Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note
Warnings: Will eventually lead to yaoi. Gore. Foul language. (Mello you naughty kid XD)
Pairings: LxLight MelloxMatt (maybe one more, seriously stressing the maybe)
Summary: The creepy mad scientist L is looking for a new lab rat. Unfortunately, he seems to have found a perfect one. The poor brunette got into a car accident and L revived him. Now he owes the man. He has no choice but to undergo a series of unwanted experiments. Will he ever adjust to his new life?
"Evening, Mr. Yagami." L nodded towards the brunette as he walked into the 'hospital' room that Light had occupied for the past three weeks. Light had to stayed there so long for rehabilitation purposes, and to make sure that there were no negative side effects from the drugs L had given him.
"Evening, L." The teenager mumbled, sitting up in his bed. "Am I cleared to leave yet?" He asked. L didn't answer, or even appear to look like he'd heard what the boy had said. Instead, he walked over and laid Light back down, then lifted his shirt.
The doctor bent down and ran his hand over the teenagers ribs. He'd removed the stabilizers two weeks ago. That solution had done amazing things to Light's ribs. When he took them off, only hairline fractures where left. It was amazing. The rib bone had entirely separated, and, within a week, it had nearly healed completely.
"Lay your bed down and do a few sit ups for me, please." L said, disconnected. Light knew not to try and make conversation when the raven had that glossy look in his eyes. So he merely complied. He did ten sit ups, without any pain. The pale man beside him nodded and smiled.
"I believe that you are completely healed, Mr. Yagami." L said finally. "You can start working for me soon." He pulled a chair over by the bed and sat down on t with his knees pulled to his chest.
"You're saying I can go home?" Light wanted to jump for joy. The whole time he was there he hadn't been able to see his family, for reasons L refused to explain. He'd argued with him on many occasions, but that did nothing. Finally, he would get to see them again.
"Hm? Well, if you mean move to your official room, then yes," L smiled in a sickeningly sweet way, "you get to go home." Light lifted an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" He asked, not liking the sound of what L was saying.
"Exactly what I said. You needn't worry. Mello and Matt, my assistants, already collected your belongings that were thrown away. Which was mostly clothing…That should be satisfactory. Mr. Yagami? Why are you looking at me like that? I told you, it's time for you to get to work." Light was confused. Why were his things being thrown away? Was L seriously insinuating that he'd be living there? It had to be a joke. Although… He'd learned it wasn't in the man's nature to joke.
"Thrown away? What are you trying to say?"
"Wait a minute… Mr. Yagami, you did read the contract didn't you?" He asked it, almost as if he knew that Light didn't read it. Light glared, that's because he did know. He did know that Light didn't, couldn't read it, and he knew the bloody reason for it too! Light had seen the other assistants walking past his room. They weren't nearly as eerie as the albino kid.
"You… You did it on purpose! You had that kid come in here and have me sign it! Knowing that I'd be too distracted to read it. Too eager to have him leave. Too scared to look away from the creep!" He accused. L grinned menacingly.
"Why Mr. Yagami, that's absurd." Light ground his teeth together. Manipulative bastard, he thought.
"Just what exactly are the terms?" He asked darkly.
"You gave me permission to pronounce you dead, Mr. Yagami. According to the contract, you will be living here with me, and until your debt is paid, serve as a guinea pig of sorts. You will be my lab rat, Mr. Yagami." L's usually indifferent and nonchalant aura took a sharp, heavy turn. The brunette felt his mouth dry up and he couldn't speak. Was this man serious? Light couldn't believe it. The pale man was not a real doctor. Doctors don't experiment. Just what was he?
L seemed to read the question in Light's eyes. He stood up and started walking towards the door.
"I'll send two of my assistants in to take you to your room and help you get settled in." Chuckling lightly he said, "I'll keep that creep away." L reached the door and just before leaving, turned. "Oh, and Mr. Yagami? You're correct in inferring that I am not a doctor. I'm actually a scientist." With that he was gone, leaving Light alone with his thoughts.
"This… This can't be real." He gasped. He dropped his head into his hands. Was he really going to live the rest of his life like this? How many experiments would he have to undergo before he was free? Was he ever really going to be free? If only he'd read that damn thing… It was all that bloody Near's fault! It was an unfair accusation, sure, but he didn't know who else to blame… perhaps it was the fault of the man who had hit him? Perhaps it was because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Maybe it was Near's parents for giving birth to such a freak. L could also be blamed. For a multitude of reasons. One, for bringing Light back to life. Two, for using that solution on him, which L had later named URA. Three, being so cruel. Four, choice of occupation. And five, for just existing. Light really didn't like L or Near. And with a bias pretense, he was sure he wouldn't like the other assistants either.
