Title: Death Note Cell
Title: Death Note Cell. (Oh, never mind. It's just a goddamn name…)
Rating: Sorry guys, it's gonna have to be Mature this time. There's a lot of violence in this one, and references to…adult…things. (Which actually is true in this chapter, seeing as it was just a blatant lie in all the others. ) ¬ ¬ ANYWAY. MOVING ON. Lol :D?
Authors Note: D: I'm actually really upset, believe it or not. It's not because of anything here, no… it's because of my house. Lately we've been getting all these weird bugs that just pop up out of nowhere. (By popping up out of nowhere, I mean crawling across my desk and scaring the shit out of me) Like just the other day, I found this weird-ass thing that looked like a cross between a spider, a fly, and a cricket crawling up our curtains. What the hell, nature? What. The. Hell. And then just this morning I found this really tiny thing that looked like an ant, but it flew… and it had a giant stinger on the end of it. No, it wasn't a bee. At least… I don't think so. I lost track of it, so I wasn't able to kill it. But, speaking of bees, we had an infestation of bees not too long ago. I was in my room, looking through my closet when all of a sudden I hear this "Bzzzz…." I turn around, thinking: Wtf? But then it stops. Two seconds later: "Bzzzz…bzzz… (Angry) bzzz…" So I go over to my window where it's coming from, lift up the shade, and there's a giant bee crawling around on the inside of my window, where I am! I finally managed to kill it, but I'm so scared of bees it's not even funny. We found so many more… so we called an exterminator who sprayed some stuff to kill the bees, but then… they were dropping dead everywhere. Even inside the house. I was sitting here typing and all of a sudden I see this giant ass bee crawl across my desk! (It was dying, but nonetheless, it was still scary as hell.) I'm so pissed off. I wish we could get rid of this bug problem. Oh well.
Summary: … - . o (I changed the face. Did anyone notice? :D?) Just read the previous chapters, okay? Okay. I don't feel like explaining it all again, thanks.
Pairings: I think everybody knows that I've changed my way of thinking. LxLight, RyuzakixOC, LightxOC.
Disclaimer: Okay, I own absolutely no characters from Death Note, and the concept of Cell belongs to Stephen King and him alone. Not me. Though if I had come up with that idea, you can bet your asses you would see my shit in bookstores instead of here. The only thing I do own is my original characters. No, seriously. That's about the only thing I own… TT 0 TT All right, adding on to the disclaimer. I do not own the movie "The Mist", which will have some striking similarities to DN Cell very soon. Just a coincidence, but Mist is also a Stephen King novella. :D
Okay, people. This chapter has some hints of Shounen-ai (blatant lie, it actually has almost full blown yaoi) and such, so… stop reading if you don't like that stuff. I'll be sad to lose you as a reader, but I don't want anyone getting pissed off at me because I'm putting two guys kissing in this. So… yeah.
Chapter six: Sanctity Pt 2.
Rue lifted his head, his face back to normal, like we had never been arguing. Abigail took a few steps forward, looked over her shoulder, and then began to knock on the doors. I looked up, and noticed—with a heavy heart—that the entire front of the store was glass. A sinking feeling went through my stomach at the discovery. Even if we did manage to get inside, what was going to protect us from the crazies? Rue didn't exactly work all the time, did he?
The people on the inside of the store looked at each other. There were four people inside, a few less than I originally thought. I was surprised to see four women. One girl looked like just a teenager, two were about middle aged, and one looked younger, maybe in her thirties. She looked like she might have kids at home. That worried me a lot. Abigail kept knocking, growing impatient. "Come on, let us in!" She called, and the people in the store began to talk among each other. I couldn't understand what they were saying, they were very quiet. "We have a little girl and somebody's hurt!" They fell silent. Then the teenage girl (who struck me as if she might work there) stepped forward, took a key from her pocket and unlocked the door, swinging it open.
"Thank you, I…" Abigail started, but was cut off.
"Just get in. I don't want any of those bloody things noticing us!" She spoke with a thick English accent, so much that I had to think twice before I realized what she had said. She ushered Abigail inside, then looked at Rue and I expectedly. I helped him inside, saying a quiet "thank you" to the young girl. She closed and locked the door behind us in a hurry, and I noticed her hands were shaking just the slightest bit. I didn't blame her.
