Tw for kidnapping and peep rooms, kinda dark but it happens in chobits so it's being retold with a twist here for the AU.

L had been doing so well with learning, you'd decided to let him go run another errand. He came back perfectly fine last time, so you figured he'd manage a quick trip this time as well. Busy with cooking lunch, you didn't want me leave hot food unattended but you needed some batteries for the dead remote or you'd not be able to watch TV with L.

So you gave him his bag, made sure he was dressed up for an outing and sent him on his way with the instructions of getting some AA batteries.

"Batteries..." L muttered to himself, looking around at the shops in the shopping strip.

He knew they'd be in an electric shop, so he had to find one using his navigation system. The street was busy today, as it was a weekend and people were out shopping and taking advantage of sales.

"Batteries... Batteries... Batteries..." he repeated, looking for a shop that sold them.

Passing by a display window, he stopped to take a look up at what was in display. A row of persacoms, dressed in default clothing and all switched off ready to be bought. The price tag was high, all of them the latest model. Even though he two was a persacom, none of them looked like him at all. They were all human looking with ear ports yes, but none were as detailed as he was. They all had a straight posture, flawless skin and basic haircuts. He stood slouched, had eyebags airbrushed under his eyes and fluffy hair that one could compare to the 'emo' cut.

"Persacoms are electronic... batteries in persacom shop?" He questioned, turning to head inside.

Sure enough it wasn't just persacoms they sold, it was TVs, computers, cameras, radios and all kind of other electronics. He wandered the isles until he found the AA batteries you needed, and then checked the price. He took out the exact amount needed and took them up to the counter just as you'd taught him.

"Oh wow, you're a persacom! I almost thought you were a human" the cashier said.

L put the batteries on the counter, and the money he placed in a neat stack next to it.

"Batteries, please" he said.

The cashier scanned the batteries, and counted the money to make sure it was right.

"You're a pretty spiffy persacom, bet you'd cost a fortune. You be careful ok? Don't want anyone trying to rip off your design, your owner wouldn't be happy" the cashier warned, handing him the receipt and batteries.

"Thank you" L simply replied, putting everything in his bag and heading out.

His goal successfully completed, he began to head back to the apartment to deliver the batteries so you could watch TV over lunch. He liked watching TV, it meant he could learn things. He particularly liked detective shows, he found trying to solve the crime before the show ended fun. It was a good way to make his AI learn how to problem solve.

L absent mindedly walked along the path of the shopping strip, his destination set for home and not really thinking of anything else apart of getting back to you.

A whistle caught his attention, and he turned to see the source of the noise. Just behind him was a man a little taller than him, although if he stood up straight might be the same height.

"Well aren't you one detailed persacom..." the man said.

L did know about stranger danger, you had taught him about it several times. But he got this line so often, he didn't think much of it. Everyone was always telling him he was a special persacom.

"L is custom" he replied.

"L? Strange name. But then again anyone shut in enough to spend that much time making you so realistic is probably a bit strange" the man said.

He looked L up and down, looking at all the details he had. The fluffy hair, the custom skin design with eyebags, the slouched spine. The clothes he wore were an outfit you'd picked for him, thinking he'd be cute in. Some blue shorts and white leg warmers, a loose white knit hoodie with pom poms on the drawstrings and some strawberry crocs. L didn't really mind you dressing him up, if it made you happy, he was happy.

"You know L, you could probably make a lot of money with such a unique look" the man said.

"Money?" L asked.

"Yeah, a lot of it"

L was silent for a moment, you did say you wanted a little extra money to help with upgrading the apartment... but he quickly remembered stranger danger and decided to not enquire.

"L has to bring batteries to (y/n)" L said, turning to walk away.

"That your owner? Wouldn't they like it if you helped them?" The man said.

L stopped again, tempted. He wanted to help you, that was his purpose. But he knew better than to trust a stranger, and he'd seen enough detective shows to know a sketchy person.

"(Y/n) needs batteries now..." L replied.

He only took a few steps before he felt the man grab him under the arms and pick him up.

"Wh- let go! Stranger danger!" He said.

"I'll let ya go after you do me a favour..."

L knew he should fight back, but he hasn't learnt how to yet. The best he could do was thrash around and hope to wiggle out, but the man's grip was strong and he was powerless against him.

Meanwhile back at your apartment, you were starting to get worried. L didn't take this long last time... maybe he was still to new to everything and got lost?

You'd finished your lunch in silence without the TV or L to listen to, wondering what was taking him so long. He should be back by now. Getting kind of worried, you decided to head out and see if he got lost in one of the shops or something. Stuffing your shoes on, you locked up the apartment and headed down the halls where you ran into Misa coming back from grabbing her mail.

