Chapter 3: Secrets and Start of a New Case

'Madoka, wake up,' I said as I shook her.

'Mai, let me sleep,' she groaned, I sighed and showed her the clock. When she saw the time she shot up from bed.

'Why didn't you wake me up earlier?' Madoka demanded,

'I tried to alright, since 3 hours ago. Shin's already up, and now he's watching a movie,' I told her as I passed her the clothes. 'Breakfast's on the table, I've just got to give Lin a call to say we'll be late by 10 minutes,' I went down stairs and got the phone. I dialled Lin's number after 3 rings he answered,

'Mai-san is something wrong?'

'Lin, we might be late by about 10 minutes, because Madoka just got up,' I sighed as I watched the woman trying to eat her breakfast quickly, and get dressed at the same time.

'No worries, I'll wait,' he told me, I smiled slightly watching the scene in front of me.

'Well then we'll be there as soon as Madoka finishes her breakfast,' I laughed and ended the call.

'Were you talking to Lin?' Madoka asked when she saw my expression.

'Maybe, Maybe not,' I giggled as she got her jacket and shoes on then she shouted for Shin,

'Shin, we're going,' Shin then came running up to us.

'Mama, are we going to meet Papa?' Shin asked, in his cute baby voice,

'Yes Shin, you're going to meet your Papa, and remember what I told you before your mum woke up,' I told him and he nodded as he put his shoes on and I passed him his coat.

'Come on, you two let's go,' Madoka said as she left the house leaving me and Shin walking behind her.

'Madoka, wait up!' I shouted as I took Shin in my arms and ran after her.

'I don't have time to wait, Luella and Martin will get suspicious if we not there before the rest of them, so we only got about an hour,' Madoka told me and then we finally arrived at the office where we were meeting with Lin, when we walked in I sighed.

'Just GREAT,' I said, loudly but not shouting.

'What's wrong Mai?' Madoka asked a bit worried as she came in but when she saw who was in the room she also sighed.

'Luella, Martin what are you two doing here?' I asked, sighing at the smiling couple.

'Last night before we went home I planted a little microphone in this room and I heard you telling Lin to meet you two here, so we decided to tag along,' Luella said,

'Luella, I care for you like a mother but please for future don't do that because there might be some things you don't want to know about,' Madoka told her, just when a little voice said,

'Mama, Mai-neesan, you're too fast,' then Shin walked in. Everyone just stared at the boy, when he went to Madoka.

'Shin, meet your Papa, Luella-obasan and Martin-ojisan,' Madoka said as she picked him up and pointed everyone out.

'Madoka may I ask who is this little boy?' Lin asked, as he came up to her.

'Lin, this is Shin your son, he's turning 3 in 4 months' time,' Madoka sighed,

'What do you mean? How come wasn't I told of this?' Lin started asking,

'That's because if you knew you'd come here straight from England and she didn't know she was pregnant until her 5 month. After she came to Japan from England, about 2 months after that she found out, she wanted to tell you but I told her to keep quiet since I have something to say as well,' I smiled as I said that,

'What do you mean?' Luella asked,

'You all know I have PK powers right? I asked, and they all nodded.

'Well then here's something more,' I told them just as in my head I said, 'Gene show yourself,'

'Sure thing,' Gene smirked and started appearing, when Luella, Martin and Lin saw Gene they gasped.

'Hello Mother, Father and Lin, it's been long since I saw you,' Gene smiled, while giving them a little wave.

'Mai, could you explain this?' Martin asked, coming back from his shock, while pointing at Gene.

'I'll explain dad,' Gene said, 'You know how Mai came to London when she was young, right?'

'Yes, that was when her parents were still alive and they came to visit us,' Martin said,

'That's right, and as you know she had to leave one year after that, and you know I was really sad, so I decided to use my powers to tie myself to her so I wouldn't feel so alone because of my stupid brother who never bothered to play with me when I was small, then after I died I couldn't move on, and I didn't want to because I knew Mai would be lonely without me, so I decided to stay and help her control her powers.' Gene smiled,

'But Gene, why didn't Mai tell us about this?' Luella asked, as Martin and Lin looked at me,

'I couldn't,' I told them, with a faint smile on my lips. Luella looked at me confused.

'If she told us, the men from England's Special Powers Research centre would take her,' Martin said, finally realising why I didn't tell them or Naru for that matter.

'I see, well it's a good thing you told us now, but Noll doesn't know right, about this and you having PK powers?' Luella asked,

'Luella, would Mai be this stupid to tell Noll after all the trouble he went through just to find Gene's body?' Madoka asked, looking at the said girl who looked sad,

'Mai, please don't show that face,' Lin said, as he came up to me and smiled at me

'Ok,' I said and then heard the door open,

'Mai-chan, you're in here right?' a familiar man's voice said as Gene disappeared from sight, and then the man hugged me tightly that I could hardly breathe.

'Bou-san,' I breathed out and heard something being smacked on his head.

'Bou-san, let go of her this instant, your chocking her,' a woman's voice said, as Bou-san let go off me, 'And she's you…' then the woman was stopped by something. When I turned around I gasped just as everyone else did. Right before my eyes I saw Matsuzaki Ayako and Takigawa Houshou, kissing and I thought they hated each other.

'This office is for working in. If you are going to do that, leave' a guy's voice said

'Hey Naru,' I said, blushing slightly as I saw him and then walked in to the kitchen to get his beloved Earl Gray tea which I knew he'd ask for. As soon as I gave it to him, he looked at me,

'Thank you, Mai,' Naru said, but this time, after a second, I just smiled as he said that.

'Lin, may I ask why you decided to leave without me?' Naru asked Lin as everyone just looked at him for saying "Thank you" again.

