Hi guys, hope you all had a great Easter.

This is a story I have been toying with for a little while.

As in the description, it is a series of short one-shots of various members of Wammy's House who were bestowed a letter, and their reactions to L's death. Some members will be canon, others will not. Some might impact the story, others will not. I hope you'll go along with it.

That in mind I think it's best to begin with the when the news first broke out. Meet 'r' – Mr. Roger Ruvie, the manager of Wammy's House.

Review and PM as always!

r

'L is dead.'

Oh dear, oh dear, that is not good. That is not good at all.

Three words were all it took to bring reality crashing down on me. I thought L would outlive all of us.

It is such an unmitigated disaster to lose the pride of Wammy's House so young. But then again I suppose, if he had to go, there would have been no better way. Dying in the line of duty solving some difficult case, not sitting in some forgotten corner of a house, old, rotting away.

Yeah, I can imagine L would have preferred it that way.

But the implication behind the message is worse: Quillsh is dead too.

Quillsh Wammy was my compatriot and closest friend for fifty years. He was best man at my wedding for Christ's sake! I have a son who shares his name….

And now he's gone.

I know what I want to do, and I know what I have to do. However, both are mutually exclusive.

I want to take the first flight to Japan, and beat to death every single person who had even the barest link to the Kira Case. It would probably work too, I knew from the last correspondence I received from Quillsh they were very close to capturing Kira.

But I am old, and rage is a young man's game. Besides, Quillsh would not arrange for this text if that was what he expected of me.

What I have to do, rather, is ensure the safety of Wammy's House and those who reside under it. It was standard strategy, if the opponent has you on the ropes, toss out the rulebook. Destroy Wammy's records and eliminate its links to the outside world.

I always hoped this job was temporary; dealing with children who can run mental circles around you is taxing. However, it seems that this place; Quillsh's legacy, has been completely passed into my care. Now I have to ensure his faith in me was not misplaced.

But this creates the problem, if L is dead and so too is Quillish…then who the hell is operating out of Japan?

Kira?…I don't know. That is beyond my knowledge. But it is not my problem anyway, I have a house full of children, both smart and smartass, who can solve that to their hearts content.

But how much does this fake 'L' know? Probably not much…but if Kira did get to him and the failsafe did not kick in…if Quillsh was just a little too slow with deleting all the information… I will have to warn all those who have been raised here.

Gazing at the safe beside me, and the contact details of the Wammy prodigies that lay inside, I felt concerned. Some of the people in those files have not been contacted in years…decades even. How will they react when they find out the best of their generation has died? Will they help, hinder or neither?

Despite the circumstances I feel a slight pang of sympathy for Kira, or whomever killed L.

L was the best of us, not just in intellect but in spirit, he was the focus of all the young ones in my care. He was more than a just a man, he was an ideal; one that every single one of the Wammy prodigies, both young and old, strived to match.

And now Kira took that away from them.

Kira may have killed L, but so what? All Kira has done is awaken a sleeping dragon. Now Kira has a whole alphabet of geniuses onto him.

And speaking of geniuses, I'll have to speak to Mihael and Nate. They are young and reckless, especially Mihael, but I would foolish to deny their intellect. And they are L's chosen successors.

But after that, I think it would be best I make a few calls, let L's fellow 'letters' share in this knowledge.

We'll see what happens…

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A/N - There you go guys & gals. I hope you liked. TTFN.