Author's Note: Okay, first things first. I THINK I'm missing another chunk of my story. Something that I MIGHT'VE written a while ago. See, when I first started writing, I wrote little bits here and there, whatever I felt like working on at the time right. Well good grief if I haven't lost two chapters already. Thing is, when I finally went through and started organising what I'd previously written some things got mislabelled, or put in the wrong folders. Now I saw I 'might've' lost it, because I found another document that I probably would've used at this point, but it isn't labelled like the one I wanted to use, so I don't know if that's it or not. In any case t doesn't really matter, and I tried to connect the two pieces and make them flow smoothly, so yeah.
Secondly, I REALLY hope you guys liked the last chapter. I really only wanted to write a Canon in the first place, but I felt I needed some time to develop my OC, and to give kind of an idea of how Mello and Jewel reacted to each other before I jumped right into the story. So yeah. Enjoy :)
Disclaimer: I do not, and will never, own Death Note or anything remotely associated with it... I mean, I have a few collectables, and a wall-hanging, but that's about it ;P Nor do I own 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare.
Spoiler Alert: This chapter contains material up until episode 28. I'm pretty sure that if you guys are reading a MELLO love story that you've already seen to the end of the series, but just in case I'm wrong, I feel I should leave a warning.
POA: Pay attention to the Point of View changes :P
October 13 2012
I left Sayu a little while after our heart to heart. I think having someone to talk to other than the huge, scary mafia relaxed her a bit. I told her I'd be by a little later with some food and drinks. I left her with a radio to pass the time.
When I came into the main room all of the men who were sitting in a circle on the couch turned to face me. I got the impression they'd been talking about me, or at the very least they'd been talking about something they didn't want me to hear.
"W-what's goin' on guys?" I asked with suspicion.
"We're getting ready to put the call into Yagami," Mello sounded very angry for some reason. Had I missed something? "Get Sayu ready, we're going to be moving her soon."
"Moving her?"
"We're making the deal in the desert. We've already got everything set up, but I do need you to do one more thing." He closed the laptop sitting in front of him, unplugged it, and brought it with him as he lead me down a hallway and into a side room, out of hearing range of the living room. When we were in the room and after he closed the door behind him, he shoved the laptop roughly into my chest.
"Hey!" I hissed, that had actually hurt.
"I can't do it with them watching me," he whispered, "There's a program in this computer linked to an explosive device on the helicopter we'll be using. I haven't had time to configure it yet. That's your job." Hold it! An EXPLOSIVE device?
"The hell Mello? What's going on!" I asked in a harsh whisper. "You're not going to kill Sayu are you!" I was horrified.
"No, now shut up. It's none of your business, just do it!"
"'Just do it'? You're asking me to be a part of killing someone!" WHAT was with him lately!
"One of Rod's men has a side deal. Rod wants one of his guys out of the picture. He's a real screw up." I was speechless; he wanted me to kill someone!
"What's gotten into you lately! This is a life we're talking about."
"So?"
"SO!" This wasn't what we stood for. We were Wammy's kids, and this was wrong. I wound up to hit him, I was going to break his jaw; all lives were valuble. Why were we fighting Kira if we were just going to kill people ourselves?
*Mello POV*
I caught her fist easily, "You know, I can predict what you're going to do Jewel! It's always the right hook for you. I can easily block that you know," I affirmed, pushing her fist back at her.
"EXATCLY!" she snarled, glaring daggers at me. 'Exactly'?
"What do you mean, 'exactly'?"
"You have an IQ greater than 145, are you seriously telling me you can't figure out what I meant when I said, 'exactly'!"
"You are so frustrating!" I turned to walk out; I didn't have to deal with this.
"I'm frustrating! You're such a moron!" She hollered, waving her arms wildly in the air. "Stop trying to pretend you don't fucking feel anything Mello!" She jabbed a finger pointedly at me, "There's already one Near in the world; heaven forbid you turn into one too!"
I spun back to her, my own fist raised, she never flinched but I thought better of it anyway and turned again to go.
"MELLO!"
"Ahh, fuck it!"
*Jewel POV*
Without warning he turned violently around towards me for a third time. This time was different though, this time I felt his lips crash into mine. One hand gripped my waist tightly and the other didn't take any time entangling itself in my hair.
I swear I felt my heart explode in that second, and all the cogs and wheels in my mind turned to mush. Every sensory neuron in my body was on overload and the ends of my fingers and toes started tingle.
