
"Fine, I was going through some files." I told him.

"Who's files?" Came his quick question then.

"What does it matter?" I said raising my eyebrow this time, it was none of his business after all!

"Because I can easily find out, so you better just tell me." Near then said.

I rolled my eyes again. "What I want to know, is how you knew I was even in there!" I pointed out.

"Because I saw you trying to get in there, and upon failing via the door you went outside and enter through the window." Near then said bluntly.

I paused for a second and just stared at him.
"Right then...that's slightly disturbing." I muttered.

"How so?" Near then asked.

"I'm sure someones explained to you why stalking is disturbing before now, so I'm not going to bother." I said to him.

Near paused for a second "Why is everyone calling me a stalker?" He muttered quietly to himself.

I let out a small laugh at hearing that.

"So who's file was it?" Near then asked changing the subject back to its previous one.

I let out a sigh and looked around the room quickly.
I then mouthed the name 'Rye' to him so that no one would hear at all.

Near let out a 'oh'.
"You could have just asked me about it, I've read her file before." He then said.

I nodded slowly not bein surprised by that at all. "Alright then, but I would have rather saw it for myself." I said "But you saying that brings us to the question of why you were reading said persons file?"

"I've read the file of most people here." He then said bluntly.

I raised an eyebrow.
I didn't know if Near had been able to access the files because he was L's successor or he had done the same thing I had and snook in? But I still didn't like the fact that he had been through the personal information of nearly all the Wammy's students! But I guess successors believed that knowledge was some kind of power or something?

I'd had so little time to go through Rye's I never stopped to think of going back later to read any more. I would be able to access the file of any student other than the strictly classified ones, like L's old file and anyone who was already a student working to change the world that they had all been given the goal to do. I also knew as a precaution, lately they had been hiding any file of a successor, like Near, because they didn't want people finding out their real names.

I bit my lip.
"Have you read my file?" I then asked Near.
I looked up and looked him directly in the eye waiting for his reply.

I paused for a second before giving his simple answer: "Yes."

I took a deep breath. "What does it say?" I then asked.

Near shrugged. "Nothing. Other than your chosen alias and date of entering The Wammy House, your file is completely empty." He told me.

I nodded slowly. I thought it would be. I mean, what was there to put in it?
I knew nothing about myself, and there was no one to contact who would.

I was slightly glad it was empty, that way I knew they weren't keep anything from me, but at the same time I had wanted there to be something in there. Something for me to learn about myself. But like there was nothing in the file, I still knew nothing about myself.

"I guess that's because I still don't know who I am." I muttered aloud half to myself, half to Near.

Near rolled his eyes. "You know who you are," He said "You are Secret."

I shook my head and stood up. "I really don't think I'm Secret, she's someone who was made up to make me feel like someone." I said.

Near paused for a second before saying anything. He shrugged, "Well if you're not Secret, the person you've been claiming to be since you came here, then who are you?" There was a slight hint of sarcasm lining his voice, he knew I couldn't answer that and he knew what I meant when I said I wasn't Secret.

I shook my head getting slightly frustrated at Near.
"That's what I'm trying to find out." I muttered. "I am Secret, but apparently I'm also Sky, but still neither at the same time."

Near frowned. "That doesn't make any sense." He said.

I shrugged then. "What does anymore?"
I stood up at that point, then I left the room without saying anything more or waiting for Near to say something.

The sun was setting on the horizon.
I sighed and kicked some gravel on the path.

I was on my way to graveyard. I had a bunch of different coloured sweetpea flowers gripped in my hand. I thought it was about time that I visited A's grave again, I hadn't been there since the day he was buried, I couldn't seem to bring myself to go.

The graveyard gates were left slightly ajar for later visitors like I was. It was close to 9pm.
I slipped through the gates and made my way over to where A's grave. I knew I would have to be quick here, I didn't exactly have permission to be here.

A's grave looked exactly the same as it had when I left it all those months ago. Of course the rose I had left had been removed a long time ago. I knelt down by the grave and placed the sweetpeas where the rose had been.

"Hiay A." I muttered as I sat back on my knees. "I felt lonely so I thought I'd come and see you."

