Here it is, the sequal to the not-so-popular-but-still-apparently-loved Mellow Out!

For those who haven't read Mellow Out and don't feel like doing so in order to read this story, I offer a summary of Mellow Out to you now:

The story followed the ever defiant smart ass of an OC, Alpha Epsilon, when she arrived at the Wammy's House at the age of 14. She had been in a street gang with her brother until her family was killed, then she was just in a street gang. The gang was caught, the courts showed pity on the 14 year old computer wiz, and shoved her in the genius farm. Here, she met a four year old Mello and fourteen year old L. Mello took to her immediately and looked up to her greatly, and learned from her to love chocolate and excessive profanites. Alpha, upon finding out that a murder she witnessed another member of her gang commit was the murder of Mello's parents, also took to the blond midgit and took him under her wing, vowing to herself to protect him, as she had been unable to save his parents. Do to her history, she is given a therapist, who gives her a journal to write down her thoughts and feelings in. She dubs it her psychodiary and later names it "Ant" (short for Marcus Antonius). She is tormented by B throughout her stay at Wammy's, and eventually discovers that he is the owner of a Death Note and is followed around by a Shinigami called Akino. She manages to steal the note from him and burry it next to a tree before she runs away at the age of 20 (she had stayed four extra years after L and Watari left to help take care of the orphanage and, in particular, Mello, who she still believed she owed her life to after what happened with his parents). She is caught running away by Mello, who despite his attempts cannot talk her into staying. She tells the ten year old chocolate fiend the truth about what happened to his parents (as he had been told they were killed in a car crash) before giving him the rosary her older brother had given her on his death bed, as well as her chocolate stash that she had left in her room, and leaving. In the two epilogues, L comes back to Wammy's to discover his only friend has left; and years later, Matt and Mello recieve letters from Alpha, explaining exactly what happened in the Kira case.

All right, that's it in a nutshell. This one takes place durring the Kira case. Ant will make a comeback, as will Alpha obviously, and so will Akino. The first chapter gets right into the story, so here's my regular quick-sum, disclaimo, ext.

Disclaimo: I don't own Death Note or any of it's characters and concepts.

Warnings: Profanity, maybe? I'm not sure. I forgot and don't feel like reading over it again :P

Quick-sum: Had Watari called for backup? She honestly had no idea, as she hadn't been at Wammy's House in a few years. She officially left four years after L did, in 1999… or was it 2000? She wasn't sure, but she knew she had been twenty at the time. No less, it didn't matter. She was looking into a window that showed her the very hotel room L had been staying in undercover.

It was abnormally cold for such a clear night in Tokyo, Japan, even if it was the middle of the winter. The locals and tourists alike were seeking shelter indoors for the unusually frigid January of 2004. The phenomenon of "global warming" was miles away from everyone's minds, replaced with a mixed feeling of fear and reverence, if only in Japan. To many citizens in the country, the only reason for the air to grow so much colder was because of the atmosphere of fear and slowly growing familiarity with the strange happenings as of the late. Criminals and FBI agents were dropping dead of heart attacks left and right, like some sort of divine justice gone wrong. No one, however, wanted to oppose Kira. Even as his supporters began doubting him, thinking him to be a devil in angel's clothes, they reluctant pledged their allegiance to this god of theirs, the God of the New World, and accused those who chased him of sacrilege despite their own suspicions.

Some, though, had been strong enough in willpower to chase the demigod from the very beginning. There was the task force, consisting of only five Japanese police officers brave enough to hunt down the killer. Then, there was the elusive L, the world's greatest detective. He could have walked down the street in his plain white shirt and blue jeans with passersby being none the wiser of his true identity. There was his associate Watari, who had been the police's only contact with L up until New Year's Eve in 2003. The secretive detective, who was only in his early twenties and still with a mind sharper than anyone's that the task force could say they had ever come into contact with, had finally allowed these five officers to see his face to make cooperation in such a troublesome case at least a little easier. Still, though, L considered it a failure on his part. They were the first to ever see his face since he gained his worldwide recognition as such a great detective, completely breaking his near constant winning streak.

Sacrifices still needed to be made, so he wouldn't complain.

