I really do enjoy Sybil's current emotional turmoil! It makes things interesting and it helps play into how I plan to end this entire thing...eventually. This story is uber long and I'm not sure how many more chapters it might be. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to plan a sequal. Although, I guess that depends on whether or not anyone wants one and if the story actually needs one. Time will tell.

Review plz!

Geof and Jerrod stood in the elevator, quiet and nervous. Well, Jerrod was anyway. Geof hadn't yet shut up about his brilliant plan and Jerrod wasn't about to agree with him now. He had a big enough ego as it was.

"Hah! I told you it'd work! Didn't I Jer-Odd?!" Geof didn't get a reply and he looked to his friend with concerned grey eyes.

"Jerrod?"

"I only agreed to this because my daughter is both missing and in danger. If it weren't for that, I'd still be back in her apartment." Geof went silent as the doors opened.

He then looked back to his friend, who had his head bowed as he stepped from the elevator. Geof then followed, knowing that if he was going to help his friend in anyway, he'd have to act his age for once in his life. Even if it killed him, and there was a very good chance that he would die.

Good news was, however, Geof didn't have anyone to live for so death wasn't something he was afraid of. His parents had disowned him once he had submitted himself to jail and he had no siblings. In fact, the only one he felt was close enough to him to be called family was Jerrod and since Jerrod was rather down with the disappearance of his daughter, Geof was willing to put his life on the line to find her. Jerrod was like a brother to him and there was nothing that was going to stop him from doing all that he could to help him.

"We're gonna find her, I promise. Even if it takes my life, you'll see your daughter again."

***

"So, who exactly is this Reid Jennings?" Ide asked Lawliet, who didn't tear his eyes from the monitor.

"Reid Jennings, several years ago, committed a crime that has yet to be matched. He hacked into over two hundred banks all across Canada and the U.S without being caught."

"Well, he had to be caught for anyone to know about him right? And why is he joining the investigation?" Matsuda questioned.

L chewed on his thumb.

"Reid Jennings is a very successful hacker that turned himself in and as for why he is joining the investigation, a friend of his is in danger due to the current situation and he believes himself to be useful. As do I. His hacking abilities just may be of use to us." Watari's voice came over the speakers.

"Ryuuzaki, they are here."

"Please send them in, Watari."

"Of course, Sir." Aizawa spoke up.

"They?!"

"Ah, yes. Mr Jennings also said he would refuse to help us unless I allowed his companion to help as well. Although, I don't have much of a problem with it, considering his companion is someone Sybil is rather close to and a very intelligent being." L had decided to leave out the fact that Jerrod was Sybil's father.

Just in case it was wanted to be kept a secret.

"Sybil?" Matsuda questioned quietly to himself.

But, before he could ask about it, the doors opened to reveal two men. One of which standing out with his neon blue hair and a grin plastered across his face.

"Hey, nice to see you again, Ryuuzaki. Although, I'm sorry that it's under these circumstances." It was the obvious older of the two which spoke, his silver and brown hair shagging in his dull blue eyes, which showed only determination.

L didn't turn to face Jerrod as he nodded.

"Yes, I'm sorry too. Especially since this has obviously taken a toll on you."

"Not nearly as much of a toll as it's taken on those I care about." L had to hand it to the man, he was good at getting straight to the point without stating that Sybil was missing.

Mogi looked to the middle aged man.

"I take it that you're Reid Jennings?" Geof waved his hand.

"Nope! That would be me!" And the entire Task Force looked at the detective as if he was crazy.

This man was a genius hacker?! They were all doomed.

***

Sybil stood across the street from headquarters, her eyes filled with guilt.

She had seen Jerrod and Geof enter the building. That was enough for her to know just how much everyone was worried about her. Her father, Geof, Lawliet-

"Don't forget the task at hand Sybil." Fang told her quietly, his eyes keeping focused on the numbers above her head.

Sybil nodded and continued on her way, glancing over her shoulder one final time as she felt her cellphone vibrate in the pocket of her green hoodie. It took all of her willpower to not answer the call, which she knew came from Lawliet. After all, if she answered it, he would be able to track her location. So, she let it ring and clung to the single tape in her gloved hand a little tighter.

It was twenty minutes later that she arrived at her destination. The Sakura T.V Station.

And there she stood, hesitant as to whether or not this was the right thing to do. After all, it would result to the death of a human being with every right to live as she had.

"God, if you really do exist, forgive me and allow him to forgive me as well. It needs to be done and I would never do this if I didn't think he would do the same. This is for the investigation." Fang sighed.

"The guy is going to die anyway, Sybil. I'm sure Lawliet will forgive you." He mentally made a note to make her relinquish ownership before her own time came.

That way, she would forget all of this mental anguish and at least feel a little better with all that she would be forced to do just to help such inconsiderate humans who didn't even recognize her existence. Then again, there were exceptions to that.

Lawliet cared enough to call her every hour of the day during this time and her family cared enough to agree to help capture Kira to help her. But, all the same, the young woman that was dropping that tape in the mailbox of that building, she was putting her life on the line to help a world that would never know what she gave up to save it. Even Lawliet and her family would never know that she had given up her sanity and her happiness for such pathetic and inadequate others that she never knew.

Sybil stepped back from the mailbox and looked up towards the shinigami with those green eyes full of pain and guilt. It was then that Fang felt that horrid feeling of his own guilt once again and he despised it with all of his being.

"You know, maybe you should make contact with your detective and let him know that you're okay. That should make him stop calling you every hour or so." Sybil tensed at the shinigami's words as she began to make her way back to her new apartment.

Fang wanted her to call Lawliet. He wanted her to stop feeling miserable and he knew that Lawliet was the only being in the world that could soothe her. But, if she gave in and called him now, every other passing moment she would be pained even more so whenever she didn't hear his voice and it would take every fibre of her own being to not return back to Task Force where she could see him every day.

"You're taking precious minutes off your life by not seeing him. Strangely enough, you're dying faster because of your hurting." Her eyes widened as she stopped with her hand on the door handle of her apartment.

Tears began to trickle down her cheeks and she couldn't breathe.

So it was possible to die of a broken heart after all. But, the real question was this- Lawliet or Kira? Be with L or stop Kira? Which task was she more inclined to carry out?