If It Hadn't Been for Her

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Chapter 4: Finally they Talk

Her entire body felt airy, but also strangely energized. The feeling was familiar, and also closer to her grasp then it had been in a long time. She tried to pinpoint when she had this feeling before. She felt herself almost leaning into the feeling.

Before she realized it, she was putting one foot in front of the other. Her connection to the feeling grew stronger the father she walked.

In an instant her feeling was forgotten. In front of her was the boy. The boy now seared into her memory from the time she opened the tarp.

His knees were pulled up to his chest, and his face was buried in his arms. He was trembling enough to put earthquakes to shame. She took a step toward him, then reached forward and put a comforting hand on his head. His hair was soft. Its slight curls clung to her fingers. She tried to project a calm, willing him to withdraw from his world and open up to her.

Silently, she waited for his storm of emotions to settle. Her confusion about her surroundings trumped by the stark need in front of her.

Eventually, his trembling subsided and he looked up at her.

Brown eyes met blue.

When you look at a person and it seems you know them, but you can't place where. A stranger you can relax around as if you had known them for years. It seemed as if in their hearts of hearts introductions were not necessary.

Despite the instantaneous connection, neither knew each other's names.

Mai's face warmed with a smile, "My name is Mai Taniyama"

She bowed slightly.

The boy bowed in return, "Eugene Davis, but you can call me Gene"

The world seemed to shift and the orbs lights blurred.

Gene's eyes widened in alarm, "Noll, he's upset."

A particularly violent shift echoed through the realm.

"Are you mad?, Noll!, you're going to hurt yourself." his shout didn't echo back in the darkness.


Oliver could still see the green shearing across his vision.

His body trembled, his control crumbled. Gene's room began to shake. The shirt Oliver came to borrow was forgotten on the floor. All around him objects exploded and flew. He fell to his knees.


Mrs. Davis was sitting pleasantly at the table while sipping her tea and indulging in a little reading. At first she noticed the light was moving strangely across her book. Looking up she realized the chandelier was swaying back and forth. She felt a vibration through the floor. Her heart jumped up into her throat as realization struck her. In a matter of seconds she sprinted up the stairs in the direction of the noise. She reached Eugene's room just in time to stop the dresser from falling on Noll. She slammed her body into the dresser to push it back up right.

Not seconds later, Her husband and Madoka burst into the room. Madoka crouched down immediately and tried to call out to him. "Noll!" she shouted above the noise in the room. After a couple more attempts at calling out and a few more shattered objects, she reached back and slapped him across the face.

"Snap out of it!"

Finally, recognition seemed return to his eyes. Objects that were once floating feel to the floor. The shaking of the room subsided. He stared into Madoka's face for a few seconds before promptly collapsing.

In an unfortunately practiced manner, Mr. Davis was on the phone calling for an ambulance.

Mr. Davis rode in the ambulance with Noll. While Mrs. Davis and Madoka followed, legally, behind in the car.

Madoka, Mr. Davis, and Mrs. Davis sat outside in the waiting room, hoping for good news on Oliver's condition.

"I knew it would be dangerous for them to be so far apart, Gene is always more effective at helping him through these without either of them getting hurt." Mrs. Davis sighed ruefully.

"They are growing boys, we won't always be able to protect them. They want to learn and explore. Their interests won't always align. We can only hope that they align more often than they converge." Mr. Davis rubbed soothing circles into her back as they leaned into each other for support.

His brow was furrowed with worry, while Mrs. Davis hid tears in his dress shirt.

Meanwhile, Madoka alerted Lin to Noll's condition over text.

Little did they know, an ocean away Eugene was also in the hospital.


The first thing that alerted her to her reality was the smell of bleached sheets.

She could recognize the smell anywhere. She was in a hospital.

Despite the blankets she felt chilled to the bone, and her eyes seemed reluctant to cooperate.

With her eyes still closed she assessed her health. Her head thoughts were slow and her head dully throbbed. The remnants of nausea curled in her stomach, and she was freezing. Unable to stay still as her body trembled.

She let out a long breath, and moved to open her reluctant eyes. At first, even the light streaming under the closed door hurt her eyes. Gradually, her eyes adjusted. Just in time for a slight tap on the door and for an entire doorway of light to assault her recently adjusted eyes.

Instinctively, her arm shoot up to shield her from the brightness.

"Hello" the lady with the red-gray hair said soothingly. She entered the room quietly and sat beside Mai's bed.

