CHAPTER 13 - CLOSER TO YOU

L abruptly woke up when he heard someone screaming. He quickly showed his legs down the desk and stood up. He was a bit disoriented for a moment. There was no one in the room. And it was completely silent there. But then he noticed his wand flying from the direction of his trap. The wand was flying in spiralls, like it was dancing. Obviously very proud of itself.

L looked up at the ceiling.

There… Light Yagami was trapped in the spider web, completely unable to move. He even had a spider web on his mouth like a gag. His eyes were wide opened and he was desperately trying to get out of his captivity.

For a moment, L was not sure what to think. His alpha found his catch very attractive like this. When he couldn't fight and say a thing. Normally, he would probably keep him there for a moment and tease him but he was so confused about what the hell Light was doing in his cabinet and what the hell did he do so bad that it made his wand push him into a trap.

L realized that it didn't really matter now, because he had to get the boy down as soon as possible. So he put away all the things that were inside his mind, took his floating wand and made a quick spell to release the boy from the spider web.

Then, Light was falling down from the ceiling with a scream. L waved his wand again to stop the boy 5 centimeters above the floor and then let him land softly. Light was up on his legs in a second, looking like a startled mess, still partly covered by the spider web. Everything happened so fast that his head was for once completely empty and all that's left, was anger and confusion:

"What the hell was that?!"

L tilted his head: "Do you really feel like you are in a position to ask questions? What were you doing in my cabinet?"

Light narrowed: "It's Thursday, 8 PM and I am here because of my lesson! When you were not in a class I came here. When I saw you are sleeping I wanted to wake you up but your damn wand attacked me!"

L looked at the wand which was again floating in the air next to his head: "Is it true?"

The wand made a movement up and down to say "Yes" and then left and right to say "No."

L rolled his eyes: "Can you express yourself clearly for once?"

Then the wand started flying around Light and it looked ready to attack again.

"Stop being so overprotective he's just a kid." L told the wand, caught it in his hand and showed it abruptly to his back pocket: "We will talk about this later…"

Then he turned to face scared and confused Light.

"Are you alright?"

Light nodded while he was looking at the floor: "Yes just… a bit shocked."

Light wasnt lying about that. It's not every day that you end up tangled in a web of a giant spider. Luckily, there was no spider. And Lawliet was letting out very soft calming pheromones at the moment, which was unfortunately… helping a lot. But the fact that the man was practically half naked was making things a bit uncomfortable.

"Understandable." L said and watched as Light was looking everywhere around, but not at him.

"Could you please...? AHEM… Take some pants?" Light asked and then L finally realized where the problem was. He was in his boxers and the boy was blushing like crazy because of that.

"Oh… is this making you nervous, Yagami? Never saw a man's legs before?" he asked with a flirty voice.

"Of course I saw man's legs! But this is highly improper!" Light spat at him.

L only shrugged: "I am in my cabinet so… you are lucky you found me dressed at all."

Light turned red as a tomato and gave L a hard look: "Just please, take those damn pants!"

L laughed and went to dress while Light was desperately trying to look somewhere else. But it was fascinating how fast the scent of this man was shifting. Half a minute ago it was calming him down, and now it was attacking him with something more spicy and urgent. And then… it changed again:

"I was just joking Light… you can't take everything so seriously." L said with a smirk and found the whole situation pretty damn amusing. Making this boy blushing might as well become his new hobby.

"Will you tell me what that thing was?" Light suddenly changed the topic.

L zipped his pants and came closer to his trap, which was slowly descending from the ceiling back to the floor: "Oh yes… a new trap I am... working on. It is practically a giant spider web spelled into a carpet. Once you step on it you'll get trapped. Quite an easy spell. Except for the spider web part but… that's quite a long story."

Light raised an eyebrow: "But why do you have it in your cabinet? Do you expect someone to come and attack you?"

L wanted to frown but he resisted. Light was exactly right about that. But it was not something he could tell his student. So he decided to lie:

"No… I was... working on it last night and I just forgot to hide it. I wasn't exactly expecting someone to show inside my cabinet." L said and gave Light a scolding look.

