Stone Children

A/N: Karaage- A the poor dear… he’s a bit of an old fashioned romantic…


Ch 4. What it Means to Love


A stood there for a moment, but before he could say anything, Roger came running down the hall. "BACKUP!" He yelled grabbing the raven-haired boy. "You sick perverted..." He yelled, shaking him.

L appeared at the doorway. "What is it Roger?"

Roger was livid, "Backup just molested a student out in the gardens."

Beyond struggled to free himself from Roger's hold. "Let me go!! LET ME FUCKING GO!"

Roger narrowed his eyes at B. "Hold still, you little fucker. You're in serious trouble. You'll be shipped away for this!"

L sighed. "Let the boy go."
Roger reluctantly let him go.

"Now what the fuck is going on?" L asked.
"Backup molested A in the gardens. We can’t have this kind of behavior, L! Ship him off!" Roger shouted.

L made a face, and felt his hand again. He now knew what it was.

"Calm down Roger. Let B do kitchen duty and let him clean out the old files room. It's his first offense and it won’t happen again, right, Beyond?" He asked turning to look at the boy.

B's eyes went straight to L. What the hell was going on? Wasn't L a spoiled rotten brat? Why was he saving him? His eyes moved back to Roger and then to A. He moved to go close to the blond boy wanting to feel near him. "I didn't hurt him. We were playing a game. Tell them."

Roger turned to look at A, along with L.

A's eyes were brimming with unshed tears and hurt. His face was crimson and he was extremely embarrassed. He shook his head, shrinking into himself, wanting to disappear.

B's mouth gaped at him in horror. "ADEN! I DIDN"T HURT YOU! TELL HIM!"

Both Roger and L looked at B. "Your first and only warning. Don’t call him by his name." L said.

A burst into tears. "H-he didn’t hurt me." He whispered.

Roger looked daggers at B. "See Roger, no harm no foul. Just give him kitchen duty and get him to clean out the file room. I'll take care of the rest." He said dismissing Roger.

"If you say so L," Roger said as he walked back to his office.


Beyond followed Roger to his office so that he could get his punishment. He looked back to A and just watched him.

L narrowed his eyes at A. "Alternate, you disgust me. You and beyond have been spending too much time together it seems." He growled at the blonde. "Go back to your studies."

A ran off sobbing.

Roger did as L told him and gave him kitchen and file duty.

B tied his hair back as he began with the file room. He had to sort out all the cases and place them in their rightful place. He disliked work and the fact that the room was dark and dusty wasn't helping.

L walked in and stood there leaning up against a file cabinet. "Did you wash your hands? I don’t want cum on my files." He said a bit pissy.

"Yes I washed them..." He was looking at case names and filing them in alphabetical order. "Thanks for helping me."


"I didn’t do it for you. Roger is an asshole when it comes to sex." He stated as he watched B. "You have to stop spending so much time with A though."

"I like A a lot. I don't want to not be around him." He kept working looking at every file. "Who solved all theses?"

"These are all mine. I have been meaning to do this for a while but I've been too busy." He sighed.

"You broke one of the major house rules. I put my ass out on the line for you. Roger will have my head if he sees you any where near A."

"You did all of this?" He turned and looked at him. "But you’re what? 13?"

"Yes. What does age have to do with anything?" He said confused.

"How old were you when you started?"

"I can’t remember honestly. I think it was 7." He answered, glad for the attention.

"Amazing..." He began flipping through the files reading them. "So this is what the great L does for a living... I never knew that you even existed until I came here."

"Yeah not many people do." He said sourly. "Hey no reading! Get to work!" he yelled at B. "What room number are you in? I want to send up new linens and dinner."

He dropped the file but picked it up quickly. "I don't sleep in beds"

"Go wash up for dinner, then you can finish. Better yet have dinner with me in my study." He said as he crossed his arms.

He walked out of the room and hurried to get cleaned up. He found A in the bedroom. "Aden..." he whispered as he shut the door behind him. “I’m so sorry if I said or did anything wrong. I didn't mean to..."

A looked up from where he had been laying on the bed curled up crying. "It's okay, I'm just too sensitive. I thought you cared about me. That’s why I let you do...that…" he said burying his face into his pillow.

"I do care!" Beyond ran over and touched A's back. "I care for you more than anything. I told you I did." B felt his heart slowly sink in his chest.

"You called it a game and fun. You don’t do something like that for fun or for a game. It’s supposed to be something special between two people... who...love and care...about each other." He sighed burying his face farther into his pillow.

"I don't understand... I was told it was a game, something fun to do."

He curled up more into his self, his face burning. "Its not," came the muffled reply.

Beyond laid his hand on A's shoulder. "I do care about you Aden. I only care about you."

A resurfaced a bit for air, his face turned away from Beyond. "I think I love you..." He muttered. "What we did...was special to me.... Intimate..." He whispered, trying to explain.

"You love me?" He didn't understand. "But I'm a demon," he whispered. It’s what that woman called him. He knew things and saw things and worst of all he did evil things. He was dirty just like that man said. "No one can love a murderer..."

"Everyone has flaws; everyone has darkness in side of them. It doesn’t matter to me." He said turning over and looking at him. "I do, does that make me a no one then?" He asked jokingly.

Beyond dropped to his knees in front of him and kissed the blonde’s lips. "I really like you Aden... I don't know how to love or what it is but I care for you deeply."

"It sounds like it to me." He said with a warm smile as he kissed him sweetly.

"You are someone A... You are Aden Mikkelsin and no one, not even Roger or Mr. Wammy will take that from you."

He smiled. "I’m glad you, think so." He sat up, "Do you want to have dinner with me?"

"I'm really tired... How about we go lay down?"

"Okay." He said getting up from the bed and making the makeshift bed in the tub for them. He got in and waited for B to join him.

Beyond laid down next to him and curled up with him. He really did care about A. He was going to have to be careful with how he showed that.

L waited for 30 minutes and when B didn’t come back, he went looking for him. He ventured to room 13, which he found empty. He tried the bathroom.

He walked in and saw the two curled up together like some sort of couple. It kind of made him sick.

He tapped B awake. "Beyond."

He blinked his eyes a few times and looked at L. "Yes?"

"Why are you in A's room?"

"Because I'm sleeping."

"Roger would flip and you would definitely be shipped off especially considering what happened not even a couple of hours ago. Now go to your room." L said holding out his hand to help him out of the tub.

"I don't have one." He slowly slid from the tub and looked back at A. "Why is what we did so horrible?"


"Roger is an old fart. You both are too young to be doing stuff like that, according to him. In addition, you did it where cameras and the public could see. He just jumped to conclusions. Making love is a private affair between two people, it’s not bad, and it’s just not meant for public eyes." He explained.

"Now come on, I'll sign you a room. Just go down and get Hannah to give you some linen while I found an empty room, okay?"

He walked to the door but stopped as another thought came to him. "We weren't 'making love'. I was touching him." with that he left the room and went to do as told.