I never really fully grasped how well I could multitask. I was keeping an eye on the time and reading through Lawliet's files he had linked to my email account. I had managed to find a small public library that had open access computers, I was easily able to find the files that Lawliet had sent me and I typed in "The First" as a pass code and it let me enter. I had sorted through the first few folders with no luck, it was all the information that I had already known about him. I could feel my eyes starting to get heavy and I was extremely worried about the boys, I could only imagined what they must have been going through, things changed so quickly for them and everything went from Heaven to Hell in a matter of days. I clicked on the next folder and had a look through some of the scans that had been newspaper clippings.

"Tragedy strikes Winchester, mother found murdered alongside mysterious dust, gifted children left orphans" I read to myself

I enlarged the page and began to read the document through. It had read that a mother of two had been murdered and had a mound of mysterious unidentifiable silver dust had been found next to her body. Her twin sons had remained unharmed and had been taking into care by a Quilish Wammy, also known locally as Watari, founder of Wammy house, an orphanage for gifted children. This had to be Lawliet and B's mother. It was kind of hard to imagine that Lawliet once had parents, I had only known him as being parent less, this must have been the first thing that had caused him to sink deep into his shell, and were he had started not to trust people

"What about the mysterious dust?"

I tried to imagine what it could possibly be. There must have been a decent amount for the reporter to describe it as a mound, unless of course they were exaggerating which was a high possibility but still I couldn't help but wonder why Lawliet's mother would be found dead next to a silver dust. There was the possibility that she had been using powdered silver as a recreational drug and possibly just died of an over dose, but then anyone who was smart wouldn't leave evidence lying around that they were on drugs. No there was another explanation for this.

"What is your name B, it has to be here somewhere"

I scrolled through the next few pages and paused when I had come across something I had seen before. A photograph. It had been the same photograph that we found in the house, the torn one with a bandaged arm hanging off of Lawliet's shoulders. I had little less than half an hour to go before I had to find his name. The picture was of two dark haired boys, completely identical except for the one on the left, his eyes a glowing red. It had been of Lawliet and B. I had seen something in the photo behind B that had caught my eye; it was writing or letters with a drawn picture of some sort. I squinted to see if I could make out what it had said but with no prevail. I clicked on the small magnifying glass icon and clicked on the writing. The picture enlarged but it had been much too blurry, I had to fix it to see if it was of any importance, I didn't have time but I needed to know.

I had been quite capable of using computers, I had worked alongside Lawliet long enough to have learned plenty from him. I moved the mouse over to a button that had looked like a magic wand and I clicked it. The image suddenly became clear. It was an incredible drawing of Lawliet and B with two names written above it L Lawliet and Beyond Birthday. I had to be reading it wrong surely that was not B's name, it couldn't be and even it was it had to be a nickname, a nickname was not going to help me. I had to shake my head and sift through the other folders to try and find something of use. I looked at the time and I had started to panic. I could feel my temperature rising as the time drew nearer, I had no idea what B's name was and I was just about out of time. I ran my fingers through my hair, pulling hard trying to punish myself for not being about to do this, what if Lawliet lost his life because of this, he trusted me to find out his brother's name and I failed him. I was completely shattered; I had been broken down to a point where death had started to look pretty great to me. I was just going to have to bargain with B to take my life instead, I was going to have to tell him that I didn't know his name and that I would gladly be the one to take Lawliet's place, even though it would mean I would be gone forever and never be with Lawliet or see the boys ever again, I would become a memory that one day would be forgotten. I just wanted to give up. I was completely exhausted, I didn't know what was left and what was right, I must have missed something in one of the folders that I completely ignored because I was too impatient or too worried about finding an answer just so I could have a few moments sleep. I had enough of B's childish games and I needed this to end even if it meant Law' and the kids carried on living without me. I deleted the folders and logged out of the computer, resting back into the chair. I closed my eyes and I could hear the kid's voices in my head, I could see my family like it was all flashing by me. I could feel Lawliet's body against mine, holding him tightly, feeling his heart beating against mine. I could taste his lips pressed against me and his sweet scent wrapping itself around me squeezing me, indulging me. I could feel his hands on my body as I kissed the hollow of his neck. I could hear every breath, every moan every noise of want and desire caught in his throat. I was never going to have that again. I didn't open my eyes when I felt the warm wet trickles running from them. I could feel my heart being torn into two just knowing that this was going to be my last day on earth, I didn't even get to say goodbye to my boys. The more I thought about what I was going to miss out on the more the tears streamed down my face and dripped onto the carpeted floor beneath me. My phone began to ring in my pocket, I slowly reached in and grabbed it, and I didn't even bother to wipe away the tears when I answered it

