"Hey Mels, are you sure you want to do the Takada kidnapping tomorrow?" Matt said as he turned over on the bed to face his lover. Mello kept his back to Matt.

"Let me sleep Matt."

"Mihael, I'm serious. You don't have to go through with it." Mello turned over to Matt who was now sitting up.

"Yes I do Matt."

"No. You don't." Mello sat up and glared at Matt.

"I have to. You may not understand this, but I have to defeat Kira."

"Defeat Kira, or defeat Near?" Matt said. Mello looked down in silence.

"I need to be the one to succeed L."

"Do you?" Matt questioned. Mello looked at him in anger.

"Goddammit Matt! What is with all your questions? Why can't you let me sleep? It's just going to be another one of our missions!"

"I don't think it will be." Matt said quietly.

"What?"

"There's just a gut feeling I'm having. Something is telling me something is going to go wrong."

"Matt, it's just a feeling. Now go to sleep." Mello started to lay back down. Matt stopped him and turned Mello's head so that it he was looking right at him.

"You believe in God, don't you? That cross you wear isn't just for show?" Matt said. Mello shrugged.

"So what? You never believed."

"True. But maybe he's telling me that something is going to go wrong." Matt looked at Mello with a worried expression. "Maybe he's telling me that I won't see you again." Mello sighed.

"So that's what you're worried about."

"Am I not allowed to be worried about you?"

"Matt...I came back from the explosion. I'm literally scarred for life, but I came back."

"But what if you don't? What if I don't? Would you worry if I didn't come back?" Matt said. Mello put his hand on Matt's cheek.

"Yes idiot. I'd worry. I'd worry, and if you were murdered, I'd kill the murderers myself by giving them a painful death."

"So let's not go through with it. Let's forget about Kira, about Near. Hell, let's move out of Japan. Just the two of us."

"Matt, you know I can't do that." Mello said. Matt shook his head.

"You say you can't, but I think you can. Your pride is the real reason for this." Matt said. Mello clenched his hands.

"So what if it is?" Mello yelled. Matt closed his eyes and let out a sigh.

"I still don't like this."

"Matt..." Matt slowly opened his eyes.

"Can you promise me something Mels?"

"What?"

"Can you promise...That we won't get into any more dangerous missions after this?" Matt said.

"Matt, you sound like a scared child." Mello said.

"This feeling is just getting to me."

Mello through his hands up into the air. "Fine, while I can't sa for certain that we won't, I'll try to avoid getting us into dangerous things."

"Thanks Mels." Matt said. They both lay back down. Matt put an arm over Mello, who let out a sigh, but soon snuggled up against Matt's chest.

"Now can I sleep?"

"An unidentified man has been shot by the police..."

A tear ran down Mello's cheek.

"I'm sorry I got you killed." He said quietly. "I guess you were right. Perhaps God was telling you this would go wrong. I should have listened. Forgive me Matt. Forgive me."