Away From Home
Chapter Twenty-One
By Andruindel
Several days later, I was feeling fresh and bright as a daisy. I skipped into the work room, where I knew L was working. Unfortunately, Light was there, too. He'd made an annoying habit of coming in early with his father, earlier than anyone else on the task force, and leaving later than any of the others. It meant I had very little time to spend with L alone, which was wearing on my nerves and my patience.
Still, nothing much could ruin my mood at the moment. I finished my skipping, glanced once around the room to locate the three occupants: L was sitting, as was usual, in his chair, sipping a cup of tea; Light was at the computer, and Chief Yagami was standing by the window, presumably pondering something. Ignoring the two Yagami's, I approached L, and threw my arms around his shoulders from behind, hugging him tightly.
"Good morning, L," I greeted him, rather more affectionately than usual. Since Light's appearence, I seemed to have begun treating L more and more affectionately, more to get back at Light than anything. If Light knew I liked L, then there was no chance he'd try using me in his schemes. At best, he'd just resent me. Which he seemed to, already. As I hugged L, I glanced once at Light. He was pointedly ignoring me, I saw, but he was scowling. I grinned.
"Good morning, Amy-chan." L replied in a tired tone.
Finally, I released L, and moved to sit down on the couch, the side nearest to him. I still remembered my promise to remain as near him as possible, and to never leave him alone with Light.
Time passed pleasantly enough. The other members of the task force showed up, and I was kept busy refilling L's tea cup every so often. I didn't mind; it gave me something to do.
As I was just returning from filling L's cup the fifth time, his laptop screen lit up with the typical white screen and black letter, a 'W' this time, for Watari. I was the only one who noticed it, as I was the only one facing the screen, until it beeped, and Watari spoke.
"Ryuuzaki, we have a reply from the second Kira."
Everyone turned to look at the screen. "Wha-?"
I grinned, remembering the scene from the anime. But then I had a sobering thought. This was when L finally found out about the Shinigami. I seemed to remember the scene being rather embarrassing, on L's part. Wishing that I could be somewhere else, I joined the others as they gathered around to listen to Misa's video. I made sure not to stand behind L as he took his usual seat.
The video played, and Misa started by thanking Kira for taking notice of her, and replying, and promising to follow Kira's orders. I vaguely heard the other men exclaiming, things like "It worked!" But I was turned and looked up at Light, knowing exactly what was going through his head. He wanted Misa to demand that L appear on television. I frowned, and turned back to listening.
No one except me and Light understood what Misa said next. "I really want to meet you. I don't think you have the eyes, but don't worry. I would never try to kill you."
I glanced at Light again, noting his moment of panic as he feared that the others would become suspicious. Everyone simply thought it was a code. I sighed, wishing I could tell them what was going on, but I couldn't.
"We could show each other our Shinigami."
This was the part I'd been dreading. As L literally freaked out, I clapped my hands to my ears, and closed my eyes, not wanting to see or hear L's moment of weakness. After a moment, I glanced up. L was staring at the screen, and I saw his lips forming words. "Am I supposed to believe that Shinigami actually exist?"
I heard very little of the discussion after they watched the video. It was about how some prisoners had written something about Shinigami (my mind flew to Light's riddle "L, do you know, Shinigami love apples"). I listened, hating the fact that I knew exactly what was going on, but no one else did. I longed to be able to help L figure things out, but I couldn't do anything without endangering L, or myself. So I curled my knees up to my chest, and bit my lip as I listening to them trying to figure out what was going on.
L finally concluded that it would be best to leave things up to the two Kiras, and see what happened. I perked up. If I remembered correctly, things were going to get even more interesting pretty soon.
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"Amy," L broke the oppressive silence that had fallen since the others had all gone.
I looked up, snapped out of my reverie by L's voice. "Hmm?"
L wasn't looking at me. He was staring at his cup of tea as he stirred yet another spoonfull of sugar into it. "I've noticed an odd change in your behaviour recently."
I blushed, but he didn't notice because he wasn't looking at me.
"Quite honestly, I'm curious what could have caused such an odd change in your behavioural pattern. After some very intense thought, I have come to a conclusion."
I waited for him to continue, but he seemed unwilling to continue.
Eventually: "You have feelings for Light-kun, don't you?"
It was so unexpected and ridiculous, that I had to laugh. L seemed taken aback by my mirth, and that made me laugh harder. When I finally regained control of myself, it was to smile fondly at L. "Oh, L, you're so funny." I giggled. "And horribly, horribly wrong. I'd have to be insane to like Light!" I laughed again at the thought.
L tilted his head slightly at me. "Why?"
"Because..." I hesitated. I wanted to tell him how I felt, but I chickened out at the last minute. "I've already got my eye on someone." I blushed again.
"Oh." That was all L said. He looked away again, stirring another spoon of sugar into his tea before taking a sip.
It was quiet after that. I didn't know what else to say. I longed to tell L how I felt about him, but it was just too scary. I didn't want to risk losing the small semblence of friendship we had at the moment. So I said nothing until a little while later, when I went to bed.
"Good night, L," I murmured.
He looked up at me, and there was an odd expression on his face. "Good night, Amy," He replied softly. For a moment I was caught my his deep eyes, but I tore myself away before I said something stupid, and fairly ran to my bed.
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omg, can it be? IT IS! ANDY IS BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!
I know the chapter was short, but deal with it, kay? I'm just trying to get back into the flow of things, and it may be a few days or weeks before I update again, but I'm trying, guys. I'm trying. Thanks for reading, I'll be looking forward to reviews =D