"Well in that case you should have been waiting for me in the class…" Light said and folded his hands on his chest.

L scratched the back of his head: "Yes about that… I wasn't expecting you to come."

Light nodded: "Because I wasn't at school today. I wasn't feeling well in the morning but…"

L cut him off: "No that's not what I meant… I wasn't expecting you to come again...ever."

Light narrowed like someone slapped him: "Why?"

L only shrugged: "You seemed very scared yesterday. I thought that you might wanna quit…"

"What?! No! Why would you think so?" Light raised his voice and then a sudden thought hit him: "Wait… is this about my vision? You did that on purpose? You wanted to get rid of me?"

Light felt anger rising in his chest. It was possible for a wizard with Lawliet's level of knowledge to actually affect his visions. That would explain why he saw HIM in his vision.

Lawliet put a finger to his lower lip and tilted his head: "I think I don't follow…"

Or maybe not… Light thought and suddenly he felt guilty that he suspected his teacher of something like that. But… this was L Lawliet. Everything was possible: "I mean… nothing! Forget it! I am here now and I want to continue my classes."

L was staring at the boy for a moment. Not sure how to proceed next. With all the things he figured from his mother's research he actually hoped the boy would not come. He was happy to see Light was alright after yesterday but still… This was dangerous territory for the boy.

"Light, sit down for a moment." L said and headed to two chairs on the other side of the room. When Light didnt move a bit L rolled his eyes and showed to the chair opposite his own: "Just sit, I am not going to eat you…"

Light moved to the chair and looked at L full of suspicion.

"Listen I've been thinking about it and reading through some research and I am not exactly sure if this is a good idea."

"What do you mean professor?" Light asked and watched as a teapot with two porcelain cups flew to the small table between them and poured a tea for both of them. Lawliet quickly took his cup between his thumb and index finger and sipped of it before he started talking:

"With what I've seen yesterday I think you probably are not ready for... whatever is hidden inside you. Pushing you to find out might be a mistake. It might lead you to closing off to your inner omega completely."

"What? No! That's not what's going to happen I just…" Light started to defend himself but L cut him off again:

"Light are you aware of what you did yesterday?"

Light folded his hands on his chest again: "I ran away… and so what? I needed some time to think about what I saw…"

"That's not what I am talking about." L shook his head: "I am talking about that little earthquake you caused around."

Light jerked his head back: "About what?"

"You are not aware of that?"

"Earthquake?" Light was looking at his professor like he was crazy. He had no idea what he was up to this time. And Lawliet's answers were not exactly helpful:

"Ah… so it's really your subconsciousness doing it. That's what I was afraid of." Lawliet said and started rubbing his lower lip with his thumb, while thinking. But Light needed answers:

"Professor… what are you talking about?"

Lawliet gave him a piercing look and took a moment before he started talking again: "Light… yesterday, when you started feeling uncomfortable in that vision, the whole room started shaking."

Light opened and closed his mouth: "But… but that's not possible. I was in a magic circle and under a spell. It should be impossible for me to put up resistance."

Lawliet nodded: "Theoretically… yes. But your fear of the thing you saw was so strong that you somehow managed to do it anyway."

Light frowned: "But… what does it mean?"

"I am not sure myself. What exactly did you see in that vision yesterday?"

Light looked shyly at his own hands: "I… is it that important?"

Lawliet shrugged: "For me… not so much. For you though… it will be crucial, if you understand it right."

Light breathed in and out. He didn't want to tell Lawliet what was in his mind exactly. But there was something he could tell:

"I… I was thinking about it… a lot and I think I figured something out."

"Yes?" L leaned a few centimeters forward in anticipation.

"I think… I think my inner omega doesn't like being forced into things."

L chucked: "Well I guess that makes sense according to … some of your usual reactions."

Light shifted uncomfortably in his seat. He had no idea what those usual reactions meant but he didn't like that term at all. Luckily, he didn't have time to react harshly, because his professor spoke up again:

"But that's also a good thing. Because I think it is not only your inner omega's quality. Or am I wrong?"

Light nodded and narrowed proudly: "No… you are not. I like being the master of my life."

