Gods and Monsters [Sequel to Ethereal] L x Reader • Death Note ✔️

Chapter 32 | action

With renewed confidence thanks to his chat with his dad, L had a plan. But he needed the help of his sleepy friend and his dreamy little son for this one.

The first step was getting that death note, but the problem was they had no idea where it was. Mikami had hidden it very well. Even bugging his house didn't reveal its location. L had no doubt that he'd hidden the book somewhere and taken a bunch of pages out of it to use, likely spreading those pages out amongst regular paper to hide them.

But he'd run out of pages eventually and have to go back to the book for more, and he goes to do that and finds the book gone, he'll likely panic thinking it's 'a sign from Kira' or something, which would be the hook he needed to lure Mikami into doing something drastic and an arresting him. But without knowing where the book was, no one could do anything.

So he needed to find that books location. And he had an idea, Morpheus.

The godling had already dreamt that the book was inside a briefcase, and seeing as it clearly wasn't in Mikami's usual work one, it must be in a spare hidden somewhere. While Morpheus' powers over dreams weren't fully developed yet, he'd proven that he CAN have prophetic dreams over and over. It's just a matter of doing it on command he needed to master. So L asked Hypnos about it, was there some way he could teach Morpheus to prophetic dream on command so they could find that book?

After a moment of thought, Hypnos had an idea himself. He'd put himself and his son to sleep, inducing a dream state. From there he'd help Morpheus try and tap into the energy of the death note and build up the location it was in within the dream. From there, he'd pull you and L into the same dream and you could see the location for yourself. It may take several tries, but it would work eventually.

So that's how you and L ended up sitting at the end of the bed of the sleep god, the waiting to be pulled into a slumber. Hypnos lay with his son cradled in his arms, his fluffy hair splayed out across the pillow and his nightgown like robes framing his figure. Hypnos was a beautiful god, you'd give him that. Morpheus had unconsciously taken a ribbon hanging off his fathers sleep mask and was chewing on it in his sleep, his little wings twitching as he slept.

They were such a cute little family, the gentlest and sleepiest gods to exist.

"I wish I could sleep that deeply and still look that good, I'm a mess when I sleep" you chuckled.

"You always look good, what are you on about?" L replied.

"Honey don't lie to me just to make he feel good, I know I'm a mess when I sleep. I've kicked you in my sleep at least a thousand times in the duration of our marriage"

"You're a restless sleeper yes, but still a beautiful one. But I get what you mean, somehow Hypnos manages to look like a model in the deepest sleep"

Maybe you and L found him pretty, so what? You were dedicated to each other, but that wouldn't stop you admiring the beauty of other gods together. A perfect couples activity, looking at cute boys.

"I bet being in Morpheus' place would induce the worlds deepest sleep" you said.

"I think being cuddled by sleep himself would put you into a near coma" L snickered.

"Ugh, I need that"

"Same"

While talking about deep sleeps, you found yourself starting to get drowsy. I'd been about 30 minutes since Hypnos and Morpheus went to sleep, they must have just finished up in the dream world and were calling you in. L yawned, leaning his head on your shoulder.

"Speaking of sleep" he muttered.

"I think it's time" you replied, resting your head atop his.

In mere seconds the two of you were fast sleep on each others shoulders, slumped against the bottom headboard of the bed and out like a light. It was like closing your eyes in one place and opening them in another, because with seemingly one blink you were in a whole new realm.