Disclaimer: Bitch please I'm to hipster to own shit. I stole it before it was cool.
A/N: Mmmm, so clearly I've been reading too much MXM, because they're being focused on in my LXL story…but for this chapter and what I decided to do with the case it is a necessity…do not fear though, for there will be another LXL lemon here…next chapter :3 and to clear up confusion, their work hours are insane so even though Matt and Mello were going to sleep and Light was getting out of bed it was late afternoon, Light and L…yeah they're in bed a lot XD
Music: All that I'm living for-Evanescence (For Mello)and Eyesore-Janus (for Sorichio and Light)
What A Horrible Night To Have a Curse 8
How long 'til Dawn?
~Mihael~
Empty…why was the bed empty? I reached around blindly a bit more, there should be a red-head here somewhere, right?
I groaned and rolled over, burying my face in the pillow and huffing loudly, it wasn't even truly night yet and that selfish bastard had gotten out of bed when he knew that I had nightmares without him (yes his gaming marathons are torture thanks for asking.)
I pushed myself up a bit and cracked an eye open , my sleep-addled brain caught up with me a few moments later and I looked for some sign that he was in the suite still. Nothing. No light under the bathroom door, no muffled TV or beeping games, not even the rustle of a body moving and only my breathing.
I flopped back down, thinking he probably just went downstairs for something and decided I would enjoy the quiet for on-wait. It was too quiet, Matt never turned everything off, something was always going on around us and his clothes were still heaped on the floor where we'd shoved them earlier.
The silence really should've been the first sign though.
I slipped out of bed slowly, one long nude limb after the next, shaking blonde fringe out of my face as I flicked on the lights and illuminated the space. Hopefully I'm just being really paranoid but Matt was most definitely in bed beside me when I fell asleep and I know he was out right away.
We're both such light sleepers to so how could have anything happened? I stretched a bit and frowned as my neck twinged weird, raising a hand and feeling alarmed at the small dot of blood that came away on my finger.
I felt the ball of worry in my gut tighten as I turned to the mirror, my blood running cold at the sight of paper taped over it, words written in a slanting and heavy hand.
"Hello Mello-Yellow! Let's play a game! I've taken three very important things, you have until dawn to find each of them or I start breaking your toys okay? GREAT! Here are the rules! Only the people on the locked floors of this hotel can help you, no one else, One hour before sunlight I will destroy the first thing, half an hour later the second and the third at sunrise but I can't promise what order I'll go in! If you win I'll tell you my secret, but if you lose I get to break you too! Doesn't that sound fun? Good luck MarshMellow!
-Love Always Li
P.S. I burn them all if you cheat! *hearts* "
I was shaking by the time I finished and relief that I hadn't woken later washed over me for a split second before nausea gripped my and I wretched on the floor. No time to worry about that sort of thing though.
I bolted up the stairs to L's floor, my heart hammering as I burst into his and Light's room. Before I could explain what I'd found he barked instructions at me, "Mello, good. I need Matt to shut off the power, now! Tell him to re-route it to the lower floors and bring the elevator up to this one directly, it is a matter of desperate importance."
I couldn't speak, holding the paper up and praying he'd turn to look as my throat simply would not work, hearing L request Matt only confirmed that he had in fact been one of the "things" taken. He paused a fraction of a second longer before barking out, "Mihael bring me Mail!" and that was it.
I let out a soft cry and immediately had to suck in a breath, I hadn't realized I hadn't been breathing and he whirled in his chair to face me, eyes hard and I caught the image of Light in an elevator on one screen, leaning against a wall looking somber and his father and a couple other agents waiting for the elevator but it still didn't make sense to me.
L's voice broke through the sudden unslaught of emotion, "Matt. Now." My vision blurred and tinted red, how dare he demand this of me when I couldn't comprehend anything more than the feeling of my own frantic heart. How dare he say his name so casually when he was gone because L's security had fucking failed, something I was fairly certain he would've realized if his own lover hadn't been causing drama.
A low growl pushed forward and he snapped at me, "Whatever issues you two are having resolve them and bring-" I smacked him before he could finish, detachedly noticing that the elevator had stopped and was opening on the wrong floor.
L looked like he was going to kill me, his mask shattered as he spat in his face, "I'd love to drag him in here at your whim but I can't because your fucked up security failed! You refused to let him re-wire it and look! He's fucking GONE! L, Gone!" I almost smacked him again, "maybe if you could focus on something other than your boy-toy for three seconds you would've noticed you goddamn asshole!"
I thrust the note in his face, shaking again and he nearly pushed it aside but after glancing at it stopped and read it rapidly, standing and touching me, his face much gentler now.
"Return to your room, figure out what else has been taken and meet me in the investigation room when you finish." He gave me a little push, clearly trying to hurry and I forced myself to head back toward the door.
"Oh and Mihael, don't forget clothes."
I looked down at myself, feeling completely hopeless as it was clear everything was falling apart and oh…I was still naked.
