EEEK! I did totally forget Carrie! But you guys didn't need to know that...starting now it was intentional! *Does evil Lelouch laugh from Code Geass* Okidoki here is another chapter! Enjoy.
Mai stood up along with Kiwi and Madoka and Ayako to figure out what all the commotion at the monitors was about. She heard Madoka gasp at seeing the message written on the wall. Mai just looked to Naru.
"What is that supposed to mean?" She asked, he said nothing instead checked the time on the computer screen and decided everyone had better get some rest.
"Everyone should go get some sleep. I would hate for you all to be tired and then one of you looses a limb." He said shooing Ayako away. "Miss Matsuzaki, you will stay in Mai's room since I hardly think it is appropriate for Mr. Delain to be in there with her unsupervised." Naru said earning a nod from Ayako and a look of hurt from Kiwi.
"Well, you two seemed pretty close the last time we went on a case, all snuggled together." Kiwi narrowed his eyes. And Madoka smirked. Ayako just raised her eyebrows and Mai whirled around to face Naru who as always remained as expressionless as usual.
"Naru what is he talking about?" Mai asked her voice steadily rising in pitch. Naru smirked lopsidedly.
"if you're too dumb to figure it out on your own I in no way should tell you and spoil the thoughts your working so hard to generate." He teased. Mai glared at him and stuck her tongue out. She then grabbed Ayako's wrist and dragged her to her room, calling out behind her,
"You narcissistic tea loving JERK!" Then the door slammed breaking the momentary silence in the room. Kiwi raised his eyebrows and Madoka smiled.
"Things seem to finally be getting back to normal." Said Lin from the monitor. Kiwi seemed the only one who didn't understand what was happening.
"Lin Madoka and Mr. Delain, I would also like for you all to get some sleep." He said sitting down on the chair Lin had left vacant, Lin looked at the younger man skeptically.
"Noll, you need to sleep too, let me take the night shift." He suggested only to be shot down by his stubborn friend.
"No. I will watch the monitors, you are no longer my body guard Lin, You an Madoka probably need the time anyway. Go to sleep." He ordered, this time Lin didn't argue instead he left one of his shiki in the room just in case something did happen. He then took Madoka's hand and they left for their bedroom.
"What just happened?" Kiwi asked. Naru sighed and put the headphones over his ears tuning out his curious student. Kiwi stuck his own tongue out at his teacher much like Mai did, and then snickered behind the man's back.
"I saw that Mr. Delain. There is a mirror right in front of the monitor you know." Naru smirked as Kiwi fluffed up a pillow and slept on the couch.
The rest of the night was quiet and Naru found himself falling asleep, in his chair. Mai in her room also fell asleep rather easily. Only when Mai realized she was asleep it was because Gene was standing in front of her smiling warmly.
"Hey Gene. What do you have to show me today, er tonight?" She asked walking up to him. His smile faltered and he pulled her by the hand into a room in the hotel they had not been to yet.
"What am I supposed to be looking at?" Mai asked only to find that Gene was gone. She frowned, she hated the ones where he left her alone. She braced herself and pushed open the room's door to reveal a perfect family. Probably the owners of the hotel.
A lovely middle aged woman with sandy brown hair and aged gray eyes, along with a man Mai assumed to be her husband, a tall man with salt and pepper hair. In front of them stood two children. A pretty girl with long raven hair and gray eyes and a boy slightly shorter with honey brown hair and caramel eyes. They all smiled happily and were perfect.
Mai then noticed the child in the corner. A girl with short charcoal hair and the same gray eyes as the other family members. Her clothes were torn and too small and her face was smudged with dirt and what appeared to be dried blood.
The image changed and now Mai was standing on the roof of the hotel, she couldn't feel it but she could tell by the red of the little girl's nose and cheeks that it was very cold and she did not want to be up there with her mother that night.
The older woman staggered as if she were drunk and her hair was tossed in front of her face making it nearly impossible to see her face. The girl was backing toward the edge and whispering things Mai couldn't understand over the wind. Something shiny glinted in the moonlight, a knife was in the mother's hand and she was thrusting it forward toward the girl who sobbed.
"You are a mistake! You ruined my perfect family! Luckily mistakes can be erased," The woman smiled wickedly as she made one final move toward the girl and she fell. A scream caught in the wind alerted the woman to what she had just done.
The woman collapsed to her knees and sobbed into her hands,something sharp nicked her cheek and she looked to see the knife she had taken from the kitchen. Disgusted the woman threw the knife over the edge of the building and lay down on the cold building top. It then began to rain.
Mai opened her eyes and found Ayako looking at her worriedly. Mai was sweating and breathing hard. The dream hadn't seemed that intense while she was watching it, maybe the severity of the woman's actions only hit her afterwards.
She looked up at Ayako to feel the water that had apparently been pooling in her eyes slide down her scarlet cheeks. Ayako sat on the bed beside her and wrapped her arms around her. Mai returned the hug thankfully. She did not want to be alone right now.
Meanwhile back at base Naru slept with his head against the back of the chair. He was supposed to be watching the screens but after several hours of nothingness, he dozed off. A familiar smell filled the air and Naru snapped his eyes open to find Kiwi standing over him with a sharpie in hand, the cap removed.
