Death Note: A New Story. (Severusx & EternalFlameBaby)

[Artificial Sugar]

Shina had woken up late, which was quite unusual for her. Usually she was up and ready by seven, but today she woke up to see the clock reading eight.


She did a double take, and then jumped out of bed, tripping on the blanket in her haste.


"Shit." She muttered, standing as she rubbed her knee, which had taken most of the fall.


She wasn't late or clumsy usually, but apparently today was going to be interesting.


Quickly grabbing some clean clothes from her closet, Shina made her way to the bathroom to shower.


Work didn't start until nine, thank God, which gave her plenty of time to shower and get ready.


She would at least look presentable.


After washing and shaving, Shina got out and put her robe on, then began to blow dry her hair.


She never let it stay wet, since that wasn't very attractive.


Twenty minutes later, her hair was ready to be put up into it's usual bun, and she got dressed.


Today she'd chosen a simple white button up shirt with a black pencil skirt, and a pair of Prada heels.


It was now eight thirty, so she slipped on some lip gloss, eyeliner, and brown eyeshadow, and then left her bathroom, making sure to grab her purse on the way out.


Luckily for her, she had a personal driver to bring her to work. Courtesy of her father, of course.


Arriving at work, Shina entered the building and took the elevator to the third floor, where she worked.


Taking a seat at her desk, she set her bag down and turned her computer on, waiting for her boss to arrive and tell her what they were doing today.


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L had meant to be looking through his actual work files, but he'd gotten sidetracked, something that wasn't usual for him.


But when it came to Alice, nothing was usual.


He hadn't slept, as usual, and had been up all night, eating cake and drinking tea, and he'd been curious to see what she'd been up to.


He'd had her file brought to him, and he'd been up since then, reading it.


She had always been something unusual in his life, and his feelings towards here were complicated.


He wasn't sure how to handle them.


Usually, he tried to push thoughts of her aside, but for some reason, today, he couldn't.


So, here he was, looking at her file, a piece of cake on a plate next to him, untouched for once.

 

[EternalFlameBaby]

Alice was a person of exact punctuality and had her morning routine down to a science. She got up without once hitting the snooze button and headed across her penthouse apartment to her bathroom. There her shower took exactly fifteen minutes, her hair dried in ten and her make up, her signature winged eyeliner and ruby lips, done in another ten. Then she went to her walk in closet where her outfit of the day was already laid out and ironed til not a wrinkle was left in sight. Today it was a sultry red dress, black half jacket, stocking and stilettos. She slipped herself a smile in the mirror, she looked like she could be a mans day dream or night mare. Her ultimate aesthetic.


She then arrived to her office building at 8:55 giving her enough time to grab the cup of coffee her secretary had ready for her and grab any reports she needed before she finally pushed open her office door. "Alright people lets look alive, I need these cases solved yesterday" she said as her heels clicked against the tiled floor and faces flashed on the screens in the front of the room, all of them looking the type that you didn't want to meet in a dark ally.


"Shina any news on the Kingpin case?" she asked her assistant as she slid into the desk opposite of the girl, her hand reaching for a bowl of colorfully wrapped candy. "Every day that we don't have a new lead he gets even farther away and I do not intend to let him slip my grasp," she said sternly, there was no way she was gonna let her perfect case record get broken because of some new age money who thought he owned the city.


~*~


Mello didn't want to get out of bed even on his good days and after the previous night he did not think that today was going to be a good day. He had chosen to reward himself from driving such a long distance without a single speeding ticket by going out for a few drinks. Those few drinks had turned into a number he had lost track of and now his head felt more like an explosion waiting to happen that a mind of a genius. He groaned and slowly sat up, his eyes squinting as he tried to adjust to the startling bright lights in his hotel room.


He grumbled and gave a roll of his shoulders as he reached for his phone, his eye sight still slightly blurry making his texting sloppy as his fingers fumbled on the key board. " Hey got in2 town fine. Also surprise Im here 2 visit u. Bar 2nite?" her sent to his friend Shina with every thought that she would be nothing less that stocked that he had come all this way to see her.

 

[Artificial Sugar]

"Not yet, unfortunately." Shina answered quietly, shaking her head. She didn't like disappointing Alice, but there really hadn't been any new information as of late.


She knew it would come in eventually.


It was just taking time. A lot of time. And Shina knew that Alice didn't like waiting.


Just as she was about to speak again, though, a text came through on her phone. One good thing about the place she worked was that phones were allowed.


Smiling sheepishly, Shina checked it, shocked to see who it was from.


Mello. They hadn't spoken for years, since after graduation. And now, here he was, saying he was in town, for her?


Texting back quickly, Shina sighed. It was weird.





What bar, and what time? I can't stay out too late, I have to work...


She put her phone back down, and resumed her work on her computer.