I sighed and continued to talk to the gravestone like it was A, listening to me.
"I don't know what's going on anymore, I'm so confused about everything." I said "I wish I knew...I wish I knew who I was, I wish I knew where B was, and I wish you were still alive here with us. B would have never left if you hadn't..." I stopped myself as I tears begin to sting at my eyes. "But I don't blame you for anything." I muttered quickly.

I bit my lip. "It just feel like there are so many mysteries to find the answers to at the moment!" I said "I suppose I should take them on one at a time, but I wouldn't know where to start."

Although I didn't know if it was actually possible for A to be able to hear me, it still felt good saying everything aloud, it just made all my thoughts more clear in my head.

I looked quickly up at the sky as the last tiny bit of light was holding on. Seeing the light disappear I began to wish I had come earlier so I could spend more time here.

I bit my lip and stood up.
"I want to start but solve this little secret here, me." I muttered. "I want to know who I am so that I can leave here and go find B without worrying that I am leaving any clue behind."
I then sighed and began to turn around. "I don't know when I'll be able to come here next to see you, but I'll always be thinking of you A." I promised and then started back to the graveyard gates.

I headed quickly back The Wammy House at a fast pace to try and get there before it got dark.

I lay on my bed the next morning.
Everything was silent until a little jingle telling me I had a new email sounded.
I sighed and pulled he lid down on the laptop to shut it off, I couldn't cope with that right now.

Rye had left in the early hours of the morning for a lecture that had been arranged for a few of the kids here, the house still seemed pretty quiet, I knew it was too early for anyone else to be awake yet but I didn't want to sleep.

I'd been awake the majority of the night thinking about everything that had happened recently, especially about the dreams I had been having, they were weirder then normal, and I didn't like that one bit!
I knew the dreams had to be about B, it would be the only thing to make sense and it was the obvious answer, but I couldn't rule out the possibility of a hidden meaning of course. Then there was the possibility that these dreams were nothing at all, and were just the darkest parts of my imagination haunting me through my dreams, but I somehow just knew there was more to them than that.

I knew I needed to search for B as soon as I could, if I put off trying to find him much longer I knew something bad would happen, but I also had the feeling something bad had already happened.

I bit my lip and sat up on the bed. I needed to get everything sorted out for myself first, I would have to do whatever I thought I needed to do very soon.
I'd need to retrace all my steps to find out where I started.
All I could remember was that snowy night A found me outside the Wammy's House. I still didn't know how I had ended up there, I just remember walking and walking for what seemed like forever.

There was nowhere really to search for anything, anything I had possibly dropped in the snow would be long gone, and I had already been around The Wammy House grounds to see if there was anything from when A found me, but I had come up with nothing.

I can't remember before I woke up that night at all, maybe if I had woke up where I had become unconscious then I would have remembered something even if my memory was gone, but I had woke up the hospital, surrounded by nothing but blank walls.

The only place that could possibly know anything was the hospital, but would it be worth going back there?
I'd ran away from there the same night I woke up, they had probably been searching for month for months after, so I wouldn't know what they would say for me to just turn up back there after all this time.

I sighed, it was my only choice if I wanted to learn something, anything, about myself.
I didn't want to go alone though. I didn't want an adult with me, I don't think I would be about to ask the right sort of questions with something like Roger luming over my shoulder.
I suppose I would have to ask someone I was comfortable with.

I looked over to the clock on the bedside table of Rye's bed.
Everyone I knew properly was in a lecture, but luckily that would be ending soon enough.

I stood up and picked up A's blanket off the bed and held it close to me.
I then left the room and shuffled down the corridor to Near's room. I went in with knocking or anything because I knew he wouldn't be back yet.
I went in and sat on the bed while I waited for him to come back.

I clicked my tongue after waiting a while, he was seeming to take forever to come back!
The finally he came through the door. As usual he didn't seem at all surprised about my being there.

"Hey Near." I greeted him after his not seeming to want to greet me first.

"Hi." He reply blankly.

I rolled my eyes and decided to get straight to the point.
"I've decided to try hard to try and figure something out about myself." I started.
Near gave a little nod but still showing little interest.
"So I want to go back to the first place I can remember and ask if they know anything about me." I told him.

"So, you want to go back to the hospital?" Near asked for confirmation.

I nodded.

"Are you going with or without permission?" He then asked while he twirled a piece of his white hair around his finger.