I looked around inside the store, just to gather what kind of a situation we were in, here. Of to the right in the far back, I could see a sign that said "pharmacy". That gave me a little hope. At least they had medication if one of us got sick. 'Maybe they have some aspirin for Ryuzaki-san…' I thought, looking around some more. There were several food aisles, once again in the back. That was good, also. Knowing we had something to eat made me feel better. A medium-sized clothing section was in front of us, behind the cash registers and some benches. It had children, teen, and adult sizes. A cosmetics space was to the left of it, and I noticed rather humorlessly that it was bigger than the clothes section. A slight laugh escaped due to the raw irony. I was snapped out of my own world when somebody called: "Hey!"
I turned my head. It was the younger girl, the teenager. "Thanks for letting us in. I guess everybody hasn't gone completely crazy." I said. She nodded, and put her hands on her hips. I looked her over, wanting to have some idea of the people I would be staying with for obviously a little while. She had long, bone-straight black hair, and her bangs almost covered both of her eyes, which had extremely heavy makeup around them. She was skeleton-like thin, more or less looked like she had the still-developing body of a twelve-year-old, and wore all black. 'Well then…' was the first thing that ran through my mind. All the other patrons of the store looked normal, except one middle-aged woman. I was sure she was a nice person; she just struck me as a little odd, then.
"I hope everyone is all right…" The second middle-aged woman stepped forward. She was shorter than me, with long brown hair that was beginning to turn gray. She looked like someone I could trust, but I wasn't exactly sure. "I'm Kathy."
"Really, thanks for letting us in." I said, doing my best to smile.
"How about I take the little girl and get her settled?" I jumped a little, and wasn't about to hand over Sonja to a stranger, that was for sure. Although she seemed nice enough, I wasn't going to relinquish my protective grip on the little girl. Abigail turned to me, evidently with a different idea in mind. She closed the few steps between us and placed her hand on my shoulder.
"Abigail, I…" I started, but she shushed me.
"It's fine. I'll go with her; I'll make sure she's okay. Light, we can trust these people."
"Yes, but…"
"No buts. Everything will be okay, all right?" I had no choice but to agree. Abigail was about as stubborn as I was, and there was no getting around this. She patted my shoulder caringly and then I watched her walk off with Kathy. I let myself stare after them for a moment after they had disappeared from my sight, wishing I could be with them. I felt Rue's hand on my shoulder tighten, and then relax. His fingers brushed over the fabric of my shirt lightly, reassuringly.
":It'll be all right. You need to trust people more, Yagami-san.:" 'Huh?' I thought, confused. 'He's not calling me 'Raito' anymore. I wonder why…' I nodded, not at all reassured.
"What'd he call you?" The teenage girl said, her tone of voice something I couldn't quite understand.
"He called me 'Yagami-san'. That's my name…sort of." I mumbled, turning and leading Rue to a bench not too far away to my right. He seemed grateful once I let him sit down. He leaned his head back and closed his eyes for a few seconds, and I turned back to the girl.
"Yaga-what?" I let out my breath in a loud whoosh, annoyed.
"I'll tell you later. Right now, I'd like to know everybody else's name, if that's okay."
"All right." She shrugged, took me by the crook of my arm and led me away from Rue toward everyone else. I cast a quick glance over my shoulder, but he didn't see me. "I'm Lauren," She pointed to herself with one skinny finger and black nail, and then proceeded to show me everybody else. "That's Miss Campbell," She gestured to the woman that slightly worried me. She raised her right hand in a half-hearted wave with a strange smile. I didn't have time to pay attention before Lauren began to point out other people. "You already know Kathy, and… that's Mrs. Johnson," She pointed to the woman that I suspected would have children at home. She had extremely short hair, so much of a light black it might have been mistook for gray. Her features suggested that she might worry a lot, and I had the sudden urge to comfort her, but I stayed where I was. "And that's everybody. So…what's your name again?"
