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Thank you my wonderful reviewers Miss Bright and the one who loves pickles you guys rock! And for being awesome you get cookies :D

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Serenity opened her eyes slowly and looked around. She was on her back, she hadn't moved from the position since… Her memory of what had happened rushed back and she bolted upright looking around franticly. She looked down at her chest, no blood stained her earthy orange shirt, and there wasn't even a hole in it. She pulled her shirt collar down sluggishly dreading to see the wound but to her surprise there was only a round scar. Am I in a coma, is this a dream? Am I dead? She questioned as she scanned her surroundings intently. There was nothing, just a thick whit mist surrounding her. Where on earth am I?

"Well you're not exactly on earth I'm afraid." She jumped when she heard the voice.

"Who are you? Where the hell am I?" She said as she stood up glancing around. A man stepped out from somewhere in the mist and smiled.

"My name is Richard, and you my friend are in quite the opposite of Hell." Serenity's blue eyes widened as she realized with shock where she was.

"So I am dead huh." It wasn't a question, Serenity knew she was dead and that was that. She sank to her knees overwhelmed.

"Heaven is a great place you'll get used to it, I promise." He held out his hand kindly.

"How do I know you're not the one who decides whether I go to Heaven or Hell, for all I know this could be a trap, or maybe this is all just an illusion." Her wary nature got the better of her as she looked at the strange man before her. He laughed kindly and spread his wings. The mist disappeared in a flurry revealing the most beautiful sight Serenity had ever seen. It was all she thought it would be and more, but she couldn't help but feel the pain of loss. No mater where she was she was still dead and now alone more then ever. She grabbed Richard's hand and pulled herself up.

"Thank you." She said as the other angel led her away.

Serenity soon realized that in Heaven it was like living only she didn't need sleep, food, water, or anything that in life she needed to sustain her. In time she grew accustom to her knew wings and found that the weightless flight was an incredible thing. She could still draw and found that in this paradise even her art was better and the pictures even seemed to come alive. But there was something missing in this perfect place, the people she cared about. That was the day Richard took her to the Watching Pool. The small round pool of water was set in a ring of rocks and radiated with inaudible whispers and useable lights, that were only detectable if one had the All Seeing Eyes. Serenity didn't have the All Seeing Eyes but she would soon discover that she had something just as special.

"It's beautiful." She murmured as she gazed at the crystal clear water.

"It is isn't it, it's a wonderful place, being able to come and watch the human world from above." Richard had taken Serenity quite literally under his wing and become like a father to the new angel.

"How does it work exactly?"

"If you stare at it, it will show you the world below, and if you touch it while thinking of someone in particular, you will see them. Some even can see the futures of certain people, but that doesn't happen often unless you're a guardian angel. Before Serenity could touch the pool, Richard told her all about what being a guardian angel was, even the steps to become one and what would happen, it was like she was listening to an audio instruction booklet. Serenity leaned over the pool and touched, and the world she missed was before her eyes as she steadily looked down upon it. She touched it again, a specific person in mind. She saw a small room, with no furniture and only a laptop placed on the ground. And then she saw him, though his image was blurry because she only remembered his face from childhood, it was him. She was overwhelmed with joy at seeing her friend again and yearned to call out to him, but she knew he wouldn't hear her, but just seeing him was enough to bring a smile to her face.

"Who's that?" Richard asked as he looked at the pool over her shoulder. If one touched it, other angels could also see the views that were shown on the waters perfect surface.

"He was my best friend. His name is L Lawliet, the greatest detective in the world." She said fondly and reached out to stroke the water, that's when it happened. The pools surface rippled unnaturally and when it settled, a new image appeared. L was sitting in a chair, spoon in hand looking at a wall of monitors displaying various video feeds. Then she saw something that even though she was now dead made her shake with shock and fear. She knew instinctively what it was, her angelic senses told her even as she refused to believe, it was a shinigami. She was looking down on both the god of death and her old friend and understood what was going to happed.

"No!" She breathed as she watched the screens in front of L flash something she couldn't read from her current view point. L whispered something she couldn't hear and at that moment she saw the shingami write down a familiar name. L Lawliet was written in a notebook, again her new heavenly senses told her what it was and she stared in horror at L.