"With...probably..." I mumbled.

Near rolled his eyes knowing that that meant I was going without.

I sighed and shuffled off the bed to sit on the floor with Near.
"I don't want to go by myself though, do you want to come with me?" I asked not too hopeful though because I could tell by the lack of interest on his face what his answer would be.

"No." He muttered.

I clicked my tongue and muttered "Thought you'd say that, but why?"

Near didn't talk for a moment and then said "I won't be here later on today anyway."

I frowned "Why? Where are you going?" I was slightly annoyed that he hadn't said anything earlier then this to me that he was going somewhere, but of course there was the possibility that he had only just found out, so I didn't say anything about that.

Near shrugged "Watari is coming in and taking a couple of us somewhere." He said as his only explanation. I wasn't sure if he did actually know and wasn't telling me or he honestly didn't know where Watari would be taking him.

I shook my head then, it didn't matter, it just meant I was probably on my own this afternoon which I didn't mind that much.
I stood up then and hugged A's blanket. "I'm off to ask the next person." I told him making it sound like I didn't care at all what his answer would be and like it would seem I had plenty of other people to ask, but he didn't seem bothered.

I rolled my eyes and left the room. Truth was I had no clue who to ask now.
I didn't know Linda enough to want to go with her, and I defiantly didn't want to go with Dee!
I knew Matt wouldn't go without Mello, and I know Mello wouldn't go at all! Which left me with...Rye.
I bit my lip. I didn't know what she would say, so I'd have to wait and see.

I darted back to my room quickly, hoping she was in there so I wouldn't have to go searching for her. But just my luck, she wasn't.

I sighed and stood still for a moment. I'd have to look around for her then.

I quickly went to the school part of the building and to the room where I knew they had had the lecture this morning.
Everyone was gone, and Rye wasn't there either.

I guessed she would probably go to hang around with Matt and Mello afterwards so I headed back to the dorms in the building, but when I got there I realised I had no idea where their room was.

I started chewing on my sleeve while I was trying to figure out where I would find them now.
I sighed and wondered who I could ask.
After coming up the answer of 'no one' I then thought I would just have to go back to my room and wait until Rye came back herself.

But when I got back the room, it turned out Rye, Matt and Mello had all came back to our room.

Rye and Matt were sat on the floor playing of video games while Mello was sat up on Rye's bed eating chocolate.

Rye looked up when I came in the room and gave me a little smile.
I suddenly felt really crowded with so many people in the room and had the sudden urge to turn around and leave, but I knew that would be rude so I took a deep breath and shuffled over to my bed and sat up in the corner.

I watched Rye and Matt sitting playing video games for a while, they seemed to be playing head to head, Mello seemed annoyed but he didn't say anything. He did glare over to me at some point but just when straight back to his chocolate after that.

"HA! You lose!" I suddenly heard Matt shout out at Rye.
Rye looked stunned for a second like she wasn't expecting to lose the game.
She then muttered "Oh, how dare you!" and glared at Matt, before they both burst out laughing. I saw Mello roll his eyes and make a 'tsk' shout.

Matt then looked up at me and jumped slightly.
"Oh hey Secret, I didn't see you there!" He said. "You were quite."

I gave him a shy smile. "As a mouse?" I muttered.

Matt smiled back and said "Quieter!"

"Well everyone else heard her, maybe you're just losing your hearing from having earphones in so much on that game of yours!" Mello then said talking to Matt.

Matt pulled a face at Mello, and Mello just raised an eyebrow which practically said 'yeah I said that, what you going to do about it!'.
Matt rolled his eyes then reached up on the bed and grabbed Mello's chocolate out of his hand.

"Who wants chocolate?" Matt then chirped seeming happy with himself for being able to get it off Mello. I suppose that is what he was going to do about Mello's comment!

"Hey, give that back!" Mello suddenly shouted and tried to grab back out of Matt's hand, but Matt moved it away quickly enough.

Matt snapped the top of the chocolate bar which Mello had been eating off and tossed it back to Mello.
"Here you can have the bit which you've had your gob around!" He laughed and pulled the chocolate bar out of the reach of Mello again.
He then snapped a piece off and ate it probably just to annoy Mello further.
He then snapped another piece off and passed it to Rye, who laughed and excepted it.