It was then that Light felt cold metal against his skin. He slowly turned his head to come face to face with a gun. He froze. This place was a mad house.
"'Sup." A man's voice said from the other side of the gun. Light looked around the metal death and his eyes fell onto a blonde boy. He had icy blue eyes and was grinning. Light pinched the bridge of his nose. Was anybody here sane? The blonde lowered the gun. "I'm Mello, this is my sidekick, Matt." He gestured over to a redhead standing on his left. The boy had red lensed goggles over his eyes, shaggy red hair, and was holding an electronic device, pressing buttons rapidly. There were two scars on the child's face beneath each of his eyes.
Light took a moment to wonder if he had been a victim of experiments as well. Had that raven forced others into his situation? Light grimaced. What kind of experiments would he have to handle? He really didn't like this situation. He couldn't let the raven get away with this. He needed to tell somebody. Maybe he could get to a phone. If not, he had to escape. It couldn't be that difficult, now could it?
"I'm Light Yagami." The brunette said strongly. He was determined to escape, somehow.
"We know. Hold your arm out, Matt's going to remove that IV. I don't know L kept you on that. You could eat just fine…" Mello commented. Light begrudgingly held his arm out. First, he needed to convince everybody else that he was going to cooperate. The redhead slowly removed the needle. Light winced at the slight pain.
"It's cheaper that way, Mello." Matt mumbled very quietly.
"Stand." Mello sure was bossy. Still, Light complied. "Alright, we'll take you to your room and give you a rundown of how things will work around here for you. I'll only go over it once, and nobody else here will do it either. They don't care enough to. So, listen up." Light towered over the two younger teens and thought that he could just beat them up now and run. It was then that he remembered the gun. Perhaps that was Mello's reasoning for shoving it in his face earlier. Just to show that he had it and Light shouldn't do anything stupid.
The trio started walking and Light looked around. The halls were pristine and empty, cold. Much like a real hospital. Had he not been told otherwise, he surely would've thought that it really was.
"Alright, the most important thign you need to know, L is the boss. Whatever he says, goes. No matter how cruel or evil it may seem, he's always got a plan. It's always to help better the world. So don't even try. The only person L ever takes counsel from is his bodyguard and Near. But there is speculation his body guard isn't human…"
"Mello…" The redhead elbowed Mello.
"Right. Sorry. I'm the only person that thinks that. Anyway, point being, nobody will side with you if you argue with him. When he experiments on you it will have a reason. He doesn't just do it for fun. Lately, him and Near have been cooped up in the lab, I believe they are working on something big and will use you as the lab rat. When they get a result for whatever they are doing, I have a feeling you'll be set free." Mello and Matt led Light down a flight of stairs and through two hallways before stopping at the third door on the right. The blonde nodded and Matt opened it, shoving Light in.
"This is your room," he continued. "You shouldn't wonder this place or L's bodyguard will get you. The doctor doesn't like people who get into his things without asking. If you aren't allowed to do something, don't do it. That's pretty much the rule to live by here. Just know, nobody is on your side, but we aren't out to get you either." Mello grinned and started walking out the door.
Matt paused for a moment and turned to look at Light before he followed Mello.
"Hey… Light? We… We've all undergone experiments. Don't feel… Y'know, like you're the only one." He smiled in an oddly sincere way and sped out of the room. He seemed uncomfortable and awkward. Like he didn't fit in his own skin. He didn't come off as a very socially apt person, so Light felt strange in getting that small bit of 'comfort' from him.
The brunette laid back on his bed and sighed deeply. He needed to figure out how to escape before he was disfigured by the gaggle of mad scientists… Mello said nobody was on his side, but Matt seemed pretty empathetic. Maybe he'd suffered a lot from what L had done to him. Was it the scars underneath his eyes? Light was fairly good at getting people to do exactly what he wanted. Surely he could get the redhead's help. He appeared unstable anyway. Unstable people were easier to manipulate. That is if they were the quiet, helpless kind of unstable. Not the bat shit crazy 'I'm going to kill everybody' way.
He was tired. He didn't want to be there. He didn't want this to happen. Surely, there was some way out. The brunette closed his eyes and forced himself to sleep. Maybe it was all just a bad dream. A nightmare. Perhaps, he wasn't here at all.
"Mr. Yagami, time to get up." Damn. It was real.
Okay well, things are about to get a little complicated in the next chapter. XD I've had to do a crap ton of research for this story cause I've never actually had a biology class. Just IS 1, so I've had to teach myself about all this crap. However, this chapter had nothing technical going on, thank goodness.
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