~Light~
I immediately jammed the "close door" button as hard as I could, my father hadn't looked just yet, though he and Matsuda had both stepped forward and the doors were closing, I breathed a slight sigh, still not in the clear.
"Rue! Hold the elevator!" Roku's voice carried to me through the thin space left and his hand suddenly waved causing the door's to open fully again and this time everyone was looking at me. I didn't know what to do and where was Matt? He and Mello were supposed to have a backup plan in case anything like this happened.
There was dead silence for a moment before Matsuda and my father reacted, one breathed my name and the other pulled a gun. It was not who I expected and Roku's startled voice, asking me why I was on this floor again and telling Matsuda that the gun was a bit much, went completely ignored as my father and I locked eyes.
"Kira." He spoke with a curt nod despite saying my real name not a minute before and it stung just as much as it had the first time, three years ago.
I gave up in that moment and stepped out of the elevator and onto their floor fully, my hands raised slightly so they could see that I wasn't trying anything. Roku's eyes were disks as he stared at me after hearing what my father called me and I could see him piecing things together in his head before he to drew his gun.
"Kira is dead." A new voice joined in and relief washed over me temporarily as L came up behind the officers, barefoot as always though I almost smiled seeing that he had also foregone a shirt this time.
Matsuda turned a bit, keeping his weapon trained on me, "Ryuzaki!" he exclaimed, louder than anything else that had been said. My father turned as well, but kept us both in his sight at the same time, "Matsuda get the rest of the tea-"
He was cut off as the door flew open and Aizawa came out followed by Mogi, Ide and Near who looked only mildly troubled and my stomach dropped again. "I heard someone say Ryuzaki."
The team all broke out talking at once, as L, Near and I looked at each other, Near's subtle shrug letting us know that we might be able to salvage things and L's dark eyes telling the both of us that something else was happening and we needed to resolve this quickly.
Finally though it got quiet enough for one person to be heard and my father's voice pierced the air, "L with the exception of a your proxy and Officer Roku everyone here watched both you and Kira succumb to the poison you had prepared. We might be willing to over-look the fact that you are still alive but this monster-" he gestured to me causing another spear of pain to shot through me, "must be brought to true justice."
L gave him his usual blank stare, "I believe that there is an easy explanation, merely a miscalculation on my part that allowed us to survive what I had intended to be a lethal injection, however we are both grateful for this and there is no proxy here. The three boys you all met are highly skilled and, though they do not often seem what they are, intended to succeed me as the codename L."
I was still not fully relaxed, Roku had switched his weapon to my lover and Matsuda's gun hadn't wavered an inch. I knew though if Roku gave any hint he would fire I would do anything to stop the bullet, I could see my thoughts mirrored in L's gaze when he briefly glanced at me and I shook my head a bit, unlike him I deserved to be punished.
Questions were thick in the air but before they could be voiced L spoke again, "At the moment push aside your suspicions please, we have an urgent matter that may lead us to the killer, I'm afraid that M's partner has been abducted along with several other objects that M is currently identifying, a note was left signed 'Li' and we only have a lim-"
My father cut him off again and I felt anger flare up inside me, if Matt was missing we needed to find him, I knew that in a matter of hours Mello would be a dangerous storm of determination and the longer we tarried here the more likely it was he would appear and shoot something. Besides the gamer was family now, something that I was fairly certain my father no longer understood.
"Ryuzaki, it has to wait until we rid the world of Kira once and for all, Matsuda or I can simply-" His words choked off as L moved forward and grabbed him, causing Roku to cock his gun properly and point it at his head.
"Sorichio Yagami, that is your son and whatever he has done in the past was under the influence of a personality twisting notebook, but the ideals that led to it were spoon fed to him by you, there will be no more talk of ridding the world of Light. I am L and I have punished him as I have seen fit." The blankness was gone and L's eyes were pools of black fire making me realize suddenly why he said Mello was really the most fitting successor.
My father swallowed and looked at Roku and Matsuda, "Lower your weapons, he…we can't go against him."
The men moved back a bit and Matsuda and Roku dropped their arms, holstering their guns and L, Near and I moved closer together to face the men.
I felt their eyes all on me and realized it was my turn to speak, "I've been working with L to catch criminals for the past three years and came to know N, M, and J well, it is imperative that we find J or M is likely to…"
I trailed off because Mello had just stepped out of the stairwell wearing Matt's shirt, his leather pants still present and he snapped a bar of chocolate, his eyes dead. "I'm likely to kill every last one of your sorry fuckin' asses. Now we have to find him before dawn, screw around and I shove Near's Lego tower up your anus."
I nodded and he came closer so that everyone could see how exhausted he looked and he looked straight at L, "Rosary, Matt and our…" He looked at the men still standing and watching us uncertainly before leaning forward a bit and speaking lowly, "wedding rings."
A/N: HA! It was longer this time! Barely…but anyways..I seriously feel like my writing has gotten worse so…has it? Um. That's it :3 Thanks to readers and reviewers!
