Second Place
The Silence of Prayer
Inside the Castle Walls
A Wish for Happy Returns
Hanged On Bent Nails
The Influence of Rain
Born Again, the Virgin Bleeds
And the Truth Comes Out
In the Jagged Edges
Characters/Pairings: Near/Mello. L/Near/Mello.
Warnings: Sex. Sex. All but one or two of these have graphic underage gay sex. The first has graphic underage gay threesome sex with an authority figure. “And the Truth Comes Out” has semi-graphic torture.
Summary: Near and Mello train to succeed L together. AU from chapter 58.
Comments: I still can’t quite bring myself to go back to DN after chapter 58 and continue reading, but god, Harukami writes Near and Mello beautifully. These are two very fucked up teenagers, with a very untraditional upbringing and a very complex relationship, and dear god I want to hug them and tell them that they don’t have to be fucked up. And god, I love her Mello. (Not that I’m obsessively stalking her Mello at CFUD *cough* The DN cast there is great. So’s the Bleach, and the Allen from D.Greyman forced me to download and read that series, and the Anthy is magnificent and I’ll stop fangirling now befoer I get totally sidetracked). Oddly, by far my favorite fic in the series is “And the Truth Comes Out”. With no sex whatsoever. But the way they work together perfectly even while they’re completely misunderstanding each other, and the total and utter fucked-upness of it all is sheer love.
Edited to add Born Again, the Virgin Bleeds July 31, 2005
Edited to add In the Jagged Edges August 16, 2005
Series of one-shots.