Oh and just a little bit of news. I got a puppy this May! She is a tricolor Australian Shepherd. Her name is Millie and she is currently four months old. Her birthday is April 1st. She is kind of the reason I haven't had time to really work on any of my stories. If you know puppies you know what I mean... They are cute, but they are hell!lol And i am typing this story on my new laptop while laying in bed. So now when i wake up in the middle of the night with an idea i can reach for my laptop and type type type.. Currently just did these last two chapters in one night and its currently 2:11 am. So anyways hope you like the chapter I tend to get carried away at times and so this is the result. Please Review!

Chapter 2

Naru was jolted back to reality by Mai pinching his arm. She had been speaking to him, but had realized he was not listening to her.

"I'm sorry what did you say?" Naru turned his attention back to his wife.

"No 'Mai act mature for once?' or 'there is a reason why I'm listening to you, I have more important things to think about.'" Mai mimicked him perfectly. "Geez Naru, what is with you today. Playful and cute, plus sweet and polite; while out in public at a party with people whom you hate to associate with." She scrunched up her face as regarded him. She then acted shocked placing a hand over her mouth and gasped.

"Are you sick?" She said dramatically placing a hand on his forehead. "You don't seem have a fever. Could be bleeding of the brain or a stroke… " Mai looked around and whispered "or even possessed by the spirit of a kind and modest husband." Naru removed her hand and gave her his trademark annoyed look. Mai laughed and kissed him on the lips. "And there's my favorite narcissist."

"So what were you saying before?" he asked.

"I was saying: I wonder if Yasuhara has proposed yet?" Mai said. "I'm not sure if Masako will call him when it happens or if she'd wait till tomorrow."

Usually for these parties. Mai is able to secure invites for her extended ghost hunting family, but tonight they were going solo. Ayako and Monk were babysitting the twins. John was in Australia. Lin declined as usual.

Yasu had confided in Mai earlier that he planned a surprise romantic evening for Masako where he was going to propose to her. So therefore he and Masako could not make it, but Masako could not know that was why they could not make it. This meant that Mai had to come up with the excuse of not being able to secure tickets for everyone, which apparently worked.

"Let's forget about the others for tonight." Naru twirled Mai onto the dance floor. "I want to dance with Cinderella before midnight when she turns back into a mom in sweats, messy hair, and a spit up rag on each shoulder." Mai a face at Naru.

"You know I'd be really mad, but sadly its true." She laughed and they began to dance. (Frank Sinatra- The Way You Look Tonight)

Some day, when I'm awfully low

When the world is cold

I will feel a glow just thinking of you

And the way you look tonight
Yes, you're lovely with your smile so warm

And your cheeks so soft

There is nothing for me but to love you

And the way you look tonight
With each word your tenderness grows

Tearing my fear apart

And that laugh that wrinkles your nose

It touches my foolish heart
Lovely, never, ever change

Keep that breathless charm

Won't you please arrange it?'Cause I love you just the way you look tonight

Just the way you look tonight

The night was going well. Mai schmoozed with the "important people." She and Naru chatting with one of her cast members.

As she washed her hands, she heard a woman sobbing. It was coming the far bathroom stall. She had dark long hair that hung over her face. She was on kneeling on the floor. Her one hand covering her face. The other place on her stomach, which Mai now noticed was large and round.

"A pregnant woman crying in the bathroom on the floor…" Mai thought. Having just been pregnant she knew it was emotional and things could go wrong. Maybe this woman was in pain and needed help.

"Are you alright? Can I help you?" Mai asked. The woman continued to sob as if she had not heard Mai at all. "Miss? Do you need an ambulance?"

"His love.. " her sobs subsided and she slowly pulled her hand down from her face and placed it with the other on her stomach. Mai noted the anguish in her voice. "My love…" She sat back on her haunches and looked down at her stomach. She was caressing her large stomach.

Mai observed the scene. She could not see the girl's face, but she looked young. Alarmingly young. Probably somewhere between 13 and 14. She was also so grossly pregnant that for being such a small girl. "She must be having twins" Mai thought. She was way bigger than Mai had been at full term. This girl looked as if any sudden movement would cause her to burst.

She wore overalls that bagged everywhere, but middle. There were faded and worn. They appeared to have been patch and altered to fit her growing stomach. Under overalls, she appeared to be wearing old fashioned men's wool winter under clothes. The soles of her worn and frayed shoes had holes.

Mai's attention went back to the girl's hands which were puffy and swollen, probably from the pregnancy, but also rubbed raw and scarred, the result of hard labor. She continued to rubbed her stomach and repeated. "His love… my love…" Then a sudden sob and she stiffed and clutch her stomach and hunched forward as let out a moan of pain. Mai was horrified, she had to get this girl some help.

"No!" She gasped this time there was anger mixed with the anguish. Her voice was so soft, but the emotion was clear. "It was their love!" she almost spat as she breathed through the pain. Her one hand pushing against the stall wall and the other clutching her stomach. "Their love did this to me!" and she sobbed again in pain.

Mai knelt down next to the girl and tried to rub her back soothingly. She could see how "her love" and "his love" could equal pregnancy. She knew that equation all to well. "I've been there sweetie, one night on a beach with your estranged husband and a full bar under a full moon and then next thing you know you're puking all the time, swollen hands and feet, heat flashes, night sweats, weird cravings and mood swings and a stomach that just keeps growing you feel you might give birth just by sneezing, if it were only that easy."

