Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note or its characters. I make no money from this.

AN: I'm thinking about making this a chapter story.

Before I never cared, it never mattered, but now it is all gone, everything. Lives where risked and ended! For THIS?!? This job! It's nothing.

L how did it feel to have nothing or no one for a job? Or a hobby? This had to have been a job for you. Although I know you only took the cases you wanted to solve a hobby doesn't stop you from living your life. Did you want this? And Mello, the closest person to me, this job destroyed us! Our could have been friendship, your friendship with Matt and everyone's lives. Was it worth it? You wouldn't want this. No one would. You were right when you called Wammy's an Institution, it is not an orphanage. Wait, no, Mello actually it is only a factory, designed to produce. It makes you crazy, I have realized.

After A and B and L and you and Matt I still thought I was different, that I could not fall with emotion. I did not understand that I was all of you. Mello I was your dream, number one, the best. L I was your perfect successor, I completed what you could not. B I believe when you first arrived you had the same dreams as Mello. A, you could not take it, you saw the fate of L and myself and ended your life before this could change you. Your intelligence surpasses mine.

Solving cases is not difficult. I can do them on my own. The remaining members of the SPK have moved on to their normal lives. But, as recommended by Roger I have my own line of successors. This is not my wish but I cannot stop the cycle. Many people believe the world needs L. Maybe it does and L's and my life have been chosen as sacrifices.

Today is August 23, 2015 and earlier Roger has informed me tomorrow is my twenty-fourth birthday. I have never kept track of it. Does he think I will celebrate now? He knows I only continue to be L out of respect for L and those who died for this. It seems as if I'm the only one left unscathed but now, I see this as a fate worse than death.

AN: It's short, I know... but should it become a chapter story?

Criticism? Comments? Do you agree with the way being L is portrayed?