11/22/11 at 10:57 p.m.

Update! I worked on this for a bit and decided to just go ahead and post it today, since it's ready and what not. Sorry if I overlooked grammatical errors or accidentally misuesed a word or something.

I tried my best to avoid all that stuff. I dunno why but I find it bearable to write when there aren't so many flaws. Like how some parts of a story might not make sense. I really hope you all get how things got to this point.

~Luffles, Fairylust~

"He needs some time alone for now and you hugging up on him is only upsetting him more." Nodding the redhead started to leave the room. He seemed sad, yet understanding at the same time. "Okay." he said quietly before leaving out.

Sighing Light knew this was a long road from recovery.

(!A/N! As Some May Have Guessed Above Was a Recap)

(!A/N! On to the new chappie!)

The next day Mello was found out of bed sitting, curled up in a fetal position, asleep by the door. Teartrails stained his paled face. L sighed and carried him back to his bed, laying the poor boy down, brushing his bangs from his face. He felt real weary. It was only after he and Light brought Near home did things get back to being sort of normal. Light baby-sat, Mello annoyed him with some snide comments, and Matt kept Near company. That or he aided the blonde in pestering Light. It wasn't big-scale stuff anymore.

Nothing to call the FBI about, let alone L.

They just teased and name-called like normal little average minded children would. There were no more gadgets or killer uncles being called in to aid them in some elaborate master plan. Things were actually pretty mind numbing around the place, Light realized after two full weeks of putting up with it.

"Will you hurry up and get better already!" He eventually just exploded when Mello and Matt came downstairs, actually leading Near behind them, each older boy holding onto a small pale hand. They all had sat down in the kitchen and prepared themselves a meal of oatmeal cookies and milk or in Mello's case chocolate milk.

"I'm dying of boredom over here!" Light exclaimed. Mello bit into a cookie staring at him over his shoulder like he was crazy. "At least when you were trying to get rid of me, or kill me, things were exciting!"

Matt dunked a cookie into his milk, and then chomped it. Near stared at his plate of cookies, already having downed half his glass of milk. Licking the rest from his lip he gave a soft sigh and started to drink some more from his big glass.

"Sorry." Matt muttered, staring at his milk. "Mission aborted. Withdrawn to HQ to alter strategy, man the cannons until further notice."

"No way." Light said numbly. "Really?"

"Yeah." Mello agreed. "We know when we're screwed, dumbo."

Near just stared at his milk, quietly.

"So, wait, you're done? Just like that? No more pranks or bombs or killers or…anything?"

"Nope." Matt said, half finishing his last cookie and tossing the other half on Near's plate. The younger boy winced. Matt put his plate by the sink, heading for the kitchen's entryway, but pausing in the middle of the doorway. "You see, Light, we are the children and you are the adult. We get it. You can do whatever you want. We've done decided that we're staying here. If you are too, then fine. We've decided that we don't need to try to get rid of you anymore, seeing as you stick like hot, sticky glue that you get all over your hands playing arts and crafts and its so hot and sticky that it just won't come off so-"

"Matt." Mello sighed from where he sat, accepting a cookie from Near. "Don't. Just don't finish that sentence."

"Right, right. Okay. You see, Light, we're tired of failing. It just reminds us we're failures. Anywayz, if we killed you, then L would be upset and we'd go to jail. Long story short, we don't want that to happen. We just want our dad to be happy, which is why we've decided to just quit our disobedient behavior. It's like the people actually accepting that one superstar as a guy when it's so obvious he's a girl or Mario accepting friendship from Bowser ."

"Are you for real?" Mello muttered, taking a small nibble off his last cookie, sounding rather annoyed. "Truly, for real?"

"Are you serious?" Light asked watching him from where he stood, hands at his hips. He watched as Matt stood silent, watching as Mello put his plate with Matt's and finished his milk, then sat back down to poke Near's face, as he took a sip of milk. Whimpering, Near turned away, finishing his milk, sitting the glass with Mello and Matt's plates. He headed for the door, but was stopped by Mello, who grabbed his wrist. They moved past Matt who was still staring at Light.

Now, with a lopsided grin.

"Yep." Matt said, before turning on his heel, raising his hand showing off his first two fingers that would make bunny ears and then exclaiming as he left the room heading for his room to game, "Donkey Kong out!"

"C'mon you guys! Could you do something interesting?"

"We are." Mello said, peeking over the top of the stair rail. "In our rooms. Separately. It's fun."

"What are you doing, exactly?"

"Matt is trying to win a video game. Near is making a small building in his room with dominos and dice. And I'm cleaning my room, because my dad said earlier that I should do something constructive to entertain my imaginative, yet curative mind."

"Umm…okay?" he muttered, and then sighed. His hands were on his hips and he felt very prissy and self-conscious about that. "You could, at least, do something to make my day interesting."

Shrugging Mello headed up the stairs. Giving an annoyed sigh Light found himself ready to go crazy. These kids were messing with his head even after they tried not to! It really frustrated him.

Are they really done with trying to get rid of me for good? He wondered feeling troubled by the idea. Light tried not to think about it. Wasn't that a good thing? He really liked L and figured they could get even more serious in their relationship. Sitting down on the couch he thought it over.

After a while, though he fell asleep and his dreams really took him on some sort of a wild ride….

Cliffhanger! This should keep some of you guys reading.

;3 Lol. XD

~Luffles, Fairylust~