I felt an overwhelming desire to bite my lip but was moderately shocked when I realised Mello was already taking care of that. Mello fought for entry into my mouth and I allowed him happily; I let him have complete control.
I let out a blissful sigh.
He tasted like chocolate.
*Mello POV*
She was going to hate me...
Whether she truly loved me or not, this was pushing it. This was far beyond what I could get away with. After how I'd been treating her lately, after what I'd just asked her to do; she was definitely going to hate me.
Why did I care though? Wasn't that the point? Hadn't I been trying to push her away, to get her to leave? She didn't belong here and she needed to know that. It'd been a power hungry mistake on my part to call her into this in the first place. I'd put her in danger and now she just wouldn't leave.
I had to admit though, it was the best thing in the world to see her again.
"Mmm, what a buzz." Jewel's words had me pulling away from my internal thoughts.
Her eyes were closed and the expression on her face was so peaceful; like this was what she'd been waiting for the past six months.
*Jewel POV*
My heart was beating so hard and so fast it was actually hurting; but it was the good kind of hurting, it felt nice. It had been far too long since I'd left alive like this. I sighed again, and all the problems in the world just seemed to disappear. There was no Kira, there was no Notebook, there was no Wammy's house; there was just us, Mello and me.
"Mello!" a call came from the hallway, and we both turned towards the door. Mello looked back to me and I met his gaze. He gave me a half-assed 'I'm sorry' expression and then turned to leave.
Oh no, I wasn't going to let this happen again. I wasn't going to suffer through a repeat of last June. Last June when he'd come to my apartment; last June when he'd... what'd even happened back then? To this day I wasn't a hundred percent sure.
I grabbed his arm before he reached the doorknob and stared pleadingly into his eyes when he looked down at me.
"You can't leave again."
"I have to Jewel, I've got things to do." I had to think of something fast! Mello reached for the doorknob again.
"Oh no, now it's MY turn..."
*Mello POV*
Jewel grabbed both my arms and forced me back against the wall. She stepped sensuously close to me and my body temperature seemed to rise involuntarily. She leaned in, closing the distance between us and rested herself ever so gently against me. Her eyes lifted to meet mine and she gained some height by lifting herself up on her toes. I swallowed nervously as her piercing gaze seemed to be staring right into my soul. There was something else behind her eyes though, something... sad?
Her hands rose slowly and she gingerly wrapped her arms around my neck. How long could she drag this out? The wait was killing me!
She tipped her head slightly to one side like a confused puppy might; but there was no confusion on her face, only determination, and maybe... loneliness?
It was so perfect when her lips met mine.
She tasted like bubblegum.
*Jewel POV*
I put everything I had into that kiss; every emotion, every wish, every dream, every hope. I put all my love into that kiss; all my love and all my sorrow, all my joy and all my pain and every ounce of heartache. I gave him everything I had and still, I knew it wouldn't be enough; it would never be enough. I would never have what it took to allow myself to keep Mello. And THAT, was what was heartbreaking.
But I needed him to know, I needed him to know how I felt before he made a decision, before he shut me out again.
"Mello!" came another shout from the hall. "Let's go, what's takin'?"
We both glanced at the computer that had somehow ended up on the table in the room. Mello looked questioningly at me, as though our whole experience had left him with the inability to think. "I got it Mello. I'll configure the program. He gave me another look, one that said he was sorry, and left the room. I sat down on the couch and got to work.
When I came back into the main room Mello was in the middle of a phone call and motioned me to be quiet and to bring the laptop over.
"Yagami, right now you're the only one who can hear my voice, listen very carefully. I'm the one who kidnapped your daughter," he peeled the foil wrapping off of a bar of chocolate, "but don't get the wrong idea, I have no interest in your daughter's life one way or the other; or yours for that matter. There's only one thing I want and you know what that is; the Notebook. Now all you have to do is follow my instructions. If you do that, no one has to die. As for the trade, I've prepared things so both of us can walk away satisfied. Play along and there'll be no problems." He closed the lone of communication after that. "Jewel, you and Skyer go get Sayu ready; it's time to move her." I nodded slightly and gave the computer to Mello. I grabbed a van of soda for Sayu off the table before I left with the ape.
After seeing Sayu off, and assuring her that everything was going to be alright I went back into the main room and fell heavily into the large purple couch. What a day; my life was on overdrive and I was threatening to run out of steam. I popped a stick of bubblegum in my mouth and sat with my knees up to my chest while pinching the bridge of my nose for the next couple hours.
