So this is a little scene I came up with a while ago after watching the Conjuring again. I didn't finish it and forgot about it until I opened it today and decided to finish it. The case mentioned here is the fourth one in my other fic Dangerous Souls and events after that case can also be found in that fic. You might want to check it out before you read this, but if you don't no worries. Hope you guys enjoy.

24-Lecture

"This video was taken during one of our cases several years ago," Naru explained from the side of the screen. "Father Brown, if you will."

"Of course," John said as he stepped forward. "In my career I have dealt with many possessions, but only a few of demonic nature. This was one of my firsts to deal with without another priest."

John continued to explain the case as Mai's eyes scanned the class in front of her. She was seated at the professor's desk while said man was sitting with his students enjoying the presentation. The professor was a friend of Martin's and asked if Naru would be able to give a presentation on demonic possession and hauntings that he has dealt with in Japan. Though if it weren't for the fact that Naru had promised to do this months in advance, Mai wasn't sure if he would have still done it.

He had already recruited John to join them in England seeing as he was the one who exorcised possessed victims and spoke fluent English. However, Naru was reluctant to go through with flying all the way to Europe, especially since learning his wife was having a baby boy, and she was insistent on coming along.

Ironically, when she found out on the ultrasound the gender of the baby, Naru was on a case involving a demonic entity. And that's why Mai understood Naru's apprehension to do this. He told her about the dream the demon showed him where she was killed along with their soon to be son. It was unsettling that the demon knew just what she was having. But the exorcism was a success and they hadn't been bothered for the last month.

"During this case we were dealing with not just one, but three demonic entities," John explained as the possessed girl on the screen was tapping on the bedpost. "While you might not be able to understand what she is saying, she is tapping on the headboard. She is actually using Morse Code to contact the other entities on the property."

"Her goal was to target the other members of our team, giving us reason to open the door and let her free," Naru finished as the clip ended and the lights came on. "Demonic entities will try everything to find your weakness and use it against you. Isn't that right, Father Brown?"

"Yes, on that case specifically the entity threatened the wellbeing of my younger sister, despite the fact that she was all the way in Australia," John explained. "Sometimes spirits will figure out things about you by listening to things you might have said during the time you were ear the haunting. Demonic entities, however, are not afraid to enter your mind without possessing you and figure out what or who you care about. On this case I never mentioned my sister once."

"They will also tend to choose a specific member of your team to target," Mai piped up from her seat to the side. "On this case specifically, I was hospitalized twice." A girl in the front row of the class raised her hand. Mai nodded for her question.

"Why were you hospitalized?" the girl asked, Mai could almost feel Naru's tension from across the room.

"Well, as my husband might tell you, I'm a bit of a danger magnet," Mai began, earning a small chuckle from the class. "There hasn't been a case I can think of where I wasn't attacked or injured in some way. During this case, I was first sent to the hospital when I was reviewing evidence and I had a vision, but while I was unconscious my wrists started bleeding. That was difficult to explain to the doctors."

"What about the second time?" a boy in the back asked.

"Another member of our team and I were in the garden of the hotel, the entities created a barrier around the gazebo we were standing in," she continued, leaning her elbows on the desk as she rolled up her sleeves. "I walked right into it and my arms got burned pretty bad. I still can see a few scars."

"Blue shirt in the second to last row," Naru called with a nod to the young man in that direction.

"Why do you still hunt for demons?" the boy asked, crossing his arms. "If it's so dangerous?"

Mai smiled at the young man and shot a look to the two men. "For those two, it's a bit of a passion for them," she said, feeling a little restless and standing up as gracefully as she could with her bulging belly. "It's become a passion for me too, but to be honest, I really liked helping people."

"Yes?" John said, pointing to a girl to the side.

"If a demonic entity has the ability to know things about you without you saying them, would it have been possible for your sister to be attacked even though she was in another country?"

"I considers ourselves fortunate enough to not know the exact answer to that question," John answered somberly. "Though there are many theories that both support and deny that a demonic entity would be able to harm someone far away from the haunting. Some believe that they are able to transport through portals to follow through with their threats."

"You, in the pink headband," Mai said nodding to a girl in the middle. "What's your question?"

"There are a lot of theories and stories about ghost hunters, like you, having a spirit attach to them when they leave a haunting. Is that true?"

Mai felt her husband and friend's eyes fall on her. Her smile faded and she nodded. "I can say for a fact that it is true," she admitted. "Actually, one of the entities we dealt with during this case attached to me and I didn't know for months." She saw a few hands shoot up. "What it wanted was to break me, to possess me. It started by giving me nightmares and making it hard for me to sleep. Finally when it showed itself to me, I was so sleep deprived with insomnia I honestly thought I had made him up." A few hands went down. Mai nodded to the professor who had raised his hand.

