I know that some people type Noll after Mai finds out who he is, but I prefer to type Naru; I hope you all don't mind! But his parents will be calling him Noll. Love and Peace! This chapter has HUGE SPOILERS...and remember to review!


Chapter 5- Jonathon

Mai's tears were easily hidden by the rain that was pouring down on her. She was sitting on the outside steps of Kim's house and she was being soaked by the rain but she didn't even notice. She hadn't moved when Madoka had come outside and put a cover around her shoulders before going back inside. Mai was in a shock and everyone knew she needed to be left alone.

Mai's wet bangs fell into her eyes but she made no attempts to push them out of her eyes. She heard the door open and felt a presence settle beside her. She bowed her head as the feeling of someone beside her broke her resolve to not sob. The sobs were ragged and torn from her throat. She felt arms around her and she buried her head into the shoulder of the person.

"Shh, it's alright, Mai. Come now, stop crying." Mai recognized the voice as Madoka's and the brown headed girl just shook with her sobs. Madoka sighed softly as she rubbed the girl's back. She chuckled to herself as she remembered how Gene had always told Naru that he was terrible with girls. She knew Gene was probably somewhere up in the sky either planning on how to kill Naru or trying to not laugh.

"Come on, you'll catch the death of you out here." Mai didn't try to resist Madoka as the woman helped her up and led her back into the house. Madoka left her at the front door to go get towels. Mai heard voices coming from the library and she went over there, clutching at the cover that was lying limply on her shoulders.

"We certainly did not teach you to lie, Oliver Davis! Did you see that poor girl? She was as pale as a sheet when she found out! I thought she was going to faint, I can't believe you!" Mai heard a female voice steadily rising in her anger.

"Luella, calm down. Noll, you should have planned this out better. You were completely unprepared, following Mai here on her vacation and you expected us to know that you had never told her who you were." a male voice joined and Mai gently knocked on the door before she entered and everyone fell silent.

"I'm sorry I reacted so terribly. I was very rude for running off." Mai whispered as she stood there, avoiding Naru's eyes and opting to stare at the floor instead. She heard a soft sigh and soon her head was being tilted up by the woman. She met the warm green eyes. She felt her sadness deepen as she realized that these people had truly not known that she didn't know who their son was. She managed to give a weak smile to the woman and the woman seemed happy to return the smile.

"Don't worry about it, dear. I suppose that wasn't the best way to find out." Naru's mother said and Mai knew that this was the Luella that the man had been scolding for berating Naru. Mai gulped and didn't answer as she was certain that her voice would crack from all the crying that she had been doing.

"Luella! Martin! I lost her! I lost her!" Madoka came running in with towels in her arms and everyone looked at her with raised eyebrows and she stopped before laughing and going to Mai and wrapping towels around the girl. "Don't go running off! It was hard enough to get you inside the house." Madoka joked and though Mai didn't want to smile she couldn't stop the upturning of her lips.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to make you worry." Mai said. Madoka asked Luella and Martin to see if they could find Lin and told Mai to go change. When everyone, besides Naru, had left the room she turned to look at the man. Naru met her gaze before Madoka sat down beside him on the couch.

"Noll, I don't know what to say. I thought that you were staying in Japan because you cared for Mai and she filled that hole that had been left by Gene's death. But Noll, dear lord, you lied to her. Why did you lie to her?" Madoka demanded and Naru sighed before he stood up and went to the bookshelf that hid the secret passageway.

"Because I did not want to be burdened as Oliver Davis and it was easier to take on an alias." he answered and Madoka had to keep from growling. She had every desire to jump up and grab the man and shake him as hard as she could. She thought it would do him good but she resisted the urge.

"You are without the doubt the most selfish person on this planet! You lied because you didn't want to be yourself. Do you realize that you put that girl that you hired into tears? Dammit, Noll. Did Gene not teach you a single thing about being considerate?" Madoka snapped at him.

"This isn't about Gene!" Naru whirled around with fire in his eyes and Madoka would have normally quit but she thought if she couldn't shake him she could at least make him feel bad. He had deserved this since she had seen how he seemed to ignore Mai until she was in danger or upset. He needed to understand that someone like Mai needed someone like him to pay attention to her more often. And Mai was the sort of person that wasn't going to do something like fainting, like Masako, to get attention all the time.

"It isn't? Naru, get off of it! Everyone, even your parents, can see that this is about Gene and most certainly not about Mai." Madoka said hotly.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Naru was losing his temper slowly and if Madoka didn't quit poking at his temper he was going to end up killing the woman. What was she trying to prove?

"Let's see, Gene went halfway across the world to visit one of your parents' friends and he is killed. You went halfway across the world to find him, understandable as he was your twin. But then your assistant, Mai, goes halfway across the world to visit a friend of hers. The moment you find out she's in the slightest bit of danger and you come running back to England.

