A/N:- Thank you all for reading this far! Things are starting to happen! Get excited. Thank you to all who reviewed! They mean a lot to me. :)
Disclaimer:- I do not own Death Note or have any affiliation with the Death Note series.
Misa is elated. She stands in front of the bedroom mirror, holding outfit after outfit against her thin body. After finally deciding on a black, lace dress, she changes and skips down to the entrance, where Light is waiting.
"Light!" She squeals upon sight of the caramel-haired boy. Light turns from where he is talking to L and smiles.
"Hey, Misa. Ryuzaki has agreed to not supervise us on our date."
"Oh, that's great! Thanks, Ryuzaki!" She pecks L's cheek before linking hands with Light.
"See you later, Ryuzaki." Light calls behind him as both Misa and they exit the building. Misa breathes in the morning air and smiles to herself.
'Does this mean that things are finally going right? Light wants to go on a date, Ryuzaki isn't supervising us.. '
Misa and Light arrive at a nearby café, taking their seats by the back wall.
"Okay, Misa," Light says, taking a sip from the coffee that he'd ordered earlier.
"There's a reason why I wanted to go on a date today. I need to tell you something about the Kira Case and how you and I are going to win against L."
Misa's smile wavers slightly. Of course. Why else would Light want to go on a date?
"What's that?"
"I found this," Light explains, pulling out a scrap of paper from his jacket pocket and smoothing it out on the table in front of Misa. Her eyes widen.
"I-Is this..?"
"Yeah. It's the profile on Ryuzaki when he was staying at the orphanage he mentioned, Wammy's House. It has his real name and everything." Light's face breaks into a grin. An insane, sadistic, grin.
"D-Do you have Silence's profile, too?" Misa stutters, gaze fixed on the picture of L.
"Yeah, I do. It doesn't have her name on it though.." Light produces another piece of paper from his jacket pocket and places it in front of Misa. Light was right. Silence's real name isn't on the profile, so, it's more or less useless.
Examining the original paper, Misa's eyes scan over L's name. Then, she snaps her eyes up to look at Light who seems on the verge of breaking out into manic laughter.
"A-Are you going to kill him?"
"Yeah, of course. You'll help me, won't you? It'll mean I'll love you even more than I already do.."
'He'll love me more? I need to do this if it means Light'll love me!'
"So?" Light raises an eyebrow at the blonde-haired girl.
"Yes! I'll help you!" Misa exclaims, smiling widely.
"Good. Don't worry, Misa. This is for the good of the world. I.. will become the God of the New World!"
Silence sits cross-legged on her bed, headphones on, listening intently to the conversation she is eavesdropping on - she'd placed a wire tap on Misa's bag before she'd left. Slamming the headphones down on the covers, she bolts from the room and down the stairs.
Racing into the investigation room, she turns L's seat around with him still in it, places both hands on his shoulders before saying,
"We've got a problem."
With that, she grabs his arm and pulls him from the chair and up the stairs, leaving the Task Force wondering what the hell is going on.
L removes the headphones and let's them hang around his neck. Beyond sits in an armchair by the window, staring out listlessly. Silence sits cross-legged on the bed across from L, watching him carefully.
"Well..this certainly is a problem.." L nods, eye downcast.
"Damn right it is!" Silence exclaims, throwing her arms in the air.
"He's gonna kill you! How the hell did he get those files!? If he has ours he probably has B's as well!"
Beyond turns from his position in front of the window and looks at Silence, surprised.
"You think?"
Silence sighs. "Yeah. He probably knows all about...A too."
"Well, you'll have to kill him before then, right?"
Both teenagers look at L, a little shocked. L doesn't look back, just takes the headphones from around his neck and places them beside the laptop. Silence breaks the quiet first, nodding her head slowly.
"Looks like it. I know my name isn't on the file but you said that Light knows Beyond's name because of that article and now...now he knows yours, too."
It's probably not the best idea to talk about killing the Chief's son in a building filled to the brim with cameras and wire taps. Well, except for this room. This is the room that Silence had chosen as a bedroom on the night they'd arrived. Beyond had discovered a grand total of 16 cameras and 12 wire taps placed strategically around the room and had swiftly destroyed them. L had since confirmed that there aren't any more.
A thick silence descends upon the three teenagers.
"So, what're you gonna do?" Beyond asks suddenly, gazing at Silence with his crimson eyes.
"I'm going to kill him. That's my job, right? The sooner I kill him, the sooner we can go home.. and pick up my pay." Silence adds, a hint of laughter in her voice.
"And you can buy me jam."
"Buy your own jam!"
"I do recall that you promised to buy me more jam when you threw mine away."
Silence sighs and puts her head in her hands as L chuckles quietly.
"Fine! I'll kill Light or 'Kira' tonight, then. I'll buy you your jam as soon as we're back in the UK and I collect my pay, agreed?"
"Agreed." B replies, looking satisfied with himself.
"What about Misa?" L asks suddenly, drawing the others' attention.
"She'll have a breakdown. I mean, you've already killed her parents."
"And Soichiro, too," Beyond adds, returning his gaze to the view of Tokyo.
"Light is his son, after all. He'll try to stop you."
Silence contemplates this. Of course, Soichiro Yagami is going to try and stop her. The Task Force, too. Misa will have another breakdown, like the one she had when she first saw her parents' bodies illuminated in the moonlight that faithful night. Light has a sister, Silence recalls, and a mother, too.
'Stop thinking like this. You've killed dozens and never thought twice about it. Don't stop now. If you do then... L will die. Beyond, too. You can't let that happen!'
This is for the sake of her friends. The only family she's had ever since she was four years old. She can't let them die just because she feels bad about killing one boy.
"Silence! Hey, earth to Silence! Is anyone in there?"
Silence jumps from her thoughts just as B is about to knock on her head to check if she's still home.
"S-Sorry," Silence looks at the two bewildered boys before her.
"I'll kill Light tonight. I won't let either Soichiro or Misa get in my way."