Rebounding and Resounding ((Open RP, L, Great Hall))

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

While not exactly the easiest thing to do, L, aka Ryuuzaki, was adjusting his own manner of thinking. He felt he'd reached some degree of success when he took A shopping rather than question his potential preparedness. He was making a concerted effort and when he made a concerted effort, things happened.

Concerted efforts also required sustenance. And, while eating in his room was adequate, L knew that, as part of his programme to change, he needed to get out more often. So, rather than request cheesecake and tea be brought to his room, he ventured out to the Great Hall, perching on a bench, adding copious amounts of sugar to his tea. Glucose, after all, was vital for brain functioning.

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[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well the police are quite nice really. We shan't go into how Rose knows this.

'So you're like the ones who are on the telly. Solving murders and things.'

Rose wonders if she could ask him to solve the murders Kieran tells her about. Like the one about the man with a hook for a hand who killed Kieran's sister's friend's friend's boyfriend when they were in the car together. (Kieran has only ever told that one once, and for this reason Rose supposes it must be the one that is true.)

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L considered his answer. The problem with it was that he, by and large, did not watch 'telly' as most would understand it. He watched surveillance footage, multiple screens at a time. If there happened to be a detective show on of any variety, he was not usually interested in it, but rather the actions of the person watching it. "I do solve murders," he agreed, "as well as mass robberies and other serial cases when they catch my attention."

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

He would have been good in the case of the hamsters.

Caddy had lots of hamsters when she left for university, but they all disappeared. And nobody knew where they had gone, until the fateful night where there was a powercut and Rose went out to find Mummy in her shed in the middle of the night with only someone else's shoes and a torch. And the door locked behind her.

But all these were symptoms of the missing hamsters. The wire was chewed through, but nobody was dead.

'Is that the razor thing?' Rose asks, very unsure but not willing to show it. 'I heard someone talking about a razor being used to solve crimes.'

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

"Occam's Razor? Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem." And, because some part of his mind reminded him that a child may not speak Latin, though he certainly did at her age. "Entities shall not be multiplied beyond necessity. Yes, I am familiar with it. It is often paraphrased as 'the simplest explanation is most likely correct.' At times, it is useful, however, by the time I begin on a case, many of the 'simplest' explanations have been exhausted."

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

So it wouldn't be escaped hamsters. It would be MASSIVE RABBITS. With HOOKS FOR EARS.

It is safe to say Rose does not go to a school where they teach Latin.

'What cases have you done?' Rose wants to know. By 'done', she means 'solved in the nick of time with movies and television series based on them.'

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"There have been several," L said without modesty. "Though, I am told the cases that shall be most known are those that lie in my future. The vaster majority of the cases I work on are known only to the ICPO and InterPol."

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

'So, you didn't do the one about the man who pretended to be a statue in the house and the babysitter got really scared.'

Rose is not impressed.

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L looked at her, confused. "I do not work cases that are urban legends." Yes, despite his social isolation, knowing of urban legends is helpful, given his field of expertise. "Cases that I am involved in typically have at least ten people dead or over a million dollars at stake."

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

Stuff the ten dead people with a million dollars! Or...well, read that however you want, and then know it's not meant that way.

'But it really happened! Kieran's aunt's sister's friend heard it from the mum whose babysitter it was!' And absolutely nothing will convince Rose away from the fact it's truth. Sure, nobody died, but she's only heard it once from Kieran.

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

L stared at the girl a moment. "And, aside from being scared, what happened?" he asked. Inducing fear is not a crime, in his book. If it were, he would be public enemy number one. Especially to dietitians.

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

'Well, he heard the phonecall and jumped out of the window,' Rose says, like this is an appropriate reaction. 'But he'd left his knife behind. It was silver with some brown patches, which was dried blood from all the people he'd killed before. He'd not wiped it because he liked to eat dinner with the same knife.'

Be thankful Rose doesn't know what he did to Misa.

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L considered a moment. "I have heard of a few cannibalistic cases," he murmurs, his thumb going to the corner of his mouth. Someone with normal social skills would hope Rose didn't understand that particular word, but L wants for normal social skills. "They typically do not interest me as the police are quite adept at narrowing down the field of suspects without my aid."

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

This is the girl who would rather starve than eat sandwiches which had only been bled on a bit.

'I wonder,' Rose says aloud, 'If the cannibal was really rich and had killed at least ten people, if you would be interested then.'

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"It is not whether the cannibal is rich, but if they stole something worth a lot of money," L corrected, almost automatically. He considered a long moment. "The cases I work are more like Jack the Ripper, where the police don't know who did it."

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

'But we know who did it,' Rose points out. 'His name is Jack.'

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

"Jack is a name used when the perpetrator's name is not know. It is a variant of the French pronunciation of 'John' which is and was a very common male name. It is used to signify that the person's actual name was not known," L explained in a tone, that for him, was patient.

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

'Or,' Rose says patiently, 'His name really was Jack.'

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

L shrugged. "There is some evidence to suggest the murderer may have been a woman," he said blandly, taking a bite of cheesecake. "The primary male suspect was named Montague John Druitt," he said around his food.

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

'Jack,' says Rose, passionately still trying to get her point across, 'is a nickname for John.'

She pushes her curls back with both her hands, and gets up from the bench.

'I will go to the greenhouses.'

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

"It would more like suit you. Enjoy," L said awkwardly. He was far from used to being at a disadvantage or to arguing with a child who's logic bore little resemblance to his own.