Title: Missed Me
Pairing: ACTUALLY none.
Rating: PG =D
Warnings: How hideously short this is.
Disclaimer: Pfft.
Summary: True love can just pass you by; you can miss it my just a fraction. Potential LxLight
Author's Note: There was once a plot to this, but … erm… I forgot it. So it's a short loser with no plot XD
L Lawliet was a peculiar sort of man, and yet was very particular about others.
Some psychologist might have said that this was because he was seeking in others what he himself lacked, and what 'he himself lacked' was perfection. Some might say that his extreme intelligence had dehumanised himself and demeaned others to a point where L Lawliet could only appreciate someone better than him. Some would say that he was just off his rocker.
But, despite a few odd… habits, L Lawliet considered himself perfectly normal, and by all legal accounts, perfectly sane. Best of all, a few select people – such as a particularly clever prosecutor he'd been forcefully roped into meeting once ('clever' meaning 'clever for a normal human being') had said that L strange ways was a means of protecting himself from the idiocy of others in the world. Of course, he hadn't known L as L, but rather as Hideki Ryuga – a name the prosecutor had chortled at when he met L face-to-face.
L was waiting, Watari ha once said, for someone that might never come: someone of higher ideals; of higher ideas; of higher IQ and of higher visual apparel. Of course, the last and the first weren't tasks that were too hard to overcome (in fact, they were so easy that many normal, everyday people managed to succeed him in them), but trying to find a living, breathing human smarter and more ingenious than L was a quest that Watari had not even attempted to embark upon. The chances were too slim for all four to be rolled into one little package, and then the chances were even slimmer that L'd ever meet this person. Just to make matters worse, if such a perfect human being did exist then why would they ever be interested in L?
Even if someone smarter than L was found it'd be unlikely that they'd have a higher moral standing than L. Considering how much L held human beings in his list of things worth protecting (low), he had a pretty damn well placed set of basic morals.
Also, although L wasn't quite the most striking of people – and despite the amount of sleep he didn't get – L's features were strong and he held an intrigue that many had found themselves inadvertently drawn to. Some, for sure, wanted nothing to do with the odd man in he corner of their favourite café who didn't wear shoes, but some found him charming – at least initially. Of course, the novelty of it wore off quickly – but, then again, the novelty of L having found someone who was actually interested in him wore off even faster. L, after all, could never admit to being a people's person.
L was, in fact, stuck in the corner of a café without any shoes on, pondering mentally to a large chuck of scrummy cheesecake about what life'd be like if he met that handsome, charming, clever idealist when a young man – a university student – strolled in leisurely and ordered a black coffee to go.
"Good morning, Raito-kun!" the girl behind the desk had greeted him cheerily, but L didn't register the squealing, what with his being far too engrossed in his extremely scrummy cheesecake and ponderings, so he didn't hear the young man answer, and he didn't have the thought to look up and take at least a glimpse as the perfect personification of his hopes and dreams walked out of the shop with a mournful clang of the overhead bell.
End.
Author's Note: SILLY L!
*cheesy grin* Oh, hai guise! =D Guess what! I exist! But only on Friday 13th . Unfaithful is coming up, I swear. We're like…less than 7,000 away from finishing the next chapter. Promise!
Jack