Joining the SPK was starting to seem like the worst decision you could have ever made in your life when Near had (surprisingly) taken the time to reach out to you to assist with the Kira Case. You hadn't seen the albino since your days in Wammy's.

Even then, he'd been in the upper echelon of orphans as 1st rank and you as a satisfactory fifth rank. He never seemed to engage inconversation with anyone outside of Mello when the blond yelled after being 2nd again.

It was already surprising enough that he used to plop down two feet away from you in the Common Room and proceed with some type of parallel play in silence. You liked to think you were friends even though you knew he wasn't yours.

Apparently you'd been mistaken when he picked you over Linda to team up with him against Kira (a stunning feat in itself). You'd been pleased that even after a few years, he remembered you and went through the trouble of finding you.

Now you were not.

Near must have gotten the idea in his little fluffy head that you were incapable of looking after yourself, acting like a hypochondriac to the point where you were paranoid over your own health - you didn't want to face a harsher regimen of meals, medicine you didn' need and his hovering and if you denied his tender care he'd resort to using a sedative on you with an additional guilt trip on the side.

All of this caused by the fact you'd gotten shot at in the middle of the Kira confrontation months ago. Now you were trapped in this lonely skyscraper whilst the rest of Near's subordinates looked the other way.