Death Note: Game Over (An AU fanfiction)

Epilogue Part 2: Lawliet

When L opened his eyes, he was so relieved to be able to do so that he didn't care where he was. It didn't matter where he was. The fact that he was still breathing meant that he had passed the Shinigami King's tests and had been returned to earth.

"L, you are awake!" 

L sat up and looked around. He was in a hospital bed with thin blue blankets. There was an IV in his right arm and a LED clasped on one of his right fingers that connected to a heart rate monitor. Various wires poked from L's arms and beneath his shirt, attached to various machines. 

Sitting in a chair next to the bed was Chief Yagami.

"What happened?" L asked, though he had a pretty good idea what must have happened after he passed out.

"You suddenly fell to the ground. We thought it was a heart attack at first, but you had a steady pulse though it was alarmingly weak. We brought you to the closest hospital. Don't worry, we checked you in under an alias provided to us by Near. The doctors said you were in a coma, but had no idea how or why. You have been out for three days straight," Chief Yagami said.

L read the Chief's face as he spoke.

"It wasn't your fault," L said.

"We demanded Kira tell us what he did to you, but he just laughed in our faces and said he had nothing to do with your condition, though he deeply wished he did," Chief Yagami continued. "He has to be behind it. But how he could do it without his death note, we don't_"

"Kira didn't do this to me. I don't doubt that he would if he could, though. I was brought back to life by the Shinigami King to catch Kira. He took me from my body so that we could speak to each other in the Shinigami Realm. Tell me, what happened to the death notes we hid?"

Chief Yagami gaped at L for a second then began to speak, "They disappeared. We can't find them."

L gave a sigh of relief, "Good. Ryuk took both of them with him back to the Shinigami Realm. He now has one and the Shinigami King has the other per my request. The death notes are out of mortal hands for good."

"So the King just wanted to speak with you?" Chief Yagami asked.

"He wanted to see if I would accept the death notes and become like Kira. It was a test," L said.

"A test? What would have happened had you failed?"

L looked around the room, "My coma would have been permenant and I would have died. Is there any coffee with sugar here?"

Chief Yagami just stared at L blankly. "You almost died again and all you can think about is sugar!"

"Almost dying makes you want the sweet things in life while you can still have them," L commented dryly.

"What are you doing sitting up!" A fussy voice demanded.

Moments later L found himself being pushed down to a lying position by a pair of unyielding hands.

A nurse with grey-hair in a severe bun stood over him, her gaze every bit as hard as her hands. "You only just woke Mr. Lynch. You shouldn't be sitting up yet."

"I am fine," L protested. 

"Okay then. Try and stand for me," The nurse said taking her hands off him and crossing her arms.

L sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed. He found his legs unable to support him, however. 

The nurse caught him and then put him back in the bed again.