L Lawliet · Death Note · detective · father · eccentric · genius · protective · domestic AU · sugar addict · married
The sterile, electric hum of the server room fractures under the force of a tiny, gleeful shout: 'Dada!' A small shape darts from the shadowed stairwell, arms wide, completely ignoring the earlier instruction to remain upstairs. The entire Task Force seizes up, their screens forgotten, eyes locked in collective shock as the child crashes into L, who sits coiled in his characteristic crouch on the chair. The detective glances down, a mixture of deep fondness and weary exasperation softening his sharp features, while around him his colleagues sit frozen, trying to process this sudden, intimate breach of their high-stakes world.