A high pitched squealing was heard from downstairs. Sayu ran into Light's room, "Light! B! Mr. Caspian wants to take me horseback riding for my birthday when the weather breaks! Will you come?"

Light smiled and nodded slowly retreating his hand from Beyond's, "You already know I will."

Sayu stared at Beyond with huge eyes, Beyond sighed, "Sure… Don't expect me to get on any of those beasts though…"

Sayu giggled and ran out of their room but stopped in the hallway and looked over at the open door, she slowly approached it and knocked on the doorway. Mello looked up and glanced away from her, "Tch… What?"

Sayu crossed the room and sat on Mello's bed Indian style, she looked down shyly, "Mello… I'm having my birthday party sometime soon, and Mr. Caspian wants to take me and whoever I choose horseback riding… Will you come if I invite you?" She looked up at him with an innocent glance.

Mello stared at her disbelievingly, "Why?"

Sayu watched the rain land on the window, "Because I want to be your friend… I understand if you don't want to, but, I'm going to keep trying to be your friend no matter what!"

Mello smiled softly and a little bitterly while retreating his legs closer to himself, "I haven't been very nice to you, why would you want to be my friend?"

Sayu smiled and scotched herself closer to him, "I want to be everyone's friend, you need a friend. I want to be that friend, I don't see the problem."

Mello smiled at her, "You're pretty wise for a little kid."

Sayu smiled softly, "My mommy always told me that even the cruelest hearts need to be shown kindness. Maybe they just don't know how to be nice... You have to be nice to Light and B though! Even if it's just for my birthday party! And Anthony!"

Mello smiled and nodded, "I can do that for a friend." Sayu smiled widely and threw her arms around Mello, "Is Matt and Near coming?"

Sayu nodded, "I invited them, Near said yes and Matt shrugged and said why not. And Wendy! Do you think if I invite Lawliet, he'll come?"

Mello turned sideways and sat next to her on his bed, "Hmm, I doubt he'd say yes, but I don't think he'd outright turn you down either… I bet we could come up with a genius plan to get him to come!" He slapped his fist into his open hand with a grin.

Sayu nodded determinedly and clenched both of her fists and pumped them excitedly, "Your orders, sir!" They both shared a loud laugh.

Mello leaned close to her and spoke semi-hushed, "Operation Get L to the Party has begun!"

Sayu scoffed good-naturedly, "We need a better plan name than that!"

Mello tapped his chin in thought, "Mello's Great Scheme?" She chuckled loudly and shook her head, "We'll just call it Operation L, for now then."

L leaned in the doorway with an eyebrow cocked and his head tilted with a mouthful of cake, "Do I even want to know?"

Both Sayu and Mello jumped, and Sayu smiled sheepishly, "Busted."

Mello scoffed, "You can't bust us already! We haven't even come up with a clever name yet!"

Caspian leaned on the doorway from the hall and hung his head around the frame, "What's this now?"

Sayu smiled deviously and gently elbowed Mello, "Mr. Caspian! I want to ask Lawliet to go to my party, but I'm afraid he'll say no or just won't show up!"

Caspian shot a disapproving stare at L, who returned it with a shrug and defended, "Hey, this is the first I'm hearing of this."

Sayu gave her best puppy face and puckered her lower lip slightly, Caspian raised an eyebrow, "Well?"

L gave a tiny smile, "I'm in a bit of a pickle now, how could I say no or not show up?"

Mello whispered towards Sayu, "You're a bloody genius!"

Caspian smirked and ruffled L's hair, "Good call." He bounced himself off the frame and walked back down the hall towards his room.

L narrowed his eyes in mild annoyance at her, "That was unfair."

Sayu gave a cheerful and innocent shrug, "All is fair in love and war."

L blinked a couple times in surprise and chuckled quietly, "Indeed…" He silently withdrew from the doorway and made his way down the hall with his hands in his pockets. 'Devious little thing she is…'

"Lawliet." L froze at his name in front of C's room. C motioned his head for him to come in, L sighed and padded his bare feet into the room, "Close the door." L nodded and shut the door behind them.

L stood somewhat upright with his shoulders pulled back, "Yes?"

Caspian sat himself at at desk, "He's not in the running… Don't even consider him. Neither of them are."

L frowned slightly, "I'm not sure I follow you."