"How did you remove yourself from the demon?" the man asked, Mai managed to smile.

"Once I finally told a close friend of mine about my nightmares and seeing this being in them, he told me I should talk to Father Brown," she explained shooting a look to the man. "After I explained what was going on he helped me get rid of the demon." Another hand went up. "Yes."

"So it possessed you, right? And you had to be exorcised?"

"Exorcisms are most commonly used to remove an unwelcome spirit from a person or property, however these cases are not always possession," John explained. "In Mai's case the demonic entity had attached to her and was working to possess her, but we were able to stop it just in time."

"We are reaching the end of our scheduled time," Naru interrupted, stepping forward. "Are there any more questions?"

Hands went up but a voice spoke from the very back though he had not raised his. "Rumor has it you have psychokinetic abilities," the young man said, leaning back with his arms crossed. "You were able to throw a metal block into the wall."

"Both of those statements are true," Naru answered emotionlessly.

"Prove it." At that Mai took a step forward with her hand on her hips.

"I'm afraid Dr. Davis will not be performing any demonstrations today," she interrupted before her husband could respond. "Were there any other questions?"

"I knew you were a fraud," the same young man said and Mai could see a certain gleam in her husband's eyes.

Naru turned to her with the faintest smirk on his face. "I suppose I don't have a choice. Mai, the spoons," he said as his wife glared at him but went back to the desk and pulled out a few spoons from her bag.

Mai handed him a spoon and handed one to John as well. She kept one in her hand and read the look her husband sent her. "I guess I'll go first," she said with a shrug as she held the spoon in her left hand. She remembered the trick she had learned on one of her first cases. She stared intently at the metal in her hand and allowed her body heat to soften it. She took the index finger of her right hand and pushed the tip in the spoon over as it bent over her thumb.

The class was in awe as they watched the spectacle. The young man in the back, however, was not impressed. "I asked Dr. Davis to show us his PK not for you to show us a cheap magic trick."

Mai smirked as she held up the spoon. "You have good eyes back there." She glanced over to see that John had done the same trick. "As you can see Father Brown also has the ability to bend spoons, though not with the use of PK."

"The form of PK Mai and I demonstrated is for Static Targets or PK-ST," John explained. "It's the most common form of PK however is also the easiest to forge. Just as you saw."

"Need to know the trickster's tricks, so you won't be fooled," Mai said, shooting a look to her husband. "Well, Dr. Davis? They're waiting."

Naru smirked and stepped forward giving everyone as good an angle as he could of the spoon. After taking a second to focus his energy, he placed his finger on the tip of the spoon as everyone watched it bend with ease. Much like the case at Yuasa High School, the head of the spoon snapped off as he took his finger off of the metal. "Is that enough proof for you?" Naru quipped as he looked up to see the shocked faces.

"Excellent presentation, Dr. Davis," the professor said as he clapped his hands and stood up. "Class, some applause for the effort Dr. Davis, Mrs. Davis, and Father Brown have given us?" The class, still in shock, slowly began to clap. "I hope you all have taken detailed notes, as you may reference this presentation in your research projects. I thank you all again for leaving all your phones and recording devices with me and as you leave you may pick them up. Class dismissed."

He pulled out the box of phones he kept under his desk. One by one the students stopped by the desk to get their phones as the professor walked up to the presenters. "Thank you, I know that you came a long way to do this, but I know that this will help them understand the content more," he said, nodding to each of them. "Will you be in town long? I'd like to treat you all to dinner as a thank you."

"We'll be staying with his parents for another week," Mai answered with a nod toward her husband. "I think dinner would be lovely, what do you think?"

Impassive as always, Naru nodded. "Dinner would be nice," he agreed, Mai knew he was saying it through his teeth.

"Excellent, my last class on Friday ends at six, would seven or seven thirty work for you?" Mai and Naru nodded and the professor turned his attention to the priest. "I do hope you'll be joining us, Father, I would love to hear more about how you became a clergyman so young."

Naru and Mai carefully stepped aside as the two conversed and they gathered their things together. "We're scheduled to leave on Saturday and you decide to accept a dinner invitation the night before?" Naru questioned as he pulled his flashdrive from the computer.

"You decided to demonstrate your PK to the entire class," Mai countered, throwing the bent and broken spoons back into her bag. "Whatever happened to if someone called you a fake they never believed you in the first place?"

"Point." He returned to gathering his folders into the briefcase he brought. He saw Mai bending over to pick up the tip of the spoon that he had broken with much difficulty thanks to her swollen belly. He rolled his eyes at her stubbornness and rounded the corner of the desk. He placed his hands at her waist and guided her back into a standing position, she gave him a look as he whispered, "Trying to advertise to the students? I thought I was the only one who got to see you bend like that."

