Hey, Nukia here!

This fanfiction is a side story to Beyond This Love.

I don't know if any of my old readers are reading my rewrites anymore, but I am going to tell you what happened in the Midnight Slasher case in The Wammy House Memories. I never finished The Alternative Story, but I'm going to tie it in with this fanfiction because I enjoyed writing A's story. This chapter will be short, but it will end on a cliffhanger.

At the moment I want to write most of this fanfiction, I will go back to writing Beyond This Love when I get to a certain point in this story. I've also drawn a cover for this fanfiction, I will probably post it up on my DA account at some point.

But thank you for the reviews, favorites and the alerts! Also to the unknown people who read my fanfictions, I promise it will pick up at some point! If you don't like it, then don't read it.

Chapter 13!

It was just after 11:30pm and I couldn't sleep. I couldn't stop thinking about what Backup had said to me and A in the kitchen this morning. A had chased him out of the kitchen not long after what he said to the both of us, I've not seen any of them since breakfast. I just hope Backup was playing one of his creepy games with us, I know he likes playing tricks on the other children of the orphanage and sometimes A. But it was not funny what he said during breakfast with what is going on right now with The Midnight Slasher, it's just not funny at all.

I sighed to myself and rolled onto my side, I wish I could just go to sleep. At least I'll get to go back home tomorrow, I can't wait to sleep in my own bed and have a nice hot chocolate with Rose before I got to sleep. I switched the bedside's lamp on, I sat up in the bed and took my book from the side table. I turned to the page I had bookmarked and began to read my book. I've been reading a book that my Aunt Thora gave me, she told me that she use to read it with my Grandmother when they were young. It was called The Call of the Wild, the story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and it had sledging dogs in it. It was kind of boring, but it was a classic so my Aunt told me and one of her favorite books from her childhood. I glanced at the bedside table's lamp when it flickered, the fuse must be lose in the lamp or something.

I snuggled down into the pillows of the bed, I turned the page in my book and yawned. I could feel my eyes getting heavy, I closed my book and placed it down next to me on the bed. I switched the lamp off and covered myself up, I will read some more of my book tomorrow.

I jumped up in the bed when I heard screams coming from the corridor, I kicked the blanket of myself and scrambled out of the bed. I ran over to the bedroom's door, I quickly unlocked the door and opened it wide. I watched as a group of children ran down the corridor, I stepped out of the room and quickly followed after them down the corridor. I felt someone grab hold of my hand, I stumbled a bit as I was partly dragged along the corridor and got a look at the person who was holding my hand. I saw a boy with messy dark-hair, he glanced back at me with a smirk on his face and continued to lead me down the corridor.

" Backup!" I said with a hint of surprise in my voice. " What is going on?! Where are we going?!"

" Don't ask questions, just run!" He yelled and turned left into another corridor. " We've got to get to the dinner hall, that's where Watari is with the other orphans!"

" Where's A?!" I asked.

" I don't know, he told me to get you before he ran to get Watari..." He replied. " He's waiting for us in the dinner hall with everyone else though, we've got hide from him!"

" From who?" I asked.

" The Midnight Slasher, he's somewhere in The Wammy House!" He answered, his grip tightened around my hand." He's already injured one boy, now he maybe after you or A!"

" No, he can't be here..." I muttered.

I looked behind me as we made our way down the two flights of stairs that led to the ground floor of The Wammy House, we ran past Watari's office and ran down the hallway that led to the dinner hall. I fell onto my knees when Backup stopped dead in front of me, he dragged me up from the floor and led me back down the corridor where we had just come from moments ago.

" What's wrong?" I asked as I panted." I thought we were going to the dinner hall..."

" Change of plan, we need to hide somewhere else..." He said in a low voice." There was a body at the end of that corridor, we can't go to the dinner hall after all. But I know where we can hide, you can trust me..."

I glanced back down the corridor as the light's of the orphanage began to flicker, I heard more children screaming as I was stopped in front of a door. I watched as Backup quickly opened the door, he dragged me into the dimly lit room and closed the door behind him. He let go of my hand, he pointed over to the sofa and told me to sit down on it. I did as he said, I watched him run over to desk, he began to rummage around in the desk's draws and chuckled as he took a key from one of the draws. He rushed back over to the door, he locked it and put the key into his jean pocket as he looked over at me with a smirk on his face.

" You've got to be quiet like a mouse, no talking at loud volumes or crying like a little scared baby..." He said as he walked over to the desk and switched the desk's table lamp on. " No sudden movements, we cannot be found or we may get slashed by him. Do you understand, Elizabeth?"

" I un-un-understand..." I stuttered.

" Good..." He smiled.

