Hey everyone, sorry this took longer to do. I've been really busy with finals and christmas and wrapping gifts and rewrapping them after my lovely one eyed cat decided to destroy my wrap job the first time. But anyway, this chapter is a bit all over the place because I realized how close christmas was and I wanted to get the idea in the next chapter up before or on christmas so i kinda sped up the plot line a bit. Anyways I don't own death note, I do own Lunatic though! Oh if you guys want I'll post a pic/link of my inspiration for this fic in my profile, just let me know!
The vet smiled at them, as she closed the door behind them. "Well shall we get a weight on her?" She looked at Matt and gestured to the scale.
Matt walked over and sat her on the scale, trying to make sure she didn't run off till the scale could register a weight.
"18 pounds…" Dr. Brook smiled, picking her up off the scale and sitting her on an exam table. "I estimate her to be about 12 weeks old… Is that right?"
"Your guess is about as good as ours…" Mello says with a shrug. "I found her abandoned on the street…"
"And you just take her into your hearts like that? Awe Then she'll always be thankful for you… Sounds like a great start to a long life together." Dr. Brook smiled and the yellow pup licked her face, tail wagging ecstatically.
"Uh yeah… We just don't know what we're doing…" Matt says with a shrug. "Neither of us has ever owned a dog…"
Dr. Brook's smiled faltered for a moment. "Well I think I can get you some pamphlets and other stuff to make your transition to parenthood easier… Dog training, free sample of puppy food, flea and tick care and stuff like that…"
"You really think we're cut out to raise her?" Mello asks watching the doctor grab a thermometer and some Vaseline. The pup squirmed as the doctor put it in, and Matt winced. "Ow.. Poor little thing… I wouldn't be thrilled if someone tried to take my temperature that way.."
"Well I think anyone who wants to take the time can raise a puppy… I'll just give you the right sources for guidance… If you don't to keep her we could put up a sign for adoption in our office, she's young she shouldn't be hard to find a home for her…"
Matt jumped up at this. "No way!"
Mello blinked as he turned to Matt. "What Matt… It might be better for her to be raised by someone who knows what their doing…"
"But Mello, she chose you… It's got to be fate or something!"
"We'll discuss it later Matt… We'll keep that in mind doc…" Mello said giving a look at Matt to not say another word. "If you're going to outburst Matt you can go wait in the waiting room…"
Matt sighed and sat down on the chair. "You can't shove some foster kid into new homes right before Christmas Mello, you should know how hard it is to adjust..." Matt said crossing his arms and quieting down.
Mello sighed. "Sorry about him…" By this time Dr. Brook had finished her exam.
"Well she appears healthy and happy, I'd say she can get her shots now… Do you want to do all the shots or just the ones that are necessary for the law?" Dr. Brook asks.
"Eh we'll do it all… I'm sensing my red headed friend's temper will match his hair if she gets sick because I was cheep." Mello says watching Matt still sulking in the chair.
Dr. Brook smiled. "Alright I'll be right back."
When she left, Mello smacked Matt upside the head. "Will you stop with the act Matt? You can't be that attached to her already… It was just a thought…"
Matt rolled his eyes and stood up to pick up the yellow pup off the table before she could try to jump from the high exam table. "Mello… We're the only thing she's got… Besides you heard her cry when we tried to leave her on the couch… She loves us!"
"It's a dog Matt it loves anyone who feeds it…"
"That's not true! Even if other dogs are like that she's not! Just look at her eyes… She's thinking the whole time; she's not just some dumb animal Mello!"
"Jesus Matt I said we'd discuss it later… You know when you get a cigarette in your mouth and start thinking straighter then you usually think. You know discuss not throw her at the first dog catcher we see…"
"There is nothing to discuss, I know what its like to go from place to place… I will not put her up for adoption! What would you have done if someone tried to adopt me when we were younger?"
"… Matt that's not really the same thing."
"Yes it is!" The red headed male said. "If you keep talking that way we're not sleeping with you tonight." He turned around, still hugging the puppy in his arms. "Lunatic and I will sleep on the couch where grouchy Mello can't hurt our feelings!"
"God Matt… Could you not PMS in public?... Wait Lunatic?" Mello sighed as the Vet came back in the room with the shots in hand and a bag.
"So if you'll just hold her for me Matt, I'll stick her and we'll be just about done!"
