Chapter 2

DP

Danny woke up the next day in his living room; he had volunteered to sleep on the couch while Dani got to sleep in his bed. The first thing he did after getting up was see his parents talking in the kitchen with Jazz. "So, Jazz, what do you want to do about Dani? Do you mind sharing your room with her?" he heard his Dad say. Danny turned invisible and watched as Jazz thought about it, before saying, "Alright, sure, I always wanted a little sister anyway…but we'll need to work on getting her a bed…Maybe a bunk bed." Danny's Parents sighed in relief and his Mom said, "Thank you Jazz. But now the hard part comes with how do we adopt her. I don't think there are any laws about adopting clones, and if we lie about her…origins it would technically be fraud…"

"And aside from that, what does she even count as? She's got Danny's DNA, so she's genetically our daughter, but he's her only…contributor…" Jack said, and then got a look on his face, "Does that make me a grandpa?" "Okay…" Danny at last made his presence known to his family, "This is getting weird now." Everyone looked up at him and Jazz said, "Well Danny, we do need to think this through. If we lie about Danielle being an orphan we just happened to find, we could get in big trouble if the truth comes out." "Dang…" Danny said as he sat down with the rest of his family. "Can we, I don't know, tell the truth and see what happens?"

Everyone at the table looked at each other, the gears in their heads all turning at that idea. "Well…maybe. I mean, Danny is a celebrity now, everyone knows that ghosts are real now, so the idea of a clone isn't too farfetched," Jazz said. "But it could cause a lot of publicity around her too." "Maybe we should ask her what she wants to do," Danny suggested. They all agreed to Danny's idea, and waited for Danielle to come downstairs. The little girl came down stairs rubbing her eyes, having borrowed one of Danny's T-shirts for pajamas. "What's up?" she asked.

"Danielle, we were just talking about how we were going to adopt you," Danny's Mom explained. "The fact is that if we lie and say we don't know that you're a clone then we could get in trouble with the law. But if we tell people the truth then we could have a lot of journalists bother us, and you especially." "Am I just a big problem?" Danielle asked sadly. "No, no, but Sweetie, this whole situation is very complicated. But you are a part of this, so it's only fair that you help us choose how we do this," Danny's Mom explained as she put her hands on Danielle's shoulders. "Dani, this is your choice," Danny explained, "Only you can make it." The young girl never looked less sure of herself as she looked Danny's Mom in the eyes and said, "I want to tell the truth."

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After the Drs. Davis were situated in their hotel, Mai decided to wait at the SPR home office for Naru, everyone else was told that they could leave if they wanted, and they did. Mai however still wanted answers from Naru. Mai went about fixing up her the SPR offices, and even brewed fresh tea for Naru, she wasn't going to give him any reason not to answer her questions. When Naru finally returned to the office, Mai was ready.

She watched him enter and sat down on the couch and she gave him some tea. "You're more on the ball than usual," Naru commented. "Naru, I want to know something," Mai started. "You want to know why I never told you about my parents," Naru stated bluntly. "Yes," Mai said. Naru sipped his tea and said, "That's personal, employees shouldn't go snooping into their employers personal affairs." "I know," Mai said, "But after all that's happened, do you really think we should be keeping secrets from the people we know? The world almost ended, Naru. And I couldn't find anyone except John, I was so scared, I thought this was actually going to be it…" Tears showed in Mai's eyes before she stopped and wiped them away. Naru sighed and put his tea down.

He took Mai's hands and looked in her eyes, "Understand this, what I am about to tell you is something very private. No one else except for my parents, Madoka, and Lin know what I am about to tell you." Mai's face turned red, but she nodded anyway. "I was not an only child; I had a twin brother, Eugene Davis. Our parents named me, Oliver Davis," Naru explained, and Mai's eyes almost popped out of her skull she was so surprised, she couldn't even speak. "Yes, I am Dr. Oliver Davis. A little over a year ago, my brother died, here, in Japan. He was just as powerful a medium as I, and because we were twins, I felt him die. Lin and I came here to try to find his body, and bring him home. But, so far, our search has been unsuccessful. The reason I left during the Disasteroid Incident was because I had given up, and decided that I wanted to spend my last day with my family. But then Fenton saved us, and my parents decided that they wanted to help find Eugene as well, we almost died, without ever knowing what happened to him, Mother and Father couldn't stand the thought of failing to bring Eugene home again.

"That's why they're here now, Mai," Naru explained. Mai couldn't speak for a few minutes, Naru, Dr. Oliver Davis, whatever you called him; he had opened up so much of himself to her. "I don't know what to say…" Mai at last managed. "Then listen to me. Keep this to yourself, until my parents explain to everyone else. Can you manage that?" the young man in front of her said. "Okay," Mai said, "What should I call you?" "Just keep calling me Naru like you have been," Naru said as he let go of her hands. Naru gave Mai permission to go home, and she did; all the time thinking about what she had learned. When she went to bed, she had a dream…

Mai was alone, in a park. But then she turned and saw Naru, the Naru of her dreams that was always smiling. "Naru!" Mai said as she ran up to him. The smiling Naru shook his head at her. "Eugene?" Mai asked, and the young man's smile grew a little bigger as he nodded. "Please, talk to me. I want to help your family," Mai asked the spirit of Eugene Davis. Eugene Davis's smile disappeared, and he at last spoke, "Something is coming Mai. You must be strong." "What? What's coming?" Mai asked, but then the sky grew dark and the ground beneath Eugene Davis cracked, and he fell in. "NO!"