Oh wow. It's been ages since I finished Passion hasn't it? Sorry about the big delay but I have my reasons!

1 - I was working on 'I'll love you Forever'

2 - I then began my joint effort on 'Meeting the Family of Mai Taniyama' with HarunoRin (Check it out. Seriously.)

3 - Then began working on 'The Forgotten Files' also with HarunoRin.

Also I had slight writers block...but anyway!! Yes most people will have read this since it was a taste tester at the end of 'Passion' but it's the first chapter so I'll put it up first obviously. But the second chapter will be up soon. I promise :D

So here it is! The first chapter of the loooooong awaited sequal to 'Passion'...

Rekindled Passion

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own GH. If I did, I'd be bragging.

P.S Please read authors note at the end.

"Daylight comes she rests her head
The beauty of an empty bed
She dreams of happy days instead
Of brooding on to-morrow
She swapped her dreams of shining knights
For pushers, bars and money fights." --

UB40 -- The Pillow

"Mai? Yo Mai!"
20 year old Mai Taniyama's eyes shot open as she looked up at her co-worker, Katherine. Katherine had been a godsend to Mai. She was always there with a friendly word and basically trained her from scratch. She had pink and black hair that went to her earlobes and an emo fringe covering one of her green eyes.
"W-what?"
"You were asleep again." Katherine laughed, rolling her eyes. "What's up with you? At breaks you sleep non-stop and you're getting sloppy with your drink orders."
Mai groaned and stood up. She had changed in the two years that had passed. The most noticable would be the fact her hair was now a golden blond colour-she had, had the roots re-bleached only the night before-and in a high ponytail, hanging down her back like a golden mane, thin braids hanging down in various places.
Her fashion sense had also changed. At work esspecially.
This busy sunday night, she wore a pair of dark wash hipster jeans with rips in the knees and a studded neon pink belt handing off her hips for decoration only, neon pink girl boxers sticking out from the top of the jeans and a white vest top with slashes across the top of the chest, allowing all glimpses of her neon pink bra and slashes across the stomach, showing her toned and flat abdomin. Matched with white trainers with pink details-Mai had long figured out that if you're gonna be running around on your feet from 9pm till 4am it wasn't wise to wear heels-she looked rather different.
The one thing that didn't change was her personality.
"Sorry babe." Mai sighed. "I've been putting in extra rehersals for the end of year show this week, plus over time here."
"Want something to wake you up?" Katherine grinned mischiviously. Mai knew the other reason Katherine was a godsend would soon pop up.
"What ya got?"
"Speed."
Mai sighed. She admittedly did dabble in the occasion drug-the techies at The Institute always went around the back for a joint at lunch and some days she'd join them, and once or twice she had taken MDMA, and yes she did take speed on rare occasions, but she wasn't addicted and knew she could live without it.
"Sure. Cut me a line or two will ya? My hands are too slow right now."
"No problemo!" Katherine grinned and poured a white powder on the low table, using her credit car to make it into four thin lines. She then produced two pieces of cut straws and handed one to Mai.
Mai lowered her head and held the straw upto one nostril whilst holding the other shut and breathed in moving along the line.
She quickly did it again with the second line.
When she sat back her eyes were wide and she had her index finger pressed against her nose.
"Right." She shook herself and stood up. "I got work to do!"

Mai smiled at a female customer. "What can I get ya?"
"What do you recommend?" The girl was most likely just 18 by the looks of it.
"Well, Red Panties are nice!" Mai adviced. Unlike most clubs, you didn't have to shout over the music as the Bar was in a room off the dance floor.
"What is it?"
"Well, it's not red and it's quite far from being anything to do with panties but it's really nice!" Mai laughed.
"3 of them and one...Psycho Tsunami."
"Coming right up!" Mai nodded getting three tall glasses out and a shot glass, expertly flipping bottles and pouring them into the glasses. Within 2 minutes all the drinks were ready.
Mai shoved the money in the till and moved onto the next customer.

It was 4:30 when Mai managed to finally get back to her flat, yawning and stretching.
She rolled her eyes seeing Haruhi pouring over her books.
"Haruhi, this years finals are over, why are you still studying?"
"It's work stuff." The brunette told her, pulling her now shoulderlength hair into a ponytail.
"You have class at 9 am. You're not gonna be awake in time." Mai told her, pulling her hair out of its pony tail, allowing it to fall around her shoulders and settle at her elbows.
"Whatever." Haruhi muttered.
"Don't say I didn't warn you."
Mai went to her room and pulled her clothes off, shoving them in her clothes hamper, before going to the kitchen and getting a glass of water, taking it back to her room, popping two sleeping pills in her mouth and washing them down before crawling into bed dressed only in her underwear.
For the first few months after she moved to Tokyo, it seemed as if every dead person in the whole of Tokyo came of Mai in her dreams. At first, she tried to help them all but it seemed impossible with out everyone else at SPR. So she tried to ignore the dreams untill she figured out that the only way to block them was to enduce sleep with sleeping pills.
Yes sometimes Gene would get threw but she normally asked how everyone back at SPR was doing. It seemed SPR was still going strong although Yasuhara hadn't been seen at the office since she had left but he still kept in touch with Bou-san and Ayako-who were together now, Mai hadn't been to shocked to find out.
As she drifted off to sleep she sighed.
For some strange reason, she had a feeling that she'd be seeing everyone soon.

Lawyer : Shona (Or -X-.Giggles.-X- as you may know her) does not condone or condem people who take drugs. She believes that it is all upto the person who is or is not taking the substance in question. She does however, personally object to the over use of harmful substances. This does not mean to say she is against people who do over use. It is her personal oppinion.

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