Authoress Note: Hey guys! I got around to making another chapter extra. Now, I thought on this for a while and decided it had to be done. As of recently I've developed a liking for Matt lately and well…I thought I'd dedicate this chapter to him for just a bit. Now, technically he died in the series, but I thought I could work with this idea pretty well. As everyone knows, Matt was killed by a mob of Kira supporters (in the manga, I believe he was shot to death in the Anime…I don't recall off the top of my head so that's a goose guess).
For this Chapter I decided that Matt gets a small 'redemption' because I really don't believe the Death Note series focused on him enough (I found Mello had more work than Matt) so for that Matt gets a redemption chapter.
Aw come on guys, don't think I'm gonna leave Keegan out of this chapter. What kind of fanfiction writer would I be if the OC wasn't in any of the chapters? I'm not going to tell you how I 'bring' Matt back either. That's for you to decide; because it's not with the Life Script that he comes back, we'll just call it one of those 'I was dead for so many minutes' things. Well, anyways here's chapter Extra 5.
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Let's Look at our Reviewer Line-up shall we? Gosh the numbers are getting smaller. D: I miss all my old reviewers. The story truly isn't the same without everybody.
Yakurenazea: No, Ryuk never seems to learn about pie. It's funny because Keegan tells him all the time. I hope you thought the idea of him not understanding the idea of humans proposing and marrying each other. I decided to take a unique turn on that and have him ask her about what it meant and stuff.
Ailia Sparrowhawk: Hi there new reviewer! Welcome to the line-up! Nice to meet you!
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Thanks again to everyone who reviewed!
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Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note. Death Note belongs to Tsugumi Ohba and Takashi Obata.
Disclaimer 2: The idea of the Life Script belongs to me. Please do not steal. Thank you. Any Original characters, Keegan Phelps (no relation to Michael Phelps), belong to me. Thanks.
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At least a year in the hospital, medical bills, insurance. It had taken him several months to come by that money…well, at least most of it. He was lucky that some of that staff at the hospital was even willing to switch around other insurances of dead patients in order to further accommodate his recovery.
Matt had been in the hospital for what seemed like…forever now. It had taken months for him to get back to his old self, recall everything that happened, and everything wasn't exactly all he liked to recall. The whole Kira incident had been resolves while he had been out. The evening he arrived at the hospital, the paramedics handling his body had pretty much believed he was dead until someone decided just for shits and giggles to try and defibrillate him again to 'get some life back into his dead bones'. Who would have thought it worked?
"You know, in about 3 day's time you'll be out of here, sugar." His nurse explained. "You know, I remember the first day you came in here and how much blood was just soaked into your clothes…" she trailed off, glancing over at the young man while he fidgeted with his game system.
"You sure are more interested in your games than conversations huh? From day 1 when you woke up. Haha."
Matt had paused his game and looked up at her with a frown. "Can we make this quick, I'm on an important level."
"Well, aren't you excited that you're getting out in just a few days? You'll be able to go home."
"Home isn't exactly a thing I have anymore." He explained.
"Well, you'll figure something out, sugar. Until then you just take your time getting yourself ready for the big day. I don't know if I should even let you leave. The staff has come to know you 'infamously'…I'm still sorry about your friend, you know? They listed all of the criminals Kira had killed before they figured out who he was and arrested him (finally)."
Matt recalled back to when he first woke up in the hospital. Everything was a blur and Kaori was on her second month with him as her patient at the time.
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'Uhn.' Matt's eyes slowly adjusted to the surroundings and the white light above him.
'Well, mornin' at last, sugar.' Next to his bedside with a tray of food was some nurse hovering over him.
'Hn?'
'Hey, can you hear me?'
'Ugh.' Everything sounded garbled but eventually he came to and looked around like something wasn't right. 'Mello…'
'What, honey?'
'Mello…what happened to Mello? He got away didn't he?
'Aw, sweetheart. The EMT's didn't see anyone else with you during that incident.'
Matt lay there on his bed, somewhat numb, and he couldn't feel anything really. It must have struck him at a core point deep within him that Mello was in fact gone. He didn't know how but there was just that feeling in the pit of his stomach that he was.
