Stone Children

A/N: Demon’s Sinner- Beloved_twilight is MINE!! All I’m saying

A/N: Karaage- and LCSQUARE is mine… so the point is? Translations at the bottom of the page, just match the numbers.

Ch. 32 Snow Man

A month passed and the children where given two weeks off for Christmas. Matt was giddy and wanting to go play in the snow. He pulled on his combat boots, two hoodies, gloves and a knit hat.

Mello sat in the music room window seat. He was holding his rosary in his hand. It was the 13th and no one even knew that it was his birthday. Normally he would be with L having cake and laughing. Hell even Russia was better because his clients would buy him something nice. "Happy birthday I guess..." he whispered wiping his eyes.

Matt grabbed a box and ran down to find Mello. He ran to the music room first, seeing that Mello was there, he stopped catching his breath. The blond was watching the snow fall not even looking up. He didn't see Matt.

He stood up and ran over. "Happy Christmas!" He said cheery, holding out the large clothing box. The blond looked over at him. His eyes were red and tears were falling slowly. "O-Oh... Hey..." He turned and wiped at his eyes.

Matt's face fell. "What's wrong? Why are you crying?" He paused. "I got something to cheer you up." Matt held up the box to him. "Here this is for you."

"Thank you. I'm sure it's very nice." He took the gift and held it to his chest. "I don't have anything for you yet..."

"Oh, it’s okay! Open it!" He said smiling widely.

He slowly opened the box and peeked inside.

It was a larger black hoodie, a fuzzy black knit hat, black waterproof gloves, and a long fuzzy knit scarf, black also.

"They're very nice thank you." He put his rosary around his neck and smiled at him. Tears were still clear in his eyes but he was trying to hide it. Matt reached over and wiped at the tears. "Don’t cry. Come outside and play with me." His face fell. "Are you sure you like it? I didn’t know what to get you so I got you some things that you didn’t have."

"I love it Matty. I'm just being childish is all. I mean no one else here cries right?" he hopped down and began pulling on the clothing. "Thank you for the gift."

"Your welcome!" He said looking at him. "Mells, what’s wrong? You can tell me."

"Today is my birthday," he whispered looking away.

His eyes got big. "Oh. Well we need to celebrate! Happy birthday!! I’m glad I gave it to you today!" He smiled and pulled Mello into a hug.

He smiled and hugged Matt back. "We don't have to do anything. I mean no one is supposed to know anything."

"Nonsense." He said hugging him tightly. "I’m going to go to the toilet, meet me outside and we'll make the most epic snowman ever.” He smiled letting go of the blonde.

He smiled and nodded. "Okay. I'll meet you outside."

Matt smiled and ran out going to the kitchen. "Hannah!"

Hannah turned around. "Yes honey bun?"

"I need you to make the most epic chocolate cake you can make." Matt said to her in a rush.

"Okay. How about a chocolate lava cake?" She said with a smile.

"That sounds awesome." He smiled. "I'll come back in about an hour or two."

Hannah nodded, and Matt ran out yelling, "Thank you!"

Mello stood outside in the snow putting his gloves on. He was happy that he had someone that knew he was now ten years old. Matt ran out and tackled him into the snow. "Mells!"

They fell in the snow and Mello laughed. "Matty!"

Matt laughed and straddled the blonde, throwing snow at him. "I’m going to make a Mello snowman for your birthday!"

"Then I shall make a Matt snowman."

Matt gave a toothy grin and got up, starting to make the base of the snowman. The blond dusted snow off himself as he began doing the same. An hour later matt had a good sized snowman. He smoothed the edges with his glove and then started to add Mello's pageboy haircut by adding more snow and rounding it. The blond laughed as he started smoothing out the edges. "Hey hand me your goggles."

"Only if you hand me your rosary." He said with a smile as he started etching out the face and hairline. He pulled his goggles off his head and handed them carefully to the blonde.

"Just be careful that was my mother's." He took off the rosary and offered it. He swapped it for the goggles. Matt carefully held it up and placed it carefully and with love around the snowman's neck. He then added stick arms. "Mello snowman is looking good." He laughed.

Mello placed the goggles on the snowman and smiled as he made the face. He stuck in the sticks and laughed. "And now the Mello snowman has a Matt snowman as his best friend.”

Matt reached over and made it so that the snowmen were holding hands. "There." He said looking at it for a moment before reaching over and carefully taking the rosary off the snowman. He placed it back on Mello's neck.

