Their 2 am belongs to Gene as much as it belongs to the moon and the stars in the sky.

Gene—

Mai's guardian angel as much as Naru's recurrent specter, the one ghost he can't shake. He's a dream as much as a nightmare, you know, but even as a nightmare he's possessed of that gentle smile, the ease of his face and the clear-cut care in his eyes. It's all for the worse. Mai's dreams. Naru's memories. It's not a jigsaw—when they piece them all together, it comes out jagged, wrong, incomplete.

Mai and Naru, themselves, are much the same way. It's a feeling.

But feelings are just as much the truth as facts are.

Naru wouldn't be able to learn that if not for his brother. And when he can't sleep, when books don't read right, when visions flare and leave him cold, there's that window of opportunity—that flash of wanting—grasping for a small comfort, a reminder of feeling, like warm breath on ice-numb fingertips. Those nerves of his were cut off young, but sustained by a brother to whom he somehow meant everything. He'd meant everything to him from the very beginning. Somewhere on their DNA, it was dictated so,

as surely as the perfect lines of their identical features, the genetic predisposition for genius, the shared blue of their eyes, their predetermined heights and builds. Along with those came the warped condition: Sine qua non. Not quite. But enough.

His troubled 2 a.m.'s trip him up with memories. If Naru reached for it, he could extend a hand and pluck a feeling from them—any feeling, Gene has given him cause for them all over the years. Gratitude, happiness, annoyance—

grief, loss—

fear, even fear, and

a few feelings

better left

long unsaid

Naru never reaches for them. They never break surface.

He never sleeps, not on those nights.


[Happy birthday x2 my dear boys~ Here, the start point of drabbles of naru/gene/mai, some of which will be marked [AU] indicating an AU where Gene came to Japan with Naru a year later at 17 and didn't die. Naru studies at Tokyo U and they run the Shibuya SPR together. There are many complications, anything to 'wait now Mai has no sensible guides in her dreams fUCK' to 'Gene and Naru are slightly in love with each other and have to deal with that fuckery' to 'davis twins and jealousy/inferiority/superiority complexes?'
Mai gets in on their twin telepathy, no one knows what the fuck is up with that

((god god I want to roleplay this, I'd roleplay pretty much anything Ghost Hunt, by all means hit me up, crivens christies ))

thanks for the reviews i get uvu i love you guys ]