He might miss something.
Oggetto
| I lost my mind, I don't mind |
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L doesn't blink (can't, won't, doesn't).
On the screen – a pretty picture, a bland picture, but curious, curious –
"Yagami-san…" L trails off, thumb ghosting over parted lips, eyes dry from not blinking and the glare of the screen. His own voice echoes in the silence, over the frequency of audio monitors and the monotony of monitoring. "Who's this?"
Yagami-san towers over L. He's a stern man, a capable man, broad shoulders and lines on his face, he's a tired man. He's not intimidating because he doesn't want to be, but there is no doubt that he could be, if he wanted to.
But he doesn't want to be, so he's just tired, tired, tired and displeased, skeptical. He's not fond of L's idea to put cameras in his home to spy on his unsuspecting family.
Yagami-san takes one look at L, then at the screen.
On the screen – a pretty picture, a bland picture, nothing out of the ordinary except –
"If you switch it on the other side of equal sign, it becomes a negative." L turns his ear towards the speaker, as if he will catch something important. He won't. "Keep that in mind, it's important, especially when you plug it into the formula…"
"Eden." Yagami-san says, voice cutting off the rest of the sentence. "She's…"
L knows her name. He also knows her last name, her occupation, where she studied, her address and her phone number, every address and every phone number of every member of her family. He knows everything about her, he just doesn't know her, who she is.
He can make deductions – she's very obviously good at math, which is why she is an actuary and also the reason she offers to help the youngest of the Yagami children with her homework.
With a glance at her clothes, expensive, well maintained, you can tell she has money – by the way she carries herself, it's not farfetched to say that she comes from money. The way her hair bunches up close to her neck, you can assume it was in a ponytail before.
Yes, L can see all of that and, with the information Wammy provided, he can see that most of his deductions are correct. No, what isn't obvious is –
"She's Raito's girlfriend." Yagami-san finishes – there's a smidge of disbelief there, but only a little bit. Not because his son found a girlfriend, no, Raito Yagami is handsome, anyone can tell with just one look that he would be popular with women, but because his son, who never showed an interest in dating, has a girlfriend.
L hums, thumb now paused in his mouth, and continues to watch the screen.
Light Yagami is seated in front of his girlfriend and his little sister, a book in his hands. He sends a look towards the both of them ever so often, almost every ten pages.
"Since when?" L asks, eyes itching to close, but he can't, he might miss –
"They met a little over three months ago." Yagami-san says. "But he introduced her as his girlfriend on his birthday."
They've barely started dating a month ago, then and, if they met in January, that means that Kira was already active and she has no involvement with Kira, only with Light Yagami and the innocent, doe-eyed façade he presents.
"Thank you, Yagami-san." The man knows when he's being dismissed and he sends L a blank stare coupled with a nod before returning to take his seat on one of the couches of the hotel room, the one next to an exhausted Matsuda-san.
Not that L looks, no, his attention stays on the screen, eyes thirsty for sleep. He might –
(Light looks up from his book, sends a look towards his girlfriend and this time she looks up, catches his eyes.)
He might miss something.
a/n: Chapter 18, L's POV. Next up, To-ho and L and Light and Eden somewhere in the middle of all of this. Thank you for reading and reviewing, hope you enjoyed and I'll see you next time.