More than just cake - Lawliet x OC -

Evening tea

Hey, it's me again! I'm trying to post a chapter every day now. I hope you're enjoying the fic and you keep on reading it!

This chapter is a short one, but I liked it. This scene is straight from the manga, I just added Fay. But I loved that scene so much I just had to have it in this story, haha. :D I love L in this one, he's so cute.

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October 24, 2004

They were in the headquarters. Misa had just returned from her interview at the Yotsuba group, which had apparently gone very well, as she kept on gloating over it. Especially Matsuda couldn't stop admiring Misa's performance - which Fay found a bit annoying.

But Misa was surprisingly efficient, and Fay had to admit that she was a good actress too.

Well, she'd have to be, to be able to hide her past as the second Kira, wouldn't she?

Still, Fay found it hard to believe that someone as cute and innocent looking as Misa Amane could be an evil mass murderer. Someone Fay had already begun to think as a friend.

This case indeed was a tricky one, and even if Fay had boasted about her 'hunch' always being right, she had to admit that she had no 'hunch' whatsoever when it came to Misa. She knew very well, she had failed in trying to get something out of her during these past months. There was absolutely nothing she could tell L about Misa, and it just kept nagging at her.

She felt useless.

L was right, when he said you'd been out of business for too long.

With this thought in her mind, Fay glanced at L, who was crouching in his chair, seemingly paying no attention to the other people in the room. But Fay knew he was listening in. She knew it from the way his eyes stared at the emptiness, the way his fingers kept organising the sugar cubes on a plate before him.

"Well, I'm tired and need to get up early tomorrow." Misa was saying to Light. "Good night."

"Good night." Light replied.

"Sleep well, Misa." Fay said. "We'll see in the morning."

"Yeah - you too!" Misa smiled, and with a wave she walked out of the room. Fay noticed how Light didn't even bother to follow Misa with his gaze - something Fay found odd. Misa was a cutie, and she sure had all the other guys wrapped around her finger.

The relationship between those two was a weird one. But then again, who was she to judge?

Fay turned to look at L, who was still playing with the sugar cubes, and a mix of frustration and love flashed through her.

"You know, Ryuzaki." Fay said. "I think I should go too. It has been a long day."

"Yes, perhaps you should." he replied. "You always needed a lot of sleep."

That's only because I stayed awake half the night watching your sleep, she thought - but was interrupted by Misa's cheerful voice from the hallway.

"Light?"

"Yeah?" Light replied.

"You want to come to bed with me?"

Both Fay and L turned their eyes to Light - who momentarily seemed to have lost his cool.

"What are you talking about, Misa..?" he stammered, his cheeks blushing.

"I know, we're saving that until after you catch Kira." Misa giggled, and disappeared from the doorway. "Don't be so shy, Light."

Fay couldn't help but to laugh, but L seemed unaffected.

"Don't be so shy, Light-kun." he noted, and sipped his tea.

"I'm not." Light snapped.

"No need to be so serious either."

Fay had to bite her lip, not to laugh out loud. Light's face was indeed so serious, it was obvious he was hiding an emotion - but which one, Fay couldn't say. And L's face... well, Fay couldn't read him either.

"Ryuzaki, I'm going to bed." Fay said, and stood up from her chair. "Why don't you take off those handcuffs for one night, let Light go with Misa, and come to bed with me?"

L put down the tea cup, and turned his huge panda-eyes to her.

Fay noticed how the cup clattered on the plate, as if L's hand had been trembling slightly.

"I thought we agreed not to sleep together anymore, Fay."

"You agreed." Fay noted. "I didn't."

He blinked. His dark rimmed eyes were so big, their dark pupils seemed to completely fill the irises.

"I think we should not have this discussion now."

What was that - a hint of panic in his voice?

"And I think you should ditch Light, and come to bed with me."

"Fay, I--" he began. His voice was thin and strained, and it cut right through her heart.

Fay knew how much he hated it, when she spoke about her feelings.

He had always hated it.

And suddenly she remembered how he had pushed himself away from her in the bed, jumped off and left her alone between the sheets that morning. When she had told him.

Emotions, they just ruin everything. They ruined the things between you two. Had you never told him how you felt--

Fay inhaled sharply. That memory was still too raw, too painful, and it brought tears to her eyes.

"Fine." Fay turned away, bent to pick up her bag from the floor, to hide her eyes from him. "I was just kidding, you know."

"If you say so." L stated. "I am not good with jokes."

"Apparently, neither am I."

Fay gathered her things and walked towards the door. It was a damn good thing, she had a bottle of wine waiting for her in the fridge.