"Oh, hey (y/n). Where you headed?" She asked.

"To find L, I sent him out to get batteries but he hasn't come back in ages. Maybe he's still too new to this and got lost" you replied.

"Oh Rem can track him, when she tried to scan him she couldn't get into his locked data but she could get his gps chip"

What a relief, you were worried you'd be wandering around forever looking for him. Misa pulled Rem from her pocket, and tapped her awake.

"Hey Rem, can you track L? He's gotten a bit lost" she asked.

"Tracking L..." she replied, scanning through the mobile signals to try and find him. It didn't take long for her to come up with a king.

"L is at 35B on Oshinaka street"

You immediately went into panic mode. That was NOT where you sent him, even worse...

"The red light district?!" Misa questioned.

"How the hell did he get there? That's way past were all the safe clubs are too" you panicked.

"Oh fuck, he might have been taken by someone looking to rip his design or something. It doesn't happen often but there have been a few cases of custom persacoms being stolen and having their programming or design ripped off"

No way, not on your watch. L was yours, you found him, you lived with him, he referred to you as his owner, he was yours.

"We need to find him" you said.

"Rem GPS the way, tell us how to get there!" Misa replied, already on board with helping.

The two of you rushed out, following Rems directions to get there.

Misa had the right idea, but the wrong guess. L had been snatched because he was a custom, but not for his design or programming. L wasn't exactly sure what was going on, he'd never learnt this before. But the man had placed him in a room with a chair, and left him there. L just sat there, not sure what to do.

"Can you sit normally?" The man's voice said, through a speaker.

"L?" He questioned, looking down at the way he sat.

He liked to sit curled up, it kept his core computer in his tummy protected behind his legs. That, and he seemed to be pre-programmed to do it, he always had form the moment he turned on.

"Look boy, people are paying to see your body and no one can if you hide it like that" the man said.

"Pay... my body?" L questioned.

He stood up, looking down at his body. He didn't understand, what did paying for your body mean? He looked around trying to scan for an answer in his surroundings. All he could see were blank walls, a camera and speaker and some small holes in the walls. Was he being watched?

"Take your shirt off, slowly" the man's voice said.

Not understanding the implications, L took it off. All he knew was there was money involved and he would be let go after, so he could go home to you and give you your batteries.

"Good good, now slide your hands down your body"

L still had no idea this was meant to be sensual, so he was rather stiff in his movements as he put his hands on his chest and slid them down to his hips. More like a rigid robot than a model.

"Uh... not quite, slower" the man said.

He did it again, the exact same motion but slower. It was clear to the man that this persacom had no programming for sensuality and decided to scrap the idea and just get him naked

"Ok then, now run your hands on your thighs and take off your shorts"

L was going to do so, but as soon as his hand got to where his power button was on his inner thigh, hiding under his shorts, he froze.

"Hey, what are you doing? Keep going" the man said.

Something was stopping L, like he knew this was bad and he shouldn't do it. Part of it was his own programming that kept him from accidentally turning himself off, but part of it was a deep feeling of opposition. He wasn't going to take his shorts off, there was no way.

"No" L said.

"What?"

"No one is allowed to touch me apart from the person just for me. No one is allowed to see me like that, apart from the person just for me"

No one had ever taught L that, he just... knew it.

No one was allowed to take advantage of him, no one was allowed to be so intimate with him, no one was allowed to claim him.
Except for the person HE allowed, the person just for him.

"What are you on about? You're being paid big bucks here because you're a custom design, just take them off" the man said.

"L only lets the person just for him undress him, it's special. Only special people are allowed special things" L stated.

Even if he wanted to, he couldn't move his hand to touch the area his power button was. It was in his programming, and it seemed there was something in his programming that stopped him from letting anyone but the right person have him in such a vulnerable position.

"Listen boy, I'm not playing these games I can re-program you if I have to" the man sighed, annoyed.

L's luck was immaculate at this time, because finally you'd managed to tack down the building using Rem as a gps, and startled the man and everyone in the area with loud banging in the door.

"HEY! GIVE ME MY PERSACOM YOU SICK FUCK!" You yelled.

L registered your voice, and a smile broke on his face.

"(Y/n)!" He said.

"L! Hang on honey I'll get you out!" You replied.

L also registered Misa's voice outside the door, yelling at the man who took him. You managed to kick the door open, the knob weak on its frame and easy to bust off. You were worried, and horrified when you saw the room L was trapped in.

