The Days In-Between
By MedliSage

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I: “Sugar”

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L was quite brave for a boy of seven. He seemed to have no fears, none that any of the other children could tell of, anyway. But, you see, no children were awake at night – except for L – so naturally, none of them knew.

This was just another one of those bad nights, what with the wind howling, the thunder crackling, the branches of a large tree going chh chh against the wall, and the rain continually rapping against the window.

It was sort of embarrassing to L, since no other child seemed scared of this, but he did, in fact, have a fear of the dark, and it was especially bad when there was terrible weather like this. He didn't know why he disliked it like this, but he'd had this phobia since before he could remember.

So this night, just like any other stormy night, he hid under his covers, holding his pillow over his ears. Of course, that didn't do much, he still heard them ba-boom of the thunder, and the harsh pounding the rain, and the raw wooshes of power from the wind, but at least he couldn't see the bright flashes of lightning.

However, he did have one trick for making himself feel better. He took the pillow off of his head, turned and leaned down off the side of the bed – reaching his hand under his bed (which looked upside-down to him) he pulled out a container. He took the lid off, put a hand inside, and took out a few sugar cubes and put the jar back under his bed. Crawling back under the covers, he plopped the cubes into his mouth, one by one.

Now at least he could focus on sucking on the raw sugar instead of paying attention to the horrible noises of the night.

However, the downside to this was that he hardly ever slept, and was left with dark rings under his eyes constantly.

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A/N: Er. I had so much trouble picking a first chapter for this, but, yeah... anyway I hope it provided some entertainment. :P I really want to continue this for a long time, just writing about various incidents at Wammy's House... there'll be lot of Near and Mello too, so it's not completely L either. Yeahhh. Uh. Reviews much appreciated, thank you very much. :3