This is a story of a heated love affair, and the accounts leading up to the kira case, between L and the secret woman he keeps hidden away from the outside world, a woman he found in a laboratory many years before the infamous case, but will Light get between them or will they prevail together?
Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note or its characters, but if it is a character seen/read I do own it. I tend to add things from movies as well so I do not own those either.
When I First Met You
It was an early morning in south England when L successfully managed to take down a company responsible for kidnapping and performing experimentations on the subjects. On the outside they were just a simple corporate company in charge overseas trading with America but no one noticed the homeless people just disappearing off the streets utill one by one men, women and children, even whole families went missing it wasn't long after a few months of this people really began to take notice. However they could gather no evidence and had no leads, until L took the case. It was his usual MO however and he never visited the crime scene and never spoke to anyone in person.
"You've done a good job L." Wammy said to L.
"…Mmm.." He said crouching on the ground looking at a picture of the head office in the building mentioned above. At the time L was only fifteen.
"Something bothering you?" Wammy asked without concern.
"Yes…" he said quietly pressing his thumb against his lips. "This room…" he mumbled.
"What is it L?" Wammy said prying for more of an answer.
"I want to go and see this building… something's not right Wammy…"
"L I cannot advise you to go there." He said firmly.
"I need to see this place for myself…" he could feel that something was still out of place almost as if the case had not been finished yet. 'Something about this room…' his only lead was his gut but he just knew.
"I will make arrangements and we will go there tonight but we must leave before the sun is up tomorrow morning, you have a long drive back to Wammy house."
"Agreed." he muttered.
Later the same day both L and Wammy arrived at the office building, the laboratories holding the subjects were found in buildings underground while all other three floors were normal office spaces, in fact the only thing not normal about the whole building was the CEO's office. Rather than being on the top floor with a view L immediately noticed that it was on the bottom floor with only one window facing the parking lot, not the kind of office space a big shot would want. So why choose it? L went to the office first after sending Wammy to the laboratory. All the subjects found in the laboratory were already dead or far beyond logical conversation many had grown extra limbs and even a second head or two, the kind of experiments performed were not clarified or written down in an explanation and police detectives were still waiting for confessions.
As L entered the office space he peered around looking from left to right. The only objects in the room where a desk a table and a bookcase. He first moved to the desk all papers were removed or scattered about the room. The table had been flipped over, but the bookcase, was in perfect condition. He examined the wall behind it after knocking on the wall in a few select places he quickly determined that it was a false. The was a room behind the wall that most likely led to a privet section in the laboratory, which was why it was placed on the ground floor and the books were all still in place. Running his fingers over the books he found one that wouldn't budge at a simple touch, pulling it down the bookcase fell through the back, as some books stumbled too the ground after being opened he looked down a dark stack way.
"Hmmmm… Why not…" he mumbled. He was curious about why the CEO would need a room like this or whether it was even a section of the lab. He took it one step at a time observing the walls and stairs for any indication of danger, he proceeded into the open room at the bottom of the stairs, inside he found a large room, a somewhat kind of living room it had its own kitchen and a small bed a few children's toys and puzzles were scattered on the floor. 'A child lived here… why? A test subject? But why would this one have its own room linked to the director's office?' he pondered turning about the room the kitchen was small with one or two white cabinets and a small refrigerator and only a microwave. L walked over to a portion of the ceiling that had fallen down, 'Whatever was kept in here isn't here anymore.' He thought to himself looking through the hole although he was expecting it to lead through the next floor the space was only black, but crouching there in the ceiling he saw eyes! Golden like honey peering down at him hungrily. "Mh!" he stepped back in alarm the shadowy figure lunged out of the ceiling pouncing on him throwing him into the ground before dashing under the bed. L on the floor looked over to under the bed the creature that had attacked him was nothing more than a frightened little girl. But it's foolish to underestimate a young girl who is capable of hiding in the ceiling and lunging at you with enough speed and force to knock down someone twice her size.