A peep room, those holes in the wall for people to look though and spy on. No doubt this was probably some shady organisation with yakuza ties that lured in persacoms since there were technically no laws treating a persacom like a human victim. They were robots, but some of them were so human it was clearly wrong to use them for things like this.

"L! Sweetie are you ok?" You asked, pulling him into a hug.

"L is ok" L replied, happily hugging back.

You frantically put his shirt back on, and angrily stormed over to the holes in the wall to kick at them and scare any stragglers off.

"Perverted fucks! No wonder you get no bitches when you're spending money on peep rooms!" You snarled.

"Perverted... fucks?" L repeated.

"Oh gods- no don't say that L. That's a bad word. I'm just... angry"

"(Y/n) is angry?"

You picked him up, holding him protectively against your chest.

"This is a bad place, the people who run it are criminals. I was worried they'd break you, and they stole you from me! That's illegal!" You explained.

L remembered from his detective shows what that meant, and suddenly he was angry too. He still didn't really understand what this place was, but if it was illegal then it was definitely bad.

"Man... tricked me?" L questioned.

"He didn't trick you, he stole you. It's not your fault, he's a bad man" You replied.

You could hear sirens outside, Misa had called the police before you busted in to come get L. Not only was this operation probably illegal but the man had committed a crime, stealing L. At the very least he's be charged with robbery.

"Come on, let's go talk to the police" you said.

"Wait, my bag. I bought batteries" L replied, pointing to the bag by the door.

You picked it up, taking both him and the bag out of the gross room.

"Good job L. Although I should really be careful letting you out alone, you're such a special persacom people will want to steal you" you replied

Misa had well and truly given the guy and earful, whacked him with her bag a few times as well. He was powerless now he knew the cops were right outside, and this tiny goth girl with a massive temper had threatened to castrate him with a ritual knife.

"Misa let's go, leave the pervert for the cops" you said.

L pointed at the man, giving him an angry look.

"Perverted fuck!" He repeated.

"L, please. Don't copy my words when they're bad ones ok?"

Misa shot the man a glare and stomped her platform boot by his foot one last time to intimidate him.

"Hope you like prison food you filthy freak" she scoffed.

You headed out, leaving the whole peep from crew to the cops. You had to give them some information about the theft as well, and after a while they let you go. It felt good knowing this sketchy operation was going to be taken care of, but bad that your persacoms was stolen for it.

You walked back to your apartment, holding L close and keeping an eye out for any other creeps.

"Thanks for the help Misa, and you too Rem" you sighed, exhausted.

"Don't worry about it. I hate criminals, hate them so much. I'd kill them all if I could" Misa replied, exaggerating slightly.

Right now you wanted to kill every criminal too, for that those creeps did to L.

You knew he was a persacom, a computer. But he was human to you. He looked human, sounded human, acted human. He even felt human emotions, which you didn't really understand how that was possible. But he could, his AI was just that good. He was human to you, just... a special one.

"I feel like taking a persacom should be classed as kidnapping, I mean I know they're computers but they're... human computers. Look at him, if it weren't for the ears you'd think he's a human. It's clear people take them with the intent on harming them like they're humans..." you pondered.

"I've always wondered how laws will change to fit a society with persacoms. They are robots yeah, but... you're right, look at him" Misa replied, gesturing to L.

He was a little confused about the whole thing, but he knew what happened was bad and he didn't like it. He felt fine emotionally, just a bit angry and glad to be with you again. But he could tell you were worried about him and that made him sad.

"(Y/n)..." L began.

"Yeah?"

"Was L kidnapped?"

The way he phrased it... not stolen. Kidnapped. He wasn't taken like property theft, he was kidnapped.

"I... yeah... but the law won't class it as that. At least not yet, maybe one day" you explained.

"But L is a special persacom" L replied.

Every day he astounded you with how complex his AI was. The fact he understood the difference between a theft and kidnapping, the way he understood that something that's human like will have similar emotional and mental impacts on people as a regular human.

A persacom might be a robot, but the humanoid ones are built to be humans. Electric humans sure, but humans. And L was probably the most human of them all.

He wasn't stolen, he was kidnapped. And you were very lucky to find him unharmed. Something like this would traumatise a human, and while L might react a little different because he's digital, he can still acknowledge that what happened was wrong and scary, and not like it.

If you hadn't stepped in as quickly as you did, who knows what could have happened to him. He might have ended up scrap parts in a junk yard somewhere. Not on your watch, your L wasn't being harmed as long as you were his owner.

L was a special persacom, no doubt about it.