DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN GHOST HUNT!

Chapter 13

Naru is the last to leave the room, giving me a once over glance as if to check if I'm alright. Some images flash in my head of John and Yasu, but it is as if I am in the room with them. My mind hurts and my legs buckle. I sink into the ground. Lin rushes over to me "Are you okay?"

"Ngghuhh," I groan clutching my pounding head the images have stopped but I am left weak.

'Whoa' my voice says shocked.

'Was that you?' I ask

'No, no that was way more powerful than me. Do you even know how long I have to wait for to gain all my strength back after our talks? That's why I was silent back there. I could hear and feel everything but I couldn't do a damn thing' my voice fumes

"I'm fine.:" I tell Lin waving him away and thank the gods that my voice didn't falter and give away what I actually felt. Slowly I stand up holding on to the edge of the table so I wouldn't fall down again

I am covered in cold sweat. My heart thumps loudly and my legs feel too week to support me. I feel like throwi9ng up. Whatever happened gave me an influx of power that was too much for me…or a human to handle.

I'll have to ask Monk later about how strong demons are…

'Stronger than you' My voice responds

'Shut up, I wasn't asking you…and I don't really trust you.'

'Then who were you asking?'

I stay silent.

Lin goes back to trying to find out what's wrong with the now blue screened monitor.

Lin thumps the monitor with the palm of his hand and the blue screen is blue no more. But the room is empty.

"What…What happened?" my strength is returning but I still feel hot-cold all over.

"I don't…know." Lin responds

"They need help!" I try to run to the door but the rush makes me end up falling onto the floor again.

Lin helps me up, "You need help."

I become dizzy and decide to stay put for a moment, making myself believe that, no matter what the others are safe.

BANG

BANG

BANG.

My head snaps up. Was that a…a…

"Mai, get behind the desk! Lin yells flipping over one of our borrowed tables and moving it to the far corner, "and don't come out until I say so!"

I walk over, my dizziness preventing me from running.

"But what about you?"

Lin is halfway out the door, "I'm going to check it out. Don't come out until I'm back.

"But-"

'I'll be fine."

"…be safe…" Lin looks back and smiles

"Always."

He locks the door behind him. The silence is deafening.

Let everyone be alright, oh please let them be alright!

I begin to count my heartbeats.

One, two, three, four,

More silence.

Five, six, seven, eight, nine,

Oh god help me…

Fifteen, twenty, twenty-two…

Still nothing.

The whole mansion is silently waiting for something to occur.

The door bangs loudly and I hear footsteps.

Silently I squeak, my hand over my mouth.

Please don't come in, please don't come in, please don't-

"Help, HELP!" A scream is heard out side the door.

I jump out from my cover and run to the door.

Lin's words echo I n my head "Don't come out until I'm back…"

But I can't not help someone screaming for help outside the door.

For all you know it could be the murderer, my voice muses.

Shut up.

My hand is on the handle and I open it slightly.

NO! My voice screams. I step out of the room. Nothing. But I swear I heard-

Some one slaps me across the face hard. My head goes to the side from the force of the slap. Tears flood my face from the stinging pain.

Who would do this to me?!

"Why would you do this? Don't you care about us?" Another female voice comes out of my mouth and my body moves against its will.

Wait stop! And suddenly the mansion doesn't look like it used to anymore. Its no longer dreary and dark/ It's light and elegant looking. The wall is lightly splattered with blood. The blood that I can taste in my mouth. I cant move. Its like I'm paralyzed. The body moves though. It looks at the boy in front of me…I mean her.

"I still love you," She opens her arms as if to embrace the boy.

"Won't you just shut up!" the boy yells plunging a knife down through my body…or her body…our body.

Right through my heart. I feel the seering pain and the numnbness tingling that follows.

"I," blood trickles down my mout, "still love you," The body smiles, "Son."

Wait what? Son! That was her son?

That's when I realize that this must be a vision I am having and for the second time, I experience the awful feeling of death. The body begins to shut down and I struggle for air, gasping in what I cacn.

The thing is…the body I am in…this woman had a smile onher face when she was killed by her own son. She still loved him…was that wat real love is like? That no matter what they did they'd still love you? I wonder if my parents would've done that…

My vision fades into a deep black as I am pulled out of the vision.

I groan, my eyes still closed. I'm lying on something hard…the ground most likely.

"Give her space." A voice commands.

People I hadn't noticed surrounding me, move away to give me room to sit up and breath.

"Mai," Naru says kneeling in front of me, " Are you okay?"

I notice that I wasn't only cryi8ng in the vision. I had also cried in real life.

"N-no-o." I cry softly.

A/N: Thanks for reading…wish I could say more but I have a guitar cover video to film ;)

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