Second Thought

Author: shutupandsing

Rating: K+

Comments: My first story pioneering into Death Note. I've read a lot of good Death Note stories and figured I would give it a shot. Just a short drabble piece to start me off. Set a couple nights after Light regains his memories of the Death Note.

Mood Song: Golden by Fall Out Boy


It's a quiet whimper in the night that jolts Light from deep sleep, the kind of whimper a tortured man would make when no one was around to hear him. He spots L at the foot of the bed, lying opposite of him, wrapped so far around a pillow Light can't tell where the man's shirt ends and the slipcover begins.

It's almost uncomfortable witnessing the other sleep so vulnerable. Like as calculating and rational L is during the day so should he be at night. Light can sense the violent tremors that rack the awkward angled frame and for a brief moment he wonders what L dreams about.

Whether it's memories dredged up from long ago or if Kira is always on the detective's mind, even subconsciously.

He is then made aware of their sleeping positions, lying on their respective sides yet facing each other. A Yin-Yang symbol, Light thinks bitterly; the balance of nature and good and evil.

So if L was the Darkness he had to overcome, did that make him the Light that he was trying so damn hard to get people to accept?


Author's Note: A spin on things, if Light ever questioned his motives for his new world. My first contribution to the Death Note fandom. :D