"Want some Secret?" Matt then offered, looking to annoy Mello at much as he can by sharing his stolen chocolate around.

I let out a little laugh but said no thanks. I could tell Mello already didn't like me, I didn't want to get on the wrong side of him or anything.

Mello continued trying to get his chocolate bar off Matt, and Matt kept pulling it out of his reach every time he got close.

"Hey look Matt, your Gameboy just exploded!" Mello suddenly said.

Matt seemed taken aback for a second and fell for Mello's trick and looked over to his Gameboy where he had left it on the floor.

Mello snatched the chocolate bar back out of Matt's hand finally and held it up victorious.
Matt realised the chocolate was no longer in his hand about three seconds later, because he was still staring confused at his Gameboy on the floor, looking relieved that it was still in one piece.

He then turned and glared at Mello again. "Okay, that's it!" He said loudly and then suddenly grabbed ahold of Mello's ankle and pulled him off the bed, which Mello hit his head on the way to floor.

Mello rubbed the back of his head and shove Matt over. "Stupid idiot!" He said insulting Matt.
Matt simply laughed and moved out of Mello reach before he decided to hit him or something.

The others continued to mess around for a little while, followed by another round of whatever game they were playing on between Matt and Rye. The after about an hour the two boys left.
Rye said bye to them and walked to the door to wave them off and then she came back and sat down on her bed. She brushed down her bed while cursing about 'Mello and his chocolate'.

I left her a second before finally asking her what I had came in over an hour ago to ask her.

"Hey Rye." I started, my voice came out tiny. I bit my lip and cleared my throat ready to try and grab her attention again but she already looked over.
"I came in to ask you," I said, "I need to go to the hospital, could you please come with me?" I asked her.

She looked shocked at first. "Why, are you ill?" she then asked.

I gave her a little smile and shook my head. "No, I just need to ask them a few questions." I told her.
I remember that I hadn't spoken to Rye about the night I came here at all, I don't think I had even mentioned to her that I had no memories of before The Wammy House.

"Oh, okay then...sure." She said.

I gave her another small smile and thanked her. She then asked me when we would be going. I paused for a second to thinking, I wanted to go as soon as possible, but I didn't know if I'd be better leaving it until the next day. I shook my head to myself and told her that I was thinking that later today would be best and she just replied 'okay'.

I stood by the front door waiting for Rye.
It was late morning, nearly midday. I had decided to go earlier then I had originally planned to get it over and done with.

"Hey Secret!" Rye chirped as she came jogging up to me from the corridor, pulling on her thin hoodie.

I gave her a small smile in return and gestured for us to leave.
We both walked briskly down the pathway side by side.
"Em...Secret, do we actually have permission to be going?" Rye asked as we reached the gate.

"Not really." I muttered quietly.
Rye frowned and bit her lip for a second and glanced back at The Wammy House obviously debating in her head whether or not she still felt it was okay to go with me. I saw her shake her head to herself and then she gave me a smile and continued to follow after me.
I was really glad she wasn't going to leave me now.

I could barely remember the way to the hospital. Which wasn't particularly good considering I was leading someone who had no idea where it was, that meant that if we got lost it would entirely my fault. I sighed. I remember that it was just outside of the town, so it wasn't far.

Me and Rye continued to walk through town in silence until I spotted a sign that pointed to the hospital. I let out a sigh of relief, at least I wasn't going to get us lost!

When we finally got there. I froze inwardly, all bravery gone. I suddenly felt that I didn't want to go in, but I bit my lip knowing it was just nerves and that I would be fine.
I took a deep breath and stepped inside the building.

The hospital was warm, not hot like it was outside, but just pleasantly warm. It was rather empty other than a few people who were sitting in the waiting area. The reception desk was empty complete from a queue, and just had one bored looking receptionist sitting behind the desk.

I looked up at Rye, and she gave me a reassuring smile, in return I gave her a tiny shy smile.

We both walked up to the reception desk, me slightly ahead of her so they would see that it was me that was going to talk.

The receptionist looked up at us as we approached the desk.
"Good morning." She said cheerily.

"Hello." I muttered quietly in reply.

"And what can I do for you today?" The receptionist asked seeming all to happy to help.

