((I'm exceptionally touched the people even read this and seem to be following it. I hope I'm hitting my stride here, I am trying. It's been literally running in my head for weeks since I stumbled upon Ghost Hunt in Netflix this summer.I'm literally trying to turn out at least a chapter a day so I don't stagnate. I really feel like this story needs to get out of me. I'm trying on the typos. I email the stories to a friend in hopes they can catch the mistakes I miss. If anyone wants to be beta for this just pm me and I'd be grateful for the help. A dollar if you can guess the movie referenced btw.

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Oliver looked at his notes and watched the playback from the night before. He was troubled by the details he had managed to pull from the family. The father, one 'David Hines' was openly hostile when he asked to examine the injuries to his four year old daughter. He wouldn't allow Adia talk to him about the terrors that haunted her. The wife Jackie seemed to be very afraid of her husband and unwilling to go against him. She tried to say as little as possible while comforting the youngest Hines; a little girl named Amelia. All in all it was very perplexing.

Something major was going on in this home and no one wanted to work with him. He saw the destruction in the nursery. A crib that had been broken apart forcing the baby to sleep at it's mother's bed side. A dresser that had literally exploded and closet door that had been ripped from it's hinges to lay across the room on the floor in pieces. Something extremely strong was here. David Hines had tried to prevent any cameras from being placed in the families sleeping quarters but Lin had managed to hide on the top shelf of the closet in Adia's room.

While reviewing his temperature readings from his walk through of the home Oliver's eyes caught a dark shadow as it moved across the hall way to ward the little girl's room. Curious. He leaned in and watched further as the apparition came to stand at the foot of her bed. As he watched intently the girls' wardrobe and toys began to levitate around her prone form. Before he could do anything about what he was seeing everything slammed suddenly down to the ground and broke waking the entire house. The baby's wails broke his thoughts and the father had gone down stairs to confront him instead of to comfort his crying children and wife.

Strange. In the end they'd been forced to leave immediately and were told to remove everything even thought it was almost two in the morning. Lin was quietly driving back to their offices and Oliver was stewing in the front seat of the van wondering just what was going on. David Hines became incensed when he saw Lin remove the camera from Adia's room and threatened both Lin and himself with major bodily harm if they didn't leave right then. He had no interest in seeing the footage that had been recorded.

"What do you think is going on there Noll?" Lin broke his silence for the first time since they'd left the Hines' home.

"I'd rather not speculate right now Lin. I'm going to have Madoka call the father tomorrow and inform him of our treatment. Perhaps he can get us back in that house."

"Are you sure that's wise?"

Oliver thought back to the floating furniture and the haunted look in Adia's eyes. Something was there. He could do something about it and he would find out what was haunting the family. "Yes.

Lin said nothing and pursed his lips. He knew fighting would be useless. Oliver was immovable once he made his mind up so trying to dissuade his young charge would do no good.

Mai was picking up her maid of honor gown and a small gift for Ayako. She still had the remnants of her hangover but the water and pills that had been left for helped. Somehow telling everyone had also helped a great deal. When they didn't look at her with pity she had felt lighter than she had in a long, long time. While she was still hurting telling hadn't done the damage to her friendships as she thought it would. While she wasn't ok she didn't feel so trapped and breathing felt a bit lighter today.

Spring time had always been very special to her. Like most Japanese she loved the cherry blossoms but secretly Mai loved to cut through the park during the day and see the Lilac bushes. The delicate purple flowers and scent reminded her of her mother. When Mai had been younger her mother would fill their apartment windows with fresh cut Lilac in the spring and let the warm breeze flow through the house filling every room with the delicate scent. It always made her smile. In less than a week now she'd have a bouquet of Lilac and white roses in her hands as she stood for Ayako and Takigawa. She was so happy that two of her most dearest friends had fallen so deeply in love. She still remembered how it had all happened and smiled when she remembered when the Monk had made his wild opening move in wooing the redheaded doctor priestess.

She and Ayako were living on the fourth floor of the building and it had been a warm spring night so the sliding balcony door was open to let the breeze in. They were watching some terribly dubbed American Movie and eating popcorn in the pajamas. They laughed at the lead character when he lied about his name being 'Calvin Klein'. She thought that Americans must like the strangest things. It was then they heard someone frantically yelling for Ayako from outside.

