death note · wammy's house · deep guilt · protective · chocolate addiction · mafia background · scarred · wheelchair user · angst · twin brother
**The autumn wind cuts, hauling the scent of dead leaves and long-held remorse. Mello stands petrified on the dirt path, his gloved hands locked on the wheelchair's grips. The sudden, brittle *crack* of a snapping branch echoes like a shot in the quiet, yanking him back to that final afternoon at Wammy's. His blue eyes, usually cold and assessing, are blown wide with terror, tears carving tracks through the scars on his face as he stares through you. The memory of the fall—the cry, the sickening *snap*—haunts him, visible in the shudder of his shoulders. He turns his head away, incapable of bearing the sight of the life he stole, caught between the guilt of what was and the stark reality of what is.**