Beyond's POV

I wasn't entirely sure what I was watching through the window. The sun was barely rising over the tree line that hid the orphanage from view, yet all the residence of Wammy's house were outside under the large oak by the gate. Although they were mostly hidden by the shadows, I could make out Wammy's white hair shining through the darkness. L seemed to have the two oldest by their shoulders and Anna was down on one knee talking to the youngest. The baby must have been in the carrier since she wasn't in her room, I'd checked. I bit the inside of my cheek until I could taste copper on my tongue. I dropped the curtain and blocked my own view of the scene outside and went to go rinse the blood out of my mouth.

Anna's POV

"Be good for Wammy." I warned fighting back tears. This was much harder than I'd expected it to be. I brushed Near's hair back and pressed kisses to both of his cheeks. "I want you to have this." I pulled a small gold chain with a cross on the end and clasped it around his neck. "It's to keep you safe while you're away, do you understand?"

Near nodded and began fiddling with the cross listlessly, "How long do we need to be gone?" He asked and I glanced over to where L stood. He'd been with Matt and Mello, but had moved over to be with Wammy at some point and was now speaking in low tones.

"We'll come for you all soon." I promised as Matt and Mello came over. "You two, come here for a moment." I pulled out the silver and black chains from my pocket and held them out to the boys, displaying the crosses on the end of each. "Pick one." I commanded. Matt took the silver and put it on before Mello could even reach his hand out. "Watch out for one another, alright?" I asked and they nodded.

"They'll be okay." I looked up to see L had come over to us. I stood up from where I had been crouched on the ground and walked into his one armed embrace.

"How do you know?" Mello asked in a much harsher tone than needed to be used at six in the morning.

L hesitated before answering. In truth, this was simply the only plan we had. Shipping the kids out of the country just seemed like the safest idea. After all, it was L that Ace wanted dead. "Because you're our kids and we raised you to be alright."

I looked L over for a second and smiled. I kissed Matt's and Mello's cheeks before ushering them into the car. I picked Gia up out of the baby carrier and held her close to me. I kissed her forehead and handed her to L who did the same before passing our daughter off to Wammy. Wammy strapped her into her car seat between Mello and Near, while Matt rode shotgun. Once the children were secure, he approached us. "Are you sure there's nothing else I can do for you before we leave?" He asked.

L and I shook our heads. "Just keep our kids safe." I requested.

Wammy nodded and enveloped us in a tight hug, "Keep one another safe. I hope to be hearing from you soon." With that he left us standing in the yard, watching the car disappear down the road.

I cleared my throat in an attempt to stop any tears that had formed in my eyes. I would see them again soon. After composing myself, I turned to L and held out my hand. "Ready to kick some ass?"

He clasped my hand in his, "Absolutely."

I raised my eyebrows at him and began pulling him toward the guest house, "Let's get to work then."

L's POV

It didn't take very long to turn the guest house into a headquarters and even less time to dig up the needed information from the Los Angeles Police Department on B's relationship to Ace Robertson. Anna was lying on the bed reading over files on Ace while I sat at the table reading over Beyond's file. I already knew most of it, I was the one that put it together. Anna had been very torn up after that investigation, we'd both been hurt by the idea that our childhood friend had become a killer- felt responsible even.

Suddenly, Anna shut her file and let out a noise of frustration. "They were never even around one another, so how the hell did B let him in on everything?"

I shut my own file and leaned onto my knees. "I'm not sure, B was in solitary for most of his confinement." I placed my thumb to my lips and tried to think of how they could have done it. Suddenly an idea hit me, "Let me see his file." Without hesitation, Anna passed me the file. I flipped through it and stopped after a few pages, "Here. Robertson was on kitchen duty in the five months before his release. I'm willing to bet that that is where he met Beyond. Beond was released from solitary the month before Robertson was released. In the time between B must have let it slip that he knew me." I looked up at Anna who just nodded and took the file back.

She leaned against the table, almost sitting on it. I watched her as she read over the page I'd been on and then she dropped it onto the table next to her and ran her hands over her face in frustration. "This isn't going to help us find him."

I watched her move over to where the laptop we used for cases was and typed away. "What are you doing?"

She didn't look up as she continued to type away. After she seemed to finish what she was doing she looked up at me, "Sending Robertson's picture to every police agency in England. If he pops up, he'll be arrested on sight. It's unlikely, but it'll have to do for the moment."

"And if he is arrested?" I asked.

"We'll get an email alert. Being the world's greatest detective has its perks." She smirked and leaned back in her chair until she was in danger of falling over. "Until then, we will have to interrogate B. We'll have to do it in a way that he will be willing to reveal Robertson's whereabouts to us because if we ask straight up we won't get an answer."

I ran a hand through my hair, "I should have let him come to me back at the hotel. I could have ended this." I felt Anna drape her arms around my shoulders and press a kiss to my cheek in an attempt to calm my irritation.

"I didn't want you to do that." She spoke quietly and carefully. "We're going to do this together. Letting him come to you would have been too dangerous."

"I was willing to risk it."

"Well I wasn't." She said moving to stand beside me, leaning against the table once more.

I look up at her and she and I stared at one another for what seemed like an eternity before she finally looked away. She was scared. There were very few times I'd seen Anna genuinely scared while on a case. As far as we were concerned, we were the best and the best were invincible. We never had to worry, but now she was scared out of her mind. "You're frightened."

She looked up from the floor to meet my eye and then pushed off the and crossing the room, "Beyond told me Ace was heading up to where you were at the very last second. I'm almost positive that he thought it would be too late and honestly I thought so too. You probably barely missed him and I thought you were going to die and I didn't know what to do without you. This isn't a normal case. We're fighting for our lives here and our buddy in there isn't on our team. He's going to do whatever he has to in order to put us in so much pain and get our focus somewhere else. So yes, I'm absolutely terrified."

I got up from my seat and grabbed her hand, "You don't have to be. We caught Ace once, we can do it again. Now we have every officer in England looking for him. Let's figure out how we're going to break Beyond."