'Hon?'
'How long have I been here?'
Two months. You were shot up pretty bad. You had to have a lot of surgeries done to fix everything.' Kaori sat by his bedside. 'You've also been my patient for the past two months also. I'm Kaori, your nurse.'
Matt grunted, trying to sit up. It wasn't any use getting upset over Mello now. If he had been in the hospital for this long without the knowledge of it, there was no point really. 'Is my game system over there?'
'I don't think you should be playing that when you haven't eaten solid food in quite a while. You've been on a feeding tube since you've been in your coma-'
'Coma?!' He asked, surprised that he had even been in one.
'Well, yeah. You were shot to death. How you lived is beyond the doctor's belief but the staff keeps calling you a miracle. Now, I suggest that you, Mr. Miracle give me something else to call you because I know that's not your name.' Kaori stood up and watched Matt grasp for the remote control to the t.v.
He flipped through some of the channels until he found a suitable network…well, something he felt actually worth watching: cartoons.
'Hon?'
'Matt.' He said to her, plain and simple. 'Just Matt.'
'No last name?'
'Nope.' He said, staring off at the t.v 'But my game system Is here right?' It shouldn't have really been any of this woman's business what his name was (real or otherwise).
'Yes, it's in your nightstand drawer.'
'Okay, that's all I need to know.' He looked up as she passed his food tray over.
'I got soba noodles for you today. This is actually from the cafeteria and not from the patient food rack. So you better thank me later.'
Matt's other hand lifted up the top off the tray and glanced back at Kaori as she left the room.
'Hm. Least I'll be out of here soon.'
Soon didn't happen. Matt met with his doctors. Apparently since he had been out so long he had to go through physical therapy to see if his body had suffered any emotional trauma or damage to the nervous system from all of his injuries.
'Mister…' The doctor trailed off when gazing at Matt's chart.
'Matt. No last name?' The doctor asked. 'Nurse Nakamura is this some kind of joke you and the patient are pulling?'
'No sir, he's very clear. No last name.' Kaori said in his defense.
It wasn't any of that doctor's business what his real name was anyways. Matt really didn't like his biological name much to begin with. Mail Jeevas. Some birth name. Matt was easier to comprehend and most people understood it.
'All right Matt, you've been in a coma for 2 months now and we can't exactly release you as soon as you think we should.' The doctor deliberated to him and Matt's brow quirked. Where were his goggles when he wanted to wear them?
Kaori glanced at Matt, seeing the look of disdain for the doctor, and she corrected the man immediately. 'I all ready informed him of the situation, sir.'
'Very well then. Mr. Matt, you may have to go through physical therapy to ensure that you haven't suffered any permanent damage from your attack.' The doctor said, putting everything into a quick summarization.
'So I'm…stuck here?' Matt said, unimpressed by the outcome. 'So I'm fucked basically?'
'Ahem!' Kaori cleared her throat at him and Matt frowned.
'If that's the way you like to put it into perspective for yourself, I guess you can say that for the time being. But it is necessary I'm afraid. If you have any questions Kaori will take care of them for you, Mr. Matt. I'll be by later to check on you and get you prepped for physical therapy.' The doctor turned his back and Matt watched as he walked off.
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So for the next several months, Matt went through what he called 'unnecessary' therapy while in the hospital.
Every day at some obscene hour in the morning, approximately 7:00 a.m (because Matt preferred to sleep in), he got up and did physical therapy with Kaori. When the doctor wanted involvement, obviously Kaori made it very clear at some point (whatever that point was at some point it was not good) that Matt was NOT to be bothered by him unless the doctor had an important reason to.
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So now that Matt was back in 'commission' he thought of if he would have had a terminal illness.
"Hey."
"Hm, what hon?"
Matt went back to playing his game in the hospital bed. "If I was here, dying in my bed would you have given me one last cigarette before I went?"
"Maybe…I've seen too many patients come and go and only a few I actually gave things to before they died here."
"Like?"
"There was an older man who wanted a few shots of sake before he died."
"Oh." Matt said, disinterested.