L smiled: "Of course… but that also means that you are forcing yourself to do some things from time to time… don't you?"

"Well… yes."

"Alright… thats the first thing you should stop with." L said, stood up from his chair and started pacing the room forward and back, thinking. Light hop on his legs too, but stood frozen, not sure what to do:

"But… I don't usually even realize that."

"It will take some time. You just need to pay more attention to yourself." L waved his hand in the air, like his mind was already somewhere else.

"Alright…" Light said and watched Lawliet stop and turn to him:

"Is that what you saw in your vision? Someone forced you to something you didn't want?"

Light felt heat coming to his face: "Well… yes. Something like that."

"And what else?" L came closer to the boy and tilted his head.

Light instinctively made a step back. The closer Lawliet was, the worse it was to think clearly. But Light also found, it was not as bad as before. It was affecting him, but he was able to resist… somehow.

"I.. nothing. That's it." Light mumbled.

Lawliet smirked: "You are not a good liar, do you know that?"

"I… I am.. I don't…"

"Light. I was literally sitting in front of you. First few minutes your vision was obviously quite pleasant. So don't try to tell me that it was all about someone forcing you into something you don't want."

Light opened and closed his mouth. Damn observant bastard… What else did you notice?

"I… I am not comfortable talking about it." Light said.

L raised an eyebrow: "It was a positive part of your vision, and you are not comfortable talking about it?"

Light breathed in and realized that Lawliet's scent was getting stronger again. He quickly stepped away and threw his hands in the air desperately:

"It was just a classical omega cliché stuff okay? Nothing important there."

"I disagree. But as you wish. I won't push you to tell me anymore. I wouldn't want you to feel forced into anything." L said and showed his hands inside his pockets.

"Thank you." Light nodded and smiled. He felt really grateful about that small gesture.

For a moment L felt like the time stopped. That beautiful sincere smile was doing weird things to him. He felt something warm in his chest and something fluttering in his belly. It was really hard to shift his eyes somewhere else.

Snap out of it now, or we are both in trouble! The voice of his inner alpha warned him. Because not only L, but even his alpha was afraid of catching feelings. And that thing that was going through L's body sounded dangerously like a symptom.

L quickly shifted his eyes to the floor and let his alpha take the lead, for once:

"Now… When you are soooo desperate to spend more time with me… would you like to try it again?" L said with his most egoistic tone.

"What?!" Light spat in confusion. For a moment Lawliet was actually nice and then he was making silly jokes like this.

Who does he think he is? Why would anyone want to spend time with him?! Light asked himself and he also knew that he was actually lying to himself at that moment.

"Getting in touch with your inner omega…" Lawliet said and Light got back from his thoughts. He raised an eyebrow:

"Why?"

Lawliet shrugged and leaned the back of his body against his desk: "Because last time the vision ended before it should have. That means there is still more to it then you saw. If you would be willing to get through that to the end, you might find out even more."

Light opened and closed his mouth. It made sense of course… he wasn't thinking about that before.

"I…"

L waved it off: "If you are not ready I might just give you some materials to study and we can continue this when you are re…"

"No… I am ready. Let's do it." Light said with a firm voice and watched as his professor raised an eyebrow:

"Are you sure? You shouldn't push yourself into it Light…"

"Let's just try it… the worst thing that can happen is me running away again." he said half joking but he also knew that was a real possibility.

Lawliet came closer to him and gave him a piercing look:

"Or… this time you could just try to calm down and talk to me about it."

Light was again surrounded by alpha pheromones but it wasn't unpleasant. It was like Lawliet was happy that he had him there. For some reason it gave Light courage to joke again:

"Or… I could just run away."

L laughed out loud. He really liked this stubborn little omega. Light was really fascinating. One moment running away like a scared puppy and the other coming back with discovery he managed to make by himself. The boy was really good. Intelligent and witty enough to figure out things without someone leading his steps. All L needed to do was to show him direction.

"Okay, come, let's get to work." he said and he felt happy that he had Light close again.