Matt nodded and held the yellow puppy he had now dubbed Lunatic so the vet could finish up with the shots. "How about that new thing…" Matt said as he watched the pup. "That microchip thing…"
"Oh… Yeah we could do that today!" She took a package out from one of the cabinets in the room. "You fill out this part…" She handed it to Mello. "And mail that in, and I just put the microchip in…"
Mello nodded as the vet put the large needle near the shoulder blades of the pup, he frowned when he heard Lunatic yelp from the needle, Matt may be onto something about not wanting to let someone else take her. He had pulled that pup out of the hands of assholes ready to abuse her, who was to say someone else wouldn't do the same thing to their little girl? However he couldn't let Matt know he was right about something, then Matt might start getting ideas about him being smarter then number 3.
With a bag full of pamphlets and other free stuff Mello stood at the desk in the waiting room handing over the cash for the vet visit while Matt was still holding Lunatic protectively. Mello was beginning to wonder if Matt would ever put her down again. He hadn't put her down since Mello had suggested giving her up for adoption.
"Hey Mel's? I'm goanna run her outside; I think she's got to go." Matt said interrupting Mello's thoughts.
Mello nodded and turned around to take the receipt, hearing a laugh from behind him he turned and composed himself quickly; one of the men from his time at the mafia had just come out of one of the other rooms.
"Well Mello, You're alive?"
"Nice to see you too Tony…" Mello said folding the receipt and shoving it in his jacket pocket.
"Well this is the last place I expected to see you…" Tony laughed some. "We've missed you Mello, hasn't been the same… There's still a position open for you…"
"Yeah well we all have pets don't we…" Mello thought for a moment. "Here's my cell phone number. I might be interested in the job." He did still need to get a job; he didn't need to tell Matt it involved the Mafia. He handed the man a card. "If the red head who was with me answers, don't talk to him just hang up and try again later."
"Your friend doesn't want you involved with our group anymore?" Tony asks as he steps up to pay for the dog that he had with him.
"He's a little worried I'll get into another accident and both sides of my face will match." Mello says with a shrug. "He's a bit like having a wife."
At that Matt stuck his head back in the door. "Mello! It's snowing hurry up!" His head then disappeared again. This earned a chuckle from Tony and the girl behind the desk.
Mello shook his head and rolled his eyes, before he waved good bye to Tony and walked out the door, watching Matt and the pup dance around on the side walk as the flakes began to fall. He walked around to the door of the old red car Matt insisted on keeping only to find his hand grabbed. Mello raised an eye brow at this, and turned his eyes to look at the goggled ones of his red headed friend.
"How about we get a Christmas tree this year?" Matt pointed over to a gas station that had a few tree's across the street.
"Why on earth would we get a Christmas tree?"
"It's only a few days to Christmas Yello! Its Lunatic's first Christmas we should do something special!"
"She's just going to end up eating it…" Mello rolled his eyes. "If you know what's good for your balls you'll never call me that in public again…"
"That's part of the puppy experience!" Matt shrugged. "Well you can come with me and Lunatic or stand here out in the cold." Matt then turned and walked puppy under his arm across the street to said gas station and began looking at the trees.
Mello stood there for about 2 minutes before he sighed. Matt was right only a few days till Christmas. He chewed his lip as he waited for the traffic to stop to join Matt in the holiday tradition. What should he get Matt? What did Matt want that he didn't already have? That was a better question.
Mean while across the road…
Matt put Lunatic down and let her sniff the trees as he walked down the isles. The yellow pup just followed behind him, excited at all the smells. She paused at one and began to chew on one of the branches.
"Hey… No chew… Hey that's not a half bad one girl… Is that the tree you want?" He tilted his head and hummed to himself. Despite Christmas's color matching his hair he didn't mind the holiday. He actually enjoyed all the old claymation Christmas stories that were hardly played anymore. Just as he was about to call the man over for the tree Mello came up behind him and picked up Lunatic.
"For someone who doesn't want her gone you sure chance a lot putting her down beside a road in a Christmas tree lot full of holiday rush Christmas shoppers." Mello groaned some and patted the pups head. "You getting a tree or not?"
Over the course of the next couple of days Matt had gone completely stir crazy about this whole Christmas thing. At least in Mello's opinion. The whole apartment was decorated with wreathes, lights, candy canes, stockings, tree and even to Mello's horror Christmas Pillows. Not that Mello had been home for a few hours at a time at his new 'job' as he referred to it to Matt, which was consulting with the Mafia again. Matt didn't need to know that his new job wasn't at the local pizza shop. But that was besides the point, the point was every time Mello went out for a few hours his home was becoming more and more like a Christmas store. And Lunatic was loving all the lights, and ribbons and tree bark that she could get her little paws on.
Mello was actually afraid to open the door into the apartment after being gone on a walk with Lunatic for an hour to get rid of some of her excess energy. It was Christmas Eve, and Mello could smell something from outside the door, he opened the door quickly and blinked a bit at the sight of Matt attempting to cook dinner. "What in the seven Hell's Matt?"