Somehow I'd missed something, because when I finally zoned back in Mello was talking to Sayu's father again. He'd put the system on speaker so we could all listen in. "You see the entrance don't you Yagami? Go inside."
Mr. Yagami obeyed and went down into the hole in the ground. I wondered if Kira hadn't crawled out of a hole in the ground himself, or maybe out from under a rock or something to that effect.
"Alright Y462, proceed," Mello ordered.
We watched via closed circuit video feed as the man Mello had inside wrote down a name. Not a minute later one of Mello's own men on the other side of the room dropped dead, grasping his heart.
I shot up off the couch, ready for the rest of us to go down as well. Two other men rushed to the dead man's side but Mello and Rod didn't move. I looked over at them with fear as Rod said, "Well that's what you get when you steal from me and sell goods behind my back. He was a worthless idiot, this was the first time he's been useful... Y462, the target is dead." They'd, they'd just killed their own man!
Suddenly all eyes were on the satellite feed we were getting, a black helicopter appeared as Soichiro and Sayu Yagami made their way out from the underground building.
A voice came in over the computer. "Boss, I'm sure you were watching. I did everything you asked me to just like we planned."
"Yeah I saw that, good job" Rod's voice did not match his expression. I looked nervously back and forth between the screen and the crazy psycho freak with no hair.
"Then this is going to wipe out all those past screw-up's of mine, right?" the voice asked again.
"Oh yeah, wiped out for sure." Rod glanced up at me and my heart stopped cold. "Do it..." he hollered at me. "Do it!" I turned to Mello, eyes begging; begging him not to make me do this.
"You configured it Jewel, you have to," Mello said remorsefully. I gave him a hateful glare and without thinking keyed in the destruct sequence on the computer. The helicopter exploded in front of us and I swear I could feel the aftershock through the computer. I'd just killed a man. I'd been instructed to judge and kill someone whom I didn't even know.
I'd become no better than Kira.
I covered my face and ran out of the room. I ran back to the room I'd used when I'd stayed here in the beginning. I slammed the door behind me.
A little while later I heard it open and close again, and a voice all too familiar asked me, "Are you alright?"
"Just fine Mello, how do you think I am? I just killed a man." I started down at my hands, the hands I'd used to wipe the man from the face of the earth.
"It wasn't your fault Jewel, it was an order."
"Yet here's a spot."
"What?"
"Out, damned spot! Out, I say." I glanced up from my hands to Mello, he wore an incredulous expression. "What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"
"Jewel?"
"The thane of Fife had a wife;" I continued, "where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar ALL with this starting." I shook my head in sorrow. "Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." I looked up at Mello once more, and without breaking eye contact I recited: "Wash your hands, put on your nightclothes; look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out from his grave. What's done cannot be undone." And I hung my head once more.
I sighed and was more than moderately surprised when I felt Mello's hand rest on my shoulder and the right side of the bed beside me sink down with his weight.
"I am truly sorry for making you do that Jewel."
"Yeah," I said stoically.
The hand Mello had resting on my shoulder slid down and held my hand; the other Mello placed gently on my chin and turned my face so that I had to look at him.
There was nothing but sincerity in his eyes and so I nodded slowly and closed my eyes. I gasped slightly when I felt Mello lean in for a kiss, but didn't resist.
"Mello, the Notebook's here!" one of the goons called through the door.
Once again we both turned in the direction of the noise. Mello looked apologetically at me once more, grabbed my hand, and pulled me back into the main room. He watched with triumph as Neylon copied the names of the SPK members from the computer into the Notebook. I just watched and tried to keep myself from screaming. I felt so betrayed; this was my brother he was after, it wasn't even about Kira anymore. Kira was just a way for them to prove who was best; a giant chess game. I was disgusted; with them, and myself.
Besides, even if Mello did win now, wouldn't it be just like cheating?
"The next step is for me to figure out just how much I can control people with this thing..." Mello started.
I ran to the washroom to throw up.
Author's Note: I hope my dates and information are correct for the rest of my story. I'm using another source for my information. I trust it, but you never know. If something does turn out to be incorrect feel free to let me know, or just ignore it ha-ha.
Also, some of you may've noticed that I cut some of Lady Macbeth's soliloquy short. I did so for length reasons, as well most of it didn't have much to do with what I wanted to say anyway. It was cut short too because even I have trouble understanding Shakespeare sometimes, and the whole thing was a little much. I also exercised a little bit of poetic license with the lines, just to make them easier to understand.
Have a good one :)