C gave the young raven a deadly stare, "If he chooses that, it's his decision, but I won't have you purposely meddling in my affairs."

L glanced down, "You're no fun… Why would you bring them here then?"

C traced his finger over a small Japanese figurine, "A long time ago a woman, asked if I would watch over her children if she were to be forcefully removed from the fabrics of Fate… I won't have you endangering them. What you do with your successors is your business. But, leave them out of your schemes. Call your junior investigators off of him. He doesn't need any other reasons to feel more paranoid than he already is."

L smirked, "That's why you roomed him with Beyond and Anthony, they're the only ones that don't follow me without question, no, if anything they're both more loyal to you, than myself. Why didn't you take the position I'm in, why did you step down? Surely, the grandson of the Great Quillish doesn't need a partner, a younger one at that… One that he needs to constantly babysit." C shot daggers across the room with his stare. "One that annoys him to the brink, such as, myself… One day, your guard will fall, C… And, I will figure you out. Until then, unless you can prove I'm up to something… Have a good day." L smirked and turned on his heel and put his hand on the handle.

"Not all mysteries should be solved… Some secrets, should stay in the grave where they belong…" C's tone was cold and laced with venom.

L gave a tiny smile and pulled the door open, stepped out and pulled it shut again. "We'll see about that. In the grave you say…" L shoved his hands into his pockets and walked to his room. L looked around and disarmed his own trap on his door handle and pushed his door open before shutting it quietly.

Several hours later C's door flew open and almost off the hinges, "You killed them!"

Caspian cracked open his window and lit a cigarette, "Your point?"

L glared at him, "You killed your parents!" L slapped a stack of papers in front of him. "How could you?"

C smirked evilly, "With a loaded .9mm, with their own wedding rings. That's how. Do you even care to know why? Hate me all you want. But, I did it because I had to. You really want some more fuel for that inferno?" He reached into his desk and unlocked a safe and slapped a thick folder on his desk, the tag read, 'Lawliet Birthday' "You ever wonder what happened? Ever wonder, why? Why did Beyond's dad lose his shit? Off his mother go off the radar for years then pick up his crime spree in Japan of all places?"

L stared wide eyed, but remained speechless staring at the folder.

"You want the truth? You think all secrets should be exposed? Well, here." He set a slip of clear plastic with random strips of black on them, "What do you see, L?"

L stared at the slip, "It's a DNA mapping…"

C nodded, "Of one, Sachiko Yagami." He handed him another, "Why don't you lay that on top of the other one, what would your deduction be, of this mysterious second person?"

L did what he was told, "They're a genetic match… This person is, likely related, no an offspring… But this offspring is male. Light?"

C stared at him calculatingly, "That offspring is you." L shot his gaze up as C handed him another DNA mapping. L's bottom lip quivered and he held his own mapping up to the second, "Funny… Another match? That is of, one, Evan Birthday, or as you know him, Beyond's father…" His smile turned dark. "Your father…"

L felt his chest tighten, his breaths strangled to escape his own lungs, "But…"

"Your parents? The ones who left you on a train station bench and asked you to wait while they bought tickets? Left you there. Called Quillish, and never looked back. Not even once." Caspian paused for a moment, "Manchester was the meeting point for Sachiko Yagami and Evan Birthday, they had been having an affair before Light or Beyond was born, even after he killed his wife, he waited for her to leave her husband… But she never left, she had the perfect family, what would she want him for, he clearly had no problem killing his wife an abandoning his son, do you blame her?" Caspian's stare intensified, "Before you dare point a finger at me for killing my sexually molesting parents, look into your own skeletons."

L looked down and let all the slips fall from his hands and he cradled his face in his hands, shuddered breaths were audible. "So… Light and Beyond?"

C sat next to him and put his arm around him, "Are your younger brothers, half brothers… But, are your family… Same with Sayu, she's your half sister… Why do you think I wasted my time bringing them here?" L curled himself into a ball and leaned against Caspian, "Evan Birthday was my mother's brother…"

L looked up at him, "Making…"

Caspian nodded silently and held L a little tighter, "Your first cousin… My father is Quillish's son… He married my mother, her name was Diana Birthday…"

L held his stomach tightly, "I feel sick…"

Caspian closed his eyes, "Your family never abandoned you… It just took us a little while to find you again…"