Hello everyone! Thanks for reading and I'm sorry if the summary sucks. I suck at them-

Anyways it's been awhile since I wrote, so I hope you like this.

"English Speaking"

"Japanese Speaking"

'Inner thoughts'


The Davis family was in the middle of eating breakfast, well most of them. His father was in the middle reading a file that he had of all the new students that were starting today. Which his was receiving a very scorching glare from his mother.

Who suddenly slammed her fork down to finally address her husband. "Martin, we've talked about this countless times. I've been telling you this basically the whole summer. I understand that you're excited, but please not at the table. It's family time."

Martin blinked as he finally decided to tear his eyes away from the folder. It took him several minutes to process what his wife had just said. "Oh, I'm sorry dear." He snapped the folder closed and smiled. "I'm just excited to start the new term. There are so many new students that are so willing to learn. I can't wait for the debates."

The debates that were held in class were the main focal point of everything. Facts are everything in their field. Always needing to back everything up and have scientific understanding for everything. Testing and more testing to find all the facts and it was never enough. Something new almost always comes up. Things grow. The brain always needed more and more information to understand things.

Oliver Davis finally decided to step into the conversation. "How many?"

It was with all reason a really reasonable question. The amount of people who enthusiastically went to study parapsychology was very thin. Cambridge had one of the limited programs that offered it in such detail. Obviously there are people who only go in not taking anything seriously. Just curious or underestimating the whole thing in general, because of the line of work it goes under. They of course had to do something that would sort out everyone, so they could only let the best in the program. Everyone who wanted to even apply had to write out a thesis and basically had to apply scientific facts to whatever they decided on writing on.

"Only ten." Martin sighed out completely understanding the unspoken words his son was wanting to say. Ten was a lot less than the year before hand. Every year it seems the numbers were getting smaller and smaller. It was…frightening to say the least.

"How about the scholarships?" Another question from Oliver as he finished up only half his food. Which caused a frown from his mother as she noticed him leaning back and sipping on his water. Usually this meant he was done with his food and he was probably going to leave for work very shortly.

"Two. Like normal. There is no reason for us to give out more than that." Martin started eating his own food, because he really must get going soon. It was only 7am, but he really had to get to the collage and start getting ready.

Luella couldn't help but say something to her son about eating something just a little more. "Oli-."

"I should get going." He set down his glass of water and stood up.

"Oh. You're going on a case today, right? Make sure to get me the report when you get back." Martin didn't worry as much as Luella about his eating habits. He was probably just more interested in the case then eating at the moment.

Grant, the butler to the Davis household, swooped in silently to gather Oliver's dishes. He was there and gone in a matter of seconds. Which he handed all the dishes to one of the kitchen staff as he had to stay in the main room with the family.

"Yes, father." He muttered as he was out of the dining hall in seconds to get his items to head to the SPR office.

SPR or otherwise known Society for Psychical Research. Holding some of the most ground breaking equipment for any research they might need to do. Also, acting as a way to help anyone who might need it, like haunted buildings and helping people who needed it from powers.

Tokyo, Japan – One week earlier

"Mai, we're going to be late for our flight!" Yasuhara, basically whined out as he was trying to drag the girl from the bear hug she was receiving at the moment.

Mai being unable to actually breathe was trying her best to get out of the hug. Like…she was squirming around being pretty desperate. She was sure security was watching them closely. Or she was imagining it because her vision was going blurry.

All the sudden a shadow of a purse was moving in her line of vison and probably connecting straight to the head of the bear hugger. "Takigawa, you're hurting her! How much of an idiot do you have to be?" Ayako yelled at her boyfriend.

The man just rubbed the back of his head and grumbled. "I'm just…going to miss her."

Mai had bent down resting her hands on her knees and was just trying to breath. "Yeah, don't worry about me. Just in the middle of dying."

"Dying is gonna have to wait until you're on the plane. We have to go like NOW." Yasu had grabbed her hand and both their carry-ons and basically rushed to the gates to hand over the tickets. They were getting weird looks from the attendants, but managed to get on the plane in time.

Mai managed to get a wave to the monk and the priestess before getting dragged away. "Yasu, that was so rude." She finally got her footing as they finally managed to step into the plane and find their seats.

Yasu put the bigger bags up on top and flopped down in the seat. "They literally just called the last boarding and he wasn't letting go! We had no other choice." He moved to get one of his many books out of his bag.

Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality.