"Em..." I muttered stupidly while trying to think of a way to ask what I wanted to say right. "I was here about seven months ago, and I'd just like to ask a few questions, I was wondering if there was anyone I could talk to who was here at the time." I asked trying to sound confident.

The receptionist looked slightly fazed for a second while she was trying to figure out how to begin answering to my request.

"Em...Yes, there should be someone..." She muttered and then started routing around on her desk and pulled out a piece of paper. "Would you mind filing this out while I ring around and see if there is anyone free at the moment."

I nodded and took to the paper.
It was just some simple questions, but I immediately became stuck on the first one - name.
I bit my lip and looked at Rye. She looked over my shoulder and had a look at the form.
She then pulled a face telling me that she didn't know either.

I sighed and picked up a pen off the desk while the receptionist started dialing on the telephone.
I filled in the parts of the form that I could (which wasn't much) and then lay the paper and pen back on desk while she was still on the phone.
She then put the phone down and looked back up at me.

"Yes, there will be someone to talk to with you within half an hour." She said "If you would like to take a seat..." She then said gesturing over to the waiting area.

I thanked her, and then me and Rye shuffled over to the waiting area and sat down. And then...waited.

"Em...yes you, Miss..." said a person who I could only assume was the doctor.

I looked up at him and nodded.

"I'm sorry, no one told me your name..." The doctor said.

I bit my lip. "Yes, I have amnesia, I don't actually know my name." I told him.

"Oh," The doctor muttered. "Is that why you are here?"

"Sort of." I replied.

"Okay then, come this way." He then said gesturing for us to follow him.

Me and Rye followed him down a corridor and to a consulting room.

"Are you both to come in?" The doctor asked as he held the door open for us.

I nodded and sat down in the room. I didn't want to be here without someone, so I needed Rye in with me.

The doctor sat down opposite us and pulled out a pen and paper to write down notes.

"Okay then, My name is . You say you can't remember your name, is there a name you have been referring to yourself with?" asked.

"You can call me Sky." I said choosing the more normal sounding name of the two I had been called since I lost my memory.

"I see..." He muttered. "I take it that, with you not having been told your real name yet, that you haven't had contact with any family members or friends who knew you before you lost your memory." he deducted.

I nodded. "No, I don't think there are any, I've been staying at the orphanage in town." I told him.

The doctor frowned and gave me a funny look. I think he might have heard something odd about Wammy's house or something.
"Okay then..." He then muttered looking at his notepad like it was give him some ideas what to ask next.

"I was possibly brought in by someone, I don't know." I started, it was my turn to ask the questions after all that is why I was here. "I woke up here, I couldn't remember anything before then and there was no one there for me, so I was wondering if anyone could tell me about where I was found or who brought me in?"

The doctor thought for a second before nodding.
"I'll have to ask someone who was working at the time." he said "Do you know the exact date you were brought in?"

I bit my lip trying hard to think back to when that would have been, I hadn't consciously noted down the date back then, but I suppose it was easy enough to work it out. "It would have been then...21st of December." I told him.

He nodded again and picked up the phone on his desk.
I sighed, another phone call.

I heard the doctor ask over the phone for the receptionist and/or doctor who had been at the hospital on that day. He then waited for a little while, while he was being put through to someone on the other end of the line.
"Hi Sam, I have a young girl here that says she was brought in on December 21, she's suffering from amnesia and was wondering whether you could answer a few questions about the circumstances under which she was brought in?" said down the phone.
He then nodded and muttered 'yes'. He then kept the phone to himself and continued muttering the odd 'yes' or 'no' down the phone, so I was guessing that whoever was on the other end of the line was asking questions, most probably about me.
Finally he said "Yes, that's her. I'll pass the phone over to her now." and then he did so.

I held the phone to my ear nervously and muttered a quiet 'hello'.

"Hello Sweetie." Replied a calm womans voice. " said you have a few questions for me."

"Yes." I muttered nervously. "I em...was wondering if you could tell me about how I was brought in."

"oh yes Sweetie, it's a long way to think back to but I'll try my best." This 'Sam' said down the phone to me.
I muttered a 'thank you' and let her continue.
"Now, I remember that you were brought in by someone, they didn't stay or anything, I think they left as soon as you were taken in. They didn't mention anything about where you had come from or who you were. You were unconscious the whole time."

