[[A/N This is it. The final chapter. As I have said before, thank you all so much. It's been a hard few years but I'm bouncing back and hopefully will be publishing more DN fics soon]]

Chapter 14 - Together, Four Years Later

"Hey, Mello, can you come here for a second?"

"Jesus Christ Matt, what is it? Can't you see I'm busy?"

Matt suppressed a grin and called back, "it'll just take a second, I promise."

Mello stalked into the bedroom of their three room apartment and sighed. "What?" he asked as he stood in the doorway, ready to resume what he had been doing.

Matt stood up and walked over to him. There was only an inch or so difference in their heights but nevertheless, Matt made a point of standing on his toes.

"I love you," he said as he kissed the blonde.

Mello pulled away slowly. He wore a smile on his face and he tried to make himself sound angry. "Is that it?" he asked.

"Yep," said Matt as he returned to his computer.

"Love you too," Mello said as he walked back to the sitting room.

They'd been together for a long time now. Even longer, unofficially. Mello had said one night that Matt was his from the moment he saw him. Matt had replied that Mello was his from the moment he had broken the blonde's nose.

Officially it was only after they had both left Wammy's they had decided to become a couple although after Matt's short leave and subsequent return to Wammy's the rumours had started and were fuelled mostly by both boys refusing to comment on the subject. When Mello had left shortly before his 15th birthday, Matt had been tempted to go too. Only Roger's insistence that he stayed to complete his compulsory education stopped him. Matt went back to having his own room, not really talking to anyone and playing a lot of video games and the next summer he had told Roger that enough was enough and he was leaving. That was that, end of story. He had spent most of the next year attempting to track down Mello by various means and had found him in the US. His next problem was getting there. Then, on December 12th he turned up outside a small apartment complex, determined to knock each and every door until he found the blonde, only to be stopped by a shout from a room above and to move aside quickly enough not to get hit by a man who had evidently been pushed from the window. Mello hadn't pushed him, of course, but it was certainly something he would have done. Matt knocked the door of the apartment and was faced by several burly men with guns. It was only when Mello heard his name in a familiar voice that he ordered them all to stand down and made his way to the door before grabbing Matt in a rib-crushing hug and demanding to know how he had been found.

Then, after several accidents, Matt and Mello had left the mafia, although there wasn't much left of them when they did, and they had set off on their own.

They hadn't stayed together out of necessity, they had stayed together because they wanted to. Mello wanted Matt to share his life and Matt wanted Mello to stay with him so he never had to go back to that dark place he had visited briefly, four years ago.

They lived together. They ate together. They slept together. And one day, one day soon, they would die together.

END

[[A/N So, that's that. Was it worth the wait? I doubt it. But it's an ending and everyone knows that that's the most important part of a story. R&R please you shall get cyber-hugs and lotsa loves]]