The smell of chocolate had woken me up, I had hoped that Lawliet wasn't eating in the bed again; he had done it once while we were chained together and I had woken up with melted chocolate and cream stuck to me. I opened my eyes, the daylight streaming through the blinds was harsh, I tried to shield it from my face with no prevail. It was only when I had sat up that I could see why I could smell chocolate.

"HE'S AWAKE!" the voice yelled loudly

"Mello?" I asked trying to focus my eyes on him. He was sitting in a small wooden chair, a bar of chocolate hanging from the left corner of his mouth and his right leg perched up on the seat, resting against his chest. I was surprised to see that Matt hadn't been sitting beside him

"Yeah" he replied

Mihael or Mello as he preferred was an innocent looking boy, mid neck length blonde hair, blue eyes, dressed like every day was a funeral. He was always very clever however I had learned a lot about him when they last visited Lawliet, like L, he loved sweets especially chocolate and it had turned out this little boy had let a lot of his emotions rule over him, he had made a lot of decisions with his heart he had the potential to grow up to be doctor because he was intelligent, able to make quick decisions and also caring. He had an extremely bold personality in which he was never embarrassed by.

"How long have you been sitting there for?" I asked rubbing my head I threw the quilt off of me, I was in desperate need for the shower

He looked down at a thin black watch that he had been wearing the last time he was here too

"Three hours, fifteen minutes and twenty nine no thirty seconds" he said

He dropped his arm and looked back at me.

"You have been sitting there for three hours?" I asked him

"and sixteen minutes. Daddy L had said you were hurting so I wanted to come see if you were OK but you were sleeping so I thought if I sat here then I would be able to see if you were alright when you woke up and I wouldn't have to compete with Near and Matt for your undivided attention. What happened to you?"

I wasn't exactly sure whether to answer his questions or to ask him my own, how long had I been sleeping for? The Wammy House was is England so surely I had to been asleep for well over two days, what the hell kind of pain killers did that doctor give me?

"I was used as a means of someone letting out their frustration, or rather anger"

"Daddy L said it had been like you were hit by a bus" he said

"Yeah I guess so"

"How would you know what being hit by a bus felt like? Unless you had been hit by a bus before and knew for an absolutely certainty what being hit by bus had felt like, in which case I retract my question"

I shook my head

"Mello thank you for coming to sit with me, but I really need a shower"

"You didn't answer my question though?" He looked at me with upset eyes

"I promise I will answer your question when I come out of the shower OK?" I replied rubbing my head

He was a sweet kid but he was giving me a headache and driving my patience

"Hmm alright"

He got off the chair which I had no idea where it had come from and stood up, just as I hung my legs over the bed and went to sit up I felt a warm body against mine, a small one. Mello was hugging me. I smiled and placed my hand on top of his head and hugged him in return

"I am glad you're alright, I don't want you to die" He whispered.

He had made me want to cry, before I could I loosen my grip and he pulled away and left the room still with the chocolate bar hanging out of his mouth. I hauled myself off the bed and dragged myself to the bathroom, the pain in my side had disappeared and it was only a very slight mild ache in my nose. I could hear joyful screams coming from the living room and then it fell silent after a few short moments; the kids had been excited about something.

It was strange hearing children in the house especially three of them, I had no idea how to be a parent to them but I was going to try my hardest for them. None of the boys had family. They didn't have a mother or a father and because they were all extremely intelligent and special potential parents had found them too hard to understand or handle and always walked away with a less intelligent child than themselves. After Lawliet asking me to marry him I had realized how special and how necessary family was and I wanted Near, Matt and Mello to have a family too even if it were Lawliet and I.

I looked at myself in the mirror I had looked more pale then Lawliet. My skin was completely flushed of color, I was hungry and thirsty and had smelled like week old worn socks. My nose was still bruised slightly and somewhat wider then it was typically, my father had certainly done a bang up job. I pulled the clothes off me quickly trying to get rid of some of the putrid smell. I threw them next to washing basket that had sat beside the door. I didn't fuss about picking them up and placing them in, I would do it once I was finished getting myself cleaned up. It had almost felt like forever since I had seen my dark haired dark eyed lover and I had wondered how he was doing.

