DN -- Pick-Up
Title: Pick-Up
Fandom: Death Note
Pairings: Matt/Mello, Light/L, Mello/Near, purposefully ambiguous, I honestly don't remember
Characters: Matt, Mello, Near, L, Light (B, Misa, Matsuda, Aizawa, Rester, Gevanni)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,600
Warnings: language, implications in all directions
Summary: Fifty-two one-sentence fics.
Author's Note: The first fifty prompts are from eltea; the last two I added for... reasons. Or something. XD I started this damn thing in September, poked it sporadically, and finished it months ago, but I just haven't put it up. For some of these, I've forgotten which pairing I intended, and for some of them, I didn't know in the first place. Some of them make me wonder how that ever came out of the prompt (32); some of them think they're super-l33t (16); some of them go with other fics (14); some sprouted them (26). Many of them are crimes against canon; many more are crimes against grammar. Enjoy! ♥
PICK-UP
1. Once - Soft, oddly deft lips, unsurprisingly overpoweringly sweet-long, thin fingers tentative on his face-his cheeks aflame, his chest tight-only once, Light remembers in a fevered rush; only once, and barely that-why does he dream of twice?
2. Time - With the kind of intensity he usually reserves for toys, Near watches the progress of the secondhand of the clock as the phone rings in his ear and wishes absently that there were rosary beads beneath his fingers.
3. Dawn - As Mello looks down at Matt’s bare shoulder-blade, his head says Never again, but the dawn light and the pounding wreck in his ribcage whisper something else entirely.
4. Dusk - The failing light in her favorite color slides probing fingers through the broad window, but the light of her life isn’t so forthcoming, and she sits alone on the edge of the bed as the room goes dark.
5. Heaven - Matt isn’t religious-never has been; never needed it; never gave it much thought-but Mello’s heaven-eyes make him believe.
6. Hell - No brimstone seethes along the endless driveway, and no licking tongues of flame line its winding length, but Mello clutches his crucifix as if he had the proof.
7. Truth - “Obsession?” B murmurs, smiling, and Roger tries not to shiver; “That’s such a strong word.”
8. Lies - “Nah,” Matt replies airily, eyes alight with amusement behind the orange-tinted plastic; “we’re way too fuckin’ pretty to die.”
9. Clouds - Near watches the patterns of the sky with interest, particularly intrigued by the soft, wispy, white clouds that turn slowly gray before splitting the air with the lightning they’ve unleashed.
10. Rainbow - Thick black hair slides wetly into his eyes as he looks out over the city that huddles half-engulfed by mist, and he wonders if there will be a rainbow when the clouds clear.
11. Stargazing - When Light tops the stairs, L is silhouetted where he sits against one of the turbines, arms around his knees, gazing upward with his breath curling silver in the night.
12. Dreams - When the nightmares came, he didn’t run to kindness or consolation; he went to Near-Near, who merely held him and understood.
13. Impossible - It is absolutely inconceivable that there should be some strange sort of tension between them, so he smothers his impossible hopes and carries on.
14. Invisible - There are never marks, but for occasional bruise on his hip like a faded purple finger-painting, and the tears dry clear.
15. Imaginary - As great as Wammy’s is, as much fun as he has, as hard as he works, as wonderful as the world can sometimes be, Mello still catches himself fantasizing about a yellow-haired family with a little house in the suburbs, the unmistakable smell of freshly-baked chocolate-chip cookies wafting out of the kitchen.
16. Shakespeare - Nor prince nor king nor deity new-made; / A child enthroned, by fortune’s hand mislaid, / Who lights the world aflame with curving stroke / For no cause but that he would watch the smoke.
17. Science - Near knows all about dopamine, and serotonin, and endorphins, but laying the responsibility on some molecular bonds seems ridiculous when just seeing Mello walk into the room makes his heart start to slam against his ribs.
18. School - He supposes he’s learned a lot of things, but the most important one turns out to be that sugar heals like no other remedy in the world.
19. Midnight - Every time Light looks, he can’t help but hope for stupid, irrational things that scare him more than he wants to or will admit, so, with the chain clinking softly among the sheets, he pretends to be asleep-because when his eyes are closed, he can’t look, and if he can’t look, he can’t dream.
20. Kiss - They crush against each other so hard that fragile vessels rupture, because a hatred so potent has little choice but to overflow into something else.
21. Flowers - They flop down in the middle of the field, and crushed stems folded beneath their backs weep lemon-tasting tears as they gaze up at the cloudless sky, fringed where the flowers encroach on their vision with petals brighter than Mello’s hair.
