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Chapter 12: Um…Some Stuff Happens

When Matt left Mr. Wammy's office a few minutes later, he was sort of dazed. He could not believe what had just happened. He was going to be sharing an office with his arch-nemesis, the spawn of Satan himself, Light Yagami.

It may have seemed like Light was being noble in refusing to take Matt's office, but Matt still suspected ulterior motives. What was he planning?

But all of Matt's thoughts about Light left him when he saw what was happening outside Wammy's door. Mello was on the floor, apparently engaged in a wrestling match with Aiber while several of Matt's coworkers stood around and watched.

By then, most of the employees had gone home for the evening, leaving only Matsuda, Wedy, Mikami, and Takada standing in a circle (well, a square really) around Aiber and Mello.

Matsuda and Wedy were cheering Aiber on while the others seemed to be on Mello's side. A very old computer lay smashed on the floor near them, and Matt supposed it had been the source of the crashing noise earlier. Well, whoever owned it should have gotten a new one long ago anyway.

While trying to judge who was winning, Matt just stood there, not sure whether he should help Mello or let him take care of his own fight.

He opted for watching with everyone else as Mello gained the upper hand, getting Aiber in a headlock and pinning him to the floor.

The action caused Mello's dress to be pulled up in such a way that it did little to preserve his modesty, but Mello didn't seem to mind. Matt did, though. He was the only one who was supposed to see up Mello's dress, damn it!

"Okay, what the hell is going on?" Matt finally shouted. Aiber and Mello froze and looked at him, not having realized he was there. Aiber looked angry, and Mello looked perfectly calm.

"Oh, hi Matt." Mello said nonchalantly.

"Hi. What's going on, then?" Matt asked. Mello still didn't answer, so Takada stepped in.

"Aiber made some rather…crude comments and your, uh…friend attacked him." Takada explained.

"What did he say?" Matt asked, and nobody answered. Everyone looked kind of embarrassed.

"Oh, I'm…not going to repeat it." Takada said, just before Matsuda spoke up.

"What? He just called him a fag and told him to…well…" He said, but began blushing furiously and was unable to finish.

"It was kind of disturbing, but very creative." Mello said brightly, standing up and finally smoothing his dress down, much to Matt's relief. He was probably happy because he had pretty much won a fight against a man who was two or three times his size.

Mello was a tough little guy, Matt thought affectionately. Behind him, he heard Wammy's door open and turned around to see L and Light emerge. They both looked around at everyone with curiosity for a moment.

"Aiber, my love, why are you on the floor?" Light asked, his eyebrows drawn together with false concern. Everyone laughed when Aiber turned beet red and clenched his fists.

He looked at Light with pure loathing, and then looked at L with an unreadable expression. Finally, he scrambled to his feet and fled into the stairwell. Matt almost felt sorry for him.

"Well, I'd better get home." Said Mikami, looking at his watch.

"Yeah, me too." Takada agreed, and they left together, soon to be followed by Wedy and Matsuda.

"So, Matt, want to help us move my desk into our office?" Light asked when they had gone. Mello's eyes snapped up to stare at Light.

"Our office? You two are going to be in the same office? Together?" The blonde asked in a dangerous tone.

"Uh, yeah." Matt said uncomfortably. Light looked amused, which was not helping.

"Humph." Mello grumbled, and then he turned around and walked toward the exit.

"Mello, where are you going?" Matt called after him.

"Home. We took different cars anyway." Mello replied, still in that calm before the storm voice.

"Uh, okay." Matt said worriedly, and he went over to Light's old cubicle. It took him, L and Light awhile to maneuver it out of the cube, but once it was out, scooting it across the floor was fairly easy.

They had pushed it about halfway there when Mr. Wammy came out of his office, seemingly ready to go home. He had a look on his face like he was about to make some big, important decision, and he paused to watch the three of them struggle for a moment.

"Lawliet, can I drive you home? I've been thinking, and I think we need to talk…and maybe I need to apologize." Wammy said reluctantly. L bit his thumb for a moment, then nodded.

