AN: I AM SO SORRY! But, hey, here's another chapter. You're happy about this right? Right?


L wasn't sure why he was staying with Kiyomi other than the fact that he had no where else to go. She led him to a two-story building. It seemed to be two-story apartments, kind of like townhouses. As she unlocked the door to the one marked number three, he looked around. There were two to the left and one to the right that all seemed to be occupied as there were lights on inside all of them. When she finally got the door opened, he followed her inside and stood in, what seemed to be, her living room, looking around.

"What do you think?" she asked, flipping on lights as she went from one room to the next.

"It is spacious for one person," he remarked.

"Yeah, I like my space," was her only reply.

"I see..." L wandered to the staircase.

"WAIT!" Kiyomi dove onto him, preventing him from going upstairs. The result was that he fell over into the wall with a resound "smack" and she landed on top of him.

"Ow," he groaned, rubbing the back of his head.

"I am SO sorry! Are you okay?" she asked, sitting up quickly and covering her mouth with her hands.

"I seem to be okay although when someone has a concussion, there are no outward signs so who knows if I'm really that alright?" he said, taking his hand from his head and examining it for blood.

She blinked at him then cracked a smile and said, "You're always serious, aren't you? Do you even know how to smile?"

"Yes," he replied, monotonously and straight-faced, "The muscles in my face are not so relaxed that I cannot smile. I am not sure that is physically possible."

"O-kay," poking his chest with each syllable. Then, realizing that she was still straddling him, she vaulted upright and walked toward the kitchen, trying to hide her blush, "Anyway, upstairs is off-limits. I like my privacy too. Your temporary room will be over here. Follow me."

He got up and did just that. Next to the kitchen was a small room that looked like a guest bedroom and a study combined. In a corner of the room was a Twin-sized bed with plain, white sheets on it. The floor and walls were bare, having no decoration. Against the wall closest to them was a desk with a pretty old-looking computer. Seeing this technology made L feel a bit more at home. It looked ancient but as long as it still connected to the internet then he'd still be able to access his files and bank accounts. He could easily transfer money to his current location and get a place of his own.

"So obviously, that's your bed. Your room is right next to the kitchen so if you have any night-time cravings you can come in here without worrying about waking me up," she said happily, moving back into the kitchen. He followed obiently, albeit reluctantly.

"What do you do?" he asked when they moved through the kitchen into the living room.

"Excuse me?" she seemed a little nervous.

"What do you do for a living?" he specified.

"Customer relations," she replied, stepping over to her entertainment center.

"Ah, that explains it," he said, sitting on her couch in his customary crouch.

"Explains what?" she asked, opening a cabinet under her TV where there were stacks of movies and video games.

"Your outgoing personality," he replied simply.

She smiled and said, "Yeah, I guess so. What do you want to watch?"

"Hm?" He hadn't really been paying attention to what she was doing but he saw that she was displaying a number of movies for them to watch.

"I figured we'd hunker down and watch a movie. Got any interests?" she asked.

"I don't really watch movies so I don't know any good ones," he said vaguely.

"Oh, well, that's fine. I'll pick our choice tonight and tomorrow, you can just look over the ones in here and decide which one sounds the most interesting to you," she explained, pulling out a few. She stared at the covers, trying to decide what to watch then, deciding on one, popped the DVD into her DVD player and then settled down next to him on the couch.

"What did you decide we should watch?" he asked.

"You'll see," she said, pressing play on the remote.

She skipped through the previews in the beginning of the DVD then the menu came up. She had chosen Jim Henson's "Labyrinth" and from what L could tell, it was a pretty old movie. The basic jist of the movie is a girl getting through a labyrinth to the castle in the center to save her younger brother who she had doomed to this terrible fate to in the first place. Gaining allies along the way is what basically gets her to the center despite obstacles placed by the goblin king, played by David Bowie, who, according to Kiyomi, was extremely hot and an amazing singer.

At the end of the movie, Kiyomi stretched and patted him on the head then headed off to bed. L, however, took advantage of her absense and got on the computer to check up on the task force.


AN: Not too bad huh? Short...but the next one will be longer, I swear! And not too long between posts either. Hopefully.