22. Thorns - Mihael Keehl is probably the prickliest rose in the vast metaphorical garden of the world, but that’s because he’s protecting petals that shred like tissue paper.
23. Picnic - As his eyes burn and his head throbs and his heart aches, L Lawliet reflects wryly that he should have known this wasn’t going to be a walk in the park.
24. Paint - When L finds two boy-shaped beings drenched from head to toe in the same varicolored paint that is splattered all over the playroom, their eye color differentiates them, and the situation identifies them.
25. Mother - All he knows from what they’ve told him is that she was young and beautiful, with long red hair, and that she left him in a wicker basket on the front step of an orphanage in Bristol, probably without kissing him goodbye.
26. Father - Light Yagami looks down at his father’s unmoving form, the numbing monotone of the EKG strangling him, choking him, stifling him-and realizes that he’s gone too far.
27. Ocean - He seeks to be an Ocean, a Wonder, a God; he seeks to encompass all and bow to none; he seeks to crush and tower and reinvent; and perhaps this is why he cannot help but destroy the things that he loves along with everything else.
28. Mermaid - Matt appreciates that redheads are getting some recognition, but he doesn’t understand how anybody could fall in love with you without hearing your voice.
29. Werewolf - He sits in the center of his bed, the comforter smooth beneath him, one knee drawn to his chest, and wishes that the flood of white moonlight would drown the frailty of his white body, and that he would surface and reemerge with the sort of strength that others take for granted.
30. Silver - They’re gray, he tells himself; gray like the morning, gray like the evening, gray like iron, not silver like mercury and steel.
31. Witch - The gypsy at the fair tells Matt his heart line is the strongest, the deepest, and the greatest she’s ever seen, and it’s only later that he realizes that she tactfully omitted mention of his life line.
32. Crystal - Matsuda supposes, with the bitter sort of wry amusement that escapes most people’s notice, that it was inevitable that he should fall in love with someone he has to destroy.
33. Past - There was a time when he thought he knew what justice was.
34. Future - Near isn’t sure why he shudders when Mello lays waste to his building-block city, howling about Godzilla and Tokyo in flames.
35. Snow - Near is achingly adorable bundled up in scarf and hat and mittens, which is probably why Mello shoves him into a snowdrift in the first place.
36. Sleep - He lies pale and placid like an angel, and then come the demon dreams.
37. Forget - The days before all blur together, but the Kira case will never, ever fully die.
38. Remember - Because Matt fails to realize that Mello doesn’t have to clutch at his crucifix and mouth the words to pray nightly, he never suspects that his safety is accounted for in every one of those prayers.
39. Wish - L maintains that blowing out birthday candle flames will hardly change the greater course of things (and the wishes are so muddled with the truths that he doesn’t dare to try).
40. Star - The stars are brighter and clearer here, in the hills, away from the smog and bustle of the city, and Light can see the whole universe reflected in L’s dark, upturned eyes.
41. Story - “Don’t lie to me,” L whispers; and Kira says, “I haven’t,” and Light says, I can’t stop.
42. Fairytale - Aizawa makes sure his daughter believes in elves and fairies, and in happily ever afters-he makes sure she believes that the dragon will fall to the hero, as long as he is pure of heart.
43. Mystery - Touta Matsuda would like to know why everything he ever cared about is gone.
44. Romance - Matt figured that screaming matches dissolving into sex was only possible in chick flicks-uh, not that he knows anything about those.
45. Drama - Gevanni honestly thought he left this bullshit in high school.
46. Tragedy - His last thought before the last beat is that he wouldn’t have expected L to cry for him, whether or not he’d cried for L.
47. Life - Spring duly arrives, and Near watches the grass stand taller as the flowers bloom; the sky is incredibly blue, the sun a warm yellow, and explosions of life are everywhere around him.
48. Happily - Light thinks it’s a state of mind, and L insists it’s a state of ignorance.
49. Ever - Signing up, Rester never anticipated that unofficial adoption was in his future.
50. After - The taste that Matt’s lips left was faintly acrid, faintly bitter, as if the cigarettes that flavored him were waiting for the other shoe to fall.
51. Loss - It wasn’t the leather or the scar or the weird grace that was the worst-it was that the mischief was still in his eyes, but the glee had gone from it.
52. Cards - Their hand is dealt, and the chips are down, and the bets are in, and the world is on the line, and there is no one else in it who Mello would rather die with (and no one Matt would rather die for).
