Eos's POV

Leaning against my jet black Yamaha R6 the next morning, my slender body encased in tight black leather, a duffle bag slung across my back and my eyes obscured by a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses I smirked quietly to myself. I knew my presence was affecting Noll. I could tell from the quick jerky movements he was making and the air of agitation that surrounded him like a fog. His co-workers were milling around by a van and another two cars, sneaking curious glances at me, wondering who I was to have set their boss on edge. I felt something vibrate against my hip and You Me as Six's Nasty Habits start blaring out, fishing the black Sidekick of my leather pants pocket I smiled at the caller ID before hitting answer and putting it to my ear ignoring the look Noll was giving me.

"Hey, how you doing gorgeous?" I asked in English.

"I swear to god you need to get your ass back to the UK before I murder your fucking students." An irate voice snapped at her. I chuckled as I saw Noll freeze at my earlier comment to my assistant.

"What have they done this time Toby?"

"What haven't they done?! I had one of them spend half of today's lecture waxing lyrical about how in his oh-so-brilliant opinion Herodotus 'portrayal of the Persian Wars was biased'. By the time I actually managed to get the little shit to shut up I barely had time to finish covering the material you had outlined. Then there was last week when they all decided since it was snowing it was acceptable to come in and pelt me with snowballs. I swear, you must have the patience of a fucking saint to deal with these kids."

"They're hardly kids Toby! And was Avery by any chance the kid that wouldn't shut up?" I inquired of my irate assistant referencing the know-it-all student that always piped up in my lectures.

"Yes. He seriously pisses me off. I'm half tempted to fail him simply for being an annoying little shit." Toby grumped down the line to me. This caught my attention.

"You had damn well better be kidding Toby or you're going to be in a serious amount of shit." I snapped.

"Of course I am idiot, what kind of person do you take me for? Now when are you getting that sexy ass of yours back here so I can go back to organising paperwork and sorting through the hell hole that is your office?"

I laughed and ran a hand through my pale gold hair, letting the soft strands stream through my fingers as they caught the early morning rays.

"Aw, do you miss me? Don't worry, I'm only here a little while longer and then me and my 'sexy ass' as you referred to it as will be back to annoying you as usual." I replied. I watched as Noll turned to glare at me, his midnight blue eyes narrowing as he processed what I had said.

"Fine. But if that kid pisses me off one more time…" he let his threat hang in the air before bidding her farewell and hanging up. Chuckling to myself I slid my phone back into my pocket and looked over at Noll and the group of people behind him who looked even more confused than they had before. Removing my Ray bans I hung them on my biker jacket that was unzipped to reveal my cleavage and sauntered over to my old flame.

"Something wrong Noll?" I enquired, flicking back to Japanese with ease.

"Who were you talking to?" he asked. Only I could hear the barely contained irritation out of his voice.

"Why do you want to know? You're not jealous, are you Noll?" I teased knowing this would get a reaction out of him.

It worked. He growled at her and took a step closer to her.

"Calm down sweetie, it was just my assistant Toby. You really shouldn't work yourself up like this, it's not good for you." I quipped giving him a wink as his assistant sprinted up to the group in front of her, a bag slung over her shoulder and totally out of breath.

"Late again Mai!" a boy of around Noll's age with unruly black hair and glasses that flashed in the light called to her with a grin. Noll turned away from me at the boys comment to berate his already flustered assistant for her lateness. As he slipped into proper Noll-the-ice-man mode I took the liberty of examining his group; there was a tall red headed woman, a petit dark haired girl garbed in a beautiful midnight blue kimono, a tall blonde boy who looked to be around Noll's age and…

"Hōshō Takigawa?" I enquired walking up to the tall dark sandy brown haired man. He turned to face her and looked at her in confusion.

"Um, yeah. How do you know who I am?"

"I believe your band is opening for mine over the summer. I'm Eos Ridley; I'm in Blue Skies Lie." I said with a grin, the man's eyes widened in shock.

"Seriously? That's awesome. Just call me Monk, everyone does." Monk said ruffling his hair with one hand as he smiled at me.

"So, how do you know our favourite narcissistic slave driver then?" The dark haired teen enquired coming over to grin at me.

"Oh, you mean Noll? He and I go way back. We grew up together; I've practically known him my entire teenage life." I replied, ruffling the back of my hair.

"Does that mean you knew…?"

"Knew Gene? Yeah. He was my best friend. Me, Gene and Noll were infamous around the BSPR offices; Noll for his bad attitude and me and Gene for our bad behaviour." I reminisced with a chuckle. It earned a laugh from the people surrounding me. I basked in the feel of their amusement, as an Empath good happy atmospheres were like crack to me, I gravitated towards them without even thinking. But then I felt it, I could feel the waves of strong dark emotions rolling off someone…the small dark haired girl. Anger and jealousy came off her in waves. I could hear her petty vindictive thoughts toward the small brunette girl I'd met the previous day…Mai I think her name was. They were hitting me like physical slaps. I gasped and fell to my knee as my hands flew to my head in a futile attempt to block the tidal wave of thoughts and emotions now feeding through me. Mai's attraction to Noll and her ire at being yelled at for being late and all the insults she was calling him in her head. The long red haired woman calling Monk every name under the sun in her head for being an idiot earlier. It all came crashing in on me causing me to whimper in pain as I clutched my hair.