"You think this isn't about Gene? Oh, come off of it. What are you trying to prove, Noll? Are you trying to prove that you could have stopped Gene from being killed if you had been there? Are you using Mai as a surrogate? Noll…oh, I don't want to be around you right now!" Madoka left the room in a rush, not wanting to be around the source of her anger.

'This isn't about Gene. This was never about Gene.' Naru told himself as he sat down in front of his computer. He opened a document on his computer and attempted to read the file that was glaring at him but he found that the only thing he could concentrate on was the image of Mai standing in the library dripping with rain water and her face covered in tears and a limp, wet cover around her shoulders.

"This isn't about Gene." he told himself angrily. 'Sure it isn't.' said a little voice in his head. Naru frowned before he stood up and left the library angrily.


Mai had changed into a pair of pajamas but hadn't bothered to dry her hair. She lay on her bed on her side with her hands wiping away stray tears when they leaked out from her eyes. She was beginning to feel the anger and depression settle on her and she was doing everything she could to stop it. And she was failing terribly in the battle. She sniffled and sat up while wiping futilely. There was a soft knock on her door and she called to come in and she felt her eyes widen when she saw it was Naru's mother.

"Mrs. Davis!" Mai was about to stand up before the woman raised her hand and effectively stopped Mai. The woman gave a warm smile before going over and sitting beside Mai. Mai jumped slightly as the woman put her hand over Mai's.

"I'm sorry that I upset you so much. I know that it was mostly Noll's fault but I feel like I lit the fuse that set off the bomb." Luella said and Mai managed to give her a watery smile.

"It's alright, Mrs. Davis. I should have probably expected this from Naru, he never told me anything about his family and I guess I never really asked him about his family. I just thought…I don't know, I never thought he was a different nationality. He looked Japanese." Mai said and Luella smiled before standing up and going over to the window.

"First things first, stop calling me 'Mrs. Davis' it makes me feel old." that got a small laugh out of Mai and Luella turned to smile at her. "You can call me 'Luella' and second…Noll is my adopted son. As was his brother, Gene."

"Gene?" Mai asked. She had never heard about Naru having a brother. Of course there wasn't much she could say; she didn't know that Naru was Oliver Davis! It shouldn't have been a shock that Naru had a brother.

"Yes, I can't have children because of a disease I had when I was young. Anyway, I had a friend that is Japanese and she said that her friend ran an orphanage. I visited and I saw the twins, at five years old, and I fell in love. They had been a car wreck and lost their memory and their parents. After talking to my husband we adopted them and they seemed to fit in England perfectly. I learned Japanese because they kept whispering to each other and I was curious. I found out they were just talking about things little boys talk about.

"They grew up, I guess. Before I knew it my friends were inviting Gene to Japan. Noll didn't want to go, though he had been invited as well, and he also had school things to worry about. The silly boy decided to go to college at fourteen. Anyway, at fifteen Gene went to Japan…" Luella's voice cracked slightly and Mai wondered what was wrong when she saw tears in the older woman's eyes.

"Mai, Noll has this ability to touch a person's things and see what happens to them." Luella paused and Mai waited, her heart beating frantically. "One day, Noll went into Gene's room to borrow something…and when I walked past the room, Noll was sitting on the bed…so still. He looked up at me, with wet cheeks, and told me that someone had hit Gene in a car and had dumped him in a pond somewhere." Luella's eyes overflowed and Mai could feel tears in her own eyes.

"I'm sorry, you didn't have to tell me all this." Mai whispered and Luella smiled at her before going over and putting her hand on Mai's head.

"After everything Madoka told us about you after her first visit it felt as though you were a part of the family. I think it's time that all secrets between you and Naru were cleared up, he may be angry at me later for telling you about Gene but I don't think you should be kept in the dark." Luella smiled and Mai nodded before standing up.

"Well my friend's aunt is still missing and Naru isn't paying me by the hour for me to sit here and mope around." Mai said and Luella nodded before she left and Mai changed quickly back into regular clothes. She took a deep breath before walking out of her room.

'Naru's past isn't that different from mine. We both lost loved ones.' she thought before she peeked into the library and was surprised to find it that it was empty. She blinked in surprise before leaving and going to the gargoyle. She turned it in the sequence that opened the passageway before pulling out the small flashlight she had started carrying with her. She quickly went through the passage and to the door. She reached out and pulled and felt her eyes widen when it opened. She slowly walked down the extended passage and found another door with symbols on it.

