Oh hai der! So here's chapter seven! This chapter focuses on Alice and L! Although, I would just like to remind you guys that she will not end up with him! I know it's weird though, because I even put him in the poll on my profile, but that's just because I wanted to see if anyone wanted to vote for him! The poll is still open for voting by the way! Anyway, this chapter might be sort of long-ish... I didn't know a good way to end it! Dx Blah! Oh, and also! Thanks to everyone who reviewed! You're all so nice! Well, let's get on with the story! YAY!

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L… Today I would see L. I lay there in bed just staring up at the ceiling. The sun had barely started to rise, so it was still rather dark out. Feeling way too anxious to even try to get even an hour more of sleep, I decided to just get up already.

I slowly and quietly got out of bed so that I wouldn't disturb a still sound asleep Near. Yes, that's right reader. Near was still here. It sort of surprised me too. I would've thought that he'd be long gone by now, but he was still in the room. Anyways…

As quietly as possible, I got out some clothes to change into and left the room to take a shower. When I was done with that, I went back to drop off my pajamas. Near was still there sleeping when I got back, which made me feel a bit happy. I put my pj's on my bed and then turned to look at my sleeping twiny.

At this point in time the sun was now fully risen and I could see his sleeping face perfectly well. That's when I remembered something. I still wanted to draw on his face! This was the perfect chance! Quietly, I pulled open one of my dresser's drawers. I then grabbed a black marker and silently tip toed over to Near's bed.

He still hadn't woken up, which was good for me! Smirking, I pulled the lid off the marker and was just about to start drawing when he opened his eyes. I paused and stood there positively terrified that he'd get mad at what he was waking up to, but that didn't happen. It appeared that my white haired twin was still half asleep and had no idea what was going on.

"Go back to sleep." I whispered to him. Surprisingly that worked and Near closed his grey eyes and fell asleep once more.

Sighing with relief, I finished what I was going to do. I drew on his face, but nothing really bad. I just drew a smiley face on his right cheek and wrote the word twiny in bubble letters on the left. With that I closed the cap on the marker and threw it back in the drawer before leaving the room.

I went down to the dining room after all that. It was pretty empty, but I found that it was more peaceful this way. At least no one would be around to bother me eat. I finished up my breakfast really fast and then left that room too.

As I was walking towards the front part of the building I ran into Mello and Matt, which really surprised me. I didn't expect them to be up and about at six thirty in the morning. They seemed surprised to see me as well.

"Alice? You're up pretty early today." Matt said while looking at me suspiciously.

"Yeah, I guess I am…" I mumbled nervously.

"Where are you going? The dining room's that way, girly." Mello stated while pointing in the direction I had just came from.

"I already had breakfast. Well, I have some things I need to do! Catch you two later!" I yelled as I ran past the two older boys.

I ran as fast as I could away from them. Once I finally got outside, I stopped to catch my breath. Luckily the two didn't follow me. I didn't want them to know what I was up to. When I was done resting, I made my way to the front gates.

Upon reaching the large metal gates I noticed something tied to one of them. It was a single black ribbon. How weird? Perhaps one of the younger girls had tied it here yesterday. Anyway, I had no time to worry about something like this.

Pushing open the gates, I left, but for some odd reason I felt like I was being watched… Weird... I ignored this strange feeling and continued on the path towards town. Once I got there I had no idea what to do or where to look for L. The guy could be anywhere! Maybe I should've thought this through more reader…

"Hmmm… If I were him, where would I be?" I asked myself out loud, which caused a few people passing by to look at me oddly.

Ignoring those people, I began to think of L. I hadn't really spent enough time to fully understand that odd detective, but there were some very distinct things I remembered about him. The way he walked and how he sat. Oh, and also how he always looked so tired. If I recall, that whenever he was feeling a bit tired or was having trouble thinking he would…

"EAT SWEETS!" I yelled out only to regret doing so. Now a lot of people were staring at me as if I were crazy.

Feeling embarrassed, I ran off in the direction of a sweets shop I had remembered seeing here before. I ran into the shop when I got there and looked around, but there was no raven haired young detective to be seen.

