On the fifth day of Christmas Kitty gave to you! The twelfth chapter of speak!

Sorry I didn't put this up yesterday, it just wasn't ready yet and instead I uploaded a one-shot called Truth or Dare? check it out if you haven't already and review on it please.

BTW this is the second to last chapter of speak and the last chapter (epilogue) should be tomorrows update. sad to see this story go really. My next story will be the one that got the most votes and that was...The Boy in the Dream! Anyway read on now and please review!


Chapter 12

Recap-

She was holding a sharp shiny knife and had the look of murder in her eyes as she approached us.

End of recap-

She started mumbling to herself. It gradually grew in volume until she was nearly shouting the words "NO!" and "HOW?" at me. While she was just screaming and not slashing I took the opportunity to help Naru up from the dusty floor.

Naru seemed to be getting more and more annoyed at the ghosts constant shrieking and finally decided to interrupt the tantrum.

"How what?" Naru asked the female ghost.

In answer the ghost just glared at me and hissed in a voice that could only be described as inhuman "You!"

"What has Mai done to you?" Naru again asked the question that I wish I had the voice to speak.

"You have begun to heal yourself even though your circumstances have not changed," The ghostly woman said again though she was more talking to me even if Naru was the one asking.

"Heal herself? What circumstances?" Naru asked the ghost in more of a murmur than his normal confidant voice.

"Yes! Life is painful and love harms everyone at some time, the only freedom is death!" The ghost said before laughing manically .

"So? Life is painful but there is always another option rather than death," Naru said to the ghost. I agreed and I wish I could talk right now to ask the ghost what pain Naru was supposedly in before she cut his leg.

"Also," continued Naru "what pain was I in before you cut my fucking leg?" Naru said to the ghost in his most evil calm anger voice…wait he just asked what I wanted to ask…HE IS IN MY HEAD!

The ghost just laughed before answering with "You were still grieving,"

I saw Naru flinch but answer in a steady and strong voice "Grieving the loss of a loved one is normal but the pain lessens day by day…we never truly forget those who were dear to us but we learn to live on with their memories with us," I stared at Naru in awe and wondered if that is how he really felt about Gene or if he truly would be in pain forever.

The ghost woman simply scoffed at him and said in a voice that sounded like she was explaining to a simple child "No you were grieving the loss of your true love who you believed loved another. JUST. LIKE. ME!" the ghost woman screeched the final three words and I'm sure the house shook slightly. "That's why a took you first," The ghost added.

Once what she had said registered with my brain I was slightly shocked…was she talking about me or had Naru met someone while in England?

"Anyway," Naru said clearly changing the subject from him "Why attack the priest and the medium?"

"Well," It was almost like the ghost went into gossip mode...it was weird. "She loves him but he is a priest and doesn't want to hurt him or herself and he actually loves her back and doesn't know how to tell her he quit the priesthood a year ago. He fears she might punish herself for the choice he made for her. Love and life are very painful and only death is the solution, all of you must die to free you from the pain of unrequited love," Man this chick was messed up.

"This is why I hate you!" the ghost suddenly went back to violent mode and pointed the knifes sharp tip in my direction "You are slowly healing even though the one you love still thinks you love another! You even got your smile back!"

She was stuck in some kind of major tantrum she turned the knife to Naru next and continued "You are still missing your love because even if you work with her you believe she loves another, so you are still broken and should die first!" Ok now I'm sure this ghost chick is talking about me! I knew my eyes must be as wide a saucers right now and my mouth must be hanging open.

I snapped out of my shock to see the ghost charging towards Naru's heart with the knife She was shouting "DIE! DIE! DIE!"

I had to ask fast I couldn't let Naru leave me forever. Two years was long enough and look how broken I was when he was just on the other side of the world…a simple plane ride away. What would happen to me if he was on the other side of life? He can't die!

"NARU!" His name burst from my throat forming the one word I had been longing to say from the moment I saw him.

I didn't even think I just acted. I jumped in front of Naru's body and the knife dug deep into my shoulder. The woman was aiming for Naru's heart and his heart came to the where my shoulder is because I am so much shorter than Naru. For once in my life I was so glad to be short.

I could feel the woman remove the knife painfully and I felt my blood streaming out. I started to fall down to the floor, my legs no longer able to hold my weight. Naru's arms wrapped around me and gently placed me on his lap on the ground.

"Now you are healed completely? Without death? NOOOOOO!" The crazy woman was screaming but I ignored her. If I kept losing blood at this rate I wasn't going to last much longer and Naru couldn't escape with this crazy ghost here. If I was to die here I wanted to finally say something to Naru.

"Naru," I said my voice sounding weak both from 2 years of not using it and from the loss of blood "It was always you, I may not have been very smart back them but I knew there were differences between the two of you," I reached my good arm up to his face and smiled at him, "Your eyes glow brighter when you smile, Gene's stay the same. You may not be nice all the time but you show kindness in your own weird way. I love you Naru and I always will no matter what happens to me," I finished with a cough.

"Mai this is sounding a lot like last words, you are not going to die, I won't let you," Naru said to me while stroking my hair. "I have always loved you but I couldn't accept it, too many girls in the past tried to use me to get to Gene, I couldn't believe that a girl and nice as you would ever love me." Naru gave me a rare smile and like I said his eyes did glow a brighter blue-purple than Gene's.

Naru looked like he was about to lean down and kiss me but the ghost woman screamed loudly and made me flinch which sent a shooting pain up my arm.

"How can you be healed without death? It's impossible!" The ghost was screaming causing the whole room to shake and hurt my wound even more.

"Because as cheesy as this sounds" I managed to rasp out.

"Love conquers all!" Me and Naru both said, his voice adding volume to my weak one and creating a loud echo.

I could feel Naru summoning his PK so I began to use my good hand to funnel his PK through me to hit the ghost, if my theory is correct then this should allow Naru to not be hurt and I should be able to survive…of course this theory doesn't count me having a hole in my shoulder…this could be bad.

The sudden surge of energy through me hurts my other arm and my shoulder throbs as more blood pours out of me into Naru's lap and on the floor. The blood loss started to hit me badly and I started to blank out to Naru shouting at Lin to call an ambulance and the team shouting my name as they burst through the loft door.

Goodbye Naru, I love you was my last thought before everything faded to black.


That's it for today! I'm so evil leaving this cliffhanger! muhahahahaha

Hopefully tomorrow will be the last chapter for you. If not another one-shot. After this is complete it will be one-shots for the rest of the 12 days of Christmas so it you want to know when they come out add me to the author alerts so you get to know. So bye bye guys! Please review cuz I love all of the reviews I get. They inspire me to write faster.