Not An Angel

AN: ok, this chapter as well as the next one are more... ano... well… They are made to explain things from Matt and Mello's perspective and to get you up to speed with things. Mello's might be a little smaller only because the chapter after that will be the start of everything, sort of like a flashback, and then we are headfirst into the stuff I started in the prologue. I like to make things complicated don't I? Hehe.

Suggested Listening: The Last Night by Skillet

Chapter one: The Beginning

~Matt~

All of my current problems had started sometime a few months ago; that was when everything began to crumble. My relationship with Mello had finally been cemented, finally. And then bang everything goes to hell in a hand basket.

Detectives started to die left and right. And I don't mean just keel over dead; no. They were all murdered. And there was absolutely no idea as to who killed them.

At first it was only concentrated in one area, the United States, but over the course of a week reports from Britain, Russia and even Japan reported the same thing.

Detectives dead, with no leads.

And those were only the detectives who were out in the open. About a month later, the more secretive detectives started disappearing and turning up dead days and sometimes even weeks later.

L had, at this point, hidden himself and Near away to whereabouts unknown even to me who could usually hack their position.

This left Mello and I alone on the frontlines. I, being the secretive underground hacker and detective J, and Mello being ex-mafia and a private detective. We knew it was only a matter of time before one or even both of us were targeted.

It left us on edge and I could feel us drifting apart.

There were no leads, no letters and no clues for us to go on this time. This wasn't about Whammys for once, this was about the world. Someone, or a group of someone’s, was trying to eliminate all of the detectives; and so far they were doing a great job.

The news papers were calling it the Great Detective Purge, there was even a report of an anonymous source saying they loved the sound of that and they should have thought of it.

And suddenly the underground was flooded with the news that a clue was in fact left. That it had been on all of the victims e-mails. Something so easy had been missed so completely.

An e-mail was sent to each of the deceased, all within a three week time before their death. But with at least a week in advance; the lucky ones got two or three weeks notice.

However it was still unreported what was said in the e-mails or even if the sender was the same each time, only that the e-mail had the heading 'warning' on it.

L and Near were both working on the case, as was every able bodied detective, but still nothing more was found. It was as if the e-mail information was leaked by the killers themselves.

And with how things had been going thus far, I wouldn't have been surprised.

With all of this tension, Mello had been more selective with taking his cases, not wanting to invite trouble as the saying goes. He had been working longer and longer hours, hardly even coming home.

And when he did, he had bags under his eyes, and looked sick. I knew he was pushing himself too hard, on this case as well as his own, but I never said anything.

In hindsight, that was my first and largest mistake.

-End Chapter 1-

AN: I actually am kind of fond of this chapter..... I'm not even sure why, but I am.

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