Her eyes observed Mai steadily, her gaze zeroed in on Mai's shivering. She pulled out a thermometer.

"I am Dr. Matsuzaki, can you tell me your name? Do you know where you are?"

"Mai Taniyama and Matsuzaki Hospital?" Mai hazard a guess of her location. It was the only hospital in the area, after all. Mai absently noted her doctor's surname was also the hospital name.

A pleased smile flitted over the doctor's face, "I wish we could have met under better circumstances, Ms. Taniyama. I want to check your temperature. The water brought your body temperature down quite a bit, we checked it when you first came in. I need you to put this under your tongue and keep your mouth closed until I say when."

Mai took the thermometer from her and did as she was told. Casually, Dr. Miyazaki pressed the call button beside Mai's bed.

"We found you in shock and you lost consciousness on the way to the hospital. We also think that you may have been in contact with electric current from a defibrillator. We hooked you up to a heart monitor earlier and your heart rhythm looks fine." The thermometer beeped and Dr. Matsuzaki pulled it from Mai's mouth. She frowned as she read the measurement, and reached for Mai's chart to jot a few things down.

"You temperature is still lower than we want it to be."

As if on cue, a nurse walked in in response to the call button. She looked inquisitively at Dr. Matsuzaki.

"Please bring some more blankets to this room, Ms. Taniyama temperature is still lower than I'd like it to be."

"Of course" swiftly the nurse bowed and left.

Dr. Matsuzaki looked back to Mai.

"If you are feeling up to it the police would like to speak with you."

Mai shivered but nodded. "I am just a little cold, I can answer their questions." Dr. Miyazaki smiled and stood. "I will go get them." She turned to leave but Mai sat up a little higher,

"wait" she called after her.

Dr. Miyazaki turned her head back her face receptive.

"How is he? Is he going to be alright?" Dr. Miyazaki face turned somber. "It's too soon to tell." She turned back around and left.

Minutes later she walked back in with to officers in tow. One held a notepad, the other lead the way in and took the seat next to her bed.

The officer in the chair next to her was a women with light wrinkles and her hair pulled back into a neat bun.

The officer with the notepad looked younger and slightly awkward. He almost seemed to hide behind his notepad.

The senior officer spoke first. "I am Officer Aoi and this is my partner Shunsuke. We are here to ask you some questions about what happened. You can start by telling us everything you can remember."

"I live and work at Furei Camp Grounds. Sitting at the lake helps to calm me down and lift my spirits. It is pretty quiet this time of the year. Most people who go to the lake during the winter with cars are there to put their boat in the water. So it was strange to see the red car pull up without a boat. It gave me a bad feeling. I wanted to call the police right away, but at that point there was nothing to report. So instead I started taking picture with my cellphone. I took pictures of the license plate and got a few of her as well. I didn't realize until moments later that she had a body in her trunk." Mai looked up into Officer Aoi's eyes. "I am not strong enough to take on a women with a car. What if she had a weapon? I called you guys, but she was dragging him wrapped up into the water. I didn't know what else to do so I howled to scare her away, but by that point she had already dragged him into the water. She took off running back to the car and peeled away. As soon as she left I pulled him out of the water." "I think I left my phone at the scene. It's a blue flip phone."

Tears were streaming down Mai's face. Officer Aoi grabbed her hand between the the two of hers. "Officers that are still at the scene found your phone. It was unlocked so they should be able to find the assailant using your photos. You did a good job. If you hadn't been there that young man probably would have died. Here is my card if you remember anything else please don't hesitate to call." The officers bowed and left shutting off the lights and closing the door behind themselves.

Now that they had left, her fatigue returned full force. She laid back and let sleep overcome her once more.


Meanwhile in England, a doctor stood in front of Lin, Madoka, Mr. Davis, and Mrs. Davis.

"He will make a full recovery. We want to keep him overnight for observation, but if all goes well he should be able to go home tomorrow afternoon." the doctor, "You can see him tomorrow during visiting hours."

Madoka and Mrs. Davis hugged happily and Mr. Davis thanked the Doctor with a handshake.

Lin, who had driven to the hospital with a tense set in his shoulders and white knuckled grip on the steering wheel, let the news shake the tenseness from his shoulders. He felt as if he could breathe again.

Relief was the dominant emotion surging through his system, but he couldn't help the niggle of doubt that kept rearing its head.

