More than just cake - Lawliet x OC -

Cotton Candy

Wheeee, finally time for this chapter! Gods, I loved writing this one - I hope you love reading it! And please, leave a comment! I'd love to know your thoughts of this chapter, so much.

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October 30th, 2004

The only thing Fay remembered of the day she'd fallen off her horse, was how L had looked, when kneeling by her side. His eyes, huge like saucers, their pupils wide and dilated, and filled with fear when facing the unforeseen.

That memory popped into her mind, when she looked at L now. Two days after they had caught Higuchi, and found out about the Death Note and everything that came with it.

It broke her heart, when she realized it. But it was the truth nevertheless.

L was scared.

Fay was pretty sure no one else noticed it, though. For he acted just as cool, just as collected as ever. His voice betrayed no emotion when he talked with the shinigami, asked him questions about the Death Note, all over again, and all that the rest of the team could see, was his astounding tranquility when facing something that was against everything they'd thought they knew.

But Fay saw through him.

Fay saw the nervous movements of his fingers, when he built a tower of the macarons on his plate. She noticed the dark undertone of his voice, felt it moving something deep inside of her soul.

She felt like the little girl again, that she had been on her first days in Wammy's house - worried for the boy who wouldn't sleep. The dark shadows under his eyes told Fay now, that he hadn't even tried to rest these past few days.

He was obsessed to find the blind spot. The thing they had missed. And he kept asking the one question again, and again, from the shinigami named Rem. Was it really so, that if a person stopped writing names into the notebook of death, that person would die after 13 days?

Fay knew, as well as he did, that it didn't make sense.

And maybe it was that, what scared L.

Not the shinigami, not the notebook, not the existence of the supernatural. But the fact that he didn't understand what was happening. The possibility that he might have been wrong.

No, Fay thought. He's never wrong. Light is Kira, he must be - I have a hunch, and my hunches are always right. I knew Higuchi was Kira, and I can feel that Light is too. What are we not seeing?!

It was an endless doubt nowadays.

If Fay had thought the Kira investigation had been nerve wrecking before, she'd had no clue. Now it was like it had engulfed everything. Fay had the horrible feeling that they were racing against time, though she wasn't certain what would wait for them at the finish line, she suspected it was nothing good.

It had been two days now, since she'd been shot.

The wound still gave her a hard time, and she could feel the stitches every time she moved, but the painkillers were great.

And there was no way she'd miss this race by staying in the bed, while L was giving all he had, to solve this case.

Fay gave a long sigh, and leaned back in her chair - careful not to stretch her left side. She lifted her feet to the table, and turned to look at L, who was leafing through the pages of the Death Note.

The team had gone to get lunch, and it was just the two of them in the room. Well, if you didn't count the shinigami.

"Rem?" Fay said and turned her eyes to the tall, unhuman figure.