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The Flaw	By : ShinigamiMailJeevas Category: Death Note > Yaoi-Male/Male > Mello/Matt Views: 2603 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-The Flaw
- 2-Part 1
- 3-Part 2
- 4-Part 3
- 5-Part 4
- 6-Part 5
- 7-Part 6
- 8-Part 7
- 9-Part 8
- 10-part 9
- 11-Part 10
- 12-Part 11
- 13-Part 12
- 14-Part 13
- 15-Part 14
- 16-Part 15
- 17-Part 16
- 18-Part 18
- 19-Part 19
- 20-Interlude: The Past
- 21-Part 20
- 22-Part 21
- 23-part 22
- 24-Part 23
- 25-Interlude
- 26-part 24
- 27-Part 25
- 28-Part 26
- 29-Part 27
- 30-Part 28
- 31-Interlude: December 25th
- 32-Part 29
- 33-part 30
- 34-epilogue
- 18
- 19
- 20
Suggested Listening: I don't care by Fall out boy

Part 19

~Venom~

Mello was going crazy. Had been for the past few weeks. He'd had nothing to do other than watch TV and deal with the damn injection side effects and whatever could hold his attention in-between all the prenatal tests.

If he had to piss in one more damn cup or have another needle stuck in him, he was going to kill someone.

He pulled out Matt's computer junk, a large bin filled with things Matt swore was organized, and searched around for the tiny jump drive Matt had with the Kira information on it. But with all the wires and microchips and crap in there, he couldn't find anything.

"What are you looking for?"

Mello jumped slightly at the sound of Matt's voice and turned to see Matt leaning against the wall with his arms crossed and an unlit cigarette in his mouth.

"For your damn jump drives!" Mello snapped irritably.

"You could have just asked." Matt scoffed, though he hardly sounded offended. Mello sighed and stood back as Matt lifted the bin and replaced it in the closet, taking out a small case that had fallen to the side at some point and unzipped it; inside were multiple jump drives. The case was new, something Mello knew had to have been bought just after they'd moved in, same for some of the jump drives, but he recognized the old Kingston one with the gold strip.

He was correct in assuming that was the one he had been looking for when Matt picked it up and tossed it to him. "I leave them in here so they don't get dust in them, but the case always seems to fall off the shelf no matter where I put it."

Mello nodded and moved over to his laptop, a new one that was better than the Wammys issued one that he hadn't been able to take. Things had been kind of odd between him and Matt as of late. It wasn't a bad kind of odd, but it wasn't a friendship kind of odd. And yet Matt hadn't said anything otherwise on the subject, and Mello just didn't want to deal with it while he was in a good mood.

Instead, Mello wanted to do something moderately productive that didn't require him to move around too much. He was feeling good, but he found that if he moved around in excess too soon after an injection, the cramps were worse. He had asked about it but was told to simply take it easy for a few more weeks; in short, they didn't have a fucking clue. The thought that it might have to do with the Death Note lingered in Mello's mind no matter how much he attempted to ignore it.

Mello didn't expect to get much done in the way of the case, which he now included L and Near in as their minds had been compromised, but he needed to do something. And seeing as the world's top three detectives weren't making any progress, and undoubtedly wouldn't be, he and Matt would probably be the only ones to even get close to uncovering the mystery that was Kira.

Mello put the laptop onto the comforter and climbed onto the bed, settling himself on his side and against the pillows. He was sore and a little achy but was otherwise side effect free so far that day. Mello wondered once he was over these side effects if the more normal pregnancy problems would kick in. He'd already had to deal with some nausea, and he'd rather not have to deal with that and the possible morning sickness. He rubbed at his face with a small sigh; it was no use going over what could happen; he would just have to wait and see.

Sticking the jump drive into the laptop Mello pulled up only the files on the previous taskforce, and set to work on reading through everything again. Mello figured he and Matt could now shove themselves into the category of former taskforce as well.

There really wasn't much, and a lot of it was conjecture, but that was where he needed to start. He couldn't find Kira without finding the taskforce. They had been told by L to find Kira, but to Mello, it was the same as finding the taskforce.

