Mello should be getting the notebook anytime now and when he does I have a pretty good idea of what he will do with it. He will think he has won. Mello may have won the battle for the notebook but he will not win the war. He gets too emotional, the thing is I think he could beat me if he kept a level head. He lets his emotions get in the way, that is what is stopping him from surpassing me. The main room was currently buzzing with people. Each one trying to find the notebook and Mello. He had come so close to finding him. Hope kept looking around her at all the people. She must have worked it out, she may have not known Mello like I did but she spent that one morning with him and with her skill it probably didn't take her long to work him out. I would usually be the same. If you looked at a persons actions enough you can learn the way the thing and predict what they are going to do next, but with Hope, with Heidi I had no clue. She was a mystery I couldn't seem to solve. I never knew what she was thinking or going to do. Maybe that was because she wasn't all human, but for me that was one of the best things about her. She was different and I found her tail and ears beautiful. They were part of her and I didn't really understand why the government would want to hide something like her in the first place. The fact that she had been locked up most her life and still had much better social skills than I did amazed me. People seemed to just like her. There really wasn't anything to not like. Once they look past the fact that she has a tail and ears, they see just a loveable girl. I knew that Ill Ratt had certainly seen that. I looked up from my dice towers to see her talking to Halle. She had her back to me and I noticed her tail was swaying from side to side slightly. I picked up another dice and was about to place it on the tower when from the corner of my eye I saw a member of the SPK topple over whilst grabbing his chest. It is starting I thought as I lost focus and my dice towers started falling over and dropping to the floor. The first agent fell to the floor and the others started dropping too. They were looking around in a blind panic but my eye where focused on one person and one person alone. Hope. As long as she was okay I could go on. She eyes locked on me and then they drifted behind me. Most of the SPK members were dead now.

"Near, look out!" Hope screamed. She ran towards me as I looked around to see Ill Ratt holding a gun at me. Then I felt someone slam into me and I was toppled off my chair and onto the floor, just as two guns went off. I looked and saw that it was Hope. I sat up quickly and noticed that Illl Ratt was splatted over the computers and Hope was bleeding. She had been hit. One bullet was from Anthony who shot Ill Ratt and the other was meant for me but Hope had saved me. A pool of red, sticky blood poured out of her side. The wound was just below her rib cage, if was even a little higher it would have punctured her lung and she would have defiantly be dead. She lifted her face to look up at me and then she blacked out. I stayed completely still. I didn't know what to do. I wasn't a medic, I was shocked and scared. Hope couldn't die, no, I couldn't let that happen. I saw Halle and Anthony run over to Hope's side and then they carried her out of the room. I sat there on the floor, completely still, not knowing what to do.

A little while later after I had finished washing my face I decided to go and see Hope. When I got to the door Anthony was just coming out.

"Near, that might not be a good idea right now."

"Why not, Commander Rester?"

"She isn't in a good way but don't worry Halle is taking good care off her. In the mean time I need to do some research on nature Gods."

"Why is that?"

"Something very strange is going on. Hope didn't black out she actually put herself into a sort of coma and I need to know why. So the only way I can find out is if I do research on nature Gods because I have a feeling that it is only because she is part God that she is alive right now. That wound is pretty serious."

"If I can't see her than I would like to accompany you in finding out what is going on."

"Near, you should be trying to find Mello and the notebook. You are the only one that can."

"I'm not the only one but the other is currently on her deathbed which is why we need to help her as much as we can." I told him. The truth was that I just wanted to be the one by Hope's bed. I knew I couldn't look after her, I couldn't even look after myself but I just wanted to be there.

"Near, this girl...you have feelings for her don't you? I mean because.."

"Commander Rester." I said calmly cutting him off. "She is a valuable member in the team and with her we have a great advantage on both Kira and Mello. If he lose her we lose that upper hand. It has nothing to do with that." I said before leaving him. I started walking down the hall to the main room and heard as Anthony's footsteps followed me. All the while think if what he said was true. The way that I feel about Hope, is this what they call 'love?'