Disclaimer: That's right... I still don't own Death Note, oh well I guess
Lolli awoke on the floor of her hotel room, just barely inside the door. Slowly getting to her feet, Lolli felt a surge as her head throbbed. "Uhhh," Lolli mumbled to herself angrily, she had absolutely no recollection of the night prior. She looked up to see Mello, Matt, and Beyond all sleeping on different couches and peaked around the corner to see Near fast asleep on her bed. She was glad they hadn't stayed up waiting for her. How long had she stayed out anyway? Who knew?
"Lolli?" a groggy Beyond questioned as re rubbed the sleep from his eyes and looked up to see the girl still holding her pounding head in her hand, "Tylenol?"
"Sounds like a smart idea to me," Lolli replied smirking, as she fumbled around in the bathroom for something she could use. She glanced in the mirror to see Beyond watching her from the doorway, "Can I help you?"
"What do you know about Shinigami?" B asked curiously.
"The better question is what do you know about Shinigami?"
"Not much," he shrugged, "I know I was born with eyes that can see names and lifespans and yours the first to not be visible… well other than the at Yagami guy."
"Yes… well that's because Light has a Death Note and a Shinigami…," she focused on getting the cap off the Tylenol in her hand, "just like me." Beyond ripped the bottle from her grasp and pulled the cap off before handing it back.
"So this Death Note is what's giving the Yagami kid the power to be Kira," Beyond stated rather than questioned.
"You are correct," Lolli answered, swallowing the pills in her hand without water, "So are you going to help me?"
"Aren't you helping L?" B questioned, raising his eyebrows and cocking his head to the side.
"Yes… but Kira is going to kill L and as much as the two of you despise each other, neither wants the other dead. If the other was dead there would be no sense competing," she noticed B shrug his shoulders in agreement, " Besides, do you really want to have to say that Yagami Light was better at beating L than you were?" Lolli watched a scowl spread across B's face at that thought. Lolli always knew exactly what to say to make B change his thought process.
"Fine I will assist you in any way needed," B agreed with a huff.
"Good," Lolli replied pulling out a large tackle box full of make-up, "Cus' we're goin' under cover."
L watched the mysterious 4th Kira make her way into the political office and decided to pay special attention to figure out if this girl could possibly be Lolli once and for all.
"So, your sister's in the country I heard," Light spoke loudly as he wandered into the headquarters room.
"Hmmm, and how may I ask did you come to that conclusion?" L asked, spinning around in his chair to face Light with a fork hanging from his mouth.
"Well there were these boys at the college yesterday," Light stated, flopping onto the couch and lifting the laptop beside him onto his lap, "The boys said they were here to help your sister…Lolli was it?"
"What did these boys look like?" L asked already suspecting the answer.
"Hmmm," Light thought, faking contemplation at L's question, "Well, there was one with white hair in pajamas."
Near, thought L.
"One with red hair and goggles."
Matt.
"One with blonde hair and leather… everything."
Mello
"and one that had black hair… he actually looked a lot like you but he told me he was a serial killer. He's not a serial killer is he?"
Beyond?
"Actually he is a serial killer, I arrested him recently and believed him to have been killed by Kira but it appears that he has ended up meeting up with Lolli," L thought aloud, "I would suggest you stay away from him… unless of course you are attempting to have me slip up and give you his name so that you can kill him."
"I already told you I'm not Kira."
"That's fine, but even if you were I would have to ask you to not kill him anyway, I would very much like to confront another challenge from him, only this time I would hope that there would be no casualties."
"Are you guys watching this, that girl whose probably the 4th Kira just brought in another guy, it looks like it's her boyfriend or something," Matsuda told the two from his seat beside L. Apparently, L had been off his game for he hadn't even noticed him walk into the room. L spun back around in his chair and Light stood up to hover between the two .
"I'm not getting anything off this video," Light stated, bored, "Those two aren't giving us any clues."
I see lots of clues, L thought, But none that you'd ever be able to pick up on. L stared at the girl's tights, the front-half was white while the back-half was black. Those were a hard find. He only knew two people to ever wear those tights, Lolli and their mother. The girl was also wearing a black upside down crucifix around her neck that seemed to bounce off her cleavage. The cross itself stood for heritage, their mother had given both of them matching ones when they were born and they had been passed down for hundreds of years. Lolli only wore hers upside down when L was gone on a case. It was her own way of coping. The only other people who wear upside down crosses were Satanists and he was sure that no Kira follower would ever be a Satanist.
"Turning the cross upside down means your wishing someone a safe return," the woman stated, smiling at her three year old son. L held up the cross around his neck and held the long end in the air, forcing it to point down.
"I always want you to come home safe mommy," L told her with a smile.
"Me too me too," Lolli shouted, jumping from one bed to the other in the small hotel room in Los Vegas.
"I always do," she told them smiling, before tapping her left thigh, where she kept a small knife, "what's the saying?"
"Be prepared?" L guessed, holding up his index and middle fingers, making the boy scouts sign.
"No silly," she smiled ruffling his hair.
"Always come back that same amount alive as you did when you left?" Lolli guessed.
"Yup, good answer. Just for that you get a piece of cake when I come home… chocolate."
"No fair," L pouted, "I want cake too." He huffed his shoulders sadly as his mother gave him a hug.
"I've gotta head off to work now. You two keep each other safe. You got me?"
"Always have...," L started.
"…always will," Lolli finished.
The two watched their mother walk away from the dingy hotel room wearing her usual attire; fishnet stockings, a super mini leather skirt, and a top that simply looked like a bra. Their mother was a night walker, an escort, a hooker. Both children knew, she never kept secrets from her kids, and they were okay with it. It was a legitimate career. She was earning a living and paying for private school tuition for her two children all while being a single mother. How could they be anything other than proud.
"Mom's going to come home safe right?" Lolli asked concerned, as she had a sense of foreboding.
"She'll be fine," L assured her, although he seemed to sense some sort of danger as well.
The two sat on their shared queen bed working on homework for 3rd grade even though they were supposed to only be in preschool. They had convinced their mother, stating that if it continued at this current rate she would be saving a great deal of money on tuition in the future and she had no choice but to agree. Her children were geniuses. She still had no idea where it came from… certainly not from herself. She had made plenty of terrible choices in her life after running away from her family for being reprimanded when she had been caught smoking pot. Her mother, German, and her father, Russian, were both very strict, growing up under communist rule and allowed her no freedom. So she allowed her children immense freedom, although they didn't do much with it. Those two had no reason to rebel and hopefully they still wouldn't when they were teenagers.
The problem was that she would never find out. Because later that night when she came home, their world would come crashing down.
L broke away from the memory before he lost his emotionless shell in front of Light. He couldn't appear weak in front of Kira, he was sure of that. L continued to watch the girl, who he now knew for a fact was his sister, as she continued to converse with the 3rd Kira. If you do anything to hurt Lolli, L thought more or less to the world's population as a whole, you will pay with your life.S