Fic, 30_hugs entry
Title: The new Game
Fandom: Death Note
Theme: #5 Collision
Characters and relationship: MelloxNear, romantic
Rating: PG for small amounts of slashiness and a very very tiny amount of curse.
Disclaimer: I own nothing..
He's just too perfect. He seems to rise above regular human faults.
Most of the time Near is sitting down. Selfishly, he makes others get the things he wants and they manage to do so without having to ask him what they should be getting. Even when he does stand and move (usually from one class to another) he walks with such a grace that wouldn't be uncommon in the english court. He's always dignified in that way, as though gravity doesn't affect him. Even small things like that annoy me. It's almost as though he thinks he's above the rest of us. It makes me want to shove him down to earth and show him that he's not something holy. He's not above me anyway. Then again, me and gravity have a nice little history together.
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As I walk through the halls, I usually don't have to watch where I'm going. Everyone in the orphanage knows to avoid me or else get an untimely taste of the carpet below. I don't stop for anyone, and no one gets in my way.
Near however didn't seem to know that unspoken rule.
I could barely remember what happened because it only took a few seconds for us to be on the ground. I knew in an instant (and apparently he figured out what happened a millisecond faster than I had; another thing I hated.) that we'd collided as I was rounding the same corner that he was. They ended up on the floor, but I couldn't even enjoy the fact that Near had fallen just as he wanted to see him do. I had fallen just as badly as he had, and worse yet he was on top of me which only made me intentionally remember how superior he thought he was. Near was too good for the floor, apparently.. Or else gravity had betrayed him. Near had a wound oun his head had bit the inside of his mouth because of it. It was obvious because he kept licking at the blood. When I saw Near doing this, I suddenly realized the dull pain in my cheek where his head had collided. I had less damage, yet I still felt inferior. I had to bring him down a few pegs.
"You did it wrong," I joked just trying to tease Near.
"Did what wrong?" Near asked this oblivously. He was sitting up but not getting off of me.
"Haven't you read a romance novel before?" I took the initiative to knock him on his back so I could be over him which made me feel much more in power. "There's a common scene that involves two people colliding and the accidental kiss that follows." I rolled my eyes as I watched him.
"I wasn't trying to do that," Near pointed out in that irritatingly unemotional way.
I wasn't going to let him show me up like that. He already won one challenge by making me take the fall for him. I was going to take his first kiss, and the second that strange little thought crossed my mind I found myself already taking action. The second we touched I moved back and stood up, feeling strange and foolish for trying that stupid challenge. I was standing over him now, and I had the urge to just step on his throat. Instead I could see the first signs of other people moving around in the early light of the orphanage.
Knowing that if someone like that blabber-mouth Linda were to come upon this scene and blame me without question, I backed up and extended a hand to help Near up. Near didn't seem all that fazed from the kiss and I was sorely dissapointed. I wanted him to get angry that I'd stolen that first kiss from him, any emotion would have been fine but this emptiness was annoying.
He pulled himself up; relied on me. I had the distinct urge to push him back down so I could see the image I wanted, but I didn't do so to save my own image. Then once Near had straightened he pretended to trip so that he'd fall into me again. I was surprised but I locked my knees and was able to hold my position. He gave me a short hug before pulling back.
"What the hell was that about?" I asked him, looking around to make sure no one else had seen that. To my dismay there was Linda just watching with her bulbous eyes. Luckily, she was the only one.. and I could make her stop gossip before it started.
"Hasn't Mello ever read a romance novel before?" Near had that little smirk of defiance about him. It was enough to make me punch him to break a couple teeth, but with Linda there I didn't dare to do so.
Fine, Near, Let's play.