Awaken From Death
Summery: L's thoughts after he dies.
L Lawliet awoke, drenched in sweat, hacking and coughing. His body shook with tremors. Heart attack, L remembered vaguely. He had had a heart attack. A heart attack that Light Yagami had caused.
Light Yagami. Kira. He was Kira. L hoped that his successor would know what to do. For now though, that successor was on their own. L, the great detective, was no more.
L stared wide-eyed, as if he was being chased by some sort of monster. The weight of his death fell on him like a boulder falling on ant. L Lawliet was dead. Gone. No More. He would never again solve unsolvable cases. He would never again hide himself from the world. He would never again live as he once did, because he was dead.
L shook himself out of his thoughts and stood up. He looked around. It was a small room with red walls and red carpeting. The color of strawberries, his favorite. He wiggled his toes, feeling the carpet. It felt soft under his bare feet. Smooth, like freshly mowed grass.
There was nothing in the small room, except for a small table, which L immediately went and sat on. He curled up in his famous thinking position, feet flat against the basket weave of the table, knees bent, crouching down, his thumb at his mouth, and his eyes watching.
He felt like a detective again, which was good, because he was a detective. The best detective, and yet, he was dead. Those who had known him would certainly mourn him, and L Lawliet knew, he knew, that he would live on, he would live on through his successors. And L would live on through his successor's successors, and then through their successor's, and somehow, somehow, L Lawliet would live forever.