*** Author's Note ***
Back from JAMPCON! And I had a blast. Made lots of new friends too 3
Sorry I haven't posted anything yet! My roommates are slave drivers. So I have been
washing dishes and all around cleaning since I got back. Not that I mind… I normally
get it pretty easy over here. Just that I haven't had much time to write, but here I sit:
writing! I noticed I got more fans by the way! YAY! Though… It was only when I
manually started looking at the list of alerts and such that I noticed how many more I
got this time… Apparently Fanfiction didn't think I needed to know how many I got this
time around… So continuing on my list of Thank Yous… Aeleita, Kawaiichan13,
Mrs. L Lawliet 162, and Velocityshade! THANK YOU! It was Kawaiichan and
Velocityshade that it didn't tell me about btw… *Shrugs* Right…
I'll tell you, I sat down to write this a long time ago. But~ One of my best friends
kept texting me about this guy at her work that she thinks is hot. LOL. And I keep
laughing and laughing. I can't breathe much less type. She has such a dirty mind!
She was telling me every little thing, like him licking his lips while eating a waffle.
She's my crazy friend. And I love her In fact, Anne is loosely based on a mixture
of my three best friends… Anyway, I have ranted too long.
Oh yeah, Azula Volturi Malfoy joined the ranks after I had the top part typed up…
LEAVE LOTS OF REVIEWS! I have 10 fans not counting SilverSteam (Nope still don't count)
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~Gebrelle
Chapter 6
Nina flopped onto the floor, sprawling comfortably, and stretched. It had taken them just about 12 hours to compile the list of names and to get everything written out; double checking the criminals in many of the nations to make sure they were not just a person with views that opposed the country's religion, or political views.
Anne looked up at her after counting the names with a satisfied look on her face. "Well, that makes 1126 names."
Nina took the pages and looked them over. All of the criminals were set to die at midnight in just a couple of hours. They had worked nonstop, only taking a few breaks to call their parents, or, in Nina's case email, to say they were staying at the other's house. Something they had always done. And once to order pizza before the place down the road closed.
She looked over at Anne, who looked as tired as Nina felt. They had been working diligently, and she was glad she had Anne. If she had to do this by herself, she wasn't sure she could. Not the research part… The killing part. Nina could do it if Anne could. And Anne would do it if Nina would. So she acted confidently, knowing that Anne would know she would, and would herself. It was a bit of a paradox, but it was her way of tricking herself into doing things she didn't want to do.
She sighed, "We should probably go to sleep…" Anne looked at her and smiled.
"I won't be able to sleep," she stated.
Nina shook her head, "Me either," she laughed, "It was worth a shot saying though."
Anne and Nina both laughed easily. The deaths would be all over the news, and it would only take a couple of hours of watching the reported death number rise to know that it was obviously Kira. "I'll grab us a soda then."
Nina got up and went to the kitchen, Light on her heels. She grabbed a couple more sodas. And opened the cabinets, where the chips were kept, wide. "Get whichever you want…" she sighed. Light chuckled and grabbed some more plain Lays before following her back into the living room.
Nina tossed Anne her drink and flopped back down onto her beanbag. "I don't think we've worked that hard on anything like that in a long time," she said smiling.
"Yeah," Anne said smiling. She grabbed the remote and turned on the TV to a channel that was ALWAYS news.
The only thing going on right now was a flood in a residential part of town, a story on a pet store where a two headed snake was born, something about a restaurant that failed a health inspection terribly, and a man who had risked his life to save a friend's puppy from a burning house. He was being labeled brave. Nina would label him as stupid. But she had always been a cat person. Not that she would risk her life for a cat…
Nina grabbed her soda and the DeathNote, "Let's go watch a movie in the bedroom."
Anne reached into her bag, "I brought Titanic!" she squealed. Nina actually slapped her forehead.
"We always watch Titanic…"
"So?" She asked, "Leonardo Dicaprio is the hottest piece of man meat a movie could ask for."
"I guess he just isn't my type…"
Anne laughed loudly, "Who are you kidding? You totally don't have a type!"
Nina raised an eyebrow at her, "Sure I do…"
Anne was still laughing some, "You like Tony Stark from IronMan."
It was more of a statement than a question, but Nina still nodded, "Yeah, and?"
"So you also liked Legolas from Lord of the rings." She looked up at Nina, "there is nothing in common there. Not really, not when you factor in what few others there are."
Nina laughed, "I guess you're right. I have high ideals. Not that I have any room to be picky."
"Oh no! We are not going over this again." That always shut Anne up. Together they flopped down on the full sized bed and Anne wormed over to reach the TV and DVD player. Nina laughed at her. Being around her was so easy. She didn't care if Anne could see right through her. In fact she liked it that way. If she had had a sister, she would want her to be exactly like Anne; someone she could trust her back to… Her life to…
The movie started and she settled in beside Anne. How did Anne always get her way? She smiled despite herself, because she let her.
Sometime during the movie, her phone buzzed. Curiously, she pulled out her cell, "Forced Open. 11:17:48 pm." Anne had fallen asleep and Nina moved quietly. She cracked the bedroom door and peaked out. All she could see was shadows moving in the living room, and hushed men's voices.
Slowly, she closed the bedroom door back and locked it, pushing a chair up under the door knob for extra strength. She backed away from the door towards Anne to wake her up when the door was suddenly busted in. The men were all wearing masks. She ran to Anne who woke when the door was broken into. Three men came in; each with guns aimed at the two of them. The one that was apparently the leader cast a glance at the two behind him.
"Fire."
Nina moved between Anne and the shooters, taking a bullet in her left shoulder, one in her abdomen, one in her right thigh, and one grazed her right arm. Anne screamed behind her, and other bullets peppered the wall around them. The room spun and Nina collapsed, helpless to save either of them…
Nina sat up so fast she nearly hit her head on Anne's, who had been leaning over her, obviously trying in vain to wake her up. Nina pulled her knees up to her chest and held her head in her hands. Her heart was beating ninety miles an hour and she was covered in sweat.
After a minute of silence, she spoke, "Are you okay now?" Anne asked, sounding worried. She always made Anne worry.
She took a shaky breath, "Yeah… Yeah… I'm good now." Nina uncurled herself and tried to compose herself a little so Anne wouldn't be so worried.
She looked at her seriously, "Why didn't you tell me you still had nightmares?" All Nina could do was shake her head. Anne shook hers too. "Are you going to have to start taking your medicine again?
Nina flinched, "No… No… I… I can't think when I take those… they make my brain foggy…"
Anne sighed, "If they get worse- "
"I know," she broke in, "Can we talk about something else?" she asked, subconsciously rubbing the places she was shot.
Anne gave her another worried look, "Sure thing," the movie had gone off while she had slept and Anne flipped the channel to the news. It was almost 2 in the morning. There was the chance of news going around. They sat there watching reruns of what they had seen earlier for a while before Anne finally spoke, "What did you dream?"
Nina cringed a bit, "Just that some guys broke in here and shot us…" she tried to hide how scared she had been. Anne saw right through her though and pulled Nina to her, petting her head and murmuring that it would be okay. Something a mother would do. They stayed like that for a long time before Nina drifted off to sleep, and if she dreamed, she didn't remember when she woke up.