Mello took the goggles off and handed them to him. He smiled at him as a shadow came over them. The blond turned and looked at a taller boy. "What are you two fags doing?" the boy hissed. Matt placed his goggles back on. "None of your fucking business. Now get the hell out of here." Matt growled at the boy. The blond glared at the other but the taller boy shoved him making him slip on ice. "AHH!!"

Matt grabbed him and pulled him to his chest with his left hand, cushioning his fall as his right hand shot out to break there fall, a sharp piece of ice slicing his hand deeply.

Mello closed his eyes and threw his hands out for balance. When he hit he landed on something firm and warm. He looked up at Matt and then saw his hand. The blond got back up and swung out, hitting the guy in the face with a crunching sound of breaking bone. "Go fuck off you prick!"

Matt hissed in pain and cradled the profusely bleeding hand. He sat there trying not the freak out but it hurt so damn bad. "Mells.." He whimpered.

He looked back to Matt and knelt down. "Tá sé ceart go leor. Tá mé ag dul a bheith ceart anseo in éineacht leat." (1)

He nodded. "Nimhneach sé chomh dona. Déan é a stopadh hurting!"(2) He said sobbing, holding his hand, as he tried to get up.

Mello helped him up and took a breath. He then leaned forward and kissed the other boy's lips gently. He just wanted to calm him down. Matt froze, he stopped crying and stopped even breathing for a moment. His eyes were wide with shock. He kissed back.

The blond moved back and bit his lower lip. "Let's get you too the nurse okay?"

He nodded and started to walk to the door, a deep blush on his face. Mello held his left hand and walked him to the nurse. "You'll have to have stitches," she said preparing for the screaming.

"Okay." He said sitting down on the bed. He looked at Mello. The nurse was shocked but did her job. It was amazing that Matt was calm the whole time. Matt flinched and silent tears ran down his face as she stitched, his eyes never leaving Mello.

"It's okay Matty. I'm not leaving."

"Thank you." He said smiling at the blonde.

He smiled and after his hand was fixed the nurse looked at him. "You are lucky you are left handed or else you would be in trouble since you hurt your right a lot."

Matt looked away from Mello. "Yeah." He said as he got up. The blond smiled and helped him up. "Good thing," he said laughing. "I'm going to head to the room to get into some dry cloths. Thanks for my present."

"Okay." He said smiling at him. "I'll meet you up there."

Mello walked off and once he was away from Matt he touched his lips. Why had he done that? He had only wanted to stop him from freaking out. His lips were tingling and he felt warm. Matt smiled as he ran down to the kitchen, Hannah was putting candles on the cake. "Thank you so much!" He said hugging her around the middle. She smiled. "It’s okay."

She placed the cake on a tray with two plates and two forks and a box of matches. Matt carried it up to the room slowly and kicked opened the bedroom door. Mello was in the middle of changing when Matt came in. He turned around in only his underwear and blinked. When he saw the cake his smiled lit up the whole room and he jumped. "OH MATTY!" he squealed happily.

Matt carried it over to Mello’s bed and sat it down before going and shutting the door. He then grabbed the box and lit a match lighting the candles. "Get dress so we can have cake." He said with a grin.

He grabbed some cloths and dressed quickly. "This is the sweetest thing ever Matty." He walked over and sat carefully beside the cake.

"It’s your birthday. You're supposed to have cake." He said shrugging. "Make a wish and blow out the candles all at once." He stepped back, grinning.

Mello closed his eyes and blew. The candles went out and he giggled. "Let's eat!"

Matt smiled and stepped forward and sliced the cake with one of the forks. Chocolate oozed out and Matt sopped it up with the cake piece and placed it on a plate, handing it to Mello, along with the other fork. He cut himself a piece and settled down on the blonde's bed, eating.

Mello eat the cake happily and after finishing got himself more. From Matt's laptop there was a Dingh as if from a message. Matt placed his plate down on the bed and moved over to his bed and looked at his laptop.

A chibi cat was on the screen just sitting there with a speech bubble that simply said, 'Hello.'

Matt raised his eyebrow. 'And who may i ask is hacking my laptop. i would like to know before i pwn your ass.' he typed. The cat grinned at him as the bubble said, 'Call me Twilight.'

'well twilight, if you went through all the trouble to get through my firewall what do you want?'

The cat blushed and licked the screen. 'Just to meet you Mario. I'm your biggest fan.'

Matt chuckled. 'lovely i have a groupie LC will be so proud. lol'

The cat giggled as Mello walked over to look at the screen. "What's that?"

"Someone's hacking my system." He said with a grin.

'so is that all you want?' He typed.

'Yup. Just to say hi.' The cat waved a paw before trotting off through a door that popped up and vanished.

"Why do you look so happy? What if they did something?"

