They waited with their luggage in hand as the fishing vessel docked, "How did we get this to happen again?" Light questioned.
Beyond stood holding Caspian up to stand, "Like I said, I have connections here."
Near sat on the dock, "What is our destination?"
L scratched his chin, "We're going home, aren't we?"
Beyond nodded, "I have a bad feeling. We'll be boat hopping until we can get back to England."
Mello stared at Caspian, "Are you sure you can go? It's only been a couple days."
Caspian sighed, "It's risk it or dying here waiting to recover. If the syndicate knows our location it's only a matter of time before a strike team is sent in. Also. At this point, I believe it would be safer to refer to each other as our agent letters. If my suspicions are correct, the reason they're hunting us, if because we took on the job of destroying the death notes. I'm willing to bet the syndicate has one."
The group stared at each other uneasy. Beyond started speaking to the man in Spanish. Beyond turned around and took Caspian's arm back over his shoulders, "He said he'd take us as far as Jamaica."
Sayu excitedly ushered everyone into the boat, "That's great news! We really need to consider moving so we can get some ground on them, think about it. They have means of transportation that we don't!"
Beyond helped Caspian into a seat in the back of the boat. And everyone else settled their things in the cabin underneath the deck. "This is a nice boat." Matt said looking around.
Beyond tossed his stuff on the top bunk and put his hands on his hips, "it's a drug running vessel."
L choked on his sweet tea, "Um. Beyond? You don't see a problem with transporting eight international agents on a drug running vessel?"
Beyond turned around and smiled sweetly at L, "Not if you don't want to pay him for the voyage."
L nodded his head side the side deciding, "Alright. Sounds like a perfectly plausible way to travel."
Light helped Caspian down the stairs to get him to his bed. "That and I doubt anyone would think to check a drug vessel for agents." Caspian gave a pained breath and face as he sat down on the bunk. "This vessel is recognized as a transportation source of syndicate goods. Or if you haven't figured that out, drugs." Caspian took a deep breath and slowly released it.
They could all hear Sayu excitedly running around on deck talking in Spanish with the captain. Light went to go and fetch her, Caspian caught his wrist, "She's okay."
Light stared at him uneasy. "Yeah but…"
C clenched his jaw in pain, "They don't know about her."
Light sat next to C, "How do you know?"
Caspian folded his fingers together, "Because I had no Intel on her. She took me by surprise. And the coast guard isn't likely to give over the names on their manifest, and she's been at the cottage the whole time in Panama. She's okay, let her enjoy herself. Her sea sickness seems to be doing much better." C laid back on the bunk, "To be honest, I stumbled across Beyond entirely by accident. My Intel was a man and a woman with Near. But, when an syndicate hand goes AWOL they attack the ones closest to them… Insurance of good behavior."
Beyond gave a defeated smile, "At least you're cute enough for me to deal with that shit."
Near opened his laptop, "C, something has been disturbing me since I found these articles."
"Yes. I was a child of the syndicate. But even then I couldn't kill. So they decided an "enforced training program" was in need. In case you haven't read up on it, they beat us within inches of our lives. Some got it worse than others. And when that didn't work, the few who still refused to kill were experimented on." C told his story with no hesitation. "New combination of drugs were used just to see what would happen to the human body. It was sick. We were just kids. Some of us didn't make it out of that lab, and the few that didn't leave in body bags were dumped around the world so no one could trace them." Caspian closed his eyes and sighed.
Near narrowed his eyes, "Why would you go back to that?"
Caspian gave a weak smirk, "I wanted a home. After the Whammy agency did what they did I just wanted to belong. And I found out through the agency that my parents were both syndicate. I just wanted to go home, like every orphan."
L sat haunched over on his bunk, "I don't mean to pry, however, whatever happened to the girl?"
C opened one eye then closed it, "She was my older sister, neither of us could kill. So they experimented on us and dumped us. She left the Whammy house the night you and BB arrived. She left with A. She did everything with him, she was in love with him." Caspian gave a pained expression, "When he committed suicide in the hotel tub she threw herself out of the window."
L hung his head, "I-I'm sorry."
Caspian rolled onto the side that didn't have the wound, "Sometimes you're better off dead."
Light placed his hand on Caspian's leg, "Sometimes it's better to live. Even in agony, so you can teach others how to cope. So you can steer them away from that path. Even if it means living with the grief. But good memories are never grief, I hope you have some of her, that's how she lives on." Light stood up and laid on his bunk on the opposite end of the boat.
Caspian closed his eyes and repeated, "Teach others, huh."