The girl moaned again in pain. "Their love.. their love did this.." she kept repeating.

"Their love did this to you?" Mai asked. The girl pulled away and turned her body. Mai who was now squatting on the ground next to the girl moved back to give her space. The girl was on all fours now. Her hair still covering her face. Mai heard a cracking sound and realized it was coming from the girl. She was tilting her head from side to side. Each time producing the sound of her cracking neck bones.

"Their love did this to me.." She hissed. Still titling her head.

Mai, about a foot away from this girl, was not sure what to do. This was beyond what she was expecting to happen. Extremely pregnant girl giving birth in the bathroom was the worse she thought this situation could result in. Extremely pregnant girl possible possessed, definitely not expecting that.

Her brain was a mess of jumbled confused and panicked thoughts consisting of: "Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh holy shit! What the fuck am I supposed to do?! Call for Naru!"

"Na-na-nnn-na" she attempted to say before realized "Like he's going to hear me. Brilliant plan, Mai!... Oh I hope she's not going to give birth to demons curse weird ghost child thing like in that creepy movie!"

"Their love did this to me!" her voice rose in pitch every time she said it causing the lights to flicker. Finally Mai managed to speak.

"Did what?" Mai gasped. The girls snapped backward and rose up off her knees in an unnatural way. The veins her hands raised up and were bulging. She lunged at Mai and gripped her by the shoulders.

The girls hair flew back to reveal her face. Blood was pouring out of her eyes as the girl screamed "It destroyed me! Ahhhh!" releasing Mai and fling herself back as she let out a banshee like scream. What can only be described as darker than dark smoke poured out of her mouth and filled the room.

"Excuse me, Miss are you alright?" A woman's voice said. "Did you trip and fall?"

"Uh" Mai uttered a squeak as she looked at the woman and then around the seemly ordinary bathroom. No girl and no smoke. Knowing it was better to lie rather than explain, Mai took the hand the woman offered and stood up. "Sorry I slipped and then when looked up I thought I saw this really big spider. I'm terrified of them."

Mai hurried off to find Naru. He had been looking for her as well.

"Hey, there's my Cinderella though you might have turned back into a pumpkin while my back was turned-" Mai grabbed Naru's arm and was pulling him towards the empty balcony. "Mai, what's going on? Did something happen? Did you have another attack?" he stopped her and placed his hands protectively on her arms.

"Yes- No- uh I don't know.. Just come now." She said and continued to the empty balcony.

"Well?" Naru asked.

"Ok I'm going to start and you can't interrupt or ask anything till I'm done." Mai said "Tell me when to start so I know you're ready." Mai took a deep breath.

"Ok just tell me." He put on his impassive expression. It was the face he made when he was receiving any kind of information. Mai launched into her story about what happened in the bathroom she went into detail on everything.

"And please do not tell me that she was some kind of human pandora's box and she will give birth to eviliness- things or like that pregnant girl in that really creepy horror movie that I watched and couldn't sleep for weeks or that she had sex with the devil or demon like in that other movie and will give birth to an army of demon soldiers or-" Naru took Mai by the shoulders and gave her a little shake.

"Mai, calm down and breathe before you pass out." He instructed her. She breathed in and out. Naru led her to a chair and sat her down. She watched him lean against the railing and hold his chin as he thought.

"Naru..?" Mai asked after a few minutes had passed. 'What was that?"

"I'm not exactly sure." Naru said. "We do know that whatever it was you only saw it and when that woman got you attention it was gone. There are several possibilities. One is that you saw a ghost. Why? I don't know. Two is that you had a vision. This is more likely. Now was the vision triggered by something or was it an attack?"

"It didn't feel like one of those." Mai said. "When it was happening it felt like when were fell in the sewer on that case at the school or the house the secret rooms and the maze, and even the case at the inn." Mai paused. She had a feeling just now. It was one of those feelings where she somehow knows something it true.

"Hmmm.." Naru was thinking. "It could be both a ghost coming to you in a vision."

"It feels connected…" Mai said slowly. "No, I know it's connected. She's connected to this thing (the darkness). Maybe if we can find out who she is we can finally find some answers. You said that you had a theory that this may go back farther than just me. That I have only added to it."

"If that's the case then there is nothing more we can do at the moment." Naru said as he held out his hand to Mai. She took as she got out of the chair. "The best thing for us is to give our minds a break for tonight."

"Agreed." Mai said as she took Naru's arm and he led her back inside. He twirled her onto the dance floor. It was his special way just for her. The music began to play. (Frank Sinatra- The very thought of you.)

The very thought of you and I forget to do

The ordinary things that everyone ought to do

I'm living in a kind of daydream, I'm happy as a king

Foolish though it may seem, to me that's everything
The mere idea of you, the longing here for you

You'll never know how slow the moments go till I'm near to you

I see your face in every flower, your eyes in stars above

It's just the thought of you, the very thought of you, my love

The song finished and soon the evening came to an end. Mai and Naru made their way home and relived Ayako and Monk of their job. Haru and Suzuka were fast asleep. They looked like perfect little angels snuggled safe and warm in their cribs. The proud and loving parents watched their children sleep. Everyone was safe. For now….

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