[fic] [31_days] Death Note
may 1 | between the click of the light and the start of the dream
wrote this in the ten minutes before midnight. but that is an excuse, of course. also, puns totally unintended, okay.
edit: name confusion, on the other hand, is entirely intentional.
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Light has never been one for staying up late. (One common misconception is that good grades involve the sacrifice of sleep; Light knows that six hours each night will give him an edge over last-minute crammers.) But L clearly operates in a different manner, and it always takes far too much trouble to convince him that the Kira investigation will not be sorely jeopardised if its head operatives take a few hours of well-deserved downtime.
Then again, sleeping habits were a problem from the very start. That first night, after they had flicked the lights off and fumbled their way across the room to their shared bed -- with some awkwardness where Light was concerned, and an impersonal but clear reluctance on Ryuuzaki's part -- Light had spent a sleepless four hours feeling (or imagining) Ryuuzaki's stare at the back of his neck, listening to the steady sound of too-controlled breathing, wondering if L was ever going to fall asleep.
wrote this in the ten minutes before midnight. but that is an excuse, of course. also, puns totally unintended, okay.
edit: name confusion, on the other hand, is entirely intentional.
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Light has never been one for staying up late. (One common misconception is that good grades involve the sacrifice of sleep; Light knows that six hours each night will give him an edge over last-minute crammers.) But L clearly operates in a different manner, and it always takes far too much trouble to convince him that the Kira investigation will not be sorely jeopardised if its head operatives take a few hours of well-deserved downtime.
Then again, sleeping habits were a problem from the very start. That first night, after they had flicked the lights off and fumbled their way across the room to their shared bed -- with some awkwardness where Light was concerned, and an impersonal but clear reluctance on Ryuuzaki's part -- Light had spent a sleepless four hours feeling (or imagining) Ryuuzaki's stare at the back of his neck, listening to the steady sound of too-controlled breathing, wondering if L was ever going to fall asleep.