I turned on the hot and cold taps and waited for the water to adjust to my desired temperature. I pulled the shower curtain across and stood under the water letting it first wash over my hair and face and then down my body. The warm water had felt like magic against my skin. It was strange but I hadn't felt this relaxed in what felt like years, the gentle patters of tempered water licking my body, falling to the tiled floor and running down the drain. I took a deep breath and dropped my shoulders. I looked down at my side where my father had kicked me, there was a light yellow and brown mark still embedded on my skin, it was a long large bruise. A reminder for me that my skin was fragile and bruised with even the less harmful of damages. I touched the bruise with my wet hand, it wasn't just because I had been kicked that was starting to bother me, it was because it was a kick from my father, did he really hate the idea of me being with a man that much that he had felt he needed to be violent towards me? I tried to shake the thought out of my head, after all he did tell me we were no longer family and I wasn't welcome in his or my mother's lives any longer. But there was something that still had hold of me.

I pressed myself against the wall and I had suddenly begun to sob. It was hard to tell what were tears and what was water but as soon as I felt that ache in my heart I knew that I had begun to cry. I held my chest with my arms as I snaked them around myself. I could feel the pain escape my lips in saddened coughs and splutters.

"Hey come here" I suddenly heard with familiar arms wrapping around me. It was Lawliet.

He hadn't even cared that he was fully clothed; he must have heard my pain and just acted by doing what he thought was natural. I had stood in the rain with him plenty of times before and it had always felt like joy but this time even though it wasn't rain it was close to and all I could feel in my heart was anger and sadness towards the man who had beaten me because of how and who I loved.

Lawliet held me against him in a tight grip, I could feel his hair get soaked and brush against my cheek as he embraced me with strong arms, the same arms he had used to carry me from the front door to the couch when I had returned home from visiting my parents.

His white shirt had started to become see through. I nuzzled my face into his neck I hadn't felt his body against mine for what I had guessed was days and it had felt like I was touching him for the first time. The pain had started to disappear and the tears began to weaken I pulled my face away from his neck and looked into his eyes. He had been so strong for me, I had always felt I had to be the one to look after him but here he was protecting me, caring for me and looking after me. If he couldn't make it as the boy's father than nobody could.

I forgot how different he looked when his hair was completely soaked and loose instead of the whimsical messy pricked up hairstyle he usually had. The darkness under his eyes had returned completely, he mustn't have slept at all since after the first night I made love to him. I didn't know how long had gone by since that night but it had been clear that my boyfriend, no, fiancé, had gone back into the usual insomniac he had always been.

I pressed my lips against his and I had felt like fireworks had exploded inside of me. His mouth was so warm and wet and filled with love and passion. He opened his mouth and I penetrated it with my tongue, tasting and indulging in the sweetness that surrounded it. I could feel his tongue press gently against mine, lovingly and tentatively brushing mine with his. I reached for his shirt and I gripped the wet heavy fabric with my hands, easing it from off his chest and back and pulling it up. Our mouths detached and I drew the shirt off over his head and dragged open the shower curtain and disposed of it on the floor. I closed the shower curtain again and found his mouth with mine. Then it occurred to me

"Who is looking after the kids?" I asked him pulling away from his mouth

"Watari took them to the new science center that opened up just outside the city, they have been begging to go there since they got here" he replied

I kissed him again more aggressively this time, more forcefully. I had been waiting for this for the last few days and I wasn't going to leave the bathroom without having him make love to me. I ran my hands down is bare wet torso and found the waist band of his jeans. I loosened the button on them and then the zip. I grabbed the waistband again and searched for the elastic of his underwear. Once I found it I pulled down with my hands and his clothes fell to the tiled floor. He bent his knees and dropped down to remove them from the floor so they wouldn't go to the drain and block it up. He tossed them outside the shower curtain and suddenly without warning took my member in his mouth. I hadn't been fully erect but the moment he made those seductive rolls with his tongue I grew inside his mouth. He licked and sucked on my length the way he did to my fingers when I went to stretch him before I had made love to him. I pressed my back hard into the wall and laced my fingers through his wet black hair. I began to pant heavily and moans escaped my mouth simultaneously as I whispered his name. He released my now fully erect manhood from his mouth and stood up to greet my face again. He grabbed my wrist gently and turned me around so that my cheek was resting against the wall and my back was facing him. He pressed his body lightly against my moist back. His length rubbing along the flesh of my backside. He surged his mouth against my ear