"Well, sugar, you ring your button in you need anything." Kaori turned to leave the room before pausing at the doorway to look back at Matt playing his game.
His face contorted into frustration slightly at his game.
"You know, that move works better if you use the object you got in the last dungeon. My son plays that game all the time."
Matt's head shot up from the game and he stared after the nurse with annoyed look. "Pfft. I think I know what I'm doing. I've beaten this thing before."
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"Well, Matt, I believe that you should consider yourself lucky." The nurse at the front desk explained to him. "We had to do a lot to keep your poor ass under the desk."
Matt put his goggled back on. "Yeah, I know. Kaori told me." He said, pulling out his game system. "Got any spare batteries back there?" He asked.
"This is the last time I do this for you, and I don't want to see you back here again after all the time you spent here." She reached into her desk and pulled out a couple batteries to
"I'll try not to." He said, taking the batteries from her. "Now, they had your laundry all done before you woke up from your coma months ago. What you came in wearing you'll go out wearing."
"I'm wearing it right now…"
"Not the point, that was all cleaned for you and patched up. You'd better be thankful."
"…Yes ma'am." He grumbled, taking his game system in hand and turned to flop down in a wheelchair. "You wanna wheel me out, It's standard protocol I know."
"I'll get Kaori, because you need to leave before I lose my mind with you here."
Matt smirked, she didn't like him very much. 'Her life must be pretty miserable in this place. Wonder how many patients died on her.'
His game system in hand, fresh batteries in the power slot, Matt sat patiently in the wheelchair until Kaori came to stand in front of him. "You're giving the Head Nurse a hard time you know."
"She doesn't like me very much, I don't care really." He said, looking up at her. "Are you ready to let me go?"
"Ha! Knowing you? Not really. I'd much rather not sugar. I've come to know you pretty well since you've been here." Her hands on her hips. "I guess I have no choice though do I?"
"I suppose not. I guess you'll miss me? That'd be a shock. It didn't seem like anybody missed me when I died." He explained, playing his game again.
"Well…" She began rolling him towards the automatic doors. "Sugar, people don't surprise me anymore nowadays, be lucky you're one of the few that did. You came back to life. That should matter to some degree. Somebody must have been looking out for you."
They stopped at the door and Matt got up from the wheelchair. "I know you've been hiding that box of cigarettes for me…so hand it over before I go."
"Some sharp eyes you got."
He held his one hand out, the other on his game system (with it paused of course). She handed him the box. "I swiped this off a lung cancer patient getting a tracheotomy because he won't quit smoking. You don't end up like him now, promise me?"
"Whatever."
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"Is there any particular reason why you 'kidnapped' me, took me through the shinigami realm, and made us end up back in Japan?" Keegan asked, while Ryuk leaned back against the bench they were sitting on.
"Simply 'cause I can." Ryuk answered her. "I get homesick ya know. I AM a shinigami. I speak Japanese fluently-"
"You know English too asshole." Keegan growled at him.
"Yeah, I do. I can write in English and Japanese, but I prefer English. That's why in my Death Note, all the rules are in English. It's the most popular and well known language in the world."
"Yeah, English is also one of the hardest too. Japanese is like right under it." Keegan slumped down on the bench. "So are we doing anything exactly?"
"Aw come on, you kinda did something when we got here." Ryuk grinned.
"Puking in a trashcan doesn't count."
"But you look so cute when you do, eh little gaijin?" Ryuk laughed.
"Oh screw you!" Keegan snapped.
"Hey, you spew your trash all the time whenever I take us to and from the shinigami realm." Ryuk argued.
"If you haven't noticed, each time we go from there to anywhere else it feels like I die a little inside each time and maybe THAT's why I feel-"
He cut her off suddenly, looking somewhat surprised by the sight he saw walking down the street. "That guy was supposed to be dead." Ryuk said, confused at the circumstances.
Low and behold, Matt strolling down the sidewalk with his game system in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other.
"Ryuk? You know that guy?"
"I think he's well acquainted with Near." Ryuk grinned. "I think somehow he cheated Death…Keegan, did you revive him with The Life Script?"
