((does it even need to be said that I don't own ghost hunt? Well..I don't. Don't bite my head off yet, this is part two of a 3 part arch, ok? Just hang in there.))

The diver's are searching and Martin and Luella are on a plane. They'll be here soon. Now all that remains is to actually find his remains. Once that's done I can tell Mai everything.

My heart pounds at the thought. Will she hate me for lying? My heart breaks at the thought. I'll make her understand why I had to. I really had no choice. It was necessary to protect her. To protect them all.

I hadn't planned on her entering my life. Not that you really can plan for something like that. I mean really..

I leave Lin to go and handle this situation. He's more than capable of telling the divers to keep looking. We are after all, paying them dearly. I have something very important to talk to.

I question the Monk and Miko as to where Mai is and they point me in the direction of the woods. Of course. She probably wants to be alone. I stalk off after her. It doesn't take me long to spy her ubiquitous pink skirt through the trees. Mai doesn't do subtle. I like that though. I can make out her voice talking to someone. As I round the tree she looks at me as if expecting an answer.

"Mai?" She looks at me and is confused. I can't help but smirk for a moment then sober. I have to talk to her now, before he's pulled from the water. She won't want to hear it then.

"Naru?" And she starts rambling off again my smile. I don't smile. "All those times in my dreams, you really helped me, you know? I know I've never thanked you but.."

"Dreams?" Does she dream about me? My heart is pounding so loudly I can hear the blood rushing in my ears. Mai dreams about Me.

"I mean, all those things you showed me, that helped on the cases. How you kept me safe..How do you leave your body?"

"That's not something I can do Mai." Not me, but Gene. Could he have..?

"What do you mean? It was YOU! I mean, it looked just like you except for the smiling.." She's smiling at the memory and my heart breaks. The one who was never supposed to compare me to him is. She was only ever supposed to know me. If she knows him too she'll never choose me..no one ever does.

"How long?" It's all I can say. My mouth has gone dry. I fold my arms over my chest and lean back against the tree. I close my eyes because I can't bare to see her?

"Since the first case. Remember how I had asked you if you had come back?" My god damn brother. My god damn twin brother. He's supposed to be dead. I've given up the last year of my life to find that prat's body and he's haunting my god damn girlfriend. No. Assistant, not girlfriend. All my fantasies come crashing down around me. Mai doesn't dream of me. She dreams of Gene.

"It's not me."

"Then who?"

"His name is Eugene. Gene. He's my brother." My voice is dead once more. This isn't how I had pictured this conversation going.

"But it looked just like you!" She's accusing me of lying. I can understand. We wore the same face for seventeen years. Only when we opened our mouths could you really tell who was who.

"He's my twin Mai. My identical twin." She looks at me with the big brown eyes that have been in my dreams. She's so close I can smell her shampoo. I could touch her if I shifted just an inch. Her hand hangs by mine and I have to fight the compulsion of my fingers to reach out and touch her. She's not my Mai. She was never my Mai. She's been Gene's since that dream. Since he gave her that god damned smile. He took her away and never even had the balls to tell her.

"Oh..but why did he help?"

"He was probably trying to be a good brother, and help me out." The silence hangs between us uncomfortably. I can hear the wheels turning in her mind.

"What was he like?" My heart splinters even more. I have to do something to stop the bleeding. I need to get away, but I'm so helplessly her creature when she looks at me like that.

"He was nice, Like you only.." She's following my ever word. Of course she is. He's quite literally the man of her dreams. "Quieter. But he was like you. He cared for people. He'd laugh or cry with them."

"Oh." I can ear the diver's shouting at something and calling for more to go to a specific spot. It won't be long now.

"I like you." She says after a bit.

"I don't want people's emotions" It's all I can say. What I mean is 'I desperately want you to love me, but since that can't be I can't take your pity. LOVE ME! Not Gene, ME!' but I don't say that.

"I mean I like you, in a special way." If only. No it's not me. Is it? I have to know.

"Me, or Gene?" I wait a heartbeat and then two. No answer. She might as well have just cut out my heart. She starts to cry softly and I still can't just walk away from her. What's the matter with me? "You'll see him again, in a hundred years or so." When she gives me that smile I realize that I'll always love her despite the fact that she loves Gene. I can hear them calling me so I shift my attention back to the shore. There it is. "In your case it might be two hundred years."

With that I turn away and go to do what I came here to. I can see Martin holding Luella who's sobbing. They must have just arrived. I pull back the corner of the sheet slightly but I'm so numb from the bombshell that Mai just dropped on me I don't really register that this is my face that's decomposing. He might be dead but it's me that's dying. I just nod and pull the sheet back over him.

I can't take anymore. I can't go back to Mai. I. Just. Can't.

I go back to the van and wait for Lin. I can't take anymore.