She nudged him with her elbow as he smirked and bent down to pick up the spoon. She held her hand out as he placed the metal in her hand. "You're the one who can't clean up your own mess, like leaving your underwear in the bathroom?" she teased as she dropped it in her purse only to wince and let out a labored breath.

Naru was next to her in an instant. Her contorted face softened when she felt his hand on hers. "Are you okay?" he asked her in Japanese. Mai chuckled and grabbed his hand, placing it on her stomach. His brow furrowed as he felt his son's arm, or might have been his leg, push through the skin of his mother's belly. The concerned look on his face made Mai laugh out loud.

"He got me in the ribs a second ago," she said, as her husband took his hand off of her and revealed the small bump that moved briefly before disappearing. "And you thought I was kidding when I said he was active. He's gonna be the first picked for kickball, that's for sure."

Naru continued to stare at her stomach with confusion. Mai waved a hand in front of his face and raised her brow.

"You okay?"

"And that doesn't freak you out?" Now that sent Mai into laughter again, gathering the attention of the priest and professor.

"Thanks for cleaning up, I would've helped if you told me," John said with a smile as Mai wiped away a tear of laughter. "Everything okay?"

"Yes, oof!" Mai jumped as her baby decided to jab her in the ribs. "He's a bit more active than usual." She pointed to her stomach. "He's anxious to come out, I think."

"Is he still kicking?" John asked with bright eyes. Mai nodded with a grin as she placed the priest's hand on her belly like she did with Naru's.

The priest's face lit up as Mai felt her baby shift. The professor smiled and looked to her as he asked, "When are you due?"

"In just under nine weeks," Mai replied just as her son gave a particular kick to the priest's hand. "Wild, isn't it?"

"He's definitely active and healthy," John said with a smile. "My niece was the same way when my sister-in-law was pregnant with her."

"The next class is coming in, we better leave before we cause a disruption," the professor said with a smile and led the group out of the classroom. "I need to get going, my wife won't be happy if I get home late and the food is cold. Take care and I'll see you on Friday."

"Good night, Professor Doyle," Mai called after the man as she followed her husband and friend in the opposite direction. "That went well," she said as she got into the car Naru had driven to the campus.

"I thought so, too, Professor Doyle is a very nice man," John said with a smile as he buckled his seatbelt in the back seat. "This lecture was a bit informal compared to what I've done with the church."

"But in those cases you were lecturing fellow clergymen, right?" Mai asked, turning as much as comfortable in her seat. "This time you were talking to college students, most of them were only nineteen."

"That's true." John turned his attention to the man behind the wheel. "Do you do lectures often when you come back to England, Naru?"

"Usually if my father asks me," he replied emotionlessly as he pulled out onto the road.

"This is the first time you brought me," Mai quipped with a grin.

"And?" he asked with a side-glance to her. "Wasn't it as boring as I told you it would be?"

Rolling her eyes, she shook her head. "No."

"Even worse?"

"Actually, it was fun," she admitted, placing her hand on his that sat on the middle console. "It's nice talking about our cases and for the most part the class seemed really interested. I wouldn't mind doing this again, I'm sure there are some colleges in Japan that would like to have us seeing as parapsychology is becoming more prevalent. I know Ayako wanted to set up something similar for nurses and doctors who either deal with the paranormal or victims of it. We could really-" She stopped when she felt his hand grip hers and heard his soft chuckling. "What did I say?"

"Nothing," he said with a shake of his head. He let go of her hand and placed his back on the wheel. "I just haven't done any lectures in Japan."

"And? It'll be a good way for us to grow the business. Get SPR's name out there and we might pick up clients along the way. I have a good feeling about this, Naru! Let's do it!"

John decided to keep his thoughts to himself in the back seat and smiled sheepishly as he watched.

Naru slowed and stopped at a light before turning to his wife and placing his hand on her stomach. "I agree, but let's wait a little bit. Performing lectures around the country requires a lot of traveling, when our son is born cases will be hard enough."

She placed her hand on top of his and rolled her eyes. "Yes, dear," she said mockingly.

"You're going to plan this out with Ayako and Madoka aren't you?"

"What makes you say that?"

John could be heard chuckling in the background at Mai's feigned innocence. "I think you guys will be able to work it out just fine," he commented.

So I was watching the Conjuring and the scene where Ed and Lorraine Warren are giving a lecture on possession came on and I'm like "Ghost Hunt! Naru would so do that!" And this happened. And then I was watching Criminal Minds and figured Naru would probably be similar to Reid when JJ was pregnant. Naru would probably do his own research and spout knowledge here and there while teasing Mai only for her to be like "just feel the kid kick now imagine that going on inside you."

Hope you enjoyed please review and Dangerous Souls should be updated next week! Thanks for reading!