After L left, Yvonne tried to go to sleep. However, it didn't work very well. She shifted and turned and ended up all awake, staring blankly at the wall. She realized how much she hurt L's pride with her words but she was sincere. She never trusted L and she was sure she wouldn't start anytime soon. The Kira case had to be completed in Beyond's memory. She wanted to revenge her old friend and she was ready to sacrifice her humanity for that.
What she saw as revenge, L saw as a way to apologize to her.
In his own room, a level away from the woman, his attention was shifting from monitors to his own thoughts. Her words did run deep.
"Watari" He grabbed a piece of chocolate from the multitude of opened boxes on the table but didn't eat started to contemplate it.
"Is it about D?" The elder man knew exactly what L and D's relationship was like. He used to call them "Tom and Jerry".
D was selfish and didn't try to become part of the society. She wasn't an outsider but she wasn't like the others. Most children at Wammy's craved for freedom and social intercourse. She gave them that. She was like an older sister for them and the kids loved her. L was the opposite of D. In the orphanage, she was always there for the orphans while L wasn't. He was working on his own cases most of the time. He would come and visit once every month. Later on, that changed. His visits became rare and he would talk with the orphans through the computer.
Even though both Watari and L knew how precious she was for the orphanage, they forced her out of it. They arranged her adoption and her studies in France. They forced her to become part of the Interpol and take cases that L wouldn't find worthy for him. She wasn't another L but she was a distraction to the world; a distraction from the real L.
"She is mad. I don't understand. She had the most chances to become a great detective. Why does she hate me?" He sounded like a sad child whose favorite toy just broke. Watari understood L's point of view but he did understand hers too.
"You should talk to her and get to know her all over again. You both changed, more or less. Maybe you will find bits of her that you might have not known she had." L pondered the information.
The next day, Yvonne woke up in a bad mood. She felt lonely and cold. Her discussion with L didn't help at all; it just made everything even worse. Maybe she overreacted a little when she said she may as well be another victim of Wammy's system. She knew very well that she stopped being part of it when she remembered who she was. She protected the children as much as she could and she still did in different ways. She was informed of everything at Wammy's by none other than Roger, who didn't stop calling her little Devil.
When she entered the Headquarters, she was surprised to see more than three people. There was chief Yagami, L, a young man who looked tired and wasn't shaved, a man with a weird hairstyle that reminded her of a reggae singer and a normal man.
L was standing silently on the couch, dropping a lot of sugar in his coffee.
"You're late" D rolled her eyes but didn't comment.
She simply walked into the room and sat on the other side of the coffee table, face to face with L.
"I didn't know we have a new member on the task force, moreover a woman" The tired guy started to move around, mumbling to himself and trying to fix his hair. D's eyes traveled from one man to another and stopped on L.
"During these past few days, I have checked our tapes and video footage many times. I have come to a decision. Among the Kitamura and Yagami households no one is suspicious" D raised an eyebrow and leaned into her seat.
She would have said something but Yagami-san looked relieved and she didn't want to ruin his life.
"I shall remove the cameras and wiretaps"
Everyone looked relieved. They were all happy that none of their close friends' families, or their own, was suspicious. L started to stare at D openly. His eyes were transmitting something completely different than what he just said. She could see it. He knew but he didn't have any proof.
"So, in the end the culprit wasn't here, huh?" The young man's innocence was overwhelming.
He might have been a police man but he was too naïve. Theories remain just theories. What was going to happen next was unknown and it may change the tables around.
Yvonne's attention started to drift again and even though she looked very thoughtful, she was just remembering parts of her past.
"In the end, who knows if I will have the power to bear the name of L. I don't trust myself" A young version of A stated while he was messing with a cube. B and D just finished arguing and A became a pessimistic all over again.
"You shouldn't feel pressured. We are here for you. Just, use us for comfort, if you want." B scoffed but D just patted A's head. Her smile was comforting and soft. She was nothing like the older and colder version.
"Talk for yourself. I don't want to be used selfishly." D rolled her eyes and pinched his arm. He jumped and rubbed that place.
"Selfish is your second name B. A, if you need, share your pressure with us. But remember, you are not forced to become L if you don't want to."
"Then who would?" Both B and D were speechless.
They didn't know. They didn't know what the name L meant. They just knew L was a few years older and he liked to play detective. They were just 10 years old children who were meant to be geniuses. However, D felt the need to be there for all of them. She was a 24 years old woman in a body of a 10 years old. She was a killer with a second chance at life.
