Today was your first offical day of work, and it began with waking up surrounded by the bed curtains that kept you shielded from view. You were right, you did sleep real good that night. Getting up, you got right into getting ready for the day. Even though L said you could dress as casually as you wanted, you still figured you should make a good first impression for your first few weeks on the job. So you pulled together something semi-professional.

Dress pants and turtle neck, your Vivienne Westwood necklace as an accent. Hair brushed and pulled away from your face, some vanilla icing lip balm and a spritz of rosè champagne scented perfume. Maybe it was just your eye for fashion or perhaps you were used to dressing neat and fancy for work but you felt the need to be rather presentable even if L allowed you to show up in your pyjamas.

Once your morning routine was done, you made your way down the hall and into the study where L was already awake and at his desk. Actually... did he even sleep?

"Good morning" you greeted.

"Good morning, right on time" L replied.

You noticed some things had moved around the room, empty tea sets on the coffee table and some folders had been pulled out.

"Any preferences for breakfast?" You asked.

"Surprise me. Also don't be alarmed if someone comes in via the front door in a few, that's Watari he's run some errands for me. I'll introduce you properly when he gets back" L explained, eyes glued to the screen.

"Alright. I shouldn't be long"

Picking up the tea set, you carried it down to the kitchen and put the dishes in the dishwasher to be washed. The kitchen was rather big, and very pristinely clean. You looked through the fridge and cabinets for an idea on what to make, they were all fully stocked with food. And an alarming amount of sugar... maybe L has low blood sugar or something? Who needs that much?

Deciding to make use of the fruit so it wouldn't sit in the fridge and go off, you decided a smoothie bowl would be a sweet and healthy breakfast. Using banana, blueberries, strawberries and coconut milk you blended together a sweet, stick smoothie. Enough for two with some left over. Serving it with granola and vanilla yoghurt. Also making some black tea as a drink, you figured you'd just bring the sugar cubes up with you since you had no idea how many L liked. Plating everything up, and using the tea sets tray to carry it all you headed back up the stairs.

"Wasn't sure how much sugar you usually have so I bought it up" you said, pushing the door open with your foot.

Hands full and carefully making sure you didn't drop anything, you made your way over to his desk.

"Oh, usually 9" he said.

"9?"

"You have more?"

"...less"

"Hm, to each their own" L muttered.

He really liked sweet things did he? You placed the bowl and tea down on the desk, taking the chair opposite him to have your breakfast too. L raised an eyebrow at the fruit concoction before taking the spoon and trying a scoop with everything on it. His face lit up, it was sweet enough for him.

"Strawberry... there's banana too isn't there?" He asked.

"And blueberry. Mixed with coconut milk, vanilla yogurt and granola" you replied.

"I suppose there's many fruit combinations you could do for these?"

"Plenty. Like it?"

"Very much. Don't know why I never thought to try it"

You couldn't help but giggle under your breath, he seemed almost exited about trying a new sweet food. You got the feeling he didn't eat much healthy stuff, judging from the food in the kitchen. It was mainly stuff for cakes, pastries and baked good. Which some could be healthy, yes. But the majority were desserts. And yet somehow the man was tall, slim and had good teeth. How he managed to stay relatively healthy when he never left the house or ate anything with vitamins in it you had no idea.

"I'll set you up an account on the network today, so you can get all the same programs and information I use. That way work and communication will be a lot easier" he explained.

"Sounds good, can't be too hard" you replied.

"Not really, it's the remembering to update everything that's hard"

You heard noises form downstairs, L glanced over at his monitors that showed the security footage.

"Ah, Wataris back" he muttered.

The security in this house was tight, there was even a camera in your room. Although it was only one, right in the corner and didn't show inside the closet or bathroom. Your room was always a spare that never got used so it made sense there was a camera in there, no people had been living in it so there was no privacy to invade. Although you didn't mind much about the camera, you had the bed curtains that hid you while you slept. And when there's so many people out for L's head, the security cameras gave you a sense of safety.

If it was anyone else, you'd be creeped out by how much security there was. But you got it when it came to L.

The door to the study opened, and a tall man in a trench coat and hat entered. Taking off said hat revealed a much older man, old enough to be L's dad. Was he L's dad?