I bit my lip. That wasn't really anything more than I couldn't have figured out myself.

"Could you describe the person that brought me in please." I asked her then. I wasn't sure if that would help me or not, after all, if it was a random stranger who had just found me and would have felt guilty leaving me wherever I was, then it wouldn't help me at all. But if it was someone else...

"Ah yes, it was a young gentleman, he looked around 20, maybe 21 or 22, I'm not quite sure. He was a bit odd, walked sort of hunched over, he had black hair and dark eyes, very pale." She told me.

I bit my lip, I knew who that was instantly - L.

I knew I had let out a little gasp because the lady on the phone asked if I was okay.
"Yes, thank you very much." I muttered.

"Okay Sweetie, hope that helps, bye now." She replied.
I mumbled a simple 'bye' and passed the phone back to who took it and muttered thanks to 'Sam' before hanging it up.

"Is there anything else you would like to know?" then asked me.

I shook my head "No, you've helped me enough, thank you." I said as I went to stand up.

"Of course we can't just let you go. Do you mind if we ring the orphanage to make sure everything is okay on their end?" The doctor suddenly said.

I stopped myself from rolling my eyes, then paused for a second and bit my lip. I knew they had to check that I wasn't lying about where I was, and to make sure that I had permission to be there. But that was the problem...I didn't have permission.
I sighed and gave in, they would find out soon enough anyway.
I nodded as an okay.

The doctor seemed to already have the number of the orphanage written on a piece of paper on the desk, and he punched in the number into his phone and let it ring.

I assume it was Roger who answered. I didn't pay much attention to what was being said, but I didn't notice when frowned and muttered 'I see', which made me worry slightly.

He finally hung up the phone and gave me a look that told me that he wasn't impressed, so I was guessing Roger had told him that I had run off.

"You can go now, but judging by what I was just told, I have to be ringing back later to make sure you actually get back there." He said.

I bit my lip and nodded, of course I would go back, I just snook off, not ran away.

Me and Rye stood up and we thanked and then I shooed us both out of the room as quick as we could and shuffled off down the corridor.

I blew my fringe out of my eyes and sighed, I was glad that was over, but I was also glad that I had found something out, even if it was just who had brought me in. I don't think it would have had mattered had it been anyone else, but it was L. He knew something about me, he had to, so why hadn't he said anything?

I frowned and bit my lip again as I thought, we were both still walking out of the hospital, I, only subconsciously following Rye and trusting she remember the way back to The Wammy House.

"Hey," Rye muttered grabbing my attention.

I blinked as I shook myself out of my deep thought and made a 'hmm' sound as a 'yes'.

Rye paused for a second and pulled her hair onto her shoulder and tugged at it. "You seemed really confident in there, I always thought you were shy."

I frowned for a second, but then bit my lip again. I didn't think of myself as shy but I suppose I might have come across as shy to someone who I didn't talk to much, like Rye. I went to say something but stopped myself and shook my head.

We didn't talk for the rest of the walk back to The Wammy House.

I grabbed the mobile phone out the file box and punched in the number L had gave me to contact him on.

He answered the phone on the second ring.

"S." He answered with, like he usually did.

"L!" I said, controlling my voice so I didn't sound angry, but I was.

"S, I can tell by the tone in your voice that you are upset about something. That means I can only assume this is not about the file." L said down the phone.

He was right.

"Yes, I called to ask you something." I told him.
I took a deep breath so I could continue before I would let L say anything more.
"I went back to the hospital I woke up in to ask them about who brought me in and well ..." I stopped there to let him figure it out himself.

"Oh, I see." L muttered down the phone realising straight away.

"Yes well, I want to know why you didn't tell me that you knew who I was!" I demanded down the phone.

"I have told you everything I know." He lied.

I shook my head. "That's a lie!" I said only just stopping myself from shouting.

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly to calm myself down.

"Yes, it rather was, wasn't it?" So he wasn't even denying it.
I shook my head again.

"What do you know about me!?" I asked loosing my temper and raising my voice.

There was a moment on the other end of the line where everything went silent then I heard L sigh. "I know you have no family. Your are an only child, and both your parents are dead." He told me. "That's all I know." He then quickly added.

I bit my lip. "You couldn't possibly know that unless you know who I am. If you know who I am, then you must know more." I pointed out.

