Author note

Hey EVERYONE! I am so sorry I took so long! I was attacked by the evil writers block D : but don't worry I defeated it! So now I'm back! : D

I really have to give a special thanks to Tora Lynn who reminded me that this story has fans who NEED up1ates! : O Also it's my birthday month so expect a lot of gifts from me to you : ) I also got my learners permit so YAY "dances in a circle". Well anyway here you all go! After this chapter the new ones should come a lot quicker (hopefully, I don't want to make promises I can't keep but I promise you I won't abandon this story or leave it for TO long)

I do not own Death Note but I do own Serenity, Richard, and the random people that pop up.

Enjoy.

Not counting Light, the Task Force was in a state of depression. The minutes that had gone by had felt like an eternity. No one had made a move to leave the surveillance room, no one had been willing to leave Serenity's body. L remained at her cold side, unable to move due to the massive amount of pain in his chest from the heart break, he had lost the two people who were closest to him and it wasn't easy to cope with that sad fact. Serenity was gone. Watari was gone. It was Kira's doing, and he did it right under the great detective's very nose. L shifted his position on the floor, wrapping his arms more tightly around his knees as he continued to stare at his friends lifeless face. There was a slight, undetectable change of atmosphere that went unnoticed by the humans, they didn't know that life was returning to the dead.

Serenity felt like she was being sucked painfully through a defective vacuum built for a cockroach. Being sent back to the world of the living so quickly had a very painful drawback. Suddenly she felt like she had been slammed into the floor as she entered the body she had left behind, her imitation vitals kicking back into gear. She gasped in a lung full of air, savoring the burning sensation as it entered her system. She blinked open her eyes slowly, her vision blurred slightly. As her sight cleared she saw L's shocked face and couldn't help but smile.

"What? Miss me?" Serenity gave L a weak smile. Within the blink of an eye she found her self in L's tight embrace. She weakly lifted her own arms to wrap around his thin torso.

"I thought I'd lost you." He whispered in a shaky voice. She smiled into his neck.

"You'll never lose me Lawliet." She replied as tears found their way down her checks. His gripped only tightened, afraid he might lose her again if he let go. Still keeping a firm but soft grip on her arms he looked her over, still amazed.

"B-but h-how…?" L stuttered, again something he never did. He and the rest of the Task Force were in shock, they had witnessed someone who they had seen dead come back to life. It wasn't exactly easy to take in.

"I'll explain everything. But first, help me up." L gently took her hand without question and helped her into a sitting position. She grunted as her head spun from the abrupt movement but she shook it off, the Task Force members gaping at her like fish were starting to creep her out.

"Uh-bu-ho-eh?" Matsuda managed to babble out, being the second to semi-recover. Serenity attempted to push herself onto her feet, still not fully recovered from her painful return to life. Without needing to be asked L gently helped her onto her feet, keeping a steady hand on her forearm incase she lost her already bad balance.

"I guess I should explain now huh?""Um yes please Saga, tell us how you're um… alive." Soichiro managed to say a little awkwardly.

"Please just call me Serenity, there's no point going by an alias now." She replied with a forced smile. "First off let me tell you flat out that you won't believe me, but I'm going to tell you anyway….Ugh this is going to make me sound crazy!" She vented after a short pause.

"It's alright Serenity, you've given us no reason not to believe what you say, please just tell us." L coaxed tenderly, his usual control over his normal monotone gone.

"All right, but you're not gonna like it." She sighed and took a deep breath. "Step back please." She told L. He gave her a quizzical look but complied, taking a few steps back from his resurrected friend. Letting out a deep breath, Serenity rolled her shoulders, allowing her wings to sprout out of her back. There were shocked gasps, open jaws, and a now unconscious Matsuda.

"What the?" Light choked out in shock. What is this? Who is this woman?

"I know this isn't easy to believe, but I am standing "alive" before you now because, well since I met you all, I haven't been alive." She stumbled, struggling to find the right words.

"That's why you disappeared, isn't it?" L whispered in a strained voice. She nodded solemnly in response. The blood drained from his face as he came to the realization. He may not have had contact with Serenity since leaving Wammy's, but he had had Watari keep a tab on her during the years they were apart. One month, nothing on the great S had come up it was like she vanished into thin air, and now L knew why. She had died. "When?" He choked out.

"More than two years ago."

"How?" Her eyes fell as the crystal clear memory filled her head.

"I was murdered." L felt his mind go blank. She was murdered. L felt sick to his stomach, he blamed himself. If he hadn't left like he did, if he had asked her to go with him, if he had at least attempted to stay in touch, maybe she would still be alive. He turned his head away in shame. He wasn't playing the blame game, he wasn't feeling self pity, he was right. Serenity was probably dead, indirectly because of him. L wanted nothing more at that moment then to disappear.

"Wait so if you're dead, how are you here?" Light asked, successfully masking the anger in his voice.

"I am an angel." She stated calmly.

"What? That's impossible!" The youngest Task Force member exclaimed.

"Oh what so Shinigami can exist but angels can't?" To emphasize her point she flapped her wings, creating a draft that breezed by Light's face, ruffling his bronze hair. The young man's eyes widened slightly but he made no move to respond.

"Angel… I admit its hard to believe, but it is possible. And it's the only reasonable explanation we have at the moment."

"Thank you for your understanding Mr. Yagami."

"Wait a minute! If you are an angel, why exactly are you here anyway?" Aizawa questioned in a demanding tone.