Everyone the shiniga…" L's shout was cut off before he could finish, his panda like eyes widening in pain, the spoon falling out of his hand. Serenity's vision blurred with tears as she watched him fall from his chair, she saw someone catch him and lean over him but she couldn't see his face, she was only focused on L. Fully sobbing now Serenity watched in grief as her friends eye's slowly began to shut, and then the vision was over, the pools surface returning to its normal and placid state. She struck the pool violently in grief and the visions of the future that followed came so fast that they overwhelmed the distressed angel. She saw the boy Matt surrounded by men in black who looked like police officers, then suddenly without warning they gunned down the redheaded teenager without a second thought. She saw Mello sitting in the front seat of a large truck and within seconds saw him collapse dead as he was taken by a heart attack. Then Watari appeared and she saw that in the old mans last moments he tried to contact L to warn hom, and saw him hit the memory erase button. And then she saw the world in chaos as people were shouting the name Kira, the second she heard the name the vision revealed that it was because of Kira that the people she had known in life would die. She hit the pool again and fell away from it, unable to control her emotions any longer.

"He can't die like that! It's, it's not fair! It's not right! I can't just sit here and wait to see it happen for real!" Serenity screamed as she punched the grassy earth beneath her. She felt a hand grab her shoulder gently and pull her up from her crumpled position on the ground.

"Serenity, there is away you can save him from his premature death. But it is very painful." Richard said trying to comfort the young angel. Her wet eyes lit up as she looked up at him.

"How? I'll do anything to save him from that horrible fate, and if he is safe the world has a chance against that demon Kira! And I can't let those two boys die so young, it's just to cruel to let them die like that when they have so much more life to live!" She begged her companion as she griped the front of his silver tunic. He grabbed her hands and pushed them away, holding them gently.

"Listen to every word I say Serenity Karther. You can save this man L Lawliet in only one way, you must become his guardian angel. To do this you must go to the human world, tell no one your real name because you are dead and that could cause confusion and problems if they knew your name when you died. You must find L and you must perform the sacred touch, this will bind you to him until he dies but anything that would kill him prematurely will be absorbed and taken in by you. In other words the pain of his death would become yours, he would be safe and you could help him catch this Kira. Do you remember the rest of what I told you about guardian angels and their duties?" Serenity nodded. "Good, are you willing to do this?"

"Yes."

"Then I wish you luck my young friend. The portal to the human world isn't to far from here, just head east for a bit and you'll see an expanse of stone ground, the portal will be glowing and it shouldn't be to hard to spot." Serenity gave her friend a hug before spreading her wings.

"Thank you Richard, for everything." She said flying up into the sky of Heaven.

"Your welcome sister." He said as he watched his long lost sister fly off. It had been good to see her after all these years. The car accident all those years ago took their parents, and gave Serenity amnesia of hr life before and the people in it, so to avoid complications the hospital had only let Watari take Serenity and they gave Richard to a different orphanage. Richard had a good life but he wondered very day about his sister, he had lived happily to age thirty until he was in a fatal car accident himself. But he always kept an eye on his little sister from above, but he couldn't save her that terrible day that she died and joined him. He just hoped that the would be okay returning to the world that had caused them both so much pain.

The portal had been easy to find and Serenity was now staring at in awe. It was beautiful in away, but if what Richard had said was true, returning would be painful. That doesn't mater! Serenity convinced herself forcefully. I have to save L no mater the cost, for him this is all worth it! She stepped forward towards the portal, snapping her wings open.

"Where are you going off to Serenity?" Another angel she who she had met asked as she watched her step towards the portal.

"The human world."

"And why would you go there? Its filled with corruption and its just better here I don't understand why you would go back."

"I'm going to become a guardian angel." The other angels jaw dropped.

"Why would you do that?"

"Because it's the right thing to do and I need to save my friend." Serenity said as she let herself fall into the portal and be sucked into the human world. I will save L. She told herself as she let herself freefall into her previous world.

Chapter 2 done yay!

Hope you guys liked it!

I based this kind of off how I see Heaven and then gave it a good old Death Note twist ;P