Chapter 4 - L

"Humanity"

Word count: 100. After a bit of tweaking. Neurotic tweaking.

As the first sharp pain shoots through my chest, I wonder at my own reaction. Strange, and not at all what I expected, this immediate response that has nothing to do with Kira. Nothing to do with anyone, save me.

I don't want to die.

It is far too late, and Yagami Light is kneeling over me with madness in his eyes, yet somehow I have compromised that intrinsic objectivity that was always my identifier. I cannot think of the case, only of my own tiny life.

Don't let me die.

The last I ever see are those eyes. Burning.