Kiwi squeaked in fear and dropped the sharpie to take cover behind the couch. Naru glared at him. He checked the mirror to see if the boy had actually succeeded in the drawing of a mustache but found to his horror that something had been written in the mirror.
Mistakes may come back to haunt you.
It was written in neat dripping cursive and had an unfortunately familiar thick look to it that Naru wished he wasn't so familiar with. He stood up and walked toward the mirror to examine it further when the image of a young thin girl appeared. He blinked once and it vanished along with the writing. Perhaps he hadn't seen it at all.
He turned to Kiwi who now had his clothes on and his glasses replaced the contacts he had been wearing the day before. He smiled guiltily at Naru who glared at him in return.
"Now professor, you won't do anything harsh will you?" he asked kicking his backpack that was stuffed with practical joke supplies under his blanket that drooped lazily over the couch.
"If I ever catch you doing that again you will write me a hundred paragraph essay on what an omnyoji is. Understand Mr. Delain?" He threatened Kiwi nodded furiously not wanting to write so many words on such a dull topic.
A few moments later Ayako and Mai walked in. Naru could tell by the way Ayako was sticking close to Mai that she had a dream. He wordlessly went up to Mai and gestured for her to take a seat on the couch, then he found that he was out of tea. He frowned at his lack of tea, but sat beside her notebook open.
"Mai, what did you see." He asked clicking his pen and holding it above the paper calmly. Mai seemed lost in thought for a moment before returning her attention toward her teacher.
"Uh, I saw a family first and then it shifted to the mother and one of the daughters in a fight on the roof, the mother had a knife and the girl was so close to the edge of the building that she fell, the mother said she was a mistake and that she would be erased." Mai said, she looked pained to say it aloud and Kiwi was staring at her, probably using his telepathy to see exactly what she had. He flinched and returned to reality.
Naru looked at him and he shrugged. Lin and Madoka entered the room, Madoka's facial expression changed to one of worry when she saw Mai on the couch with Naru's notebook. Lin also seemed concerned for the girl. However he made little effort to show it as everyone else had all their attention on her.
He instead rewound the monitors to when he had last seen them and then let them play. For the first thirty minutes nothing happened so he fast forwarded to around three in the morning when a figure appeared in the hallway. She was small and young, probably around thirteen or fourteen years old. Behind her appeared an older woman maybe in her thirties or forties.
The older woman chased the girl through the hallways onto different monitors and finally they disappeared behind a door that was labeled roof access, employees only. Lin frowned and spun the chair so he faced Naru who had sent Mai and Madoka for tea.
"You fell asleep at the monitors again." He said he could tell by the way Naru scoffed and looked away that he was right. He sighed and pointed to the screen so Naru could see what had happened while he was asleep.
"That makes sense. It fits in with Mai's dream, how do you suppose we exorcise them?" Naru asked as the image on the screen returned to what was happening currently. Lin thought for a moment, Naru only trusted so many people and most of them were in Japan.
"We could always ask-"
"No." Naru cut Lin off before he could finish his thought, he already knew what Lin was going to say. He would not call that man just to exorcise a mediocre ghost.
"He could help Naru." Lin said hinting that he thought that was the better choice. "We either call him or you use your PK because I am not doing it for you, as you said I am not your bodyguard." Lin smirked, Naru glared at him, he had been spending too much time with Madoka, she was making him bolder.
"Mai could do it." Naru suggested, by then Mai and Madoka had returned with tea, Kiwi had passed out on the couch again apparently too bored to stay awake.
"What could I do?" Mai asked handing Lin and Naru their beloved tea. Lin inclined his head in thanks and Naru flickered his attention back to the screen.
"We want you to cleanse the spirit." Naru said laconically. She had done it before sort of, but Masako and Lin were there to help her so nothing bad could have happened.
Mai's eyes widened. She looked form Naru to Lin in total shock that they would trust her with this.
"I thought that was why you had Masako. I'm not a medium I have no training I-" She was cut off by Naru who seemed to not let many people finish their sentences.
"Unfortunately Mai, Masako is still in Japan and is not available to travel such long distances." He snapped draining his tea in record time.
The door to base swung open and in waltzed Naru's least favourite person in all of England. He wore bug like sunglasses that shone bright pink in the light of the hotel room and he had a long gray coat that skimmed the ground as he walked.
Mai smiled when she saw him but that smile immediately drooped when she saw who he had brought with him. Long blonde hair braided over her shoulder, she had her hands on her hips and she walked right up to Naru stopping centimeters away from his face.
"You forgot abut me." She whispered not letting the venom in her voice slip out and ruin the chances she had of him liking her.
Naru raised his eyebrows but his voice remained monotone. "No I didn't I intentionally left you out. I don't feel that you are able to handle yourself on a case yet." He said. Mai's face showed a ghost of a smile and Carrie glared icily at her.
"I'll just have to prove you wrong then." She snapped sashaying out the door. Naru then turned his attention to his eccentric uncle.
"And what are you doing here?" He sighed as the man removed his sunglasses and sat at the desk propping his feet up on the monitor. Lin looked like he wanted to say something against that but decided not to.
"I'm here to help my darling nephew," He smiled dazzlingly. Naru glared at him to leave but Curio skillfully avoided it. Suddenly the lights went out and the temperature dropped.
There we go I smuggled Carrie in there! I love all the reviews I been getting! I have never gotten ths many before, so on that note...REVIEW!