There still was one other hunting Kira. At the moment, the girl wasn't hunting Kira, per se. She was truly hunting L, her old childhood friend. Had Watari called for backup? She honestly had no idea, as she hadn't been at Wammy's House in a few years. She officially left four years after L did, in 1999… or was it 2000? She wasn't sure, but she knew she had been twenty at the time. No less, it didn't matter. She was looking into a window that showed her the very hotel room L had been staying in undercover. It had taken her a while to find it, but she had followed Watari to it and found out that "Ryuzaki" was staying in the hotel. As she had followed the Los Angeles BB Murders like a cheetah stalks its prey, she knew that Ryuzaki absolutely had to be L. Now, she was looking right at him, though the police officers he was working with were absent, most likely headed home to see their families.

Alpha Epsilon dropped back down as quietly as possible onto the fire escape where she had set down her bag and allowed herself a small laugh. Oh, how the mighty had fallen. As it had been, the only people who could put L's face to his name, or his name to his face, were those that remembered him from The Wammy's House. Of course, she was one who remembered him, otherwise she wouldn't have been looking for him to help with the Kira case. He was obviously struggling if he had been willing to go as far as letting five people at the same time see his face, any of which could have been Kira and could have killed him, just to keep the cooperation of the police. The poor private detective wasn't so private anymore!

She picked up her bag and brushed a bit of dust off of it, then opened it and looked inside at the single notebook. "You'll be getting a few pages full soon, buddy," she said as though speaking to an old friend. Alpha made her way back down the fire escape, careful not to drop her bag in the parking lot of the Teito Hotel below her. She couldn't make any mistakes with that bag. With as much as she had written in that notebook, anyone to get a hold of it would have known where L was, what he was doing, who he was with, and all of her own theories on the Kira case. That would have proven disasterous, particularly if Kira had picked up the notebook.

Once at a safe distance from the ground, she dropped down and landed on her feet in a less than graceful manner, stumbled, and caught herself on a car with her hands. Her eyes widened when she looked at the car.

It was a police car. And there were two others parked by it. She backed away from them quickly – that meant that L's amigos in the Kira case were nearby.

"H – hey!"

And, turning, she saw two of them. These were Matsuda Tota and Aizawa Shuichi. She didn't have a good reputation with the police in the area with as much as she had been sneaking around since she got to Tokyo, as they obviously thought someone like her (with more holes in their face than Swiss cheese) had to be up to something bad. As she had just come down a fire escape on the hotel L was in and they were working with L himself, she had no doubt in what they were expecting.

"What were you doing up there!"

It was more of a command than a question, coming from the afro-clad Aizawa rather than the confused looking Matsuda. Alpha, thinking fast, decided to use the ever popular, "It's not a matter of what I was doing up there, it's a matter of what they're doing over there!" and pointing behind them.

The element of surprise worked, as they both looked in the other direction for long enough for Alpha to take off running in the opposite direction. Those two wouldn't believe her if she even attempted to talk to her, and they would definitely make sure to keep her away from L at all costs. She hid around the other side of the building as she listened to Aizawa talking, apparently on the phone – to Ryuzaki-san. That was good.

"Ryuzaki-san," he was saying, "Matsuda and I just spotted someone climbing down the fire escape. Uh, female, late teens to early twenties, probably European. She ran off around the other side of the building. Yeah." He then spoke to Matsuda: "Go see if she's still over there." Alpha knew she had a moment longer to listen before Matsuda would get there. "What should we do? Right, and if she doesn't? Sh – shoot? To disable, all right. Fine. R- really? All right, yeah, I guess. Okay, I'll inform them as soon as they get here, they should be coming around the corner in a second. All right."

She heard a small snapping sound, like a cell phone shutting, and she could hear footsteps growing nearer. She looked back and saw a chain link fence. At this, Alpha swore under her breath. She was one of the slowest climbers she knew, and they had just been given command by L to shoot her if she did anything to escape. It really couldn't be helped. It was foolish, she thought as she reached into a side pocket of her messenger bag, but necessary, as it was the only thing that might even possibly get her out of this predicament.

So as Matsuda rounded the corner, she drew her gun. They were illegal in Japan, which was why it surprised him enough that it took him a moment to reach for his own. Hers was a small pistol, smaller than the police's standard issue guns, but it would still pack enough of a punch. Even so, Alpha had absolutely no intentions of shooting. She just didn't want to be taken into custody. There were more important things for her to be doing than sitting in a dingy little jail cell.

