Speak No Evil Chapter Four
Penultimate chapter. I hope you have been enjoying my story.
4. Change of Plan
The handcuffs may have been taken off, but Light and L were still chained together. Only now, it was L who was Light’s prisoner.
The detective was most certainly faltering; Light was certain of it. All it would take was a nudge in the right direction and L would fall completely off the edge, losing his grip on the case and maybe even his mind. Light was impressed that, even without his Kira memories, he had managed to come up with such a devious plan to destroy L.
Because that was all it was. A plan. Nothing more.
There was no way that Light had any feelings towards L besides hatred. No way that his chest tightened whenever the detective gave him that secretive little smile he sometimes did. No way he had started to wish that L would accept their relationship properly so that they could be a real couple. And Light had most certainly never lain awake at night just to watch L as he slept.
Even if he had, that was when he had been Light Yagami. Now, he was Kira, God of the New World, and he would not let personal emotion destroy his carefully wrought plans.
L will die and Kira will laugh.
-x-
Light let himself back into the Investigation HQ shortly after dark. He had gone home and had dinner with his family, then claimed to have realised something important pertaining to the investigation that he just had to check. Sayu and Sachiko had been sad to see him rush off so soon, but he explained that he would return as soon as he was done.
He found L in his usual chair, staring off into the middle distance. The man looked around as he entered, genuinely surprised by Light’s presence.
“Light? Why are you here? I thought you were spending time with your family.”
Taken aback by L’s reaction, Light faltered. “Can’t I spend time with you?”
“I suppose, if you wanted to.”
Light was beginning to get worried. If L wasn’t as shaken as Light had thought he was, this plan might not work. He would have to do something dramatic.
“It’s just… I missed you.”
L chewed on his thumbnail as he responded. “A psychological reaction. You have become accustomed to my presence. It will pass in a few days.”
Angered by such a callous remark, Light stormed up to the detective, kneeling down so that they were level. “And what about that other thing, hmm? Will that pass in a few days?”
L wouldn’t meet his eye. “I don’t know what you are referring to.”
“Oh, for the love of - Look, this is pathetic, Ryuzaki. We. Are. In. A. Relationship. Ok? I am attracted to you. You most certainly seem to reciprocate those feelings. Hell, I might even love you.”
At the mention of ‘love’, L’s head snapped up in shock.
Got you.
“So then why,” Light continued, “why do you continue to pretend as if nothing is happening? If you had any real problem with it, you wouldn’t have let me take you every night for the past month. And it can’t be because you think I’m Kira, because you know-”
“No, I don’t,” L interrupted sharply.
“What? But the 13 day-”
“Yes, I know about that, and what it implies, but there is still a significant amount of my original evidence piled up against you. I cannot remove all suspicion from you just yet.”
His face a mask of fury, Light stood. “Well, until you can, I can’t do this anymore.”
He turned to leave, but not before noticing that L looked considerably pained by his last remark. Light allowed himself one small smile as he marched out of the building, waiting until he was out of the sight of the cameras before laughing at what he had just achieved.
His manipulation had been perfect.
Either L would clear Light entirely and he would be free, or the detective would come up with a plan to test Light’s innocence, and Rem would be forced to kill him.
A flawless victory.
-x-
Light saw Rem leave the room and knew what she was about to do. His plan was finally coming to fruition.
Wait. Not yet. There’s still something I want to do.
“Hey, the Shinigami’s gone!” Light said, deliberately drawing attention. Feigning shock, he ran out after her. “She’s got the Death Note!”
He was glad that nobody followed him. This depended on him being alone.
He found Rem in a side room, pen poised above the paper. She growled menacingly as he entered.
“You dare to come here, when you know what you have forced me to do? Did you come to gloat, Light Yagami, to laugh as I crumble to dust because of your scheming?”
Light ignored her remark, ignored too her subtle glance at the space above his head.
He knew she wouldn’t kill him, not when Misa was still in love with him. “Have you written his name yet?”
“I have, and I have also written the name of his assistant. In less than forty seconds I will be dead,” Rem spat, glowering.
“Specify a cause of death for L.”
“What?! Why?”
“Because I’m sure you want him to suffer for what he put Misa through. I can see to that.”
Eyes narrow with suspicion, Rem wrote what Light suspected was ‘Suicide’ in the Death Note. “It is done.”
“Thank you, Rem. Now, make sure that the time of death is in the early hours of tomorrow morning.”
Rem scribbled a couple more lines. “What do you intend to do? What was so important that you not only killed a Shinigami, but had the audacity to tell her what to write as she dies?”
Light - no, Kira - smiled vampirically. “Victory. I want L to know I have beaten him. I want him to cry at my feet and beg me, Kira, to take it all back and save him. I want to laugh as he dies alone.”
Rem shook with anger. You truly are evil, Light Yagami. I know you are in a relationship with this man, and yet you still do such a thing… How could Misa love such a black-hearted creature?
As her limbs began to crumble away, she looked up at Light. He was smirking as she disintegrated, revelling in his supposed genius for implementing such a plan.
The Shinigami gave one last glance at her Death Note, and then the swirling symbols above Light’s head.
You would not be smiling so, God of the New World, if you knew what you just brought upon yourself.
Misa… forgive me…
It was all for you.
-x-
Chapter five here: http://lillyankh.livejournal.com/1696.html#cutid1