Anna's POV

"Anna?" L asked as he came into the room.

I turned and pressed a finger to my lips. Getting up from my seat next to Near's bed and ushered L out of the room. "I just got him to sleep." I explained closing the door behind me. Near had just turned nine and was sick. If I thought he was difficult to put to bed when he was well, getting him to go to sleep when he was sick was absolute torture. "What is it?" I asked looking to L.

He looked down the hall and then motioned for me to follow him. I followed him down the hall and into the kitchen where he shut the door behind us. "I found him."

"Found who?" I asked, not following his train of thought.

I noticed L bite his tongue lightly, something he did when he wanted to say something, but was unsure of how I'd react to it. I waited patiently as he seemed to be debating with himself internally. Finally he motioned for me to take a seat. I did and he did the same, pulling his knees to his chest. "I found Beyond."

My heart stopped. It had been almost ten years since I'd seen Beyond. He'd taken off without saying goodbye right after A had died. All I'd had left of him was a letter he'd left to me. I'd read it, but it hadn't said much of anything and I'd burned it that night. In a way it had been a way for me to get closure, I'd accepted that I would never see Beyond again, now I might get to and it was almost too much.

"Alright." I said quietly. I looked from the pale wood of the kitchen table to L, "Let's go get him then."

"Anna…" His voice trailed off. There was something else, something L had left out.

"What is it?" I asked.

He ran his hand through his hair and looked to me, his eyes were glossy. "It's not going to be that easy."

"Why not?" L and I had solved countless cases that had been dubbed unsolvable. We'd done the impossible so many times. How could this be any different? We just had to go and grab him and drag his ass back to Wammy's house.

"I don't have a lot of time to explain. So let me just give you a quick over view for now and I'll explain the rest on the plane." He requested and I nodded, signaling him to continue. "Beyond is in Los Angeles, California. We are going to go there and find him, but when we do he will not be coming home with us."

I didn't understand. Beyond had made a mistake in leaving, but we couldn't condemn him for that forever. If we found him we could talk to him, forgive him for deserting us, and bring him home where he belongs. "Why not?" I questioned.

L took a deep breath and looked over at me, "Because our dear friend is a murder and has declared war against me."

I shook my head. This can't be real. This couldn't actually be happening. It was ridiculous. "Are you sure? Maybe it's not him."

"Anna…" his voice trailed off once again and he slipped a piece of paper across the table. "It's him."

I looked down at the paper. It seemed to be a particularly challenging crossword puzzle. So far it was only half solved. "This is your proof?" I asked looking over the clues.

"Do you need more?" He asked. When I didn't answer he sighed, "Love, I need to know if you're going to take his case on with me or not. Either way I need to get to LA before more people die."

I looked up from the puzzle to L, "Of course I'm with you." I replied, still recovering from the shock the news had given to me.

"Good. In that case, I need to go speak to Watari. You go pack a bag. We shouldn't be gone for more than a week." He kissed the top of my head and was out the door.

I sighed and got up to pack my things away.

"Please make sure Near takes his medicine, Roger." I requested as I finished putting the bags in the back of the car.

"Of course." He said sounding less than enthusiastic to be stuck with the boys. Roger and I had never really gotten along to begin with, but now that I was leaving him alone with three little boys every couple of weeks, he wholeheartedly hated me. Or at least he acted like he did, but when I had confronted him about it he said he didn't.

"We'll be back in a week okay?" I pressed kisses to Matt and Mello's cheeks and smiled. "Play nice while I'm gone." Matt and Mello had a tendency to tease Near since he was the youngest and number one at Wammy's.

"Anna, let's go." L called from the backseat of the car.

"Coming." I waved to the boys and Roger and got into the car. The drive wasn't too bad and we arrived at the airport rather quickly.

The second we got onto the jet, L was on his laptop. "Here." He turned it to show me the case files he received from the LAPD. "These are the victims so far. The picture the families provided along with the crime scene photo."

I looked them over, scrolling through them gently. "They have such peculiar names." I noted. "Anyways, have you found someone to be your fill in for this? Or are we just going to find B ourselves?" I asked.

L turned the laptop around, "Naomi Misora. She's an FBI agent, one of the best actually. She's been suspended though."

I nodded when he turned the laptop back to me to show me her picture. She was pretty. I took in her appearance, she must have been pretty tough to be in the FBI. "What is she suspended for?" I asked curiously.

"I don't know." L said taking the computer back and starting to look through the files.

"You didn't check?" I questioned. That could be important when enlisting her help.

"Does it matter? She's available and she's one of the best FBI agents out there." He didn't look up from his laptop.

I nodded to myself. "I suppose you're right. Wake me up when we get to LA." I said lying on the couch. L hummed in response and I fell asleep to the sound of his typing.