It was obvious just by Matsuda's disposition that he was probably relatively new to the Japanese police force and not used to dealing with standoffs of this sort.

"Uh – d– drop your weapon!" he managed to get out. He reached in his pocket quickly, pulled out a billfold, and opened it up quickly to flash a police badge. "Police!"

"Can't do that, sorry," said Alpha, switching her language to Japanese with some effort. "I'm not enjoying this any more than you are, mate."

"Just drop the weapon and come quietly and there won't be anything to worry about!"

"I think it's you who needs to calm down," said Alpha with a sigh. "You couldn't hit the side of a barn at point blank range with as much as your hands are shaking. Why were you instructed to follow me anyway? For all you know someone broke into my room in the hotel and I was escaping out the fire escape and happened to land in the wrong place at the wrong time. Why did you automatically assume I was up to no good?"

"Uh –"

"Ah," she said, taking one hand off of the gun to poke at a piercing in her bottom lip. "It's all the metal, isn't it?" There were more footsteps at a running pace coming around the side of the building now, and Aizawa was next to point a gun at her. "Ah, nice of you to join the fun, I see you've brought a toy as well. Why am I being chased, now?"

"You are under suspicion of being Kira," said Aizawa. Even Matsuda looked surprised at this. "Drop your weapon. Even if you do shoot one of us, you'll be shot by the other."

"Unless I'm a really fast shot," said Alpha reasonably. "Why would you suspect me of being Kira?"

"That's classified. If you attempt to escape, you will be shot."

"Only if I turn my back. Otherwise, I just dodge."

"You –"

"Shh!"

Matsuda and Aizawa looked at each other for a moment in confusion before focusing on her again. Alpha, however, was listening to another phone conversation now. She could hear Yagami Soichiro talking to someone on the phone, most likely L. "Ryuzaki-san," his voice said, travelling around the corner. "The suspect appears to be armed and has started asking questions. What should we do? No, she hasn't tried to escape yet, and she isn't threatening to. She is at gunpoint right now – Matsuda and Aizawa. Yes." There was a long pause. "You want us to do what?"

Matsuda looked over at Yagami at this statement.

"Focus!" said Alpha, waving her gun.

"What?" said Matsuda, quickly looking back at his current situation.

"All right," said Yagami, almost resignedly. "Fine, we will. You're sure? … I'm not entirely sure, only Aizawa and Matsuda have seen – and leave Aizawa there? Right." Alpha heard Yagami give commands to Matsuda and Ukita Hirokazu to switch places. Matsuda seemed extremely relieved, but was at least smart enough not to turn his back until he got around the corner. Ukita, a rather short man with large ears, took his place. Alpha tuned out Aizawa and Ukita commanding her to drop her weapon to listen to Matsuda as he took over the phone conversation.

"Uh… right. Reddish hair, uh… loads of piercings. Three lip, one nose, one eyebrow, I think. Probably ears too, but her hair was covering – a little longer in the front and shorter in the back. Attitude…? Uh…"

"Sarcastic?" Alpha offered rather loudly.

"Yeah, sarcastic," she heard Matsuda say. "I guess so. Calm? Yeah. Only a messenger bag, that's what she got the gun out of. Don't know if there was, I didn't see inside it. Okay."

Yagami continued speaking with L at this. "Are you still – more than before, of course," said Yagami, sounding halfway between exasperated and confused. "Fine. I will."

There was a quiet snapping sound of a cell phone, and Yagami spoke out loud to Aizawa, Ukita, and Alpha as he approached the scene himself. "Put your weapons away, all three of you," he was saying.

"I'm not a police officer and I don't have to listen to you!" said Alpha loudly as he walked into view.

"You don't have to, no," said Yagami, "but I would recommend it. You apparently aren't to be prosecuted until you speak with L."

"Ah, goody," she said, putting her gun (which she hadn't even taken off of its safety setting) back into the side pocket of her messenger back. She then held out her wrists. "Shall I be restrained?"

"L doesn't seem to think that is necessary."

"But chief!" she heard Matsuda say, running over to the scene. "It's a federal offence to even point a gun at another person in Japan, what's L –"

"It also isn't legal to send spies to follow particular people and their families' around," said Yagami. "This is L we're talking about."

