Stone Children

A/N: Demon’s Sinner- Well As the Title says this is how the best of it began! Questions such as ‘Why does Matt trust Mello?’ ‘What kind of hold does that blond have over him?’ ‘Why does Mello hate Near so fucking much?’ Well my Lovelies here are the answers to it all!

A/N: Karaage- Matt and Mello.. So cute.. Translations are at the bottom of the page, just match up the numbers.. *sigh* all the Gaelic..


Ch.26 The Beginning of It All


Two years had passed and Matt and Mello had become able to coexist peacefully in the room and he considered them friends. He hardly ever spent time with Near anymore and he felt a bit guilty.

He walked to Near's room and banged on the door. “Near open up!"

The boy opened the door and smiled a little at the sight of Matt. "Hello Matt."

"Hey, sorry I haven’t been around lately. Been busy." He said smiling as he scratched the back of his neck. "So to make up for it, want to go play outside?"

"Oh yes, I would like that very much."

He grinned and pulled Near out of the room and down to the foyer and out the door. The sun was almost set and everything was bathed in an orange and pink glow. He ran over to the swing set and started swinging.

Near walked over and smiled brightly. "You seem happier Matt."

Matt smiled, "Really? How so?" He asked as he swung higher.

"Because you get to room with Mello."

Matt stopped the swing with his boot. "Why makes you say that?" He said frowning. "There are other things to be happy about, like hanging with you again!" He smiled, "Push me."

Near moved behind him and started to push him. "But you like Mello a lot."

"Yeah, we're friends. That’s all." Matt said looking down at the ground as Near pushed him.

"You like boys, right?"

Matt turned around and looked at him. "Near, we've been friends for 3 years now. You should know the answer to that question." He turned back around.

"Well yes... I was wondering how you knew you liked boys?"

He knit his eyebrows. "Um... I don’t like girls.. The thought of kissing a girl makes me want to hurl. But with boys it’s different. I feel very attracted to them, and the thought of kissing a boy makes my stomach flutter. Why?"

"Have you ever kissed a boy?"

"No. Not yet." He said as he turned around and looked at Near. "Why are we playing the sexual orientation version of 20 questions?"

"N-No... I was just wondering." He kept pushing the redhead on the swing set. "W-Would you kiss me?"

Matt slammed his foot down and stopped the swing, jumping out. "What?!"

He was blushing and fiddled with his fingers. "F-Forget I said anything..."

"No. What did you mean?!" Matt almost yelled looking at him shocked.

"Well I mean since neither of us have kissed anyone maybe we could share a kiss with each other. Wouldn't it be better to kiss a friend than a stranger?"

Matt shook his head. "It doesn’t work that way, not for me." He said as he turned around and stalked off. "I don’t go around kissing people just to be kissing them!" He said as he got to the huge Oak tree next to the swing set and started climbing it. He sat down a bit high up in the middle of the tree. "I'm not coming down till I receive a sincere apology."

"Matt!" Near hurried after him and looked up at him. He couldn't climb the tree due to his health but he could stare up. "I didn't mean it like that. I really like you! I want to kiss you because I like you!"

Matt was in the middle of changing his position when Near shouted out he liked him. He took his eyes off what he was doing and looked down at him. "You like me?" He asked shocked before he slipped and Matt fell to the ground hard landing on his right arm. He screamed in pain rolling over and clutching his arm.

"MATT!!" Near ran over to him. He looked around for someone to help.

He started screaming in Gaelic rolling back and forth, crying. "Nimhneach é! Déan é a stopadh hurting!" (1)He screamed over and over again at the top of his lungs.

Near didn't understand what he was saying but he hurried to get help. The nurses came and got Matt taking him away to the infirmary. L was notified about what happened. Mello was with L having tea when the news came. Thankfully Mello had changed into his normal clothing when the nurse told them.

Matt kicked, punched and screamed, knocking over beds and lab equipment. "NÁ dteagmháil ME!" (2) He screamed, growling and kicking an orderly in the groin. "Saoire aonar dom!" (3) He screamed at the top of his lungs, howling in pain, tears running down his face and pure terror in his eyes, his goggles around his neck. He clutched at his arm. "Fan amach ó dom!"(4)

Near wanted to help him but he couldn't understand him. He tried learning Gaelic but it didn't work out well.