Not knowing how she knew she began to put the symbols in a certain order. She gasped as the door opened to reveal a laboratory. She realized that she didn't need her flashlight and quickly turned it off before going into the lab. She looked around, impressed that something like that could be hidden. She saw a book on one of the tables and picked it up. She flipped through the book and the last entry caught her attention when she saw that Jonathon Lunar's signature was at the bottom.

'That witch has cursed me! Every night I get so hungry and when I wake up in the morning I cannot remember anything from the night before! Damn her day one! Father should have killed her the day he found her with that black arts book. But oh, no! She's innocent! She's a curious child!

'She was no child, that witch has cursed me for finding out she was still using that book. She's not innocent, she was never innocent and yet I get blamed for speaking out against her. She will not get away with this nor her sons who she has taught the black arts to.'

Mai frowned as the entry ended. Jonathon had accused Madeline of being a witch but Madeline was denying it. Mai didn't know which one they should believe. Naru seemed to trust Madeline and she frowned. Why did he trust Madeline so much? She shook her head before deciding that Naru needed to see the notebook. She looked around the laboratory even more but found nothing else that caught her eye.

'I wonder what they did down here. It looks almost as though they did medical experiments down here.' Mai thought before dizziness came back over her and her subconscious went black. Madeline raised Mai's head up and looked around before down at the book in Mai's head.

"What a liar! Jonathon, you fool!" Madeline snapped before she went over to the well in the middle of the lab. She threw the book down it before quickly leaving and walking back into the main hallway and waiting for the secret door to close. She headed to the main stairs and looked down them. 'And I am sorry for this Mai, but you cannot remember what you found.' Madeline threw herself down the steps.


"Noll." Naru held his hand up before Lin could continue and he glared up at the older man.

"I'm a jerk. I should have told Mai. You want to strangle me like everyone else. I should apologize to Mai when I next see her. Am I right?" Naru asked and Lin raised an eyebrow before shaking his head.

"No, you should find Mai and apologize to her. Not wait for her to come find you. You were the one that hurt her; I don't see why she should have to find you and have to ask for an apology." Lin said and Naru didn't think he was going to be able to take much more guilt poured down on him. And though he hated it he knew that Lin was right. He sighed before walking out of the library and he frowned as he saw Mai at the top of the stairs and his eyes widened when she threw herself down the stairs.

"Mai!" he ran and barely caught her but he had seen her head hit the railing hard but he was slightly relieved that she was breathing and that there was no blood. But when he felt her head he felt a bump. He heard a quick intake of breath and he looked over his shoulder and saw his mother standing there.

"Call an ambulance!" his mother ran to them and gently pulled Mai's head into her lap and Naru went to call the ambulance after his mother had pointed to the library while obviously wanting him to call.


"She has a mild concussion and a mild case of amnesia. I asked her what the last thing was that she remembered and she said it was talking to you, Mrs. Davis, in her bedroom." the doctor said and Naru looked at his mother whose eyes had gone very wide.

"That's almost an hour and a half of lost time." Luella looked at her husband who shook his head. Naru frowned. She didn't remember throwing herself down the steps. He suddenly knew what had happened and he kept the growl from escaping his throat.

"Is she awake?" Luella asked and the doctor smiled before nodding.

"Yes, she's good to leave as soon as she signs the release papers. She's in the third ER room on the left." the doctor said and the Davis trio found Mai sitting on one the beds and she smiled at them as they entered the curtained room.

"Guess I hit my head." she said and Naru sighed before sitting beside her on the bed and Mai felt her cheeks flame. She felt her heart start beating even more when Naru's parents slipped out and left her and Naru alone.

"Listen because I won't repeat myself. I'm sorry." Mai blinked before jumping off the bed and looking under it before whirling around and looking for someone else in the room until her head began to spin and she was forced to sit back down on the bed beside Naru.

"I must have hit my head extremely hard. I could have sworn that you just apologized to me." Mai said and Naru rolled his eyes. He should have known that would be Mai's reaction. He never apologized to anyone and he had never had the desire to apologize to anyone before.

"Mai…you heard right. I was wrong and I should have told you who I was when I hired you." Naru told her, cursing his mother with every word he said as he could see her outline through the curtain and knew if he didn't say what she wanted him to say that he was a dead man.

"It's alright…we really didn't know each other when you hired me. But do I have to call you 'Dr. Davis' now…or can I still call you 'Naru'?" she asked shyly and she bit her lip as Naru looked her in the eyes and she felt her whole face turn red as Naru's lips turned up slightly like they had when they were at Yasuhara's school.

"Since you came up with that absurd nickname…I suppose I can let you keep calling me it." he said and Mai felt her mouth drop before she scowled as Naru's true smile turned into a smirk.

