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Haley woke in her own bed the next morning, still messy with food although someone had at least attempted to clean her face. She guessed that she must have finally fallen asleep and that L must have brought her back up.

She instantly took a shower, washing globs of butter and sticky sugar from her hair and wearing a wide smile in memory of the night before.

L still liked her. L still liked her. L still liked her. She giggled to herself like a silly schoolgirl, images of his raven hair and smooth pale skin filling her mind.
Once dressed she made her way to the investigation room and found the task force working as usual.

"Good morning Violet!" Matsuda chimed, a wide smile on his lips as Aizawa frowned at him.

"Good morning everyone." She replied and they acknowledged her with smiles and nods. Her eyes fell on L, who smiled in her direction bashfully before hurriedly turning back to his work in embarrassment.

"Well, I'm going shopping." She announced.

"Make sure Watari goes with you." L said seriously.

"I think I can manage one shopping trip on my own." She huffed and he swung round to stare at her.

"Are you forgetting that you are wanted by mob bosses?"

"What?" Light exclaimed and the rest of the task force also turned to her in astonishment.

"Only in England." She shrugged as though talking about the weather.

"These are very powerful people Violet-san. They will have connections all over the world looking for you."

"Ryuzaki, why is Violet wanted by mob bosses?" Light asked and L brushed his question away with a sweep of his hand.

"This is nothing that concerns you Yagami-kun."

"I'm sure I'll be fine."

"I'll call Watari down for you."

"No you bloody won't."

"Watari, can you please assist Violet on her shopping trip." L spoke into the microphone and turned back to a furious Haley. "Everything I do is just for your safety."

"L! I can't believe I kissed you."

"What?" All members of the task force said simultaneously before turning astonished eyes towards L. He blinked twice at her, his face remaining carefully inexpressive.

"You two kissed?" Matsuda exclaimed.

"Matsuda!" Aizawa and Soichiro Yagami both shouted in unison.

"Yes we kissed, but I didn't realise he had become so controlling when I kissed him." Violet announced, stubbornly crossing her arms across her chest.

"Wait a minute, let's think logically here..." Light stood up, "Are you trying to tell us that you wouldn't kiss me, but you would kiss him?"

Haley rolled her eyes at him and L raised his eyebrows,

"Why do you sound so shocked Yagami-kun? Even you suggested your own homosexual preferences towards me-"

"I suggested no such thing! You are the one who said that!"

"What the hell? Is Light gay?" Haley piped and before the room could fall into further chaos there was a loud bang as Soichiro brought his fist slamming down on his desk, sending the whole group of people into a stunned silence.

"We are trying to catch a killer here!" He shouted, eyes burning into each person and causing them to look away ashamed.

"Miss Violet? Did you want me to accompany you?" Watari appeared at the door and Haley turned to him in shock.

"It seems I have no choice in the matter." She said quietly and then stalked out of the room, leaving the men to stare after her incredulously.

"I didn't expect L to be such a ladykiller." Matsuda muttered then silenced after frowns from everyone in the room besides L himself.

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Late that night, Haley stood awkwardly outside of L's door, shuffling her feet. She brought a hand up to knock but the door was flung open before she could do so, revealing an expectant L.

"I saw you out here in the surveillance cameras." He said to her shocked expression and she frowned.

"Seriously, you need to stop doing that, it's creepy."

"Oh." He brought a thumb to his lips and she smiled to show him she was joking.

"Can I come in?" She asked and a second passed before he stepped back, allowing her entry into his room.

She observed the tidy room, neat apart from a used plate which she guessed had once held cake.

"I came to apologise." She said, sitting timidly on the edge of his bed. L looked down at her and noticed how small she looked, so completely vulnerable. "I shouldn't have snapped at you earlier, I know you were only trying to protect me. I suppose I just kind of got a little sick of being here all the time and not having independence."

L moved over and climbed onto the bed beside her, lowering himself into a crouch.

