Chapter 17 – The Case Starts
This trip is getting longer and longer, Naru never did tell me how long the drive would be. As usual, Lin, Naru, Madoka, Sora and I were in the van with Lin driving, while the others were in Bou-san's car. The one different thing though is that Naru has decided that sitting in the back with me would be easier if I fell asleep and had 'one of those' dreams, and that's just what happened.
I woke up to the normal darkness, thankfully, Gene was here. "Hello Mai," he says.
"Hello to you too Gene," I say back to him.
"I have something to show you," he says and before I can answer, the scene changes and he disappears.
Upon inspection, I see a girl playing with her toys on the floor; she appears about 7 or 8. Then a man of about 40 came storming in. "Kiara," he yells. "I told you not to do those things."
"I haven't done those things papa," she replies, afraid.
"Then why is the living room messed up?" he yells at her.
"I don't know but it wasn't me," she replies.
"You are the only one who could have," he yells again as he makes his way over to Kiara.
He grabs her and starts beating her, making her bleed from many cuts on her arms and legs, and then he leaves her curled up on her bedroom floor. She's crying and I can tell she's about to pass out. I cry along with her, not believing what her father had done to her.
"Mai," I hear when my eyes open.
There, staring down at me is Naru, his gorgeous blue eyes concerned. I do what I always do and launch myself into his arms, crying hard at what I had seen. He's stroking my hair and whispering comforting thoughts into my ear. I cried myself to sleep, and thankfully the sleep was dreamless.
When I woke again, we were driving up a long driveway and at the end of the driveway is a huge mansion. It looks almost as big as Naru's mansion in England, and that is a big mansion.
"You're finally awake," said narcissist whispers in my ear.
"Yeah," I reply softly.
"You can tell me about your dream later tonight," he says then kisses my temple in comfort.
"Okay," I say back. "How long was the trip and how long was I out?"
"The trip was about 6 hours and you were asleep for most of the trip anyway," he replies.
"Wow and I still feel tired," I say to him.
"You're pregnant and just had a very upsetting dream, of course you're tired, but we'll go to bed early tonight," he says in the hopes of cheering me up.
The thought of going to sleep and having that dream again made me feel nauseous. I really didn't want to go back to sleep, but I'll only sleep because the baby needs it. Naru seems to know what I'm thinking about, "I'll be there when you have the dream, I'll be there after you have the dream, and I'll be there throughout the case to keep you safe. Don't worry so much," he whispers.
"I know, but that dream was horrible, I don't want to see it again," I say.
"I'm sure Gene won't show you that dream again, whatever it is. There may be some other significant dreams that may not be as bad," he tries to reassure me.
"Okay," I say before the van stops to let us out.
Naru and I were out of the van to be greeted, hardly, by Tsukino-san, the client. Just as when we first met her, she was wearing a business suit and looked about ready to kill me. Why? That's beyond my imagination. "About time you got here," she said in her business tone.
"We said we'd be here around this time, your accusations are unnecessary," Naru says in retaliation.
She huffs and then indicates that we should follow her. She leads us through many hallways before taking us into a large room with many power outlets, a large meeting table, a coffee table surrounded by some couches. Desks already set up with computers for us to use; she knew what we needed, that was for sure.
"This is the base, the kitchen is down the hall, don't look for me, I'll be working," with that said, she makes her way out of the base.
"Well, she isn't the nicest person, is she?" says Bou-san.
"Which is why I want you to avoid her, especially Hara-san, Ayako-san, Madoka and Mai," Naru states.
"Why the girls especially?" John asks.
"Because Tsukino-san doesn't seem to like other women that much, she wasn't all that kind to Mai when she came in," Naru answers.
"I'm surprised you accepted the case if she was being rude to Mai," says Ayako.
"She said she will behave because she knows we'll leave if she doesn't," he says back.
"I see," says Bou-san. "Well then Naru-bou, what do you want us to do first?"
"Lin, Monk and John, I want you to bring in the equipment, Ayako-san, Hara-san and Madoka, I want you to walk around and see if you can sense anything. Mai, tea," with that said, he pulled out a file and started researching at the meeting table.
Thank-you for the reviews as always. I only got two name ideas and decided to use both of them, so thank-you to the two who came up with them.
Anyway R&R please.
Seza, out.