Random review replies and notes about L

I know you all want see L dead, but sadly, there are about four different things that are keeping me from killing her off.

Numero Uno (and probably the most important one) there is something horribly plot related contingent on her death. Book 5 is most likely not going to work unless she dies later in Dead Inside, sorry. On the bright side, though, there might be a point where she goes too far and Riku kills her anyways, I probably won't have control over that, and if that does happen a) she'll die sooner like you all want her to and b) I'll probably get a headache trying to reconfigure book 5. But, if I'M lucky, some character is going to work it out for me (like 19 did with that one thing, and like Alpha did just recently...)

Numero Dos! 37. He is refusing to let me kill her just about as much as she's refusing to die. It's a bit annoying, but I suppose I don't blame him. Any man in his right mind (though, funnily enough, we're questioning whether or not 37 actually is in his right mind or if something went wrong in his data...) would do anything to protect the woman he loves (Ug... I'm going to ignore the fact that i just said that sentence in relation to 37 and L...) Riku would, in a heartbeat, die for Namine (though I'm sure she'd protest). Sora's done a million stupid things for Kairi. Zack has- well- Zack has thrown himself in the line of danger for quite a few different people, so he's a bad example. But you get the point.

Numero Tres! L herself. She's pretty darn smart. She's not going to go and say anything to make Riku mad. Well, she might say things that will make him mad, but she's not going to purposely do anything that will ABSOLUTELY piss him off. She isn't going to call Namine defective; she KNOWS that's a one way ticket to a painful death. She is going to do her best to keep from fighting him more than she has to. Plus, she's been through his memories and knows a good few tricks to KEEP him from actually harming her (I mean, the real Larxene had to do the same thing, so...)

Numero Quatro! Riku. It's not that Riku's gotten worse. L is not smarter than him. L is not a better fighter than him. Riku's just gotten... better. He's tired of the fact that the moment something goes wrong he's got his blade at someone's throat. He's tired of letting his anger get the best of him. He's tired of killing people without much of a reason. He's going to think things through. And, sure, maybe he's thinking too much (it wouldn't be the first time) but he'd rather think things through than not think at all and have something terrible happen (like- wait! Riku! Shut up about that! That hasn't happened yet!)