The Gamers (MattXOC Death Note Fanfic)

Gone

6th December 2004
Guess's POV

"Aaagggghhh!" I woke up to a scream. It sounded as if it was coming from Matt's room and it sounded like his voice. I jumped up and burst into the room to see him kneeling by Mello's bed and pulling at his hair; I ran over to him.

"Matt, what's wrong?! What happened?!"

"He's gone! Mello's gone! I knew he was acting weird yesterday after speaking to Roger!" Matt handed me a small, crumpled up piece of paper.

Matt, I'm sorry. L is dead. You deserve to know, so does Guess, tell her for me. By the time you're reading this, I am long gone from Wammy's House; I left to avenge L, to catch Kira, to surpass Near, to become the best... What did you expect of me? I'm sorry for leaving you guys behind, the route ahead is dangerous and I wouldn't forgive myself if either of you were to get hurt. Don't try to find me, it's just too dangerous. I'm sorry.

-Mello.

I put a hand to my mouth as tears welled up in my eyes. During the time I was reading, Matt had gotten up. He shouted in anguish again and punched through the plaster wall.

"Matt!" his fist began to bleed from the cuts and scratches that formed.

"The only person who ever gave a shit about me when I joined this place is gone! The only person that was there for me when my parents died, someone who understood! First Robin, now Mello; soon you'll leave too and I won't know what to do, I can't lose you t-"

"Matt!" I screamed. He looked at me for a moment until my hand hit his face with force. His hand quickly went to his cheek and he looked at me with pure shock. I had a waterfall of tears streaming down my face. "Don't you EVER think that I'll leave you here alone! I will always be by your side and long as you want me... I'll be here, I promise. And we will go find Mello. Just wait... Sometime in February... They will be expecting us to leave now, so while we wait for them to settle, we can gather some more money, we have part of L's inheritance, don't we? You could easily hack in there and take our share, set by his will which we can hack into to find out as well. We will get ourselves an apartment, somewhere to stay whilst we track him down... We can forge passports, identities, we are Wammy's kids for fuck sake, what can stop us? Among the most intelligent children in the world. Let's just make it through, okay?" He was still in shock.

"Guess, I'm sorry I-"

"No... I'm sorry. Your cheek okay?" He nodded as he rubbed it a little. I slumped onto Mello's bed and held fist-fulls of his bed sheets in either hand by my sides as more tears fell from my eyes, landing on my lap. With that, Roger burst in.

"What's all this shouting about?!" 

"Mello's gone..."

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We both sat in Roger's office as Matt had his hand bandaged by the old man. My eyes were still red and so was Matt's cheek.

"Why is your cheek red, Matt?" Roger asked calmly. He could see that our mental state was not to be toyed with so approached every sentence carefully. I went to answer when Matt spoke.

"I said something incredibly stupid. She slapped some sense into me within reason." Roger looked at me and back at Matt. He didn't say anything.

"Are you two planning on following him." I shook my head, we couldn't afford to risk letting him know.

"He told us not to... We don't plan on disobeying his last wish to us," Matt said monotonously.

"Good," Roger said despite looking suspicious. " You two and Near are now the top 3. We can't afford to lose you."

"Why didn't you tell us?" I asked rather suddenly. "L is dead, we had a right to know." I stopped Roger before he could speak. "Watari must be dead too then."

Roger chose his words carefully. "I apologise, I suppose I should have expected Mello to tell you both anyway. I was instructed to only tell first and second." Silence filled the room as Roger finished bandaging Matt's hand. "Are there any more questions that you may have?" We shook our heads. "Then you are dismissed." We got up and left without a word.

Solemnly, we ascended up the stairs; I took hold of Matt's uninjured hand firmly and he held it tightly back as we headed to my room, not wanting to be reminded that Mello was gone.

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:'''( that was sad to write. Those of you who are Death Note fanatics probably know that tomorrow it Mello and Matt's, death anniversaries (today is 25th January) so that's going to be really depressing. I'll upload a chapter tomorrow in their honour.
Guessers are!:

mellowqueens
Tch-Levi-Ackerman
AlizuLawliet
Rawr_katy

Thanks, guys.

-Guess