"I'll drive," Light snapped. "So I can put the screen up between my self and the rest of you idiots!"

"...Mihael and everyone came in a limo," Near dead-panned.

"Lawliet isn't the brightest," Missy laughed, nervously.

"...That has to be the single most amazing thing in all of this." Mello shook his head- looking genuinely astonished.

They slowly all piled into the limo and Light took the driver's position, closing the screen as he said he would.

Near sat beside Mello, still staring at him openly. His shoulders were still shaking a bit.

Mail was seated across from Near and moved to comfort the boy, but stopped when Mihael put his arm around Near's shoulders- seated on the boy's other side.

Near didn't seem to notice, still staring openly at Mello.

"Doesn't that make you uncomfortable?" Missy asked. "He's staring at you."

"What else does he do?" Mello shrugged. "I've been staring at him this whole time too, you just couldn't tell."

There was a pause, before Missy squealed, "That's so romantic!"

"What?" Near asked in confusion, pulling his eyes away to look at her.

"So are you guys really lovers?" Missy asked. "Because we can totally tell there is sexual tension between your characters!"

"...Ah, she's playing Misa Amane." Mello pointed at Missy and nodded- as though it explained everything.

"She has a PH.D in physics, if you can believe it." Mail snorted.

"Oh come on!" Missy groaned. "You can not tell me there wasn't sexual tension in that gun scene? Why do you think you guys had to keep re-filming it? You weren't doing it right!"

"What the hell?" Mihael frowned.

"They couldn't have gotten some A-list guys to play us?" Mello asked Near.

"What gun scene?" Near asked, causing Missy to fall silent.

"You said a PH.D?" Mello asked Mail.

"Not in social studies." Mail mumbled.

"Missy, shut the hell up!" Mihael hissed.

"Sorry!" She whined. "Its just... do you know how cool it is to meet the real Mello? You do him like no justice at all! I bet the real Matt's cool, too!"

"Seriously, she's for real?" Mello asked Near.

"Mello is a celebrity," Near hummed.

He reached out and touched the other's face, assuring himself once more that the blonde was in front of him.

Missy quieted down, watching this with big eyes.

"It's nothing." Mello said moving Near's hand away from his burn. "It was a while ago."

"How did it happen?" Near asked him, gently. He was a lot more tender then Nate had ever portrayed him - then again, they'd only ever seen his 'character' interacting with an angry Mello.

"...I'm okay, does it really matter beyond that?" Mello asked.

"He's not as...angry as often as I thought he would be." Mihael admitted. "He's not so tough acting and more...cool."

"Sh!" Missy hushed him, watching the two as if she was watching a romance movie.

"No," Near informed, frowning. "Because Mello hasn't told me if Matt and Nate are."

"...Matt saved my life." Mello shrugged. "I guess I hadn't expected that."

"Why wouldn't he?" Near asked. "Matt and Mello... well, they're 'friends', right?"

Mello blinked at Near- seeming a little surprised and slightly confused before he nodded.

"Yeah...I guess he is." Mello admitted.

"Matt was alive, then," Near breathed. "That is somewhat of a relief... Nate is the one that called... It is 86% likely that he stays in doors so that he is not recognized."

"You don't know Nate very well." Mello smirked. "I guess he's my friend in all this too."

These words made Near frown. The young boy turned away and pulled his leg up against his chest.

"That play into your little romance?" Mihael whispered to his sister.

"Hush!" She snorted, smacking him in the arm. "At least they have the balls to talk to the people they like!"

"Mihael went to another country for Nate, that is pretty brave," Near commented and Missy blushed, realizing he could hear her.

"...I intend to get him back and set this crazy shit right." Mihael replied firmly.

"Well good luck with that now," Missy sighed. "He's... what, 24 now? Probably grew out of his fan boy crush."

"I don't mean just meeting him here...I wanna get him back for real." Mihael replied.

"I don't know how that would work, so much is apparently different now." Mello sighed. "With Nate in Near's place, Near was safe from Wammy's House...if we change that..."

He looked over at Near.

"Safe from... Wammy's?" Missy asked with a frown.

"I can't protect Mello if I don't go back," Near informed, looking back up at the blonde. "That is the most important thing."

"Protect him from what?" Mihael asked.

"Near...you know that doesn't matter." Mello sighed.

"What doesn't matter?" Missy asked.

"It's the only thing that matters," Near informed.

"Is this why Near has bruises on his shoulders?" Missy tried to cut in again.

"What bruises?" Mail frowned.

"What will it accomplish?" Mello asked. "As it was...Nate talked me out of the mafia...he was dead set on trying to make things better for us."

"Mello doesn't know what it wil- hey!"

Near jumped as Missy pulled down the back of the jacket Near had on, revealing his shoulders.

"Don't you remember he flinched a lot when you touched his shoulders?" She asked.

Mail and Mihael blinked in surprise.

"...I thought he was just...I thought he didn't like touching." Mihael breathed.

"I specifically remember him saying, 'Mello is a bully', when asked about them," Missy hummed, tapping her lips.

"They shouldn't have even touched you." Mello frowned.

"...It wasn't Mello?" Mail blinked.

"Mello was a bully," Near confirmed, shooing Missy's hands off. "But I never said he was the one that caused these."

"And let me guess, you never told Mello that they didn't hurt you either." Mihael muttered.