Chapter five:

Mello continues moving all the while glancing around himself as well as listening as carefully as he can. He comes to the last area of the orphanage to search and grumbles to himself. "Just fucking great. I got nothing. No sign or nothing." He sighs heavily with his shoulders slumping. "Now what should I do?" His thoughts are however interrupted when he spots a teacher pausing to glance around herself. He ducks down around a corner peering cautiously out as he slightly crouches. He has one hand on the corner slightly clutching it. He watches in curiosity and wondering what's gotten into the teacher who is normally so laid back.

She heads off down another way in which Mello follows after her now having something new to do with himself. She leads him towards a door not far from where he first spotted her, where she pauses once more truly wanting to ensure that she wasn't being followed.

Mello stays hidden though he peers back around the corner he had hid behind when he hears the door open. He is just in time to see the teacher he had followed head into the room leaving the door open. He is quick to go to the door peering inside.

The room looks like a storage room of some sort though the teacher heads towards the back wall as Mello watches her do so.

The teacher does something to the wall only for a secret passage to open up. In which the teacher heads inside the dimly lit staircase that has been revealed with the walls looking to be stone like a dungeon.

Mello follows inside just in time as the door starts to close. He glances back as the door slightly slams shut behind him having slide from one side to the other just like how it had opened. He turns back to the slight spiral stone staircase and the deeper it goes the darker it looks though it is technically lit up a little. He follows the staircase with the teacher having gotten ahead while he was distracted by the door. He soon makes it down to the bottom but he pauses to peer into the room.

Mainly the center of the room is lit up leaving the edges by the walls left in darkness thanks to the dying lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. There is some tables here and there with a bunch of different things set up on it from papers to blueprints and about two computers. There's also a large red tool chest closer to the far corner but it has been placed to stay in the light so it can be seen. Finally there is some sort of large mostly silver colored metal machine in the dead center of the room. It has some slightly clear yet bumpy looking tubes coming from it going downwards into the cool cement flooring.

Mello ducks down quickly into the darkness wanting to watch to figure out what's going on down here. He isn't completely sure what in the world he is looking at.

"Yes. Yes. This will work." The teacher nods looking over the machine while also walking around it. "They've done such a good job. I'm sure that he'll be very pleased with how things have turned out." The teacher goes to one of the tables and begins writing on one of the pieces of paper set out on one of the tables in the room.

There is silence around them and Mello glances to other darker areas considering moving around to inspect the machine to attempt to figure out what in the world is going on here.

The teacher however finishes whatever she had been writing down on the piece of paper. "Okay then. Right on schedule. We'll be ready in time. Hopefully the machine doesn't mess up or anything when the time comes. They'll be so dead if anything like that is to happen. He would never allow such a slip up. Not after all this time we've spent getting it ready and how much we've made him wait." She reaches over gently placing a hand against the machine almost as if marveling about it. "It's so exciting. I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep until it's time for it to do its thing. What it was built to do."

Mello can clearly imagine the smile spread across her face without having to look at her.

"He most certainly will be very pleased with how everything has come along. He will especially be pleased with the news on how well it all looks." The teacher takes a pause to pick up examining some blueprints that she turns with her body to look at the blueprints. She lowers the blue prints to look upon the machine before raising the blueprints once more. She does this a few more times before nodding to herself. "Yes yes this will do just nicely. Everything looks to be complete as far as I can tell." She turns back to the table placing the blueprints back down on the table she had picked them up from. "I absolutely must report this to him at once." She speaks flipping one palm to be facing the ceiling at chest height and makes a fist with the other hand lightly smacking it against the palm of her hand. "Oh I can't wait to see his face when he hears just how well his oh most wonderful and brilliant plan is coming together." After she has spoken those words her hands come up to her face with her hands placed upon her cheeks. "Oh he'll be so proud and happy. I'll get to see him smile at me. Ohh I must go right away!" She turns lowering her hands back down to her sides. She hurries up the stairs slightly jogging due to wearing high heels with no practice running in them.

Mello is quick to follow her trying to stay quiet but he doesn't feel like possibly getting trapped in there. He keeps in what he believes should be her blind spot which seems to work. He makes a mental note of how to open the door watching her press the pattern on a loose broken looking brick that slides in and out when pushed on different spots. He follows her out quickly ducking down behind a nearby box as she glances back to ensure the door close.

The door closes and the teacher not having seen the blonde orphan heads off to go to talk to whoever this 'he' turns out to be.

Mello comes out of hiding once she's gone and gets out of the room before he is caught. He heads down the hall thinking to himself however he manages to stop before he runs right into Near.

Near looks to his face regarding him with his stormy grey eyes for a moment or two while Mello stares back. He seems to have gathered all of the information he needs to read the others emotions.

Which isn't hard considering that at times it can seem like Mello is an open book with his emotions.

"What's wrong?" Near inquires to the other.