Title: Game Over

Fandom: Death Note

Pairing: none

Rating: G

Warnings: None.

Description: A short drabble which was inspired by the episode of the Death Note anime where Mello places his chocolate on the table before he and Matt go and do what they have to do (cries)

Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note, it is the property of its creators Ohba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi.

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Silence.
A half eaten chocolate bar lay on the coffee table. Not forgotten, just discarded. A trail of tiny black ants running back and forth between the sweet brown substance and their home somewhere on the other side of the closed door they were entering under.
The television flickered, a well dressed man with his dark hair parted to the side silently discussing the capture of Kira with some random, yet important police officer.
Silence blanketed the room.
A pair of computers hummed softly beside one another. One of the monitors flashing through a default screensaver, whilst the other showed a background of a Halo 3 preview poster, there was a counter flashing in the middle of the screen which had reached '0 seconds, 0 minutes, 0 hours, 0 days, 0 months until release'.
A carton of cigarettes lay on the coffee table opposite the bar of chocolate. Only one had been removed from the packaging but had not been lit. It had been discarded beside an orange lighter and an empty ash tray.
This was a room that had been lived in, sure it wasn't anything spectacular but it was somewhere that you could tell these people felt comfortable in. The leather couch and armchairs were worn and there were dirty dishes in the sink. The vegetables in the fridge were already beginning to rot and the milk had recently passed its used by date but had not yet begun to curdle.
Silence so thick, it hung heavy like fog.
A cold, lifeless room. It looked as if the occupants had simply been stolen away from their regular routine. The Marie Celest of living spaces.
In the center of the coffee table a Nintendo DS lay forgotten on the table. Across its black screen flashed the neon green words 'Game Over'.