"Mamma L please wake up, Come on wake up" I could hear a voice in my ears

I opened my eyes and looked at the alarm clock on my bed side table

"What the hell it's four am"

I looked to the right of me to see Near standing next to bed looking petrified. I sat up quickly

"Near what's wrong"

"It's Daddy L, he is missing and there is blood in the lounge room and I think Watari is dead" he trembled

"What?" I said as I jumped out of the bed and ran to the lounge room wearing just pajama bottoms. The walls and floor were stained with blood. The room had been decorated with high velocity blood splatters of all kinds everywhere. I couldn't take my eyes away from it all. I felt around for the small boy who was standing next to me.

"Near go to your room don't wake up Mello and Matt, everything will be alright, just go"

I could feel the small boy pull away from me and he rushed back to his room. I slowly moved closer to the stains, this had to be some kind of sick joke; there was no way that I was seeing this. My foot had suddenly hit something hard, my heart pounded in my chest and I could feel the sweat beading on my face and neck. I slowly looked down to my foot and what I had accidentally kicked

"WATARI!" I yelled and dropped to the floor, his body was completely still and a large pool of crimson red had surrounded him. I placed my hand against his wrist; no pulse, Watari was most defiantly dead. I could feel the blood seeping through my pajama pants at the knees; my hands were covered in his blood. This was bad, and poor Near had to be the one to see all this, he was going to be traumatized. There was no way that Lawliet did this, he couldn't have. He wouldn't have killed Watari especially not here where the boys could have seen it. I took my hands away from the body, working with L I knew one thing; never ever touch a dead body and I had already made that mistake. I looked around the room and suddenly jumped up

"LAWLIET! LAW'? WHERE ARE YOU?" I yelled out

I looked around the room in a terrified panic; I couldn't help but think that Watari wasn't the only one who had been killed here. How the hell did anyone even get in here? Who would have been that crazed to kill an elderly man and take Lawliet, why would anyone want to take him?

"He knew it was coming, that's what he was talking about last night" I said to myself. I ran to the other side of the room following the blood splatters, if he wasn't here then whoever killed Watari had taken him.

I paused and my eyes widened, my heart pounded in my chest. My mouth became dry and sweat poured from my face and drenched my chest.

"L is mine now, B" I saw written in blood on the floor behind the couch.

Who the fuck was B and how did they know Lawliet? I had to call the police, as much as I hesitated in case my father was the one to be called out, I had to call them. I had no choice if this B had Lawliet and he was the one who killed Watari then I had no doubts that they would kill Lawliet without a second thought. Lawliet must have received prior warning this was going to happen, there was no way he would have said what he did last night just on off chance it may have happened. Someone, B, was after L and I had no idea why. I rushed to phone and picked it up and called in the emergency.

X

I sat on the couch with my face in my hands. I knew it all had to be too good to be true. I was frightened, angry and sad all at the same time, someone had taken my Lawliet and killed Watari and I had no idea where to even begin and what about Near, he was the first one to see the massacre, how was I going to ever erase that from his mind?, he was going to remember this for the rest of his life.

The room was filled with officers I had never met before; the crimes scene unit had taken away Watari's lifeless body and were taking photos of the blood splatters and the message that was in blood on the floor. I had felt the world around me crush me. My father would have heard about this, I know he would have, I guessed he was serious about me no longer being a part of his family. I couldn't worry about that, I had three boys I needed to look out for and I had no idea how I was even going to begin explaining this to them. I had very little doubts that they had to deal with death before; this was going to destroy them. They were our sons and now one of their fathers was gone, they had just gained a family and now this B was taking that away from them. I decided there and then I was going to find B and I was going to kill him/her. It had taken the police a couple of hours to finish up, I was left to clean up the blood before Mello and Matt would see it too and also be traumatized

I felt tears fall from my eyes and collide with the blood on the floor as I scrubbed it with a hard brush. Even though I had never been a stranger to death I had never seen this much blood, it was disgusting and disturbing and caused my stomach to churn. How the hell had this happened? I should have been awake; I should have made him stay in bed with me until daylight. I could only blame myself for this. What if someone had found out about the Death Note? What if this was the revenge of a family member or friend of a criminal I had killed? No, it couldn't have been possible, the Death Note was gone, and there was nothing that had linked me to the Death Note or any of the deaths of the criminals. I felt like my heart had been shattered into a million pieces. Lawliet must have been so scared, what if he had to watch as B killed Watari? He would be a mess, how was he going to be able to survive that?

