More than just cake - Lawliet x OC -

Death

Okay - let's be honest. This is my all time favorite picture of Matsuda. Also, it's a fabulous piece of art. That Manga is just ridiculously beautiful! (Also, I noticed that if you're on your phone, you might not see the pictures fully. Sorry about that. I hope you're not seeing just Light, but also the bad-ass Matsuda holding his gun!)

This chapter was a challenge! So many things I wanted to take from the original manga scene, but also so much that I wanted to add. I really struggled to make it work - I hope it turned out alright! Please let me know.

Also, I wanted to thank @elysia718 for the constant support and the numerous comments and @xxxpepo for voting on sooo many chapters. You guys are awesome!

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The silence.

Fay's heart hadn't stopped, it was alive - restless and fast, a caged hummingbird in her chest.

20 seconds had passed since Light's words, and they were still all alive. Nobody was dying, and Fay felt like her head could burst with relief.

"We... We're not dead!" Matsuda, always the one to state the obvious. "It's already been about a minute and we're not dead!"

"I've been telling you that nobody would die." Near's soft voice replied.

But Fay's eyes were on Mikami. He had stepped into the room, invited by Near and Light both, when the countdown had still been on. Now Mikami's face was twisting into an ugly grimace, droplets of sweat running down his forehead. The hand that held the pen over the notebook, was shaking.

"Why? Why won't they die?" And then, his eyes turned to Light, his voice broke. "G-god--- I--I did as you told me."

That was all the confession they needed,

"Rester, Gevanni. Get Mikami." Near stated.

Gevanni, always the super agent, had the handcuffs ready and in a few seconds Mikami was apprehended. The notebook fell from his grasp, to the floor. Fay's legs were still like spaghetti, her head spinning, but she managed to follow the agents, and pick up the notebook.

It was the one she had prepared, with Gevanni's help. The exact replica of the real one. She quickly leafed through the pages. The book was exactly as it had been the day before when she had left it in the safe deposit box of Mikami's bank, except for the names on the last page. A sigh left Fay's lips, as she read them.

There it was - her full name Felicity Elizabeth Penrose, right after Nate River, followed by Stephen Loud (who must be Gevanni, Fay realized), Anthony Carter (Commander Rester) and Halle Bullock (Linder. Fay frowned on Halle's real name. Linder suited her so much better.)

And under those names... the names of the Japanese Task force.

Fay felt her hands trembling slightly, as she gave the book to Near, but he was all steel, all ice as he took it. His small, soft fingers that brushed hers, were the hands of a child, cold in the chilliness of this warehouse.

"See for yourselves." he said, laying out the evidence, for everyone to see. "The first five names are unmistakably the real names of the SPK members. And the only name that is missing from this list, is Light Yagami."

It wasn't until now that Fay could turn her eyes to Matsuda. Only now, when he saw what she had known already - his name written on the book of death.

Matsuda's eyes were huge and wide, and he went pale. He kept glancing back and forth between the notebook and Light, as if hoping for a miracle, hoping that Light would say something that would change all this, that this was all just a big misunderstanding.