I rolled my eyes, but it was only half-hearted. "I'm Light Yagami. The girl with me is my friend Abigail, the child… her name is Sonja, and his name…" I gestured to Rue, who was still leaning back, closing his eyes. He almost looked dead, but I tried not to think about that. "…Is Rue." Her face scrunched up into an odd expression, and she peered over my shoulder to look at Rue. "Is… something the matter?" I asked, leaning away.
"You guys have strange names." She turned back toward me as if it was nothing. I sighed heavily.
"Thanks." I murmured sarcastically. That made her laugh, which really wasn't what I was aiming for. I looked back over toward Rue, and… I wasn't exactly sure yet, I still needed that one defining piece of evidence… but in my book, he could have very well been L. He looked the same, if you cut out the blonde hair and… I noticed with a start he had no dark circles under his eyes anymore. I thought back to when he had lain in my arms after passing out in front of the store. It already seemed like another lifetime. In my minds eye, I watched myself brush away his hair and stroke his forehead. 'All right, maybe I went a bit too far there…I was so happy to see him alive, was all. Nothing else…'
"How long have you guys been here?" I asked, and Mrs. Johnson spoke up.
"Ever since this started. We were the only ones in the store…" She had a very high voice, a very tiny and meek sounding voice. I nodded, stepping a little closer. "…There were some other people working at the time, a-along with Lauren…" Lauren nodded, and for a moment I saw sadness and fear in her eyes. "…But they all turned into those…those…things." My brow furrowed. Nobody was hurt, so they must have done something to protect themselves from them.
"Sorry, but… how did you…" I began to ask, but she finished my sentence. I was starting to think of her as a strong-willed woman, she impressed me as that.
"Kill them? We didn't." My eyes darted around the store nervously: Were they still in here? What she said next shocked me. "They just dropped dead." My jaw practically fell open when she said those words, and I looked back at Rue. '"If they stay around me too long, they just die…"' That's what he had said, and now she was saying almost the same thing! Did that mean that there was another person that had the same effect on the crazies that Rue did in that store? I looked at Lauren, thinking it might be her. She had seemed frightened suddenly when her other companions were mentioned, after all…
"They just died?" I repeated, making sure I had heard what I thought I did. She nodded solemnly. "That's… that's what happened with us." Shocked looks came over all of their faces, and they looked among each other, confused as I was.
"Really. That's interesting." Rue mumbled. I turned and saw him pushing himself up from the bench. I began to walk over to help him, but he smiled and held up his hand to stop me. Limping only a little bit, he made it over next to me, searching everyone's faces like I had. If this was L, he would probably come to the same damn conclusion that I had. "Was it you?" He pointed to Lauren. 'Bingo.' I thought. She pointed to herself.
"Me? What did I do?"
"Kill them." Her mouth fell open, disbelieving. I shook my head. Rue probably should have pieced his words together a little more carefully.
"He doesn't really mean that…" I started, but he stopped me.
"Yes, I do. I was wondering if she can do the same thing that I can. Now will you please let me continue?" I nodded, looking away. I really hoped she could, but that would be just too much of a coincidence. There was almost no chance, and even if there was a chance, it was extremely low. "How did they die… what was it, Lauren?"
"Yeah…" She smiled at him, and it looked to me as if she was eyeing him with more interest than I would have liked. He didn't smile back. "They…" She snapped back into reality when I gave a frustrated little 'huff'. "They just dropped dead. One second they were about to kill us, and the next they were on the floor, dead." She shrugged. "I really don't know how it happened." I began to look around at the faces of our companions, when my eye caught Miss Campbell. She had a strange look on her face, almost border lining disappointed. She cast her eyes toward Rue, still not noticing me, and frowned. I stepped a bit closer to him instinctively. She was beginning to worry me a lot.
"You didn't have to think about it at all?" He pried, leaning in closer to her. She didn't seem to mind.
"No, I didn't even have time to think." Rue leaned back away, a look of deep concentration set in his pale features. "Why? You said you could do that, didn't you…?"
"About what time did this happen? Do you think you remember?" She tilted her eyes up to the ceiling, thinking hard. Rue looked at me, and I shrugged.
