A/N: This chapter is actually up relatively on time! I'm so excited! As always, much love to my beta, who continues to put up with me (and excise superfluous smilies) and to you guys, who do the same (minus the smilies bit.)
Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note. Original Who is? isn't mine either. Only the words in this story and the order in which they occur are.
Beyond Birthday is a borrowed face, hiding in plain sight.
Beyond Birthday is what L chose not to become.
Beyond Birthday is a lie, hiding like the monsters in your closet.
Beyond Birthday is a jam-stained smile and a bloodstained past.
Beyond Birthday is a mistake that the world couldn't cover up.
Beyond Birthday is Wammy's House's first failure, and he's never going to let
anyone forget it.
Beyond Birthday is a knife in your gut, because why shouldn't everyone else feel just as much pain as he did?
Beyond Birthday is L's doppelganger, if only because he thought that was what L wanted.
Beyond Birthday is knowing he'll never be perfect, so why even try anymore?
Beyond Birthday is the labeled-crazy, the House's taboo.
Beyond Birthday is that feeling you get when you think you're being watched.
Beyond Birthday is the reason that A is gone, and it's the one thing he's never really gotten over.
Beyond Birthday is killing, killing, killing, because that's what he knows and he has nothing better to do anyway.
Beyond Birthday is that one weird kid present in every school, and he honestly doesn't mind.
Beyond Birthday is never to be mentioned. Ever.
Beyond Birthday is just like guns and roses; all three are beautiful, and all three can make you bleed.
Beyond Birthday is an example: what not to become, and exactly how to become it.
Beyond Birthday is a well-placed smirk in place of the tears he desperately wants to show.
Beyond Birthday is the end of the first generation of Wammy kids, and the beginning of another.
Beyond Birthday is crazy, but he's the kind of crazy that just might save him in the end.
BB. :) I'm rather afraid that I didn't really do his character enough justice; I just don't know all that much about him, having only read the first three chapters of Another Note in a bookstore. Oh well. I have absolutely no idea who's coming up next, so if there are any characters you want to see, let me know.
-Eggy