Heyo~ Just a quick note about the chapter lengths. Not all of them will be the same length, obviously. Like some will be small, others REALLY long. Hope that won't be an issue..- BloodyLawlipop
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Chapter Four: The Sorrow Sky's Angel
L looked at the video footage from the streetlight camera with complete horror. His usually calm and emotionless face was twisted in a face of pure agony. His whole body shook with fear. He simply stared at the monitors and watched as Sora ran into the alleyway. He watched her endure every cut she received, both from the glass on the floor and from the ones given to her by Beyond Birthday. L was paralyzed with fear. He couldn't move at all. He couldn't even breathe. He felt as if he even beat his heart, the agony would just rip him apart. His pale fingers hovered over the piece of cake he had been consuming, unable to move at all. He watched as Beyond grabbed Sora and cut her arm with the long knife. He saw Sora's pained and shocked expression. He saw Beyond's sick smile spread larger as Sora's blood ran to the floor. He saw the knife slowly trace across her exposed neck, and stab into her shoulder when she flinched away from Beyond. L couldn't do anything about it. He simply watched his lover get tortured by this sick creature. He saw Beyond laugh once and then Sora slump against the wall. Holding Sora up, Beyond smiled up and laughed directly up into the camera and the tape ended with a sharp click.
L was shaking, his heart pounding against his chest. He felt sick, he felt dead. L immediately jumped out of his chair and rushed to the bathroom. He stood in the middle looking at himself in the mirror shaking and sweating, and he suddenly collapsed and vomited. He felt horrible, as if part of him had been taken away. In a way it had. He got up, his white long sleeved shirt drenched with sweat. He began to shake again, thoughts racing in his head soon he became dizzy, and he vomited again. Then he simply passed out cold on the pure white bathroom floor.
When L woke up, he was surrounded by Watari, Near, Mello, and Matt all looking extremely frightened and worried to see their leader passed out on the floor covered in sweat and shaking. Even the emotionless Near looked like he was completely afraid for L. Watari had taken L up to his room and laid him down on his bed. Mello had gone to get some cold water for L while Near and Matt looked over the security tapes L had been watching. Now they were all in L's room with morbid looks on their faces.
"L...We'll find him." Matt said, trying to sound enthusiastic.
Mello kept looking at the screen, anger taking over. He growled at the monitors and in one swift movement, he pulled out his gun and shot the silver monitors repeatedly. Matt immediately rushed to his side to calm the raging blonde and prevent him from accidentally shooting anyone.
"Mello! Calm down!" Matt pleaded, sorrow hiding behind his orange goggles.
"Calm? CALM? How the HELL can you be so CALM Matt?" Mello screamed at the redhead, his icy blue eyes raging with hatred, "Did you not see what that sick bastard did to her?" he kicked the monitors repeatedly until he had relaxed a little. Mello ran out of the room yelling wildly, with a very worried Matt following behind. Near looked around the corner and saw Matt comforting Mello who looked like he was going to have an emotional breakdown. Matt removed his goggles and threw them down angrily. Matt's usually bright emerald eyes were usually sparkling. Right now, they looked dead and moist from his tears.
Near simply sat by L's side and watched him carefully. L had regained his emotionless mask, but inside he was broken. He couldn't move again. It hurt to breathe. He thought of the video again, and he became sick again. Near called Watari, not knowing what to do, and he went to watch the video to see if there were any clues to where Beyond could have taken Sora…or….what was left of her. Near winced, the sadness hitting him in the chest. He had to find Sora and kill Beyond. He had to…for L…for Matt and Mello…and for himself. Sora was the one who would visit them back when they were younger and lived at Whammy's. she seemed to be the only one to care for the orphans. She would often stay for days while other visitors stayed for minutes. He knew she and L were in love, but he loved her in his own way. He looked at her as a mother's complex, not ever having a real one. Matt and Mello on the other hand, well…..they loved her too, but they showed it in a different way. They would always harass her and L whenever they were together and they always made her life a living hell at the orphanage. Near knew they were always kidding thought. Sora would always bring them presents. She bought Mello his rosary that he always wore. One day she bought Matt his trademark orange goggles which he loved so much, and she had bought Near one of his favorite robots. He thought of how upset Mello was right now. He had seen the toughest person he knew have an almost mental breakdown. He had seen Matt's emerald eyes fog up under his goggles from some tears he had expelled. A single tear rolled its way down his soft cheek and landed on the albino's sleeve.
That night, L couldn't sleep. He never did anyway. He would usually look through the security tapes of the case he was working on, but that was simply out of the question. Watari had gotten new monitors to replace the ones Mello had shot about fifty times, but L couldn't watch the tapes. Whenever he even thought about Sora and Beyond, his whole body would shake and his chest would rip open again. He hated himself. All this time he was spending doing nothing but breaking and self destructing he could be spending hunting down his once "to-be-successor". The thought sickened him, causing him to shake and sweat again. He was stuck in a vicious cycle, and if he didn't escape, Sora would die.
The next morning, L discovered Near had been up all night furiously typing details he noticed from the tapes. By his deduction, L knew that Near had been up for about 18.53 hours. The raven haired man noticed the small fragile boy sleeping silently in his chair. L smiled, and took Near up to his own pure white room. He then heard small beeping noises from the next room. He poked his head in and saw Matt sprawled out on the couch sleeping and lazily holding a videogame that was still turned on. Mello was on the bed sleeping heavily surrounded by chocolate wrappers. He went to go turn off the videogame when he spotted something. When he walked over to the gamer's desk with multiple electronics and hacking systems, he saw a picture. The picture included Matt, Mello, Near, and himself. They were all in the park apparently celebrating that they were the top three successors at Whammy's. L was about to walk away when he saw himself in the picture. He was sitting down with a piece of cake that was being shared by…..Sora. L froze, his heart hurting again. He picked up the picture and stared at it intently. The five of them were like a family. His hand clutched the frame and a tear fell onto the crystal frame. L was crying. The emotionless man was crying. He curled up into the wall and clutched the picture to his breaking heart, as if he put the picture there it would fix everything and Sora would be back by his side.
"Sora…" he whispered in between tears. "Where are you?...Please. Tell me…I'll find you…j-just…" Suddenly he stopped; his eyes wide.
L ran down to the room with all the monitors and watched the security tape at least fifty times, clutching the picture to his chest. He had caught onto something. He studied every detail. He memorized everything. The whole alleyway and every piece of debris that was there, how Beyond had slouched and walked. He even memorized all the cuts that he had given Sora. His Sora. L glanced down at the picture once again, his heart aching as his hands began to shake with anger as an image of Beyond popped into his head.