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(it's fine that was actually fitting to my advantage for god's sake don't change it! him saying that really works!)

She let the detective release his grip before replying. Thorn was confused but she knew that she had to tell him now.
"My real name's not exactly Remu. But somehow now I feel connected to it... You see... about a week ago I had a really strange dream where I was running through the halls in the middle of a stormy night. I turned a corner and found myself standing behind a mirror. Then in a flash of lightning the mirror flipped over... But I didn't see myself when I looked at it. I saw a white skeletal creature that looked only a little like me..."

Thorn paused. She gripped a small chain around her neck and gently pulled it from her shirt to reveal a silver and blue heart locket.

"Her name was Remu...and she was wearing my locket."

Thorn sighed. "I knew you'd say something like that. It sounds really childish but I just got concerned. Now she appears in my dreams every night... I just want to know why I keep seeing her... But if you don't think it means anything then I guess I shouldn't waste any more of your time."
She hid the locket back beneath her corset and left the dormroom.

Thorn continued to walk down the hallway without saying a word. She hated the fact that L couldn't help her, but then again he acted exactly as she had predicted. And she still had no idea what was going on.
"Maybe a walk will help..." She wispered to herself.
She headed down a corridor that wasn't very familiar to her. Then again a lot of places in the wammy house were because she was still quite new. It twised round corner after corner until she thought she'd go insane.
"...WHAT THE?!"
Thorn stopped suddenly infront of a large victorian mirror.
A look of horror spread across her face as she looked into the mirror. And Remu stared back.

Thorn was shocked. Standing infront of the mirror in a daze she stared at the thing which had replaced her reflection. The creature stood calmly and didn't seem to show any fear. Its right eye was covered by a bandage while the other was a cat-like bright yellow and fixed in a steely gaze. Her face was pale white. Whiter than any human could be unless they stayed out of the sun from birth. Her lips were icy blue with a slightly darker blue line on either side that pointed downwards in a straight point and then sharply followed up both sides of her face until they disappeared beneath snow white hair. Which, like Thorn's, was shaped into a bob and the tips were almost as blue as her lips. The rest of her body was like a tightly woven skeleton. Bones criss-crossed along her chest and shoulders where they stuck out in uneven spikes. The same with her arms and legs. And just like in the dream, a locket identical to Thorn's was hanging around her neck.

"You! You keep coming in my dreams! Who are you? I know your name but why the hell are you here?! I'm getting L right now!"
Remu sighed.
"Tell him all you want Hana but right now you're the only one who can see me."
Thorn almost fell backwards in surprise. The reflection's deep echoing voice repeated the name inside her head. What was happening?
"How do you know my real name?! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!"
"I'm a shinigami."
Thorn let out a small laugh. "Listen Remu. That'd sure be cool if it were true, but shinigami don't really exist! And even if you were a shinigami, YOU hardly even exist! I mean I'm talking to a mirror for crying out loud!"
"Are you sure? You're training to be a detective. Think about it. If I didn't exist then how could you be seeing me standing here?"
Thorn opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out.
I must be dreaming... She thought as she turned away from the mirror. I'll wake up soon and find this was all a dream surely!
Thorn ignored the reflection telling her to listen and ran back to her room hoping that the whole thing wasn't real.

Thorn was running back to her room in floods of tears. Why would't she wake up? Surley this was just a dream? Was the person she saw in the mirror really just in her head?
She was pondering all of these thoughts while in hysterics when kitty peeped round a door. Thorn ran straight up to her and held onto the girl's shoulders shaking her slightly.
"Kitty please tell me this is all a dream! I'm scared and confused! That shouldn't have been real!"
Thorn let go of the girl and waited for a response when she caught her face reflected in the window. The tears had made Thorn's dark makeup run down her face and she looked like she'd just seen a ghost. Which was kind of true.

L sighed. This was not healthy for a young detective. If the chosen orphan to be his successor was to be above and beyond regular standards of the normal human mind, how was Thorn going to achieve this task by being insane?

The detective stood up. "I will not listen to such foolishness any longer," he said in a colder voice. "You may gossip and speak of untimely rumors and childish dreams. However, leave me out of the conversation."

He simply left it at that and walked out of the kitchen, grabbing a handful of cookies on the way out, not bothering to close the door behind him.

((hey guys - I'm on a library computer and may have to go home soon. if I'm not on for a while, it's because there was a storm near my house and the internet connection's down))
((just a heads up ^_-))