"Watari, this is (y/n). (Y/n), this is Watari" L said, still working away at his breakfast.

The older man put his stuff down, made his way over to the desk and held out a hand to shake, which you took and shook firmly.

"Pleasure to meet you, if L picked you for the job I don't doubt you're a fine worker mx (l/n)" Watari said.

"Nice to meet you too, I hope I do a good job" you replied.

"Getting him to eat fruit on your first day is already an achievement"

L almost did a spit take on his smoothie.

"Hey-" he glared.

You couldn't help but snicker, your suspicions being correct.

"So he is a sweet tooth?" You asked.

"Very much so. I don't think I've ever seen him eat a vegetable" Watari replied.

"OK, that's quite enough of that. Have you got the reports?" L cut in, wanting the roast L session over.

Watari pulled some files out of his briefcase and handed them to L. Each one having a classified stamp on them, you assumed they were related to whatever his next big case was.

"Thank you, I'll get into them once I've set up an account for (y/n)" L said.

"I'll be back to continue in a moment, I too need to make some breakfast" Watari said.

"Oh! There's more smoothie in the fridge if you want it. Stawberry, Blueberry and banana" you mentioned.

"Why thank you, it seems delicious since you two are almost done so quickly"

Your bowl was just about empty, and L had taken to licking the last traces out of his. Good to know your breakfast choices were a success. Watari left to get breakfast, and L put his bowl down off to the side to make room for work.

"That was delicious, thank you. Now if you can start up your laptop I'll set things up" L said.

You reached over to the coffee table for your laptop and turned it on, logging in and handing it over to L. He pushed his keyboard back to make room and plugged a terabyte drive into it to download various programs. Turning the screen so you could see, you both moved closer to each other to get a look at it.

"Alright so this connects to the security system, so you can see if anyone is lurking around and be alerted if someone shows up. Although I will warn you that the cameras detect shadow as a package when he sits at the front door so feel free to ignore those alerts..." L began.

"He gets detected as a package?" You laughed.

"The cameras think anything small and round is a package. So when he loafs in the sunbeams he gets picked up as a package"

"That's so cute, I love that"

L cracked a smile, anyone that liked his cat was a good person in his books. He moved the mouse over to another app being downloaded.

"This is an encrypted messaging system so we can send case files to each other and nothing can be traced, any information about cases or that has to do with me will go through here for safety reasons. We just need to set up an account for you" he continued.

Once they'd downloaded, he opened the messaging system and was greeted by a sign up or log in screen. He pushed the laptop to you so you could make up a password. Using the burner phone number you'd been given you were able to quickly set up an account, and you were lead to the main page of the program. L turned the computer to him so he could enter his account code and add him to your contacts.

"I'll add me and Watari for now, if you need anyone else in the future I'll forward you the code" he explained.

Your contacts list was small, but all you needed for now. Account set up, there was only one thing left he wanted you to do to be fully set up. He beckoned you over to his side of the desk so you could see his screen.

"I'll have your face scanned into the security system so the door will unlock for you, if Watari and I aren't home for whatever reason, you can still get in" he explained, pulling up the security program.

Opening the webcam attached to the computer, he adjusted it and had you step into frame. To have the camera pick your face up, you had to stand behind his chair and lean over slightly, closer to the camera. It was in that moment L breathed in and caught the scent of your perfume, finding it sweet, delicious. The smell made him hyper aware of his close you were to him. Arms either side of him on the desk as you leaned over him for the camera to pick you up.

Something inside him froze up for a moment. Feeling your warmth behind him, smelling the amazing scent of your perfume, seeing your arms beside him from the corner of his eyes. His breath hitched slightly, and he felt his face warm up a little.

The computer pinged, snapping him out of it. You stepped back, face now scanned.

"That good?" You asked.

"Uh- yes the program read it. It'll take a moment to load in but that's all you need to do" he replied.

You sat back down in your seat and picked up your bowl to finish your breakfast before going on with work for the day. As you did, L finished setting everything up in the system and still felt your presence behind him somehow.

That warmth, the sweet smell... deep inside him, he wanted it back.