"I will." Both boys stared at her a little skeptical. She wasn't a child who looked responsible. "If I need to, I will take the burden off your shoulders. You just have to ask and I will. I will change the tables around" She smiled and hugged A.
For a moment, everything was fine. For a moment, they were happy and normal.
"Excuse me," Yvonne blinked and shook the memory out of her mind. She raised her head and met a very messy and pale face. He smiled nervously and rubbed his neck. "I'm Matsuda, nice to meet you. Welcome to the task force. L just told us about you" She glanced to L who was staring at his cup of coffee.
"What did he tell you exactly?" He sat somewhere close to her and started to talk.
"He told us you have been sent from the Interpol. He didn't really give us more information" She chuckled to herself. It was understandable.
Matsuda was ready to ask her more personal questions but D got up and started to walk towards the door. A hand stopped her from the great escape.
"I need to speak to you" She sighed and followed him to another room. They sat on the bed, facing each other, like before. He was crouched while she had crossed her legs Indian style.
"You didn't tell them we know each other from before. You told them you asked for international help. You told them I am just a mere Interpol agent. You told them I am not married"
Her deductive skills were impressive. She knew that much from talking for a few minutes to Matsuda. The young police officer stared at her hand for exactly 5 minutes, looking for a ring on her finger. The other men were looking at her with respect but they were underestimating her.
"That is not what I wanted to talk about" She scoffed and crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"What you said in the other room was bullshit" He sighed and bit his finger.
"You didn't even listen to everything I said" That was true. She completely zoned out.
"What's your plan?" He bit his lip a little harder and stopped completely. His eyes started to move anywhere but her.
"You said I made victims out of A and B and that you may be next" She blinked, urging him to continue. "I'm going to be the next victim. I'm going to risk my life for this case" For a moment he thought she was blank and didn't care but she did. Her eyes got wider than they already were and her hands dropped.
"You are going on the field" He nodded. She was going to make a big deal out of his decision and probably rub his past mistakes into his face. He knew she was going to make him feel bad and he had an idea how to shut her up.
"I will enter the same college as Light Yagami and become friends." Yvonne titled her head a little and bit her lower lip.
"You don't know what a friend is, L. You never had one" His sight lowered.
"I consider you my friend" She stared at him for a few minutes.
He looked tired and lonely. It was one of the few moments when L showed his true colors. Even if he was the best detective in the world he was still just a man among others. He was still young but didn't have any intention to follow the usual routine of falling in love and creating a family. He was risking his life for a case not for a person.
"Are you sure you don't consider me an ally more than anything? We've known each other since we were very young and we worked together before. You trust me because you know everything about me" He hummed in response.
"I don't know anything about you" Yvonne was surprised. L thought about what he talked to Watari about. He was right. She changed a lot more than he imagined. He smiled, taking her aback a hell lot. She actually backed off.
"You freak me out. You're not going to die anytime soon so why are you so…sweet?" For a moment she didn't know what to think but she realized what he meant and glared at him.
"You're coming with me"
"I won't." She got off the bed and started to walk around the room, her hands still crossed in front of her chest. "I already finished two universities, foreign languages and the police Academy. I'm done with school and students"
She didn't have a good relationship with her fellow classmates in any of the universities she went through. The girls were too infatuated with different topics that seemed unimportant for her. She had never been ignored or bullied. If anything, they tried to befriend her and take her out a lot. At one point, she agreed and she started to find out different aspects of different lifestyles. She learned a lot during University and she used the knowledge in her favor and in cases. However, she was the ignorant one. After she entered the Police Academy they made fun of her and her genre. She was the most successful and graduated with honors but they still looked down on her because she was a woman. She fought back every time and, eventually, she won over women discrimination. She became Yvonne Noir, consultant detective and agent of the Interpol. She became a Sherlock Holmes with a badge.
"You don't have to become part of a crowd. You have to be around Light as much as you can. You have the intellectual ability and deductive skills to gain answers directly from the source" She raised an eyebrow and walked towards him. He got off the bed as well and crouched in front of her. They could stare into each other's eyes granted to her height.
"What if I don't agree?" L smirked and patted her head.
"The entrance examination is tomorrow morning. Watari already enrolled both of us. You have to protect your status as a genius. If you don't come, that status will break"
His eyes were dangerously dark and the halos around them made him look even scarier. He was blackmailing her. She gritted her teeth while she watched him walk out the room.
"You little shit" She mumbled harshly.