'Why had Noll lost control? They had worked for years to build up floodgates of control around his psychokinesis.

For them to crumble so quickly in his own home.

What had happened?'

Lin had every intention of finding out, and he wasn't the only one.

Now that everyone knew Oliver was going to be alright, curiosity over his loss of control was beginning to become the predominate emotion of the group.

After all, they are a group of scientists.


Eugene hovered over his body on the operating table. Reality, was sinking in quickly.

He had been hit by something, probably a car according to the doctors, and had been pulled out of the water by Mai. A memory of headlights flashing behind him and the impact of the car momentarily overwhelmed his senses.

He would be on a bottom of a lake right now if it hadn't been for her.

He still might die.

The doctors talked about how much blood he had lost. He was still bleeding, externally and internally.

He broken some bones: a couple ribs, a leg, an arm.

The only positive is he didn't break his spine, and he isn't brain dead.

He felt a presence beside him, he looked to his left to see Mai hovering beside him.

"Where are we?" she asked in a whisper as if the people operating below might overhear.

"The astral realm. Have you never astral projected before?"

The confounded look on her face was answer enough.

"Basically, you're out of your own body. Like a spirit, but unlike a spirit you and I can return to our bodies. The astral realm takes many shapes and is sometimes influenced/ intermingled with the world you and I live in normally. I don't know everything about this realm, but I have astral projected many times."

Mai absorbed the information in silence. It was a lot to take on, and she was still having trouble accepting this as her reality.

They hovered together in a companionable silence for a time.

"They say I might not make it." he leaned into her shoulder for support.

She looked at him with sadness and concern, a few tears fell down her face.

"I hope you make it…"

Her eyes went distant for a moment before she poured all her attention onto him.

"Promise you won't give up on your life until your funeral."

He was slightly taken aback by the intensity in her eyes.

Eugene grabbed her hand in both of his, he looked into her eyes, "I promise"

"Mai," he said softly, breaking the silence that fallen between them. "I need you to call my family."

"I think my brother believes I'm dead."

"Naru?" her intuition and memory worked together to produce the name.

Mild surprise flitted through his eyes, "yes."

Anxiety stirred with her, but her want to help was stronger.

"Of course, what do you want me to tell them, besides that you're alive?"

"Tell them where I am. They are in London right now. My mother speaks only a little Japanese, so you should ask for Lin, Madoka, or my brother to translate. You can tell them we have been talking in the astral realm. If Noll needs more proof tell him I told you to call him an idiot scientist. The number is xxx-xxx-xxxx. Xxx-xxx-xxxx. Now go"

She felt a slight pulling, and she was gone from the astral realm. Safe in her body.


She woke up with a clear head and repeating the number Gene had given her.

She grabbed the pen and paper from beside the phone in her hospital room.

She flipped the first and second page leaving them blank, and wrote out the phone number that Gene gave her in her dream. Then wrote down as much as she could remember about what Gene wanted her to tell his family.

With his injuries he wouldn't be waking up for a while, or at all, the darker part of her mind chipped in unhelpfully.

It was up to her to inform his family. No one else knew his information.

I might not either she chided herself. This could all be made up.

Her intuition, believed in her, she felt as if it was real.

Her intuition helped her save Gene's life, she had to trust her intuition.

When she made the phone call. She would know for sure.

She flipped the notebook back to the first page so it looked like she hadn't written anything on it at all.

She placed them back beside the phone and pressed the call button.

A different nurse than last night walked in smiling.

Mai and the nurse bowed to each other. "Excuse me, I was just wondering if I could make calls on this phone." She pointed to the one beside her.

"Of course," the nurse replied. "Do you need anything while I am here?"

"No" Mai bowed. "Thank you for coming, especially since it was just to answer one of my questions.

"No worries" the nurse reassured, and bowed once more before she left closing the door behind her.

Despite her doubt despite her reservations She had to call this number she had to get a hold of Eugene's family.

She picked up the phone and dialed the number.


AN: Hey, sorry it has been so long. I hope you like the chapter.

Summary: Mai + Gene Astral Realm - Oliver flipping out over Gene's death not death - Mai waking up in hospital gets interviewed by the police and doctor, then falls back asleep - Quick view of situation in England - Mai talks to Gene again in the astral realm, he convinces her to contact his family - Mai wakes up and takes in what she has learned and decides to buck up the courage to call. She picks up the phone and…

Posted: 6/30/2017

Last Edited: 6/30/2017