DISCLAIMER: I don't own Ghost Hunt!


As I walked into Ayako's office she was rummaging through her paper work for something.

I watched her amused as her frustration increased before I cleared my throat "what are you looking for Ayako?"

Ayako looked up distractedly before beginning her search again, she was throwing files aside "I'm looking for the file on Eugene Davies".

Mai's eyes widened in panic "why? Is he ok? Has something happened to him?" She felt her heart stop until Ayako frowned at her.

"No, no he's fine but he moved last night . . . I mean something must have happened to make him suddenly . . . do something".

Mai grinned "this is good right?" she was practically jumping up and down as Ayako squealed in delight.

"Yes! I've found it" she shoved all of the files from her table onto the floor and Mai grimaced thinking of how long it was going to take her to re-file everything.

"Why exactly do you need his file?"

Mai watched curiously as Ayako quickly scanned page after page. "Well, I wanted to know why he never got visitors" she paused before adding "well except for you of course" Mai blushed and looked at her shoes but Ayako just carried on "strange . . . it says they couldn't find his family because he didn't have anything to identify him by" She glanced up at Mai suspiciously.

"Mai how did you know his name? You told me you never met him before he came to this hospital" Mai shuffled from foot to foot nervously.

She bit her lip thinking before saying "you'll never believe me if I tell you".

"Try me!"

Mai glanced up sharply at Ayako, she wasn't scolding her she was just asking to be trusted. Mai couldn't help but smiled nervously and nod her head.

"Ok" she sat down on one of the chairs opposite the desk "well it started the first week he arrived, remember that I had only just started here and I was listening to you tell that family to talk to their child because comatose people can hear you. So I decided to talk to Gene because he never had anyone come to visit him. I spent over three hours talking to him that night before I went home and that night I dreamt of him. The thing is the dream was real . . . I know that sounds silly and you probably think I'm crazy but I swear it was real and so are the dreams I get of him every night since then." She finished and took a deep breath before looking up at Ayako.

The expression on Ayako's face surprised Mai because she wasn't looking at her like she was crazy but was in fact looking at her in awe, she almost looked proud of Mai. Mai blinked and Ayako smiled widely at her.

"Mai, I do believe you are a gifted child."

Mai raised and eyebrow at her in question and Ayako waved her hand like this conversation wasn't as strange as it seemed.

"Mai I believe you, I really do and it's because I am in fact a Miko".

Mai stared at her in confusion "a what?"

"A Miko . . . it means I'm a priestess"

"So you were raised in a shrine?"

"No I'm a self-styled Miko, I taught myself" Ayako smiled proudly to herself and Mai laughed.

"What does you being a priestess do with me having these dreams" Mai frowned and thought back to what she knew about priestesses "Aren't priestesses something to do with spirits . . . you're not trying to tell me that Gene is a ghost because he's still alive!" her voice turned shrill and scared at the end.

Ayako sighed before she stood up and paced the room, Mai watched her every movement hoping that she would do something to help her understand.

"No, I don't believe that Eugene is a ghost, but there are people in the world that have visions like you do" she put up a hand stopping Mai from interrupting "I believe you're dreams are in fact visions . . . but we're going off track here, we are talking about Eugene Davies and who he is" she tapped her chin and thought "I believe we need to look up Eugene Davies, see if he has any family members we can contact . . . do you think that you can research him?"

"Erm . . . I'm only 16, I'm not very good on my research, oh! Wait I have a friend in college, he's really smart he should be able to help us" She grinned and stood up "I'll call him after I've finished work, I'll tell him to meet us at a café tomorrow after our shift is over"

Ayako nodded agreeably "yes of course, tomorrow is Friday anyway so we finish at four. Erm, yeah sorry about the mess here do you think that you could clear it up and maybe get me some tea?" she smiled innocently and Mai laughed.

"Of course I can Ayako, I have nothing else to do today"

Mai immediately regretted agreeing to clean Ayako's office. It had taken her over three hours to re-file everything and another hour on the phone with her friend Yasuhara who was going to research Gene before she finally got to sit down beside her comatose best friends bed.

She sighed tiredly and rubbed her eyes "Who'd have thought Gene that I'd be so tired on my birthday? My sweet sixteenth birthday no less" she frowned and whispered sadly "who'd have thought I'd be having my sixteenth birthday without my parents here". She sat in silence for another fifteen minutes just listening to the heart monitor beep.

"I heard you finally did something, I'm a little sad I wasn't here to see you finally move" she chuckled to herself "sounds weird, I didn't even know you when you were up and moving" she sighed wistfully "if you moved then something has happened and it's got to be good, maybe just maybe you'll wake up soon". She smiled and glanced at the clock "I've got to go, it's my birthday today and I'm being dragged out to celebrate".

She stood up squeezed his hand and walked to the door, she glanced back at him briefly to check everything was in order before gently closing the door behind her.


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