"What are you talking about?" Keegan asked him, annoyed now. "The Life Script is in my drawer back home."
"I smuggled it along just in case…" He grinned, pulling it out form his jacket.
"If you had brought your bike with you here I would have hopped on it and ran it into a mailbox." Keegan threatened. "But It's not here…so it wouldn't make sense to."
She snatched the white notebook from him with a scowl. "I wonder how many times I have to keep reminding you what an asshole you are."
"Oh, a bunch more times." He grinned. "Let me explain some things to you. Near grew up in this really weird place where smart kids go to. If you recall, we visited the great L's gravesite. Near, L, and this guy are all connected. There were a couple others too but that's basically it in a nutshell."
"And your point is?" Keegan asked.
"Well, it's just that he was supposed to be dead but he isn't. Light would know obviously."
"Don't mention him, I'm still getting over the fact I got the crap beat outta me by him."
"Sure you don't regret bringing him back?" Ryuk asked her.
"Hell no! He deserves to suffer for every last person he killed. Even if they were criminals…he was a madman and a 'death penalty' would have been too easy for him."
"You won't stop to anyone's level no matter what, eh Keegan?"
"Quiet, that guys coming this way."
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Matt, though preoccupied with his game and cigarette has stopped and looked up at the couple kinda…arguing in the middle of the street. Was it arguing? Whatever it was, it was annoying and Matt just wanted some peace and quiet with his game.
"Shouldn't you two get a room?" He asked, passing between the two.
Ryuk suddenly grinned and Keegan growled. "WE ARE NOT MAKING OUT IN AN ELEVATOR!!!"
Matt stopped, suddenly interested in this argument. Maybe he'd eavesdrop. Before he could even do so, Keegan saw him and shouted out. "GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE OR I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!"
"Whoa…" Matt muttered, "Excuse me."
"Yeah that's right excuse you!" Keegan called after him.
"That's it Keegan, draw MORE attention to us. It's cool." Ryuk drawled sarcastically with a grin.
Matt once again stopped dead in his tracks and turned to look at the couple. "Do you have a problem with me being around?"
Keegan's eyes narrowed. "No, but I don't appreciate eavesdroppers. It's rude and what we're arguing about is none of your business."
As Ryuk stared further at Matt, he read his life-span several times. It couldn't be right. It just couldn't have been. Mail Jeevas was supposed to be dead and buried six feet under by now. Something wasn't right. "Where did you just come from, pal?" He asked the other human suddenly.
"What's it to you?" Matt asked. "Then again…that's none of your business either." He smirked at Keegan from her earlier remark. "You wanna go pal?" Keegan growled.
"Just curious. You just look like…I dunno, you came back from the brink of death or something." Ryuk grinned. "But then again, what do I know? I'm just some nosy guy."
"Let me at him!" Keegan snarled before Ryuk pulled her back, arms around her waist. "Stop flirting with him Keegan." He snickered. "You're not doing a good job. It's too obvious."
Keegan fumd.
"Okay, forget him. I'll kick your ass instead." He let go of her and ran ahead. "You'll have to catch me first! Nyahahaahah!"
"RYUK I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" She snarled, chasing after him.
Matt though was left somewhat confused as to what had just happened with the situation and turned back to look down at his paused game. How exactly had that guy known he had just gotten out of the hospital though?
He snuffed out his cigarette and then unpaused his game. Soon afterwards, the battery died. Matt stared at his game system with a scowl. 'What the hell?!'
"Aw, son of a bitch."
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"Ryuk, what are you smirking about." Keegan asked him as they walked along. Obviously her chasing him had tuckered her out and Ryuk could walk with ease now.
"Hm?" Ryuk turned to look down at her. "Well, that kid wasn't preoccupied with his game at the moment so…"
He lifted up the batteries with a grin. "I swiped 'em."
"And…the point of that was?" Keegan asked.
"He was on the last level."
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Authoress Note: So there you have it, Matt got a redemption chapter. As to where he will go from there, who knows. Plus who couldn't imagine Ryuk stealing anything? Lol. Hope you enjoyed, read and review.