Kira Arisen (Death Note Alternate End)

The Lost Soul

*One Year Earlier*

I was stirred lightly from my sleep by two light, yet harsh sounding beeps resonating from my laptop across the room.
"Lucian."
I blearily open my eyes and find myself leaning against the wall.
I fell asleep standing again.
"Lawliet..." I blinked, or at least tried to, my sleep away. I staggered, almost fell, as I walked forward.
"You did it again." I heard L say, and I can almost feel myself fall forward, "Get to the papers. Now." He says forcefully, and I stagger, bleary eyed to the laptop.
Next to it are small, square papers. Yellow, almost looking like sticky notes. However, I feel my eyes close, and my head spin.
"Lucian, don't go to sleep again." L says with a snap over the computer, "Hurry and put the paper on your skin. Now." He says this urgently, and mind almost listens.
Almost.
"I...can't..." My eyes drift open, then shut again.
I tried. I can't even wake up at a normal time.
I feel my legs give out uncontrollably as I collapse to the floor. I breathe out a hollow apology.
"I understand. We will try tomorrow. Just...sleep. Sleep for me, Lucian."
Two beeps declare L cut the connection.

I wake up again what I predict to be three hours later, on the floor. The floor of my room is padded, since I have a terrible tendancy of collapsing when I cannot control my narcoleptic habits.
But still, there is just that terrifying feeling of falling when you can't control it.
I pick myself up off the floor and go to my laptop, grabbing the papers L meant for me to manage to use this morning. I pick one up, firmly pressing it's surface on my wrist.
Instantly, I feel more awake. It's a drug, specifically a base form of Ridlin, than is absorbed through my skin. It's fast reacting, so it can manage to save me from collapsing when I try to wake up at noon each morning.
But it didn't work today.
I slap two, three more for good measure on my right arm, and my computer beeps twice again, L's emblem appearing on the screen.
"Lucian, are you awake now?"
I rub the papers in my skin solidly, and take a deep breath. That's better...although I don't trust myself to sit.
I never do.
"Yes. I'm sorry for this morning. I'll try to fall asleep tonight next to the monitor so that maybe I can-"
My door opens so suddenly that I jolt, and before I can blink, L is in here, and a swift kick to my shoulder sends me spiraling into the wall behind me.
"It's not good enough." L snaps, "You have to be ready to be awake earlier, Lucian. Don't you understand why you are even here anymore?"
Another kick comes sailing to my face, but I shoot my palm out in front of me just in time to block it, but not without a harsh smack and a jolt of pain.
"To be L." I say, but I clench my teeth as I grip his foot and twist, "But you have Near. Mellow." I grip with my other hand and spin L's now mid air frame as he lands on the ground below me, "Why do you really need me, L?!"
L grunts below me, but then I feel him kick my feet.
I'm on the ground next to him in two seconds. The very next, his heel is on my neck, as his hand retrieves balance from the wall.
"Everyone knows about Near and Mellow." He says evenly, "You are practically nonexistent, and you like it. You can't be out in daylight for long, and that works nicely for keeping you a secret." He leans down closer to me, and I groan.
"I didn't pick you up out of a barn when you were ten years old because you wanted me to, Lucian, I did so because we both needed it."
He stands up, releasing me from his hold as I cough a good measure. I blink up at him, and he reaches his hand down.
Taking it, I let him pull me up.
But I just fall right back down again.
"Your cataplexy." He sighs as his hands go deep into their pockets, "Remind me...what is the difference between the two again?" His eyes droop.
"Cataplexy is just my legs randomly loosing feeling." I shake my head, and instantly they are back again, "It only can last from five to ten seconds. Narcolepsy is falling asleep randomly. That is...erratic." I stand up, and he nods.
He pauses for a moment, musing as I see his thumb trace over his lip in a bleary stare.
"Lucian, I wish I had your problem." He says lowly and I shake my head, seeing the dark circles under his eyes.
"And I wish I had yours." I note. My eyes burn sometimes, trying to stay awake. Every once in awhile, I let myself look in a mirror only to see how red they are.
"We both have our flaws." Lawliet sits on my bed, his knees rising up to his chest as his hands cup over them, "Now, let's begin with with our memory testing, hm?"
I nod.
L pulls out a picture of the Wammy House kitchen, a place I have never personally been to before. It's a side view, and some people are walking around when the picture was taken.
Five seconds, and the picture is gone.
"Go." He says.
I close my eyes as I feel the piece of chalk I have been holding slip out of my sleeve. It lands in my palm, thankfully unbroken from L and I's scuffle.
I draw, with my eyes closed, an overhead view of the kitchen I have never entered.
If I had my eyes open, this would be far too easy. My memory is photographic, and even though I am having a basically key-hole view of the place, my eyes open with my visionary memory in store...it's almost cheating.
But with my eyes closed, it's a bit harder. I have to feel as I draw, trying to remember where I placed every line, and how the maze would play out in my world of darkness...
"Five more seconds." Lawliet says, and I scratch more lines on the the blackboard wall furiously. I'm done, and I open my eyes as L smirks.
"Perfect." He says, standing, and looking over my maze. He swipes a quick finger over a line that crossed another near the top, "Except that one."
I smile, shaking my head.
"Tomorrow can you please try waking up again?" He says, turning slightly once his hand lands on the handle.
"I'll try Lawliet..." I say uneasily, shifting on my feet.
"Lucian, I will come in here and kick you." His eyes narrow.
"And I'll smack those circles off your eyes." I raise my open palm, and that wins a challenging grin from L, something you don't see very often.
"We'll see, Lucian."
He closes the door behind him.