"Goodnight, Light. I will see you tomorrow." He said. Light shot him a meaningful look, then went to kiss him goodnight.

"Okay, 'night." Light said softly into L's hair afterward. L pulled back and gave him a small smile. Normally Matt would have looked away during this personal moment so as not to intrude, but knowing that they had listened to him and Mello doing much more personal things, he watched them intently and blatantly, almost out of spite.

Light noticed this and chuckled at him as L and Wammy walked away. When the two of them were alone, they found that pushing the desk had gotten a lot more difficult.

They both had to use all their strength to move the desk a few inches at a time. Had L really been helping them that much? Eventually they paused in their endeavor and Light hopped up on the desk to rest.

"So, why was Mello so mad about us sharing the office?" Light asked, leaning back on his hands and crossing his legs.

"Oh, uh…he thinks…uh, that I've been having sex with you and L." Matt explained what he'd understood of Mello's argument.

"Why does he think that?" Light said curiously, tilting his head to the side. He didn't seem surprised though, Matt noted.

"I don't know, I guess it was because of the whole…listening through the wall thing."

"Ah." Light said, but made no further comment. He slid back down off the desk and gestured for Matt to help him push again. Eventually they did get the desk to the office, and they positioned it in the opposite corner from Matt's desk, as far away as it could be, with the hope of pacifying Mello.

"I guess, I'll move my stuff in here tomorrow." Light sighed.

"Yeah, me too." Matt said. Light walked to the door, but stopped and turned around when he got there.

"Well, good luck with Mello tonight." He said with a smirk and a thin layer of innuendo. Matt sighed theatrically and packed up his laptop. Tomorrow was going to be a very long day.

When he got back to the apartment, he saw that Mello was already in bed, pretending to be asleep. It was only about seven o'clock, so Matt rolled his eyes and climbed into the bed with him, wrapping his arms around Mello's waist to pull him up against his chest. He leaned over and licked the shell of Mello's ear, causing the blonde to shiver and open his eyes. He glared at Matt.

"You're not really mad at me, are you?" Matt asked him. Mello sighed and turned around so he was facing Matt.

"No." He said reluctantly.

"Good." Matt replied, nuzzling Mello's neck.

"I don't know what's wrong with me, Matt." Mello said softly.

"There's nothing wrong with you. Except for your paranoia. And your chocolate addiction." Matt said, hugging Mello a little closer.

"If chocolate is wrong, I don't want to be right." Mello said firmly.

"Fair enough."

"But really, I just feel like I've been acting crazy lately…" Mello trailed off, staring at the pattern on the bedspread and tracing it with a finger.

"It's probably just PMS."

"Yeah, maybe." Mello muttered, not really paying attention. Matt started to get up off the bed.

"Hold on, what did you say?" Mello said suddenly, sitting up. Matt laughed and left the room. He went to the kitchen to look for some food, and a few minutes later Mello came in and sat at the counter.

"What if L and Light try to have sex in your office while you're in there?" Mello asked. Matt froze in the middle of chopping a tomato. That possibility hadn't occurred to him, but it seemed like just the sort of evil thing they would do.

"I guess I'll go into L's office and listen through the wall." He said with a shrug. Mello narrowed his eyes, then picked up a piece of tomato and dropped it down Matt's shirt, laughing at him when he squeaked. And for no reason at all!

"Well, maybe it won't be so bad, you sharing an office with Light." Mello said eventually. Matt raised an eyebrow at him.

"Oh, really?"

"No." Mello said, and then he started cackling sadistically. Yeah, tomorrow was going to be a very, very long day.

The End.

A/N: So, that's it. Review me, dudes. The sequel is currently tentatively titled Forever and a Week and the first chapter shall be posted probably sometime in the next two weeks. I'm moving back into the dorms on Friday, so I'm not sure when I'll have time. Yeah, titles are not my thing... Some people have a way with words, others...not have way.