"Not necessarily." L said immediately.
He was lying again, I could tell just by his voice. But he wasn't like a normal people like that, anyone else would have had the lie thick in their tone, but L just had a tiny hint, if you didn't know what you were listening for, you would have missed it.

I let out a frustrated sigh, I could give up asking him, I could tell he was going to be awkward about telling me anything, but I had to bear in mind that he had actually already told me something without pushing for the information too much.

"You must at least know..." I thought for a second "names, any, mine or my parents or anybody relevent."

"No, I do not know any names, I defiantly do not know yours." He answered.
The first half was a lie, the second though...I think that was actually the truth, but he could have simply just improved his acting or something, it might have still been a lie.

I pouted although he couldn't see me. "You're still hiding something." I muttered.

L didn't say anything for a moment.
"There are more updates on certain cases in the file, I have already sent you half of them." He then said changing the subject completely. "Please look through them and add them to the information you already have."
Then he hung up.

I clutched the phone tight still in my hand before I threw it hard down on to the floor, where it bounced on the carpet slightly and didn't break, but I wouldn't have cared if it did.

I too a deep breath before letting out a frustrated growl.

I looked over at the laptop that was sitting on my bedside table still closed from when he had sent me the email earlier. I still hadn't looked at the message.

I ignored the laptop when it beeped again. Why should I do anything for L!?

I lay down on the bed and closed my eyes. I knew I'd look at the messages sooner or later, curiosity would get the better of me.

I sighed and sat up. Why put it off?

I pulled the laptop off the table and onto my lap. The pushed open the lid and opened the emails one at a time.
They were simple updates on the cases. Some of them were notices that a few cases had been solved, or more information that had been discovered.

I exited all the information on cases that weren't in the Los Angeles area. Which narrowed it down a lot.
A group robbery case. No, that wouldn't be B, for sure.
There was a couple of other crime cases that had rather been solved, or that defiantly wouldn't be B.
Then there was a murder case...
The update was that there was another murder. possibly linked.

I bit my lip.
No...way...

These two cases had been nicknamed the Wara Ningyo Murder Cases by the media already. So even they had figured they were linked.

The update was sent on the 4th of august, which was the same day of the second murder.
The 4th of August...
There was something about that date...

The dream! That had been the date mentioned in my dream!

The first murder was on the 31st of July.
Four days before the second, which of course made the second four days from the first.

I bit my lip. That fit so perfectly that it was scary.
But the next part of the dream, if I remembered correctly, was something like 'nine days from the start' that bit didn't make sence.
There was nothing here about anything happening nine days before the first murder, not even anything on a separate file.

Nine and four make 13 ... B.
Yes, if the dream really was trying to tell me where B was, it meant this case.
But B wouldn't...kill...would he?

The murder victim was a child. A 13-year-old child. Older than me, but much younger than B. He wouldn't...

I shook my head.

He wouldn't kill a child.
No, he ...

The 2, the Q, the child.

I froze.

The 2. The 2nd murder.
The Q. The victims name...was Quarter Queen. QQ. Q.
The child...

I shook my head again. That fit too well. All too well...

I felt like crying...
B wouldn't...

But although that scared me quite a lot, it wasn't the bit that frightened me the most.
It was the count down that terrified me.

Four...three...

There was a reason they had been called the Wara Ningyo Cases. The both had 'Wara Ningyo' in the room where the bodies had been found. That was the first thing you noticed on the case file, and apparently it was the first thing you would notice on the crime scene. Wara Ningyo were like a Japanese voodoo doll and they had been nailed to the walls at the crime scene.

At the first crime scene there were four.
At the second, there were three.

Four...three...

It fit with the count down. And that's what scared me...It was a count down. There was more to come.

If this really was B...
No, it had to be B.
I had to get to him, and quick!

I bit my lip and pulled my little red marble out of my pocket and rolled it between my thumb and forefinger for a couple of seconds before placing it lightly down the case file.

"B...found you!" I said as I bit my lip once again.

I knew where he was. But what next?

There you go...

There was actually two alternative ideas for this chapter, I chose one of them and then half way through started to wish I had picked the other, but it was too late :/

I have no idea when the next chapter will be up, but I just want to thank everyone for being patient :)

'til next time.

~ Roman (UnicornBob)