I Won't Say

I Won't Say by angeltrap is an AU WAFFy (non-explicit) Light/L Death Note Fanfic in which Light "wins" and could kill L and Watari at any time if he wanted to... but decides he would rather keep L alive. He also insists that they spend Christmas together with L's "family..."

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Tropes used in I Won't Say include:

• Arbitrary Skepticism: There's no such thing as ghosts!

L: Light-kun is right. Believing in ghosts is like claiming that you own a magical notebook or that you have a pet monster that only eats apples. Don't be ridiculous.

• Becoming the Mask: L really does become friendly with Kira and Light spends so much time playing nice around L and the orphans he becomes a Papa Wolf for them.
• Beta Couple: Mello and Matt.
• Big Brother Bully: Mello
• Big Brother Instinct: L, and Light towards the Wammy orphans.
• Big Screwed-Up Family: It could be a Sitcom called "Meet the Successors"!
• Blackmail
• Buffy-Speak
• Butt Monkey: Light and Near.
• Chained to a Bed: Light, courtesy of L-for perfectly innocent reasons.
• Christmas Special
• Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: In this fic Misa gets paired up with Hideki Ryuuga the pop star to avoid having to go the the usual Die for Our Ship route.
• Cloudcuckooland: Wammy's House.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus: in this the First Book of Mello, we have made the following decrees...
• Daddy’s Boys / Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Watari scolds L and Beyond and tells them to behave themselves, they answer with a meek "Yes sir."
• Dating Catwoman: L and Kira.
• Death Takes a Holiday: Invoked when Light suggests that the Taskforce send out another "fake" Kira broadcast saying that Kira will suspend judgments for the holiday season and the real Kira will have to follow it if he wants to maintain his good PR.
• Did Mom Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: When Misa arrives at Wammy's House L panics because before when it was just Light they were reasonably safe since they were all using aliases. But now that the Second Kira is here Light can find out the true names of the children and kill them all if he wanted to.
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: The entire time. Near is mystified when pondering the fact that KIRA just ruffled his hair, as is Mello when he made them cocoa, etc.
  • Later L invites Beyond Birthday to come join them for Christmas.
• Double Date: Light and L with Misa and Hideki Ryuuga.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: "The God of the New World" finds himself wondering this frequently.
• Dysfunction Junction:

Light: L... You're not exactly the sanest person I've ever met, but after seeing three other examples produced by the same environment, I just have to ask... how come you're not any more off the wall?

L: I started meddling with serial killers, psychos and megalomaniac criminal masterminds instead. That must have saved my sanity.

• Easily Forgiven: L invites Beyond Birthday to join them for Christmas dinner and eventually he comes to forgive Light for being Kira and reciprocates his feelings.
• Elephant in the Living Room: that Light is Kira.
• Everything's Better with Chocolate
• Exact Eavesdropping: Near stumbles into the Kira x L soap opera.
• Exact Words: "no morning sex... (Beat) or afternoon sex, or evening sex or..."
• Extreme Doormat: L from his training at Wammy's House. Light sets out to convince L that he's allowed to be a human being with emotions.
• Family Values Villain: Light is usually the one scandalized by the Wammy's kids wacky hijinks.
• Filk Song: to music from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
• Genre Shift: Death Note the Heartwarming Holiday Special.
• The Glomp: L gets attacked by his successors in this way.
• Harmless Villain: Light, Misa, Beyond...
• Haunted House
• He Is Not My Boyfriend:

Light: Hello, everyone, I'm Light, L's boyfr-
L: My co-worker!

• Hypocritical Heartwarming
• I Know You Know I Know
• If You Ever Do Anything To Hurt Him: Mello (warning Light) and he manages to be quite intimidating for a 14 year old kid.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Princess "Elle" from the bedtime story fairy tales.
• It's Not You, It's Me: Much to Light's relief, Misa breaks up with him after falling for Hideki Ryuuga the pop star.
• Keeping Secrets Sucks
• Last-Second Word Swap
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: "STUPID GENIUSES!"
• Lima Syndrome: Light comes to like and become very protective of the Wammy Orphans and becomes really insulted when L suggests that he would ever try to kill them.
• Locked in a Room

L: Where's Near?
Mello: Oh, he's safe...
Matt: ... in a closet.

• Love Redeems
• Mirror Monster: subverted, she's just lonely and wants someone to talk to.
• Moment Killer: Mello, Matt, and Near are on a holy mission to be this.
• Our Brother Is Off Limits: the trio are not happy about Light moving in on L.
• Noble Demon: Light.
• Not What It Looks Like
• Only Sane Man: Light plays this role in contrast with the Wammy's Kids.
• Peek-a-Bangs: Beyond does the Emo version.
• Romantic Comedy
• Secret Identity Identity: both Light and L have this little crisis- Light wants L as his boyfriend but also wants to be God of the New World and L is his main obstacle. Meanwhile L the Detective wants to arrest Kira but L the person has also developed feelings for Light...
• Seen It All: Light is completely unfazed upon meeting a ghost.
• Sibling Rivalry: between Mello and Near.
  • Light can only watch on in horror as L and Beyond bicker and snipe at each other with all the maturity of six year olds.

Light: Next you're going to start sticking out your tongu- just like that! L, I saw that!
L: What? He started it.

• Sir Index of Tropes
• Slash Fic
• Sleep Cute
• Subverted Innocence: "What have you been teaching these kids?!"
• Subverted Kids Show: Near was making some finger puppets of those he considers family. Light is surprised that that includes him, but then notes that it's sitting not so innocently on his middle finger.
• Talking to the Dead: L expresses his concerns about entering a relationship with Kira to A and B's graves.
  • Later L introduces Light to his parents.
• Team Mom: L
• Team Dad: Light, "Mello, leave that poor kid alone and get in here, right now!"
• That Poor Plant: L relates that he once managed to kill a cactus by forgetting to water it.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Sorry, but after having a Shinigami appear in your bedroom in the middle of the night a run-of-the-mill ghost isn't going to cut it...

Ghost girl: You're not afraid?
Light: Should I be?

• Villainous Crush: Light towards L.
• WAFF
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Misa's fairy tale
• Wimpification: L, semi-justified though in that he's doing it out of concern for the safety of Watari and the kids and mostly makes life miserable for Light any chance he gets...
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: when L catches Mello and Matt snooping around his bedroom, Matt turns on the waterworks and tries to blame it all on Light.
• You Can See Me?
• You Will Be Spared: Light to L, with the caveat of "don't make me kill anyone else."