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Sophie Watson's Alternate Ending

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Sophie Watson held her breath as she tried to calm down. It smelt like gunpowder and blood and metal and stale water, the resulting combination sending her reeling. Gevanni, one of her coworkers, saw Sophie looking sick and walked over. “Adler?” Sophie blinked and looked at her coworker. “Huh?” “You okay?” “I…,” Sophie saw the body of Light Yagami, the boy she had watched go to pieces--only three and a half years younger than she! “I don’t know.” Gevanni searched in his pockets and finally pulled out a business card. “Here’s my personal, if you ever need anything,” he said. Sophie took it between two fingers gingerly. “It… really is,” she said in awe. The card he gave out, before he joined the CIA all those months ago, reading ‘Agent …show more content…

She felt like she aged over ten years over the span of the conversation. Near thought carefully. I understand where she’s coming from, he thought, and I know she’s relatively jaded--and didn’t react well when she heard Kira begging the Shinigami to kill us all, and watched Kira die; though I suspect that’s because of her sensitivities regarding blood and guns and suicide--along with the SPK, but… why does she feel so much for the serial killer? I find that the word ‘enigma’ fits her quite well. “Though I see where you’re coming from, Adler, I can’t help but wonder what makes you feel so much for the serial killer?” Sophie blinked in surprise. “I find that he was relatable in the way that he was just a bored and intelligent kid who tried to make the world better. I often felt that way--still do--and especially during my teenage years, I felt that way the same way. Hence why I joined the CIA.” “Ah. Thank you for your insight. I presume you’ll continue working with me?”

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