Death Note (Light/Misa) [week 1 - prompt 4]
Title: Give Up Author: Cadence Rating: PG Warnings: Spoilers for late-series Death Note. Word Count: 200 Summary: It's the other part that's hard.
She hands the Death Note away with only a twinge. It’s the other part that’s hard.
Ryuk knows what’s coming, but he doesn’t comment, just cackles.
“But I don’t want to!” She says anyway, digging her heels into the carpet unhappily.
When you have three choices, and two of them are death and betrayal then death, it doesn’t take much thought to pick the third.
She believes Light that they’re in as much trouble now, really. But it seems so stupid, to throw away the partnership they’ve formed as Kira, when things have been going great for years. They’re engaged.
“I could just pretend,” she says sulkily. Slanting a glance at Ryuk, though, she knows it wouldn’t work. Misa growls and rubs at her hair. She couldn’t trick Light, and if she were captured and confined again, she couldn’t hold out forever. And Rem wouldn’t be there to save her, this time.
“Fine,” she yells. “I give up ownership of my Death Note.”
She thinks she can feel her memories slipping away before she finishes the sentence, draining her of everything real about Light. Then she forgets.
She stands, staring into blank space without knowing why, and feels strangely hollow.