"Eos? Eos!" I could hear Noll calling me but it was like he was muffled, like speaking through a wall where you can only hear half the words. The foreign voices and emotions in my head were drowning him out.

Naru's P.O.V

As I was berating Mai for once again failing to turn up on time, honestly that girl has no sense what so ever, I heard panicked cries behind me. Turning I saw an agonised expression cross Eos's face before she fell to one knee and clutched at her head. The others crowded around her, asking if she was okay, not knowing that their close proximity to her would only make her worse. I moved to her side quickly, pushing someone aside so I could kneel beside her and call her name. She didn't respond, it was as if she couldn't hear me which knowing what this particular power could do to her meant she probably couldn't hear me.

I reached out and pried her hands away from her head and tilted my head to see her face, I was met with wide eyes filled with turmoil of pain and pent up emotion.

"Eos, listen to my voice. Concentrate just on my voice, block out everything else, all the emotions and thoughts you hear just block them all out except for me. Can you do that?" I said quietly, willing her to hear me. I released her hands and cupped her face so she was looking straight into my eyes.

Listen to my thoughts. Concentrate on me and my emotions. Ignore everything and everyone else.

Slowly the panic in her eyes began to subside and she seemed to calm down. I felt a tendril of something touch my mind; it was a whisper of a touch, a shimmering cacophony of colour and thought that I knew to be Eos.

Thank you Noll, she whispered in my head and I bit back a smile as she sent a little of the gratitude she felt along the link before severing it. Releasing her face I took her hand once more and help her to her feet, she smiled at me and squeezed my hand before releasing it.

"What the hell just happened?" Yasuhara exclaimed shooting looks between me and Eos, the rest of them seemed to agree with his sentiments judging by their expressions.

Brilliant, yet more time is going to be wasted while I answer their inane questions, I thought to myself. Eos's face darkened as she stepped forward and levelled a cold look at Miss Hara who looked at her in shock at the anger clear on the blonde's face.

"Little miss stick-up-her-ass over there was giving off so many negative emotions she over whelmed my barriers and I ended feeling and hearing all of you. It's not pleasant and it's not easy to cope with so I would appreciate it if you would keep the jealousy and bitchy thoughts to a minimum Miss Hara." Eos said in a falsely sweet voice. Miss Hara's eyes widened, shocked at the vulgar language emanating from my…from Eos, I mentally corrected and the others began snickering at her.

"I don't know what you me…"

"Don't try that with me, I'm an Empath. When I'm in close proximity to such strong negative emotions like what you were giving off just now and I don't expect them my normally exceptional defences fail me and I end getting the full show. As in I can hear every vile thought that pops into that pretty little head and feel every unwarranted bit of nasty feelings you have toward that poor girl. So if I were you I would keep the hell away from me during this case because if I have to put up with your puerile and quite frankly vindictive thoughts once more I will end up punching you so hard not even the best make-up artist in the business will be able to make your face television worthy again." Eos snarled at the short Medium who recoiled away from the normally quite even tempered girl's tirade against her.

"Er…does that mean you're telepathic as well? If you heard her thoughts I mean?" John piped up, trying to break the tension and bring us back to a friendly atmosphere as usual. I mentally thanked the blonde priest for negating what could have escalated into all-out war if Eos's past record was anything to go by, I still had scars from arguments with her that had gone to far.

"Yeah, I am. I can also do something similar to astral projection and considered to be one of the most accurate clairvoyants in the world." She replied with a smile, instantly switching back to the kind and often infuriating Eos I knew.

Crossing my arms over my chest I cleared my throat to get her attention.

"Don't be modest Eos, it doesn't suit you. You know fine well that the precision of your precognition and postcognition is utterly unparalleled. However, you can explain further and introduce yourself properly later. Right now we need to get going." I stated calmly knowing that I would inevitably be peppered with questions about her the second she got on that damned bike of hers. That thing was a menace, the amount of times she had come in with some new injury from being attacked by a ghost while on it was beyond even my reckoning.

"Of course Noll, I look forward to being properly introduced to you all soon." I was unnerved at her being unusually cooperative. She walked up to me and I found out why as she pressed her lips against mine for a soft, lingering kiss. Nipping my bottom lip she pulled back and grinned as I growled in annoyance and frustration at her before she sashayed over to her bike, put on her helmet, kick started her bike and roared off.

"Okay, now I have to know. Who is she?" Ayako exclaimed. Rubbing the bridge of my nose between my forefinger and thumb I groaned internally at what that damnable girl had gotten me into this time.

"She is, as she said, an old acquaintance of mine and Gene's from back in England. She is also working on this case. Now if we could…"

"You do not kiss acquaintances like that! C'mon, tell us who she is!" Monk teased bumping shoulders with me. Opening my eyes I levelled a glare at the man making it clear the subject was no longer up for discussion.

"Mai, put your things in the van and lets me gone. We are already late." I snapped.

The girl grumped, muttering insults directed at me under her breath as she followed my orders and we finally were prepared to leave. Climbing into the van I couldn't help but feel a growing sense of dread at the prospect of having Eos on the case with us. This can only end badly for me, I thought to myself as Lin got into the driver's seat and we pulled out and began our long journey.