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-death

Naru took a moment after Mai left. He took a deep breath, and knocked everything off of his desk with his arms. The neat files, the pens, the notebook, everything tumbling onto the floor. A glass framing if a picture of Naru and Gene cracked, from his powers or being knocked down, he didn't care enough to investigate. If anyone had heard they would have suspected an earthquake. Naru's cold exterior melted into anger.

He fished through the glass and found a picture of the old spr behind him and Gene's picture. He slid to the floor clutching the picture in his hands blood running down his fingers. He started at her. She was just a kid. She's still just a kid. She doesn't deserve the danger. If anyone found out that she held so much power, more power than she couldn't hope to control without his help, she would be strapped to a table and poked and prodded until she was a shell of a person. Until everything that made her special and her childlike wonder had disintegrated.

He would die before he let that happen. No one he loved would be hurt ever again. He was stronger and he would stop the people in the shadows of spr exploiting his fellow gifted and powerful people. Because general acceptance of the paranormal is not worth the harming of anyone.

It was definitely not worth the endangering if Mai. 'Latent' what a joke, he could laugh. Maybe at one point in the very beginning but from what he saw not anymore not by a long shot. She was too powerful for her own good. But he could help. He wanted to help.

Line break/ who ya gonna call / line breakers

Mai tapped her pencil her pk-lt essay. She was supposed to be making corrections wherever Naru's red pen corrected her but instead she was thinking about what he must have been thinking about when he corrected it. Did he think she was smarter? Tap. Did he think she had grown up enough? Tap. Did he think she deserved her scholarship? Tap. Did he want her tea? Tap. Did he miss her? Tap-tap. Did he want her help or was it just a necessity, did he even care about how she'd been doing? Crack. She looked at her hand, it had splinters of wood painted yellow, sticking out and was bleeding slightly, she hardly noticed anymore.

She felt the pain of dying almost every night. What was a splinter or two. She was probably more upset she'd have to find a new pencil. The blood distracted her for a moment before thoughts of blue eyes staring into her own telling her he missed her, flooded back.

"It doesn't even matter," she said to herself."I'm helping those people that he says need help." Like Naru and Ayako and monk helped her. She owed it to them not to be a lovesick girl. They deserved a hero and with Naru's efficiency and her empathy something good would come. Right?

Line break/ who ya gonna call/ line breakers

Walking into spr again felt like walking into a war zone. Except everyone was smiling and happily looking around and chatting. It was foreign and wrong, that such a good atmosphere could be three floors above such horrible cruelty. Not that she exactly knew what kind of cruelty it was, but she trusted Naru's judgement and moral learned that Naru genuinely cares about people's lives the hard way when she called him a murderer for trying to save everyone at Yasu's high school.

She got in the elevator and went up to the sixth floor just as Naru had instructed her. She would be working with his team, so atleast she wouldn't have to be too sneaky, she never was the best liar. She wondered how much her spr and this team would be alike. She wondered if Naru would still try to get tea from her. She most of all wondered if he'd ever deserve it.

When the elevator door opened she looked up at a group of three people huddled in the corner with their ears against the door she recognized as Naru's office. They were whispering in hushed tones reminding her of her own spr. She could imagine john standing over them saying Naru was entitled to his privacy and maybe listening to him was wrong. She giggled at the thought accidentally revealing herself to the three people listening to Naru do god knows what.

The elevator doors closed, damn there goes her escape. As three heads turned around to face her Mai was reminded of meerkats she'd seen on the discovery channel. The group immediately shot up and acted like nothing had happened. It might have been worked if Naru hadn't chosen that exact moment to open the door, knocking a boy with glasses directly into her. Had Mai been stronger or prepared she could have side stepped or even steadied him but Mai was tiny and clutsy and surprised. So she hit the ground with the boy on top of her. Infront of Naru and her new coworkers. She really had a talent at first impressions and falling on her ass.