Mello ran down to the infirmary as fast as he could. When he reached them he bit his lip before he started yelling at Matt. "Calma síos! stop a chur roimh tú Gortaítear féin níos mó!" (5)He moved to Matt's side and grabbed his good arm holding him down.

Matt looked at Mello. "Mello?" He said looking at him miserably in pain. "Ní féidir liom buíochas ospidéil. Nimhneach mo lámh. Déan é stad hurting." (6) He said sobbing. "Ná lig dóibh bata dom le shnáthaidí! Ná lig dóibh Gortaítear dom!" (7) He pleaded as his emerald green eyes sparkled and pooled with tears.

"Tá siad ag iarraidh a dhéanamh níos fearr é a. Lig dóibh cabhrú leat." (8) He wiped away Matt's tears speaking softly to him.

"Dúirt siad go raibh siad ag dul a slata bata i mo lámh!" (9)He sobbed, his voice and face filled with terror.

Mello looked at the nurse who sighed. "He needs to hold still so we can put the shoulder back in place and see what else is wrong. If he keeps moving he may cause more damage." The blond took Matt's face in hand and stared into his eyes. "Just a breathnú ar dom. Beidh gach rud go breá má tá tú ag breathnú díreach ag dom." (10)

He nodded and stared at Mello with wide eyes, his good hand gripping his wrist.

"Níl mé ag dul in áit ar bith." (11) He smiled at him as the nurse and doctor put the joint back into place and then checked Matt's arm for other injuries. "Níl mé ag dul in áit ar bith Matty... Beidh mé ag fanacht anseo in éineacht leat."(12)

Matt screamed at the top of his lungs as they placed his shoulder back to normal. "Go raibh maith agat ... an oiread sin ... Mells."(13) He choked out through howls of pain and sobs, but never did his eyes stray from Mello's blue ones.

He smiled and brushed red hair from Matt's face as he held his hand. The sweet perfume moved into the younger boy's face as he touched him. "Beidh sé ceart go leor Matty." (14)

He nodded and leaned a bit towards him, the smell of his perfume comforting him. "Tá tú i ndáiríre álainn súile gorm, go raibh a fhios agat?" (15) He said, calm now that the excruciating pain had dulled in his shoulder.

Mello rolled his eyes at him as he laughed. "Buíochas a ghabháil leat." (16)

Matt smiled weakly. "No sweat."

The nurse put his arm in a sling and told him he was lucky it didn't break.

"Can I leave now?" He asked taking his eyes off of Mello's for the first time.

"Yes. Go and next time no climbing trees," She said shooing him out. Mello helped him down and took him out. Near was waiting for them. "Matt are you alright?"

Matt froze. He stood there and looked at him. "If you hadn’t said that I wouldn’t have fallen." He said disbelievingly.

The pale child stood there in shock. "Matt I... I didn't mean for you to fall."

"What did you think was going to happen? I was going to come down the tree and kiss you? Then we were going to live happily ever after? You let them take me away. You know I hate hospitals! You told them I had a broken arm! They were going to drill holes in my arm!!" Matt growled at him.

Near was close to tears right then. He was sniffling and shaking trying to keep from crying. "I-I-I didn't kn-know want h-happened.... I-I j-just...."

Matt pushed pass him, walking slowly and carefully back to his room, so as to not jar his arm. Mello followed him out and helped him to the room. "So he made you fall?"


"Yeah." He said wincing in pain. "Shit! You would think she would have given me some painkillers or some shit."

"I know how to help with that."

"How?" He asked looking at him, waiting.

He walked into the room and went to his dresser. He came back with a leather pouch. "Here, take a pinch and swallow it. It tastes bad but it will take away the pain."

Matt walked into the room and shut the door. He took a pinch and looked at it. "What the hell is it?" He asked, eyebrows knit as he examined it.

"Willow bark ground up. The girls used it for everything."

He nodded. "Sorry, nothing personal, I just don’t take anything without knowing what it is first." He placed it in his mouth and swallowed, then gagged. "That's fucking disgusting!" He said as he walked over and grabbed his bottle of orange soda, trying to get the lid off with his teeth.