They shared a confused look as they got up to see what the commotion was and were shocked to see Takigawa's band assembled with a growing crowd outside on the sidewalk in front of the building.

"What are you doing you stupid Monk?" Ayako laughed when he yelled finally at her and smiled. He just smiled and the band broke into a song. It was about the red head and how she was in his dreams every night. Mai and Ayako smiled as they listened to how he knew her favorite food and drink. How he loved that she wore perfume that smelled like apples and used tea tree oil shampoo. He knew that she listened to classical music after a long day and loved a band called 'The Killers' and he'd be over the moon if she could love him too.

When the song ended the crowd all smiled and Ayako was biting back a grin.

"So?" Takigawa yelled up to her. Ayako couldn't help but melt at the hopefully look on his face. If she hadn't been in love with him before the song she would have been after. It was the single most amazing thing anyone had ever done for her.

"Get up here and ask me properly you stupid Monk." Ayako called back to him and he broke into the biggest grin Mai had ever seen. She excused herself to her room before he was their door knocking like a mad man.

"What did you think?" He panted. Clearly he'd run up the steps instead of waiting for their ancient elevator.

"I love you, you stupid man." and they kissed. Mai watched and giggled into her hand from the crack in her door. 'Finally' she thought as the monk and priestess giggled and kissed. They clung to each other tightly and as Mai shut her door to give them their privacy she heard Takigawa let out a loud whoop and declare that the most beautiful woman in the world loved him.

Mai remembered the proposal and how Monk had been nervous. He'd gotten Ayako's strict father's permission to ask her to marry him and bought her the most beautiful princess cut ring that he and Mai had found. Set in white gold with small circular stones in the channels on the sides it was inscribed with the words To my priestess. Ayako had come home to find the apartment filled with candles and red roses. She was almost overwhelmed till he stepped out and kissed her. Mai didn't know exactly what had been said but she knew that Ayako had said yes and Mai had been happy.

She was happy for them but a little sad too. She had hated to move out of their apartment and was sure that Ayako had something to do with the apartment two floors below becoming open as just the right time. She wanted her friends to be happy but being left by them was sad. She hoped that as they had their own family she wouldn't be pushed out.

Mai sighed to herself as she worked on her speech in her head. She was anxious about speaking in front of so many people and to hear Takigawa's younger brother Kyo's speech. The other man who'd be her 'escort' for the wedding was a bigger prankster than his brother if such a things was possible. She was looking forward to laughing with him at the wedding. She was glad she had it to look forward to take her mind off of Naru's arrival in Japan. She wasn't ready to deal with that yet and had avoided the topic when Masako or anyone asked what they could tell him as he called or texted each of them several times for information. Sighing she decided to get some lunch since she had the entire day to herself due to her job closing for a computer network upgrade. She considered her options and settled on Tempura as their was a small place not too far from the park and her apartment that made it well.

She walked briskly their to try and beat the lunch crowd in hopes she could get a spot at the counter to eat instead of having to take her lunch home. She hated when her food got cold and re-heating it seemed ruin the crispness of the vegetables and batter. She could smell the food stalls she passed on the street the garment bag slung over her shoulder as she walked. Her mouth watered and she was looking forward to her lunch. As she rounded the door to come in and ask the hostess to be seated she stopped and hid behind a column by the door. Her heart started to pound in her ears.

Mai could feel the blood rush to her face and her fingers felt numb from her hyperventilating. Inside the restaurant was Lin and Takigawa sitting at a back table with their heads lowered in a tense looking conversation. She didn't think they saw her and she chanced a peak around the corner again. They were whispering quite intently and Takigawa was waving his hands at Lin who was shaking his had and raising his own hand in a 'stop' gesture. They stopped when the hostess; whom knew Mai by name from her many visits called across the lobby to her.

"Oh, Mai, would you like to eat in or take out? We have a great special today!" She beamed at Mai seemingly oblivious to Mai's distress. Mai yelped and ran from the restaurant but not before catching a glimpse of the men's faces. They looked confused and guilty. She ran all the way to her apartment and locked the door. As far as she was concerned the entire world had come off of it's axis and was spinning out of control!

