Well everyone, this is the final chapter in this fanfiction. It has been an amazing experiance to write this story, and I have grown imensly as an author through this. I hope you all enjoy this chapter, for I believe it to be an extremely beautiful ending to this. Thank you all for being there for me as I wrote this, and for all the sweet and kind reviews I have recieved. I hope to write another Death Note story in the future, but for now, this will be the end of I'm Not Who I Think I Am.

I honestly don't know what I could have done without all my reviewers, for you all made me feel like my writing was worth while, so I thank you so much for that.

Anyway, here is the final chapter, and I hope it fills your hearts with the happiness of this redemption that Light, after so long, finally recieves.

Redemption Has Finally Come

I stared at L, watched him do his daily routine. Almost like everything was as it should be. Well, to him everything was. I guess for me this was also a strange sense of normal, a typical day that should have seemed so comforting to me…but it didn't. Not after I found out what L believed about me. Kira was real, I know it! I felt him crawl around inside my chest; take me captive in my own body. He was a soulless demon that stole someone's mind, a captor of memories whom wanted to play God over his captives. However…L stopped him.

He stopped the very thing I couldn't. It couldn't have been that simple…I don't have a disorder, I don't! All of this is just another game! I'm not even awake am I? I shifted on the couch, doing what I believed would get the real L, not this horrid copy, to wake me up. Screaming over and over like I used to not too long ago, waiting and waiting for my Lawliet to wake me up from this Kira-less nightmare.

It should have been heaven to me, but I couldn't comprehend it. This place I've been living in…surely Kira brought me here. He dragged me to this sweet haven to taunt me, to give me a taste of that delicious fruit I was never supposed to have. So then, this must be hell.

Have I finally reached the lowest of the low…?

Have I finally died along side Kira's legacy…?

I waited and waited for L to come rescue me, but all I received was L's fake, L's copy trying to calm me. I didn't want to be calmed by him. I didn't want him to touch me. Shutting off my screams I smacked his hands away, my eyes narrowed. "Don't touch me!" I yelled, my eyes flaring. He looked almost hurt as he took a step back, but the hurt changed to concern. "Light…" No…don't say my name like that.

Closing my eyes, I covered my ears, trying not to hear him. Don't say things like the real L, don't make me believe that you're him; you're nothing like him. I felt the couch sink on one side as L's copy sat down, slowly moving as if not to startle me. He pulled me to him so that I was resting against his chest, listening to his heartbeat slowly. He rubbed my back, and I felt lost to the touch, lost to the warmth that emanated off of his body.

Maybe for now I could let myself sink into the warmth of this copy. Maybe just for the moment I could believe that this was L. How long had it been since his strong arms had held me? How long had it been since I smelled his sweet scent. The scent of strawberries intertwined with our pasts. "I love you, Light." I heard him whisper, and I tilted my head, staring up at his panda like eyes. I convinced myself that this was L, that his imposter was far off, and I broke a light smile. "I love you too, Lawliet…" I whispered softly, casually, the words rolling off of my tongue.

It was true, I did love L. I loved him more than life itself. I loved him more than Kira loved being God; I loved him more than being Light Yagami. If the time ever came that I would need to sacrifice myself for him to be happy, just to see him smile once more, I would do it in a heart beat. Just to feel myself warmed by his presence one last time. Kira was gone now, L had slain him somehow, and the way he did so was far off in my mind.

What did it matter now…? Honestly, I have just received what I've always wanted since the beginning of my struggle. I've received the quiet peace that comes with being free. The peace of being with the one I love somewhere where we won't be judged.

And as all of this ran through my mind, I wrapped my arms around the body that I was resting on. His bones easily felt through his skinny form. This was my L, this wasn't a copy. No matter what he believed, I loved him. I loved him as a whole, everything included, his mind, his body, and his love.

I can't help, but feel like this is the ending to my own story. Like this is the final chapter in my book. The villain is gone, and is replaced by the knight in shining armor coming to rescue the distressed prince. Was that what I was? Just a distressed prince in need of saving? Heh, maybe I am. Maybe that's why L came to my rescue so quickly, because he'd always been a knight waiting for the right person to save.

"Thank you…" I whispered, surprised when the words slipped from my lips. He looked down at me, his eyes gentle, a soft tone to his voice as he returned mine. "For what?" "For everything." His eyes seemed to widen, though that might be because they were wide to begin with, and he smiled the kind of smile that melted my heart every time my eyes caught a glimpse of it. "I did it because I loved you, Light. I saved you because I needed you, because you're the only one I've ever wanted to save." I stared at him, the words setting in.

He saved me because he loved me.

He saved me because he needed me.

He saved me because I'm the only one that has ever mattered to him.

My heart shook, and tears ran over the brims of my eyes. I had never known this feeling, this feeling of strong emotions that ran through me. Love, joy, happiness…these feelings that I've never had the ability to feel before. A few black strands fell into his eyes as he moved to wipe my tears away, and in a sudden spur of the moment, with all these emotions rushing through me, I did something that I'll always remember till the day I die.

I kissed him.

A soft, passionate kiss filled with everything I felt in that very moment. A moment that I took a snapshot of, a moment that was going to last a lifetime in my heart.

And as I pulled away, that smile of his returned, bringing me farther into the light of this joy. As tears overwhelmed me, he held me tightly, both of us afraid to let go. We were afraid to shatter this peace that we've never had before, this feeling that our battle has finally ended. I was safe here, nothing could touch me. Not Kira, not death, not the darkness that had always engulfed me before. No, this time I wouldn't let it take me.

I knew in my heart that I would never let the devil take me away from L again.

Because the devil knew in his mind from the beginning of our game…

That in the end L would win…

And he knew that if he used me enough, and made me believe in him…

That L would try his best to save me…

And in that he would capture L in his downfall…

But L never fell.

The devil didn't know that L was an angel graced by God. That no evil may touch him for he is a savior, and in this, the devil had made a plan based off false accusations.

Much like I had done when I first met my angel.

But now my angel and I are together, and here we shall stay.

Until our souls return to the heavens again from where they had started, for in him I have found redemption.

For in him, I have truly been saved from the wicked ways of the devil.

...Well, that's the end. I hope you all enjoyed this story that was such a pleasure to write, it was amazing to do so, truly amazing. I hope you all review this one last time, and let me know what you thought of this ending, if you were happy with it. I was happy with the way I wrapped it up, both L and Light deserved to find redemption in eachother after the struggles both of them have faced in their lifetimes.

Thank you all so much, and I'll see all of you later if you continue to read my stories.

Until the next story, - Lexi-Chan ^^