Mello took the bottle and opened it for him. "Yeah it does taste pretty bad but it works for almost everything."

Matt looked at him. "Thanks." He chugged the bottle then threw it into the trash. He walked over to his bed and crawled up. He stared down his TV sourly. "I can’t open shit, I can’t play games, I can’t write, I can’t do shit!" He grumbled, kicking at his mattress.

"Not like it will hurt your chances. Unlike me you don't have to work that hard to be number one." He sounded a little bitter about it. "The worse is you don't even want to be L. I would give anything to become an heir to L," he whispered going to start his studies.

"I could help you." He said crawling off his bed and walking over to Mello side of the room.

"I don't want help Matt. If I can't do it myself then I have no right to be here."

"Don’t say. You have every right to be here. More so than any one else." He said sternly. "So let me help you." He said again.

"No. I don't want help. I can do it myself."

He stood there. "I know you can. You know how hard it is to learn Gaelic and say it as fluently as you can? Damn fucking hard..." He said going back to his side of the room, climbing onto his bed and laying down staring at the ceiling cause he was that bored.

"I learn languages fast but Gaelic won't help me move up in the rankings."

"That’s not what I meant." He said frustrated. "Your mind is amazing. You pick up things quick. You’re brilliant. You don’t need ranking to tell u that."

"I wish I could think like that but I owe it to L to show him I am the best."

"The only person you owe shit to is yourself." He said his voice stern.

He shook his head as he continued working on taking notes. "Well I owe it to myself to be number one."

"That’s more like it." He said turning his head to the side and smiling at Mello.

The blond kept working. He sighed as he stretched his arms over his head. He was working himself harder each day just to stay at the third rank. He wanted to beat Near and Matt. "I don't know... Maybe I should ask L for my own room. I can't concentrate if I'm in a room with my biggest competition..." he mumbled.

Matt eyes went wide at the statement. He quickly formulated a plan in his head. He used his arm as an excuse for messing up on stuff and the new rankings were posted a week later.

1.Near
2.Mello
3. Matt

Matt smiled inwardly at the page. His plan had work. He was precisely 3 points under Mello. He had calculated correctly. Mello stared at the ranking. He had beaten Matt? This was amazing he couldn't believe it. "I did it!!"

Matt turned and smiled at Mello. "I told you, you could do it." He chuckled from beside the blonde.

He looked at him just as Near looked at the scores. "Did you do it on purpose?"

"Why would I do something like that, and lost all my sweet game privileges?" He asked frowning.

He shook his head and smiled. "Well I can't wait to tell L." He turned but stopped and glanced back at Matt. "I'll see you at lunch." It was the first time Mello ever said he would eat with someone. Matt grinned shocked. "Okay, see you then." He said happily as he watched the blonde run off.

Near walked up to him and bit his lip. "Matt may I speak to you."

"What?" He asked innocently turning around.

"I wanted to apologize about making you fall... I didn't know it would happen..."

"I’m sorry I snapped at you. I was just in a lot of pain, fucking doctors didn’t give me anything." He said smiling at Near.

"If you have time would you like to study together?"

"Nah, I got people to do, things to see." He said distractedly as he started to walk down the hall.

He nodded and watched him go. It was eating at him that Matt was so focused on Mello. "If I can't get his attention by being nice then I will do it by scoring highest."


(1) It hurts! Make it stop hurting!
(2) DO NOT TOUCH ME!
(3) Leave me alone!
(4) Stay away from me!
(5) Calm down! Stop before you hurt yourself more!
(6) I don’t like hospitals . My arm hurts. Make it stop hurting.
(7) Don’t let them stick me with needles! Don’t let them hurt me!
(8) They are trying to make it better. Allow them to help you.
(9) They said that they were going to put rods in my arm!
(10) Just look at me. Everything will be fine if you just look at me.
(11) I’m not going anywhere.
(12) I’m not going anywhere, Matty… I will stay here with you.
(13) Thank you…so much… Mells.
(14) It will be okay, Matty.
(15) You have really beautiful blue eyes, you know?
(16) Thank you.
All in Gaelic.