Light gazed at the figure on the bed as he carefully placed the cool cloth on Ryuzaki's heated forehead. The detective seemed so lifeless, if not for the gentle rise and fall of his chest as he drew in weak breaths though barely visible, Light would swear he was gone.

"Come on Ryuzaki, you have to help us out. Watari and I are trying but you have to work with us. He's worried about you, and so am I.I don't understand how you went from having a small fever to this in a day and a half but people are counting on you. Watari mostly, if you would have seen the look on his face when you passed out-" Light straightened the blanket around his rival. At the present time, he didn't feel much like a rival, he felt a strange sense of concern for the man, who only seemed to weaken by the hour.

Light leaned back in his chair.

"It's just a waiting game now isn't it Ryuzaki, we wait to see how long it takes for you to pull through or break Watari's heart, between you and me, I don't think he can take that kind of pain." Several minutes passed with little more than the sound of the ticking clock on the wall.

suddenly, a small moan escaped L's lips, Light leaned forward as L struggled to open his eyes.

"Ryuzaki, come on, wake up." Light encouraged. After what seemed like an eternity, L's dark eyes peered into Light's.

"L-Light?" L whispered glanced around but didn't recognize his surroundings.

"How are you feeling?"

"I- I am not sure, I feel many things. Where are we?"

"It's a private medical building. Watari said you'd be safe here. I probably would have moved you somewhere that had regular doctors."

"What exactly do you mean by that?"

"You have myself and Watari to care for you and at the moment, Watari had an errand on the upper floors.

"Why would Watari take me to-" a wave of dizziness distracted him from his thought.

"You don't remember being sick at the taskforce building?" Light asked.

"I...remember certain things." L said before coughing. He winced at the pain it caused him.

"Tell me what you remember and I'll fill in everything else."

"I was feeling... Okay in the morning, then I felt very warm, and I felt as if I would be ill. There were strange lights everywhere and-"

"What lights Ryuzaki?"

"You did not notice them, they were terribly bright. Perhaps it was something to do with the monitors, the channels being changed." Light pulled the chair closer to L's bed.

"Ryuzaki, you weren't near the monitors. You spent most of the afternoon, which is when you started to really show symptoms, lying on the cot Watari forced you to use. We were all there, nothing around you could have possibly made strange, bright lights. The only time you left that cot was when I helped you to the bathroom and you got sick. When you finished, you collapsed on the floor, I called Watari and you were telling him it hurt. You wouldn't say what it was but then you just passed out."

"Hmm. Strange indeed." L commented closing his eyes again.

"Ryuzaki?"

"Hmm?"

"Are you okay?"

"That I don't know, but I have a feeling our chances of finding out maybe somewhere around fifty percent."

A/N; hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed chapter one of my second Death Note fiction.

Thanks for reading.