hh_mirror | And the truth shall be used against you in every way possible ((closed RP, Mello, Matt, A))

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And the truth shall be used against you in every way possible ((closed RP, Mello, Matt, A))

So, Matt and L...ouch, the thought alone hurts. But, Matt seems happy with L...or maybe I'm reading way too much into what I saw in the bar. Between finding out Near is indeed ticklish and practicing, though, I haven't had a chance to really find him and ask him. And, asking in the bar would have been...well, even I'm not that direct.

And, since I still want to be able to talk to him, I'm not sending him an owl.

So, I've been tracking him down. I start at the library, then the Great Hall, then his room. Why I didn't try here first, I don't know. It would have saved me time. I don't hear sounds of gaming as I knock, but there are some sounds behind the door.

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"Didn't you come down here for chocolate in the first place?"

Matt sounds amused.

I pull a sour face and point to the cup in front of me. "That is not chocolate. That is sugar dressed up to pretend it's chocolate."

"Yeah, but you could ask for a couple of bars."

I frown. "They only have sweet chocolate here. They don't know what real chocolate is." I'm not whining. "Though, Mr. Wednesday had some really good drinking chocolate. From Central America, some xocolatl, bitter water, it translates to." I sigh. "I'm gonna have to go back to my room to get any decent chocolate."

"Wednesday... the Runes guy?"

Matt doesn't really like chocolate of any kind, but he knows a lot about the different types simply through osmosis.

"You want me to come up with you?"

"Yeah, the runes teacher." I shrug. "I talk to him sometimes. He helps me clear out my head, like an old wise guy, y'know." I stand, leaving the mug on the table. "Yeah, come up. I can bounce ideas off you."

"Wise old guy," Matt grins. "Nah, he seems cool. I asked him about Runes before I started my computer thing."

He stands, considers stubbing out the cigarette, then decides against it. Nicotine is a wonderful thing.

"Lead the way!"

I roll my eyes at Matt. "What if we challenge them to map this place? Not directly, but y'know? Think they could pass it up?" It's probably a stupid idea, but it might be amusing.

"It's worth a try, definitely. A map would be useful." He thinks. "It'd probably need to be magical, too, what with the way things shift around here..."

I lead us through the Ravenclaw common room, looking around first before I ask, "But, how do we couch it so they both try and don't think we're the ones who set it up?"

"Make it look stupid? Stupider than we are, at least. A direct challenge would probably work, except we're the only ones who really know who they are. No-one around here would challenge them."

I grin. "Dude, you are a genius, for all you try to hide it." I knock once on the door, letting Near know it's me if he's in the room before opening the door. He's not there, though. I grab a chocolate bar out of the top drawer and sit on the bed.

Matt shrugs. "Nah. I've just got more common sense than you guys." He wanders in after Mello, leaning against the wall across from him.

"... wow, Near really went to town with that, huh?" he says, nodding to the lego city that takes up a corner of the room.

I glance over at the lego buildings. "Yeah. They help him think. Can't bitch, he gets me good chocolate and it's on his side of the room." For all I try to sound bitchy about it, I don't think that comes out in my voice.

I turn back to Matt. "Make it seem like one of the dippy newbs came up with it? Or those otaku girls?" Here, the bitterness fills my voice.

Matt ducks his head slightly at the fondness in Mello's tone.

He can deal.

"Eh. Best not to be too specific, probably... otaku girls? You mean Konata?" He blinks. He can't imagine anything she could have done to inspire that sort of bitterness. "... did she beat you at Soul Calibur?"

"No," I twist the word out. "She took...pictures," the word comes out as if it is acid.

"Pictures?" Matt starts, confused. And then he remembers the conversation at the bar.

"Konata did that?"

I glare at him. "Yes." How dare he doubt me? "Her and her friend. I tried to get them back." I slump into the bed. "Mr. Wednesday is of the opinion that if I just ignore them, then odds are things will stay low key. But, ignoring them doesn't rule out revenge." I grin. "It would be fun, giving Near and L something to do and getting back at those girls, wouldn't it?"

"And you got the pictures back, right?" Matt snickers a little. "We could make out that there's this threat of naked pictures of everyone. I dunno>"

I raise an eyebrow. "L had copies. We did find them under the carpet. I'm not sure what he did with them, though." I frown a little. "What would you have done? If you found out there were pictures of your first time with...someone?" I didn't say L, that's a start of not pushing him, right?

Matt takes this to mean 'your first time ever' - which of course was the case, for Near. His expression gets a little more serious.

"... I'd steal and crash their car. But, uh, I guess that's not an option for Near, huh?"

My lips twist a little. "Not exactly a feasible plan, no. But, as much as that is tempting, or something like it." I vaguely remember Matt crashing someone's car, though I don't remember why. "But, if we can make them uncomfortable and entertain ourselves, that would be ideal."

"At least it wasn't you taking the pictures, I guess. But yeah. Sounds like a plan."

I flop back on my bed, letting my feet dangle while I stare at the ceiling. "Something those otaku girls would do that would get Near and L involved, and potentially us, that couldn't be immediately traced to us. A map." I stare, letting my brain work.

The most difficult part of it, though, is thinking like an otaku.

Matt shrugs. Mello's always been better at this shit than he is, so he pulls out a pack of cigarettes and lights up.

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