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Adopting a pet - Ailurophobia

Title: Adopting a pet – Ailurophobia

Disclaimer: I don’t own Death Note *sigh*

Authors Note: For whatever reason, the thought of Matt and Mello adopting a pet occurred to me while I was driving a few weeks ago now and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head ever since xD

World: AU/Cannon once again, could be both

Mello’s point of view

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“I’m back!” I heard Matt call out and the front door slam shut. I didn’t bother replying, he knew where I was so why bother?

I could hear footsteps coming closer and closer to where I was sat, working on the Kira case as usual. It was only when I felt the couch sink down next to me did I look up, big mistake.

“Look what I’ve got! Isn’t she cute?” Matt asked, holding up what could only be described as one of Satan’s demons. “They were giving them away for free to!” He said and held the demon creature closer to him before patting its head. It started purring and I could feel my eyes slowly becoming larger and larger, my heart rate was starting to go up although I had managed to keep my breathing under control.

“A…a kitten?” I asked eventually, being sure to keep my voice steady.

“Yep! Isn’t she adorable?” He replied, still patting the damn thing. It opened an eye and looked at me and I could have sworn it was staring into my soul. I held back a shiver and did my best to smile back at Matt.

“Sure.” I replied, still trying to calm myself down. I looked away from the kitten and back to the forgotten laptop next to me. “What did you name it?” I asked casually, looking back over the surveillance tapes now. Maybe if I ignored it..?

“Uhh…Fluffy?” Matt said, obviously thinking up a name on the spot.

“Fluffy.” I said flatly, staring back at him in disbelief ignoring the thing on his lap.

“Yep!” He said, smiling and picking up the kitten. I sighed and got up, mumbling something about running out of chocolate and left. There was no way I could stay in the same room as than demon any longer, I needed to get out of there otherwise there would be no telling what I would do, and I didn’t want to hurt Matt in any way.

Once out of the apartment building, I calmed down. There had to be some way around the situation? Maybe Matt could keep it in a different room? ‘No that won’t work. It’s a one bedroom apartment…’ I thought to myself as I hopped on my bike and started driving nowhere in particular. I just had to stay as far away from that thing for as long as possible.

It was only a few hours later before I decided that I would have to head home, Matt would be worried…well, that is he would be if he wasn’t lost in the world of video games which I had no doubts he was.

I arrived home to hear that no, there weren’t any annoying video game themes blaring through the speakers. Confused, I unlocked the door and silently made my way inside being sure to watch out for the demon.

“Mello? Is that you?” Matt called, sounding like he was in the kitchen.

“No, it’s the devil coming to eat your soul!” I replied, putting on a spooky voice. Matt only laughed and came back into the lounge room where I was now sitting on the couch ripping in to a block of chocolate. Nothing calms frazzled nerves like chocolate!

“How come you were out for so long?” Matt asked and I froze. I hadn’t realised he’d actually paid attention to the time, though I really should have been expecting that.

“I was needed at the base…” I tried before snapping off a chunk of chocolate with my teeth.

“I called there, they said you haven’t been there all day.” Shit.

“Oh…Well I was just out then.” I said, shrugging.

“Mihael!”

“Hey! Don’t real name me!”

“Then tell me where you were!”

“Like I said I was just out! At the park and whatnot. I just wanted to get out for a while, that’s all. I figured you’d wanna spend the day playing with your cat and on your games without my bugging you.” I replied, exhausted already.

“Oh…sorry.” Matt mumbled before taking a seat next to me, the demon cat didn’t seem to be anywhere in sight. I leant into him and he put his arm around my shoulders before switching the T.V back on. We stayed like that for a couple hours before decided we should hop into bed.

Once in bed, I was almost asleep when I felt something fluffy curling into my side. I jumped straight up and let out a strangled scream.

“What?! What is it?!” Matt yelled, coming out from the bathroom with a toothbrush replacing the usual cigarette in his mouth.

“There’s something in the bed!” I yelled, jumping out of the bed and running to hide behind the bathroom door. Matt frowned and walked over to the bed, feeling around for whatever had caused that kind of reaction. I peeked out from behind the door in time to see Matt refrain from laughing.

“It’s just Fluffy?” Matt said, picking up the little demon.

“Oh…” I muttered, my face going red in embarrassment.

“Mello…Are you afraid of cats?” He asked, holding the thing close to him and patting its head now.

“Maybe…” I mumbled, turning to hide my embarrassment.

I heard Matt slowly walking over to me and hug me from behind. “You do realise you could have just told me that and I would have gotten rid of her. I don’t want you to be uncomfortable.” He whispered into my ear.

“Yeah I know, but I thought you’d laugh.” I whispered back and felt his arms tighten around me.

“Of course I wouldn’t!” He protested before picking me up bridal style and hopping into bed.

Two days later we were once again cat free.