Chapter 7: Beyond his Protection(L's Perspective)

Hrmmm. I looked at my laptop. There was a ninety five percent chance that the man I was currently looking at was guilty of murder. Firstly, I had to get rid of the five percent chance that he was not. Secondly, I needed to find him. That would be easy enough, I just needed time to focus. I sipped my coffee and stared at my screen. I scrolled down the page of criminals, picking out specific ones that the police needed my assistance with. The other ones I didn't need to worry about, one way or another justice would prevail. I grinned a bit at that thought, a grin that was interrupted by a knock at my door. The room I worked in was dark with a single laptop being the only furniture in the room, it was a bit eerie so natrually a knock at the door startled me a bit.

"You can enter." I said without taking my eyes away from my laptop. A figure walked into the darkness of the room, then flipped the lightswitch. The light burned my eyes for a moment, but they adjusted quickly. I looked to see who the figure was. Watari. He looked troubled.

"L, there is a problem that I need to discuss with you." He said. Usally his voice was quite calm, but at that moment it was anxious and upset. Though I wanted to help him, it wasn't the time for me to solve problems out of my work.

"Watari, I am not available to solve problems at the current moment, I will handle it later."

"L, you don't understand. There's a problem at Wammy's House." He said. I noticed now he was nervously tapping his fingers together. I grabbed a cookie and began dunking it into my coffee. Wammy's House had issues occasionally, never anything that couldn't be easily fixed.

"What is the issue Watari?"

"We have...two runaways sir." He said this carefully, as if he was keeping some information secret. Wammy's House rarely had to deal with runaways, but when it did happen it was not a major issue. This made me wonder why he had to keep information on the subject a secret.

"Well what are the names of said runaways?" I asked. He flinched a bit at that question. I had never seen Watari show so much fear in my life. The man in front of me had adopted me as a baby, raised me as a child and continued to care for me as an adult. Though not once in my life had I seen him afraid to tell me something, until that moment.

" Their names? Well, the first is a boy by the name of Backup, sixteen, the eldest of the Wammy's House members.

"Yes, I remember Backup. Only five years younger than me. I believe he was the third member of Wammy's House, including myself. I also believe he was close to the second member, A. Considering the fact that A has recently committed suicide, it's logical that Backup ran away. He's most likely trying to escape the memory of his friend's death. The question is who did he run away with?" I had asked all the necessary questions, I had a majority of the information, I was just missing that crucial detail. A detail that he had to force himself to give to me. He hesitated before he spoke, then said his words as delicately as he could.

"The second runaway...her name is... Acadia."

There it was. The missing piece of information. The second runaway was Acadia, my sister. I felt the cookie crumble beneath my hand.

"Watari, start a search party. We are going to find my sister, and when we do find her she is not to leave the head quarters again." I said, and at the time I meant it. Acadia had begged me to let her go to Wammy's House where she could be with people her own age. Now she had run away from it, and I had to make sure that when we found her, this would never happen again.

"Yes, L. I'll gather a search party immediatley." Watari exited the room as he said this. Leaving me alone in the room once again, but now with something to think about.

Don't worry my lovely, I'll find you, and I'll protect you once again.