"You are forgiven, you're outburst was completely understandable considering your frustrations. I also apologise for not understanding that at the time." He said in his low monotone and then he brought his head down to rest his forehead on his knees, hiding his face from view. "I really like you Haley. And if I wasn't so inexperienced with such emotions then I may have gone as far to say I love you." His voice came from behind his hair and she watched him, curled up in a ball with his hair sticking up wildly. Just like a hedgehog, he thought and smiled to herself. L continued,
"However, since I have never felt this way before, I cannot for sure tell whether it is love I am feeling."

"I love you." Haley said, resting a hand on his hunched over shoulders. His head raised slightly to reveal two wide eyes looking up at her.

"So please explain what love feels like so I am able to understand it myself." L said and Haley froze for a moment in thought before looking away.

"Love is... Not being able to get that certain someone out of your mind, and when the phone rings or there is a knock at the door, love is what makes us hope that they are the one on the other end. I think love is just a strong emotional connection with someone, therefore making you want to never let them go, making you want to spend your whole life with them. Love is enjoying the person they are," Haley stared back at L once more, who was gazing widely at her back, "Whether it be the craziness of their hair," She ruffled his hair lightly, "or the kindness in their soul which reaches out to a friend in need."

Haley's eyes turned sad at the thought of her burning home, her dead family and the sleek black car sent to whisk her far away. "At least, that is what love is to me." She said and she lay back in the bed with a small smile. L remained still where he crouched, frozen in realisation.

Then he uncurled himself from his ball, lying backwards next to Haley on the bed, his head turning to face her.

"With the evidence you produced then I can deduce that there is a 90% possibility I am in love with you." He said it so seriously and Haley had to raise her eyebrows.

"Only 90%? Hmm... Maybe it's up to me to help you add that further 10%..." And with that she kissed him once gently on the lips. His eyes glistened back at her.

"95%" He said and another, longer kiss was placed on his lips. "Alright, I think it's pretty safe to say that I love you now."

He smiled softly at her and she leapt on top of him, lips crashing together in a moment of pure joy. His hands slid around her waist, feeling her warmth beneath his fingers. His hands brushed over the area where her shirt separated from her jeans and in the second it took for their bare skin to touch, shocks of passion roared through his veins. Nothing mattered but her in this moment, her and him.

She stopped kissing him and started to pull off her shirt, her purple hair falling across her bare pale skin and black bra. His hands ran up her stomach to flutter over her breasts, his touch like electricity on her skin.

"L... I have waited for you so long." She said, breathless as she helped him pull off his own shirt, her fingertips brushing over his toned pale chest. "For too long."

"I know Haley. I know..." L sat and brought his lips quickly on hers and after what seemed like forever, they let their passion take over.

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Haley woke with her head resting across L's bare chest and turned sleepy eyes up to the awake man. He had been so content watching her sleep, the peaceful way her head rose and fall with his breathing and the tickle of her hair when she moved. And now, as she turned sleepy green eyes up at him, he felt that he could ever be more content than what he felt right now.

"Good morning." He said quietly and she pushed herself upwards so that she could rest her head on his shoulder instead.

"Have you been up all night? You could have just moved me and gone and done some work if you wanted to." Haley said.

"I didn't want to disturb you. You looked very peaceful, and even your REM sleep seemed to show no signs of those nightmares you have been having recently." Haley realised it was true, that night had been the first night in a long time where the fire nightmares had not shown. Suddenly, a small realisation hit her.

"Hey, I only mentioned that nightmare once, how did you know it was recurring?" She furrowed her brow up at him and he leaned his head so that messy bangs of hair covered his face.

"Answer me!" She demanded, shoving him gently.

"Well, sometimes on the surveillance cameras I watched you sleep, and you always tossed and turned then."

"L! You watched me sleep!" Haley exclaimed and he nodded, finally looking up from beneath his raven hair. He prepared himself for the "that's so creepy" lecture but instead found Haley smiling fondly at him.

"You really do love me, don't you?" She said and he raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, I suppose I really do."

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