L told Klaire about B. The boy from his orphanage. His backup. He told her how much B talked about and loved L but a tragic event that he had no control over had happened a while ago and B grew to hate L. He later ran away from Wammy House with an unknown, to everyone but L, agenda and hatred. L began looking for him hoping that he could save him from going over like he feared he would but B was long gone and nowhere in sight.
He vigorously looked for him all over the world hoping he would pop up but ended in failure. B made it clear that he wouldn't be found until he was ready. He wanted to play a game of wits, he wanted to battle with L. To prove that L isn't as powerful and great as they were all led to believe.
"But I don't understand, you said you didn't have control over it, why is he upset?"
"I don't know, he won't talk to me...there's nothing I can do now. I have to go along with this and minimize that damage he will make."
"...what's his goal?"
"To beat me."
"How? He doesn't even know where you are let alone what you looked like."
"He doesn't need to know that Klaire. He can fight me another way."
She made a face, not understanding where L was coming from. He didn't look emotionally prepared for what was about to go down but she still couldn't figure what this B would do.
Then it hit her. The kids at the orphanage knew L as L. The detective. So to try to beat him would be to act against him...he wouldn't try to be a great detective, he wants to play now...so that meant he wants...
"He's gonna become a criminal, he'll make you chase after him...he'll make it so difficult that you can't stop him...He'll win...right?"
"More or less."
He didn't want to do it, she knew it. She could see it in his eyes.
Klaire walked over and hugged L while sitting on his lap. "You have to stop him L, you can't let him get like that."
"Its not like I can seek him out. I don't know what will happen if sees me."
"You think he'll try to kill you?" she said hoping for a no in response.
"He could, I don't know."
She sighed. "...this thing is personal between you two-"
"I can't show my face. Out of the question."
"Well then you need someone to help you on the outside...another detective...the FBI maybe?"
Its seemed that every time L was down or at wits end Klaire was always there to lift him up again. Whether it was the Detective War, tracking down B, or any other ordeal she was there.
The feelings he had for her grew more and more each day if it was possible.
The same was for her.
"So are you guys going to consider children in the near future?" Bethany asked.
Adriano and Watari choked on their tea.
L and Klaire smiled. They had been recently talking about children ever since L's baby encounter, while they were on a trip to America. The thought brought a smile to his face. He remembered so vividly, the little boy reaching up at him...a smile is sweet as his morning coffee...with the smallest little hands grabbing at him...he called him "daddy".
Klaire and him were taken aback by the little boy at first but Klaire soon just thought it was simply cute.
L was effected differently by it. He knew he was in no way the child's father but what he saw IN him was why it was different. He saw a child, same as him, but with his face.
It made tears well up in his eyes.
He wondered what having a baby would be like. A baby him. Walking around brightening his world. Calling out to him...walking to him...
Daddy.
He wondered if he would be a good enough father to the child. If he could provide enough love for him.
In the midst of his thought the boy's parents came up to L apologizing for the trouble he may have caused. L wanted to say that he didn't cause any trouble at all. That he made him realize how much he wanted it back.
How much he wanted to have a family again.
They began talking to Klaire about how he got away, but L was still holding the child. Still smiling at him as his baby hands played with his own. Still loosing himself in his adorable smile.
"L are you going to give them their baby back?" Klaire laughed, but you could tell she was a little confused by his actions. The parents had reached out to grab the baby several times but L wouldn't hand him over.
"Oh, yes. I'm sorry."
They smiled back at him, said thank you and headed off. "Bye-Bye." The little boy said and L waved back.
That night, while in Klaire's embrace, L asked her about the situation.
"It was cute, especially when you didn't give him back."
He smiled. "...they looked young."
"Yea about our age maybe a little older."
"...They look happy."
"Yea..."
"...Um.."
She laughed. "L just say it. I hate it when you stutter."
"...could we?"
"What?"
"Have a baby?"
She stopped smiling and sat up. "A baby?"
"A baby."
"Are you serious?"
"Yes."
She sighed. "Are you sure? The both of us have a lot going on right now...and if we are going to do this its gotta be a full time thing...we can't just put this on hold whenever we want."
"Klaire...I know that, and yes I'm sure...I can understand if you're not ready. You know I'll wait...and I'm not saying it has to be now...just someday. Is that OK?"
She nodded. Having a baby at 23 wasn't high on her list but L seemed ready, so to her that meant she had to be ready. He said he would wait but that wasn't something she liked him doing. They'd done enough waiting.
"We've been thinking about it Ma."
"You two are only 23 years old. How can you take care of a baby? And do you know what that means? No more partying, no more freedom!-"
"Daddy we don't party that much as it is, so that's nothing to worry about."
"Its not just that Klaire. If you decide to bring a child into this world, he or she will need the both of you."
"And he will have that."
"How do you know if it will be a boy?" L said smiling at Klaire.
"Because."
"I'm serious you two...This is a lot for you two to take on...especially with L in the picture."
The room fell silent. It was on Bethany and Klaire's mind as well. L devoted a lot of his time to being "L". There's times when Klaire doesn't see him that much even when their in the same house, and she wasn't sure if she could keep sending their child back and forth from their home to her parents'. It was why she was so hesitant in the beginning.
"...I've been thinking about that...I know it gets in the way of my personal life a little more these days...which is why I ended the trial period a little while ago."
"So you're hanging it up soon?" Adriano asked.
"Yes." He said looking at Watari, he nodded.
L felt if he did indeed want to raise a child, being "L" at the same time wouldn't allow him to be the father he envisioned. He stopped his "tests" on finding a successor and he would start looking for the one or ones who would take his title.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. I even have a few I've been looking into."
"...is this what you want to do L? I mean you don't have to give it up if its something that makes you happy." Bethany said.
"Well too be honest I was already going to stop, just not so soon. There's no way I could be "L" forever..."
They all nodded and looked at him. It wasn't going to be easy for him to give it up but for the sake of his own, he had to.
The following weeks L and Klaire were running back and forth to clinics making sure everything would be in order for their child, whenever he did in fact get there.
"L, can we not do this? There's nothing to worry about. You're fertile, I'm fertile.-"
"There are other factors to look into Klaire. Its not just about fertility, we have to make sure we have no illness or problems within ourselves...so we don't pass it on to the child. Also we have to make sure we are able endure the pregnancy...and birth."
"You mean me!"
"Yes, exactly, but I saw we because if it effects you Klaire it effects me. When this is all said and done it will be you this all falls on. I only play a small-"
"But important-"
"part in the conceiving process."
"All this talk about conceiving makes we wanna-"
"I'm serious right now...As much as I would love to indulge you, we have to take this more seriously Annata."
"Ugh, you I hate it when you call me by my middle name."
"Well then stop playing...I'm serious."
She fake pouted as L kissed her forehead.
In the end she agreed. "Anything for our baby."
A/N: Can you imagine a baby L?
*dies* OMG that would be the cutest thing ever know to man!
...L is sinking. T_T