Okay, this is going to be the only AN for the next 2 chapters. Things might get a little slow as it's summer vacation and I get extremely lazy. But I will be updating, just not at the normal pace. So Enjoy!
Interlude- Naru's Reaction to Mai…or Madeline?
Naru was still fuming over what Madoka had said about Madeline. How did she know that Madeline had kissed him? Had she been spying on them? He felt a growl start in his chest and as there was no one around he let it out. He rested his head on the table that the computer was on. There was no doubt in his mind that he was going to kill Madoka the next time he had her alone.
He heard the door open and he looked up and saw that Mai had entered the room with a trey of tea and he almost sighed in relief. The girl must be able to read minds and since she was alone he would guess that Jonathon was gone. He couldn't believe that the man had been ready to feed on her while he was standing there! When he had seen the fangs he had been ready to punch the man to kingdom come. Mai was not werewolf food!
"Madoka said that you might need some tea. I made it the best I could but it isn't the same brew. Madoka's going to take me into London to see if we can find more information." Mai informed him and Naru knew why Madoka was leaving. And it wasn't because she wanted to find more information on the house. She knew if he got her in a room alone that she was a dead woman.
"Fine." he said. 'Just stay away from Jonathon or I will commit murder.' he thought angrily. Mai shrugged before she left the library. Naru took the cup in his hands and glowered down at the liquid in his cup. He was still smarting from what Madoka had said. He couldn't believe that woman! What right did she have to spy on him? He was up and ready to throttle her before he forced himself to stop. What was he doing?
Naru had never been so angry in his life and he really didn't understand why. He put his cup down and began to pace the floor. Why was he angry? Was it because Jonathon had almost bitten Mai? In a sense, yes, but he had stopped the werewolf, that threat was gone. Could it be because of what Madeline had said? That had to be it; he was going to kill that woman! When she got back from London, she was dead. She was so dead.
Naru decided that the best thing for him to do was to walk his anger off before he broke something in the library. He stalked up the steps and down the halls before he went back down the stairs and then right back up them. It wasn't helping his anger at all; it just took the edge off before it stopped helping at all. Naru felt like strangling something.
'You always let your anger control you.' Gene's voice echoed in his head and didn't help Naru's predicament at all. Of course Gene's advice would still ring in his head even though his twin wasn't there! Naru sat down on the steps with his head bent as he tried to gather his thoughts.
He just didn't get it! And for Naru that was a big deal. It meant he wasn't in control. It meant that he had lost the battle and he was just one of the pawns of a game in which he only knew a few of the rules. He was beginning to get frustrated again and he jumped up and began to pace around the main hall angrily. He wondered where Lin was and then realized the man must have taken Madoka and Mai into London.
'This is ridiculous! This should not be bothering me?! Who cares if Madoka saw Madeline kissing me! I felt nothing!' he almost had himself convinced until his brain decided to remind him that he had kissed Mai when she was unconscious in her room. He felt his cheeks flame at the thought and he growled at himself. He never blushed! How could one silly girl make him blush so easily? He refused to admit the answer.
Naru was woken from his sleep by a soft knocking on his door. He blinked as his eyes adjust to the dark as he gained his bearings. He slipped out of his bed and walked the door and what met his eyes when he opened cause him to step back in slight surprise. Mai was standing there looking curious and when she smiled he knew. He would have killed Madeline if she wasn't already dead and not in Mai's body.
"Madeline, it is the middle of the night. Mai and I both need our rest." he told the girl as she entered the room without his permission. He felt like snarling at her but he held it back. She was a possessed Mai and he couldn't hurt her, she was still Mai and his assistant.
"Do you mean you would rather sleep alone?" she asked and Naru did growl. He had had enough of Madeline trying to get him and Mai together.
"Madeline, whatever you have to say, say it…then get out." he said coldly and the woman laughed at him before she shrugged. She took his hand and before he knew what she was doing she was leading him down the passageway opened by the gargoyle.
"Fine then, spoilsport. There's something that I think I should show you since you decided that you would trust me rather than that stupid werewolf." she giggled and Naru frowned before watching as she pushed the buttons and then they were in what could only be called a laboratory.
"This is the secret hideout of the Lunar family. We were more of scientists than anything else. Jonathon was so disappointed when he found out that we were nothing more than a bunch of crazy scientists." she said and Naru narrowed his eyes.
