->''"Sometimes all it needs is a little push... OR The benefits of withholding ones anger - a rough lesson which Mello learned but never followed."''

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7747737/1/ A Gun to Love's Head]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1643843/Viyola Viyola]] is a ''Manga/DeathNote'' [[SlashFic Light x L]] [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]]. 5 years after the end of the Kira case, L and Light are getting along perfectly, and a certain someone is worried that he'll never get to succeed L at that rate... Armed with a gun, Mello sets out on an angry rampage to 'fix' the problem, but his effort has an unexpected result...

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!! ''A Gun to Love's Head'' provides examples of:

%% * AlternateUniverseFic
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Mello feels threatened by [[TheAce Light]] and his closeness to L.
%% * AxeCrazy: Mello waving his gun around. Kira [[spoiler: and L]] keep these tendencies private so they seem reasonable.
%% * BashBrothers: [[spoiler: As soon as Mello is distracted L and Light easily take him down.]]
%% * BodyguardCrush: L and Light.
%% * ChokeHolds: [[spoiler: Light does this when taking down Mello.]]
%% * ClickHello: Mello does this to L and Light.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Misa becomes one after the end of the Kira case and L publically declared that [[spoiler: Higuchi was Kira all along, with the Second Kira, whose identity is "classified," privately executed.]] Misa becomes a pro-Kira writer that writes books on the fact that that theory does not make sense.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler: [[YouAreGrounded Mello is grounded]] and forced to go a week without chocolate and Near is forced to socialize.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Misa is right of course but because she's TheDitz no one pays attention.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Light and L's attempts to explain that its NotWhatItLooksLike.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Light has had a phobia of guns ever since [[spoiler: L had Light's father pretend to shoot him in a mock execution.]]
* EasilyForgiven: In this verse L and Light forgive each other because they didn't want to have to kill their friend. [[spoiler: Also in the aftermath of Mello's stunt—Mello is grounded and forced to go a week without chocolate, Near is forced to socialize, and Matt gets away with it as usual.]]
* ExtranormalInstitute: Wammy's House
* FakeOutMakeOut: [[spoiler: to placate Mello who is waving a gun around Light kisses L and that serves as a sufficient distraction for the Successors that allows Light and L to get the drop on Mello.]]
* FakingTheDead: L pretended to have Light executed as Kira and then kept him as his friend and partner.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: L and Light
* FixFic: The story is [[FandomSpecificPlot divergent from the Yotsuba arc.]]
* FriendlyEnemy: Light and L at first.
* GreenEyedMonster: Mello. He's convinced that as long as Light is around he'll never get a shot at being L's successor. (It doesn't even cross his mind that Light ''doesn't care'' about being L's successor.)
* HairTriggerTemper: Mello
* HazyFeelTurn: [[AntiHero L and Light]] don't really change that much—they’ve just become allied with each other. They work together, they solve cases together, [[spoiler: and sometimes they write in the notebook and kill together.]]
* IgnoredEnemy: L and Light get to bickering and for a moment almost forget that Mello has a gun on them. Later [[spoiler: when Light and L are making out Mello, Matt, and Near get to arguing and Light and L use that distraction to disarm Mello.]]
* {{Irony}}: 1) It doesn't even cross Mello's mind that Light ''doesn't care'' about being L's successor. 2) [[spoiler: Because of Mello's actions Light and L get together.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Misa and Light. L has Misa proved innocent and helps Light fake his death so he can start over with him. Also [[spoiler: Mello's punishment for threatening to ''murder'' L and Light is that [[YouAreGrounded he gets grounded.]]]]
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Mello notices this about L and Light.
* ManBitesMan: [[spoiler: L bites Mello on the arm, making him drop the gun.]]
* TheMasochismTango: L and Light.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero [=/=] NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: Light and L ''weren't'' together before Mello pulled this stunt. They are now.]]
* NotThatKindOfPartner: L and Light are partners but [[spoiler: until Mello forced the issue]] they were completely platonic.
* OnlySaneMan: Matt and Near. Of varying degrees of sanity-[[CooldownHug Matt tries to stop Mello]] and [[BystanderSyndrome Near stays out of it.]]
* PlatonicLifePartners: Light and L [[spoiler: until the end.]]
* PowerOfTrust: Light and L draw on it to get through their ordeal.
* PreemptiveShutUp: Mello to Matt [[spoiler: after L and Light get together and Matt asks Mello if he wants to talk about it.]]
* RightThroughTheWall: [[spoiler: Light and L's room is above Mello's and while Mello is grounded he can hear them going at it through the ceiling.]]
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Mello demands that L and Light screw each other or he shoots them dead.
* SecurityCling: Light and L unconsciously cling to each other when Mello pulls a gun on them.
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Despite the fact that Light and L insist that they aren't lovers Mello doesn't believe them.
* ShipperOnDeck: Mello becomes convinced that L and Light are screwing each other because if he's right then that means Light is out of the running to be L's successor.
* SlashFic: [[spoiler: Light/L]]
* SubordinateExcuse: Mello assumes that Light is this, [[TheVamp that Light is sleeping with L to become L's successor!]]
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: When Mello accuses L and Light of sleeping together [[DiggingYourselfDeeper L insists that they sleep together in the same bed because it's convenient.]]
* ThisCannotBe: [[VillainousBreakdown Light panics]] when Mello is about to shoot him and convinces L that after everything they've been through together they can't let it end like this.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Mello speaks like this.
* TransparentCloset: Light and L.
* UndyingLoyalty: L and Light to each other after [[FireForgedFriends all they've been through together]].
* TheVamp: [[spoiler: Light is willing to seduce L (and L is willing to let himself be seduced) in order to save themselves.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Light has a mild one when he's ''sure'' that Mello is going to kill him.
* VillainsWantMercy: Light is the first to crack when Mello threatens their lives; mostly because L believes [[YouWouldntShootMe Mello won't really do it]] and Light ([[DoesntLikeGuns with his healthy aversion to guns]]) has no such illusions.
* YouAreGrounded: [[spoiler: Mello's punishment.]]
* YouWouldntShootMe: L is ''sure'' Mello won't pull the trigger...

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