[The insult doesn't cut or dig the way it might for someone less secure in his lauded intelligence. Years ago, the thought that Mello viewed him as incompetent in any way would have been deeply troubling and highly problematic. Now, it's almost refreshing; at least it means that Mello isn't expecting the world from someone whose shoes aren't tied, whose stomach is twisted in hungry knots and whose back is much sorer than usual.
All of it is somehow preferable to going back to that empty home with such a thoroughly disrupted routine that is the height of disturbing, even after the SQUIP failed to pull its agreed-upon weight through depression and illness spanning months. Somehow, L still preferred that version of it to no version at all. It was love, as purely defined as one could possibly expect it to be, from a machine that shouldn't have been capable of it.]
Mello.
[Spoken softly, the word carries weight.]
I'm not an easy person to live with for any amount of time. I wouldn't ask that of you.
[Of any human. Only a machine, or an inventor, if a human wasn't necessary. One who knew all the bugs and quirks, having created them.]
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All of it is somehow preferable to going back to that empty home with such a thoroughly disrupted routine that is the height of disturbing, even after the SQUIP failed to pull its agreed-upon weight through depression and illness spanning months. Somehow, L still preferred that version of it to no version at all. It was love, as purely defined as one could possibly expect it to be, from a machine that shouldn't have been capable of it.]
Mello.
[Spoken softly, the word carries weight.]
I'm not an easy person to live with for any amount of time. I wouldn't ask that of you.
[Of any human. Only a machine, or an inventor, if a human wasn't necessary. One who knew all the bugs and quirks, having created them.]