"To protect justice," She turned to face L. "To protect you."

"Me? Why?"

"I… In Heaven, I can see the world from above, and we, the angels, can see the future of humans we know. I looked at your's L, purely out of curiosity to see you, and I saw your death. I came back to earth to protect you, to make your death my own. That's the truth."

"You died again, for me?" L asked in shock from what he had heard.

"Yes, and I would do it again to."

"So you're like a guardian angel?" Mogi asked, purely curious.

"Yes."

Suddenly everything made sense to Light. No wonder this woman just wouldn't die, she was already dead. He now knew why his first plan to dispose of the pesky female detective failed. He remembered it clearly, and the memory of it's failure still plagued him. The day he had reclaimed the death note from Higuchi he had killed many, one of them being S. His entry in the notebook was clear.

October 28

Saga Vetta, car accident 4:25 PM

While speeding down a Tokyo highway her car is struck by a bus at exactly 12:15 AM after she runs a red light. Seriously injured by the impact she is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The Kira Task Force she works for soon arrive at her hospital room. In her last breath she bids farewell to her closest friend on the team, using his full name for all in the room to hear. Two seconds afterwards she dies of her wounds at exactly 4:25 PM.

Now he knew why it hadn't worked, he had assumed it was an alias but knowing know that he had tried to kill someone who was already dead made him fear. So L has a God on his side as well. Now that he knew what he was up against he couldn't think of anyway to get rid of this angel pest. Well this complicates things. Light thought bitterly. He would half to defeat L in another way if this angel would die in his place. The only question was how to kill L, without literally killing him.

The rest of the that night Task Force pestered Serenity for answers. The most important thing she told them was that she could easily find out who Kira was with her angelic senses but could not tell them due to the laws of the divine. Her companions were obviously frustrated by her answer but kept their disappointment to themselves, all but Light who only felt gratitude that angels had rules as well as Shinigami.

The early morning came soon, the moon falling back beyond the horizon. Serenity sat in her room thinking. She had done what she had come to do, L was alive. She was so happy that she had done it, she had saved the man she loved. Only one problem remained, she didn't know how to help them catch Kira without breaking any rules. She continued thinking of ways to help when she heard her door open and close quickly.

"So this is where you disappeared to."

"Well L, it's not that hard to disappear when you can phase through walls." She attempted to joke, it failed miserably. She turned to face L, his expression was unreadable, he wasn't smiling. "Yeah… that wasn't a good joke." She turned her head away, trying to ignore the awkward silence. Suddenly she felt thin fingers lace through her own, she looked at L's eyes, trying to read his face.

"I'm so sorry Serenity." He said in strained voice as he squeezed her hands. Serenity's eyes widened. Well that was unexpected. Why would he apologize?

"For what?" She asked.

"You…" He cringed in mid sentence, unable to finish.

"It wasn't your fault, it was my time I guess. But the reason it happened doesn't matter, I'm almost glad it happened."

"Don't say that!" He snapped, yanking his hands from hers and griping her upper arms tightly. "Don't you ever say that." He whispered, his voice softening.

"L…If I hadn't.. Then you would be dead! I couldn't live with myself if that happened to you. I don't know what I would have done, L I…" She never got to finish her statement as soft lips pushed against hers and thin but strong arms pulled her close. She immediately melted into the kiss as she drown in L's sweet sent and the feel of his soft skin. He released her and placed his forehead against hers, his breath warming her face.

"You have no idea what you mean to me do you?" He asked.

"I guess I didn't, we were both ignorant to our feelings then I'm assuming." He smiled in response and they just held each other for a moment, like there was no Kira to worry about.

"S…?" She didn't need him to say anything else to know what he wanted to know.

"I didn't see his face. It happened so fast. I was down before I knew what was going on."

"Hmm. Serenity I'll find out who did it if it's the last thing I do, I promise you." She released her hold on him and stepped back.

"L, there is one thing I can do to help you catch Kira,"

"What would that be exactly?" Serenity slipped her hand into her pocket and drew out her cell-phone. She flipped it open and dialed a number, she paused and looked at L as if for permission. He nodded his consent, she hit the send button and held the phone up to her ear.

The phone on the office desk rang loudly, nearly causing the desk's occupant to jump out of his skin. Frustrated that he had been interrupted so deep in his work he snatched the phone of its holder.

"Wammy's house for gifted orphans, this is Rodger Ruvie speaking."

"It's good to hear your voice again after such a long time Mr. Ruvie."

"Who is this?" There was a laugh on the other end of the line.

"This is S, and I need a favor."

"S? Anything you need, anything at all!"

"Good, you can start by writing this down. I have a little assignment for your top two."

Me: Holy crap that took FOREVER! I don't understand why it took me so long.

Serenity: Writers block, lack of inspiration, your "more important book", your other fan fictions which by the way are not as good as this one, your short attention span, and oh yeah… your friend's Xbox!

Me: God you are always so critical and mean to me! : (

Serenity: Hey its my job.

Me: Is not! And Xbox is very fun! If you played it instead of criticizing me all the time maybe you'd understand!

Matt: She's right S, they are fun.

Me: Matt YAY X D "tackle huggs Matt"

Matt: Ahhh :O

Serenity: Whatever…

Me: "dusting self off" Well anyway thanks for reading, I'll do my best to get the next chap out ASAP. Love you all and thanks for hangin' in there. Reviews are loved and next chapter get ready for our favorite Wammy boys : D !

Matt: "twitching on floor" Owwwww…