October 5th, 2022: Mikaido Hospital, 13:41 P.M

Lucien Yagami


Lucien had never truly understood grief. She saw it happen all around her, and to a certain extent understood what it was, but no one really knew grief until they suffered it themselves.

She didn't feel grief when her parents, Light Yagami or Misa Amane died. They were hardly around and she was too young to remember them. She had never had a pet either so she didn't really know what it was to lose one. Fish didn't count. She was hardly
an empathetic person either. Sympathetic yes, but to be able to understand what a person was going through? Hardly.

Then the epidemic occurred.

It started just as they were closing up the Thantos Case. The dedicated Kira followers had all been caught,and they were preparing for death row. Lucien and her stepsister Misaki had been among the first to get sick. They had recovered quickly
enough, and no one looked into it much. Just astress related illness, nothing that wouldn't be fixed with a few days of bedrest. It had been a horrible week, but the knowledge that Thantos had been stopped and the fact that Near had actually
visited made things and million times better.

Then a lot more people started to get sick. Soon an epidemic began to spread like wildfire. The few thousand people that had managed to catch the original strain were safe. Immune.

Misaki and Lucien were two of these people. Aizawa and Giovanni went down first. Followed by Lester and Linder. Then their Uncle Matsuda, not their real uncle but the man who had raised them. Mogi was Immune as well but had perished when a the driver
of an ambulance succumbed to the illness and died whiledriving.

There wasn't anyone left.

Doctors were dead, leaving the few people in the hospital to perish quietly on their own. Like Near.

Lucien sat in the chair besides his bed, Misaki looking around for any food they could eat. Without anyone around, it was a matter of hours before the electricity went out. The heart monitor beeped gently besides her.

Near, he looked awful. His skin was paler than usual and was splotched in red. His eyes were ragged and looking at any light pained him. He was hot to the touch. He wouldn't make it for much longer.

Lucien tried to holdback the tears, refused to let herself break, even if there was nothing left. He weakly gripped her hand.

"D-don't cry," he choked out, his voice painfully raw. "You look pathetic." Lucien cracked a smile through her tears. The last time he had said that, she had thrown a table at him. They had just met.

"Me pathetic?" She asked in a haughty tone, "Never"

"Good," he mumbled. Then he slowly turned to face her.

"Lucien."

"Huh?"

"Thank you."

"Near.." She said, hoping it wasn't what it probably was.

"I'm serious Lucien. Thank you. You gave me friendship. Happiness. I'm proud to say you were my partner. I bet we would have solved any case thrown ourway,had things turned out differently."

"Hell yeah!" Lucien said, gripping his hand as tightly as she could without hurting him.

"I'm sorry. I'm not going to make it for much more," he said. Lucien choked back a sob.

"I know."

"Goodbye Lucien..."

"Goodbye Nate..."


When Misaki walked back into the room, she found Lucien sobbing in the corner of the room. Near was dead.

"Oh Luci.." Misaki said, tears of her own running down her face.

They satthere, embracing each other until they fell asleep. When they woke up though, they weren't anywhere.

Lucien stood up and examined they white room. It wasn't a room though. It was just endless white everywhere. She was surprised she hadnt just fallen through the floor when she got up. Besides her, Misaki stirred.

"Where are we?" She asked blearily and Lucien shrugged, not really caring. Perhaps they had died in their sleep. Maybe Heaven and Hell did exist. Would she get to see Near again?

"I see you two are awake," a voice said from behind her and they both turned around. A woman in her mid twenties stood there, with brown flowing hair and bright blue eyes. She was wearing a gray gown.

"Who are you!" Misaki demanded. The woman shook her head.

"I don't really have a name. I go by Time, Judgment, and even Fate."

Lucien decided she didn't like her very much. The Woman saw the look on her face and frowned.

"It's okay, I'm on your side. I want to give you a secondchance," she said.

"A... Second chance?" Lucien asked.

"Correct. Humans are so stupid they drove themselves to extinction. You two, I want to give you the chance to go back to when it all began. To before you were born to change things."

"Before we were born?" Misaki asked skeptically. "Wouldn't that cause some sort of paradox and we disappear or something?"

"Not exactly. You simply won't be born this time around and you won't disappear since you have been placed in this timeline. I must warn you. Your simple existence there could cause a time
Anomaly. It's not bad per say, but it could cause some unpredictable problems,"

"I'll do it!" Lucien said immediately.

"Luci..."

"Misaki. It's either this or suffering in a dead world for as long as we can find food," she reasoned. The older girl sighed.

"I guess we have no choice then," she said reluctantly. The Woman smiled.

"Very well then. I must warn you though. You'll be sent to different places at the exact same time," she said. Lucien and Misaki looked at each other and nodded.

"Off you go then!" She said, clapping her hands. Suddenly, Lucien crashed into a glass cofee table and had several guns pointed at her.

"What is it with the goddamn tables!"
She yelled in frustration. This was not a good start.


A/N: Hello everyone and thanks for reading. I will be changing times, dates and ages a bit to suit the story as a heads up.

I'd really appreciate feedback. Remember, every review counts!

S.I