Monkey: So I wrote this during my anthropology class earlier this week, but it took forever for me to get to typing it out, lol.

Hope you like it ^^

"L, go to sleep," Light spoke in a soft whisper, muffled by a pillow.

"I will go to sleep when I finish these cases," L replied. He tapped away at the laptop in front of him, because of course he had to take on multiple cases right before bedtime.

Light opened his eyes before turning to his side, reaching over to the laptop and dimming the light as low as he could. He retracted his arm beneath the warmth of his cozy blankets. L chuckled.

"It is bad to stare at a dark screen in a dark room."

"Then take it outside, I want to sleep." Light had had a particularly wild day with both the kids (L too) and his coworkers. He came home with a headache and now he just wanted to have a good night's rest before having to get up early in the morning in order to prepare everyone's breakfast.

L looked over at Light with a smirk. "No."

"L."

"There is one thing you can do to get me to take this outside."

"…" Light lifted the blanket up over his head. "Forget it. I'll just cover my face. Goodnight, L."

"Goodnight, Light. Although, I have a strange feeling that you won't get much sleep."

Light opened his eyes and saw darkness. He rolled his eyes, not caring that L couldn't see it, though the detective could probably feel it by now. "Stop trying to jinx—" a shiver went up his spine. He closed his eyes tightly.

Ah, there went the mommy senses again.

"… I have the same feeling."

Only a couple moments later did they hear a faint knocking on their door.

L stared at the door. He really didn't want to get it. Nothing good could come out of the kids being awake at two in the morning.

A sigh escaped Light's lips. "I'll take care of it." He slowly got out of the bed and made his way to the door.

When he opened it, he was surprised at who he saw. "Near? What's wrong?"

He expected either Matt or Mello. The smallest of the three rarely had problems at night. Mello and Matt constantly fought so they often came to Light and L to break them up.

Near was holding onto a beige teddy bear with a dark red bowtie around its neck; the bear was almost as big as Near was. He hugged it close. "Daddy, Mello and Matt are picking on me again." He hid part of his face behind the bear's head.

L walked up behind Light and looked closely at the bear at the same time the brunette did.

"Your bear…"

L reached out for it and Near timidly took a step back, but L still managed to gently pull it out of his grasp. Near looked down.

The head of his bear hung limply to the side, all his fluffy filled insides revealed to the world.

"You've got to be kidding me. I'm going to ground them for weeks," Light began. That bear had been his mother's present to Near, all the boys got one of those when they were first adopted. He made to walk passed Near when L took a hold of his wrist.

"Stay here, climb into bed. I will handle the other two."

Light looked gratefully at the raven. He smiled. "Thank you, good luck."

L nodded, knowing he'd need it.

He left the bear with Light and walked towards Mello's room, getting Matt out along the way.

Light watched them with the little light in the house currently provided by the dim laptop screen and shook his head. He could only hope this fighting would settle out eventually. He reached a hand out to Near who looked at him. Near lifted up both arms and Light picked him up.

Another day, another night, his job with his family was never over.

And he honestly wouldn't have it any other way.

He took them to the bed, turned off L's laptop (he surely wouldn't mind) and put it away before setting Near down on the bed. Light sat beside him. The moonlight streaming in from the window kept them with enough light to see each other.

"Wanna tell me what happened?"

Near avoided his gaze. "… I called Mello a girl…"

"Again?"

A nod. "He called me a freaky dwarf."

"And Matt?"

"Mello has his PSP held hostage so he has to do everything Mello says for a while."

Light sighed. Of course. He reached over and lightly pushed Near back to lay down and brought the blanket over him before slipping under them himself.

They were on their sides facing each other.

"I'm sorry Daddy."

Caramel eyes blinked in confusion. "For what?"

"For waking you up," Near softly spoke. With any other person, Near hardly showed much emotion, even with L. But it was something about his daddy that got to him—all three of them. Four, if he included the world's greatest detective.

"No, Near, don't be silly. I'm always here for you whenever you need me, I don't mind. And L doesn't either, no matter what he says," he quickly added, fully aware of the kind of impression L is adamant on having the kids have of him.

"Really?"

"Yes." He took in a deep breath. "What do you say we get some sleep? I'll fix your bear tomorrow."

"Okay."

Light lifted an arm up under the covers as a sign to have Near come closer to him. He did so, shyly at first, before feeling the comfort of being with his daddy.

Near cuddled against Light's chest, feeling his daddy's arms come and wrap around him protectively.

"Goodnight Near," Light whispered, bringing a hand up to lightly caress the albino's hair. The soft, continuous touches lulled Near to sleep, his eyelids feeling heavy.

Light's faint breathing and steady heart rate relaxed Near, who fell asleep moments later.

A parent's job was never done; Light could only imagine what L was doing to deal with Matt and Mello who were going to get a talk to by him tomorrow in the morning.

Ah, so much to do, so little time. Light thought, quickly preparing a mental list of all the things he had to do tomorrow before dropping the kids off at school and going to work. He stopped the list short, willing his mind to turn off for a bit so he can get some rest.

Light continued caressing Near's hair, noting the quiet, even breathing coming from his youngest. He breathed in deeply, slowly letting it out. It was moments like this that brought a smile to face, no matter how tired he was.

He was glad he adopted three kids with L. They just made life more interesting.

Caramel eyes closed, his body relaxing, his hand resting besides Near's head.

Soon after, he joined the albino in the realm of sleep.

L walked in quietly about a half hour later, after having finally put Matt and Mello to sleep following their talk. He walked over to the bed and titled his head to the side a bit. Even he would admit the sight of his boyfriend and his son made was absolutely adorable.

Even if they all like to stir up trouble, L thought, bringing his thumb to his lips like he tended to.

He wasn't sleepy in the slightest, so he just stood there, watching them for a few moments. He had noticed the second he walked in the room that Light had turned off his laptop. There was still a case he needed to finish, but he could easily finish it in another room.

With some strawberry shortcake, L smiled.

The raven bent down and kissed the side of Near's head and kissed the top of Light's head.

"Just this once, I will let you take up my cuddle time with Light," he whispered to Near.

He walked over to his laptop, picked it up and left the room, silently closing the door behind him so he could stay up another night to get his job done.

In his sleep, a small smile graced Near's lips.

Monkey: So yeah, this is what I meant by having the following chapters be little fluffy drabbles basically. This "moment" isn't actually part of the bet, but I wanted to have Light and Near have a fluffy moment. Lol.

I already have the next few chapters written out (in my other classes), but I don't know when I'll get around to typing them, I get so lazy sometimes, like I have no motivation x.x

But let's hope I update this soon, lol xD

And my other DN fic, which has been forgotten lately...

Thank you to everyone who has reviewed/favorited/alerted this story! You guys are wonderful! ^o^