Disclaimer: It's really not mine, folks. You can tell by the fact that there's no explicit man love, and that Sayu thinks Matsuda is too old for her.

Note: I'm going to be cheesy and 'dedicate' this story to Kudatsuo-chan now. I was gonna keep writing this even if I got no reviews because I just wanted to write some Matsuda stuff, but she reviewed and as such, I felt I actually had someone to write the story for, and have been putting more effort in since. Thank you for the support! Thanks also to Sonar for reminding me that the other officers have a part to play in this too.

And now this story. I really hope this one didn't go wrong. I added in two sentences las tminute because I felt it was lacking something. Tell me I didn't ruin in.

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Illumination

Prompt: 07. Crash

"You might have actually won…and I might have lost."

Near word's sounded like they were being spoken from a way away, through some kind of fog, like the static of a radio. Laboriously, obsessively, he explained the myriad of plans that had woven together to create the moment they were standing in.

Matsuda did not hear a word of it.

All he was aware of was the coldness of the stone floor against his knees, the trapped, demented look on Light's face and the feeling of the bottom of the world dropping out underneath him.

When Light collapsed, Matsuda was jarred back to the situation at hand. As the boy contorted in crazed laughter, Light Yagami melted away in front of him

Afterwards, when the chaos around them seemed to have swirled to a momentary standstill, he asked Aizawa to explain it to him. The older man studied him sadly for a few moments, and, sighing, laid a hand on his shoulder.