Watari Pt 2: Wammy's House

Mello heard a muted crash, so leapt up from his settee to investigate. Fearing blood or worse from Matt\'s study, he yanked open his door and ran into the room opposite. The redhead was leaping around the room, but appeared to be in no great pain. In fact, a couple of seconds watching supplied the information that he was dancing. After a fashion. It appeared more as jumping around with an iPod attached.



Matt\'s arms flailed out, jerking in time to some unheard beat, as he pogo-ed on the spot. A sudden spinning around placed Mello within his sight and the redhead grinned. He pulled out his earphones and surveyed the Slav. "Ohai."



Mello smiled. "You look so much better. Having a cyberpunk moment?"



"Erm, nope." Matt bit his lip, then began dancing again to the tune, presumably, in his own head. He sang out, "This the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Age of Aquarius. Aquarius. Aquarius."



Mello laughed. "I haven\'t heard that song for years." He paced further into the room, stepping over the fallen pile of games. "I\'m all for the age of Aquarius, especially if it involves the said Aquarian wriggling his hips like that." He caught Matt and drew him in for a lingering kiss. "Fucking gorgeous, guapo, you really are."



"Thank you." Matt grinned. "Did you know Hal\'s an Aquarius as well? Fact!" He continued bouncing around, even as Mello held onto his waist. "We\'ve taken over Wammy\'s House. Let the sunshine in!"



"You\'re lovely."



"Thank you." Matt pulled out of Mello\'s grasp and placed his iPod onto the speaker dock. A few moments later, he beamed up. "I want to see you dance, as my prize for reforming Wammy\'s. Well, mostly because I want to see you dance, because that\'s always a pleasure, but also because it\'s my song. It\'s about Aquarius and I\'m Aquarius." Matt frowned. "Even though I don\'t know when I was born." He raised a finger. "The arbitrary date was February 1st and I don\'t believe in horoscopes, so it doesn\'t matter." He pressed the play button and the opening notes of The 5th Dimension\'s \'Age of Aquarius\' sounded throughout the room. "I\'m claiming the song anyway, because it\'s pwnage."



"Sounds rational to me." Mello laughed. He held out a hand as Matt rejoined him. "And I\'d dance with you any day, baby." They moved, sometimes together, sometimes side by side following their own style. Mello paused in his own gyrating, to bow down in laughter at Matt\'s hippy hand gestures, during the \'mystic crystal revelation and the mind\'s true liberation\' lines. The redhead laughed with him and humour filled the room until the refrain of \'let the sunshine in\' had died away. Mello applauded. "Again!"



"No." Matt sank on the arm of his settee. "I\'ve danced to it twice! I\'m fucking knackered. Cigarette break."



"You are so unfit." Mello bobbed his tongue out. "But I meant it, you are looking better."



Matt smiled, rolling his cigarette, as the song looped around again and Mello danced on his own. Leather hips jerking from side-to-side, his shoulders swaying. It was more seductive than a visual expression of peace and harmony, but that was Mello. Matt watched him, grinning wildly behind his cigarette, his own body still moving from his perch. "I don\'t think they did any Sagittarius songs, so you\'re going to have to share mine."



"There\'s bound to be one." Mello shimmied in the sunlight. "Find me one."



"It won\'t be as pwnage as my song." Matt wandered over to his computer and made a search. "There\'s a band called Sagittarius. Oh! Here\'s one. \'Sagittarius\' by Talamasca." He opened the link and the music immediately began, fighting for supremacy with the coda of The Fifth Dimension. Matt switched channels to allow it unchallenged access to his speakers and they listened to the jagged electronic sounds, merging into a pounding heartbeat, before erupting into a dance rhythm. Mello frowned, it was more to Matt\'s taste than his own rock and the redhead predictably started bobbing in his chair in time to the music. Mello shrugged and carried on dancing. "I\'m downloading this. Still not as good as my song, but I like it." He leaned forward. "Oh! I\'ve found another one. \'Sagittarius (Alphazone Remix)\' by Nish. Hey! And a video of Audiosurf! Nice. I haven\'t played Audiosurf for ages." He played the song. It was another electronic track.



Mello stopped dancing. "Why do all the Sagittarius songs sound like cyberpunk?"



Matt turned to grin at him. "Because this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, freak." He pointed his cigarette. "Pwnt."



Mello tried to think of a retort, but he was laughing too much. Staring back at the redhead, with the sun warm on his back, it was easy to believe that their trials really could be over now. "Ok, I\'ll give you that one. On one condition." His smile was serpentine. "If we\'re now in a hippy age, I want to see some of this free love in action. I\'ve got the long hair and the beads, so where\'s the naked Aquarius prepared to writhe in abject pleasure under me."



"Oh!" Matt straightened, flicking the speaker channel back to \'Aquarius\' on repeat. "I\'ll source one. Leave it to me. I\'ll get one delivered forthwith." He dived for his mobile phone. "Hal do you?"



Mello roared with laughter. "Put the fucking phone down, boy!" He stalked across the distance between them and dragged the redhead into an embrace. "I prefer my Aquarians to be redheads; hot, sexy, gorgeous and," Mello edged in for a kiss, "male."



"Mail?"



"Always." Mello winked. His hands moved over Matt\'s back, drawing him close and rubbing in sheer affection. "You look so relaxed. I told you a couple of weeks resting and chilling out would do you the power of good. You look good enough to strap down to a bed and thoroughly molest."



Matt bit his lip, grinning back. "Oh really? Will it hurt?"



"Oh, I can guarantee that. I\'ve been fucking saint in abstinence just recently. I intend to be compensated for that with..." Mello stopped to chuckle. "Will you stop bopping around to this song when I\'m trying to...? What am I saying? Carry on."



"No, no." Matt stood still. "I\'ve stopped dancing. Fuck me."



Mello smirked and took both of the redhead\'s wrists in his hands. He crossed them behind Matt\'s back and leaned in for a passionate kiss. "Never stop dancing, baby. I can fuck you later. For now, let\'s dance. And later..." Mello licked his lips in a decidedly feral manner, then fell away from him, shaking his whole body in time to the beat. "Come on, Matty! Jupiter just aligned with Mars! Be merry, we can deal with the war another day." Matt laughed and joined him. "I just know it\'s going to be alright now, baby. I just know."



Matt nodded. "Me too, but if it isn\'t?" He took a drag on his cigarette. "Bring it on! There hasn\'t been a boss yet that we can\'t pwn."



"True." Mello grinned. He took the redhead\'s hand and they danced.