丅ᕼᗴ ᒪ ᔕɊᑌᗩᗪ - L x OC -

No one punches L in the face.

"Man, this has got to be the lamest date I've ever been on..."

I'm currently sitting beside Misa who has done nothing but complain for the past half and hour.

At least there's cake.

L is chewing a fork. "No, please, just pretend we're not even here," he says nonchalantly, his eyes glued to Misa's untouched cake.

I yawn and watch Light stretch out lazily on the sofa beside L.

"By the way... are you gonna eat that piece of cake?" L points to it with an unreadable expression.

"Cake makes you fat," Miss resorts plainly. "I'm not gonna eat any."

"Actually," L lifts a hand to his head, "I find that you don't gain any weight as long as you burn calories by using your brain," he says monotonously.

"That's probably not healthy..." I muse.

Misa glares defensively. "Oh, so now you're calling me fat?" she smirks, "Fine, I'll give you the piece of cake as long as you agree to leave me and Light alone!"

L stares at her with a blank expression. "Even if I leave you two alone, I'm still going to be watching on surveillance cameras, so it wouldn't make any difference," he says.

"You pervert!" Miss accuses irritatedly. "Could you stop it with your creepy hobby?"

"You can call me whatever you want," L steps with one foot onto the table, "but I'm taking your cake."

He grabs the place and settles back down next to Light.

Misa clenches her teeth and screws her eyes shut. "Ok then... I'll just close the curtains and turn off the lights!"

"We have infrared cameras in here as well."

Misa makes another strange strangled noise. "Then we'll just get under the covers, right, Light?" she grins.

Light brushes her off with a simple, "Whatever." He turns to L. "What's wrong with you?" he asks the detective. "I thought moving here was supposed to help us catch Kira, but since we've been here you don't seem all that motivated to me."

L makes an actual facial expression for the first time today.

He looks miserable. "Not motivated?" he mutters. "Actually, I'm depressed..."

He's depressed?

"How can you be depressed?" I ask, concerned and puzzled. "I mean, I EXIST! That should make you so happy you want to... I dunno, BE MOTIVATED!"

L only sighs. "I'm depressed because... for the longest time I though that Light was Kira, I'm just a little shocked that it seems I was wrong..."

I offer him a sympathetic frown.

I know how disappointing this must be for him, but we still have to try and catch Higuchi to get our hands on the death note.

If I'm lucky, I might even be able to prevent Light from regaining his memories.

If that happens, Rem will be perfectly satisfied and there will be no need to worry about her killing L.

I'm kinda anticipating this all being over soon...

"If you were being controlled and killed people without being conscious of it, then you are nothing more than a victim..." L continues woefully, "I have to start the investigation over from scratch, we're back to the beginning." He sighs. "If Kira controlled you to make me suspect you... that's a pretty big shock to me... very frustrating..."