Author's Note: Just as an exercise, did one of those put-your-iPod-on-shuffle ficlet things. This particular variation was to do 10 songs and write a ficlet for each, using only the time while you were listening to the song to write it. Here's the first.
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Disclaimer: Don't own Death Note.
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Matt had an intensely frightening ability to return whatever emotion you showed with equal tenacity. He was a wonderfully perceptive individual, but Mello lived in constant fear of not being misunderstood.
Matt loved Mello, and so he locked that bit away. It was better when you never took anything seriously, anyway. So fucking hilarious. Do anything. Won't hurt, I promise. As long as you never ever leave.
He still frightened Mello, a little bit. Mello couldn't quite understand someone who wouldn't fight. He couldn't understand that Matt, the gamer boy, the striped one, his friend, had convinced himself it was just better not to care. So Mello tried his best to hurt Matt.
He only won once, and he wasn't there to see it.
(Jacqueline, by Franz Ferdinand)