Hei. This chapter took a while considering its size… I just don't tend to write a lot during weekends. Which is strange, since I have so much free time. I was going to make this chapter longer, but I ended up at a point that would make a good ending, so I ended it there. Anyway…

Disclaimer: *Shouts up the attic to L*

Me: L, do I own Death Note?

L: I hope not.


Winchester Royal Hotel

Winchester, England

August 2, 2000

1:30 AM

Ugh… What the heck? My head's pounding, and I feel like I'm bobbing up and down… Kat blinked open her eyes. Huh? She had a good view of L's neck and lower jaw. He's… carrying me? Bridal style? Crap...

"Mmmph… wadappened?" Without looking at her, L replied, "You decided it would be fun to slide down the stairs on a mattress, and you ran into Ms. Dryss." Oh yeah… I remember now.

"Is she all right?"

"Well, you nearly gave her a heart attack, but she escaped with nothing more than minor bruises. You, on the other hand…" Great… I'm injured…

"Am I okay?"

"You have a concussion, but there's a 99 percent chance you'll live."

"And the other one percent?"

"Brain hemorrhaging."

"That explains the pounding head… where's Misty, Matt and Mello?"

"Most likely back at the orphanage."

"What?! Where are we?!" Kat glanced wildly at her surroundings. She was in a narrow hallway with cheap blue flooring.

"I suggest you stop squirming, unless you want me to drop you."

"Right…" Kat went completely limp. They passed under the arch of a doorway into a well-lit room. L set her down on a couch and turned to Watari, who was dozing on a chair.

"Watari, please look her over," L said, taking a seat in a chair. The previously-dozing man knelt beside her. She looked out the window. It's dark… just how long was I out?

"Are you in any pain?" Kat was startled out of her thoughts by Watari's question.

"Huh? My head is pounding. Other than that, I'm just sorta sore all over." Watari walked out of the room.

Kat erupted into laughter. L looked up from his laptop and stared at her.

"What's so funny?"

"We're even now, aren't we?" L continued to stare.

"I suppose." Watari walked back into the room carrying two small red pills and a glass of water. Katturai downed them gratefully. So… where am I?

"Where am I?" Watari smiled.

"You're in a hotel. Winchester Royal Hotel, to be more specific," he said.

"Okay. What time is it?"

"1:30 in the morning."

"Alright. I think I'll go to sleep now."

"Alright. Good night, Katturai." Watari walked out of the room and she closed her eyes, black engulfing her.


Winchester Royal Hotel

Winchester, England

August 2, 2000

8:09 AM

Kat awoke to find black eyes staring into her's, a face less than a centimeter away. On top of her, she could feel a warm figure pressed into her own. Heavy in the air was a strong, intoxicating scent of chocolate. Warm, smooth lips pressed against her mouth, and-

"Kat? Katturai? Wake up!" Kat's eyes snapped open. Hunched over her was L, clutching her shoulder and shaking it; her face immediately grew hot. Oh crap! I hope I wasn't showing any signs of what I was dreaming!

"I was beginning to think that there was something seriously wrong with you. You wouldn't wake up."

"I was tired. I'm up now, in any case, so what do you want?" Whew… he doesn't seem embarrassed at all, so I'm probably safe… but come to think of it, he never seems to be much of anything.

"I just didn't want you to sleep in too late."

"Oh… okay. Thanks for waking me up." L took his seat with his laptop, like he'd done the night before. Kat watched him for a minute before wandering off to get something to eat.

Kat passed through the door into a small kitchen and looked around. Watari was nowhere to be seen. Prolly out getting some groceries or something. She opened the fully-stocked fridge and peered inside. Yogurt, cake, strawberries, more cake, water, chocolate… where's the real food?! Kat sighed. Turning around, she headed back to the main room where L was.

Feeling bold, she sat down on the armrest of his chair and looked over his shoulder. Time of robbery… date of robbery… miscellaneous boring crap…

"Whatcha doin'?"

"I'm trying to solve a case." He hashed the information and brought up another file. Huh? It's got that horrid picture of me that got taken last year… (The picture in question had Kat looking very surprised, as she had had too much caffeine, because she had stayed up all night monitoring the dating site incident. Consequently, she also had dark circles under her eyes and disheveled hair.) It's got my name and stuff… an info file of me? He looked up at her.