"Absurd?! Don't you tell me the nickname I gave you is absurd! Mr. I'm-so-much-better-and-handsome-than-everyone-else! Why I out to slug you!" Mai's hand shot out and Naru caught it before he looked at Mai who looked as though she were trying to not laugh and Naru felt his breath catch. She was so close that it would have been extremely easy to lean in and catch her lips in a kiss. Very easy.

"Mai! We have the discharge papers!" Luella entered the room and Naru let Mai go and jumped up from the bed and exited the room and found his father standing at the exit with his arms crossed.

"Father." Naru said and the man turned to look at him. Professor Davis was a tall man with graying hair and light blue eyes. Anybody meeting him would have thought of him as a father figure. Naru knew that the man wanted to be a grandfather but Naru remembered the threats that his mother had given him and Gene on having a child before they turned twenty-one.

"I believe I understand now." his father said with a smile and Naru frowned. Why was everyone saying vague things forcing him, of all people, to question what they meant? "I see why you don't want to stay here in England. That dear girl means more to you than just an assistant."

"That isn't the reason. I haven't found Gene yet and that is the reason that I am staying in Japan not because of some preconceived notion that you and mother have over the fact that I care for Mai. She will never be anything more than an assistant." Naru snapped.

Naru turned around when he heard an intake of breath and felt his face pale when he saw Mai standing there with his mother holding her elbow. He saw Mai's eyes were beginning to tear up and she dropped her head. He turned to look at his father and the man shook his head. Naru left the hospital and went to sit in the car.

"Mai…" Luella trailed off as Mai jerked away. She looked at the older woman as tears spilled from her eyes and trailed down her cheeks.

"It doesn't matter anymore. If he doesn't care then so be it. I shouldn't have expected anything else from him." Mai said before she slowly walked out of the hospital as well. The parents exchanged looks before Luella shook her head.

"Gene always said that Noll could keep his mouth shut at the best of times but when he opened it he stuck his foot down his mouth. I suppose Gene knew how things would occur. He always knew what would happen. Gene was that way." Luella said and Martin nodded before he wrapped his arm around his wife.

"We really should leave this to Lin and Madoka. Noll is almost eighteen and…well…we can see how things can play out." Martin said before leading her out of the hospital.


"Now this is interesting. Madeline's brother, Jonathon, reported Madeline missing almost three months after his neighbors had reported her missing. But if she was murdered by him…then he must have hid the body somewhere. But there is no explanation to why he killed her." Madoka said as she typed on the laptop hurriedly, trying to find the information.

"I have a theory. If Madeline was a witch and cursed Jonathon for angering her…then he killed her because of it." Lin said from where he was sitting in one of the chairs behind Madoka as she sat at the desk with the computer.

"It's a good theory…except there's no evidence to support it. The lycanthrope didn't start showing up until after Madeline disappeared and everyone was certain that she was in hiding and cursing her brother. No one once suspected that her brother could have made her disappear.

"In all actuality he wasn't a bad person but he did seem to be a little odd. He read books that were…well not what a person of that day and age should have been reading." Madoka stopped speaking as Naru entered the room with a glare that could have killed. She stopped talking as he picked up the files and turned around and left. She shared a glance with Lin who sighed.

"He's done something to Mai again. We both know that look. That's the 'I-hurt-Mai-and-made-her-sad-and-now-I'm-going-drown-in-guilt' look." Lin said and Madoka nodded before she shook her head.

"I guess no one is perfect." Madoka agreed softly.


"We can't trust Madeline or Jonathon." Naru said after he read Madoka's research. The curly haired woman nodded while shooting a look at Mai who seemed to be engrossed in reading a book from one of the shelves. When Madoka saw that it was in Russian she knew the girl was faking it. And Madoka wondered if she was faking it just so that Naru wouldn't talk to her.

"Right. This is where things get really weird though. There is no death certificate for a 'Jonathon Lunar' or any Jonathon during the time period that he would have died given the average death age of a man back then." Madoka told him and he saw Mai put her book down.

"Could he have died somewhere else? Maybe in a different country?" Mai asked softly, she didn't want to upset Naru more than she already seemed to with just her presence.

"No, people reported having seen him in the house and around until one day they didn't see him anymore. They figured that he just died and that his family had a small funeral with no one else invited. But the thing is…" she trailed off as Naru looked up at her.

"No death certificate." Naru finished and Madoka nodded before there was a knock on the door and Kim entered looking extremely pale. And behind her followed the one person that no one had expected to see.

A very much alive Jonathon Lunar gave them a smile and waved. Mai felt her heart began to pound and she felt a steadying hand on her arm and she turned to see that Naru was the one holding her and she saw that his face had also gone a pasty white.

"I heard that you were looking for me. I'm Jonathon Lunar…Rena's husband." the man said.