I continued to scrub at the floor and walls until little evidence was left. I held back the tears and threw away the rubber gloves and scrubbing brush in the trash. As I poured the blood water down the sink I could help but throw up. It had made me so sick, knowing that it was Watari's blood, the man who gave me and Lawliet our sons, I was pouring down the sink and what if some of that blood was Lawliet's? I couldn't bear the thought of him being dead. What is this B was the one Lawliet had thought he had killed? I didn't even know anything about a B, maybe I should have pushed what I could out of Law' last night even if it meant we would spend the night arguing or not speaking to each other. I was so fucking stupid.

After I had finished disposing of the water and I had finished throwing up I went and sat back down on the couch. While the police were there I had gone into the bedroom and found one of Lawliet's shirts and pair of pants and put them on, I could smell him on me. It was heartbreaking, Lawliet was out there someone in the hands of what I concluded was a mad man and I could do nothing about it, I didn't know what I was going to do or how I was going to find him but I had to, for the boy's sake and my own.

"Mamma L?" I heard Near beside me

I didn't even think I just picked him up and held him close to me. I pressed him hard against my chest and gently stroked his head. He looked so much like Lawliet it was almost painful to look at him, I wasn't sure on how much Near had seen, but I knew he had seen Watari's dead body and he had seen a fair bit of the blood.

"I am so sorry Near, I am so sorry you had to be the one to see this" I said to him trying to fight the tears but it was pointless I could feel them forming in my eyes and running down my face

"Mamma L? What's wrong?" I could hear another voice it was Mello with Matt standing beside him

"Come here" I said softly to them both and they came rushing to me.

"Boys I don't know what is happening exactly and I don't know if you should be hearing this but, last night at some point someone came into the building and murdered Watari and I think they took your Dad. Do any of you know who B is?" I asked on a limb

Near and Mello both shook their heads but Matt, Matt remained still and quiet

"Matt do you know who B is?" I asked him quietly and calmly

"I am sorry, I didn't mean to do it, but I heard them talking about L and I couldn't help but listen, I really didn't mean to do it I am sorry" he replied quickly and in a panic

"It's OK Matt, listen to me what did you hear? who was talking?"

"It was when we were still at Wammy house; it was just before Daddy L left. I heard Watari and Roger talking about B, they said they had thought he had committed suicide but he hadn't he had escaped from Wammy house, they said that L was in danger and that he had to leave and disappear from England in case B would come back and try and kill L, they didn't say what B's real name was, they only called him B" Matt replied

"Did you ever meet this B?" I asked

Matt shook his head

"I don't think so" he replied softly

At least it was something; it gave me an idea on where to start. I didn't know who B was but he did have Lawliet and I was not going to let him be killed by that psychopath. Whoever he was and whatever connecting B had to L I was going to find it.

"Matt I need you to do something for me, do you think you could hack into Watari's and Daddy L's computers and see if you can find out anything to do with B?, it doesn't matter how insignificant it looks just print anything you find off. Daddy L's computer is on the left and Watari's room is on the top floor, his computer will be in there somewhere, I will disable the codes so you can use the lift and gain access to his room" I said to him

"I will do it right away" he replied and got up and walked over to the desk with three computers sitting on it and turned the one on the left on and started to do what he did best

"Near, Mello I need you two to help go through Daddy L's files, we need to see if he kept anything about B in there, he may have been trying to keep a track of him if he thought he was in any danger from B"

I picked up Near and placed him on the floor then stood up and walked out of the room into a smaller room that was filled with filing cabinets. I opened the first draw and pulled out a good stack of thin folders and carried them back into the lounge room and placed them on the floor in front of Mello and Near. They grabbed a file each and started looking through them. I sat on the couch and picked one of the folders up myself

I found myself gazing at the floor where I had found Watari's body. The images flashed in my head, I could only imagine how Near had felt, despite how intelligent he was there was no way that he was ever going to forget that any time soon. I shook my head and focused on what I was doing. I had looked at both Mello and Near they had already had a small pile each of folders they had already gone through

"Anything yet boys?"

"Most of this stuff is old cases dating as far back as three years ago, so far nothing insignificant" Near replied

"Same here, it's quiet amazing to see everything he has done though, there are even thank you notes from family members of the victims of some of the crimes here letting him know how much they appreciated all his hard work" Mello said

"Your dad has always been incredible. He's one of the most amazing people I have ever met. I know your dad and I know that he wouldn't have willingly gone with someone like that, this B person must have threatened him"

"What if B wasn't after Daddy L?" Near asked

"What do you mean?" Mello asked him

"What if the only reason why Daddy L was taken by B was because he was awake at the time and Watari was only killed because he was too. It's extremely unlikely that Watari would have been in the lounge room at any time after ten, we know that because Watari often goes to bed early and doesn't come down until late morning"

