Dust to Dust

by Lynn Bartlett

L drabble. "He could take comfort in knowing he had been right, but it was a Pyrrhic victory." Spoilers for 59.

Title: Dust to Dust

Author: Lynn Bartlett
Fandom: Death Note
Challenge: Now What?
Disclaimer: Ooba and Obata, manga-ka.
Notes: For deathnote100; spoilers for 59

It was a traumatizing thing, burial. His body had been stripped of clothing and any kind of identifying item and wrapped in an plastic bag as it was prepared for an anonymous grave. The mortician was callous, not at all embarrassed about handling the nude body. It was rather like watching a delivery man toss a sack of potatoes around as his arm was shoved into the slightly too-small casket.

He could take comfort in knowing he had been right, but it was a Pyrrhic victory.

L stared at them, wondering what the hell he was supposed to do now.