He couldn't help but smile seeing the title. Mai had just finished reading it and basically threw it at him. Apparently there was a lot of different experiments in the book and she threw it at him saying to read and she wanted to try a lot of them. Which of course Mai does. Testing the limits of her powers was always interesting and enlightening. They loved every little bit of it to see what new thing she could tap into. He couldn't help but think about the extra suitcase they had to use just to get all of their experiment research into it. Mostly just papers and data that's on a bunch of USB sticks. Plus, their very expensive camera that they used to record everything.

He couldn't help but glance at Mai as she didn't even talk back to him. She had curled herself up into her seat, which was a surprise cause she had the seat belt on. There was never any room in those things. Must have loosened it as much as she could to curl up. She already had a book open and had started on it.

The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena.

By the same author as the book he had grabbed out of his own bag. Mai usually goes on a binge of one author at a time. She was curious about the collective works of each author and likes to analyze everything as a whole.

About thirteen hours later – London, United Kingdom

Mai yawned as they stepped into the resting area in the airport. She stretched and managed to crack a few bones in the process. "Finally! We're here! I can't wait to get settled into our apartment."

They weren't going to stay in a dorm, because they were both scared about getting trapped with someone that would bother them. Plus, testing. They needed their own area if they were going to talk about psychic powers and just class as a whole. This was just easier.

"Mai! Yasu!"

They both turned to see a magenta haired woman running towards them. Mai smiled as the woman rushed in to give them both a hug. "Madoka! It's been such a long time!"

And it really has. Almost five years has passed since they all left Japan suddenly. Mai and Yasu had graduated high school and attended college at Tokyo University. They came here to further their education and they really had no idea who to actually reach out to.

Oliver and Lin were certainly out of the question. Mai wanted to give Oliver as much space as possible. They might be in the same area, but she didn't want to put any sort of pressure on the man. Ever since the confession Mai had felt a range of emotions, but she came down to one thing.

She loved Oliver. She knew that and it grew even more just reading all of his works. He cared about his research and just learning anything new in general. Which was one of the many things she loved about the man.

Was she mad at first? Of course. Who wouldn't be? She was mad at the man in question and herself. Mostly herself.

She wondered how stupid she could actually be. There was obviously difference between the two, and she has come to know that very well through the years.

Considering she still sees Gene.

Which shouldn't be a thing since they had found the body, but apparently he still has unfinished business. It was confusing since he wouldn't just tell her what it was. Which has upset her more than times than not. He needed to move on already.

Also, Lin was out of the question because he would blab. Obviously.

Yasu blinked as he managed to get away from the hug and stared at the two girls. "Uh…? Madoka, I think you're gonna cause Mai to stop breathing." Again. He easily switched over to English as they were already in the United Kingdom and they should probably get used to speaking English more. Not like they weren't already. They basically purchased all their books in English anyways and talked in English a lot just to get used to it. It was so normal at this point.

"Oh! I'm so sorry!" She pushed back from Mai and the girl went back to leaning down to just catch her breath. "How was the flight? I can't believe you guys made it to London! We obviously have to go sightseeing! There is so much to go and see. You'll have to go to big ben like the first day." The woman was all smiles as she ignored Mai dying from not being able to actually breathe.

Yasu ignored it too as he pushed up his glasses. "Our flight was great." He flashed the woman a smile as he leaned against Mai to relax. His elbow was right on her back, because she was leaning down, and put most of his weight into it. "Does Oliver and Lin know about us being here?"

Mai gave a glare to the other male and basically pulled away almost causing the other to fall over. Madoka just smiled watching them.

This was…nice. She missed the whole group, but eventually she was sure they would all pop up. They were to closely knit together.

"Nope. You picked a great week. They are at fund raiser for SPR and are basically stuck there until tomorrow." They decided it would be good to move where the suitcase retrieval area was. They had a total of five they needed to retrieve. Especially since one has very important paperwork.

Mai let out a small laugh and smiled. "Trapped. That's probably the best word to describe how they feel right now. Naru, really doesn't like a lot of people. He would rather be in his office."

Madoka blinked a little caught off guard before laughing herself. "I suppose that's probably true."

'Good.' Madoka smiled looking at the two. Oliver doesn't seem like a bad subject to talk about. 'I figured with everything that happened that it would be a sore subject.'

"He's probably in a corner all miserable banging his head against a wall trying to create some sort of hole to crawl out of." Yasu decided to describe the best scenario for what was probably happening.

Both women just blinked and stared at the man before laughing.

Because it probably would be true. They could both see it in their heads.

"Mai! Our suitcases are coming!" Yasu yelled dramatically as he pointed to the line that was coming out next.

Mai blinked as she managed to look over from still laughing. "Quick. Let's go." They both dramatically ran over to grab all five of them.

They were heavy.

Very heavy.

Mai groaned as she leaned against the one that had all their research. "My lungs aren't working properly to deal with this."