'Mai, had something to tell me,' Lin told him, but when Naru saw, Shin in Lin's arms he asked,

'Who is this boy?'

'Ah, this is Shin, mine and Madoka's son,' Lin told him as he put Shin down.

'I see, so what did you talk about with My Mai?' Naru asked and I blushed lots of shade's of red as he said "My Mai".

'Nothing much,' Lin told him as he smirked slightly seeing my face,

'You're keeping secrets from me again, aren't you,' Naru sighed in frustration but let it go. Then there was a knock at the door. I went to open the door and there I saw a young couple with a girl around 9 years old.

'Umm, is this SPR?' the woman asked,

'Yes, how may I help you?' I asked, looking at her. She looked relieved when I said that but her eyes showed fear,

'Could we speak for little while?' the woman asked,

'Yes, please come in,' I said, moving away to let them through. As soon as they came in, I closed the door and walked with them to meeting room.

'Could all of you please move to stand by the door,' I demanded to the SPR group who were taking up most of the room on the sofa.

'So may I ask what your names are and what you want to talk about?' I asked the couple,

'Yes, I'm Shou Tooma and this is my wife Aya and the little girl is Saya. We came to ask you to investigate something. You see my wife and I run an orphanage and some strange occurrences have been happening,' Shou said,

'What occurrences?' I asked a bit curious.

'All these strange occurrences started a couple of weeks ago. There were stones thrown at the windows, chairs moving around, the music being turned up and down, the lights in the whole orphanage being turned on and off at night we thought that the kids were doing all these things but then something happened that made us believe that some kind of supernatural things are going on. Around 2 weeks ago, we suddenly saw one of the girls playing but then the next minute she started to act strange saying things like "I'll kill all of you" or "Where did you go Mama, Papa?" and then she attacked one of the older boys by trying to drown them, and then a couple days after that we saw strange marks appearing on the kids. We have no idea what is going on, and all the kids there are scared to death,' Shou said,

'What marks?' I asked,

'These marks,' Aya said then she turned to the girl, 'Saya take off your top, please,' the girl Saya nodded and took of her top. She walked up to me and I looked at her. At first I didn't see anything but then around her waist and on her back I saw marks of a whip of some sort.

'Thank you Saya,' I told the girl and she put on her top.

'So will you help us?' Aya asked,

'Please could you get 5 rooms ready, one for the boys, one for the girl, two for two couples one is with a young child, and the other one for our base and please make the base one a bit bigger. There are 4 boys in the boys room and 3 girls in the girls room,' I said,

'Ok and when will you get there?' Shou asked,

'Tomorrow at around 2pm, please leave your address with me,' I said and Shou immediately passed me the address.

'Then until tomorrow, Shou-san,' I said as we stood up. As soon as they went out, I turned around to the guys and said,

'Yasuhara research this address and the orphanage. Ayako, Bou-san, Masako, John, Naru, Lin, Martin, Luella get your butts home, pack your things and meet here tomorrow at around 3:30am. We're leaving as soon as everyone will be here.

'Mai, don't tell me you're going to stay up all night reading the files that were the same as this one?' Gene's question suddenly popped up into my head. Of course this is what I would do when the rest of SPR gang left the office so I could get on with my work without anyone distracting me.

'No, but could you do that for me, I'd be really thankful,' I told him,

'Sure thing, I'll tell you what I found tomorrow,' Gene said,

'Thanks, your great,' I smiled, and with that I felt Gene fade from my mind.

'See you tomorrow then Mai,' Masako said as she, John, Ayako, Bou-san, Luella and Martin left.

'Well then, Madoka, Shin, I'll see you tomorrow,' Lin said as he and Naru left,

'Mai, shall I take the address home and research it?' Yasuhara asked,

'No, use the computer here, we'll stay over for the night,' I said, 'I'll just go and collect our stuff from the house,' and with that I left. As I came back to the SPR office I saw Shin sleeping at one of the couches.

'Madoka, get to sleep. We need to leave early tomorrow,' I told Madoka and fell asleep as soon as her head hit the couch opposite Shin.

I stayed up with Yasu trying to get as much research as possible for this case. It's not an easy task when all you want to do is catch up on the sleep you have missed for the last week. In the morning we will have some research to help us with the background of the orphanage and I will find a neat pile of folders, with previous cases in them, from Gene with post-it notes in that may help me with this new case.

Me: 'Finally got the next chapter done,' sighs with relief.

Ayako suddenly appears,

Ayako: Points a finger at me, 'I'll kill you, for putting me together with Bou-san. I'd rather be with John or Lin or Yasuhara,'

Madoka holding Shin, Masako, Mai, John, Lin, Yasuhara, Naru, Luella and Martin appear.

Masako: 'Sorry Ayako, Johns mine,' holds John really close,

Madoka: 'And Lin is mine,' Holds Lin close with Shin between them

Ayako: Looks at Yasuhara,

Yasuhara: 'Sorry, I've got a girlfriend,'

All of them look at him, then Ayako glares at me.

Ayako: 'Come here, I'll kill you,' starts running towards me but i run away hiding from her.

Me: 'Heh, she wanted to and i know it,'

Gene appears beside me and smirks.

Me: 'Hey Gene,'

Gene: 'Say thanks,'

Me: Turns to readers, 'Thank you for all the support you have given me while my mum was in CC. Now i can finally concentrate on the story, oh and please could you R&R' Turns to Gene, 'You'll get to appear in front of your brother in the next 2 chapters,'

Gene: Smiles and kisses my cheek, close to my lips. 'Thank you,'

Me: Blushes, 'Your welcome,' This damn bastard doesn't realize i like him,

Gene: 'You ok?'

Me: 'Yeah, i'm fine thanks.'

To be continued