Shout out to Sano Sauro for figuring out Ellie's kidnapper before anyone else. Also, double shout-out to them because they keep talking to me and it makes me happy.

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Soichiro Yagami's P.O.V.

I was watching the monitors when L burst into the control room, shoving his usual chair aside. It slid across the room on its side. He started typing frantically; not at all like his usual calm and cold self. "What's going on," I asked.

He didn't answer. Instead he pressed a button and spoke into the microphone, "Watari, come here now!"

I stared at the man in front of me. L had never been like this. Ever. Wait… Where was Ellie? She was never far behind him.

Watari came in carrying three ice-cream cones. He held one out to L, but instead of taking it and devouring it like he normally would have, L pushed it away.

"Are you alright?" I asked cautiously.

He stopped attacking the keyboard and slumped over, hands clenched in fists, "They took her," he said quietly.

This was not the same L I had come to know. I had no idea Ellie meant this much to him, I always thought he only married her because she was essential to catching Kira and he didn't want to lose her eyes. I see that there was no way that was the case; He was in hysterics.

"Who took her," I asked.

"I don't know!" he snapped at me, making me jump slightly.

I frowned. "What happened?"

He pulled a disk out of his pocket and sliding it into the computer. More surveillance footage. It showed a relatively quiet street. Two people were going into a building. I couldn't see their faces, but there was no mistaking that they were the Lawliets; Both had very unique and distinguishable ways about them. There were only a few other people there. One was a man wearing a mask. That mush be the kidnapper. He went into the restaurant a few minutes after L and Ellie.

We stared intently at the screen until finally the café door opened again. The inside of the building had gone dark. Ellie was being dragged behind him unconscious, a small streak of blood flowing from her forehead. The man in the mask picked her up and threw her over his shoulder, then checked his surroundings to see if he was being followed. When he saw that no one was there he took off in the same direction he'd come from. A minute or so later L came running outside the restaurant looking around desperately for any sign of his wife.

I looked over to the world's top three detectives. He had suddenly regained his composure, biting his nail with a blank look on his face. "Watari," he said calmly, "Please contact the Tokyo police. Tell them we need access to their traffic cameras. We also need to organize a search party." Watari nodded and left the room.

I raised my eyebrow, "Why would the police let you see the traffic cameras? Here you're just a citizen. You have no renown in this world."

He turned to me, eyes cold and calculating, "You'll remember, there was a time when the police in our world didn't know about me either. I'm sure you can recall how I got your attention in the beginning."

I thought back to the time before L. Everyone was skeptical when he first appeared, but it didn't take long for him to have the support of every police organization in the world.

L stood, rewatching the footage of Ellie's kidnapping on repeat until his phone rang. He picked it up with his thumb and forefinger, hanging it from his hand beside his ear, "Hello? – I see. – Thank you." He hung up. "The Tokyo police have offered their full support."

I stared in awe at the mad genius in front of me. He never ceased to amaze me. It'd be incredible to know what was happening in his mind.

L's phone rang again, "Yes? – Oh, hello Mello. – Yes, that's correct. – If you wish. – Of course. – Alright then. Goodbye." He hung up again.

"Mello?" I asked, "What did he want?" I don't care if Mihael Keehl was a friend of L's, I didn't like him.

"He and Matt will be coming to Tokyo. Apparently, Watari informed them about my wife's disappearance. They want to help." He stuffed his hands in his pockets. "It's strange having one's successors suddenly the same age. Matt and Mello were always so much smaller than myself."

Was L telling me about his past? He's never discussed personal matters with me before. "I suppose it's not unlike having children," I said, "they grow up faster than you expect." Even if they become psychopathic killers bent on bringing about judgement day… Oh Light…

"No, I guess not."

Watari walked back into the control room holding a USB memory stick. He plugged it in and downloaded a file allowing us access to all the traffic cameras in the city without having to hack each one individually. L tuned in to a specific street. It wasn't the one that Ellie got kidnapped on.

"Why there," I asked, "That's not where you were when she got taken."

"That's where our culprit started to follow us. He was trailing us for a few blocks."

I watched as it showed the newlywed couple walking arm and arm down a street full of people. L said something that made Ellie laugh. They left the screen. They were only visible for about thirty seconds.

"I see… So, it's him," L played with his lip. "But why would he take her? What caught his attention," he said to himself.

"Who? What did you see?"

L rewound the recording, starting it over. "There," He pointed to a dark-haired man sitting at a table drinking coffee. "He looks up, does a double-take when he sees us, then reaches in his bag and puts on a mask before standing up to follow us. That tells us that he saw something he was not expecting. We can also bet that he's staying nearby that coffee shop."

"How do you know that? Maybe he was just exploring the city."

"Not likely. He was carrying a mask in his bag which he clearly wasn't expecting to need; that shows he's a very cautious person. He also has a tendency to stick to a schedule religiously, which means we can either find him here again sometime soon, or he lives very close by."

"There's no possible way you can know that just because of a thirty-second video from a traffic cam."

"No. Actually I know that because I watched the anime we came from to the end."

"What? That man is from our world?"

"Yes, he is. Although he didn't appear in Ellie's closet, which means we can't rule out the possibility that there are more of us here."

"Well, who is it?"

He turned to look at me. His eyes bore into mine as he whispered the name, "Teru Mikami."