"You should work out more." Yasu stated as he leaned proudly onto the one that held most of his clothes. He was also breathing very heavy, but was trying to pretend that it wasn't happening.

"If anyone needs to work out it's you…" Mai mumbled as she finally decided to lean up and let out a breath to relax. She decided to close her eyes and relax for a moment. She reached out sensing all the different auras around her and trying to memorize Madoka's for a moment.

There was a lot of orange mostly. A little green, but it was mostly orange.

Mai couldn't help but smile as she opened her eyes to look at the woman. It really fit her.

Madoka blinked as she noticed Mai staring at her and smiled. "I know you didn't want me to tell the boys, but they could have suffered and grabbed the suitcases for us."

Mai would have laughed and shook her head. "I think Naru would rather parish." She grabbed two of the handles and was ready to get out of this airport. "Now, I'm ready to head out and get out of this place."

Madoka went to grab the only suitcase that wasn't being taken. "I can't wait until you see your apartment. The photos I sent really don't do it justice."

It took about an hour until they were walking into the apartment room that they would be staying and Mai was speechless. There was a huge window that looked out into the city. The whole place was open concept which was great in of itself. The kitchen was on the left side of the room and had a little island where chairs sat waiting. It was a good size for just the two of them too. There was a couch and a small table in where the living room started from the kitchen. They also had a TV, but Mai was focused mostly on the huge bookcase that was basically all along the wall. It seemed to basically fit in the wall and had enough room that you could basically fit a TV right in the center.

"This wasn't in the photos!" Mai squealed as she looked let the image of all the books she could fit in this huge thing through the years. She was probably gonna buy a bookcase for her room anyways. The amount of books were probably going to pile up fast.

"Yes, I asked her to keep it a surprise." Yasu had to basically push the rest of the suitcases in cause Mai got distracted yet again.

Madoka was surprise about the reaction that it took her a moment to let the scene sink in. Then again they were going to Cambridge under a scholarship. She really shouldn't be surprise about how things have changed. It's been five years. "I'm glad you like it! If you guys need anything more in here let me know!"

Mai still had a huge smile on her face as she faced the woman. "Thank you so much for all of this. You've been such a big help."

"I'm just glad you reached out to me, also that I didn't have to find out during my lecture. I think I would have been so hurt and would yell at you." She kept her smile on her face but it became a little darker. "Speaking of which…When Lin and Noll find out that you're at Cambridge and failed to tell them they're going to be upset."

Mai just waved her off as she grabbed one of the suitcases that had more books and school stuff they brought along. They were still going to go shopping for more stuff, but this was just things that were on sale. "They wouldn't understand how and just be completely dumbfound why we are here. Especially if they see us outside of Cambridge." Mai picked up a couple of the books that they had brought and started piling them on the shelves.

"Mai." Madoka said sternly as she stared at the young woman. "Every month there is a fu-ndraiser at the college for Parapsychology, so the students have the opportunity to make their contacts wider."

"And to raise money for the program because of how much equipment that it uses." Mai gave her a smile completely relaxed by the fact there will be a fundraiser. "Naru will be there since his father basically owns Cambridge and that program."

Madoka blinked completely confused. "And…you don't have a problem meeting with Noll?"

Yasu had basically ran off at some point to look at the rest of the apartment. There were two rooms and one of them had a connected bathroom. Mai's room. He quickly decided in his head as he moved along to the other room. Each one was a decent size, which was good because they were going to end up having a lot of stuff from testing and college. There were already beds and dressers in the room, so he could start unpacking.

"Madoka." Mai turned to her completely serious. "I'm terrified of seeing him." She relaxed a little and decided to just go and sit on the couch. "You guys just left after one bombshell after another and I really had no idea what to do for a while. Or how to feel." She couldn't help but remember her confession. "There was so much left unsaid in the end and I don't know if I can actually face him in the long run. I don't hate him or anything…I don't think I could ever…" She mumbled the last part as he looked towards her lap.

Madoka came up beside her and hugged her gently. "I'm sorry for everything. I can't even begin to understand what you had went through. What all of you guys must have went through."

"None of us are mad at Naru though. We completely understand why he had to do it. We were upset at the start, but we could never be mad." Mai leaned into the woman finding comfort from the other. "I just don't want to turn his life upside down from him finding out we're here. He might have some sort of guilt from the whole thing internally and might not know what to do seeing us."

'She cares so much for Noll. I wonder…' Madoka squeezed the young woman closer and just cuddled with her for several minutes. She wasn't really sure what to say. There was only one way to really do anything and that was for them to meet with the man. Lin was going to be so upset with her for not telling him. She couldn't help but sigh.