It had been four weeks since Marsha had started working at SPR. No new cases had come up, well none that Naru would take anyway. Mai didn't mind neither did Marsha for that matter. Ever since moving in Marsha had stopped two perverts from taking advantage of Mai on the way home from work.
"So you rigged a saltshaker to explode on the boy?" Mai asked in disbelief. "He had it coming best part is he doesn't know who did it till this day." "When was that then?" "I don't know like a year ago." Marsha sat with we feet propped on her desk as she told Mai some of the things she'd done to the male population when she was in school back in America. The door opened and the bell jingled. Marsha went to the door while Mai got Lin and Naru before making tea.
"So?" Naru asked beginning the conversation. "You see at my school. Mie high school some strange occurrences have been going on." the woman said. "Occurrences like what?" "We've had some things like students falling down stairs claiming to be pushed. Desks and chairs will flip over in classrooms when no ones there. We even have a few kids who were thrown into lockers and some are even in the hospital." the woman explained. "Seems like a haunted building to me." Marsha whispered to Mai who nodded in agreement. "We'll arrive in two days. Please prepare three rooms for us to use please." Naru said as the woman nodded in agreement and scurried out of the door.
"Congratulations Marsha. This is your first official case." Mai said happily as she picked up the phone and began to dial the numbers. "That's great Mai and the last case when I joined doesn't count why?" "Technically you weren't part of the team." "Pardon?" Monk said as he picked up the phone.
"Oh sorry Monk I was talking to Marsha. I'm calling to say that we have a new case." "Oh good. I'll see you tomorrow." At that point Marsha came out texting on her phone. "Who are you texting?" Mai asked as she dialed Ayako's number. "A friend. I have to go do something for school tonight at her place. So who haven't you called?"
"Masako, John and Yasuhara." "Okay I'll call Masako since you two don't stand on solid ground. Who's Yasuhara?" Marsha asked as she dialed the number. "He's a college student who joins us on cases from time to time. Who's your friend?" "A friend?" "Why can't I know who? Oh hi Ayako." They spent the rest of the next few minutes calling the others up before Marsha left and said to have Naru walk her home and that if she didn't later she'd have to kick his ass into ICU.
The Next Day
"Marsha where were you last night?" Mai asked as Marsha came through the apartment door. "I spent the night at her place okay." Marsha said as she went to her room and placed her things into a suitcase. "You could have at least called." Mai said as Marsha came out in a halter-top partnered with a skirt and crop tops.
"My phone was turned off and she doesn't have a home phone. I'm sorry I know I should have called but I didn't and I'm fine right now so lets go before we piss Naru off." Marsha said as she grabbed an orange before walking out of the door. "Your so aggravating." "Saving the meaner words for Naru. Good for you."
At the office
"So Marsha ready for your first case?" Takigawa asked. "Truthfully not in the least." "Well since you have active powers you should be fine." Mai said. "Well at least you won't be falling down wells and holes as often as Mai does." Naru said as he walked by. "Thanks for the vote of confidence." Marsha said as her phone buzzed.
Answering it she texted back before putting it back in her pocket. "Who keeps texting you?" "A friend." "Cut the cryptic crap what kind of friend?" "The kind you don't talk about much." "So it's a boyfriend?" Takigawa asked. Marsha had picked up her bottled water and began drinking it and when Takigawa said boyfriend she did a spit take that would have landed on Naru if she hadn't frozen it fast enough.
"Naru move." she said picking up a trashcan and placing it in front of the water as she unfroze it. "Now do you or do you not have a boyfriend?" "I don't. It's against my policy." "Policy?" "Yes career and school first boyfriend later." "Well at least one of you is smart." "Naru!" Mai yelled as Marsha held her back. "You mean we missed it?" Yasu asked then he noticed Marsha. "Who's the hot chick?" Yasu asked. Mai laughed slightly as she held Marsha back.
At the house
The car ride over had been silent and more or less silent what with everyone basically ignoring each other. When they reached the school Marsha got out behind Mai and they walked up to the front of the school closely followed by Takigawa with Lin and Naru leading them in the front.
The others waited with the things as they went in to locate their rooms and what not. "Follow me. We cleared out a conference room for you its right over here." a student said as he continued to stare at Marsha and Mai. "Thank you. Marsha, go help Mai bring in the monitors."
"I thought you said those things were to heavy for me to carry." Mai reminded as Marsha left the room. "I did but now there are two of you so it should be easy." Naru replied. "Naru!" Mai screamed. "Mai it's to early to be fighting." Marsha said as she orbed in with three quarters of the equipment causing Mai to jump.