If he didn't know what happened to them, then he couldn't accurately look for Kira. And yet there was no trace of them. Anywhere. He worried his lip, eyes going over the documents word for word and getting re-familiarized with them. He hadn't thought too much on it before, life getting in the way of such things, but he and Matt had assumed that if the taskforce had disappeared, it would have been together and in a large group despite the possibility of their minds being affected.

But what if Yagami and his son had split off from the main group?

This was of course going on the assumption that they had been affected by the note at that time or that their altered thoughts hadn't gone in an entirely different direction.

Or that they were ever affected by the note in a mental way at all.

Mello didn't know why he hadn't though of it before... they had only been assuming that the taskforce had left because their minds had been afflicted, but what if they had left before that had happened, for another reason entirely?

There had to be a reason L wasn't concerned about their whereabouts or, at least, seemingly unconcerned and dismissive.

For all appearances there was no trace of the taskforce, yet Mello knew there had to be somewhere. Everyone left a trace, especially people who didn't have L's connections on their side; Mello just had to find it. He knew it might take a while, but it wasn't as though he didn't have all the time in the world to research it.

They had previously started with the airports, looking into outgoing flights and such, but Mello now thought they should have started smaller. If the taskforce was making an escape, they couldn't have gone on foot the entire way; they would have needed some sort of transportation.

Probably used a few blocks from L's place as he and Matt had done when they'd escaped.

There might be footage of them on nearby traffic cameras or store surveillance or even from around their homes from days before that might give some clue as to where they had gone. Mello wished he'd had the time to look more thoroughly into it before all hell had broken loose.

He knew Matt would be a lot of help with his programs for searching through the surveillance, but for the moment, Mello was content to search on his own.

.

Mello didn't really know what had started it; one minute he'd been taking a break from the laptop, in the kitchen getting a drink, and the next he and Matt were having a full scale screaming match.

He just couldn't take Matt's indecision anymore, and once the yelling had started, everything he thought on the matter just tumbled out. Mello knew that if he wanted to, he could blame everything on the injections, all those foreign hormones fluttering around his body and wreaking havoc with his emotions, but really he'd just… snapped.

He had only gotten angrier when Matt had tried to calm him, and the only thing accomplished had been Matt yelling at him. It had surprised Mello for all of five seconds before he had snapped back. Mello was never one to lie down and take being screamed at, and even as the voice in the back of his head told him to calm down and talk things out, he hadn't been able to stop himself until he'd said something he hadn't meant. Well, not entirely.

"If you can't figure out what the hell we are, then maybe it's better that I leave! You are acting like a fucking coward and making things more complicated than they need to be. Are we friends with a baby, or are we something more like those little touches and gestures you give me suggest? I can't deal with this limbo anymore! You need to fucking decide or I'm gone."

Matt's expression had frozen as his face paled, making Mello had wished he'd never said it.

The fight had evaporated instantly afterwards leaving them in awkward silence. Mello swallowed thickly, not knowing what to do other than to attempt to apologize.

"Listen Matt, I didn't-"

"Yeah you did, Mello. You meant every word." Matt's voice was void of all emotion, and Mello felt guilt creep into his belly like an angry snake. He was annoyed that he even felt guilty. Matt had brought this upon himself and yet Mello hated seeing the grimace settle on Matt's lips.

Matt never responded, and Mello figured that the silence was enough of an answer for him. He slowly shook his head, guilt turning to hurt. Mello turned, fully intending to leave at least until both of them had time to think, but Matt's hand on his arm stopped him.

"Look, I just… sit down and..." Matt trailed off and hadn't let go of his arm, and though Mello let himself be led, he was far from happy about the situation.

"I need you to just sit here and listen. There is a reason that it's hard for me to figure these things out… for me to be... indecisive." Matt said everything with a pained look, as though just trying to explain things hurt him. Mello paused, thoughts gathering and latching onto the one thing he knew this had to do with: Matt's past.

Mello couldn't believe he hadn't thought of it before. But instead of saying something, he kept himself quiet as Matt sighed heavily. Mello would sit on the edge of the couch and wait for whatever Matt wanted to tell him to unfold if only because he cared for him, friendship or otherwise.

-End 19-

AN: next chapter is an interlude of Matt's past. Long awaited eh?
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