Fandom: Death Note
Pairings: Matt/Mello, Light/L, Mello/Near, purposefully ambiguous, I honestly don't remember
Characters: Matt, Mello, Near, L, Light (B, Misa, Matsuda, Aizawa, Rester, Gevanni)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,600
Warnings: language, implications in all directions
Summary: Fifty-two one-sentence fics.
Author's Note: The first fifty prompts are from eltea; the last two I added for... reasons. Or something. XD I started this damn thing in September, poked it sporadically, and finished it months ago, but I just haven't put it up. For some of these, I've forgotten which pairing I intended, and for some of them, I didn't know in the first place. Some of them make me wonder how that ever came out of the prompt (32); some of them think they're super-l33t (16); some of them go with other fics (14); some sprouted them (26). Many of them are crimes against canon; many more are crimes against grammar. Enjoy! ♥
PICK-UP
1. Once - Soft, oddly deft lips, unsurprisingly overpoweringly sweet-long, thin fingers tentative on his face-his cheeks aflame, his chest tight-only once, Light remembers in a fevered rush; only once, and barely that-why does he dream of twice?
2. Time - With the kind of intensity he usually reserves for toys, Near watches the progress of the secondhand of the clock as the phone rings in his ear and wishes absently that there were rosary beads beneath his fingers.
3. Dawn - As Mello looks down at Matt’s bare shoulder-blade, his head says Never again, but the dawn light and the pounding wreck in his ribcage whisper something else entirely.
4. Dusk - The failing light in her favorite color slides probing fingers through the broad window, but the light of her life isn’t so forthcoming, and she sits alone on the edge of the bed as the room goes dark.
5. Heaven - Matt isn’t religious-never has been; never needed it; never gave it much thought-but Mello’s heaven-eyes make him believe.
6. Hell - No brimstone seethes along the endless driveway, and no licking tongues of flame line its winding length, but Mello clutches his crucifix as if he had the proof.
7. Truth - “Obsession?” B murmurs, smiling, and Roger tries not to shiver; “That’s such a strong word.”
8. Lies - “Nah,” Matt replies airily, eyes alight with amusement behind the orange-tinted plastic; “we’re way too fuckin’ pretty to die.”
9. Clouds - Near watches the patterns of the sky with interest, particularly intrigued by the soft, wispy, white clouds that turn slowly gray before splitting the air with the lightning they’ve unleashed.
10. Rainbow - Thick black hair slides wetly into his eyes as he looks out over the city that huddles half-engulfed by mist, and he wonders if there will be a rainbow when the clouds clear.
11. Stargazing - When Light tops the stairs, L is silhouetted where he sits against one of the turbines, arms around his knees, gazing upward with his breath curling silver in the night.
12. Dreams - When the nightmares came, he didn’t run to kindness or consolation; he went to Near-Near, who merely held him and understood.
13. Impossible - It is absolutely inconceivable that there should be some strange sort of tension between them, so he smothers his impossible hopes and carries on.
14. Invisible - There are never marks, but for occasional bruise on his hip like a faded purple finger-painting, and the tears dry clear.
15. Imaginary - As great as Wammy’s is, as much fun as he has, as hard as he works, as wonderful as the world can sometimes be, Mello still catches himself fantasizing about a yellow-haired family with a little house in the suburbs, the unmistakable smell of freshly-baked chocolate-chip cookies wafting out of the kitchen.
16. Shakespeare - Nor prince nor king nor deity new-made; / A child enthroned, by fortune’s hand mislaid, / Who lights the world aflame with curving stroke / For no cause but that he would watch the smoke.
17. Science - Near knows all about dopamine, and serotonin, and endorphins, but laying the responsibility on some molecular bonds seems ridiculous when just seeing Mello walk into the room makes his heart start to slam against his ribs.
18. School - He supposes he’s learned a lot of things, but the most important one turns out to be that sugar heals like no other remedy in the world.
19. Midnight - Every time Light looks, he can’t help but hope for stupid, irrational things that scare him more than he wants to or will admit, so, with the chain clinking softly among the sheets, he pretends to be asleep-because when his eyes are closed, he can’t look, and if he can’t look, he can’t dream.
20. Kiss - They crush against each other so hard that fragile vessels rupture, because a hatred so potent has little choice but to overflow into something else.
21. Flowers - They flop down in the middle of the field, and crushed stems folded beneath their backs weep lemon-tasting tears as they gaze up at the cloudless sky, fringed where the flowers encroach on their vision with petals brighter than Mello’s hair.
