"Remarkable..."
Ever wary and easily awakened even in the depths of sleep, Light blinked open his eyes blearily, spotting L's crouched form on the chair next to the bed. His voice was scratchy from sleep, "What's remarkable?"
L bit the side of his thumb, "Nothing. Nothing is remarkable at all. Or everything is."
"...What?" It was -Light checked- three in the morning, he, for one, wasn't used to running on a lack of sleep, and he had been forced to do just that since his boyfriend was a severe sugar addict he was forcing to break the habit. He figured he could probably be forgiven for not being at his very best.
"Remarkable... What is the definition of the word?"
Sighing, Light pushed up, and raked a hand through his hair as he did so, wiping the sleep from his eyes, "Uh... 'worthy of attention; striking'."
L bit his thumb harder and Light reached out so he wouldn't bloody himself in his craving for sugar, the chain between them connecting their wrists jangling slightly as he did, but he couldn't trust L not to go looking for a sugar fix when he was sleeping otherwise.
Eyes as dark as an abyss looked over to him, "What else does it mean?"
Light blew at his bangs as he kick-started his brain, "Ahhh." He took a deep breath, "Extraordinary, exceptional, amazing, astonishing, astounding, marvelous, wonderful, sensational, stunning, incredible, unbelievable, phenomenal, outstanding, momentous; out of the ordinary, unusual, uncommon, unique, surprising; fantastic, terrific, tremendous, stupendous, awesome; wondrous. There might be a few more, but that's all I have at the moment. It's an adjective; a modifier, just like 'very' and any number of its synonyms."
L's lips twitched in amusement. His boyfriend was just as much a genius as himself, among which knowledge included being a living thesaurus. He raised the index finger of his other hand -the one Light wasn't holding- to demonstrate his point, "Not synonyms, Light-kun. Meaning. Its meaning can also be taken as 'exceptional enough to remark upon'. Why have a word like remarkable at all? If something truly is 'remarkable' why call it so: why not simply- remark upon it?"
He really had to be forgiven as his eyes crossed when L pointed at him, a headache beginning to form. Surely this was a side-effect of L's eternal sugar-high finally fading... right? "What exactly are you getting at?"
"That the word remarkable is pathetically redundant and non-informative in the first place. If something is remarkable -in the secondary meaning as we defined earlier- then there is no point in calling it so. It would be simpler to merely remark upon the thing in question. As an adjective, it does an abysmal job of modifying anything."
Light blinked, "So... you felt the need to wake me up at three in the morning -don't even pretend you don't know how light of a sleeper I am, L- to... remark upon the uselessness of remarkable as a word?"
"Mm."
He pulled his hand back and ran in through his hair again so he wouldn't be tempted to do something else with it- like wrapping it around his boyfriend's throat. He closed his eyes and counted to ten. One, two, three... And then opened them again, significantly calmer, "What even got you thinking about such things?"
L looked away in that unconcerned way of his, "I was thinking of words to describe how you looked as you slept and happened upon remarkable fifty adjectives in. It bothered me."
That warm feeling in Light's chest returned, like the first time that L had told him he was his first friend and the most important person in his life. Light laid back down and grabbed his boyfriend's hand again. "...You still aren't getting any sugar."
L pouted at him but said nothing more. Light really did know his boyfriend's mind remarkably well.