L stayed at a far distance from the bed crouched on the floor, he was egger to see the product of their experiments but not at the cost of his life. For the Director to have this room next to his own hidden this subject must have shown the most potential or was at the most a success in their efforts. No matter where in the room he moved her cold eyes would follow him, L reached into his pocket and pulled out a chocolate bar, he tossed a small piece under the bed and the while the kid didn't run he noticed her jolt in fear of it. After a moment of silence he assumed that she had eaten it her small head poked out from the bottom. Her cold fearful eyes nowhere to be seen, replaced by piercing curiosity, she had reminded him of feral cat, the speed the choice of defense, and the sudden curiosity was very amusing.
As she stepped further out of the bed she went to the corner behind the fridge keeping her gaze, L decided it was best for her to come to him making any movement seemed to ward her off completely. 'She's so frightened… what could they have done to her? I need to see what she is capable of, why this subject is so special.' He took another piece of chocolate tossing it to her, she quickly caught it this time eating it straight away. She approached him even closer looking him over slowly and precisely, L was doing the same but he was even more intrigued her beautiful honey eyes were dilating, her pupils would get bigger then noticeably smaller, she rested them in his gazing intently at him. "What are you?" he asked, she leaned back cocking her head slightly to one side before crawling closer, he watched her move next to him. His round black eyes never left her for a moment, she sat next to him now looking him up and down, up close it was easy to see that she had heightened vision, but there had to be more than that to her, possibly she wasn't even human at all. "What have they been trying to create in this building?"
L lifted his hand slowly, slowly enough that she could watch without suspicion. While she seemed discomforted by this movement she made no intent to run away from him. L put his fingertips under her chin, her body was warm to the touch, very warm, unusually warm in fact. She was younger than him by at least four years maybe five. What could they have done to make her this way a high body temperature, extreme visual control, an obvious heighted sense of smell was apparent now as well her sharp breaths breathing in his scent. She was primitive, and animal like, instinctive and acted on quick impulse. "Can you understand me? What is your name?" He asked but he was greeted in silence. "How long have you been here?" He asked again hoping to find a time frame of when she could have been kidnapped. She said nothing to him, she raised her hand quickly and L jerked back away from her but she only placed a hand on his neck. Her touch was gentle and her hands were soft.
The girl could feel his pulse it was slow. She removed her hand quickly getting up and walking about the room in a more human fashion, she paced about the room. L watched her closely, she didn't seem to notice that he had stood up as well. She turned abruptly then stood fixed in one spot glaring at L again making him freeze in his tracks. She looked at the ceiling from one spot to the next until she fixed her eyes on the pathway that led to the stairs. A moment of terror flickered in her expression until L watched her jump from the counter to the wall and into the hole of the ceiling with inhuman speed and strength, especially for her size. 'What has her suddenly so afraid?' he thought looking to the stairs.
"This way!" he heard someone say.
"No! The door has been opened she could have escaped!"
"Get down there now!" he heard a woman yell. This was not good someone was going to find him, and take away the girl. He felt something bounce off his head, when L looked up the little girl had extened a piece of the ventilation to him.
"Can you really pull me up?" He asked a little wide eyed but the sound of quickly approaching footsteps edged him to take the pipe. She jerked swiftly but without his aid she could not have pulled him all the way up.
"The ceiling she's escaped!"
"We have to find her!" they heard the voices coming from below, "Search the building! She wouldn't leave the building on her own!" The young girl was trembling in his arms, 'No wonder she was so frightened of me. She tore a hole in the ceiling to get away from these guys, but they are the ones who know who she is if we could capture them… they'll tell me everything I need to know.' L placed a hand on the back of her head cradling her soft black hair.
"Shhh, I'll get you out of here." He soothed. Her trembling stopped but she held onto him tightly. Taking out his phone he pressed a button and put it to his ear in his quirky manor. "Wammy. We have a situation!"
Well there's that! Tell me what you think and I'll post the next chapter ;)
