A/N: Thank you to everyone that has reviewed! You guys are amazing! This chapter is rather short, sorry! Still own nothing...

Warning: Contains suicide! Read at your own risk!


Mai awoke with a start. 'Where the hell am I now?' she thought as she took in her surroundings. 'Ah, I must be dreaming…'

For as far as Mai could see there was darkness…there was nothing…

'Mai' she faintly heard a voice call. She turned around frantically trying to find the voice. 'Mai…'

'Hello?' she called into the nothingness, 'Where are you?'

'Mai…' the voice repeated…it was coming from behind her. Mai turned and started to walk toward the voice slowly.

'I can hear you…but I can't see you…' she tentatively called as she continued to walk forward.

'Mai…don't…leave…' she heard the voice's patchy words. It sounded so far away as if it was breaking up. What was it trying to say?

'I can't hear you clearly!' Mai called as she walked closer to where the voice was coming from.

'Mai, don't come!' The voice was louder.

'What?' Mai asked in confusion. What in the world was going on?

'Don't come! You must leave!' The voice said louder. As she neared she finally recognized it to be Gene's voice. Her eyes widened in fear and she was about to stop dead in her tracks as soon as her foot landed…

Her foot never landed. Mai lurched forward at the lack of footing and began to fall in a dreadful, spiraling decent. She tried to scream but no sound came out; she tried to close her eyes and pretend it was all a dream…that it wasn't real, but her eyes never closed.

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Mai's eyes shot open as she hit bottom forcefully; the sound of her bones crushing and shattering still rang fresh in her mind. She sat up gasping for air and frantically looked around the room. She was in the base on her futon at the inn. It was just a dream. Mai ran shaky hands over her flesh which in her dream would have been bloodied and disfigured from broken, protruding bone fragments…but it wasn't. Her skin was smooth and unstained. Mai finally released a breath that she hadn't realized she was holding in relief.

"A dream…" she told her self quietly. She looked to her left and realized that Naru was sleeping soundly at her side. A flush crept over her cheeks as she continued to try and calm her self down. She didn't want to wake Naru up after all; he looked exhausted earlier in the day and he must have conked out as soon as his head hit the pillow. He looked like he was in a deep sleep.

"Good thing I didn't scream…" Mai said aimlessly as she rested back down next the boy. She watched him sleep with mild amusement. He looked so beautiful when he was sleeping, not that he didn't look good when awake…it was just…he looked…warm. Mai thought as she snuggled up closer to him and closed her eyes as she rested her head against his chest. She could hear his heart beating steadily…rhythmically…it was so soothing and calming. Before she knew it Mai had already matched her own breathing with his and was half way into sleep when her eyes suddenly shot open again.

"No…" She whispered. "No…please…" Mai pleaded as she agilely lifted her self from the futon and walked to the middle of the room. "Not now…"

Mai was in a panic, though anyone who looked would have thought otherwise. Her body moved swiftly across the space, her head held high and her hips swaying slightly as she walked. By no means did it look like she was in any distress…yet…her face told another story.

Mai's face was stricken with tears and her cheeks were red from her crying. Her eyes were screaming endlessly. Pleading, fearful, and scared out of her mind Mai was trying desperately to say something, anything. But no words came...not even a sound. The only noise that could be heard was the soft stifled sounds she made as she cried and tried to choke out words. It was too late…

'No!' Mai screamed in her head as she picked up a box cutter from the small container Lin always brought in with the equipment filled with miscellaneous items that he might find a use for on any particular case. She slipped the blade out slowly with her thumb and stared at the blade a moment longer. 'No! It is too soon! I should still have another day or so!' Mai was frantically shouting in her head yet her outward appearance remained calm. She raised the blade to her neck, 'NO! This can't be happening!'

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Mai drew the blade across the front of her neck. Blood trickled down her bare skin staining it with red. She closed her eyes tightly at the pain. She was screaming in her head but she stood perfectly still. The searing pain was unlike anything she had ever felt. It was so intense Mai felt the energy draining from her by the second.

Her eyes widened as she rested the blade on her wrist, 'No…no…NO!' Mai sliced her wrist with a quick downward thrust of the blade. Instantly blood sprung from the new incision and dribbled down on to the floor. With the job done Mai let the blade slip from her hand and drop to the floor with a dull thump. At the mere sight of all the blood Mai slumped to the floor and allowed her self to fall gently to the side. She lay there watching her own blood seep from her veins and her eyes began to slip closed.

'Naru…' she looked over to the futon, 'I need help!' Mai begged for the words to form. She whined and grunted yet the sound was still much too soft to wake the soundly sleeping man…but she needed to do something quickly before she lost consciousness.

Mai anxiously scanned the room…she would need something, anything to make enough noise to wake someone up. Mai saw that she was by the monitors. 'If I could only drop one of those…' she thought as she noticed that she was in a position that she could kick the leg of the table. 'Maybe that will jostle it enough…'

Mai kicked the table leg with all the force she would muster. The monitors rattled precariously but nothing more than that. The single monitor perched just to the side of the others shifted slightly towards the edge. 'Yes…' Mai thought as she blocked the pain and jabbed the table leg with her foot again. The monitor inched closer. 'One more time…' Mai thought as she gave it her all. If it didn't fall with this final kick she was going to be in trouble. She used up too much of her energy on the endeavor and was hovering just above blacking out. Mai hit the table leg hard and was vaguely aware of the falling monitor…


A/N: I know, I know...someone just shoot me now! Sorry for the cliffhanger! I will update in a few days so you won't have to wait that long for the next chapter! Please let me know how you liked it!