I took a quick look around the room, it was quite minimalist and plain. There was a wooden cabinet filled with books in one corner of the room, there were piles of folders stacked on the desk in the middle of the room and a chessboard on the coffee table in front of me. I glanced over at Backup as he drew the window's white thin coloured drapes, he then grabbed some blankets from a brown leather sofa chair near the window and carried them over to the door. He dropped them in front of the door, he then got onto his knees and began to roll up the blankets.

" What are you doing?" I asked.

" Shielding the lamp's light from the corridor, we shall be safe as long as no one knows we're here..." He whispered, he placed one of the rolled up blankets in front of the gap of the bottom of the door and pointed over to the wooden cabinet. " There is a jar of strawberry jam in the top draw of that cabinet, I need you to get it for me..."

" Okay..." I nodded.

" Please walk carefully, the floorboards in this room can be creaky..." He said.

I slipped from the sofa and tiptoed over to the cabinet, I wonder what he plans to do with a jar of strawberry jam? I opened the top draw of the cabinet, I took the jam jar from it and closed the draw. I walked over to Backup, I watched him get up from the floor and held the jam jar towards him.

" Pour half of the strawberry jam in front of the rolled up blankets, then I want you to sit back down on the sofa and stay quiet. You can sleep if you like, but you've got to keep quiet at all costs..." He whispered. " Don't touch anything, he dislikes people touching his belongings..."

" Who's he?" I asked.

" L, this is his office after all..." He replied and walked over to the desk. " Now hurry, we don't have all day..."

I unscrewed the lid on the jar, I poured some of the strawberry jam on the floor like Backup had told me to do and chewed at my bottom lip. I put the lid back on the jar, I walked over to the sofa and sat back down on it. I looked over at Backup, he was sitting on a chair at the desk with his feet up on the desk's table top and held a silver letter opener in his hand. I hugged the jam jar tightly as I curled up on my side on the sofa, I looked over at the desk and listened to Backup chuckling quietly to himself as the office chair creaked under his weight.

" Isn't this delightful, I like hiding games in the dead of the night..." He said quietly. " Even more delightful when we're hiding to save our life's from a serial killer, don't you find it exciting too?"

" I find it terrifying..." I whispered.

" That's because you're a silly little girl, you don't understand The Midnight Slasher like I do..." He smirked and got up from the office chair. " Unlike A, I know the real reason why he takes the life's of innocent people. It's an experiment you see, he kills to see what makes them tick when they close their eyes for the final time before the eternal sleep..."

" L said The Midnight Slasher murdered people because of sin..." I said quietly, I sat up on the sofa and watched Backup place the silver letter opener down on the desk. " He's nothing but a monster, he takes innocent people's life's because that's all he can be in this world. Mr Wammy will catch him, he will go to jail for years for what he's done to all of those poor people and A's family!"

" A monster? Yes, I like that word..." He chuckled. " He may kill because of sin, but what he's really doing is cleansing them before death. He's making them pure before they pass over to their new life in the next world, we're all born in sin you know..."

" That's a stupid reason, he's a monster!" I frowned.

I jumped when I heard the handle of the room's door rattling, I placed the jar of strawberry jam down on the pillow next to me and got up from the sofa. I looked over at Backup, he beckoned me over to the desk with his hand and switched off the desk's lamp. I carefully walked over to the desk, I gasped as I got pulled under the desk and felt Backup put his hand over my mouth.

" Ssssh..." He said as he uncovered my mouth. " Don't say a word, don't even breath. Someone is here to play with us..."

I listened to the door's handle rattle again, I looked at Backup kneeing next to me and watched him smirking. This situation we were in was amusing him, he was getting a kick out of a serial killer coming after us. I shuffled away from him and felt the leg of the desk touch my back. I pulled my knees to my chest, I heard footsteps walking off down the corridor and let out a sigh of relief as I rested my chin on my knee.

" Do you think he's gone now?" I whispered.

" No, he's still coming for us..." He whispered with smirk slowly spreading across his face. " Can't you hear the walls creaking? He must know about the secret passage L uses sometimes to get to his room, he must have been stalking these halls for a very long time without anyone's knowledge..."

" I'm scared..." I whispered as I felt my bottom lip tremble. " I need to get out of this room, I want to go home!"

" Alright, I can arrange that for you..." He smirked.

I watched Backup crawl from under the desk, I quickly followed after him and got up from the floor. I looked around the room as I heard more creaking sounds coming from all around us, I saw Backup grab the silver letter opener from the desk and I back away from him. I heard a gently tapping sound coming from behind me, I quickly turned around and saw an outline of a very tall man standing outside of the window. I grabbed hold of Backup's arm as I yelled, I pulled him away from the window and heard a gunshot come from outside. I stumbled backwards when I heard another gunshot, I felt a sharp pain on the back of my head and fell to the floor as everything around me turned into darkness.