Chapter Three: The Beauty of the Reaper
When Sora woke up she found herself wearing a thin black satin nightgown. To her relief, Beyond had released her from the chain. She sat up and looked around aimlessly, spotting the small music box playing its haunting melody. She rubbed her sore wrists to try and take away a bit of the pain that was found there. When she reached out, yet again, to stop the eerie music from playing, something caught her arm. She jumped up and saw Beyond firmly holding her thin scarred arm. He was wearing nothing but his faded jeans which seemed to be stained with dark red blood. He turned to look at Sora.
"Oh good. You're awake." Beyond smiled.
"B-Beyond! What do you think you are doing!" she shouted loudly, slightly distracted by the fact his pale torso was seemingly free of imperfections except for a pale scar plastered under his chest. It had a distinct shape, but Sora couldn't tell what it was.
Beyond smirked, "Oh Sora you are so cute when you're angry." He chuckled softly, slightly pulling Sora closer.
"T-there's blood on your jeans!" she screamed, immediately repulsed.
"Don't worry Sora. It is not my own blood." Beyond smiled maniacally.
Sora looked from his smile to her own body, checking for any new scars he could have given her. Nothing. Beyond chuckled as she checked herself for wounds. After seeing she had not acquired any new wounds, she glared angrily back at the smirking criminal.
"You filthy murderer! Who's blood is that?" Beyond just shrugged casually.
"Just some guy's." he hopped on the satin bed to get closer to the angered and disgusted Sora. The way he said it reminded Sora of how people read off grocery lists.
"Don't get any closer! You psychopath!" Sora shouted furiously, trying to pull away from the now very close man, but to no avail. Her wrist was caught in his firm grasp. Beyond just laughed at her weak struggling. Suddenly, he pulled her wrist, causing her to fall forwards and land right on his naked chest. Beyond heard her gasp and just pushed her against him.
"Aw…Sora." he whispered, almost seductively. "I love it when you get angry. It's so passionate." he teased. Sora just tried to push against him, but she was so weak. His strong hold didn't even budge. Beyond then placed his hand across her woundless shoulder. Sora gasped when she felt a cold metallic substance on her.
"Beyond…"
"What?" Beyond said innocently. Sora could almost feel his smirk take over his pale face.
"What do you have in your hands? What are you hiding?"
"mmmm…nothing." Beyond said playfully.
"Let me go and show me right now!" Sora ordered firmly. Beyond sighed and replaced his hands with chains, chaining Sora once again completely to the bed post. He then showed his skeletal hands. They were covered in crimson metallic blood that was still fresh.
Sora stared in utter shock. Beyond noticed her looked and laughed softly. "Like the color?" he said without any trace of remorse.
"You psycho! You deserve to be dead! I refuse to die until I have you imprisoned! I'll kill you!" Sora shouted in hysterics, trying to thrash against his embrace. She couldn't believe it. How could this criminally insane man take a human life so bluntly? The thought disgusted her to the very core of her being. She wanted to see him dead. She wanted him to suffer for all the lives he took so carelessly. She wanted him to pay. She wanted his blood to be shed, not the blood of innocent beings.
Beyond let her go and forcefully pushed her back on the bed. Her head hit the metal bedpost with strong force. She winced as the pain shot to her head. She reached her scarred hand up to massage the spot her head made contact with the post, buy Beyond snatched it vigorously and held it back.
Beyond has a look of sheer anger is his blood crazed eyes. His whole body tensed up. "I don't think you are in ANY position to make threats Sora. I could leave you here to rot but I'm not going to, after all I told you I wasn't going to kill you and you aren't much good to me if you are dead." he snapped angrily at Sora, tightening his already strong grip on her slender wrist, causing her to wince in pain. He tightened up the chains that bound her so she was unable to move a muscle. He crawled onto the bed and sat next to the paralyzed Sora, stroking her long and choppy dark brown hair. Sora felt sick at the thought that the blood on Beyond's hands were getting in her hair.
Beyond seemed to relax a little, releasing the tension in his body as well as his face. He let out an exasperated sigh and looked calmly into Sora's onyx-gray eyes.
"You know Sora. Blood is actually quite a mysterious beauty." he said. His voice was strangely sweet and almost poetic and his gaze seemed innocent and pure. Sora only stared blankly, thrown off by this rare side of kindness Beyond was displaying, but she knew that Beyond Birthday was anything but sweet. He was a bloody psycho who laughed at the pain of others and found pleasure in killing and torturing his victims.
"What?" Sora said, shocked and sickened by his words.
