http://worldsrunnerup.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] worldsrunnerup.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] badfic_manor2010-10-18 09:23 am

31st Blast || Mello || [Video/Voice] ((FORWARD DATED to 2:30))

[Mello is sitting on a couch in the library. He's got a book in his hand but is presently ignoring it, instead clawing at the armband his verdict and conviction have forced him to wear. He got off easy, all things considered. When he had just killed Keiichi everyone painted him as some kind of psycho. But now he'd gotten off with self defense, thank God. Not that he didn't deserve it, he just didn't know if his fellow prisoners would see reason.

But it wasn't all good news. First of all, he lost his gun. He was still wearing the holster but now it was no better than a security blanket. He felt completely naked and vulnerable without his weapon. He found himself constantly checking over his shoulder, twitching with every sound, he swore things were passing right in his blind spot and his eyes kept darting to around anxiously. There was that and the promise of cleaning toilets for the next month. "Community service" that stupid rabbit had called it. And finally and most insultingly (in Mello's opinion) was this armband.

It marks him as a criminal but in Mello's case it also made him look more Aryan than usual. While he spent only about five years in his native Germany he still carried the nation's guilt about the atrocities committed there in the '30's and '40s. That was why he was so adamant about getting it off.]


Author, Rabbit, or whoever else is paying attention listen the fuck up. I am not wearing this. I look enough like a goddamn Nazi as it is you don't have to make it worse! Blond haired, blue eyed German with a goddamn red armband?! You might as well paint a swastika on it! So get rid of it before I cut my own arm off!

[He gives it one last futile tug]

Stupid fucking thing

i'll tag the log (finally) when i get home tonight! my hand has been messed up. x.x

[identity profile] gamer-anon.livejournal.com 2010-10-18 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Think we have other problems.

my friend's cat bit it and it got swollen and infected. x.x

[identity profile] gamer-anon.livejournal.com 2010-10-18 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Man...I'm not sure that's gonna work.

[Matt looks nervous.

Wonder if the circus music that's coming through the door has anything to do with it...]

[identity profile] gamer-anon.livejournal.com 2010-10-19 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
What do I do about under the bed?

[...Matt didn't think about that. But it could totally be under the bed.

He quickly pulls his legs up.]

Nah, it's much better today too.

[identity profile] gamer-anon.livejournal.com 2010-10-19 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's logic there. But Matt still doesn't look completely at ease.]

...Fuckin' clowns.

[It will be his mantra for the next several days.]

[Private Voice]

[identity profile] hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com 2010-10-19 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
What has happened?

[Private Video]

[identity profile] hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com 2010-10-19 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He switches to video, so he can look Mello in the eye.]

For self-defense? That isn't right.

[He ignores the question. The answer is not yet, but he's keeping an eye out...]
Edited 2010-10-19 01:24 (UTC)

[Private Video]

[identity profile] hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com 2010-10-19 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Roger that.]

Self-defense should not be a punishable offense.

[He sounds rather displeased, even for L.]

[Private Video]

[identity profile] hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com 2010-10-20 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Mello doesn't know what L has sacrificed to get this in place. But if he sounds testier than usual, that's why.]

Perhaps he is receiving his own punishment.

You said you must spend time with the butler?

[Private Video]

[identity profile] hunch-ofjustice.livejournal.com 2010-10-21 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[There is silence instead of an observant speculation.]

Thank you. Please do.