The Whitechapel Case [abandoned]

Part 2: The Connections (Chapter 8)

The Whitechapel Case
Fox-Trot-9

PG-13
Horror/Suspense/Mystery (How-Catch-'Em)
Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt or Death Note.

Part 2: The Connections
Chapter 8

For the umpteenth time in Father Carmyne's car, Noll found himself thinking of that one case, the one that trumps all others. And it wasn't the 1949 case the father had alluded to, oh no. It was a different one; in fact, it was a most infamous case (*), one that has engraved itself into law enforcement lore since the first criminals from several prisons in Japan and abroad died of mysterious heart attacks and other inexplicable causes in the spring of 2004.

Noll was eleven that time and living with Gene, Martin, Luella, Lin and Madoka when the news came on TV showing sentenced criminal, Lind L. Tailor, posing as the legendary "L". Of course, Noll didn't know this; so when he saw "L" publicly challenge "Kira" and die of a heart attack on live TV, well... It wasn't too pretty. One of the few persons Noll admired died in front of him on TV, causing Madoka to cover his eyes as "L" lay contorting on the screen. That was the start of a five-year period when Noll and everyone else in the Davis household turned on the TV every other night, waiting for the next update on the Kira case; that was a scary time for the kid, though he would never admit it. But if he were to, he'd only admit his fears to one person: Gene. Because up to that point, Gene was the closest person he knew. He would never truly be scared as long as he had his brother.

That all changed when Noll had that vision in September of 2009. He was sixteen then, but he remembered it now as if it were last night. He was snoozing away in his bed at the around 12:00 a.m. when that vision came to him in a nightmare that felt all too real, one that left him waking up and gasping for air. He then sat up and noticed beads of sweat pouring from his face. Noll also remembered the tomb-like silence of that fateful night, save for the sound of his rapid breaths and his heart pounding against his ribs. He tried to will away that nightmarish vision the way Danny from The Shining did; only it wouldn't disappear from his mind no matter how hard he tried.

Then he shifted around in his bed and found out, to his horror, that he had wet the bed. Noll felt disgusted with himself, chiding himself for it; just a week before his seventeenth birthday, and he had wet the bed like five-year-old Danny. Then he felt his stomach clench painfully, but he kept the contents down long enough for him to reach the bathroom without causing much noise, or at least he thought so. In four or five heaves, he puked into the toilet and was now flushing it away before anyone else could see.

Then came a knock at the door.

"Noll, are you sick?" said Lin.

Luella, Madoka and Martin heard the commotion in the bathroom and were at Lin's side.

"I'm fine," said Noll, and to prove it, he turned on the shower to drown out their voices and took a nice long shower. And that seemed to be the trick; it was enough to take the edge off, at least for a little while. And when he was done drying himself, he felt spick and spam. Until he caught himself in the mirror. Looking back at him was a scared little boy in the form of a young man; somehow he couldn't shake the horror of that vision from his mind. And when he looked closer, he saw that drawn-out mournful look in his eyes, which was the look you have when you lose someone close. Even so, he still managed to keep the rest of his stoic look intact.

He then got out of the bathroom and hurried past the others and into his room before shutting the door; then he changed into his trademark black attire quick as a speed-demon, making sure to put his soiled pajamas and bed sheets in the laundry basket. There was no way in Hell he'd show any weakness, let alone have everyone know he pissed himself. Then he got out a suitcase.