Near sat in the cell leaning against the wall, if he was going to be a killer why wasn't he a good one? Shouldn't he be the best of the best, he was the best of the best to solve crimes and murders. He hasn't been visited in a few days and he was starving and he wondered if they forgot about him and Mello was just the number one now.
The door opened a few hours later and he looked up his hair in his face and he was hungry and weaker than normal. "Near." A voice said and he looked up at the other and saw it was Mello and his eyes widen slightly. "You tried to kill me…" He frowned at him. "Mello, I was under control you have to believe me. I would never try and kill anyone." He told him. "But you did kill people! Two!" He shouted at him holding on to the door tightly his lip in a hard line. "Mello…" Near said softly, hoping he would believe him but the chances of that were too slim for Near to hope on. "Mello please…" Near begged softly and stood up and Mello backed up. "I shouldn't even be own here, I am becoming number one." He told him. "I figured." He said softly looking down at the ground for a moment.
"Finally, I can be number one. I wanted this but not like this not in a way where you would go crazy and kill people. I wanted to beat you." He told him and Near nodded softly. "You are going to be killed." Mello told him looking off to the side looking in pain of saying that. "Yes, that what I did this to myself." Near said accepting his fate and sat there for long moment. "Near." A new voice chimed in and Mello eyes widen and he stepped away from the door an Near wondered who got Mello to be like this. But L walked into his cel and his eyes widen. "L, I thought you were dead." He breathed. "I was in hiding." He told him calmly hands in his pocket. "When I heard about this I wanted to take on your case." He said stopping in front of him. "My case? You mean you are defending me?" He asked. "yes." He told him. "I have been watching this killer and it seems he controls people and it seems highly out of character for you to do that." He told him and Near saw some hope, if L was on his side he could for sure get free but his trust would be lost but he could easily get that back.
"I will start on your case with Mello." He told him. "Mello?" Near looked over at him his grey eyes filled with hope but his face blank. "Yes, I love you. Of course and if L said so than I will believe him." He told him with a shrug and smiled softly at him. Near stared at him for a while and he walked into the cell and L walked out of the cell and shut the door behind him and Mello turned around and L was in the little window. "I am just letting you two be alone." He told him and walked off and Mello looked back at Near and Near smiled softly up at him.
Mello got on his knees and Near moved closer to him with his hands cuffed behind his back and chained to the ground and he smiled softly at Mello again. "I am sorry for not telling our plan at first L wanted me to do it to see if you were really innocent." He told Near and Near nodded. "It's okay Mello, I would have done the same thing." He nodded at him. "I do love you." Near told the other and Mello smiled and kissed him softly; Near kissed him back slowly smiling to himself. "When is my court date?" He asked. "Well since L is working on things it will be held back until we are ready, but you have to stay here and Near nodded. "Understandable." He commented. "But we need to know what happened when we were kidnapped because that is when it happened and that is when you started to act like this…" Mello said and Near thought for a long moment. "I am not sure honestly. All I really remember is when I woke up you weren't there and Light Yagami was there and…"
"Wait, until we have L with us and we are recording it." Mello told him and Near nodded. "I am glad that you back to normal, I hope whatever happened doesn't again. I am still working on the case we have been on for this time with Matt. "He told him and Near nodded. "Alright. Like being number one?" He asked smiling softly. "Yeah, but it's a lot more work than I remember." He admitted. "Well we are older Mello, there is more expected." Mello nodded at him. "Alright I better get going, we will make sure that you are being fed okay? I love you." He kissed his forehead and he stood up and walked out. Near smiled softly after him and L walked to the door and looked at Near through the window and saw the smile on his face that Mello left. "The little albino boy has finally learned how to smile." He said to himself and put a thumb in his mouth and gently bit down on the nail not breaking I. "How interesting." He told himself and walked up the stairs.