"Indeed it is," said Alpha, causing them all to look at her again. She crossed her arms. "What? You were referring to his hiring of FBI Agents from America to follow around the families of the police working on the Kira case, right? Everyone knows about that. Kira obviously did as well, considering what he did to them."

"Yes, obviously," said Yagami shortly. "Now come with us. Aizawa, Matsuda –"

"Chief, she could still be Kira," Matsuda said quietly.

"Matsuda, you'd be dead by now if I were Kira. So would Aizawa, Ukita, Yagami, and Mogi, and the last twos' names weren't even mentioned. Now chill out."

"As I was saying, you two are in charge of making sure she doesn't attempt to escape," said Yagami.

Matsuda seemed apprehensive of the job he had been given, but he and Aizawa both knew they had to walk on either side of her to restrain her if she attempted to escape.

"I won't attempt to escape, I promise," said Alpha as she walked behind Yagami and Ukita, with the impossibly tall, Frankenstein monsteresque Mogi walking behind the entire group. "One, I'm boxed in," she continued as they entered the hotel lobby, "and two, I'm quite looking forward to popping in on L to say hello." She said this quietly so no one else in the lobby would hear. "I have absolutely no reason to want to escape. And I'm claustrophobic, so this arrangement of people taller than me that I can't see over top of surrounding me will only make me more apprehensive and verbally aggressive. I swear a lot when I'm angry. And I can practically hear you rolling your eyes, Yagami-san, please don't do that."

"You're not ever quiet, are you?" said Aizawa, sounding utterly annoyed.

"Not particularly. You'll only get more annoyed if you keep walking next to me, wouldn't you rather walk up front?"

"I would, but that wasn't my instruction," said Aizawa.

Alpha already didn't like him.

"What about you, Matsuda-san, doesn't standing next to a colleague seem to be a more appealing idea than walking next to a potential murder suspect?"

"I – I'm supposed to –"

"That's all right," she said. "You're freaked, I know. I would be too if I'd just found out that a possible Kira suspect knew my name and face. If it makes you feel any better at all, I've known who everyone was for a couple days now and you're all still alive."

"Yeah…."

"No? That's all right."

The walk to the hotel room seemed to take far longer than it should have. They took the stairs do to the number of them and Alpha complaining loudly about small confined spaces with lots of people (she honestly just didn't want to say that she was afraid of elevators). She hated stairs as well, but it seemed that this was the only way to get there if she was against taking the elevator. She decided to spend the rest of the walk in silence to save herself from gaining hatred from the investigation team. She was sure that if she talked to L, she might be working in fairly close proximities with them.

She felt a little rude, though. She still really hadn't introduced herself to them. She still didn't much like Aizawa, but the rest of them seemed all right, if only a little impatient. Matsuda wasn't. He was just scared out of his wits that he might drop dead of a heart attack within the next few minutes, that was obvious enough by the apprehensive looks she kept getting from the person walking to her right. Aizawa was rolling his eyes every time she opened her mouth to say something, which was beginning to get a little annoying. That was another part of the reason that Alpha had stopped talking.

Even she had to admit that she did have a tendency to talk a lot. That was probably do to how much thinking she did about completely strange things all the time and the fact that the filter between what she thought and how much of it came out of her mouth had diminished over time. She would have to be extremely careful when talking to L not to mention how she knew him or where she knew him from. That would be disasterous, as outsiders weren't allowed to know about the Wammy's House. That was a main rule of the orphanage, that no one was to know who had been there, when they had been there, or who those who had attended even were by name, hence their fake names. There was only one other orphan from that place that knew her real name, and he was currently locked up in Los Angeles, much to her great relief.

"Oh, we're here?" said Alpha, nearly walking into Yagami when he stopped in front of her at a door. "Didn't even notice, sorry about that."

Yagami knocked on the door and then opened it (apparently L had told him he would unlock it for when the suspect was brought up). The moment Alpha walked through the door and saw L, she couldn't resist the temptation. She pointed at L (who was, as always, eating a rather large slice of cake) and said, quite loudly ad exuberantly, "Llama!"

There was silence throughout the hotel suite.

Poor Matsuda.

I pick on him too much.

Anyway.

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