"Yeah" I said with heartache caught in my throat

"So Light Yagami do you know my name?" he asked me

I shook my head and shrugged my shoulders

Eh, what the hell I had thought to myself, at least one of my final acts was going to make what was going to be my future brother in law laugh

"Your name is Beyond Birthday" I said almost humoring myself too

There was silence on the other end

"Well Light Yagami, I have to admit you have surprised me"

I raised my head, shock flushed over me like a tidal wave, could that seriously been B's name? no wonder he was so pissed off with the world with a fucked up name like Beyond Birthday

"Congratulations Light Yagami, you have progressed I will now tell you my location. I suggest you come alone Light and I hope you will be smart enough not to tell anyone where you are going. I don't want anyone to find your body for weeks" He said sadistically

"I don't really give fuck what you do to me at this point B, chop me into little pieces and throw me to the sharks if you must but you have to let L go free and you will keep your promise and you will never harm him or my kids ever" I mumbled, almost too exhausted to even talk

"I intend on keeping my promise Light, You will meet us at fifty four, Sakura West drive in twenty minutes, the door will be unlocked. I must admit I am looking forward to meeting and killing you Light Yagami" The phone went silent.

I managed to pull myself up off the chair and drag myself out of the library and out to where I had parked my car. I could hear sirens blazing in the distance, they would have found that cop by now and cleaned up the crime scene and asking for witnesses. I suppose it was all for the best that B was going to kill me, I rather be dead then in prison for killing a cop. I punched in the address into the GPS system that sat on dashboard, it had calculated that it was going to take thirty minutes to get to the address that B had given me so it meant yet another battle against the clock and another risky lot of driving skills to get there in twenty. I had felt like a zombie at that point, I was only functioning on auto pilot, doing what I needed to do but my body only half co-operating, I was completely drained. I drove through the busy streets like a mad man, I didn't care for stop signs or red lights I just did what I had to do. I suppose my earlier task of killing that cop had come in handy, all the other cops in the district had been out there taking care of business and interviewing witnesses that they had forgot to put out standard traffic cops to monitor the dangerous roads. I was excited that I was going to see Lawliet again, even though I was sure he would be near on dying himself, there was no way B would have taken care of his brother. B was a psychopathic fruit cake with extra nuts, he would have tried to force L to love him and when he didn't get his own way he probably used Lawliet as a punching bag or worse. I couldn't even think about anything more at that point, I just pictured Lawliet and drove as fast as I could to him.

I had stopped once the GPS had informed me that I had reached my destination. I looked at the clock I still had five minutes to get out of the car and drag my tired body to the door and find Lawliet. I had been so confident that I would be alive and awake to give B a decent battle, to give him something he would be sorry for but I had started to realize that he was going to win. I would roll over and let him kill me without a fight. All I could hope for in that moment was a sudden burst of adrenaline, maybe that would come once I knew Lawliet was still alive and I could still save him. I exited the car and made my way to the building, it was a single standalone apartment, surrounded by a few empty warehouses that had looked like they had been unused for quite some time. I still had the blood and bits of brain matter on me from the cop I was also covered in sweat and tears, I had to laugh when I found myself wondering if B would let me have a shower before killing me. There was nothing funny about my death, only just what seemed like a reasonable request to me was probably excessively unreasonable to him. I turned to door knob on the door and slowly entered, closing it behind me

"L" I called out as loudly as my voice would let me.

"We are in here Light Yagami, follow my voice" B replied

I did exactly as he said I followed the somewhat ghostly voice. I had walked into another room that was lit up by the sun streaming in the windows, it was almost blinding. I focused my eyes to the floor and saw two bare feet in the shadows. I quickly dropped to the floor and scurried over to where the feet were.

"Law'" I said as I grabbed them.

They moved and wiggled away from me

"Law it's me"

"BOO!" a sudden voice yelled at me. I stumbled back a few inches, the feet had belonged to an evil face with bright red eyes, B. He was worse than I imagined him to look, he looked so much like L in the photo that I was shocked to see his face covered in scars and bandages, pure evilness pouring out of him like thick black oil

"What's the matter Light Yagami did I scare you?" He laughed and stood up brushing dirt from off of his blue jeans

"Lover boy is over there, he is unconscious at the moment, and I will wake him up when the time is right"

I looked over to where B was pointing, it was a table resting in the shadows on the other side of the room. Lawliet was chained to it, hardly breathing, without his shirt covering what I could see was a bloody and cut torso. I cringed when I had realized that B had used him like a drawing pad and his pen had been a knife and possibly a lot of other sharp objects.