He's not here and I felt so sure he would be… I thought sadly. Sighing, I was about to leave when the older teenage girl working there stopped me.

"Excuse me, but you wouldn't happen to be named Alice, would you?" Asked the brunette girl.

"Umm… Yeah, that's me," I said confused.

"Wow, that guy was right. You did come here," she began saying. The girl then handed me a little black ribbon. "He told me to give that to you."

"Oh, thanks… Umm… Do you know which way he might've happened to go?" I asked while taking the ribbon from her.

"If I remember correctly he went that way." She said while pointing to the right of the shop.

I thanked her, left the shop, and headed in the direction she had pointed out to me. It was nice to know that L had been at the place I had thought he would be, but where had he gone now. Oh, and why had L left me a black ribbon?

Hmm… A black ribbon? Why did that seem to be ringing a bell in my head? Oh well, not important right now. What was important was that I find L! I continued walking down the sidewalk, looking around for any signs of L. While walking I passed by a bookstore. I probably would've walked straight passed it, but something had caught my eye in the window.

It was a Sherlock Holmes book sitting on display. I know what some of you might be thinking? What does that have to do with anything? Well, the real thing that had drawn my attention to the book was the fact that there was a black ribbon sticking out of it. I walked into the store and over to the book. Upon reaching it, I pulled the ribbon out of the novel and just examined it.

"Oh, young lady!" An old man, whom I presume is the owner of this store, called out to me.

"Yes?" I asked while turning to face him. The old man walked over to me

"A really odd gentleman had come in here earlier and asked if he could put that in there. He also said that a young girl might come by looking for him later. I presume he meant you, correct?" He questioned me while smiling.

I nodded and then asked if he knew which way he went. The kind old man pointed me in the direction and with that I left. As I was walking I looked at the two black ribbons in my hand. Were these perhaps clues? That's when I finally remembered the ribbon tied on the gate earlier. He had probably left that there this morning for me. These ribbons were clues and if I found them all I would most likely find him!

So off I went searching for black ribbons. Each time I found one of the ribbons the owner or worker of the shop it was in would point me to the next one until, I finally reached a park in the afternoon. It wasn't a park with a play ground or anything, but one with trees and fountains and benches for people to sit and relax.

I walked down the path in the park until I reached the very center of it. Let me just tell you now that that was a very big park! It took me forever to get there! Anyways… In the center of this park was a huge fountain and there sitting at the edge of this fountain in that weirdo way of his was L.

I stood there just staring at him because I felt too nervous to actually go up to him. That's when he looked over in my direction and just looked at me as well. I felt my heart stop and the heat rise to my cheeks. I didn't really know what to say or do, luckily for me L said something first.

"Alice. How's it going?" He asked in that emotionless voice I remember him having.

The weirdo than got up and walked over to me. He roughly patted my head and gave me a small smile. I started to relax then and grinned back. L stopped his patting after that and pulled me over to a bench next to the fountain so that we could sit, he of course sitting in that strange position of his.

"So I see you found my clues." L said while eyeing all the ribbons in my hand.

"Yeah, but to tell you the truth I didn't know they were clues at first! Anyway, L-" I was cut off midsentence when L placed his hand over my mouth.

"In public don't call me that. Just call me Ryuzaki." He told me before removing his hand from my mouth.

"Okay then 'Ryuzaki,' I just wanted to ask why you went to the whole trouble of leaving me a note saying to try and find you here when you could have just visited Wammy's House if you knew you were going to be coming back here? Oh, and why did you think I was going to miss you?" I asked while feeling a bit embarrassed by the last question.

L then went on to explain that Watari usually went and visited Rodger at the orphanage once every few months and how he never went with him. His reasons for that was because he didn't want any of the kids there knowing how he looked like.

"Then why did you let me know how you looked like?" I questioned him after that.

"It's because your brother, Demetri, told me to look after you." He replied back.

"Wait, what? My brother told you that, but I still don't understand. Why would he say something like that to you? How did you know my brother by the way? You mentioned you knowing him the first time we met too! Tell me how you know all this!" I began to ask L all sorts of questions. He obviously knew something about my brother and I wanted to know.