22. Thorns - Mihael Keehl is probably the prickliest rose in the vast metaphorical garden of the world, but that’s because he’s protecting petals that shred like tissue paper.
23. Picnic - As his eyes burn and his head throbs and his heart aches, L Lawliet reflects wryly that he should have known this wasn’t going to be a walk in the park.
24. Paint - When L finds two boy-shaped beings drenched from head to toe in the same varicolored paint that is splattered all over the playroom, their eye color differentiates them, and the situation identifies them.
25. Mother - All he knows from what they’ve told him is that she was young and beautiful, with long red hair, and that she left him in a wicker basket on the front step of an orphanage in Bristol, probably without kissing him goodbye.
26. Father - Light Yagami looks down at his father’s unmoving form, the numbing monotone of the EKG strangling him, choking him, stifling him-and realizes that he’s gone too far.
27. Ocean - He seeks to be an Ocean, a Wonder, a God; he seeks to encompass all and bow to none; he seeks to crush and tower and reinvent; and perhaps this is why he cannot help but destroy the things that he loves along with everything else.
28. Mermaid - Matt appreciates that redheads are getting some recognition, but he doesn’t understand how anybody could fall in love with you without hearing your voice.
29. Werewolf - He sits in the center of his bed, the comforter smooth beneath him, one knee drawn to his chest, and wishes that the flood of white moonlight would drown the frailty of his white body, and that he would surface and reemerge with the sort of strength that others take for granted.
30. Silver - They’re gray, he tells himself; gray like the morning, gray like the evening, gray like iron, not silver like mercury and steel.
31. Witch - The gypsy at the fair tells Matt his heart line is the strongest, the deepest, and the greatest she’s ever seen, and it’s only later that he realizes that she tactfully omitted mention of his life line.
32. Crystal - Matsuda supposes, with the bitter sort of wry amusement that escapes most people’s notice, that it was inevitable that he should fall in love with someone he has to destroy.
33. Past - There was a time when he thought he knew what justice was.
34. Future - Near isn’t sure why he shudders when Mello lays waste to his building-block city, howling about Godzilla and Tokyo in flames.
35. Snow - Near is achingly adorable bundled up in scarf and hat and mittens, which is probably why Mello shoves him into a snowdrift in the first place.
36. Sleep - He lies pale and placid like an angel, and then come the demon dreams.
37. Forget - The days before all blur together, but the Kira case will never, ever fully die.
38. Remember - Because Matt fails to realize that Mello doesn’t have to clutch at his crucifix and mouth the words to pray nightly, he never suspects that his safety is accounted for in every one of those prayers.
39. Wish - L maintains that blowing out birthday candle flames will hardly change the greater course of things (and the wishes are so muddled with the truths that he doesn’t dare to try).
40. Star - The stars are brighter and clearer here, in the hills, away from the smog and bustle of the city, and Light can see the whole universe reflected in L’s dark, upturned eyes.
41. Story - “Don’t lie to me,” L whispers; and Kira says, “I haven’t,” and Light says, I can’t stop.
42. Fairytale - Aizawa makes sure his daughter believes in elves and fairies, and in happily ever afters-he makes sure she believes that the dragon will fall to the hero, as long as he is pure of heart.
43. Mystery - Touta Matsuda would like to know why everything he ever cared about is gone.
44. Romance - Matt figured that screaming matches dissolving into sex was only possible in chick flicks-uh, not that he knows anything about those.
45. Drama - Gevanni honestly thought he left this bullshit in high school.
46. Tragedy - His last thought before the last beat is that he wouldn’t have expected L to cry for him, whether or not he’d cried for L.
47. Life - Spring duly arrives, and Near watches the grass stand taller as the flowers bloom; the sky is incredibly blue, the sun a warm yellow, and explosions of life are everywhere around him.
48. Happily - Light thinks it’s a state of mind, and L insists it’s a state of ignorance.
49. Ever - Signing up, Rester never anticipated that unofficial adoption was in his future.
50. After - The taste that Matt’s lips left was faintly acrid, faintly bitter, as if the cigarettes that flavored him were waiting for the other shoe to fall.
51. Loss - It wasn’t the leather or the scar or the weird grace that was the worst-it was that the mischief was still in his eyes, but the glee had gone from it.
52. Cards - Their hand is dealt, and the chips are down, and the bets are in, and the world is on the line, and there is no one else in it who Mello would rather die with (and no one Matt would rather die for).