DISCLAIMER: I, HoshisamaValmor, don't own Death Note and never will. Do own a similiar personality to Mello's in more than one way.
~EPILOGUE~
Halle was still in shock. She always feared Mello would do crazy things, and that those crazy things might get himself killed, but not like that, not right then. Not after that strange phone call. It was still a shock, and it was well printed in her mind, as it would be for a very long time indeed.
Knowing that she had failed as a SPK member to allow an 'enemy' to kidnap an important suspect under surveillance, when hard preparations for a final showdown with Kira were being made. Knowing that she had failed as a person not to decide correctly and specify which side she was on to two twisted children that were sickling competing with one another for the 1st place.
And then, she arrived at the place where Mello ought to be with Takada, not really knowing if she was there to help, to apprehend or to kill him. And then... firemen cars, police cars, a scenario with blazing flames going up to the metal cross on the top of the church's ruins. A truck's form could still be seen inside the abandoned house of God now turned into Hell, and that made clear that there couldn't be any possible survivor from that Hell. And she was sure, they all were, that Takada Kiyomi... and Mello were in there.
She was to return to the SPK headquarters, and she had to apoligize to Near for not preventing Mello from doing what he did, though she wasn't sure if she was regretting it because it was a bad action as an agent, or because that mistake cost the life of a recently-turned 20 years old man.
"It's okay," Near's voice said through her computer, and she had to be surprised with that. "The problem is solved. Everything will be fine as long as Yagami Light goes through our meeting as planned."
The problem is solved? Halle feared she wouldn't be able to control herself from shouting. Mello had died... he had just died, she didn't even know if he was killed in that infernal fire or by Kira or by any other mean, but he was dead, and Near didn't show any feeling regarding that! They might have not been anything other but rivals, but they grew up together... anything... the slightest feeling...? Matt had died too. Couldn't Near bother a little about that?
It was both a fortune and a torture that Rester searched for the autopsies of the bodies found in the fire place, at the same time they were all over the TV. Takada Kiyomi, all-mighty Takada-sama, had dramatically perished as an outcome of her kidnapping. She was made a tragic victim, while her kidnappers weren't given the leastest care about. They even said that the other body found at the scene was "badly burned, and though assumed to be that of the kidnapper, is still currently unidentified". It was almost too painful to imagine how a so-badly burned corpse could have been, weeks ago, the same arrogant and annoying kid that appeared at her house and threatned her... the same boy that made her feel attached to. Two children had died, had been killed, and all they cared about was a stupid petulant woman who was in favor of a killer.
Their killer.
"They're telling the truth," Gevanni confirmed, pausing his coping work and checking the autopsies reports as they heared the news. "They had a lot of troubles to even identify Takada's body. That fire sure was something..."
"But the other is... certainly Mello, right?" Rester was somehow more sensible to that subject, like Halle, unlike Gevanni and certainly unlike Near.
"Due to the circumnstances... it ought to be him," Gevanni said, returning to his accurate job.
"Did they find anything that showed any signs of his identity?" Halle asked, unable to control herself, though she was happy that her question sounded as worrying about any possible link to the SPK leader (unlikely one, though), and not to keep a small light of hope inside her that that wasn't Mello's body found there.
"Let's see..." Rester looked through the pages that he carried, and found what he was looking for. He read it out loud: "'The second body was found at the front seat...', hm... Here it is: 'Something ressembling a cruficix was found in the body's neck, though it was very damaged as well.' Is this a sign of him?"
Halle didn't know how she hadn't fall to her knees hearing that. Crucifix... Mello's rosary... the same one he once told her that was a gift from his mother, just the other day... and yet, it had been two months since that talk.
"I presume the cause of death couldn't be specified?" Near asked, and his intervation at that moment surprised Halle slightly, still caring the same emotionless tone as ever.
"The most obvious one would be 'burned to death', but they can't be sure for the time being. And the fire destroyed any possible evidence in the scene or on the bodies."
"It was a heart attack," Near concluded as if he was repeating something that Rester had just said, curling one of his hairs. "I don't think you can drag other people to death with you when using the notebook, but even if you can, I think that..."
"Is it painful?"
Halle was starting to hate herself for not being able to control properly in presence of the others. But she found that it was a lot more harder than she thought.
Although both Rester and Gevanni looked at her, neither of them answered.
"The problem I didn't know that existed is now solved," Near said, apparently not minding her interruption at all. His voice seemed very far away in Halle's mind. "We've been tricked by Kira all along with X-Kira. I really have to say this... Mello saved us."
This time, the remaining members of the SPK had to look surprise to their leader.
"We would die at January 28th if this hadn't happen..." the child, only two years younger than Mello, explained. "I might have wanted to stop that kidnapping before, since I couldn't possibly know it back then, but it saved us, and the Japanese investigators as well. Kira will now definately be defeated, and we won't die as he planned."
"You mean... Mello's death allowed us to live?"
"Something like that. Please, Gevanni, finish that copy as soon as possible."
Somehow, Halle didn't know if that was recomforting for giving Mello's death a meaning, or horrible for sounding like he had been used as a tool he said he wouldn't be.
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Still, the credits that Near gave to Mello when they faced that other kid, Yagami Light (what the hell was wrong with young people these days, anyway?!), Kira, killer of criminals and of innocent as the real L and Mello and Matt, made it sound like a recomforting feeling, even if it was still sad. Death was sad.
Mello knew he would die when he made that phone call to her. He might have not known how or when, but he knew he would, soon, in the end.
It was like playing a game you've waited for throughout your life and that you want to win with all your heart, yet you know the only way it can be beaten is by sacrifing yourself to open the final path, so the ones next to you can finally defeat the final boss.
And that was very sad.
----- THE END ~ OWARI -----
Author's Final Note: Isn't it sad to see that 'The End ~ Owari'? I find it most sad, not regarding the fic itself, but regarding Mello's life. And life in general. It's a shame. And its really very sad. Those last lines are my very personal feelings about death, in a comparation that I find clear (hopefully not unadequated - since Mello VS/& Near VS Kira was supposed to be a game in their minds). It's so very sad. I wish I could die young, though. There's no good future here.
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So people, it's over. Mello, Death Note in a way. Light died today, actually around the time I posted this, 14:20 / 2:20PM. God is dead.
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~Hoshi-sama Valmor