More than just cake - Lawliet x OC -

Alea iacta est

Hey y'all! I hope your Monday has been great so far! I'm happy to post this chapter and make your Monday even better. This is one of the chapters I'm really happy with, and even if I say so myself, it is pretty good. <3 We have Stephen Gevanni here again, and Mello and Near - who are all sooo awesome! Writing Gevanni feels so natural to me. I should really write more Gevanni/Fay - they make a good team.

Also - a trigger warning for suicide, again. Why is everything in this fic about suicide? I would tell myself to get help, but luckily I already have it. If you need help - go and get it! There is no shame in needing therapy or medication.

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January 26th, 2010.

Three chocolate croissants, and a rope.

Somehow the thought of them had haunted Fay for the past few days.

She was sitting in the car with Gevanni, staring at the office building where Mikami worked, fighting against boredom, despair and anxiety.

It was now two days 'till the date Near had set for the final meeting with Kira, and the fear was eating Fay alive. She trusted Near with her life - literally - but still she was scared. She knew well enough that if Near lost his gamble, none of them would leave the Yellow Box Warehouse alive, and she would never see Lily again.

And that's how it always was. When she was anxious, these thoughts always found her, and she couldn't shake off the image of the chocolate croissants and a rope.

"You ever heard of the 'Missing Princess'?" she asked, turning her eyes at Gevanni.

He briefly glanced at her.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Princess Hilde of Norway. She got missing. It was all over the news, about ten, eleven years ago?"

Gevanni made a face.

"That one. Yes, I remember. She was found dead, right?"

"Yeah."

A short silence.

"Why are you thinking about her?"

Fay shrugged.

It was easy to talk with Gevanni nowadays. They had gotten used to each other, Fay to his silence and his awesome super human abilities, Gevanni to her ADHD, her need to constantly talk or move or fidget things. Besides, Fay enjoyed talking to someone who wasn't dead.

"Dunno." Fay bit her lip. "I just sometimes do. You know, she was the same age as I was that time. 17 years old. And it was me, who asked the original L to take that case."

"Oh." Gevanni said, suddenly interested. "You asked the original L--?"

"Yeah. We were a team back then." A short silence. "He, of course, told me that the case was a waste of his time, but I begged him to take it. I just... I don't know. I felt for the poor girl."

"Why would he say it was a waste of his time?"

"Hm. Obviously because that case was so easy. It took us less than a minute to solve it, after we got the security tapes of the store she had visited before disappearing."

Now Gevanni did turn his eyes from the office building, arched his brows.

"Less than a minute?"

"30 seconds tops."

"Impressive. What was in the tapes?"

"We saw her buying three chocolate croissants and a rope. That was it, case solved."