Author's Note: Here's part two! Yay, excitement. I'm actually keeping up with this. For now, at least. I'm having fun, though, so the likelihood of my finishing this is actually pretty high!

Also, since I forgot to add one of these to my last chapter *ahem* I don't own Death Note, any characters related to Death Note, these songs, or the people who write them. I'm just a poor college student with access to an MP3 player.

Pairing: L/Near

Song: Let it Be by The Beatles

"This is it," Near said, speaking into the darkness. "The final showdown. It's all for you, L. This is your victory."

He received no answer. He hadn't expected one. Near, secular, reasonable, logical, didn't believe in an afterlife, and L had been dead for years.

"But you couldn't make it this far," Near continued. "You lacked the foresight."

Again, silence.

"What would you say to me if you were here now? You always had something."

Near looked to the window.

"Something."

Pairing: Near/Mello

Song: Won't Go Home Without You by Maroon 5

"Mello," Near called as his leather-clad rival began to march towards the door of his headquarters.

"What," Mello snapped. "I was under the impression this discussion was over."

"Stay," Near said flatly, toying with a stack of dice. "At least until tomorrow. I fear that you might do something rash."

Mello growled. Literally growled. "I'll do what I damn well please."

"Rester, lock the doors, please," Near commanded quietly. Rester keyed a command into the computer and a metallic click echoed through the room.

Mello stared, murderously, incredulously, at Near. "You can't keep me here you bloody little-"

"I let you go once, Mello, and I have no intention of doing so again." Near said. "Let me right whatever wrong is between us."

Pairing: L/Beyond Birthday

Song: Chop Suey! by System of a Down

L, had he believed in such nonsense, would have been thanking every god he could think of. Beyond was alive.

Burnt, yes. Miserable, yes. But alive.

"Beyond, what have you done now?" L asked his protégé's sleeping form, hooked to a multitude of beeping machines.

He hadn't expected a response. Beyond was under the influence of a seriously noxious sedative/painkiller cocktail. L had assumed he'd be out for several days. Better, probably, due to the nature of his self-inflicted injuries.

"This was for you," Beyond croaked. "You taught me to be self-righteous."

Pairing: Light/Misa

Song: Fallen Like The Sky by AFI

She would wait, hours on end of nothingness, for him to come home.

Part of her knew it wasn't right, waiting to be wanted. Living for his next touch, breathing only to see him again. Part of her knew that she was better than that. That she deserved better. That part of her, however, was often silenced by the insecure little girl that lived in her heart that craved acceptance, craved affection, craved love of any kind.

Strange that that little girl should choose to focus that need on the one person least likely to give it to her.

Misa's ears perked at the sound of a key sliding into the lock.

"Light!" she exclaimed as the door swung open. "Light, I made you dinner but you didn't come so I put it in the fridge for later in case you'd want it later."

"Thank you, Misa. You're so thoughtful."

Misa's inner little girl jumped with joy.

Pairing: Light/Beyond Birthday

Song: Telephone by Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce

"Hello?" Light spoke into the small plastic device in his hand.

"Hello, Light-Kun."

The voice sent shivers down his spine. For just a second, before the rational side of his mind could take over, he thought it was L's voice. But, of course, that was impossible. L had been dead for two years.

"What do you want, Beyond?" Light growled into the phone.

"The same thing I always want, Light-Kun," Light could hear the smirk in his voice. "You."

"And what makes you think-"

"Save it, Night-God. We both know that it's only your pride talking. It wasn't talking last night, was it? 'Oh, Ryuzaki, yes, God, yes!'" Beyond imitated Light's voice. "Pathetic."