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Chapter Twenty-Seven:

We followed the trail to a round room that had a throne in it, but it was devoid of any aside from us. Armonia was either very confident no one would dare confront him, or he was very foolish. I didn't care which one it were, both had their weaknesses. "Well well," I heard from behind me and I spun, taking in the form of a Shinigami who seemed to consist of goo and…eyeballs. My stomach made its opinion known as it churned in a I want to throw up type of way, but I ignored it and Nu spoke once more. "It seems we have visitors…live ones, too. Now that is an occurrence that I don't believe has ever happened before…" She paused and watched us, "If you were normal humans who owned Death Notes…then I would not be able to see your lifespans. I can see lifespans…but not your names."

That was good news, at least…it meant that Matsuda had followed my instructions and destroyed the three Death Notes in the Human World. "Yeah, well…we're unique," Light said, smirking as he started moving around me. What was he plotting? How would this help me? I didn't want him away from me I wanted him to stay next to me. And then I saw…he was angling around to as to distract Nu so I could do something. "I mean…we're humans in the Shinigami Realm, which should point out our rarity alone…" He stopped moving and most of her eyes moved toward him. I felt reluctant to use the sword so soon, but I didn't particularly feel like dealing with Nu. The sword, though, was meant for Armonia.

And then Armonia came into sight as if my thought had summoned him. I knew that weren't the case…I knew that was not true. But he floated out of the shadows, a single hand outstretched and he was holding a knife and he was standing right behind Light. "Light!" I screamed and he turned, ducking into a roll just before the knife struck the air his face had been in a moment earlier. All Hell broke loose as Nu threw herself towards Light who seemed to be holding her off just fine, and I stepped up to Armonia, my own sword glittering like diamonds despite the lack of proper lighting. My flashlight, I realized, was discarded on the floor but then he was driving that knife towards me and I stumbled backwards a bit.

I ducked, bringing my body into a squatting position briefly before stabbing upward towards Armonia's abdomen and rolling to avoid his dagger. The dance went on for a few more moments in this fashion, strike and dodge, strike and parry. I knew I needed an advantage soon or I would lose, his body simply did not get tired like mine would, and I chose to be a bit risky. I stepped toward him and stabbed at his throat. He moved at the last second, the blade of his knife meeting my hand where flesh met sword hilt and my newly acquired weapon went flying. I watched as it landed, occupying a space about ten feet from me, and dodged as he attacked again and looked at the shallow cut my right hand had sustained from his blade. Nothing major, I would live, although it would bleed quite a bit. I rolled out of the way and then my own sword was in Armonia's hand. I didn't see him move, I thought, and I looked up as the sword began to descend in a clean arc towards my chest. There was nothing for it, my body just didn't move like it had used to. The pregnancy slowed me, the extra weight and the fact that I was becoming disproportional and hadn't had sufficient training time to adjust to these new details were my downfall. I didn't want it to end like that…I didn't want them to end because of me.

Armonia froze, my sword dropping with a clatter at my feet and then I noticed a small, silvery-looking snake with its fangs buried in the Shinigami's neck before both snake and God of Death disappeared. I had a moment where Light's eyes met mine and I looked past him at where Nu was recovering on the floor of the cavern. She looked in our direction and I realized Light had used the snake around his wrist to save my life. "Light…Lawliet." I grabbed the sword as she grabbed her Death Note, apparently impatient to do away with the human that had caused her so much trouble, and I wondered if I could get there in time. I ignored the burning in my hand, suddenly numb to it considering Light's life was in danger, and she got up to defend herself a moment before her head was lopped off.

Her Death Note fell to the ground as the sword in my hand disappeared and she turned to sand and rust. I knelt and opened the note book and saw how close Light had come to death. Light Lawli - two more letters written and he would have been killed. I ripped the cover off the book and viciously tore at the pages and didn't stop until there was less of it left than a shredder could have done. It was then I noticed two things. The first was that Light's arms were around me and we were both kneeling on the ground at that point, and the second was that I was crying. I turned, wrapping my arms around him and burying my face in his shoulder.

"You stupid…idiotic…moronic…imbecile." I pulled away from him and hit him in the shoulder hard enough he said 'ow.' "You shouldn't have done that!"

"Hey," he said, grabbing both my shoulders and looking me in the eyes. "It worked out, didn't it? Besides…" he slipped a hand to my stomach, "I couldn't let him do that…" I nodded and threw my arms around him again, ignoring how cold it was in favor of just sitting there with him and felt safe in his arms. It was completely nonsensical, to feel safe with him, because I knew that he alone couldn't really make me safe from everything in the world…but I let myself get lost in the pretty lie. "Come on…let's get out of here."

I nodded again and slowly stood up, and together we made our way out of the cave and my right hand joined with his left, bracelets clinking together as we exited the mouth of the cave and I was hoping it would act as a doorway. Then the light surrounded us again and we were back in that purple room. There were a lot of things I'd been prepared for, but what we saw wasn't one of them. The dining room was a disaster zone and I could see Gerals and Evandra on the floor, a blue liquid seeping out of them and I ran in. No pulse…which meant they were dead. I looked around and spotted Aaron, wounded and unconscious, and then I heard Ryuk's voice from behind me and it wasn't his usual laugh.

"This place…cannot exist without The Oracles. The Place Between is centered on them, the Worlds need them…" His voice shook a bit as he spoke and I turned to face him, noticing he looked like he'd lost a favorite puppy. "There must always be two or the equilibrium will be…thrown off."