"This information was last updated a year ago. I want to see if it's still accurate." L scrolled down. Kat read the information:

Alias: Katturai

Real name: Unknown

Likes: Sugar, caffeine

Dislikes: Aerosol cans, (Katturai chuckled at this) bees

Position to become L: 16

"Lucky number 16…" Kat muttered, and continued reading.


When Kat finished, she nodded.

"Yeah… everything's right." L clicked back to the information on the case. For a while, they sat in silence, Katturai watching the screen.

"What were you dreaming about?" he asked after a short time. Kat jerked in surprise and toppled over backwards, yelping, eyes shut tight and bracing for a fall. Instead of cheap, hard hotel carpet, she felt a warm softness under her back when she landed. Warm… just like my dream. She opened her eyes and gasped. Above her she could see L, eyebrows raised. Crap! I'm in his lap! She was sandwiched in between his legs and his stomach. Kat, blushing profusely, wiggled in vain, trying to get up. But L made no move to help her, and she quickly relaxed. If it bugs him, he can help me get up… This is so weird. And it was only made weirder by the entrance of Watari, carrying two boxes of cake and a briefcase.

"L, where's Katturai?" he asked.

"I'm over here, Mr. Wammy!" Kat said, raising her voice and waving her arms. Mr. Wammy looked faintly shocked. And no one could blame him. All the same, he just walked into the kitchen, rather like a person who's apprentice was not in the lap of his employer. She turned her attentions to L, who was staring at her. She narrowed her eyes.

"You take immense pleasure in staring at me, don't you?" she asked.

"Not particularly."

"You sure have been doing it a lot."

"Yes…" Watari walked back into the room with a plate of cake. He set it down next to L's laptop on a small table and sat down on the couch.

"Katturai, I'd like to spend the next few days with you reading these," he said, pulling out a few notebooks, "And we're leaving for Finland on August fifth."

Kat looked up at L.

"You planning on helping me get up?"

"Do you need help?"

"Yes. Did you not see me struggling earlier?" L scooped her up in his arms and set her on a couch.

"There," he said. Kat sat up and took the notebook with a "1" on it. Oh yeah! I should see if I can call Misty.

"Could I call Misty and say goodbye to everyone?"

"Sure, Kat." Watari handed her the phone. Kat dialed Misty's number and put it to her ear. L looked up from his laptop.

"Don't tell anyone where we are, though."

After a couple rings she heard, "Hello?"

"Hey, Misty! What's up?"

"Kat? Nothing much. How are you? You hit your head pretty hard."

"Oh, I'm fine. How's Dryss?"

"Quit. Grumbled something about hooligans before she walked out the door."

"Hmm… even though I was leaving relatively soon…"

"Oh, you're not the first one to pull a stunt like that. Probably not the last, either."

"Ah well, better I ran into Dryss than some sweet old lady."

"Yup. You confess your undying love to L yet?"

"No, but I ended up in his lap about ten minutes ago."

"It's a start. You wanna talk to Mells? He's right here."

"Sure. Bye Misty. "

"Bye." Kat heard Misty say, "Kat wants to talk to you."

"Hello?" came a Mello-y voice.

"Hey, Mell-man. What's up?"

"Your pants, I hope."

"Yeah. So what happened after I ran into Dryss?"

"Well… she stormed out the front door yelling about hooligans and quitting, and L carried you to his room."

"Misty must have gotten amusement out of that."

"Not really, since you were hurt. On any other given time, she would have."

"And I stayed there until it was time to go?"

"Yeah… we had to grab your bags from your room."

"Huh… where's Matt?"

"Upstairs, playing games. What else?"

"Making out. Although I can't see how he would do that, since you're on the phone with me."

"Ha-ha," he said sarcasticly, "Bye, Kat." He hung up before she could return the goodbye. Katturai turned off the phone and picked up the notebook labeled "1." L (again) looked up at her.

"I would also like you to learn some basic Finnish, so I had Watari get this for you." He held up a small rectangular case. On it was written 'How to learn Finnish in Three Days'.


Poor Kat. Poor me, too, 'cause I'm prolly going to have to learn some Finnish to do the next chapter. As always, if you like the story, have any suggestions, or anything to that effect please review! Preview for the next chapter:

"Who the freak can learn freaking Finnish is three freaking days!?"