Forever Dancing Part 4
Title: Forever Dancing
Fandom: Death Note
Characters: Light(Kira)/L
Rating: PG-13(but will quickly climb to NC-17)
Summary: What if Kira found another use for L? One that required him to stay alive? (AU)
Notes: It's been a while, but I wanted to get back to this.
Light couldn't help but notice the changes in L over the next twenty-four hours and he relished it. L wasn't paying any attention to the Kira case anymore, as far he could tell. Instead the other man was keeping to himself. Light didn't like that, but he knew if he questioned it he might come out looking suspicious. It was the morning to early afternoon of the sixth when he saw L again.
"It is good I have caught you, Light-kun." L said and his voice sounded slightly deadened, as if he were even more detached from everything, and everyone. "I have made arrangements for Watari's funeral for later today. A car will come for all of the Task Force and I will have a camera there so I can remain here yet still be there, in spirit at least." That would never do. Light needed to give Misa a chance to get his name, and this was likely the only opportunity that he would have.
"You should actually be there, Ryuzaki." He said in a firm tone. "He wouldn't want the only person who truly knew him in this place not to..."
L interrupted him looking annoyed. "He would understand my reasons." There was more emotion conveyed in the man's face than Light had ever seen.
"I'm sorry." He said softly. "I still think you should."
"I can't be seen." L said biting the edge of his thumb hard.
"Not even just this once. No one will have any way to know who you are. And you've gone to the college before. This is more important than that, and you know it." He couldn't press any more than this so he hoped the other man was still off balance enough not to expect the trap.
"Very well." L said finally after what felt like forever. "I will go."
Light waited until the other man had left before he smirked.
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The funeral was simple, and no one really spoke. In fact, no one noticed the person who was using an umbrella to hide their face as they walked by.
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When they got back Light was anxious to get L alone. To tell him the little tidbit of information he now had. He wanted to gloat, he wanted to celebrate and watch the other man kneel before him admitting that he was justice finally, but mostly he wanted the other man to know that Light held his fate in his hands and that he was now a prisoner. If he didn't step just so he would be dead. It was delicious.
It took him an hour to corner L in a back hallway. "I've finally found you. What are you doing here anyway?" He asked as he got closer.
"I was hoping it would rain again." L said softly as he bit the edge of his thumb. "I've always like the rain you know. And yet..."
"And yet?" Light moved close enough so he could hopefully block the other man in.
"And yet I don't hear the bell anymore." L sounded confused.
"What bell?" Light couldn't help but ask making sure as he did that L wouldn't have a way to escape him.
"I heard it all day yesterday. It was distracting." L shook his head. "What is it you wanted, Light-kun?"
Light smirked and pushed him against the wall making sure both of their faces couldn't be seen by the camera. It was difficult, but he finally found an angle. "That's not my name." He said in a low voice.
"I don't..." L's eyes narrowed. "Kira."
"Yes." A larger smirk. "It's quite funny, you know. That Light, the perfect student, the model everything, is the one who wanted you dead; while I, his darker half you might say, had to almost plead for your life."
"Why?" L watched his face. "What possible reason could you want me alive?"
"Because none of this means the same without you. Because without a rival, someone who knows and understands, I will likely fall to all the cliche movie bad guy endings. You are necessary, L."
L's eyes were still narrowed. "You will call me Ryuzaki."
"No." Light shook his head the dim light making his eyes take on a red tint. "I will call you L. That's your name. L Lawliet. I like it."
L bit his thumb hard enough to draw blood. "You say that, you know it, and yet you say you will not kill me."
"I won't." Light said shaking his head. "And Misa won't. I will see to that shortly. There will nothing standing between us. Well except for your pride. Don't make me kill you, L, because I will, but I won't want to, and it will be a waste. Such a waste. You don't have to agree with me. All you have to do is direct suspicion to someone else, anyone else, and let them take the fall. You will remain in Japan and I will see you whenever I like. You will have no freedom from me."
"I would rather die, so kill me, Kira." L said in a firm tone as he tried to find an avenue of escape.
"Don't make me, L. Not after what I did to save you." Light's tone was imploring.
"What do you mean?" L watched him intently.
"Watari died to save you, don't make that in vain. He gave you a chance." Light moved away, but still remained in L's personal space. "Think about it. Wouldn't he want you to survive?"
"You know nothing of him and you are not fit to say his name, Kira." L practically spat as he moved as much as the other man would allow.
"I won't again, I promise, but you must consider this carefully. I want you in my new world." Light watched him. "Perhaps you are even the reason for my new world." He seemed as if that hadn't occurred to him before.
"I don't understand what you mean. I won't back down." L glared.
Light shook his head sadly. "Then you will die. I will give you two days. If you do anything in those two days I will give you the most horrific death I can imagine." He moved away leaving L to his own thoughts.
He had played his hand, now he had only to wait.