10th Explosion // Mello // [Video/Audio] ((BACKDATED to yesterday)
[Mello's sitting on the couch while a nervous young woman paces behind him, a bag of ice pressed against her swollen lip. She's attractive and no older than twenty-five. Her long hair is pulled back into a high ponytail. She's not wearing any makeup, no attempt to look nice. She's still in her pajamas, a pair of boxers and a pink t-shirt,
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[He wasn't even really thinking about it...but he is now. It's just like Mello to be one step ahead of him.]
Huh?
[Matt blinks and looks down at his hands.]
Christ, it hasn't even been that long.
[Matt sighs and looks over at Mello.]
Look like you're doing okay without chocolate. What's your secret?
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God, I'm going to have the worst headache tomorrow.
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[Matt nods once, knowing it'll be rough for both of them. They both have addictions that won't be denied.]
Come on. Let's take a look around the rest of the place. Maybe we'll find...something.
[Anything.]
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[Mello furrows his brow and jerks his head in that direction, instructing Matt to follow]
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Fuck.
[The urge for a cigarette is even stronger as Matt stares at what's obviously planned to be a nursery.]
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[Mello stares into the room then back at the woman, who sighs wistfully, a smile on her split lips.]
She wants...
[Mello doesn't know anything about his parents, just that his father abandoned him when he was six months old. He didn't even know their names. He's never SEEN parents, not really, not as parents. It's a bizarre phenomenon, watching this young woman basking the idea of having a family, almost literally glowing with happiness.]
This is bizarre.
[He gropes in his pocket for a bar of chocolate. Oh right. There isn't any.]
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[Matt snorts and looks away. He remembers his parents -- vaguely. He wasn't impressed by them. But then he never remembers them looking at him the way that this woman is looking at an empty room.]
Should stick with the cat.
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[Sort of offhandedly, Mello's still looking at the room and then Ai again.]
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[Matt stops himself before he can point out that it's too late, that whatever happened to her can't be changed. Matt's not even sure that it should be.]
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Yeah.
[the cat is winding between his legs, looking up at him]
Shoo you fucking fur-ball before I decide to stop being so nice and kick you across the room.
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[Matt crouches down, coaxing the cat over.]
Why'd she have to name the cat that? A cat should be named something cool like...Bowser or Luigi.
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Bowser sounds like a dog's name and not everyone is as goddamn nerdy as you. Even in Japan.
["Baby what are you doing?" Ai is now standing right behind Matt, looking straight through him to her cat]
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[He grins and strokes the cat's head.]
Japan likes cats. They've got those maneki neko cats everywhere.
[Matt talks like everything's normal...like they're not actually ghosts.]
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[Mello's trying to be as cool about this as Matt, as if the woman behind him doesn't look like she's about to put her hand through his head.]
She's got about fifty of 'em on the dresser, did you see?
[Mello is looking bitterly at his pant leg]
Fucking flat faced creature got hair on my pants.
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[Matt smirks a bit, oblivious to the woman behind him.]
You know, some of that isn't affection. That rubbing around you thing? It's marking you.
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