TRISKAIDEKAPHILIA

(A BxMello fic)

I know it's been a while since I've been on - and I apologize to anyone who wants a Little Things update from me. I'll talk about that at the end of this chapter.

However, first let me talk a little about the fic you're about to read. First and foremost, I have some warnings:

THIS FANFICTION WILL CONTAIN YAOI. That means male-on-male action.

Secondly,

THIS FANFICTION WILL CONTAIN LEMON. That means sex scenes. Not only that, but also this lemon will be between a convicted criminal and an underage boy. Parts of said lemon may be graphic, violent and/or disturbing.

This fanfiction may also include offensive language or imagery. That's all I have to say about that.

Now, a brief explanation about this fic: This will be a series of oneshots based around Beyond Birthday and Mello's imagined meeting. They won't be in sequential order, or even chronological order. They will vary in perspective, style and even tone. But if you put all of them together, they go with the same series of events. Think of it as Quentin Tarantino-style narration.

The premise for the following fanfiction is this: It's set during the canon Death note timeline. Sometime AFTER B's fire and imprisonment, and BEFORE (spoiler ahead) L's death, Mello decides he wants to know more about this Beyond Birthday L has told him of. He sneaks away from Wammy's and visits the California prison where Beyond is being held so he can interview him and put together a more complete report of the Los Angeles BB murder cases.

That's never quite explained in the fic, so I felt it a little necessary to avoid confused fans. It may be a farfetched idea, but it IS true that Mello knows exactly what Beyond did and though while writing the Los Angeles BB murder cases book.

I've ranted too much, however. I'll leave you to the first of thirteen installments of Triskaidekaphilia. (Anyone who can define that word in his or her review will get something special from me.)

Maelstrom. (N.): Any irresistible or dangerous force.

His name was Mihael Keehl.

M-I-H-A-E-L K-E-E-H-L.

M.K. – that was 13.11. 13 was B, and 1+1=2, which was B. BB- like Beyond Birthday.

Those eyes burned into B's with such intensity B would have sworn they were gods' eyes like his own. His forceful voice drew answer after answer out of B- asking where, why, how. Stripping away all of the mystique until B's crime was a series of simple words that Mihael could then write down in his clean, illustrious manila folder.

He was beautiful.

B wanted to watch those lips form words over and over again. This daring little child… this bold little boy who came in, invaded Beyond's safe cell and asked questions about his failure… this child was enticing.

Thinking that, B knew, was dangerous. Mihael was only a child, albeit a particularly intelligent one. And he seemed to contain some sort of danger all his own- the danger of a child on the verge of a breakdown, of a sharp mind at its limit. Beyond could tell this boy would crack sometime in the future- maybe not within B's lifetime, but this was a boy destined for insanity. Mihael clearly understood the cruelty of the world. This boy had been hurt before, and had in turn hurt others.

Those pretty aqua eyes were orphan's eyes. They were jaded, tarnished.

B, half pumped full of sedatives and dreamy, told the child he was beautiful, irresistible. The child- Mihael- looked as though he'd been told this before. Mihael smiled a little wickedly when he smiled at all.

For a moment, B wondered who was truly predator and who was prey here. B felt thankful for the walls separating them- though he was no longer sure who those walls were meant to protect.

Mihael Keehl.

M-I-H-A-E-L K-E-E-H-L.

B thought there had never been a more seductive set of letters.

So there you have it- the first installment of 13 in my Beyond/Mello series. This one is sort of an… intro to the others. Tell me if you love it, hate it, can't see the pairing working. Whatever you want.

And now I'm going to throw a little note out to the people who have alerted or faved me as an author based on my Light/L, The Little Things Give You Away.

I'm really sorry, guys.

It's true that Little Things is on hiatus right now. I don't know when it will be off. I realize it's terrible of me to leave a perfectly good fic like that unfinished. I'm just slipping into my old patterns of half-writing something and then abandoning it. I know that's not what good authors do, and fans of the fic will be murderously angry with me.

But the truth is, I haven't been able to churn out a chapter in a very long time. I love that fic- it's mine and Nikkicatmeki's baby. I don't want to abandon it. One day, I can go and revise it, and push it onwards to the end I have in sight for it. But not right now. Right now I'm a busy as hell soon-to-be college student with a lot of stress and personal life crap going on. I'm not in the best state of mind to be writing a) Light/L humor-drama romance fics or b) anything longer than twenty chapters. And there is a LOT more that needs to be written on Little Things before I can close it off, trust me. If I'm continuing at the pace I'm at, there are at least twenty more chapters to go before I can call it anything close to finished.

I'll work on Triskaidekaphilia. I'll work on the Kingdom Hearts Axel/Roxas fic I've had in mind for a while. I'll post oneshots aplenty, because believe me I have at least thirty of them finished and ready for typing.

But no Little Things, not for a while. Maybe if Nikkiacat ever finishes all the projects she has going, I'll hand it over to her. I can't bring myself to do it. I'm sorry, guys.

With that being said, this is probably going to be a double or even triple post because these chapters are so short. So read on and try not to be too heartbroken.