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The Eye Of The Storm

Kai rubbed his temples in a well hidden aggravation as his patient continued to rant on the chair in front of him. It had been two days since he'd gotten out of hospital and rather than sit around and do nothing, as the doctors had advised, he'd decided to get straight back into work. It helped to relieve any predicted boredom he had seen in the stars had he decided to prolong his break. Unfortunately, the major con of this idea was the fact that he now had to deal with more sorrowful spirits than he really could be bothered with; especially when he wanted to spend majority of his time with Hilary. Hilary had also taken station in Paranormal Psychiatrists. Seemingly in her little trip to the spirit world she had acquired some new talents in the form of being able to communicate with the dead, among other things. There wasn't as much for her to do as the others but she floated around the building checking everything was alright and it was decided she could stand in should anyone need to have a sick day. All in all it worked well to have a substitute or so Kai imagined if they ever actually need one. He had noticed Garnet had conveniently developed some sort of allergy to him that caused her to burst into a coughing fit whenever he was around…

"Are you listening to me?" The young woman demanded, slamming her ghostly hand onto his desk and rattling it with her unnatural strength. "Dr. Hiwatari?"

"I'm sorry," Kai feigned a polite smile. "You were saying?"

She didn't seem to buy his pleasant tone but continued on none the less. "I said I'd left a letter for my fiancé to read before I died and I don't think he's found it."

"You knew you were going to die?" The question was out before he had even bothered to check his notes on the patient and he cringed in anticipation of the outburst he was expecting.

Her relatively pretty face darkened noticeably. "I knew you hadn't been listening. Just what is he paying you for?" She bought his silence as remorse. "I had cancer." She removed her hair and displayed the fact that it was a wig and beneath it had been nothing but baldness with a few tufts of fluffy hair, if it could even be called that. "I knew that I was going to die within this month and I wrote a letter to my fiancé to let him know that our love would last forever even though I, obviously, did not." When Kai looked up in response to her dry humour he noticed the wig was back in place possibly through no action of her own. "He was always hopeless at finding things, I suppose. He hadn't even thought to look through my drawer. If I know he's read it I think I can finally die in peace and move on to heaven or hell or wherever it is I'm going."

Kai though it best to leave out the fact that she had already died. "I'll let him know that."

"Thank you," She smiled gratefully and began to drift away but she stopped in a brief moment of curiosity. "Not that it's any of my business - although it is my business when my fiancé is paying out quite a considerable sum for this session – just what is it that's got you so distracted?"

"I recently got engaged."

"Oh!" This excuse seemed to be a reasonable one as her smile widened and her eyes shone with some sort of affection as she remember her own position not so long ago. "That's great. Just one thing though: don't die. It kind of ruins your plans."

Kai laughed a little. "I'll do my best."

"Kai!" Hilary caught him just as he left his office and thrust a file into his arms. He noticed that her hair was the tiniest bit askew as if she'd been running about for most of the morning. "Garnet went upstairs to her bed. She said that all this dust and stuff from the renovations are 'making her dizzy'." She used air quotes to emphasise her point. "She went upstairs to clear her head and she may or may not be back tomorrow."

Now Kai realised why she seemed as if she was going at a mile a minute. With all the refurbishment of their original offices being completed Hilary had seen it as her personal duty to get things up and running again including hoovering the carpets and dusting the furniture at every chance she got so that the excess dust that seemed to be appearing from nowhere could be banished. This seemed to be her little way of making up for the damages she thought she'd caused: everyone knew she blamed herself for the destruction of the original offices even though the reparations were even better and friendlier looking. Now she was also filling in for Garnet in the administration/reception duties it was a mystery why she didn't look flat-out exhausted.

"Honestly," she continued on, "you'd think there was asbestos or something here with the way she was acting earlier on." She shook her head demonstrating the mystery that was Garnet Granger, hypochondriac extraordinaire. "I'll need to pass on the rest of the files that are sitting by reception. Talk to you later."

She began to walk off but Kai swept an arm around her waist and puller her in to his body so close that she could almost feel his heart beating. She allowed herself to relax against the pleasing warmth of his arms wrapped around her and let the back of her head fall against his shoulder. From where she was she could look right into his eyes.

