The Princess and the Scholar

by accountabandoned4122012

Once upon a time there was a princess. Once upon a time there was a scholar. Meriora has always been strange. L has always been weird. It's natural they should be friends. But sometimes friendship turns to love and love to betrayal. LxOC. Not AU

1. Chapter 1

The Princess and the Scholar

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
~William Collins

Prologue

October 2004

A young woman stumbled through the streets of Tokyo. The rain poured down, soaking her and causing her to shiver in her thin clothes.

"Please, Sir!" she cried out in English to a man passing by under an umbrella.

"No English!" he said back.

"Shit," she cursed. She pulled a piece of paper out of her pocket, praying that the ink hadn't run. It had. She could still make out the address, though.

Glancing around herself she saw a shiny new building. Checking with the paper in her hand she confirmed that this was indeed the building she was looking for. She coughed violently and grabbed a lamppost for support.

She stumbled across the street and over to the door. She pressed a button on the door and coughed as a man's voice said, "This is private property Miss. I need to ask you to leave."

"Tell L," she coughed, "It's Meriora." She collapsed in front of the door, worn out by her unknown trials.

Watari, seeing the woman collapse, bypassed the security network and rushed outside to bring her in. He picked her up, surprised to find she weighed very little, and carried her into the elevator, using his pass code to get through security.

He pressed the button for a floor where there was an unoccupied room and brought the girl into the room. Uncomfortable with the thought of changing her out of her wet clothes he laid her on the bed and went to get Misa.

Misa came up to the girl's room confused as to what Watari wanted her to do, until he explained the situation. Shooing him out of the room she changed the mysterious girl into warm, dry clothes, and tucked her into bed, before skipping off to tell Light.

Watari, meanwhile, went to the floor that L was on and found the detective sitting in a chair and staring dejectedly at a computer screen. Watari tapped L on the shoulder.

"Yes Watari?" he asked.

"There is a girl that collapsed at the front door. She had told me to tell you that it was Meriora. I brought her in."

"Meriora?" L asked astonished, "Where is she? I must speak with her at once!"

"Fourteenth floor."

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I know I know! Im awful! I have two other ongoing stories! Bleh. Whatever. *teenager moment* heh... -_- Next chapter will be longer and the title will become clear sorta. So... REVIEW!