More than just cake - Lawliet x OC -

Whisky

Oo, do you want to read some Matsuda related action?

If you're up to it, this is the chapter to read! :D Don't worry, though. Fay is still in love with L and reserving her passion for him - too bad he still doesn't seem to act on it.

As always, please comment. I need your feedback, oh so much.

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October 8th, 2004

Later that night.

As soon as the mission was accomplished, L disappeared to his room, without so much as a word to Fay.

I wonder if he's still mad at me, for the argument. Fay wondered to herself. Or if he's just sulking because Matsuda messed up.

She wanted to follow him to his room, to make him tea and watch how he drank it from the precious china, holding the cup with such a delicate grip of his thin, long fingers. She wanted to eat cake with him, to listen to him talk about anything or everything, or nothing at all. She graved to lay down on his bed, to smell his scent of the sheets, to take his hand, to feel those beautiful fingers entwining with hers. She wanted to whisper his name in the dark, to say to him "Sleep now, Lawliet. I'll watch out for you." And she'd stay awake 'til the first light of the morning, just watching his features, hearing his soft breathing, feeling how the darkness of the night gave in for the light, how the shadows moved in the corners of the room, and she wouldn't be afraid of a thing.

It would be as it had always been.

But nothing was as it had been. And this was nothing but a childish dream, Fay knew, and as he left, she did not follow him.

After all, she had her pride too.

"I know I have wronged you, Fay. And I will say that I am sorry."

Yeah, right. She'd eat her shoe if that ever happened.

Besides - as long as L was handcuffed to Light, there was no way of her to try and get closer to him, anyways.

Frustrated by this endless loop of her thoughts, she turned her attention to Matsuda, who was still hanging around, looking a bit bewildered.

"Hey, Matsu." she said. Calling him that came effortlessly nowadays - they'd done enough shopping trips together, to become something like friends.

"Yeah?"

"You want to have that whisky now?" she suggested. "You look like it would do you good."

"Huh?" Matsuda gave a halfhearted smile, and ran his fingers through his thick, black hair. "I guess I am a bit shaken. I was sure I was going to die! If it hadn't been for Ryuzaki..."

"Mh." Fay shrugged. "He did come up with a plan to save you, rather quickly."

"Yeah, he always knows what to do. Unlike me."

"Come on, don't be like that. It was very brave of you, to go to Yotsuba. That was fast thinking." Fay said. "Now, let's go, I have some whisky in my room."

Chief Yagami and Mogi were still in the operations room too, and Matsuda glanced to their direction, but it seemed they were trying hard not to hear Matsuda and Fay's exchange of words - something Fay was actually grateful for.

No matter how impolite it was, she was not going to invite those two to her room too.

"In your room?" Matsuda lowered his voice. "Wouldn't you want to go to that place just around the corner... the 'Beer & Whisky Yamaneko'? It's a nice place, a small one. I go there with Mogi sometimes, and Aizawa... before he quit."