"Almost an hour ago." Mrs. Johnson said. Lauren nodded. "By the way, my first name is Carol, if you want to call me that." I smiled politely at her, a silent 'thanks'.
Rue tapped me on the shoulder lightly. I turned toward him. ":What?:" He looked disappointed also. I wondered what about.
":It wasn't her, it was me. That was when we were walking, it must have just happened.:"
":Yeah, but you said that you had to--:"
":Yes, I know what I said. I didn't mean all the time.:" I closed my eyes and shook my head. 'Then next time, say everything you freakin' mean…' I thought angrily. "Well." Rue continued, placing his pale hands together. "I've figured out what happened." The others looked slightly impressed. "It wasn't anybody here, it was me."
"What do you mean 'it was you'?" Miss Campbell said, a tone edging her voice that I couldn't quite figure out. Rue simply shrugged.
"I mean, that… I can do that. I can kill them." Carol gasped, but she was the only one that seemed honestly frightened. Lauren looked shocked, and Miss Campbell looked like she expected it. "Yagami-san, I never actually told you this, but earlier this morning…" He hesitated, biting his lower lip. "I answered my cell phone." My jaw dropped. 'What?! How could it not have any effect on him? That's fucking impossible!'
"What…" I barely managed to croak, still trying to regain my composure.
"Yes. I answered it… but nothing happened. And when I started to see what else was happening, I was really confused as well. I actually seemed to be a magnet to those… 'crazies' as you call them, but whenever they would hang around me too long, they would die. Sometimes I would have to think about it extremely hard before they would, but they would never live very long. It gives me terrible headaches, and not just thinking about it. Ever since I answered my cell phone I've had a splitting headache." He stopped talking, and looked around at the shocked faces of the rest of them, pausing long enough to stare at me with his dark blue eyes.
I looked at the rest of them quickly, and then grabbed Rue by the shoulders. ":What the hell was with that?!:" I whispered angrily. ":Why didn't you tell me before, Ryuzaki-san?:" He shrugged.
":I didn't want to scare you, okay? Can you let go of my shoulders now?:" I released my grip on him, and he rubbed his shoulder awkwardly.
Just then, Kathy, Abigail and Sonja rounded the corner. Sonja looked very content with a fistful of crayons and a coloring book in her hands. I turned around and couldn't help but smile, despite how angry I was with Rue. Sonja looked up at me, smiled also and said: "Light!" I laughed. She was just so cute. Abigail smiled as well, set her down on the ground and let her rush over toward me. "Light, look at what I colored!" She proceeded to show me all the drawings she had colored when the rest of us were discussing Rue's strange abilities. I could hear Lauren proclaiming loudly in the background what Rue had told us to Abigail and Kathy.
"By the way," I spoke up, placing a hand on Sonja's head. "Where did you put them?" Lauren, who figured my question was directed at her, was confused. "Where did you put them?" I tried to stress my question without directly saying 'where did you put the bodies of the people that worked with you?' I didn't want to scare Sonja.
"Put who?" She said. I patted her back lightly.
"Nothing, sweetie. It's nothing." She seemed to accept my answer, sat down on the floor and began to color again. "I'll ask it again. Where did you put… them?" After I finally stressed my words enough, Lauren finally got the hint and answered somewhat subtly.
"Out back, behind the store." I sighed. 'Thanks, Lauren. Now I have to make sure Sonja doesn't venture off on her own even more.' I nodded, and then stood up.
"So…" Abigail started, looking at me. Her face suggested: 'Did Rue tell you any of this?' I shook my head no, and she seemed to understand. "What do we do now?"
"What can we do?" Kathy said. "There's not much. I guess we just have to ride this out until the end. We're all in this together, so…" I nodded.
"Yeah. It's good that we stick together now. There's safety in numbers, and you all seem like pretty decent people." We laughed half-heartedly at my half assed joke. Suddenly, Rue turned toward me and told me something that I barely expected him to say.
