It's official, L has fallen in love with Light Yagami. He couldn't pinpoint exactly when it happened but one day he woke up and realized that he never wanted to spend a day without this beautiful boy next to him. The question he had now was does Light feel the same about him? Honestly L doubted it. That didn't stop him from enjoying the time he spent with the boy. Nothing would ever make him regret those long nights they shared tangled together in a mess of limbs. Even if he was Kira and was only doing it for the sole purpose to kill him, L would still do it all over again.

That's the reason he was becoming so depressed even though they were so close to solving the Kira case. They had even narrowed it down to one suspect, Kyosuke Higuchi. Tomorrow would be the day that they catch the guy and hopefully end this once and for all except to L it didn't feel like the end but the beginning. He felt that if they catch Higuchi that new evidence will surface pointing to Light and he would be forced to execute him. Something L surly did not want to do, to kill Light would be to kill himself.

It was a terrible dilemma.

To make matters worse Megan has been pissed off at him for the last three days. She's upset that he's putting Matsuda in danger. He felt it was unfair since Matsuda agreed to do it and yet he's the one that has to listen to her bitch. Then again he understood because he would bitch at her if she put Light in the same situation.

Megan had a bad feeling. She didn't like the fact that L was putting Matsuda at risk and hated even more how readily Matsuda agreed to it. Something terrible was going to happen tomorrow, she just couldn't figure out what. All she knew was that everything was going to change.

That night she stayed in Matsuda's room. It wasn't uncommon for the two to occasionally stay with each other but tonight was different. It started the day after Megan kissed him on the cheek, Matsuda cornered her and demanded to know why she did it. After much embarrassment and sweet kisses the two became a couple. Though they have never gone farther than a kiss that was going to change tonight. With the possibility of his death so close the two gave in to passion. Knowing this could be the first and only time they could. Tonight all that mattered was that they be together.

However when they were done Megan began crying. She couldn't stop herself. Sometime during these past two months she had fallen in love with the goofball. It was painful to think there was a chance, no matter how slim it was, that he may not be here much longer.

"Shh please Megan don't cry," Matsuda pleaded pulling her tight against his chest. "Everything is going to work out fine. I promise."

"How can you be so sure?"

"I'm not to be honest but I love you so I know that even if things go bad tomorrow at least I'll die happy and for a good cause." He admits kissing the top of her head.

"You love me?"

"Heh yeah I do. I know we haven't know each other that long bu…" he was cut off by Megan pressing her lips against his.

"I love you too."

He smiled that goofy smile at her before pulling her back in for more passionate kisses. Soon the kisses turned to more love making before they crashed out for the night too exhausted to stay up any longer.

He did it! His plan worked out almost flawlessly. So why didn't he feel victorious? How is it that he's one step closer to becoming the god of a new clean world and yet he feels so depressed? The answer to that was obvious. The one thing he never would have thought to add to his calculation had happened, he had fallen in love with the panda eyed freak detective.

He knew exactly when it had happened to. It was a month back and the two of them were up late working on the case. As usual L was perched on his chair shoveling sweet after sweet in his mouth when the filling had made its way down L's chin. Seeing as they were the only two there at the time Light took it upon himself to lick the dribble of filling away. It was when he pulled away and saw the hungry look in L's eyes that he knew suddenly he was in love. That was the first night he let L take him. It wasn't unpleasant but they both preferred when Light topped.

The Task Force stared up at the monstrous shinigami in both fear and amazement of its existence. Rem stared right back. The room was completely silent as both parties stared the other down. Aizawa was the first to break the silence as he read out the rules which was followed by the clearing of Light and Misa's names. They were no longer suspected as being the first and second Kira, well by the Task Force at least, L however was a different story.

L noticed the difference in Light right away. There was nothing he could do though but let things play out. It was with much regret that he took the handcuffs off. He felt like he was dying on the inside as he watched the chain fall from Light's wrist.

While this happened no one noticed Megan interrogating the shinigami. She was treating the thing the same way she did her old patients. Asking it questions in a "comforting" way. However she wasn't asking it any questions about Kira.

"So you have to make a deal with a shinigami to be able to get the eyes right? A human can't be born with that power?" she asks thinking about B.

"No a human can't be born with the power, only shinigami."

"You're totally sure?" Megan pressured.

"Why are you so curious?"

"I had a friend who could see a person's name and lifespan since he was born." She confessed. It was the first time she had ever spoken about the secret B told her so many years ago.

"What was his name?"

Taken aback by the question Megan stuttered out "Beyond Birthday."

"Cecilia Birthday's son?"

Megan was even more surprised by this question. "Yes. How did you know that?"

"Not too long ago a rogue shinigami became obsessed with a human woman, Cecilia Birthday. After watching her for so long the shinigami went to the human world and raped her. When she gave birth to a son six months later it shocked even us. We didn't know that shinigami could reproduce with humans."

"Wait so you're saying that B was half shinigami?" Megan asked.

"Was?"

"Unfortunately he fell victim to Kira not too long ago." She says sadly.

"That's impossible! The death note would have no effect on him. He won't die until his natural life is over, nothing other than that can kill him."

"Hm well that would explain why the burns disappeared a few weeks after he attempted to kill himself." Megan said before noticing for the first time that the others had started listening. The look on L's face pretty much told her she was fucked.

"Beyond Birthday is not dead is he Megan?" L asked in a scary calm voice.

"No."

"Then would you please tell me how it is that the guards found his dead body in his cell?"

"Well you see he wasn't really dead. I gave him a shot full of a drug that will slow the heart down so much that it appears that it had stopped. Then later that night I broke into the hospital they had his body in and gave him the antidote. After that I haven't seen him." She confesses.

"So you're telling me you aided in the escape of a dangerous criminal?" L was pretty close to losing it. He never told anyone but Beyond kind of scared the shit out of him and now that he knew he was alive and free Kira suddenly didn't seem like such a threat.

"He's not dangerous!"

"Oh no not at all because mutilating three people for no reason other than to grab my attention is not dangerous at all!" he was actually screaming now, something he didn't normally do.

"How dare you! How fucking DARE you! Don't be so conceited L he didn't do it just to get your attention asshole, he did it to prove a point. You know what they did to him besides all three of them were going to die anyway, that's why he chose them." She was crying by now. "I wouldn't have helped him escape if I knew he was safe but he's my best friend. I couldn't let him sit in a prison waiting to get murdered."

L let out a deep sigh. "I can't believe you did that, wait no I do."

"Just forget about it ok. We still haven't closed the Kira case so let's wait til we have before we get into this."

"You're right. Kira is more important." With that he went back to his computer and completely ignored everything else.