"That means at some point B would have had to use Watari to open to door in order for him to gain access to the building since it can't be accessed without a key card. B came here not knowing that L had set up the security the way he had, if he knew L then he would have known that he would have some sort of security system had been put in place, but I doubt he would have known it was as extensive as it was. He needed to create some kind of scheme in order to get Watari out of bed to answer the door, since Watari's room is the only one that is fitted with a receiver for the doorbell down stairs, L would not have known someone was even here. This also tells me that B hasn't necessarily done his homework, because he would have known he wouldn't have been able to access the building, he only killed Watari because he could have identified B" I said trying to piece together what had actually happened

"And if B was here in order to exact some kind of revenge on Daddy L, then his main target wouldn't have been Daddy L himself it would have been one of us. It was only because Daddy L was awake at the time that B had taken him instead" Mello replied

It was all just speculation but it was all completely plausible. If B was really out to get L for whatever reason then he would have been smarter to take one or all of the kids or myself. L had foiled B's plan upon B's arrival and because B was so careless about the execution of the crime. I already gathered he was nowhere up to par on Lawliet's intelligence and also was unaware of Lawliet's current insomnia. This was all put together by someone clinically insane, nothing about what he did was a smart man's move, Could have B been the one that Lawliet had been scared of?, the one he had felt responsible for thinking he may have killed? B would have to been following L at some point to know where he lived and he must have known there was someone other than Watari and Lawliet living here why else would he leave the message he had on the floor, in plain sight? If Lawliet and B had known each other at Wammy house then B would have known the connection L had with the boys and if he had seen me enter the building and leave only rarely then he knew I too was here.

"Mamma L?" Matt called out from across the room

I looked up to the boy who had jumped down from off the chair and came towards me staring down at a piece of paper that he had printed off

"You better take a look at this" He said handing to me

I had a quick glance down at the paper and looked back up to the boys. They had waited for me to say something, but I couldn't I was in complete shock. I don't even think my heart was beating at that point. I could feel the piece of paper being pulled out of my hands and yet I was too paralyzed to stop it from happening

"What is it Mello?" Near asked

Mello began to look over the paper

"This is Daddy L's admission record for when he was placed in Wammy house. It says that he wasn't the only Lawliet to be taken into Wammy house at the time of admission; it says that there was someone else with him at the time. Daddy L had a twin brother" Mello said to Near

"Born with red eyes" I somehow managed to mumble out

I was all there in black and white, Lawliet was not an only child like I had assumed. He had a twin brother with red eyes, the eyes of a Shinigami. If I was right then it was possible that not only was Lawliet's twin brother a product of a Shinigami and human relationship then so was Lawliet.

"What does that mean, was he sick?" Matt asked

"No that means that if he was born with red eyes then he was part Shinigami" Mello replied

"Don't be stupid Mello there are no such thing as Shinigami it's a made up story made to frighten children" Near replied

Near had no idea that they weren't a myth and without the Death Note I had no way of getting in contact with Ryuk to ask him about this, I needed to know for sure if this was even possible. Could Lawliet and his brother have Shinigami blood? and if so was there any way of telling if Lawliet's brother possessed more than just the Shinigami eyes?. I had never asked Ryuk if there was any other way of getting in contact with him without the Death Note, the thought had never crossed my mind that I would need him, and the truth was he was the only one I could ask about this, anyone else would think I was just damned crazy talking of Shinigami and a Shinigami-Human hybrid.

"There is more" Matt said handing me yet another piece of paper

I took it from his hands and looked down at it. It was a copy of a photograph that had been torn in two. It was of Lawliet, a much younger Lawliet. There was an arm over his shoulder, an arm that had been wrapped in bandages. Could have this been his brother? Why would have Lawliet kept this from me?, why did he not want people to know about his brother?, could it have been that we were correct? Could Lawliet's brother really been born with Shinigami eyes? and if so was he the key to finding out who B was? There was a lot of questions that needed to be solved immediately, the sooner we solved the mystery of B the sooner I was going to be able to find Lawliet and bring him back home.

I had made the kids breakfast, although as suspected they hadn't touched most of it. I sat on the floor continuing to look through the folders but finding nothing. If I wanted to find out about Lawliet's brother and see if he knew B than I was going to have to get Matt to get into Watari's computer and dig up anything on Lawliet and this brother of his. Even though there could have been another reason why Lawliet's brother had red eyes it didn't make any sense to me why Lawliet would have wanted his brother erased. Why had the photo been torn in half? I could only assume that Lawliet had known that his brother was born differently and so was he, his brother was the physical evidence that both of them had been born with Shinigami blood in their veins, which was possibly the main reason their mother had given them up in the first place, it had only been mere coincidence that Lawliet was well above average in intelligence.

