Chapter thirteen:
The team, Watari and Soichiro are still shocked but Soichiro are still shocked but Soichiro and the team are starting to see L really is human more than they could have ever imagined.
Watari is about to go over to try to comfort L but what happens stops him surprising everyone watching.
The ice seems to melt but as if turning to frost only to seem to disappear moving behind Light until it's all gone.
Light is completely back to normal brown hair and all. He gaps softly as his body relaxes from its tensed state it was frozen in.
Feeling Light moving teary eyed L raises his head to look to Light.
Light blinks and lowers his hand as he looks to L meeting the detective's dark wide teary eyes. He raises a hand to L's cheek gently wiping away the tears from one of L's eyes. "What's wrong?" He asks the raven.
L lets go of Light, he raises one hand wiping his eyes once to make sure the tears are gone. "Why'd you do that?" He asks the brunette.
Light smiles softly. "Because I love you." He tells L.
"You love me?" L can't believe what he's hearing after everything he's put Light through.
"An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart." Matsuda says out loud in realization getting the others to look at him.
"Love…" L turns away from the others taking a few steps away and looks at his hands for a few moments as the storm slowly dissipates to nothing. "Of course." He seems to understand something now.
Light goes over to L. "What?" He asks the question that is bugging everyone else.
L gives him a smile. "Love will thaw a frozen heart." He says somewhat repeating what Matsuda said. He closes his eyes looking forward then after a moment he opens them again. He moves his hands a little in front of himself with elbows bent and palms facing up. He raises his hands from his stomach to level with his shoulders.
The snow on the ground starts spiraling upwards towards the sky and the ice turns to snowflakes going up with the rest.
The team, Watari and Light as well as everyone in Tokyo gasp at the beauty of the snow going towards the sky.
Once it reaches the sky L raises one hand looking to the ball of sparkling blue snow and he has his hand open pointing at the ball almost like he's gabbing it.
Everyone watches the sky.
L closes his hand like he crushed something and the ball in the sky seems to explode raining blue sparkles down upon the city but the sparkles disappear before the first one hits the ground. He lowers both hands to his sides and is still in the appearance he changed into after building his ice castle.
"Wow." Light gasps and turns to L. "You figured out how to melt the snow and ice." He smiles at L.
L looks to Light with a smile. "I couldn't do it alone."
Light's smile widens a little and the two turn to Watari and the team.
Watari gives L a smile. "I know you could do it." He assures L.
"I was wrong." Soichiro say's realizing that L is not dangerous even with his powers.
"We all were." Matsuda corrects.
"It's ok I actually kind of understand why you did what you did." L assures them.
Light puts an arm around L's shoulders gaining the ravens attention. "Let's go home. I don't know about you but I'm tired."
"A lot has happened so you should get some rest." L agrees.
"Let's go." Soichiro drops the wood and the team as well as Watari follow L and Light to the task force headquarters.
There's still Kira to catch.