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Entry #A-6: "Angles" [January 15, Morning]

Jan 06, 2012 23:50

[Privately Coded to Mello]

I need $400, a pink carnation, and a Taser.

[Privately Coded to Haru]

We're eating at Dorsia, and then seeing the film "Resonating in Cypress." This is beginning tomorrow at 7:00; expect a taxi. I'm meeting you at the restaurant.

l lawliet, c: haru, c: mihael 'mello' keehl

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[voice | private] want_the_world January 7 2012, 05:00:32 UTC

Planning a big night on the town?

[voice | private] dead_black_eyes January 7 2012, 05:08:32 UTC

In a manner of speaking.

Can you get these things for me by tomorrow?

[voice | private] want_the_world January 7 2012, 05:17:24 UTC

[Of course he can. That's not the point.]

If you expect to need a taser, why are you going in the first place?

[voice | private] dead_black_eyes January 7 2012, 05:25:38 UTC

As with most of the things I am determined to accomplish, it has to do with a mystery and a game. My adversary isn't on the level of Light Yagami, but he'll pass the time, I think.

I'll be at the apartment until 6:30 PM, so I'll need the items before then.

[voice | private] want_the_world January 8 2012, 02:45:58 UTC

I'll have them well before then.

Who is it? Are you going to need surveillance?

[And someone ready to kick this guy's ass, he might as well add.]

[voice | private] dead_black_eyes January 8 2012, 03:08:41 UTC

[On the one hand, L acknowledges that it could be a very safe measure, to bring Mello in and stick him in the role of surveillance. On the other hand, he realizes that things could get embarrassing, and he isn't sure if he wants his successor to see him in any compromising situations.

He errs on the side of safety.]

It's Haru. He's a quarter lynx; he is a male prostitute with a fetish for violence, this much I have determined. Another part-cat, Leo, might have drugged him at one point, and I want to find out. I attended a party of his over the New Year, and he informed me that he wouldn't tell me certain things unless I took him out on a "date."

So I am. And surveillance, I think, would be a necessity. If you don't mind, of course.

[voice | private] want_the_world January 8 2012, 21:55:27 UTC

Really.

[Mello sounds dubious, because he is. He's mostly ignored Haru on the network, assuming anyone so obsessed with his own sexual prowess is either deluded or seriously compensating.]

I know Leo. [Who is less difficult to take seriously, and who has a determined, independent streak Mello both approves of and is annoyed by.] What's the relevance of him drugging Haru?

And I don't mind. Permission to shoot first and ask questions later if he tries to grope you?

[voice | private] dead_black_eyes January 9 2012, 02:15:13 UTC

Would I lie?

[Rhetorical question.]

Ah, then you've met the more reasonable and less overtly eccentric of the two. If he did then it would explain the reason they're no longer friends, and Haru's aversion to incorporating drugs into his sex life. It got an... interesting reaction when I made an offhand comment about it during our first conversation. And there are some inherent contradictions in his story versus Leo's. The two are no longer friends, but they know each other very well, and... frankly, it's a dynamic that's endlessly interesting to me. I want to understand it better.

[Maybe because it'll help him understand other relationships, including Mello and Near's, better. L has a thing for antagonism and treachery.]

Mm... if you do shoot him, make sure it's after I've found out what I want to. But, yes... you have my permission to take action if things take a turn for the dangerous... or the lascivious. I confess that I don't know how to handle that type of situation very well ( ... )

[voice | private] want_the_world January 9 2012, 05:07:10 UTC

[It doesn't take a genius to see the similarities between two pairs of people who know, better than anyone else, how to get under each other's skin, and have reason to use that knowledge.

It's also obvious to Mello that L has predicted his intentions correctly, and that he was counting on having done. Unlike most people, L can get away with that.]

Kicking him in the face would send a clear signal, if I don't have a good shot.

[voice | private] dead_black_eyes January 16 2012, 20:31:49 UTC

That much I can do.

I'll be wearing a black tie, and I'll take care to put a small camera and microphone inside the knot. You'll be able to see and hear everything I do, just in case a kick only encourages him.

[voice | private] want_the_world January 19 2012, 05:00:59 UTC

Heh.

[From what Mello's seen of this guy, a kick might count as foreplay to him.]

I'll be ready.

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