Curtains were pulled off the walls, the sheets and clothing were torn in places by eager hands, and the two sleeping couldn't be happier. Lawliet snuggled farther into the warmth, enjoying the smell of Beyond's strawberry shampoo. A kiss on the cheek made the teen smile and pulled his lover closer. "…I love you Lawli…"

"I love you too Beyond"

Just outside their welcoming kingdom of Egyptian cotton sheets, Lawliet could hear faint pieces of an argument. It was using awful words like "Murderer" and"Monster" that made the dark haired man pull the sheets over his head to block out the sound. He refused to leave his happy little dream land and go back to the nightmare that is reality. He wanted to stay were it was safe and warm and Beyond was his and nothing could come between them. Lawliet didn't want to go back to the sirens and the cases and the horrid people that wanted to take Beyond away and lock him a little tiny box so far away Lawliet could never reach him again. Never kiss him again, never hold him, never hear him sing those strange songs he likes so much, and never can tell Beyond how much the detective loves him.

"Please…Let us stay like this forever", he thought as the voices became louder and clearer.

Soichiro was mortified to find his son covered in his own blood lying on the elevator floor and Watari called for an ambulance after discovering that he was still alive. With tears in his eyes, the former police chief stood and pulled a pistol from his suit. "Yagami-san! What are you doing!?" The elderly man cried.

"Beyond has murdered three people in LA, two innocent girls and now he tried to kill my son! He is a monster that must be stopped!" The enraged man went room to room, kicking down doors, blindly searching for the killer. He soon found the detective's door standing wide open and was appalled by the destruction inside. A torn pair of boxers was near bloodstains on the carpet, the papers and such on the desk were shoved off in fury, and the desk itself showed signs of a struggle where Ryuzaki must have fought back against his attacker and failed. This was the kind of horror he feared he would find when the team raided the apartment.

Movement on the bed caught his attention, more red stains on the sheets and an open bottle of jam on the ground.

There the abomination slept peacefully, even happily, beside his victim, uncaring to all the suffering he's caused like the sadist bastard he was.

Ryuzaki was wide awake at the sight of a gun pointed at his love. "Yagami-san, please calm down. Be rational about this!" What he didn't realize was that when he sat up the sheet slid off to reveal the bruises and bites covering his thin frame.

Following Soichiro's shocked gaze to the pink stickiness between his legs, he hurriedly pulled the sheet to cover the wounds but he could not cover the shame on his face.

The older man's face hardened as he shouted "If he lives, the pain will never stop! Don't you want to be free from him?!"

"No! It's not what you think! He's never raped me!"

"Then why is your ass bleeding!?"

Lawliet screamed with tears streaming down his face "It's jam!"

The distraught man collapsed on top of Beyond and a mortified silence hung in the air, broken only by the faint sobbing and desperate pleas to spare the life of the only man he will ever love.

Guilt and shame over what he was going to do, Soichiro returned the gun to its holster and looked to Beyond, who was holding his lover and trying to comfort him. "Why did you hurt those people?"

Beyond was stroking Lawliet's hair and found the courage to speak "L only stays in one place long enough to solve a case, then he leaves to solve the next one. But, because of me, he didn't want to leave. He made up so many excuses to stay longer until the agencies he was working with became very angry with him and he had to leave.

"I knew from the beginning that he would have to go and he promised that he would call and visit me every chance that he could but, it wasn't enough. I was angry and selfish, I felt like I was some whore that he used up and threw away."

Lawliet wiped his face and said "I would never do that to you!" Beyond kissed his cheek delicately and said softly "I can see that now."

Soichiro frowned "They died because of a spat?"

"Essentially yes, I wanted him to feel guilty about leaving. The final death of the LABB murders was to be my own because, he could never love a murderer and I can't live without L."

Sadness and regret radiated off the teen as he spoke "My mother was Japanese, so I learned the language and keep an eye on Japanese culture. When I was in prison, I would watch 'Misa-Misa's Happy Sweets' on the internet and one day I couldn't see her lifespan anymore. Then some of the inmates around me's lifespans went from many years to forty seconds and they died of heart attacks.