I pulled myself up from the ground, so that I could stare at the man who I hated with such passion that I could feel the rage boiling inside of me fuelling my body with the much needed adrenaline.

"What kind of fucked up name is Beyond Birthday" I asked him almost mimicking his laugh

"That is what happens when you have a Shinigami as a father, they have rather dry sense of humor" B replied. He reached over to a chair and pushed it towards me and grabbed one himself, turning it around so he could sit on it backwards. I sat down in the chair that he had pushed towards me.

"Yes I know, I am not a stranger to Shinigami" I said

"Hmm that is interesting, but not enough for me to really give a fuck. I have been thinking about this you know, ever since I took L from the house. He wasn't the one I wanted but it seems it has all worked in my favor anyway, which is great for me, not so great for you. As promised I will let him go and he will be free to go back home and your family will never have to see me again, that is of course if you give me your word that you will be my next victim"

"Like I said B, do whatever the fuck you want with me but you leave my family alone from this day on wards"

"Then we have a deal Light Yagami, I should really wake him up though, I wouldn't want him to miss out on me butchering you"

B stood up and walked over to Lawliet, I turned my head and I watched as he slapped his brother's cheeks

"Hey kid wake the fuck up, I got a surprise for you" He laughed his evil psychotic clown laugh

Lawliet's eyes started to flutter open he turned to face me. B started to unlock the padlocks that had held the chains around him and pull them off his body, he smiled sweetly at me, he was almost unrecognizable, his eyes were completely black and blue, blood had smeared all over his face, knife cuts in his cheeks, he had a bandage wrapped around his neck and ear. I could feel it tear up my heart when I looked at him. The adrenaline becoming stronger. B helped L to sit up.

"Did you lose your pet sir?" B asked me and started to laugh almost hysterically

"Well is that anyway to treat your master you mangy mutt, go and say hello"

B pushed Lawliet down to the ground from the table and dropped the chains and padlocks beside him. I quickly stood up and raced to his side, holding his broken, bruised and cut body in my arms.

"Lawliet can you hear me, hey stay with me OK, stay with me" I said gently stroking his hair and then cheek.

He looked up to me with his dark eyes that I had missed so much. I smiled down at him and held him close to me. Lawliet was not going to give up that easily. He had far more will then I or anyone else I knew had, he was a true fighter and he was not going to let B win over him. Lawliet, to me was God.

"Light?" He said quietly

"Yeah" I replied trying to fight back the tears

"I think he broke my leg, I guess that means my deductive skills have dropped by 40%" he said

I couldn't help but smile. He was still the same Lawliet what I assumed as the brink of death

I held him up to my ear

"I am alright Light, just let him become comfortable with you when the time is right I will kill him" He whispered extremely quietly, so much so that I could only barely make out the words

He made me smile again, he should have been a damned actor.

"Ok that's enough of this bullshit family reunion, Light Yagami let go of him and come sit in this chair, now" he demanded

I looked down at Lawliet and gently rested him on the floor and did as B asked. I got to my feet and walked to the chair and sat down again.

"I guess before I kill you, you have a few questions that you would like to ask" B said

"Is it that obvious?" I replied

He laughed lightly at me. He pulled his chair close to me and sat down facing me, staring at me with those red eyes.

"So Light what would you like to know?, perhaps how I had become like this, or perhaps the evil deeds my brother did or perhaps you would like to know who the real L Lawliet is and I can tell you I don't think you could love him after I tell you" B replied, he smiled at me

"Why would he feel responsible for your death if you are alive?" I asked him

He made a sound that was between superiority and tediousness.

"My death? Ha, that stupid son of bitch over there would never feel responsible for my death even if I had died. No it wasn't my death he has been feeling guilty about all these years, it was someone else" B replied

"Whose?" I asked

"I find it interesting that you haven't been able to work that out Light Yagami, well I will tell you. That low life over there, that pathetic excuse for a human being is no different than you or I, he is a cold blooded killer, see it wasn't just an accident that my mother and Shinigami father had died, those things just don't happen, if you in fact knew a Shinigami you would know they simply cannot be murdered, that they need to kill someone in order for them to die first. You see Light, my father had killed my mother and then he died himself and the only reason why that happened is because lover boy gave the ultimatum. Either kill yourselves or he was going to kill me, L Lawliet is a cold blooded, psychopathic, murderous man just like his little brother. Light Yagami you have been fucking a murderer all this time, how does that feel"