He once again began to explain to me everything. L had in fact known my older brother. Apparently my brother, who was in the FBI by the way, had worked under L regarding a case once. He then went on to say that the case they were working on together was the case my brother had been working on before he was killed.

At the mention of my brother's murder I had horrible memories from that night pop back into my mind. These were memories that I was probably repressing before. I could now remember how he was stabbed not once, not even three or five times, but over twenty times… It was over kill!

That night I will never be able to un-see. It will forever haunt me in my memories, but the thing that will haunt me the most were those horrible red eyes. Those eyes… They had looked straight at me! They were going to try and kill me next! I just know that they were going to! Those blood red eyes!

"Alice! Snap out of it!" L said loudly as he shook me to snap me out of it.

I apparently had started hyper ventilating and was shaking really badly. It was most likely that I was having a panic attack. Lucky for me L snapped me out of it. After I had calmed down a bit, L went on explaining things. He told me how my brother somehow knew that he was probably going to be killed and that's why he asked L to look after me. Now I finally knew everything, everything except who my brother's killer was. L didn't want to tell me. After this there was complete silence. I didn't know what to say or ask anymore.

"Do you still want to know why I thought you'd miss me?" He randomly asked.

"Oh, yeah… I almost forgot. Tell me." I said quietly.

"It's because your brother said once while he was talking about you that you easily and quickly grow attached to people and thus I thought you would grow attached to me and then end up missing me when I left," was his answer.

"Oh…" I thought he was about to say that he knew that I had got a crush on him, but I guess saying that I grow attached to people easily is sort of the same as that. At least he didn't know.

"It's getting late," L suddenly said. He was right though the sun looked like it would be setting in an hour or so. Right then my tummy growled. Hey, just like that time when we first met… Haha…

"Are you hungry?" He questioned while getting up. L then pulled out a box of Hello Panda cookies and gave them to me. I happily took them and gobbled them all up. Afterwards L walked me back towards the direction of Wammy's.

"This is where I'll be parting ways with you, Alice. Take care," He said, patting my head again while doing so.

"Bye then Ryuzaki. Thank you for today." With that said, I started to walk away, but I stopped when L said this, "oh, and Alice, may I just give you one piece of advice. I suggest you start liking someone closer in age to you from now on. Okay?"

Looking back at him, I saw that he was giving me a small smile. My face flushed red at that. He knew! Oh the embarrassment! Man, I should've known he would know. He's L after all! Finally after a few moments had passed, I nodded, showing that I had agreed to do as told. He was right after all. I should stick to liking someone my own age, but no one would ever be as cool and smart and amazing as him!

Oh well! I shook the embarrassment out of me and said bye to L once more before running back towards Wammy's. When I got there I ran intro Watari, who was leaving. He only smiled at me before getting into his car and driving off towards town, probably to pick up L. I then went to the dining room to get some food. The second I stepped through those doors I heard three people call out my name. It was of course Near, Mello, and Matt.

They all asked where I had been and why I had a bunch of black ribbons with me. Yup, I still had the ribbons. I told them I just went exploring around the town. They were still suspicious and told me I was acting weird, but dropped it after a while. What I found weird though was how Mello and Near could stand being anywhere close to each other? Also, another thing that was odd was how they were all suddenly trying to be so nice to me? How strange… Something probably happened when I was gone, but I wonder what?

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Sooo that's the end of chapter seven! Now you all know some more about Alice and her dead brother! I wonder who the killer was? Haha... I actually know, but just don't feel like spoiling. Can you guess though? Hmmm... Actually, let's make this another little CONTEST! Yes, let's do that! This way I'll be guilted into updating faster like what happened with the last contest! Yay guilt! Anyway, the first person to guess right will be the winner. Their prize will be to get to read chapter eight before everyone else! Oh, and they can also make up their own OC to appear in that chapter! Sound like fun? I HOPE PEOPLE READ THIS AND PLAY! Oh, I just thought of a little inspiration for you guys to play! IF NO ONE PLAYS, I WILL GO ON A HIATUS UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY! And my birthday is in September by the way. :3 Well, I hope to see people try and guess! If not then yay for me! I get to have a break from this for a while! MUAHAHAHAHA! xD

Will Chapter Eight be coming soon? IDK