":Hey, Yagami-san. Can I talk to you?:"
":Hm? Uh… yeah.:" I wondered what he wanted to talk about. Maybe discuss some theories? Maybe apologize for scaring the shit out of me before? "Hey, Abby." I called. She looked in my direction. "Ryuzaki-san and I are going to go talk about what might be causing this, and then we'll come back and run a few things by you guys. Is that all right?"
"Yeah, that's fine." And with that, Rue took my arm and led me away. He was walking much better. Still limping a little, but I could tell it probably didn't hurt that much anymore. We walked a while in complete silence; evidently he was leading me to the back of the store. I looked down, wondering what he really wanted to talk about, and if this was the appropriate place and time to ask him who he really was. 'If I don't do it now, I'll never do it. It's got to happen… doesn't it?' I thought bitterly, my stomach beginning to twist into knots. It felt hollow and cold, almost like I was going to throw up. I swallowed loudly, and Rue looked at me for a second, and then turned his attention away. I noticed he hadn't removed his hand from my arm.
As we passed by a couple aisles of the drugs you didn't specifically need to get form the pharmacy, Rue snatched a bottle of aspirin from a shelf, pried off the cap and swallowed two pills dry. He coughed a little, then placed the cap back on and put the bottle in his pocket. ":Still hurts a little…:" He muttered, stopping in front of the small pharmacy. He—with some effort—sat down on the ground up against the counter with a tired groan. I sat down next to him silently.
":Listen, I'm sorry for not telling you all that stuff earlier, but it just didn't seem like the right time, is all.:" I didn't say anything, I barely heard him, still debating internally with myself what I should say to him and what I shouldn't say. He evidently took my silence as something else. ":If you're still angry with me, I'll accept that. I withheld information from you, and… that wasn't necessarily the right thing to do, was it?:"
":Yeah.:" I finally mumbled. 'This is it, Raito. If you don't do this now, you'll probably never get a second chance. You have to.' I took a deep breath, my stomach still feeling cold and empty. ":Ryuzaki-san, about that… that whole 'I think I knew you in a past life', thing--:" He corrected me.
":Not just knew, I was in love with you.:" My heart skipped a beat.
":Okay, fine. Whatever. But… what was that about?:" I let out my breath loudly, not entirely realizing I had been holding it that long.
":I'm not sure what you mean, but I'll try to answer anyway. It…:" He paused, thinking. ":It wasn't really about anything, I was just saying my feelings, is all. I felt like we had been in love with each other once, but obviously not in this life--:" I stopped him, bursting out angrily:
":You know damn well that's not what I meant!:" I stood up and began to pace, furious. ":You know I meant something else. You have to stop doing that! You have to tell me what the fuck is going on!:" I turned toward him and looked into his eyes pleadingly. He looked extremely shocked by my sudden outburst. ":You have to tell me the truth, Ryuzaki-san… Please…:"
":I… I don't know what you mean… I am telling you the truth. I know you don't believe me or anything, but I can't figure out why no--:"
":No! You know exactly what I mean! You need to stop playing these fucking mind games! They're driving me crazy!!:" I panted loudly, trying to catch my breath. Less dignified than I had planned, but I still had gotten my point across… somewhat. ":Do you understand me?:" He shook his head no feebly, staring at me, frightened and wide-eyed. ":That's bullshit! You have to know what I'm talking about! You! Of all the fucking people in this city! You!:" I tried to calm myself down, realizing that if I kept shouting at him, it wasn't going to get me anywhere good. I took one, two, several deep breaths, turning my face away from him.
":Wh-what are you trying to say, Yagami-san?:" He said gently. I heard him stand up behind me, and close the small distance in between us. He placed a warm hand on my back and ushered me to turn around. He looked in my eyes seriously, a look more familiar to me than anything else in the world upon his face. It was the look L used to give to me when he wanted me to see things his way instead of my own. It was so stern, yet… so caring at the same time, as if he was trying to guide me to the right direction. I didn't know what to do anymore when I looked into his eyes, and it was the same way then, when I stood staring at Rue.