"I've had the Eyes as long as I can remember and nothing, even remotely, close to this has ever happened to me before. Sure, I've seen people's lifespan flux based on their decisions but never more than five years at a time. To see someone lose fifty years instantly scared the living hell out of me! The first thing I thought was 'You can't take L away! Anyone but him!' I had to break out of prison and come to Japan to save him."

"If you had to contact him, why didn't you call him or something?" The chief asked.

"If I called you would you pick up the phone?"

Soichiro thought about it, he would change his name, his phone number, dye his hair, and move the entire family to Oswego. Even though he wasn't sure where it was, "somewhere in America", he thought.

"I would not pick up the phone."

"Exactly! What better way to the attention of a cop than to kill people?"

"That explains the rest but, why did you try to kill my son?" The man had to know the answer.

"I had no intention of killing Raito, I…"

Beyond drooped his head and refused to speak. Lawliet slung an arm around his shoulders "It's alright; I'm not going to get upset with you for telling."

"Telling what? What happened?" Lawliet felt that it was time for Beyond to stop paying for the detective's mistakes.

"I have a kind of 'Hyper-Anorexia' that forces me to consume all those sweets and when I left the taskforce I wasn't eating properly. Last night while I was taking a shower, my blood sugar crashed and I became very weak…"

Soichiro grew very afraid of what he was going to hear next but, he had to know. "…Go on."

"We don't have to keep going Yagami-san. This is enough." The man had become like an uncle to the detective and he didn't want Soichiro hurt.

"No, I'll hate myself if I didn't know the whole truth."

"Yagami-kun seemed to be very angry with me about something…He threatened to rape me and tried to kill me."

The elder Yagami's jaw hit the floor in shock. "…How could….My own son…I never would have though he was capable of such a thing..."

"I don't think Yagami-kun knew either, when he realized what he was doing he went to get help. He was very afraid of himself and very apologetic afterwards." This made Soichiro feel a little better but, he was still going to have a serious chat with his son after this.

"When I woke up I couldn't remember what had happened, but I knew it was important. I brought Beyond down from his cell because I felt bad about him being alone and when we watched the security tape..."

"Beyond went nuts."

Lawliet nodded. Soichiro crossed his arms and sighed, he didn't approve of what Beyond did but, he approved of what Raito did even less. At least Beyond has the excuse of being crazy, Raito should have known better. "I suppose I understand why you did it but, I noticed something…" The teen's ears perked up.

"…When you were talking you kept calling your…uh, L 'Him' or 'L', we call him 'Ryuzaki' instead."

"That's the problem! I'm Rue Ryuzaki!" Another shocking truth! "That was my fake detective name I was using during LA murders." Beyond smiled, liking the idea of Lawliet using his name. It made him for a day when his lover would be called Lawliet Birthday.

The chief looked at a smiling Beyond who was daydreaming of white churches and beautiful wedding gowns. "What's wrong with him?"

"I believe he's thinking of me dressed as a woman again, he's been trying for years."

This snapped him out of his dream to state "And I succeeded once. I have pictures."

"Which I found." The detective said smugly.

"You found a set of the copies, yes." 'A set?' How many sets were there!? The thought boggled the mind and scared the detective.

"I know what I should call you instead of 'Ryuzaki'…"

This couldn't be good.

Beyond starting singing: "Lollipop, Lollipop oh lolli-lolli-"

Lawliet cried out in anguish at the hated nickname and beat his lover to death with a pillow, Beyond stopped moving.

"..Beyond?..." L poked him in the side. "…BB Gun?..." Lawliet became very worried at the lack of movement from the teen.

"Kyahaha! I can't believe you called me that!"

The annoyed detective smacked him again with the pillow for playing dead "You called yourself that once so, don't laugh at me!" Beyond laughed harder, 'BB Gun' was his self-proclaimed stripper name.

"I was serious about the straightjacket Beyond."

"What?!"