The vision started the same way as before. Light was on a green meadow and nearby three kids were playing with their father. Light headed to them, this time he was determined to find out what it was all about. As he was close, Lawliet stood up from the kids, touched Light's face, his pregnant belly, and kissed him, just like before. It was beautiful at the start and then Lawliet started pushing their bodies together and deepened the kiss. Light again started feeling uncomfortable. He wanted to let it proceed, to get further in the vision, but the kiss was getting aggressive. Light opened his eyes and wanted to push Lawliet away. But when he did that, he found out that the man that's kissing him so fiercely was not Lawliet… It was Mikami! Light panicked. It wasn't right. It didn't feel right. He didn't want that!

L watched Light getting uncomfortable in his vision again. It was probably at the same place as before. There was something Light didn't like and he was obviously struggling hard to get through it. Whatever was happening inside the boy's mind, his subconsciousness was rejecting it because the rooms started shaking again, even more than the day before. This time, L decided not to wait for Light's approval and ended the session.

Light's vision suddenly disappeared and all the walls inside his mind were up again. He opened his eyes to look at his teacher who obviously ended the session on his own. He looked concerned and calming alpha pheromones were filling the air around them once again.

"Thank you…" Light said and he was really grateful. Because the look Mikami gave him in that vision, was anything, but pleasant. He knew whatever was coming after that, wouldn't be nice.

"You are welcome…" Lawliet said and gave him a thoughtful look: "Do you want to talk about it?"

Light was silent for a moment, looking at his own hands, frowning.

"I didn't get much further I... but something was different this time."

"Okay?"

"There was a different person and I… it didn't feel right." Light had no idea how Mikami got into his vision, but it only supported his theory that these visions are changing according to people who were influencing you at the moment.

Lawliet frowned. "But yesterday you also didn't feel right about it so…"

Light cut him off: "No… not like this… this was… different. I am sorry. I don't wanna waste your time. This vision was obviously influenced by something that happened yesterday so it's not really valid… I will go, sorry to waste your time, professor." Light hopped on his legs and bowed to his professor.

L stood up too and shook his head: "It's alright Light, I am not mad at you. I guess it was an event of a personal matter?" L asked, not really sure why. For some reason he didn't want the discussion to end there.

"Well… yes. It's not something I can talk about with my teacher anyway…"

"You can talk to me about anything Light…" L said and couldn't believe his own words. Whatever just came out of his mouth was cheesy and damn stupid. Luckily, Light didn't seem to notice:

"Do you have the whole night free?" he asked and L reacted before he could think about it:

"For you? Always."

Light looked at Lawliet with wide eyes. He was not sure how to react to that but he felt how his inner omega is jumping with happiness inside his body. And his heart rate increased.

There was a long pause when they were just staring at each other. L felt that strange feeling inside his belly again. Whatever this boy was doing to him it had to stop… and quickly. L reminded himself that Light was kissing another alpha last night and that was enough to make him sober again. He quickly shifted his eyes to the floor and cleared his throat:

"So… something went wrong between you and Mr. Mikami?"

The sudden question hit Light like a shinkansen. He opened and closed his mouth a few times. He had no idea how Lawliet came to that conclusion.

"How… what…?" and then it hit him: "SHIT I AM GOING TO KILL MISA!"

Lawliet laughed although he didn't feel like laughing at all.

"Yes, miss Amane really has a hard time keeping her mouth shut doesn't she?"

Light rolled his eyes and folded hands on his chest. He suddenly felt very angry at Misa, for spreading rumors. And he was even angrier that Lawliet knew about him and Mikami.

"What did she tell you?"

Lawliet sat on one of the school desks: "Me? Nothing… I just overheard her talking about you and Mr. Mikami kissing last night. So I figured that your problem today might be related to it. That's all. I thought that you probably went to him for comfort yesterday if he is your alpha and something went wr…"

Light cut him off angrily: "He is not my alpha and she didn't see us kissing. She just thought that's what she saw…"

L couldn't help but smirk. He was actually happy to hear that: "Alright… so you two werent kissing last night…"

"We were but… wait... why am I talking about it with you?"