":Who are you?:" I finally admitted. It felt so good to get the question off my chest, but I was so worried that he would act like he didn't know what I was talking about. Possibly even come straight back at me with some bizarre counter answer. He lowered his eyes from my face down to the floor, a look of someone whose been caught doing something they shouldn't crossing his face. He closed his eyes, opened his mouth but closed it again. Rue moved his hand from my back to my face unexpectedly, and he looked back up. His thumb traced along my cheek, something I hadn't felt anyone do in a long time. I sighed, wishing he would just answer me. He began to sift his fingers through my hair, and suddenly I felt awkward staring into his eyes.
":Why do you want to know?:" He said after a long time of looking me over. I was confused. That wasn't the answer I expected him to give at all. I more or less expected him to say something along the lines of 'you know, don't you?' but he said the farthest thing from it. I blinked a few times, unable to say anything. He looked down. ":No, that wasn't right. More like… why do you care?:" My jaw dropped open, and I grabbed his wrist. He tried to jerk away from me but I held him in place.
":What do you mean? Why the hell would I be asking if I didn't care?!:" He seemed to consider it for a moment before coming back with:
":Well, it's not like I don't have a reason to ask, hm?:" He leaned in very close to me, whispering to me with venom lacing his voice. ":Maybe if you hadn't given me a reason, we wouldn't be having this conversation.:" He leaned away from me, not contented with what he had just said, but not ashamed, either.
":Look, I'm sorry!:" I shouted, letting go of his wrist. Rue's eyes widened, and it seemed he finally lost his temper then.
":You're sorry?!:" He yelled, fire burning behind his dark eyes. ":That's all you have to say?! After everything you did?! After everything?!:" He gasped for breath, finally calming down just a little bit. Slowly, his breathing returned to normal and he began to look less and less angry, and more ashamed that he had lost his temper in front of me. ":I…I…:" He stammered, shaking his head. ":I apologize. I shouldn't have--:"
":No.:" I muttered. ":I understand. You're angry, and um… you have every right to be angry with me. It's okay, I don't blame you…:" I took his hand again, and it felt warm like I used to remember. His expression didn't change at all. He turned his eyes back toward me again, then pulled away from me and began to walk in the other direction.
I was shocked, watching him walk away from me, hands in the air, blowing me off completely. He got to the end of the aisle and then stopped, leaning against the shelves. I could see him put his head in his hands. I wondered if I should go after him or not, but I figured he deserved some time alone. Nonetheless, I felt myself walking after him, and when I placed my hand on his shoulder, I barely realized I had closed the distance. He turned to face me with that same cold look on his face, the one he always had when he didn't want you to know what he was feeling. I knew exactly what he was feeling, but he would never believe that.
Faster than I could think, or even judge my own actions, I was grabbing him by the shoulders and kissing him harder than I ever had before. After a few seconds I felt him wrap his arms around my back and lean into our kiss, parting his lips just a little, running his pale hands through my hair. I tightened my grip around him, and in that moment… I knew who he was. This was the man that I had come to know and love, and that drove me absolutely crazy every single day that I hadn't been with him. I felt terrible for doing what I had done to him and was running those thoughts through my head when he pushed me roughly up against the shelves. I tilted my head away from our kiss so I could take a few gasping breaths of air, but he pulled my head back down almost immediately, intertwining his fingers with my own.
I tried to kiss back as rough and as passionately as he was, but the truth be told, he was always just the slightest bit more dominant than I was. He broke away from our kiss suddenly and pressed his forehead up against my own, panting. ":Raito…:" He breathed seductively, taking one of his hands away and trailing his fingers down my stomach. It tickled, and I tried to squirm away, but I was pinned. ":You told me you were sorry… did you mean it?:" He leaned in and kissed me again, pushing his tongue into my mouth, making my heartbeat increase tenfold. He pulled away as fast as he had come on, looking me straight in the eyes. ":Did you?:"
":Yes, Ryuzaki-san…:" I wondered why I still called him that. It wasn't much of a difference, seeing as 'Ryuzaki' was his old alias, anyway. ":…I meant it. I'm so sorry…:" The corners of his mouth twitched up in a small smile that only I would recognize, and he dipped his head back down, exploring the inside of my mouth with his tongue again. I fisted my hand through his tousled blonde hair and pushed his head closer to mine. He took his tongue out of my mouth and bit my lower lip softly. A small groan escaped my open mouth, making me feel a bit more than embarrassed.
