More than just cake - Lawliet x OC -

Roses

Let this be the one and only chapter in this fic, that I start with a picture of Light Yagami. (Let's be honest - I'm no Light fangirl. He killed L!)

Anyhow, I enjoyed writing this little chapter. Matsuda is being an idiot and Light the obnoxious bastard we love to hate.

As always, your support means the world to me and I appreciate every vote and every comment more than I can say.

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January 7th to January 18th, 2010.

Matsuda was late to arrive at the HQ that morning, which earned some bitter comments from Aizawa and Ide. Light on the other hand, didn't even seem to notice.

That always hurt Matsuda a bit - the fact that the ones he held in the highest regard, seemed to take so little notice of him. The only exception to that rule had been Chief Yagami. No matter how many times Matsuda had messed up, Yagami had always believed in him, trusted him.

It had been almost two months since the Chief had died, and it still hurt enough to bring tears to Matsuda's eyes, every time he remembered it.

Just don't think about that, not today! Not now!

But it had already settled into his mind - the oh-so-familiar feeling of being a failure. The truth was that he had failed Chief Yagami that day. He had managed to shoot the Death Note off the mafioso's fingers, but there had been no satisfaction, no feeling of victory to him. Light's plan had earned them the Death Note, but the cost had been too high.

No one could replace Chief Yagami - not to Matsuda anyways, not even Light. It was like losing a father all over again.

But life had to go on.

He glanced at Light, when entering the room. It was bizarre how well the youngster hid his grief. That was admirable. Matsuda wished he could do the same, but every emotion that ever went through his mind, was just too easy to read on his face.

Like the fact that he had just gotten lucky.

"I'm sorry I'm late." he grinned, taking a seat. "Do we have coffee?"

"What, didn't get much sleep last night?"

That was Ide. He seemed to be in a bad mood, but there was nothing new there.

"Nah, you know." Matsuda lifted his feet on the coffee table. "Or maybe you don't. Sometimes you have to sacrifice a good night's sleep for some romancing."

"Romancing?" Aizawa glanced at him. "You have a girlfriend?"

He didn't say it out loud, but Matsuda wasn't a complete idiot (contrary to what the others might think). He knew Aizawa was actually asking if his girlfriend was Fay.

"Yeah." he said. "I think so."

"You think so?" Ide asked. "Does she think so too?"

"I'm still working on that." Matsuda admitted with a laugh. "But hey, I did come here straight from her place, so..."

"Nobody wants to hear that, idiot!" Aizawa snapped. "Get your priorities straight - we have a murderer to catch."

That made Matsuda blush.

"Sorry, sorry." he muttered. "I got excited."

"Well, get de-excited." Aizawa replied drily. "And keep your personal life personal."

There was a warning in his eyes, and Matsuda let it sink in.

He doesn't want me to slip that I'm dating Fay. I wonder why he's so concerned about it?