"Are you in any pain?" he asked me lovingly

"No not at all" I replied

"Stop me if you need me to" he whispered in return

He kissed the back of my neck and then the side, lapping up the water on my skin with his warm tongue. His arms wrapped around my hips and he grasped my member with a strong hand, tenderly and gently rubbing and pulling it making me nearly wail in pleasure. The water was acting like a lubricant so his hand was slippery and welcoming with every movement.

"Lawliet" I exhaled in a hard pant

He had made me feel like I was a giant pressure point, every touch, lick, stroke made my knees weak and buckle. He removed his hand away from my manhood, I moaned in protest wanting more of his hand. But when I could feel the tip of his length resting against my entrance I suddenly stopped protesting. I could feel his heart beating hard against my back, he must have been so nervous and so worried that he was going to hurt me. I reached behind me and grasped his manhood and helped him ease it inside of me. The first pierce was incredibly painful. I tightened my lips so that a scream of pain wouldn't escape, how was he able to handle it when I did this to him? he was slightly bigger then I was but even with the water it had stung. I relaxed my body so that it wouldn't hurt so much. Once I relaxed I was able to help him guide more inside me and suddenly it had gone from painful to more pleasurable, his length finding that sweet spot inside of me that had made me want to cum straight away. I removed my hand once I was sure that he was able to take it from there, I slammed my palms against the wall and I moaned loudly.

"Do you want me to keep going? Do you need me to stop?" he asked

I turned my head so I was looking into his eyes. I didn't even need to say anything; he could see it in my amber pools. I was hungry for it, I needed it I wanted him to make me scream. He pressed his lips against mine, lips full of feverish want and desire. The arm around my hips tightened has he thrusted himself inside of me, slowly pulling himself out and then pushing it back in again. He pulled away from my mouth and he watched himself penetrate me, thrusting against my body, making me want to cum. It had made us both even more turned on.

"Ahh, I..I don't want to cum yet" I ended up yelling.

Lawliet pulled his hard throbbing member out of me. He turned me around so I was facing him again. He grabbed me in his arms and lifted me. He pressed my back against the wall and I wrapped my legs around his hips. He grasped hold of his pulsating and thick cock and entered it inside me again. I had had no idea that he was this strong, I had seen what he was capable of but it was hard to believe the lanky, slender panda-eyed detective was able to do this and he was extraordinarily gentle too.

I swallowed his full length, I could feel myself wanting to cum again. I tangled my fingers in the wet black locks on his head, letting the thick wet strands slip in between and around each of my digits. He fastened his thrusts and they started to become much more intense and harder. I was going to lose my self at any moment, I never would have dreamed sex feeling this good. I was completely in awe over him. He started to pant deep and quickly, noises similar to growls caught in his throat and coming out as he exhaled

"Light, I am going to cum" he breathed out heavily

I could finally stop holding back, I had wanted to release myself the moment he was inside me but I wanted to hold out, I wanted to cum with him this time. His thrusts were strong now, much stronger than before, I could feel the heat rising off of him. My mouth was dry and my body was trembling from the pressure inside me, I couldn't take it any longer, it had felt too damned good. We had both screamed at the same time, I could feel his love spill inside of me and I had released mine on my stomach and some on his chest, the water washing it away instantly. He pulled his aching length out of me and slowly and carefully lowered me to my feet. I could feel the warmth escaping me and it ran freely down my legs. I wrapped my arms around him and pulled him in close to me, I had felt exhausted, alive, happy, excited, completely in love.

"I love you" He whispered to me

"And I love you" I replied

He reached out for the taps and turned them off. We were both clean and I had no longer smelled like a nasty gym sock. He held my hand and helped me out of the shower. He dried me off with a towel and I had assisted to dry him off. Even after only a few days it had felt like I was falling in love with him all over again, it was like it was our first kiss and our first time together even though I was well aware that it wasn't.