"I'm free this afternoon." He whispered seductively in her ear, smelling the sweet fragrance of her shampoo from her hair.

"I'm not. There're a ton of things to do…" It was a weak argument and she knew it.

She tried to pull away but Kai only held her in to him tighter. She could feel her back pressing into his muscled torso and had to fight to urge to rip his shirt of so she could press her hands against the bare skin. Tilting her head slightly, she anticipated his kiss but it never came.

"In my office." He commanded.

They tumbled in and fell onto the soft carpet. Kai kicked to door shut with a bang and found Hilary's lips with his own. She began to unbutton his shirt, fumbling with desire and the thrill of what would happen if they were caught on the job. She felt Kai's hands work their way up the back of her blouse and whip it off over her shoulders so that only her bra remained. In a second that was removed too. The sight of her naked breasts still sent a shiver through him. Even more so when she pressed them into his bare chest while they began to kiss again. She felt her breath go ragged as he unzipped her skirt and pulled it down. She pulled down his trousers and prepared for the euphoria that would follow.

Mariah tried to put the noises out of her head as she sipped her tea in the staffroom. All she could say was thank God there were no clients in to see them right now. Every so often there was a banging and a moan of pleasure which made her wonder how thin they'd rebuilt the walls. She looked over at Kenny and Ray whose faces were a mask: unreadable.

"Sooo," She said. "It looks like their getting on great."

"I'm trying not to think what it looks like." Ray muttered.

"I can only judge by sound." Kenny mumbled.

She took another sip of her tea. "Me too. It's disturbing."

Another groan echoed throughout the building and Tyson crashed into the room. "Do you hear what Kai and Hilary are up to?" He asked excitedly.

"How can we not?" Ray replied darkly.

Tyson grinned like a Cheshire cat. "Me and Max have been looking listening behind the door. They're at it like rabbits!"

Mariah stared at him in a mixture of disbelief and disgust. "I'm not even going to dignify that with a reply. You need to get a girlfriend."

"I know," He grinned, "Kai showed me what I'm missing out on!" Something crashed down the hallway. "At least he's passionate about something…"

Hilary began to button her blouse back up with a slight smile on her face. Her body was still heaving from the activities that she and Kai had just took part in which certainly was not suitable for kids. She frowned as she caught her reflection in the window at the creases on her blouse when it'd been so callously thrown aside. Kai was already dresses and fixing the things in his office that had been strewn across the floor when they'd moved on to the desk after they'd tried sex on the carpet. It was always good to experience new things anyway. Something below her feet cracked and she noticed that there were shards of a smashed lightbulb all across the floor. Sighing, she knew that would need hovering before the doors were reopened for the afternoon.

"We should probably get back to work soon…" Kai said more to himself as he stared out the window. It was quite a dismal sight for summer. The rain had began to stream from the heavens and the view he had onto the streets was empty and lifeless.

Hilary nodded in agreement. "Yeah we should." She finished the rest of her dressing and tired her best to smooth the wrinkles and also her hair as best as she could to look acceptable in the public eye.

"I love you." He said suddenly and out of the blue like the words had just been snatched from the air. He turned to look at her. "You know that?"

"I love you too." She held up her ring finger. "And you've kinda already shown me how you feel."

"I mean really. It's just that…" He broke off in hesitation as if the words just wouldn't come. Or he didn't want them too. "Nothing. It doesn't matter. I was going to go for something corny but I've never been good with that kind of stuff." He kissed her forehead. "Let's get back to dealing with the dead."

"Sure thing boss. I'll see you later." She slipped out of his office and back to the reception desk where Tyson was already sitting. She greeted him casually to which he smirked.

"Have a good lunch?"

She shrugged. "Couldn't complain. You?"

"Yeah." He grinned so that all his teeth were flashing. "One could call it very educational. I saw the human reproduction at its very best."

Hilary grimaced at the very thought. "Have you been watching porn or something?"

The grin stayed put and his eyes sparkled with mischief and an inside joke that Hilary had no idea about. "You have no idea."

