- L PoV -
He was staring closely at the screen like there was actually something relevant on it. In truth he was lost in his thoughts. He had already deduced all that could be deduced out of the information he had in hand. He just wanted to be left in peace for few minutes, until Watari gathered new data. He was not used to work with the agents. At least, not as L. He was accustomed to work with the Fbi or the Interpol undercover.
Deneuve was a fake identity he used, as well as Coil. He currently impersonated the three best detectives in the world, mostly to gather as much information as possible and to discover if anyone was trying to unveil his real identity. To impersonate Coil was somewhat boring, but extremely profitable. The role he got most fun out of was Deneuve's. He never had the chance to get some action as L since he had to hide his face and everything. Consequently, Deneuve's missions, even if easier than his standards, made him feel like he was on holiday. During these cases he used to work on field with the agents and that was pretty fun. He couldn't wear what he wanted, couldn't eat what he wanted, nor seat as he wanted, but that was a fair price to personally kick the criminals in their butts.
It was during one of Deneuve's first missions that he met Anna. He was investigating a mafia ring he suspected to be related to a huge pedo-pornographic network. He was struggling to gather enough evidence using the new identity he was not accustomed to, when a hacker named Irish Reel managed to track down each and every member of the criminal organization and passed the names to the Fbi. He was not galvanized at the idea of using someone else's data, but he couldn't detect a wrong piece of information in there. He had to take in the help of a criminal and be thankful for that. He was just supposed to handcuff the bad guys, take the merit for something he didn't do and go back home. He was so pissed off that he decided to find that hacker and put him in jail asap, no matter what. After a whole month with zero results, he had to admit that he wasn't the only one good at hiding behind a screen. At the beginning he felt frustrated.
Than annoyed. Then angry. Then idiot.
Finally he cast his pride aside and had fun trying to identify this unpredictably talented guy. He couldn't even consider the hacker a bad person anymore. Yes he used the wrong means and angered some big fishes here and there, but always ended up doing the right thing. And it was a hell of fun to help out Reel in pissing off the institutions too. Somehow they started cooperating and things got much easier for both, due to their mutual support. They began to trust each other and L wasn't sure if that caused him to let his guard down, or if deep down he wished to meet Reel. His childish part never really gave up trying to figure out the hacker's identity and finally found peace with himself during the next mission as Deneuve.
That day a little girl came to shake his hand with a friendly and triumphant smile on her face and hummed a reel. He pondered the idea of Reel being a female before, but stats were against that hypothesis. Until that moment. He was celebrating at the idea of having discovered Irish Reel's identity, while she didn't know who Deneuve really was. But his emotions changed drastically when the girl greeted him.
"My name's Anna. Nice to meet you L!" she said in a giggly voice, like she couldn't bother about a thing in the world but to meet her rival and friend in person.
If he somewhat admired Reel before, he definitely looked up at that girl the moment she beat him at his own game. It was on his nineteenth's birthday when he already realized that, from the day she found him, they would have been together.