L smiled at him and tried to be as friendly as he could. Because he was dying to know what was between those two. Even when he realized it was completely irrational and absolutely improper:

"Because you obviously need to talk to someone and I am here right now so…"

Light bit his lower lip. On one hand he wanted to talk to someone but…:

"I don't wanna bother you. It's not your business anyway."

"As long as it's keeping you distracted from our lessons it is my business. So what happened?"

Light let out a long sight and sat on a desk, opposite to Lawliet:

"He… he kissed me. Okay? That's all. He kissed me and I backed off."

L frowned. He didn't like that at all. His inner alpha started awakening: "Did he force you?"

Light shook his head: "He didn't really… he just surprised me and it didn't feel right…"

"Do you want me to talk to him?"

Do you want me to break his nose? L really wanted to ask.

"God NO!" Light let out with scared eyes.

L shrugged: "Alright… I am just asking…" then there was a moment of silence. L was not sure what to say next. He wanted to know more but at the same time… he didn't: "So the two of you… are not dating?"

Light shook his head: "No… not yet. I mean… we were supposed to have a date on Saturday but that's probably not happening as I pushed him off and I have a lesson with you anyway."

"We can cancel the lesson, if you want." L told him, partly hoping that Light will refuse.

"No! I need these lessons!" Light almost yelled.

"Yes, but on the other hand, having an alpha might help you unwind things you know… the physical side of it all." L told him, not really sure why, because at the thought of Light in arms of another alpha made his blood boiling.

Light hid his face into his hands: "I… I don't think I am ready for that. I freak out just when he kissed me."

L nodded and he felt happy about it. He knew he shouldn't feel like that but he couldn't help it. Just the thought of Mikami forcing these beautiful lips to a kiss was provoking strong aggression in him. But it was just nature. He was an alpha and he had a strong desire to protect omegas. He just needed to ignore it and…. Wait a second. L suddenly stopped his thoughts and smirked at a sudden realization.

"Oh I see." Lawliet said laughing.

Light looked up confused at his professor: "What?! Why… why are you laughing?"

"It wasn't really your vision that helped you figure out your inner omega doesn't like being pushed… It was the kiss!" Lawliet was laughing like a fool and his back fell on the desk.

Light watched that idiotic alpha laughing at him and controrting on a desk:

"Can you stop? This is not helping!" he said and felt his anger rising. But Lawliet was still laughing and continued teasing him:

"You figured it out when Mikami was showing his tongue down your throat!" L's anger was gone. His inner alpha found the situation so hilarious that he couldn't hold his face.

Light was on his feet again and his face was burning red: "He wasn't showing his tongue anywhere! Agggrrrr! Just SHUT UP!"

Lawliet finally stopped laughing, but his eyes were full of tears: "Sorry… I didn't mean to be rude, I just… thought it was funny that all you needed was a kiss to realize something about yourself. In the light of that… sessions like this are really a joke."

Light folded his hands on a chest again: "It's not like that! It was also about something I saw in that vision. Not only the kiss."

L climbed down from the table too and stood opposite to very angry Light:

"Well maybe… but anyway. Having an alpha might really help you in some things."

"I don't want an alpha right now. I just wanna find myself."

"Mmm… pity for all the alpha population…" L mumbled but forced his control on again, because he knew he really should stop saying things like this in front of Light: "If you feel this is the best thing for you and your inner omega is alright with that, I can't do anything else, then support you."

"Pfff..." Light let out angrily.

L smirked at that: "And I am sorry I was laughing at you."

Light gave him a scolding look, but as he was looking into Lawliet's eyes, he was sure his professor meant it. Light didn't understand him. He could be such a jerk sometimes.

"It's alright. I … I guess I understand." Light said.

"Do you want to call it for a night? Or do you want to try it again?" L asked.

I wanna stay here with you… Light's inner omega whispered somewhere at the back of his head.

"I think it will be better to leave it be today… as you said I shouldn't push myself."

"Alright… good night then." Lawliet said and he was smiling lightly.

"Good night…" Light answered and headed to the door.

"And Light…" His professor called at him and Light turned around to see him still smiling: "Let me know if you will want a saturday free."

Light smiled back at him: "Yes, professor."