She cocked her eyebrow. "What's that supposed to mean? Why do you look so suspicious?" Her eyes narrowed darkly in determination to find out the secret and she raised a pen threateningly. "You better tell me!"

Tyson rubbed the back of his head and laughed nervously at how closely the pen was coming to his eye. "I swear I know nothing!" She dropped her hand a millimetre. He took the chance to wrestle it out of her hand.

Suddenly a cold wind brushed past them and they heard the sound of a door banging. Both of them stopped mid grapple and looked at each other simultaneously before peering down the empty corridor. There was no sign of life anywhere or even an indication of where the door was so carelessly closed. Hilary felt the hairs on the back of her neck raise as the air seemed to take a sudden chill to it. Judging by the way Tyson was rubbing his arms she guessed he was feeling it too.

"Did you feel that?" It was a stupid question, she knew. Who wouldn't have felt that?

He nodded slowly. "Yeah. Majorly weird."

Hilary thought it best to leave out the fact that working in a psychiatrists who talk to the dead was also on the list of 'majorly weird' things. Still, the fact that Tyson classified this as strange unnerved her to no extent. What could possibly crop up that they haven't experienced before?

Kai slammed his pen down onto his desk as the frustration he'd had canned up inside him burst out. If there was a downside to his work – and there were- marking his files and cases had to be one of them. It was a relatively easy task but it was so repetitive, tedious, aggravating ect: the list could go on forever and in the end he'd get no further. It was, unfortunately, a necessity for him to be able to keep on top of any clients wither their dealings were successful or not. Containing a sigh, he reached for his nest file and tossed the completed one on carelessly on the floor so that the contents came spilling out along the carpet. Outwardly he swore.

"There's no need for that kind of language," A voice from in front of him tutted in a tone that was all too familiar.

He felt his heart begin to beat: not just from the surprise of some one being in the room but also from the situation he now found himself directly in the centre of. It seemed these past few days were merely the eye of the storm which was now ready to unleash its horror onto him. As calmly as he could, he forced himself to look up at the figure staring at him in some sort of sadistical glee as he looked down his nose and kept his chin up to show his superiority to living being before him. He was still wearing the same tailor made suit that he had the night he'd died and from the view Kai was getting there wasn't any changes. And then he lowered his head. The sight Kai saw made him want to vomit the entire contents of his stomach for directly through the man's forehead was a hole no larger than a centimetre in diameter. Within it he could see the inside of his head, or what was left of it. It was an injury given to him by some one so filled with anger, hate and fear that they felt impulse to take his life. Kai should know: he fired the shot.

A sound very much like laughter but more consorted arose from East's mouth. "What's the matter Kai? You look like you've seen a ghost."

"What are you doing here?" Kai spat. "You should be rotting in hell."

"You're the ghost doctor. You tell me." He jabbed a finger accusingly at Kai and his voice turned malicious. "I've been wandering around here unable to find anywhere to go to and anyway to get out of this messed up little situation since you'd so kindly blew my brains out." Curiously he picked up various items on Kai's desk and examined them in turn. One item in particular caused him to smirk. He turned Kai's photograph and Tala, Mariah and Garnet. "I knew there was something up with that girl from the moment I met her. Turns out she was working for you the entire time. Cutie, though." He sat on the chair commonly used for clients and put his feet up on Kai's desk. "So doctor. I've told you my symptoms. Cure me."

"You've got unfinished business," Kai told him simply and opened the door for him. "Get out."

East stood up but didn't go to the door. Instead he looked out at the miserable weather from Kai's window. "Unfinished business…The thing in life I didn't do." Without warning he disappeared and reappeared just as quickly in front of Kai and pushed him against the wall. "The only thing I didn't do while I was alive was finish you off." He smirked and pushed his face towards Kai's so that both their noses were touching. "I guess, Hiwatari, that makes you my unfinished business."

Instantly, he let Kai go and disappeared completely. Waiting for a few minutes to make sure he was not coming back, Kai slumped down to the floor. The winds had begun to pick up again, it seemed.

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