Brothers
Memory 02: Frustration
Never had he felt such frustration before in his life. Though it normally would help, this time eating cheesecake wasn't making him feel any better.
"You're still awake? I guess I shouldn't be surprised."
"Watari... Have you ever felt frustrated? Like you've failed?" L continued staring at his half eaten cheese cake imagining what Wateri's expression must look like.
"I think everyone has felt that way at some point but why do you ask? Is it about the case? Maybe you should take a break, the investigation for this case has just started but you didn't rest after your previous case." Honestly the boy ran on sweets and hardly slept, that must have started taking its toll.
"It's not that. I'm ninety-nine percent sure that the murder occurred at night between the hours of eleven and mid night, in the kitchen and the one to blame is the butler and he used a pair of gardening scissors, not a knife as it was previously thought. Then victim was then hidden in the basement where she was found a week later by a maid. I have all the evidence ready but I was unable to contact the client, I guess he's sleeping. I'll call again in the morning." The case was solved rather quickly as expected from L.
"So you have it all figured out, well done. But if that's not what's bothering you then what is?" Watari did not expect the reply that came.
"It's about Near," L looked up from his cheese cake and observed Watari's reaction.
"Is something wrong?" He had seen Near earlier and he appeared to be alright.
"He's old enough to walk but no matter how hard I try to teach him, he just keeps crawling. Mello learned to walk when he was really young but Near... He's definitely old enough but he won't do it. Am I failure as a brother?"
Watari shook his head and smiled. "Do you have any idea how much time I spend thinking that I was a failure because I couldn't even teach a child to sit properly or get him to eat a nutritious meal? You're not a failure, Near is just special. You and Mello, you're special too. He'll walk eventually and if he doesn't it'll work out somehow."
End of Memory 02
Disclaimer, I do not own Death Note and I do not own Clue. Based on the fact that in the manga Near seems to be sitting down practically all the time.