"They didn’t do anything. I would know." He said as he got up and walked back over to his cake, and settled back on Mello's bed, eating.

"Aren't you going to do anything about this? How do you know they didn't do anything?"

"That computer is my baby. I monitored everything they did and ran a check up on all my files. They didn’t do shit."

He didn't look convinced. "So who was it?"

"I don’t know. Said his name was Twilight." He shrugged. "Don’t worry about it. Come finish your cake, its your birthday."

He sighed and just sat there eating the cake. They finished it together and Mello smiled at him. "Thanks a lot Matty... I really appreciate it."

"No sweat." He shrugged off smiling and blushing a bit. He sat there for a moment. "Why did you kiss me?" He asked quietly looking down at the bedspread.

"You were crying... The ladies use to do that when ever I cried."

"Oh..." Matt said his face falling. He got up and walked over to his bed and logged in on the forum. "Well, I’m pretty beat. I hope you had a nice birthday." He smiled at the blonde, but it faltered a bit.

mariomatt: hey guys!
Bubbles: Hey Baby how is life for ya?

Mello bit his lip as he nodded. "It was my best birthday. Thank you Matty." He got up and kissed Matt's cheek before running out of the room blushing.

Matt sat there stunned.

mariomatt: he kissed me...
Bubbles: Who? LC?
LCSQUARE: unless he was that cute blonde that was at my apartment last night, then no.
mariomatt: my roommate
Bubbles: Oh wow! Good for you Baby!
LCSQUARE: wow man! work it!
mariomatt: its not like that. I got stitches in my hand and he pecked me on the lips to get me to calm down, i don’t like hospitals. i asked him about and he said his sister did it all the time to calm him down...
Bubbles: Well I kiss my brother's cheek to calm him down.
LCSQUARE: my brother does that to me too... so idk man..
mariomatt: he doesnt like me like that. it couldnt even be considered a kiss..
Bubbles: You know I don't kiss my brother on the lips. That's weird.
LCSQUARE: different countries, different customs...
mariomatt: anyway, do we have a new hacker by any chance?
Bubbles: Does your brother kiss your lips LC?
New Hackers?
On the forum or in the world?
There are thousands of hackers in the world baby.
LCSQUARE: yeah
mariomatt: on the forum
Bubbles: Europeans are weird man.
As for the forum none that I've seen why?
LCSQUARE: americans are weirder...
mariomatt: i got hacked by someone calling themselves Twilight.
didnt do anything just chatted with me for a moment.
said he was my bestest fan...
Bubbles: Nifty.
I bet you were excited.
mariomatt: yeah.
got myself a groupie... XD
LCSQUARE: im so proud of my little matt-fish!
Bubbles: you ever heard of a Twilight LC?
LCSQUARE: nah man, must be a noob fish..
Bubbles: Oh now now everyone starts out as a small fish.
LCSQUARE: yeah yeah, you know what i mean.
OH I HAVE BEEN DYING TO TELL YOU GUYS THIS!
you know how the Italian Chamber of Deputies and all of parliament into hysterics the other day?
mariomatt: i dont watch the news very often
Bubbles: LC you naughty boy.
You were playing tag weren't you.
LCSQUARE: I will haxX0r ur computer and it will be f-disked, then j00 will phj34r me!! XD
Bubbles: Oh please you better be careful before I wash your mouth out ):<
LCSQUARE: you know, i always thought you were very gorgeous and smart..
mariomatt: lol
Bubbles: Are you trying to get brownie points?
LCSQUARE: maaaaaybe...
Bubbles: Well I'm not the kind of girl that falls for sweet talk
LCSQUARE: what do you fall for?
Bubbles: Big breasts and nice legs
LCSQUARE: well i have one of the two...
Bubbles: I'm sure your breasts are nice lol
LCSQUARE: hey they might be small, but i get no complaints
mariomatt: *laughing ass off*
Bubbles:LMFAO
LCSQUARE: my pecks are so nice you can eat off them...
and yes that is an open invitation, my sweet matt-fish
mariomatt: >///<
Bubbles: Awww! So sweet.
mariomatt: whats sweet?
Bubbles: LC you gonna keep the poor baby guessing or you gonna grow a pair and tell him ya want his ass?
LCSQUARE: i thought i made that clear..
mariomatt: what?!
Bubbles: lol
mariomatt: WHAT?! WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?!!!
Bubbles: you are too cute Baby
mariomatt: *pouts*
LCSQUARE: yep too cute

(1) It’s okay. I’m going to be right here with you.
(2) It hurts so bad! Make it stop hurting!
All in Gaelic.