Chapter three:
Light's P.O.V.
I'm really tired but I keep fighting it as I rub the back of one of his hands with my thumb. "See. You can control your powers." I force my eyes to stay open and I look down to his hands with my hand over top.
He cracks an eye open half way and looks to our hands with his breath picking up the pace a little. He gets ready to move his hands away but doesn't. He opens his other eye letting his breath start to return to normal.
I give him a big smile. "See it's alright. You can con-" I am cut off when he suddenly pushes me away enough to only make me stumble back. I look to him a little more awake about to tell him he had control and that it was ok but I stop seeing a small bit of blue dust come from his hands turning into snowflakes that fall to the ground while he has a small spark of slight panic in his eyes. I guess he couldn't keep control over it but he did push me away to make sure I wouldn't get hit by his powers.
"No. I don't have control Light." He tells me not looking at me. "We can worry about all this tomorrow. You need to go sleep. You're exhausted."
I take a step towards him but he speaks up again before I can say anything.
"Please drop it right now and get some rest."
I reach over gently grabbing his arm and bringing him over to the bed getting him to sit on the bed.
He watches me questioningly though the slight panic in his eyes from almost hitting me with his powers.
I sit down next to him. "We're both going to get some rest and everything will be fine because we'll work together and you'll have your powers at your command as if it's nothing. You'll be able to control it but you're right. We can't get anywhere if we are tired so let's sleep. I'll be here to protect you I promise. I won't let anything bad happen to you." I move up the bed towards where the pillows are. I stop and look back to him. "Come on. It'll be alright."
He looks hesitant then slowly he comes over joining me by the pillows. He looks to the pillows instead of at me but there's no need to rush things as I know that if you rush it won't do either of us any good in helping him.
I lift the blankets and turn to him. "Go ahead." I tell him.
He looks to me still a little unsure but I don't falter. He climbs into bed under the covers laying his head on one of the pillows as I bring the blankets to cover his body to his shoulders. His half lidded eyes look up at me and I pet his soft hair gently then I slide under the covers next to him so I'm lying there in the same bed next to him.
"I'll be here in case you need me during the night. I won't leave you." I gently tell him trying to hide my yawn of tiredness.
He watches my eyes for a few silent moments then softly speaks as his eyes close. "Thank you Light." He then drifts into sleep.
I have seen it, no matter how much he tries to hide it. I have seen that deep down he really needs a good sleep but he can't so he makes sure to do what he can to stay awake which turns out to be eating lots of sugar. I feel my eyes start to close and I let myself be taken away into the dream land.
No one's P.O.V.
Watari knocks on the door but doesn't get an answer so he opens the door peeking in knowing that they wouldn't be changing at this time but he was still cautious in case one of them was. "L? Light?" He says softly then notices them asleep in the bed side by side. He also notices there's no frost and ice making him smile. He closes the secret door L had left open then walks over to the bed and moves the blankets a little higher up on the two seeing it start to slide off their shoulders. "Thank you Light." He whispers. "Good night both of you." He goes to where Light had placed the bowl and picks it up taking it with him as he leaves closing the door behind himself. He walks down the hall to the kitchen putting the bowl in the sink only to turn on the tap. He begins washing it and still is smiling. He thinks back to when L accidently hit the orphan thinking about it from the way L told him it happened after the child was healed.
Flash back:
L walks around the orphanage and he ends up running into a small boy with curly light blonde hair that's almost white. He looks to the small boy who seems to be maybe three years old while L is fifteen at the time. He watches the child tilt his head slightly and his white clothes shift slightly as they are a little big on him. He glances around and figures there isn't any harm in letting a kid know about his powers since this child will probably forget anyways or think it was some fantasy. He picks the child up and brings him into the empty play room setting the child down once there. "Want to see something magical?" He asks the child who tilts his head looking at L with curious stormy grey eyes. L turns slightly. "Watch this." He uses his powers to make a snow pile.
The child's eyes seem to analyze the snow pile in curiosity then his eyes brighten when he thinks of how much fun it could be so he runs over to it. He runs into the snow pile and pauses when feeling how cold it is.
L rushes over and reaches for the child only to stop. He brings his sleeves up so he doesn't touch the child directly. "Conceal it don't feel it." He whispers to himself over and over as he gently gets the child out of the snow only to quickly let go the moment the child's safe giving a relieved sigh. He looks below him and notices he had made the floor into ice at some point not noticing. He turns to the child and watches as he tries to start running only to slip and fall on the ice. He creates a smaller snow pile under the child when the child falls as the child keeps trying to run on the ice. "Slow down." He tells the child as this continues but thanks to the ice the child gains speed. He suddenly doesn't react fast enough and didn't really have enough time to react in time when the child falls… his powers ends up hitting the child in the head making the magical blue dust L sent meant to create a snow pile under the child, disappear into the child's head.
The child is knocked back a little and lays there not moving with closed eyes as the light blonde hair starts turning to white, a strip every now and then.
L rushes over to the child in panic and looks to the door. "WATARI!" He screams for his care taker hoping that his calls will be answered. He hesitates then picks up the child holding the smaller body in his arms. "WATARI! PLEASE HELP!" He tries to scream for help once more and snow begins falling from the roof as the snow seems to appear out of nowhere though it's actually L's powers as he begins to panic.
Watari rushes into the room hearing the scream when he had been walking by in search for the three year old child. He sees the room has snow piles and ice on the ground with snow falling from the roof like a light snow storm. He also notices that L is sitting on his knees holding the three year old child whose hair is turning white and he isn't moving.