"Then how did Jonathon live for a hundred years? I saw his fangs." Naru said and Mai shrugged with a smile on her lips.
"I suppose you have to find out that mystery. I am as incapable of cursing someone as you are about telling Mai what you really feel for her." Madeline said and Naru felt his anger flare up and Madeline giggled before she went to the book had landed when Mai had dropped it earlier and threw it at him.
"This was what each of the Lunars wrote in during their lifetime. We kept truthful records of what happened, except for Jonathon. He knew someday that someone would read it and he decided to blacken my name more than he already had. Jonathon is a liar; no werewolf curse has changed that fact." Madeline said and Naru didn't like how she made Mai's face turn into an ugly, angry look.
"I said I would trust you because I won't trust someone that thinks Mai is a snack. But if I find something that tells me that your endangering her as well…" he trailed off and Madeline raised an eyebrow.
"Everything comes with a price, Dr. Oliver Davis. You were the one that said you trusted me…and my possessions do come with a price as do all ghostly possessions. Mai becomes weaker after each one and soon she will enter into a coma and it will be easier to enter into her." Madeline said before Naru had grabbed hold of the collar of Mai's pajama shirt.
"What did you just say?" he hissed. Madeline chuckled before she pried his fingers off her shirt collar.
"You heard me, Dr. Davis. You shouldn't act so surprised and we both that there is no other way for me to speak to you and help you." she said and Naru felt as though someone had dumped a bucket full of ice on him. And it felt rather unpleasant.
'She's right.' was the only thought that pierced through his numb brain. He had never thought of the consequences of Mai always being possessed. The fact that the ghosts drained her energy to do so had never entered his mind until Madeline had told him. He growled and grabbed the woman again.
"Listen to me closely, Madeline. When we get out of here, you will leave Mai alone unless I call you. You will not, under any circumstances, possess her until then. Tell your little ghost friends that goes for them as well. If Mai ends up in a coma because of this you can be sure that your afterlife…will become very unpleasant very shortly. Have I made myself clear, Madeline?" he hissed and Madeline suddenly laughed before she pushed Naru away and hauled herself up onto the wooden table and sat there cross legged.
"Crystal clear, Dr. Davis. But your intentions are still as murky as mud water. Are you doing this for Mai or are you doing this because you are afraid of what I could be. What I could make you feel?" she asked and Naru huffed before he grabbed her wrist and dragged her out of the room and down the dark hallways until they were in front of Mai's room.
"Go in there and get out of Mai, instantly. Or I will, and can, make you regret it." he hissed before he turned and stalked to his room. The nerve of that damned woman! How dare she try to use Mai to get into his head? He couldn't believe her! First she tells him that her possessions will harm Mai and then she tries to flirt with him afterwards. He had never felt so angry in his entire life. No one used Mai to get at him. If they wanted to talk to him…they needed to confront him face to face and preferably with their own face.
Mai didn't know what she had done but Naru refused to look at her at all. Mai frowned as Naru avoided her fingers when she handed him his cup of tea. She tried to meet his eyes but he refused. She was about to throw her shoe at him again but decided against it when Madoka dragged her out, saying something about wanting to take her shopping. Mai had expected Naru to stop the woman but he had remained silent. And somehow Madoka had convinced Lin to join them.
Naru was still angry from the night before when Madeline had obviously revealed her true nature. The only thing left for her to show was her true intentions. He wasn't sure what they were but he no longer knew if he trusted her anymore. She was after something and he needed to find out what it was.
Naru stood up before he picked his cell phone up and dialed Lin's cell phone number. When the man answered he told them that they had an hour and a half in London and they had to get back so they could get back on the case.
"I'm going to make a guess and say that you've figured things out?" Lin said and Naru sighed. He should have known that Lin would pick up on his odd moods.
"Let's just say that Madeline has been moved back onto our caution list." he replied and he heard Lin chuckle.
"I hope that you've moved Mai onto the 'Protect-at-all-costs' list. We both know that Jonathon wants her. Since Madeline was telling the truth about possessions she obviously wants Mai as well." Lin pointed out and Naru sighed, the man was always the voice of reason when Naru lost his way.
"I know, Lin. I know." he replied. Even though he didn't want to admit it…Mai had always been on his 'protect-at-all-costs' list. And he would protect her with everything he could, even if it meant he had to go back to the hospital. He had a feeling that he would be soon. After all, Mai required a lot of protection.
