[Log] Week 8, Day 3 || An Unexpected Ally

[searedsuccessor]

Who: Mello [searedsuccessor], Matt [mightstealyrcar], Beyond Birthday [ls_rueflection]
Status: Closed, Complete
Style: Third-person present, prose
Where: Kusasato
When: Week 8, day 3
Rating: PG13 for now.
Warnings: Probably just language. Will add warnings if necessary.

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[mightstealyrcar]

Abarai wasn't kidding about the weirdo locals, Matt discovers, after he's hiked to the village that started out only dimly visible, smoking two more cigarettes on the way. Then he realized that the buildings that were slowly getting closer looked something less than modern, and reluctantly started conserving tobacco.

For a guy who's uncomfortable being noticed at the best of times, walking through the streets with these people outright staring, whispering to each other, even coming up to peer at him and tug at his striped shirt... it's like walking a gauntlet of torture. Matt's never been so grateful for the goggles. He can still feel his face go scarlet the more they eye him and poke at him and talk about him in whispers he can't catch, until he thinks he might burst into flames and die of embarrassment.

Which is kind of a blessing in disguise, really, a distraction from how he has no fucking idea what to say to Mello when he sees him. Less than twenty-four hours ago, they were both alive. Now Matt's dead; he knows he's dead, and he's pretty damn sure his friend wasn't far behind him. But somehow, he's still walking around. He's pissed at Mello, of course he is, but it's not the Mello he's about to see who sent him out on a crazy plan to save the world, so does it even count?

All this makes for more than mixed feelings when he finally spots blond and black in the crowd and maneuvers his way over.

"Hey."

Yeah, great opener, Matt.