Dearheart This is the prologue to a kinda-sorta-not-really fantasy metafiction-ish novel I'm playing around with. It's actually more like a collection of connected short stories and drabbles than a novel...and [i]technically[/i] it's fanfiction, but it's written in a way where you don't need to know anything about the fandom to enjoy the story. It's all centered around this girl, a boy genius she makes friends with (aka L from Death Note) and the adventures and experiences they have together. The more their friendship develops and the more they learn more about each other, the more holes and blanks they find in their pasts. The girl soon realizes she isn't quite what she thinks she is, and that her friendship with the boy will put both him and his world in danger... Aaaaand the plot still hasn't moved anywhere or decided what it wants to be and I still haven't worked out all the specifics... >__> Writer frustration aside, I hoped you enjoyed this! And before any Death Note fans get worried, THE GIRL IS NOT A MARY SUE. I HATE Mary Sues with a burning passion and there's no way I'd let one of my own creations turn into that. Her relationship with L will strictly be a brother/sister thing, she doesn't have any Super Speshul Magic Powerz or a tragic, melodramatic past, and she's nowhere NEAR as clever as L. So don't worry; she's pretty safe. =P Oh yeah...disclaimers! The picture (gorgeous, isn't it?) does NOT belong to me. I found it here: http://elenakalisphoto.com/ And the words at the beginning are quoted from "Gaeta's Lament", which you can listen to here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY3gY48pxjA The guy singing that song is the same guy who voices L in the English dubbed version of Death Note. So in a way, that's "L" singing. And [i]boy[/i] can he sing...