[[A/N Ok, I will apologise in advance for the epic failing of this chapter both in content and in the (what feels like) millennia it took to get it up here. I'm really, really sorry; I tried to edit it and make it better and succeeded somewhat. Plus side – I'm finally giving you some M/M stuff (I know that's the only reason you've all stuck it out so far ;-) hehe)]]

Chapter 10 – On The Verge Of Insanity

When Matt finally woke up, he saw that he was lying on a bed in the hospital department. Gingerly, he put his hand up to his nose to feel the damage. It had been bandaged up and was obviously broken.

The next thing Matt noticed was that Mello was asleep on a chair with his head resting on Matt's bed. Matt smiled softly as he shock the blonde awake.

"Mello, wake up," he said quietly.

Mello's eyes flickered open slowly and he sat up.

"How long have you been awake?" he asked Matt, sleepily.

"About 5 seconds longer than you, how did I get here?"

Mello bowed his head. "I heard Mark and his friends saying they were going to teach you a lesson and when I went to get chocolate last night, I looked out of the window and saw you walking towards them. I knew something bad was going to happen. By the time I got there they'd pretty much beaten you senseless."

Matt looked at the blonde sceptically.

"Y'know what Matt, believe what you want, I don't care. If I had set this up, do you really think I'd have stopped them from beating you to a pulp? Do you think I would have brought you here? No, I wouldn't have, so if you don't want to believe me, then don't," Mello said as he stood up and walked out of the hospital.

*

When Matt was finally allowed to leave the hospital, he made his way quickly back to his room. He wanted to know why Mello was acting the way he was, after all, Matt hadn't accused him of anything… yet.

Walking in through his bedroom door, Matt saw the blonde sat on his bed reading a book.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Matt asked as he sat down on his bed.

"What'd you mean?" Mello asked, casually turning the pages of his book and continuing to read.

"I mean, you do something nice and then defend yourself against an accusation that hasn't been made, that's not what normal people do, Mello."

"Well when the person I've done a nice thing for looks at me the way you did, yeah, it is what normal people do, Matt," Mello retorted, putting his book down.

"Why the fuck are you being a dick?" Matt yelled at the blonde.

"Me? You put me hospital and I'm the dick?" Mello yelled back. "If you didn't care so much about what I think of you, none of this would have happened."

"I don't care what you think about me, I couldn't care less if you hated me and wanted to kill me! The only reason I tried to be your friend was because L asked me to."

"So if L asked you to stick your hand in a fire, would you do it? I didn't think so. Whoop-de-do, L saved your life, big deal. If you weren't such a pussy, you would have been able to survive on your own!"

Matt stared at the blonde disbelievingly. Taking a few steps towards Mello, Matt growled, "Take that back, now."

"What if don't? What will you do? Hit me?" Mello said, testing the redhead's fiery temper just that little bit more.

Matt pushed Mello against the wall, his hand around the blonde's throat. "I said, take it back," he said a little more dangerously.

"No," Mello whispered, defiantly.

In a move that shocked both involved, Matt crushed his lips against Mello's; anger and rage making the kiss ferocious. Mello's hands found the bottom of Matt's shirt. He gripped it tightly and pulled Matt closer to himself. Matt reciprocated the action by winding his arms around Mello's neck and through his hair. Rage and lust combined in the pair making the kiss passionate and frantic. Inexperience causing it to become clumsy.

As the kiss became more passionate, Mello pulled away slightly for air before reacquainting himself with Matt's lips. Mello let out a small gasp as Matt pulled away and without another word, turned and walked out of the room.

*

A few hours later when Mello had thought Matt would have calmed down enough to return to their room, Mello made his way back. The first thing he noticed was that the curtains were drawn, something Matt very rarely did. The next thing was that there was no dull glare from various computer screens, which meant that Matt hadn't even been in the room.

"Mello," came an apprehensive voice from the hallway. "Have you seen Matt?"

Mello turned to see a worried looking Roger stood by the door.

"No, not since earlier. Why?"

Roger rubbed his eyes and sighed. "Matt's disappeared."