"Will you stop doing that?" Mai asked as she held her heart and the other way held the chair as she bent over. "Oh please. I'm telling you now that I just cut down your workload. The others are coming with the rest." Marsha said as she began to orb out. "Wait." Mai said and she stopped. "What?" "Can't you at least exit like a normal person?" Mai asked.
"Fine I'll go into the broom closet across the hall." Marsha said as she slid the door open. "Oh thanks Marsha." John said as he and the other entered with what little equipment that was still needed. "Your welcome." Marsha replied as she walked past them and walking into the broom closet. "Where does she go all the time?" Mai asked.
"Who knows? Maybe she's just worried about something." Ayako pointed out. "Ayako Mai's the only person here she worries the most about because of that thing with her previous adoptive family." Takigawa said. "Hey! I resent that." Marsha said orbing into the room making everyone but Naru, Mai, and Lin jump.
"Marsha stop doing that!" Mai yelled. "Sorry I'm trying to get you used to it." Marsha said she sat down at a table and opened her personal laptop. "So what do we need to do?" she asked Naru.
"Mrs. Matsusaki I need you to take Mrs. Hara around and see if she senses anything. John, Monk I want you to hit these hotspots." he said handing them a sheet of paper. "Marsha take Mai and get temperature readings." he ordered. "Yeah, yeah." Marsha said.
An Hour later
The high school girls were watching base since Naru and Lin left around half an hour ago. Marsha had a very short span of time before getting bored and so far she was doing a good job at keeping her boredom under control but now it was about to let loose. "Who knew hunting ghosts could be so... boring." Marsha complained as she lay with her head on the table.
"Oh please it's just the first day." Mai said. "Yeah well ghosts are ghosts. They shouldn't be scared of us we should be afraid of them. Which we are occasionally." Marsha said as her phone buzzed.
Picking it up Mai read the message: Ur lat wear r u?
"Give me that!" Marsha ordered reaching for her phone as Mai held it out of reach. "Not till you tell me who GD is." Mai said as she held the phone out of reach. "No way in hell! Now give it back or I'll take it by force." Marsha threatened. "Tell me." "You asked for it." Marsha tackled Mai to the floor just as everyone else came in.
"What are you doing?" Naru asked causing Mai to freeze. "Got it!" Marsha said grabbing her phone and getting up. "What-" "It's none of your business Naru." Marsha said as she answered the text.
"Okay you got your stupid phone back now who is?" Mai demanded getting to her feet. "I never agreed to say anything." Marsha reminded. "What are you two arguing about?" Monk interrupted confused.
"Some guy named GD is testing her asking where she is cause she's late for something." Mai explained. "How do you know GD's even a guy?" Marsha asked. "I'm guessing." Mai admitted. "Well if you'll excuse me I've got to go meet Gabby Daniels. We have a project for school that's due next month." Marsha explained grabbing her messenger bag and jacket before slipping on her shoes and orbing out.
Marsha's POV
I orbed into the room and heard the familiar greeting. "Knocking would be nice." "And thanking me for covering your lazy ass would be better." I retorted as I threw my messenger bag off. "Okay so who read the message?" "Mai. Be so happy it wasn't Naru. He would kill me on the spot." I said opening up the cabinets and taking out food and his bandages.
"So how much longer till I'm healed?" he asked. "Shut up and get ready to change your bandages." I told him. "Okay, okay. Someone's in a rush." "Yes I am. If Mai goes home and sees I'm not there yet she'll call here and if I don't answer she'll start digging and then Naru's going to find you." I reminded as he slipped his white dress shirt off. "I know. I know."
Back at the school
"Marsha!" Mai called. "Mai she's not here." Masako commented. "What?" she asked orbing in. "It worked!" Mai cheered. "What worked?" Takigawa asked. "She called my name and I answered. It's a whitelighter instinct." Marsha explained as she set her books down. "What's with the books?" Yasu asked. "Research. For me." Marsha explained as she sat down and cracked one open.
That Night Mai's POV
"Hm…Oh Naru!" Mai exclaimed as she ran to the boy. Naru's eyes were downcast as he pointed to the right. She turned her head and saw a monster. A true monster she had to turn her head away it was so revolting. "Oh my god." she said and hid her face in Naru's chest. He put his arms around her and whispered, "Your running out of time."
Waking up with a start she looked around the room to see Ayako and Masako fast asleep on the other side of the room and Marsha was no doubt up and was who knows where.
HI!!!!! Okay I decided to go with Flamegirl5500's idea. And for all those people wondering who G is well you'll just have to read to find out.