Six months later:
L sat staring at his computer screen, "Someone needs to take Six her dinner…"
Mello shuddered, "No thanks, last time I had a run in with her she nearly took my head off with a knife."
Rose scoffed, "You startled her… She just doesn't want anyone close…" She gave a passing glance to L, "I wonder what spiked that…" She quietly excused herself from the room.
Light turned to follow her, "Light-kun… Was I wrong?" L looked down to his hand that was on his bottom lip.
Light nodded, "You manipulated everyone around you to get what you wanted, and for what? The case went cold… who knows maybe Kira died? You manipulated Beyond by using Six, you spent what little sanity the poor girl had left on a murderer. She won't take anyone being in her room… No one can physically get near her. Last time she gashed open Rose's arm, successfully crippling her mentally… She lost her best friend, L, what more do you want from them?" Light sighed, "You did what needed to be done for the current case… Now your suffering consequences of that…" He quietly followed Rose outside.
A guard knocked on Beyond's cell, "No shenanigans today, either?" The older man smirked behind his glasses and clipped his keys to his belt.
Beyond gave a crumpled smile, "Hey Donny… Nah. I think I'm tired of being a trouble maker for you…"
Donny sighed and opened up his cell, "What did they do to you? You've been on your best behavior since you've been back…"
Beyond shrugged casually, "I got electrocuted a few times, ate lots of jam, more sugar, met the girl of my dreams… Got separated." He sighed, "Usual stuff every prisoner goes through, you know…"
Donny gave him a sympathetic glance, "I'm sorry… Then you'll love my news!" He whistled and another guard rounded the corner.
Beyond glanced up and raised an eyebrow, "You? What are you doing here?"
Six glared at the door as it opened, Light slid in and sighed, "Hey…" She looked away from him and curled up on her bed. Light sat next to her and set a gentle hand on her shoulder. "Are you hungry?"
She growled lowly, "Go away, before I hurt you too…"
Light shook his head, "You won't hurt me. You'd have done it by now…" Light stood up and walked over to the door, propping it open with his foot and grabbing the tray of food, "Please, Six?" He set the tray down on her nightstand.
She flinched slightly and curled herself into a ball, "How is everyone?"
"Rose is pissed at L… L is well, L, Mello is scared of you, Matt takes detours to avoid your room… To be fair, you stabbed him with a table leg… Near… Well, he hasn't met you and he's afraid. Watari seems to be alright. Cryptic as usual. I caught him on the phone once, something about a police transfer to a new station…" He shrugged, "How are you? He doesn't say it, but he's worried."
Six nodded listening to his voice, "L should be afraid of me… He should be worried." She sat up and glanced at the food. "You made it, didn't you?"
Light glanced at the tray, "Watari has been very busy, and I'm worried too, you know. How did you know?"
She gave a crumbling smile, "You're the only one aside from Watari who knows how to properly cook rice."
Light chuckled softly, "Why won't you let anyone near you?"
She glanced at him, "You still have a pulse…"
Light rolled his eyes, "Why though? You cut Rose from her elbow to her shoulder before anyone could subdue you… She's your partner, why me and not her?"
Six looked away from him, "It was for him… It was all for him… And you…"
Light sighed and stood up, "Being cryptic doesn't answer my question, please eat, Six." Light walked out of the room and gave her one last sad glance.
Watari sighed and hung up the phone and rubbed his temples, Light pushed the door open, "Watari?"
He glanced up, his mustache twitched with a smile, "How is she?"
Light sighed and sat in front of the large desk, "When she isn't cryptic, or lost in the insanity, her lucid state seems to slowly be stabling, she asked how everyone was…"
Watari nodded. "At least her violence has subsided."
Light sighed, "Not really. She's just lucid and everyone seems to be much more careful. Why doesn't she hurt me?"
Watari watched the monitor of Six's room, "Her past enrages her, you're from her present, a happier time…" He sighed, "Light, come with me."
Light glanced at the monitor and smiled seeing Six sitting on her bed with crossed legs reading a book eating the rice he'd made for her.
Beyond was escorted towards the exit, covered in chains and locks, though this time he was left to his own devices of mobility. Matsuda smirked and opened a car door, "Those won't be necessary for his transport."
The guards blinked at each other and stared at Donny, who started unlocking the handcuffs with a smirk, "You've been pardoned, Beyond Birthday, for the successful detainment of the case in Japan. For your behavior and the resolution of the case you are being released to the care of, one, Quillish Wammy. You're a free man…" Beyond stared at him in shock. "I, Donald Wilson, Warden of the L.A Detainment Center, release you from my custody."
The guards dropped their mouths open, as the last chain dropped Beyond wrapped his arms around the Warden tightly, "Thank you!" Beyond sighed, "Why didn't you say anything about being the Warden? I've been her for a couples years and never knew…"
Donny chuckled and nudged Beyond to the car, "That would spoil my fun, could you imagine if the prisoners knew the Warden was walking about as one of the guards?" He gave a warmhearted smile, "Go get her."
Chapter Collaboration Credit: Redwindstorm