A/N
thank you everyone for being so patent and thanks to my beta-reader for editing this chapter.
The Case on Valentine's Day. Part 14.
~One hour later~
When Mai, Lin, and Naru got back to the office Naru ordered his two exhausted assistants to put the equipment away as usual. Before Mai could start an argument with her narcissistic boss, Lin turns to her.
"I know you're tired, Mai, so just let us get this over with, okay?" He encourages. "I'll make us some tea afterwards. Does that sound good to you?"
Mai turns away from Naru and gives Lin a grateful smile, nodding. Lin looks up at Naru disapprovingly. Naru shrugs his shoulders and walks back to his office. Mai picks up a camera and takes it back to the storage room, and Lin watches her walk away from the sitting room. He grabs a monitor following her through the narrow hallway leading to the storage room.
Ten minutes later, after all the equipmant was put away, Lin walks into the kitchen to prepare the tea while Mai lays down on the couch with her feet propped up on a few pillows. Lin comes out of the kitchen carrying a tray with two tea cups. He puts the tray on the coffee table and turns to Mai to hand her a cup, but to his surprise, she was fast asleep. He put the cup back on the tray.
'I'll just give the cup of tea to Naru.' He thinks to himself. He picks up the tray and walks over to Naru's office, entering without knocking. Naru looks up from the book he was reading to glare at the person who interrupted his solitude. Lin hands him the cup of warm tea. Naru nods his head in thanks and continues to read his book. Lin recognizes the dismissal for what it is and promptly leaves his boss' office before his temper could get the better of him. He walks into his own office and starts the report that will go to BSPR. 'I'm glad I work for Naru's parents. If it was up to Naru, I would never leave this desk.'
Later, when someone opens the door to his office, he gives out an annoyed breath at the interruption.
"I need you to take Mai home." Naru says, smirking. 'What's up with that smile?' Lin wonders to himself. 'Is the boy planning something? I hope not. I'm a grown man, I don't need a teenage narcissistic scientist's advice. Especially when the boy has troubles of his own with getting the person he loves. The sad part is, he's in love with our very own, Yasuhara Osamu.'
"I know that look on your face, Lin. I wouldn't dream of giving you advice on your love life." Naru says. "I wish you two would just stop dancing around each other and admit your attraction to one another." He mutters under his breath. Lin snorted.
Naru stands there in shock. In all the time he's known Lin Koujo the man never showed any of his emotions. 'Mai is good for him after all.' He thinks to himself.
Lin stands up from his desk chair and stretches out his aching back. That's what he get for sitting down for so long. He hears a pop from his shoulders and back. He walks over to Naru.
"And I wish you would stop tiptoeing around Yasahara. It's very exhausting watching you flirt with him." Lin states sarcastically. He walks out of his office with Naru hot on his heels.
"W-what's that supposed to mean?" Naru questions in an angry tone. Lin shrugs his shoulders and walks around Naru so that he could get to the coat rack. He takes his coat off the rack. When he finally turns back around Naru was glaring daggers at him. Lin decides to walk over to Mai's sleeping form and pick her up. 'She's even more beautiful in her sleep.' Lin thinks to himself. Naru steps back into his office, angry that his long time friend could express his love so easily.
"Lin's family would welcome Mai with warmth in their eyes and a smile. My family would do the same thing, but my mother wants grandchildren... How can two men have children?" Naru wonders out loud.
"You could adopt a child or children like Martin and Luella." Lin says, sticking his head into his boss' open door, with Mai still in his arms.
"Hmmm, I never thought about that. Do you think they would agree?"
Lin nods his head and walks out the front door.
When Lin gets to his car, he opens the passenger side door and puts Mai inside—with a seatbelt of course. He shuts the passenger side door softly and walks to the other side of the car, getting into the driver's seat. Lin puts the key into the ignition and drives away.