Sorry I didn't get this up in time, and sorry it's a little shorter then the others. I spent my Christmas at the hospital and my grand mom passed away so believe me I wasn't slacking off on purpose, but I wanted to get this up for everyone! Thanks to all the reviewers. You guys are awesome!

Matt shot up like a shot, looking around the bedroom and wiping the sweat from her forehead. The nightmare had been so vivid, and plus he was pretty sure he was running a temperature. After a moment he looked at the clock. It read 1:00 am. The redhead sat up and reached for his pack of cigarettes. He needed to calm his nerves, Mello was right they would find Lunatic she wouldn't end up like his dream had just ended.

To the red head's pain there was not one stick to be found in the carton. He sighed and got up and checked his coat for the pack he had picked up earlier that day, only to find that too to be empty. Apparently he had gone a little overboard while on the hunt for their missing puppy. He groaned and looked at his shaking hands. His addiction was not being helped by the stress he was putting himself through with the scenario's running through his head. He sighed and walked to the door. He realized as he made his way to the door to get another pack of cigarettes from the cabinet that Mello was not in the apartment. He froze and looked around, first Lunatic now Mello? Would Mello seriously have gone out without telling him? Yeah… Yeah he would have.

Mello sighed as he walked down the street. The late night meeting to figure out what to do with two of their guys who got caught by the police had run longer then he expected. Of course Mello had been hoping that when his cell phone rang it was someone calling about Lunatic he had been gravely disappointed. He wasn't sure if he could deal with the look on Matt's face tomorrow if Lunatic wasn't there.

He got on his bike outside the building and sighed, looking up at the light snow that was falling around him. The blonde groaned as he realized that he better pick up more cancer sticks for his red headed companion. He was pretty sure that he would be needing them after the sun rose. After stopping to pick them up and a few chocolate bars he made his way home, skidding to a stop a block away from home when he saw a dead animal by the side of the road. The fear in his blue eyes was evident, however he found that it was not their yellow dog. How had one yellow dog disappeared in the matter of five minutes? He couldn't be sure. Every time Mello saw a pair of reflective eyes in an ally he'd stop to check, cursing and kicking a trash can every time he found it to be a cat or a raccoon. Needless to say his way home was at a much slower rate. He checked his cell phone for any missed calls after he got off his bike and sighed in annoyance as the time red 4 am.

The blonde groaned and walked around his bike, he heard a soft whine and Mello turned to find a pair of reflective eyes under Matt's car. The eyes just stared at him, and Mello got down on his knees. "Please be Lunatic..." He prayed under his breath. "Lunatic?" He said a little louder; a pair of big yellow paws began to show from under the car, and then a nose and then the face of their yellow dog as the pup ran to Mello when called, leaping up into his arms. Mello hugged her tight a tear running down his cheek. "Oh thank god! You trying to get Matt and me to go into heart failure here? Don't ever run off again!" Mello kissed the top of her head around the many licks that were greeting his face. "You're practically frozen stiff Luna!" He says as he starts up the stairs. "It is like 20 degrees outside your lucky you are not a Popsicle! Lucky you're not a road kill popsicle!" Mello sighed and walked to their door putting his key in the lock and after fumbling for a moment got the door open. Once inside he put the pup down so she could go get a drink of water, and he got her food and put it down for her to eat something. She'd gone a while without any food, and the pup inhaled what was given to her.

Mello got up to tell Matt, but when he found him asleep in bed Mello couldn't bring himself to wake him. He looked comfortable and peaceful. He'd let Luna be self explanatory when he woke up. Mello turned around and found Luna asleep under the Christmas tree. "It's a Merry Christmas after all. Merry Christmas Lunatic… I think you're just what Matt and I wanted to find under that tree."

When it got a little later, Mello went in their room and shook Matt awake. He watched the green orbs become visible. Matt looked up at the blonde but didn't say anything.

"It's Christmas Matt… Come on."

"Christmas is just like any other day of the year." The red head grumbled and turned over on his side away from Mello.

"But Santa brought us something… Come on Matt please?"

"Mello you told me when I was 11 that the man in the red suit would never bring us anything… Why would he change his mind now? Unless it's a phone call as to Lunatic's whereabouts I'm not interested…"

"Matt just get your lazy ass out of bed!"

Matt groaned as Mello grabbed the comforter he was lying on and pulled it so Matt and everything else on the bed fell onto the floor.

"Well my lazy ass is out of the bed…" Matt says sitting up and running a hand through his bed head. His eyes squinting slightly up at Mello before getting himself to his feet and following Mello out of the bedroom. Matt stopped dead.

There under the tree with a big bow around her neck, sleeping soundly was their Lunatic. "Lunatic?"

Matt's voice sounded odd, but at the sound of his voice, a puppy ear twitched and sleepy brown eyes opened to look for the source of her name; before said pup jumped up and trotted over to Matt. Who scooped her up and squeezed her tight. "Oh god… Santa is a godsend." Matt sat down on the couch clinging to her, a tear spilling down his cheek. He looked up at Mello and the blonde just smiled at him.

"Santa bring you what you wanted?"

"No Santa brought me what I needed." Matt paused at the new collar around her neck, and looked at the tag around her neck. Which read:

Lunatic

If Found Return to Matt and Mello

Then both their cell phone numbers.

"Does this mean we're definitely keeping her?" Matt asked eyes looking up at Mello hopefully.

"Yeah Matt… I think this proves that we need her as much as she needs us." Mello sat down next to them, and put one arm around Matt, and the other around Lunatic. "Welcome to the family Lunatic…"

"Poor child is going to need therapy…" Matt commented, smiling softly. "Present time!" Matt said and jumped off the couch, sitting Luna next to Mello and grabbing two gifts under the tree. He handed one to Mello and opened one for Lunatic. It was a large bone, basted in beef and Lunatic looked confused, but licked it before her eyes lit up and she started to chew on it happily.

Mello looked at his more skeptically. "What's this?"

"It's for you Mello…"

The blonde looked down at the bag, and he opened it slowly. There was a new cell phone, an I phone to be exact. "Wow…"

"That's not all though, you see I got one for me, and I rigged a chip to put on lunatic's collar… I would have put it on her collar yesterday if I'd known she'd run off… But anyway… If you hit the touch screen here… and Here… You can find here on the map where the other people with phones are…"

Mello's eyes widened a bit. "Matt…"

"At least this way… We'll never loose each other…" Matt looked down a bit waiting for Mello to yell.

"You really worry about that a lot don't you? Loosing the people you care about…"

"Yeah…"

Mello smiled and stood up and pulled Matt into a hug. "Now you won't loose me."

The yellow pup sat up and watched the two, letting out a little yip, so that both boys turned around. "And we won't loose you either." Mello smiled.