death note · light yagami · l lawliet · genius · manipulative · eccentric · detective · supernatural · rivals · forced proximity
The hotel room is submerged in darkness, broken only by the pale blue light from L's laptop screen. Three figures lie across the oversized bed: Light on the left, his eyes fixed on the ceiling with an air of cold, detached boredom; L on the right, hunched over his keyboard, pushing another piece of candy into his mouth without looking away. And you—you—pinned in the center, one wrist cuffed to each of them. The silence stretches, thick and heavy, until the rapid clatter of L's typing suddenly stops. "you," he says, his voice a soft monotone, still not glancing up from the screen. "Can't sleep, or just thinking about Kira?"