It was an extremely long night and when it finally was over, light was relieved. Now it was time to start the whole day and to go through the motions again. Light sighed as he stood from where he was lying in bed. He instantly lost his balance and almost fell over when L jumped out of his sitting position and managed to catch him in time.
Light was obviously tired; he couldn't handle not sleeping like L could. He leaned against the other man almost completely asleep. L's voice brought Light awake again.
"Light-kun, did you get any sleep after that nightmare?" They had been through this a few times but the other times weren't nearly as bad.
All Light could do was nod; he wasn't going to lie to L about that. It was apparent anyways that he was exhausted.
"But a quick Red Bull should fix it and I'll be able to work on the case" Light mumbled almost too quietly for him to even make any noise. Any normal person wouldn't have gotten a word of what he just had said but L obviously wasn't normal.
"No Light-kun" L was worried about Light. He didn't want him to pass out and hurt himself because he got less and less sleep each night. L never really cared about anyone else that way. If it had been someone else on the task force, he would have forced them away from sleep. If he could survive without sleep, there's no reason others shouldn't be able to but with Light he didn't think that way.
"But Ryuzaki" Light whined "I need to help you guys catch Kira and I can't sleep anyways. I tried to all night and couldn't. " the younger man managed to say as he struggled to keep his eyes open for more than a few seconds at a time. His fear still kept him up even though he was still kind of trying to sleep.
"hmm?" L thought for a second trying to find a solution to the problem when it instantly clicked in his mind. Throughout L's whole life, he was insomniac and Watari would always get various types of sleeping pills to try to help the detective sleep. However none of them actually did work for him but maybe one could help Light. He put an arm around the younger man and supported him as they both walked to the bathroom; light was actually more or less being dragged by the detective. L went into the bathroom and looked through the medicine cabinets for what he was searching for. When he found some of the sleeping pills, he handed one of them to his friend who was so desperate for a comfortable rest that he took it without question.
Soon Light had fallen asleep; L picked him up, carried him to his bed and laid him down. Before L could get back to his own bed, the handcuff chain was yanked by Light as he slept causing L to practically fall forward onto the bed right next to Light; where he was suddenly trapped by a sudden embrace. He tried getting out of the hold but Light only would hold him tighter.
"Uh? Light-kun?" He asked still trying to get away but he knew it was no use. Those were pretty strong sleeping pills; Light wouldn't be waking up for a while so that meant L would have to get comfortable.
At first it felt totally awkward for L to have been lying next to Light like this but soon it felt pretty nice for some strange reason. L wrapped his arms around the other man and allowed himself to relax. Slowly, his eyes began to close shut and for the first time in a while the detective had actually fallen asleep.