hh_mirror | Owl to Mello

He's still red, but can't supress a small smile.

"Yeah. After we woke up."

"Good. There's a lot of things I'll do for you, but that ain't one of them."

Another thought. "Are you comfortable without your goggles around L? Mostly?"

And now he's snickering. "Noted. And... yeah, actually. I take them off pretty often when he's about."

I smile because I made him laugh. "Good. Near doesn't take out his for me very often, but when he does, it makes me feel like he really trusts me." And, I show him by being vulnerable around him. I think if Near had been here, I still would have had the panic attack, but not with L here.

"Thanks for helping me," I say softly.

Matt does trust L. He can't remember ever trusting anyone but Mello, until now.

"It's not a problem. You feeling any better?"

"Yeah. I don't think I'm up for practice today. Have you been keeping up? Have you worked more on silent charms? I'm serious about thinking you'd master them." I don't want to admit it, but I think it'll help him. "Once we know you've got them, I'm going to have to give them up. The headaches are not getting any better."

"I... kinda just spent the day at the beach."

Which probably doesn't count as practicing.

"I'm going to be learning some defensive ward things from Kusu, though. And L and I have been figuring out escape routes and shit."

"Slacker," I sigh. ""Wards? I thought those worked against like ghosts and shit."

"It was a nice beach. And L really wanted to." Matt shrugs. "But Kusu said you can get these wards to work for specific things or people? So it seems worth a shot."

"Not my thing, either of them, really. But, tell me how the ward thing goes. And, if you want, you can tell me how the L thing goes, but be warned," I hold my finger out, "I will tell you about the Near thing, too."

"... I think I can deal with being told about the Near thing," Matt admits. He fixes the goggles back on, but keeps them on his forehead for now.

I smile. "He's gotten good at dealing with me. He hasn't seen that," I gesture to the floor, "but, I think I could trust him for it." I look off to the side, thinking. "There's only the two of you I'd trust for that."

I shake my head. "He makes me say shit I didn't intend," I complain.

"That's good. I'm glad things... y'know, haven't blown up or anything."

It wasn't just jealousy. Matt was genuinely worried.

"I...I love him despite myself. And, he loves me. I...I would almost say he loved me before we came here, only he didn't know it." I smile at him. "I'm lucky, aren't I, to have the both of you?"

That doesn't necessarily mean things were going to go well, Matt wants to say, but he doesn't.

He smiles back. "Dunno, man. A slacker geek and an agoraphobic albino? Probably could've done better."

I grin a little. "Well, look what you got...a pissy club kid too smart for his own good. I'm not sure which of us has the worst end of that stick."

"And a sugar-junkie," Matt agrees. "Eh. We seem to be doing okay with what we got, at least."

I smile. "Normal would be utterly dull, wouldn't it? Besides, I don't think normal would put up with half our neuroses. They'd try to make you lose the goggles, me to dress human or not have my chocolate, Near to be social and L to eat food that wasn't sugar infested. We'd revolt within an hour."

More snickering. "And that's only skimming the surface. Interacting with normal people... it can be kinda tricky, sometimes, can't it?"

And this coming from Matt, arguably the most normal of them all.

I laugh. "Normal is...dear god, if the Mafia was normal, I do not want to deal with it again. Hairbrained idiots, I swear. And, the wastes of time! Dude, seriously, they made Katamari look difficult. And, some of them liked this god awful television show that was aimed at little kids and just...horrid...it would have been beneath us all when we arrived at Wammy's."

"Hey, Katamari is an awesome game. Especially when you're stoned."

Speaking of which!

"I still have weed from that Rob guy."

"I'll take a hit or two off you if you pack a bowl," I say, sitting up. "I forgot about that. Did he show you his children or did you manage to get away before he dragged you into his garden?"

"Right now? I'm up for it if you are."

He laughs. "Yeah, we got out of there, just. L had a strawberry plant with him, so he ended up getting spritzed in the face."

"That was smart, taking in a plant. At least he stopped putting LSD in the water he used for the weed after a bad trip. Anyways, yeah, I could use a hit or two. Help me relax a little more. Yo, too. But, tomorrow, we need to at least work on silent charms, okay?"

"Yeah, yeah. We will."

Matt starts rummaging through drawers, and soon enough comes back to sit on the bed with a small pipe.

"You first. So how'd you get to know Rob, anyway? Weapons, drugs...?"

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