Sorry sorry, once again I get an idea fragment and I don't entirely know what to do with it, no ending just pieces and scenes.

Frankly the reason for writing this is I found the original DN to be a little melodramatic, a little over the top in that aspect. While I realize that Light is clearly a egotistical prat, he does a lot of overtly stupid things. For someone that studies criminals in the hopes of becoming a world famous detective he falls into some of the most cliche pitfalls of villains.

I also found L to be a bit of a nimrod as well if he was a world renown detective, that he would have had the USA at his beck and call would have guaranteed the test of the death note, frankly I found the movie ending to be more believable then the Manga version.

Anyway with that.

If someone can direct me to a site that has a manga by manga or episode by episode synapses of DN that would help since I'm going to be going by memory so accuracy... Right out the window here.

AU.

Mind Games

Light turned to the television as a special announcement from the world famous detective L began, His name moronically printed right underneath him.

"I will catch you Kira" Lind L Taylor babbled on in his eloquent speach to the one called Kira.

Light snorted twirling a pen in his hand.

"Oh little bug" Light scoffed at the TV "You have courage, and what a partner you would be in my new world. Sadly... An example should be set"

Looking at the TV to commit L's face to memory Light began writing.

Ryuk glanced over Lights shoulder "Huk huk huk What are you going to do Light?"

"Just watch, this is going to be interesting."

Light sat back and turned to the Television, a twisted smirk brightening his face.

3...2...1

Lind began to sweat in the studio, his arm feeling numb, in the back of his mind he heard a clock ticking, ticking. ticking. "I..."

His voice cracked in the middle of the sentence. "I..."

"I DON'T WANT TO DIE, Please, please Kira I'm sorry, Please I never meant to kill those people please, please someone let me live I..." A police officer jumped on and Lights eyes widened in surprise as a baton was arching down towards L before the cameras cut out to a slightly stunned looking news woman.

Ryuk stared at the screen in confusion as Light began to giggle a bit before breaking into a full scale laugh.

"Oh L... L you are as deceitful as I am!" Light laughed quickly realizing that the one of the screen was no more then a stool pigeon, not the true L but someone to face the danger for the cowardly master detective.

Ryuk turned to Light "What's so funny Light? Light I don't get it..." Looking down at the Death Note page in hopes of some answers he read.

Lind L. Taylor suffers an anxiety attack while on screen at 18:15, fearing retribution from Kira he speaks his mind fearfully and freely regarding his reasonings behind his current actions. His psychological state and anxiety escalate for the next 5 hours, he dies of a heart attack at 23:00

Now I realize that some people may think "Light wouldn't have been able to think of all that in such a short space of time" however.

We are talking about a genius kid here, and when reading the book and watching that part of the show my first reaction was "GOD Don't just kill him you Idiot."

I mean first of all, what kind of moron retaliates against the very foundations of which they are operating on. Somewhere along the lines Light must have thought out the moral implications of what he was doing and had decided this was for the greater good. At this point he's only had the note for what two, three months tops? Enough to build an ego yes but not to completely dissolve all your morals and motives.

That and I thought out this plan within moments of seeing what he did.

Well this one came after the "Tape the show, wait a week and THEN write the guys name down I mean Jezuz"