"Don't worry Near we will find Daddy L, you'll see everything is going to be alright. He wouldn't give up on us"

I heard Mello say to Near who had just stared down at the bowl of cereal. He hadn't even eaten anything.

"Mamma L will get him back, he won't give up, I know he won't and neither will we, we can't give up and assume it's too late Near" Matt said placing his hands on his little brothers back

"Come on boys, let's go see if we can find anything more in Watari's computer hopefully there will be a key to the brother and this B" I said as I stood up and walked to the elevator door that had been beside the front entrance.

I opened up the plastic casing that had housed a touch pad. I punched in the code for the elevator and waited. The boys soon joined my side and we went up to the top floor to Watari's room.

It was a typical old man's room. Clean and tidy with very little lying around. He had a bed, a bedside desk and computer. The boys had been the first to enter the room and I followed in close behind. Matt had gone straight to the computer and sat down and started to hack into the system files. Mello had gone and sat beside him and waited. I could feel small arms wrap around my leg. I bent down to the white haired boy and picked him up and held him with one arm, he wrapped one arm around my back and the other rested on my shoulder. I had notice something at the corner of my eye as I looked around; something glimmering behind a slightly opened door that I had thought had been the bathroom. I left Matt and Mello to their devices and walked towards the door. I pushed it open and revealed a room filled with televisions that displayed an image of every room in the house except the bedrooms.

"It's a live feed; this is where all the cameras send their information. If the cameras were still turned on when B had come in then there is a chance one of those camera's caught him"

"What time did you and Daddy L go to sleep last night?" Near asked me

"It must have been at least eleven maybe twelve; you woke me up at four so there was either a four or five hour gap where B could have come in"

I looked at each of the televisions and made out which room was the lounge room. Every television had been attached to a video recorder. I took a deep breath and had hoped that they were recording last night. I pressed rewind on the tape recorder and I could hear a tape rewinding, it was so far a good sign. I pressed play and watched as the television had flicked over to the video

Near pointed to the date and time, it was of last night at around eleven. I pressed the fast forward button until I could see a shadow. I pressed play and we watched and waited. Suddenly Watari had appeared at the front door, opening it. It was only a brief second that I watched him being pushed to the ground by an arm.

"Don't watch Near" I said to the boy in my arms

He didn't argue with me instead turned his head and looked over my shoulder at his brothers on the computer.

As Watari fall to the floor the arm had become someone dressed completely in black, he had on a hooded jacket, black sunglasses, black gloves and black pants even his shoes were black. I watched as the person stood over Watari, he reached behind him and pulled out something shiny from his back pocket as soon as I saw him lunge at Watari I knew that it was a knife. Blood had sprayed as the mystery man had sliced Watari across the throat. Watari struggled to escape but it was much too late. The man had begun stabbing him sending blood flying all over the walls. I had to look away briefly, it was a lot to take in but I had to keep watching I needed to know what had happened to Lawliet.

Watari had stopped moving, as soon as the stabbings had stopped I had seen a familiar shadow rush into the room, as soon as he came into the camera's view I could see it was Lawliet, he looked down at the body of Watari, dropping to his knees. He was panicked and scared, blood staining his hands as he tried to wake his caregiver up with no prevail. Lawliet hadn't even seen the man standing behind him. The hooded man had grabbed Lawliet by the throat and pulled him away from the body, his hands and clothes had been now spotted with large patches of blood. I watched as my lover had defensively tried to struggle away from his attacker. The man in the hooded jumper looked around him quickly, his movements suggested something had not gone right, his arms were shaking and he was in a full-fledged panic. Our assumptions had been correct; B had not planned for Watari or Lawliet to be there. Holding Lawliet in a choke hold he dragged him out of the camera views. B must have known there was camera's set up to go to the trouble to make himself un-recognizable. Near had turned back around and started to watch again, the hooded man and Lawliet had gone, no more than a minute later, the hooded man had returned dragging a limp L to the front door, I could see that the right glove of the assailant had been covered in something wet, most likely blood, it must have been where he had written the message on the floor. I watched as the assailant turned around and admired the crimson mess around him, whilst he looked at the room I watched as Lawliet suddenly sprung up and with whatever strength he had he knocked the sunglasses off of his kidnappers face. The hooded man had his back to the camera's, I was frustrated, the man's face would have been clearly visible if only he would turned around. He lunged at L and hit him hard enough to make L unconscious that was where B had made a huge mistake. He turned around and my eyes had gone wide, my heart stopping once again, I could fell Near grip his arms around me tightly, we knew exactly who he was

"B is L's brother" Near and I had said at the same time as we looked at the man with the red eyes dragging away Lawliet's body.