Things had always turned passionate quickly between us. There was never really a point on our quick relationship that we said we were "making love" in stead of "having sex" or "fucking" or something of the like. It was always heated, and always quick, and there was never a dull moment between us, ever. He slid his hand down my side, trailing his pale fingers one by one until he reached my leg. He grabbed a hold of it and hitched my leg around his hip, which I noticed was still bony. I moaned softly again when I felt how aroused he was, shifting my hips just the slightest bit. His breath hitched in his throat, and then he let it out, shakily. I twisted my head to the side, giving him access to my neck, which he used to love to toy with. He obliged, kissing my jaw and then dipping his head down to my collarbone to bite softly at the bottom of my neck, evidently remembering how good it felt to me when he pinched the skin as gently as only he could. I felt myself panting, trying to get enough oxygen to my brain. Numbly, I snaked my hands up his shirt and began to trace whatever patterns came to my mind on his chest softly, trailing my fingers from his collarbone all the way down to the waistband of his jeans, rubbing my thumb along his hip. He leaned away from my neck to give a groan and a small 'huff' of pleasure, and was about to go back to kissing me when a cry rang out:
"Light! Light, we need your help! Light!" Both of our heads snapped up and twisted in the direction of the shrill cry. It was Abigail, no mistaking her voice. She called again, hoarse and desperate and afraid: "Light!" I set both my feet on the ground again, and he let me out of his grasp.
":I'm sorry, Ryuzaki--:" I was cut off as he placed two fingers over my mouth, that same stern and caring expression across his features. I noticed that his face was a bit red, and I wondered if mine was, too.
":It's not Ryuzaki anymore, understood? It's L. Or…:" He hesitated, but then said it. ":Lawliet, if you wish.:"
All I could do was nod, and when he released me, turn and run to help my friends, leaving Lawliet behind me in that small and crowded pharmacy aisle.
Author's note: WHOA. With a capital W-h-o and a. Holy freakin' crap that was so long I'll have to invent a new word. That was… longerific. Yeah… that works. But anyway, I never realized how much fun Light is to write as an Uke! Lol! Too much fun! I tried to make L as Seme-ish and as in character as I possible could throughout their whole 'make-out' scene and especially when he lost his temper, I guess. Because I know he doesn't get that angry that often, but I have a feeling when he does, he really gets angry. Which, by the way, I never…ever planned to do that in this chapter, it was to come much later on. Hmm… And on another note, all is finally revealed, all though you may take a little while to figure it out, since he never really says 'outright' that he's L, Light just kind of assumes he's right. Which he is, but whatever. I actually planned L to reveal himself much later, but felt that it was better for it to happen earlier on. I figured that if I kept dropping too many hints, my audience would be bored and already know that he was L. Ah, and… if you don't know already (since I'm way too lazy to check and see if I have explained this already), Light and L were in a relationship while the Kira case was going on, but Light ended it very abruptly, leaving L somewhat heartbroken.
So now you get to meet some new characters. Lauren, Miss Campbell, Mrs. Johnson, and Kathy. (I particularly like Kathy, but…) And if you couldn't tell already, Lauren totally thinks Rue slash L is the hottest thing that has ever dropped onto the face of the earth. (Which, he so is, but you didn't hear that from me.) I'm actually trying to add some depth to the characters, but I hope you don't know why yet. For all you know, they could all die the next time I update. Which is what I like to do to you people. Keep you on the edge of your seats and such. :D
And thanks to the Wonderful, with a capital "W" Ladyblue17, for making a banner for my story. If I had the link, I would post it… but I don't. When I do, I will. If she doesn't mind, of course.
Oh, and… is it just me, or does everyone keep forgetting what L is wearing? Cause I do. Mind you that I don't even know what half the other characters are wearing. What does everybody picture Light wearing? I need ideas… please? Thank you.
Until next time, thanks for tuning in to DN Cell. Where, if you're not scarred for life by the end of this fucker, you're a higher power. :D