Death doesn't scare me [L x Reader] • Death Note

Chapter 48 | remember

Many years before the current events took place, there was a memory that stood out to you.

A knock on your door could be heard from down the hallway, you were dressed in your usual black as you'd attended a funeral in the graveyard that morning. Your father got up from the table where he had his lunch break, and you were too occupied with your toy skeleton in the other room to care.

When he opened the front door, he was met with the in so familiar face of your one and only friend who wasn't scared of the graveyard.

"Hey it's the tiny vampire. You here for my baby bat?" He asked.

"Yeah, can (y/n) come play?" A very small L asked.

Calling you in from the other room, the second you heard L was at the door you dropped everything and ran up the hall.

L as usual showed up bare foot, his feet covered in grass from the freshly cut lawn by the entrance gates of the graveyard. You wondered how the hell he walked up the bath barefoot when it was the middle of summer and the bricks felt hot enough to fry and egg. Quickly forcing your feet into your Mary Janes you'd worn earlier that day and carelessly left by the door, your dad gave you both the usual speech.

"Stay in the graveyard or the orphanage and don't wander too far into the woods" your dad said.

"Yeah yeah I know. You say that every time!" You replied, skipping down the front steps with L off to play.

By now it was an almost daily occurrence for one of you to knock on the others door and ask to play, soon enough you wouldn't even need to ask your just end up showing up like it's nothing. L would have already done his classes by now, and you didn't have school this week so you were free on the hot summers day to play all you wanted. Despite the harsh summer sun, both you and L remained pale as you'd always play inside or in the shade of the trees.

"Wanna dig graves for my dolls? Or we can go into the orphanage bathroom and try and summon Bloody Mary" you suggested as you wove through the headstones to the gate of the cemetery.

"Actually I want to show you something" L replied.

That peaked your 9 year old interest for sure, L always had cool things to play with.

"Like what?" You asked.

"Come on"

He took your arm and pulled you through the gates of the orphanage next door where you followed him inside and both of you completely ignored all the other kids running the halls in a mission up the spiral stairs and into the library. The jarrah wood floorboards creaked in the old building, apparently before it was an orphanage it was a fancy church. New rooms were added when it became an orphanage. The rooms that were originally a church looked rather haunted, you always hoped you'd see a ghost here when you had sleepovers with L. The library was empty at the moment, most kids wanting to play outside in the nice weather. L climbed up onto the step stool by one of the shelves and stood on his tip-toes to reach the top shelf. On that shelf were VHS tapes, and he took one from the stack and jumped off the stool with it.

"Look! I found it when mr wammy asked me to help organise the shelves" he said, holding up the tape.

On the tape was a logo on a sticker that made you exited.

(1931) Bela Lugosi - Dracula.

"Woah you have Dracula? Can we watch it?!" You exclaimed.

"Will your dad let you? Mr wammy says it's scary"

"My dads a graveyard owner"

"Yeah he wouldn't really care would he? If no ones using the TV I'll lock the door so none of the other kids walk in and we can watch it" L replied.

At the ripe old age of 9, you and L sat in the orphanages audio visual room in front of the big, chunky old TV. Watching an old dusty VHS tape of the original black and white Dracula for the first time. Any kid would be scared of a vampire movie, but neither of you flinched. You both loved it.

When it was over you went looking on the same shelf for another monster movie to watch.

"I think there's another Dracula movie about his daughter somewhere" L said, standing dangerously on the step stool as he looked through the movies.

You stood behind him, ready to catch him if he fell.

"You know you're kind of like Dracula. You're pale and never leave the house in the sun, you hate garlic too. Are you secretly a vampire?" You joked.

"If I'm Dracula then what are you? One of my vampire brides?" L joked back.

"Yep! Hey we should make a new game! Like hide and seek but vampires. The seeker is the vampire and the hider is the human. The vampire has to find the human expect they can't touch the sun. If the human is found they can make a run for it and if they get into the sun they're safe, but if they get caught they turn into a vampire too. The seeker is Dracula, the first person they find is their wife and the third is their daughter!" You explained.

L liked the idea of this new game, and almost fell off the step stool when he excitedly turned to face you.

"We should play it! But who would want to play with us? No one ever does" L asked.

All the other kids were a bit scared of L after he incident when he first arrived. He may or may not have quickly asserted himself as a threat by beating a few kids up out of fright. And when he started hanging out with the creepy graveyard girl who had a headless doll, everyone kind of left the two of you be thinking you were both weird.

"Hmm... well it can be just us this time. But one day we can have someone to be our vampire daughter"

That childhood memory played in your head as you sat in your claw foot chair in taskforce, watching L work. The death note securely upstairs and hidden, planned to be revealed as soon as Higuchis offical statement came through.

One day you'd have someone to be your vampire daughter...

You know what? Maybe 9 year old you was onto something.