*Present Day*

I wake to...no tones.
I sit up abruptly, with a gasp as I finger my hand over my watch.
5:26 P.M.
"Lawliet...?!" I slurr as I push myself off of my wall I leaned on last night. Chalk is on the side of my shirt, and the maze I was working on covers half of the left wall of my room. I take staggering steps over to my computer, slapping on a yellow paper before my eyes droop.
I type Lawliet's code into my keyboard to message him. Two beeps sound, and his emblem appears on the screen.
"Lawliet." I say into the microphone, "What is happening? It is five thirty. Did I not respond to you?"
Nothing.
"Lawliet." I say again. Nothing.
The line is dead.
What is this? Some sort of...tease? He can't be joking around like this, not after he's been letting me see his files on the Kira case and edit them...
I let out a sigh. Did he figure out Light was Kira yet? I know it must be him, but he denies it. Over the past few days he has been leaning more and more to his old theory, and I've been encouraging him.
But today...he hasn't woken me up? I've been doing...okay recently. I actually stayed up for an hour later than usual.
I felt horrible, but I did it.
"L...what's going on?" I say slowly, fingering the keys mindlessly.
Suddenly, I feel the door slam open.
"On the ground, now!" A voice booms, and I turn to see a masked policeman facing me, his gun trained to me.
"Who are you?" I ask calmly, but the man goes to hit my head with the butt of his gun.
I grab the end of it, ripping it out of his hands with my gloved ones. I throw the gun to the ground.
"I'll ask again...who are you?" I say with more force as I step towards the man.
"Kid, you have to be living under a rock to not know who we are." He says with a growl.
"I do." I narrow my eyes.
"Good point."
That voice that replied was not the guard. I recognize that voice.
Light Yagami.
"You do basically live under a rock, that rock being Wammy's House." He steps into the dim light of my chalk covered room, glancing around, "Which is completely empty by the way. You can thank L for that." He says cynically, and a chuckle bubbles from his lips.
My teeth clench.
"What..." I seethe.
"You're finished. Everything is finished, and you were L's mighty fail safe plan!" Light says as I feel cuffs quickly go around my arms that are flung behind my back, "To be honest...I'm disappointed." Light raises a hand, "This is what L was hiding behind his puppet predecessors? Sickening."
I growl something between a curse and a snarl.
"I'll show you sick, Kira..." I say shakily, but he only rolls his eyes.
"You aren't worth my attention." He waves his hand, "Put him in a priority cell. I'll look up his documents when I decide to kill him or use him...that may take awhile." He looks back me, as I see one of the guards grab a blindfold from his pocket.
"We'll make sure our pet L is nice and comfortable."