"I love blood. The beautiful and mesmerizing bright, ruby red that it is when it is fresh. Almost like a rose. Then when it dries it turns dark, like the color of the best red Italian wine. What's even more hypnotizing about it is that everybody has it, but it is like a hidden treasure, like to Roman sculptures and ruins buried deep under the earth. It should be taken out and have its breathtaking beauty shared with the world., like the works of fine art that people travel all over the world for and dream of seeing in art galleries." He smiled sweetly, staring lovingly at the blood on his hands.
"You make murder sound romantic." Sora said sickened but astonished by Beyond's statement.
"Maybe it is depending on the way you look at it." Beyond whispered in Sora's ear and started to trace his fingers along her clean arm, leaving long red smears from the blood on his hands. He had a surprisingly soft touch for a serial killer. It was strange.
Seeing Sora follow the pattern of blood he was leaving on her arm, he silently scooted closer and whispered in her ear.
"Well how do you look at it Sora? "he said huskily. Sora was brought back from her trance and looked at his blood red eyes. He looked at her intently, as if he was trying to send her a message through his eyes. Sora then tried to avert her gaze and her eyes fell upon the blood pattern on her arm. Beyond had drawn and Old English Style "B" on her arm. She then saw the scar under his chest. It was an Old English Style "B", matching the one on her arm. He looked at her eyes and smiled sweetly.
"Well?" he asked, waiting for Sora's answer.
"uh…I don't really know..." she stuttered, caught off guard by his gaze.
Beyond suddenly tightened his grip on her arm, smearing the "B" he had drawn. Sora shocked by the movement looked up at him. His eyes had gone from a sweet look to a look of pure anger and hatred. His body tensed up one again and he let out a blood churning laugh.
"Of course you know! How could you not know? Obviously you don't like blood! Its people like you and your beloved L Lawliet that stop the beauty of blood from being displayed to the world!" He spat out L's name. Sora was shocked and scared at the name. Did Beyond somehow know L? Did he know where he was? Now that she looked at it, it didn't seem like a complete coincidence that they looked almost exactly alike. She started to pull away from Beyond. Beyond grabbed the chain that bounded her and tightened it more so it cut deeply into her wrists. Sora screamed in pain, a single tear rolling from her onyx eyes.
Beyond looked disgusted at her, but then he laughed maniacally. "Oh! Did I strike a nerve with your precious Lawlipop?" he smiled evilly, sending chills down Sora's spine. "Well your precious Lawlipop was the one who did this to me! He caused me to suffer! I was put through Hell so that poor excuse of a human could live! It should be HIS blood on my hands! He is the reason for everything!" She was now fully aware of what this man could do to her. He was much stronger than her, so fighting him off would be impossible. Beyond pulled the chains on her wrists so the cut even deeper, causing Sora to cry out in agony. Beyond just laughed louder and louder, sounding almost like a bloodthirsty hyena as he saw the rivers of blood stain her nightgown and run down her arms into the bed. Beyond placed his cold index finger into the pool of blood and licked his finger clean off. Sora screamed louder with disgust.
Beyond, tired of all her screaming, he released the chains from her bloody raw wrists. Sora writhed in pain and whimpered quietly and pressed herself as far ways as she could from the criminal whose eyes were now a fiery blood red. he just stood there watching her, fascinated by the look of horror in her eyes. Sora's blood shot eyes started to cry softly once again, not because of the raging pain in her wrists, but because she was thinking of her L. She was worried sick that this crazed man held such a strong hatred for the man that she loved. It made no sense. L would never aim to hurt anyone. Even when they had worked back at the Japanese Task Force Headquarters in the Kira case.
Sora's memories raced back to the day they captured Light Yagami, also known as Kira. When Light was scheduled to be executed, L insisted on watching, but he held onto Sora so tightly being obviously uncomfortable with witnessing Light's death. After that day, L was morbid for awhile. He looked so sad. Even his sweets couldn't cheer him up. That was when Sora had realized that L would always try to save the suspects responsible from death. She also realized that he had taken a liking towards her. She saw him looking at her constantly and always sat next to her at the meetings. When they were assigned the LABB Murder cases to work on, L named Sora to be his assistant. They grew strong together and eventually ended up falling in love. Sora thought of her L's sweet words and loving gaze. The way he held her hand, offered his cake, or even just smiled was enough to make Sora's heart ache. The love of her life could now be in mortal danger because she had been so careless to get caught by this…monster. She silently whispered his name. "Lawliet…Lawliet…please…be safe..."
Beyond smirked again and softly laughed. "Well let's see how long it will take Lawlipop to save his little Sora." He laughed once again, leaving the bleeding and crying Sora in the darkness.