This is a three-shot between Madoka and Lin, one before the twins, one during the twins, and one after Noll returns to Japan. So there will be a tiny hint of NaruMai, but this is mostly for LinMadoka! I've gotten into that pairing so much! Anyway, remember to review and leave comments! I love reading what everyone has to say! And this is dedicated to hiya24 for doing me a big favor! So, let's get on with the story!
"Madoka, Lin, would you come to my office, please?" the two teenagers looked up from their respective desks. They stood up together and entered Martin Davis's office with Lin closing the door behind them. The Professor had already sat down at his desk and his hands were folded on his desk as he looked at them.
"As you both know, Luella and I are headed to Japan to finalize the adoption of our sons. I have a case that I need a primary reading on. I have chosen you two to do the reading." Martin told them. Madoka held back a groan. She loved her job but working with Koujo Lin was like working with a statue. A statue that she didn't want to spend the night with for a primary.
"Where will we be staying?" Lin asked. Madoka blinked in surprise as she realized the man had notepad and was taking notes. She rolled her eyes. He was always taking notes. She looked at Martin as she waited for an answer.
"At King George High. The principal is a good friend of mine and came to me saying there have been some odd occurrences at the school. I told him I would do a primary investigation until I realized we would be in Japan." Martin told them and Madoka stopped from rolling her eyes again.
"How long will the primary go?" she asked, hoping that it would only be a night because she didn't think she'd be able to stand Lin for much longer than that. She was sure Lin was a nice guy, if he would just talk more often!
"It will start tomorrow after the school lets out for the weekend. You will go until Sunday. I want everything recorded and classified. Lin, I want you to pay extra attention. The principal believes that one of the students has placed a curse on the school." Martin told them and Madoka frowned.
"I have a date this weekend, Professor." she told him. Martin looked at her slightly surprised before he chuckled. He knew that Madoka hated working on the weekends but he wasn't going to let her get out of this that easily.
"Then cancel it. I don't have anyone else in the Field Work area that are available. I expect the report on my desk by Tuesday morning." he told them before turning back to his computer. Madoka scowled before leaving the office with Lin behind her. She sat down and turned the pages of her math textbook roughly.
"If this...date likes you...he will understand." Lin told her. She glared at him before turning her attention back to her book, wishing that she could ignore him like he always ignored her. But it wasn't part of her personality so she had to respond. And it made her even angrier that he knew that.
"Like you care. Can we just get this over with? I have to request the cameras." she told him snidely. He just shrugged before returning to his desk. She scowled again.
'He has to be the most annoying little twerp!' she thought angrily. Before she remembered that he stood a six feet and four inches. She twitched even more as she realized that she stood at five foot and five inches. "Argh!!" she screamed as she jumped up from her chair. She saw Lin looking at her curiously and she glared at him.
"You are the most annoying man in this whole world!" she snapped at him before turning and storming into the kitchen leaving Lin blinking in surprise. He sighed softly.
'What did I do this time?' he asked himself. It seemed that just his presence annoyed the young Japanese woman. He admitted that he wasn't fond of the Japanese but before he could even act like that around Madoka she had made it rather clear that she didn't like him. At all.
Madoka was sitting in the base and swinging her foot. They had been sitting in the base for nearly an hour and the silence was grating on her nerves. Badly. She glanced at Lin and saw that he was quite content with reading the book that he had brought along as he sat in front of the computers. She huffed angrily before turning her attention away from him. He was the most annoying man!
"Could you stop twitching?" he asked. She glared at him before she stood up from her seat and marched over to him.
"I didn't exactly pick to be here with you! You could at least talk instead of acting like I'm not here!!" she snarled at him. He raised an eyebrow and she scowled even more as she pulled away from him.
"What grade are you in, Mori-san?" he asked and she huffed before she took her seat back. She knew she should be happy that he was at least making an attempt at appeasing her. It didn't exactly help but she felt a little bit better.
"I'm a Junior." she told him. She looked at him as she heard him chuckle. She frowned at the amused look that was on his face.
"That would explain it." he told her. She continued to look at him and he finished. "Most Juniors are loopy because of the workload."
"Huh?" she blinked before her face grew red with anger. "I AM NOT LOOPY!!" she denied angrily. He chuckled again at her face and she huffed angrily before making her way for the door only to find it stuck.
"Hey!" she cried as she continued to pull on the handle. She watched as Lin's hand reached out and tried to pull the door open as well. Neither one had any luck. Madoka felt Lin suddenly stiffen before he was pulling her away from the door and she squeaked.
"What are you doing?! Let go!!" she cried as she tried to get away from him. She froze as suddenly one of the desks in the room hit the door, exactly where they had been standing only minutes ago. "I..." she stammered.
"Stay behind me." he told her firmly as more desks began to fly. She watched as he brought his hand up to his mouth and whistled loudly. She gasped as ghost like entities appeared before them and stopped the desks from hitting them. Suddenly it dawned on her what they were.
'Shiki...that would mean...he's an onmyouji!' she thought wide eyed as she looked at Lin, studying him. She watched as he continued to focus on the shiki and the flying desk. She winced as suddenly something grabbed her wrist. She screamed as she was suddenly pulled to the floor and dragged towards the window that was open. She struggled as hard as she could against whatever it was.
"Mori-san!!" she felt him grab her ankle and she felt her whole body shaking as whatever it was let go of her wrist as a shiki neared her wrist and drove it away. "Are you alright?"
"Yes...thank you." she told him as she sat up. She was shivering she realized and she gasped as he wrapped his school jacket around her shoulders. She looked up at him .startled and felt her face redden at the gentle look that he was giving her. She could almost forget that he was a total jerk in her opinion. Almost.
"You're welcome, Mori-san." he said with a gentle smile on his face and she felt her cheeks flare. She gulped before replying, she was sure she had never heard him talk so much before.
"You can call me Madoka." she told him. She watched him chuckle and realized that he was rather handsome when he laughed. She shook her head, she was not thinking of him like that!
"Very well, then I suppose you may call me Koujo." he told her. Her eyes went wide before she stood up. "Even though you're loopy." she glared at him.
"Listen to me, you! I am not loopy! If anything, you're an annoying, overbearing, handsome, wonderful jerk!!" she snapped at him as she marched over to him, clutching his coat around her shoulders. She didn't realize how close she had gotten to him until she noticed that she was looking up at him.
"You think I'm handsome?" he asked her amused as he began to bend now, what he was doing not registering on his mind before suddenly his cell phone began to ring. Madoka jumped away from him as her face flared red. She turned and dashed out of the room, his coat flying from her shoulders as she went.
'I'll take that as a yes.' he thought as he remembered her blush. Maybe he could learn to like the Japanese a little better.