We walked into the bedroom and we got dressed and groomed. Once we were both dressed I took him in my arms again and he rested his head against my chest. I had felt an intense amount of love from him.

"Mello was watching me sleep this morning, he said he was worried about me" I told him

"They all were, Mello just wanted to be the first to see you, to make sure that you weren't dying or anything drastic. I had tried explaining to him that you were going to be alright, that the wounds you had were going to heal but as expected he wanted to assure himself that you were in fact 100% living"

He loosened my arms around Lawliet. He looked at me and smiled a gentle but warming grin

"I didn't eat any cake the whole time you were lying there in that bed, I was worried about you especially since I hadn't heard your voice in three days, as much as I tried to convince them you were alright I had been silently frightened that you wouldn't be" he said

"I couldn't just die on you Law' after all you wouldn't be able to handle those three boys alone they would send you crazy—crazier within a week. That's why I am here so they can drive me fucking nuts instead of you. You're the one they go to when they want or need something and I am the one they go to when they feel like being annoying, and secretly, I am OK with that" I replied.

"Law'?" I continued after a moments silence

"Hmm?"

"How long was I exactly out for?" I asked

"Three days, well to be fair it was more a case of two days and a half. I had put an end to the Kira case, and you got a few phone messages from Misa which were basically poorly sentenced death threats and I think that I have solved the infamous case of Jack the Ripper. Watari and I met the boys at the airport yesterday and since then we have been here, you really didn't miss out on much Light"

"You think you have solved the Jack the Ripper case?" I asked him curiously

"Mm well no I am 60% sure that I have solved it but I am yet to take some other evidence into consideration and it is possible that even though I had looked at each piece of evidence I have the sinking feeling I have over looked something" he replied

We already had a room set up for Near, Matt and Mello. Lawliet had made sure that there was room built on the same floor as his just for them when they come and stayed it was already well stocked with their favorite things and they each had their own beds. It had felt like a proper home with that bedroom there, even though it was mostly left unused. It seemed strange, the boys had always made me completely nuts when they were here but there was a part of me that felt they should have been here all the time, I knew that homosexual couples could adopt, and since Watari was the director of Wammy house I didn't have any doubt in my mind that they would grant us custody of the kids. I wasn't ready to be a father by any means but I knew it was the right time and the right thing to do, Lawliet was nearly thirty and had only just started living, if those kids was what made his life complete then I knew they needed to be here living with us. I pulled away from his arms and stood there looking at him

"I think we should adopt"

"The overlooked evidence?" he asked

I shook my head and looked at him like he was a crazy person

"No the kids, I think we should adopt them. I mean we already live together, we are getting married and they love it here, they love you and they deserve a family who can look after and love them. They trust us more than anyone else and they think the world of you. I honestly think they should stay" I said

"Light, I know they deserve a family and I love them too and I know even just a part of you does too but aren't you even bit in the slightest concerned that they will feel embarrassed about having two fathers, they wouldn't be like regular kids"

"They aren't regular kids anyway, you know that. They are super intelligent, confusing, annoying, loud, take things too literally kids who are loved by two people who are also far from regular. I am not going to force you to adopt them if you don't want to but I think they will love being here and more than just a part of me loves them, they have been our kids even when we weren't in a relationship, even when we were just friends they were still our kids"

"Wont they cause a disruption in your mental well being, wont they drive you insane?" he asked

"So what if they do, they're kids they are supposed to do that to their parents. I know I am probably the last person that should be having kids given my past but I do know I can be a far better father then mine was. I know how not to raise and treat kids, no matter how old they are" I said

"Well I don't believe I have any other concerns, as long as you are completely sure about this then I don't see why we couldn't be their parents. Although I do have some doubts about being a father I have no reservations that if any dramas do arise we will be able to constructively get them sorted together" he replied

It hadn't been that long ago since we had even decided to be together in a relationship, things had been moving along rather quickly but I didn't want to waste time, I didn't want there to be a window of opportunity for something to come in and strip me away of everything that I had gained in the short time. I had gone from best friend to lover to fiance and now to parent in such a short gap but it didn't bother me, I wasn't worried or concerned I knew what I wanted and I was going to have it, come hell or high water, things were going to be great for both me and Lawliet, we both deserved it.