Depraved and Deprived

Chapter four: Poisoned


L crouched on the cot in the glass room in the bowls of the house he had lived in that had shaped him and the one who laid under it plotting nasty death.
He sighed and wished that there was some tea in the sliver pot but it only held coffee for Beyond who lived on it and jam.

It occurred to him he was stalling after all he was only 60 percent sure he could survive if Beyond came after him intent to kill even unarmed.
Also he was only 40 percent sure he even had the ability to kill with his bare hands.

Beyond sat listening as L shifted on the bed his whole body tense as he did his pupils dilated from the dark and jam smeared on his shirt.
“Thinking Elle?” His voice was soft in tone but carried a harsh edge as if Beyond wished to harm L with just his voice but that hurt would be loving and lingering.

“Yes….and don’t call me Elle …” L nibbled his thumb.
“It’s simply your name.” Beyond smirked seeing the old name did bring up things L didn’t like to think about or feel. Funny thing, names, they define more then just what others call us.

“Please….come out…” L said softly staring at a white wall wondering how long a man with a mind like Beyond’s could stand being caged before he went raving mad. So mad it would make what Beyond was now look like a kiss on the mouth.
L figured he was likely to try to break out that night unless…

“You know I’m plotting something don’t you…Elle who was L who is.” L looked up into Beyond’s face he wasn’t shocked he had not heard him slip up from under the cot into this crouch at his feet B as silent as death and twice as cold.
L nodded his unkempt black hair falling into his eyes.
“What is it?” L asked as he looked at his mad twin studying him watching for plans in his bottomless black eyes.

Beyond laughed softly as he reached out a hand to stroke his fingers down L’s cheek.
“All I can say is I am where I want to be…you didn’t just luck into it…”
“But…you knew that.” He finished as L nodded.
L spread his hands pondering the calm he felt as if knowing things would get worse made the moment before somehow mean something…it was like knowing when you sat in the calm before the storm.

L smiled slightly as Beyond just studied him right back after all he liked storms and wind.
He spoke what he had been waiting to speak since Beyond had left what he found when he tested his hunch spurned on by a need to know set fire by B leaving.
“We are genetic brothers I had your and my own DNA tested after you left.” L tensed for a blow.
He didn’t expect wild choking laughter as Beyond literally upset his balance laughing ending up leaning on one hand still snickering.

“What makes you think I am dumb enough to believe anything you say that I can not have proven?” Beyond asked as he righted himself.
L frowned he has assumed that because he spoke the truth he would be believed he had never lied to Beyond before.
He had steeled himself for rage and waited for blows he had known how to deal with Beyond’s hate but this…laughter and disbelief this was …annoying.

Beyond stuck a long thin finger in his mouth and sucked on it slowly licking up and down clearly obscene as he shut his eyes and gave a soft moan.
“But…if it is true then all those times I drank your cum…” He twisted a finger in his hair a mockery of a deep thinking look on his face as L looked away ashamed.
“What a sin …now I can cross that off my list it was one I wasn’t sure I would get to commit thanks for helping…”

L growled low in this throat then threw himself at Beyond punching and kicking blindly until his knuckles where stained with Beyond’s blood the whole time he never made a move to defend himself.
He only looked up at L a smirk on his face as L’s fingers wrapped about his neck knowing dammed well L wasn’t going to kill him there was no reason to move and after all it amused him to see L enraged by his unpredictable actions.

L growled again this time his rage was only for himself. He released Beyond’s neck but stayed where he was straddling his hips pinning him down to the ground.
Beyond moved so fast L never saw it coming only felt the hands in his hair then felt his mouth pulled down to clash onto Beyond’s mouth.

L reared back trying to pull away but all the rage he had expected seemed to have been saved for this moment. His hair was firmly in Beyond’s strong skinny fingers as he trashed some of it was yanked out hard.
Panting now L at last yanked away far enough to reach down to press the heel of his palm down hard on Beyond’s groin
With a grunt Beyond let him go.
L stood panting his hair mussed worse then ever his chest heaving.

“This is wrong…you are wrong.” He spat out as he turned walking to the door punching in the key code. The door hissed open as L quickly slid out of it.
Beyond just lay on the floor staring up at the ceiling
“You’ll be back…” he murmured.

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Matt woke from a confused dream where Mello was stabbing him. As he did he sobbed his blonde hair red with Matt’s blood and he kept saying over and over “Why don’t you love me Matty?”
As he sat up gasping Mello awoke to see him shaking and sweating.
“What’s wrong?” He whispered yawning.
Matt raked a hand in his bangs as he sat with his arms on his knees looking older in the moonlight.

“I…don’t know…it’s been a rough week…I was kidnapped and was to dumb to know it until the nut got popped by L.” Matt pointed out sourly.
“It was kind of dumb I know I’d never fall for it…one more reason you’re not going to be L’s heir…” Mello said seemed slightly bored.
“If I had been me I would’ve brought the nut in tossed him at L’s feet gift wrapped.”
He shrugged. “But not everyone can be me.”
“Yeah…you’re right Mello you are always right.” Matt nodded weakly.

Mello nodded as he warped his arms about Matt.
“Now go back to sleep ..” He said as he lay down himself.
Matt shook his head.
“I need to go to the bathroom.” He slipped out of the bed leaving Mello who seemed half asleep already.

Once in the hallway Matt turned down to the staircase he was knew was off limits for the children.
He walked silently down his heart pounding in his chest he knew what was down here the cells for the criminals that couldn’t be put in normal jails.
He knew Beyond was down here.

Pressing to the walls so no one would see him he opened the door at the bottom of the long staircase the door was slightly ajar.
Slipping into the crack in the door Matt came into a room with a glass cell he could clearly see the two men in the room Beyond and L.
He came closer to the two way window to see what was going on but he couldn’t hear their words.
He slipped ever closer watching them he eyes widened as L attacked Beyond hitting him what shocked him more was Beyond just sat there.

His eyes filled with tears as Beyond grabbed L by the hair forcing his mouth down to his own.
He turned and run up the staircase not wanting to see more shattered by what he had seen in the glass room.