L turns to Watari with an upset, scared and panicked look. "I'm sorry!" He says ready to cry.
He rushes over to the two kneeling next to L. "Here let me see him." He gently takes the child from L as L passes the child to him. He feels that the child is cold and fears the worse. He holds the child in one arm and presses two fingers against the child's neck relaxing a tiny bit when feeling a pulse. "He's cold but still alive." He sees another strip of the child's hair turn to white. "Get me a blanket. It should be on the couch over there." He nods to a couch not too far away.
L does as he's told and grabs the blanket quickly coming back almost slipping but pushes it away. He hands Watari the blanket and Watari wraps the child in it. "Who is this child?" L softly asks sounding guilty.
"His alias is Near. He just arrived here." Watari explains. "What happened here?" He turns to look a L who avoids his gaze though Watari doesn't blame L at all for this.
"We were just having some fun. He started running on the ice I accidently made when he ran into the big pile of snow and I think I made the ice when I was scared to touch him. He kept falling and I made snow piles so he wouldn't get hurt. I'm sorry Watari it was an accident. I didn't mean to." He whimpers slightly.
Watari keeps the child named Near close to him with one hand and puts the other on L's shoulder. "I understand it was an accident but I need you to tell me what happened."
L glances for only a second at Watari but doesn't look long as he still blames himself for all of this. "He went to fast and I couldn't send the snow pile in time so instead I ended up hitting his head. He's freezing inside out and we have to help him!" His voice becomes distressed and he lets a few tears fall as the snow storm around them seems to get worse.
"Calm down L its ok. We'll keep him warm and he'll have to fight this. He's a strong child who survived the bombing of his home town. He'll be alright." Watari tries to assure L and glances back to Near who's hair is about half white now.
L looks to the child sadly and guilty but then as if a switch went off he remembers something important. "No. We need more than that. If we do that he will become frozen. My papa told me what to do when this happened. We need to take him to the trolls. They'll heal him!"
Watari looks back to L and nods. "Let's go then."
The two race out and climb into the car, Watari at the driver's seat and L carefully holding Near seeing as Watari is driving.
Watari follows L directions and they arrive at the entrance to a spooky forest.
The two rush out and hurry into the forest with Watari handed Near by L.
L stops at a clearing with rocks dotting it. "Everyone! Please help! This child needs your help!"
The rocks become trolls that seem to be made out of rocks. They mummer about it being the son of the man they knew then as Watari comes closer, used to magic and such by now, they spot Near who's hair is almost completely white.
"Get Grandpa Stone!" One of the female troll's commands and the troll's part to allow a rock to roll through which turns into a grandpa troll.
"Quickly now let me see the child." He gestures for Watari to come closer as he walks a little closer to Watari.
Watari kneels down and shows Near to Grandpa Stone. "Can you help him?" he asks hopefully.
Grandpa Stone gently reaches out and holds the last strip of hair that is on the boy's head that isn't white though it turns white as grandpa holds it. "Hmmm." He hums thoughtfully. "Luckily it was the head not the heart. I can help him but he will forget everything about magic." He looks to Watari and L, who moved to behind Watari in anticipation.
Watari looks to L who nods.
"I understand. Please help him." L confirms.
Watari turns back to watch as Grandpa stone uses magic to lift the blue dust out of Near's head and into the air only to drop it on the ground creating a small snow pile by Watari.
Near warms up in Watari's arms and is moving again but stays unconscious and his hair is still white.
"I can't lift the change it brought to his hair but he'll live." Grandpa explains.
"He was almost albino before." Watari informs Grandpa. "Thank you."
"Anytime. Anytime." Grandpa Stone nods then looks to L. "No remember child. There is beauty." He lifts his hand up palm up and lets a magically induced dark blue out line of L showing his powers to what looks like a crowd of people. "And there is destruction within the power you hold." He lets the crowd become red and attack the L figure making the real L jump slightly. He lowers his hand and turns to L as the magically induced image vanishes. "Never forget that."
L nods. "I won't"
They thanked the trolls then left heading back to the orphanage but L wouldn't even touch Near saying he didn't want to hurt Near again.
L called it a teenager mistake of showing Near his powers.
End of flash back.
L refused to let anyone else but Watari see his powers from then on. He even asked if they could move away from the orphanage and they began wandering to keep L safe from enemies he's picked up thanks to him being the world's greatest, solving case after case usually working on piles of them at once. He had always tried to keep minimal contact with things but it became more like something he absolutely had to do after the incident.
Watari puts the newly cleaned dishes away and turns off the tap leaving the kitchen. "L became more scared of his powers after that." He mumbles to himself as he walks. "He used to be ok with even holding my hand, usually through a glove, when he was younger and needed me but after what happened with Near he didn't want people touching him at all. Not even me. He said he was afraid to freeze someone by accident." He makes it to his room and goes over to the bed sitting down only to stare out the window. "He's frightened of his powers and they keep getting stronger as he gets older which most likely will stop at some point as it's slowing down to a halt in its growth but even so…. L ignores this focusing on trying to push his powers away letting it build up inside him. He knows that when he gets bad emotions like becoming upset or scared can make his powers becoming out of control worse he keeps it bottled inside with fear for it. Nothing good can come of it. Light helping may just help avoid something bad that may happen if L continues to try to keep it inside to push it away." He goes into his bedroom. "I just hope L will let Light actually help him." He sits on his bed then crawls into it going to sleep.