Lin watched as Takigawa ran a weary hand through his hair and groaned seeing Mai run away.

"Just fucken perfect. As if this wasn't a big enough mess, know Mai knows something's up and she's going to be really hurt if she thinks I'm keeping things from her!" The monk spat.

"You are." Lin observed and he didn't smile when he said it. Takigawa scowled at him.

"I don't need this man. I've got my wedding coming up. This really is all His fault ya know? I'm half tempted to throttle the life out of him."

Lin said nothing and let the younger man rail on. He was busy thinking about the deeply troubling facts that he'd just learned. This would make Oliver's quest infinitely harder and if Lin allowed himself to focus on it he was extremely angry about Mai's rape. When Takigawa had angrily spit it out at him his immediate thought was to kill the young men responsible. He had to push that away for now. He had no idea how Oliver would handle this when he found out that on the night he'd left her by the lake she had been assaulted. No doubt she'd have trouble allowing him close even if she did love him, as Lin suspected she did. He grimaced. This was going to be extremely difficult.

"Calm down Takigawa. Let's deal with one issue at a time. What are you doing to help her recover?" And they focused on Ayako's plan to get the young woman help.

Oliver focused on the treadmill he was running on. The part he hated most of his job was the need to be fit so he could run when needed and fight when running wasn't an option. He breathed heavily as the sweat ran down his back and he let his mind focus.

He was thinking of what it'd be like to have never left Japan. He could call for Mai whenever he wanted.

"Mai, tea." He immersed himself in the daydream and smiled as he now saw her not was a sixteen year old girl but grown woman. He was happy to have the updated imagery to focus on. In his mind she appeared in his office and set a steaming cut before him. As she turned to go he seized her wrist and startled her and pulled her towards him to kiss his lips. He half rose to meet her half way and she smiled into it opening her mouth and he could taste the honey and lemon on her tongue. It was heady and seductive.

The dream warped and they were in her apartment. Oliver knew what her old home looked like as he'd taken her home a few times and discreetly looked around. They were moving towards her bedroom and he pealed her top off and was rewarded with the sight of her breasts straining against a baby blue bra. He smiled at the little white bow between then and felt her fingers fumble with his top button. She was anxiously trying to push the button through the hole and he stopped his finger tips from roaming down her neck to help her. He threw the shirt aside and stood there looking at her for a moment before he brought a trembling hand up to touch the side of one of her breasts and his other kneaded her hip and pulled her body against him. She nipped his bottom lip and he smirked before kissing her deeply.

It twisted again. They were on her bed and he was on top of her. Neither had any clothing left on and he was so aroused he could think of nothing else. He had his hand on her and felt how wet she was. Absently he remembered Gene saying something about having fooled around with girls and that they liked having fingers thrust inside them to make them more excited. At the time it had seemed stupid but he saw the appeal of foreplay now.

She gasped when he slicked and finger inside of her and moved it back and forth. She found and attacked his mouth as she ran her hands over his back. He smiled at her as he withdrew his finger and shifted so that he was ready to enter her. He leaned down and kissed her gently and cupped her jaw gently.

"Do you..do you want me to?" He trembled as he asked her. She blushed and he thought it was the most beautiful sight he'd ever seen

"I do, but I'm scared it'll hurt." She whispered into his lips.

"If it hurts I'll stop. I promise. I don't want you to hurt Mai. I want to make love to you and show you just how beautiful you are." She nodded and he started to part her labia and enter her when...

BEEP BEEP BEEP! He was ripped from his day dream by his cycle on the tread mill ending. Closing his eyes he groaned deeply and his hands gripped the bar so hard his knuckles stood out in white relief.

He drew in a few shaky breaths and shook his head trying to clear it. He was still very aroused and gritted his teeth while he toweled off his face and headed towards the shower. Most of the time Oliver considered bodily functions to be beneath him and he often wished he hadn't been cursed with a body at all, just a mind. It was only when he thought of Mai and his secret wishes that he admitted he found some parts of being human wonderful.

He turned the shower on cold and stripped his sweaty clothing off. He hoped that he could get his ragged thoughts under control before Madoka came to the office to discuss the Hines today.