I headed back to Aaron's side and began to bandage the gash on his abdomen with strips of my shirt and I poured some water on his face and then his throat. He coughed, sitting up a bit and I helped him as he leaned heavily on me and regained consciousness. "I…saw it coming. I knew…it was inevitable and…would buy you two the time you needed but…" His gaze found Evandra's form on the floor and I flinched as he let out an agonized howl. His sister, his twin, was gone… I remembered how I felt when I'd seen Light clutching his chest at the hotel…and then in Mu when Nu had figured out his name. "No…" Aaron whispered and crawled to her side, tears sliding down his cheeks as he collapsed next to her, and the starlight that filtered in through the windows felt tainted with the blood that had been spilled.

Eventually we got the whole story from them. Armonia had shown up with Nu the day after Light and I had entered the Mu. The battle that had ensued lasted a day and a half as both parties tried to defend themselves while taking the offense, but eventually the Shinigami over-powered the Oracles and the blacksmith. Ryuk, who normally never took sides, had fought against the Shinigami on the side of The Oracles but it hadn't been enough. Eventually we managed to bury Gerald and Evandra and I asked for my last favor from Aaron that my brothers Mello and Matt be allowed to spend a night here and eat the food. I didn't explain any of it to Matt or Mello, they could figure it out when they wanted to, and Light asked Aaron if he could help Sayu and be a kind of mentor for her in controlling her precognition.

The following few months were busy as the bangles came off our wrists. We felt much safer since the Shinigami had voted and their new king, Ryuk, was safely on his throne and plenty busy in Mu. It also entered month five and we discovered the gender of the twins: female. Wonderful. I often found myself inept when in the same room with others of my gender, raising two girls was going to be interesting, to say the least. The irony did not escape me, either, but we had other things to focus on as Aaron and Sayu met more regularly.

I wasn't very surprised when Mello announced, to his own astonishment, that he had gotten with child and I was fairly certain Matt was happy about it as well. Near and Matsuda were often found together, arguing over action figures and toy train sets and we left them to it. I didn't know if that romance would ever develop or if they were both too oblivious to see the obvious attraction they each held for the other, but I wasn't going to force anything. Light and I spent more time at Sachiko's house with her and she fussed over me, annoyed she hadn't been invited to our wedding and I eventually agreed to have a second wedding in which more people could be invited if merely to sate her and she was happy. I kept in contact with Mogi as well, and Aizawa gradually stopped giving Light and I a hard time about our sexual orientation. It seemed he was finally coming around, that was a relief at least.

And Light and I were more or less happy. He got a job with the police, the job he'd always wanted in his pre Kira days apparently, and I resumed my role as L…super sleuth. But I didn't take as many cases as I once had, I let N take most of them and only helped him on occasion. I let Mello keep the names Coil and Deneuve. I liked the feeling that the others were out there if I didn't want to take a case, if I wanted to relax and not work for a while. I got busy as I began to set up a nursery in the apartment at Headquarters Light and I were still living in. Matsuda chose to live there as well, but Mello and Matt moved back to Whammy House which wasn't really a surprise. Mogi moved his family in and Near, while he didn't live there he had his own floor, but spent a considerable time on Matsuda's.

Misa got over it, grudges were mean things to keep and she didn't really have a mean heart. Her career flourished as was expected, but she kept our secret and I was grateful for that. She even began visiting us once in a while, and I got the impression that maybe someday she might even forgive us completely. And Light and I picked out names. Quinn, named after Watari (Quillsh), and Leona, named after my own birth mother who I knew had died in a car accident. It hadn't taken long to figure out the mysteries of my past and I hadn't initially wanted to, but Light convinced me I would feel better knowing the small things like who my mother had been, and it turned out he was right. He had developed a knack of knowing what would or wouldn't be good for me, and I didn't really mind…most of the time, anyway.

The one romance that surprised me the most was the one that developed between Sayu and Aaron. The two were a perfect example of opposites attracting, and eventually it was decided that Sayu could take up residency in The Place Between since two Seers were needed to keep balance. No one would ever truly replace Evandra, but Sayu didn't want to. It was hard to lose a loved one, especially a sibling, and Sayu understood that considering she'd believed Light to be dead for about ten years.

There weren't any complications with the pregnancy, and Sandra stayed in Japan until a few days after the twins were born, even though they were a few weeks early. The Caesarian surgery would leave a permanent mark on my stomach, but I didn't really mind the scar considering the two bundles of joy it had produced. I went on birth control and was glad to be back on my regular diet of all things sweet as time moved on, but my body seemed to have gotten used to actually sleeping and I wasn't sure I wanted to go back to the days of insomnia from before I'd gotten pregnant. Light preferred me getting sleep as well, and the theory of Pavlov's Bell rang true. His snores continued to put me to sleep, and it wasn't a bad thing. The twins, it turned out, were going to be the most pampered and spoiled girls on the planet. They had a sweet grandmother who would give them anything, and Aunt that was an Oracle and watched over the Worlds, then as other uncles the girls had the world's top three detectives as well as the Chief and Vice Chief of the police department looking out for them. And they had Light, a devoted father who was clumsy at first with them but he eventually got better at it. Oh, and they had me…but I wasn't really anything special, at least not in my opinion.

We'd still be extra careful and enroll the girls, when the time came, with the name Yagami just in case…and we had bracelets made for them and us just in case. Paranoia had its perks, and it had been useful in the past, and it never hurt to be too prepared.

As eccentric and odd as my life had turned out to be, certainly not how I'd ever pictured it would wind up, I realized this was a better happy ending than any I'd ever dreamt of before. Never could I have imagined any of this, which made it all the more perfect.

THE END

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