This whole making more chapters thing is really hard!! if any one cares if Near dies or not, now would be the time to review, i haven't decided yet. hope you guys like this one!!

"What do you mean?" Mello had walked over to stare out the window right after he had gotten his answer, but now he looked up at his idol.

"Raito, please be quiet or I will not let you even be escorted by Watari to take a shower tonight. Mello, it is none of your concern, why don't you and Matt go check on Near? Report back, yes?" he was technically only asking Matt, who was actually paying attention.

Matt nodded and started walking towards the door while Mello continued to glare at both Raito and L. The red head noticed the blonde hadn't moved and decided to risk being shot at again, "Mello, I thought that's why we were in a hurry, to make sure Near is alright?"

Mello instantly threw the balled up foil wrapper of the chocolate bar he had been eating at Matt's head. It hit his goggles and when it had moved he could see Misa giggling next to Raito.

"Shut up! I wasn't in a hurry! Stop making things up! And what are you laughing at?" he said finally headed towards the door.

"Whatever you say." Matt smiled at the room, reached into his pocket and threw one of Mello's chocolate bars at L.

"Hey!" Mello ran the rest of the way out of the room and into the nurse again. And again she dropped all of what she was holding.

"Nice, Mello."

"Sorry, Miss. And you, Idiot! You have no room to talk, you're smoking in a hospital!" and with that he bent down and started to help the nurse. Matt almost died when both Mello and Nurse reached up to put their short hair behind their ear at the same time.

Back in the room three things happened: L started yelling at Raito in French (Japanese and English would tell the others and they both knew French), Misa went to stand by the door, and, most importantly, the hospital put a phone on the nightstand, within reach of L. He sat up, reached over, and threw it, causing Raito to duck. He forgot about the cuffs and when Raito pulled his arm down to the floor, the detective lost his would-be perfect balance due to lack of drugs, sugar, or blood.

L reached his good arm out for balance and ended up pushing Misa out the door instead. She stumbled into the hallway with a squeal and if a certain leathery blonde hadn't just finally gotten the last of the blankets/bedpans off the floor, she would have been fine.

But no.

All three fell to the floor, this time Nurse hit her head on the wall. She passed out as Mello realized what had happened and started yelling, not to mention kicking, at Misa.

Matt missed the whole ordeal, as he had snuck away some time ago.

One full hour later, the door to the roof was flung open, was slammed into the wall, and kicked "just because I can!"

"Why are you up here? I've been looking for a whole hour!!"

"You said I couldn't smoke inside, didn't you?" Random cuss words that had nothing to do with the situation came out of the blonde's mouth.

"What took so long anyway?"

"Fucking Raito and Misa, that's what!" Matt closed his eyes after the blonde had told his, his, side of the story and turned off his PSP, saving Mario for later. Mello was still ranting so…

"Did you hear that Near got out of surgery?" Blue eyes snapped around to glare at Matt instantly.

"No…"

"Well then, let's go." Matt made an attempt to get up, but found that difficult when Mello decided to push him back into the wall. Hard.

"Mello, ow, Watari said he got out a while ago, he might wake up soon." Matt had always been one of only three people who could look Mello in the eye for the extended period of more than five seconds, and he was going to use that at the moment.

"I told you, I'm not worried about that little albino brat!" he was standing close enough to touch and if Matt had tried to get away, he would have been knocked back against the wall.

So he gave up, "Mel, come on, I know you. You were, and still are, worried about him. You're just trying to delay this, or save your ego, or whatever." Then Matt looked away.

Matt's P.O.V

Damn it! Why can't I shut up? He's gonna hit me for sure. Shit, and he's still staring at me, I can feel it.

"You can go by yourself then. I'm going home now." What?

"Why can't you just admit it? You need him. Without him you wouldn't have anything to live for, or fight for, or… You wouldn't…" No, bad tongue! Okay, no more cigarettes in hospitals, they cause karma to kick you.

I already knew what he was going to do, so the hand around my throat wasn't that much of a surprise. The utter lack of words on Mello's part was though. While I waited for the screaming, I realized I could smell his shampoo from here.

"H-hey, you guys!!" the hand slackened a little as Raito came running through the still-open door.

I heard the damn it muttered by Mello, but didn't know why. He moved and I saw why. Raito looked a little sad and freaked out, though that smug freak was probably trying to hide it.

"Why did he let you go, I thought L said he would never let you go until the world ran out of sugar?" Mello was trying to not think about what Raito could say; I would bet my life on it.

"Yeah, well, he didn't have your numbers because Watari was busy. The little one, Near, he woke up, I don't really know, but I don't think he's doing too well. I heard something about pain and crying. Whatever, Ryuuza-L just said he needed you two to go over to his room immediately." Near was that bad that L would let Raito go walk around freely? But, he can't be… I need a cigarette. What about Mello? Shit, whether or not he admits it, this is gonna be hard on him.

"Still wanna go home?"