(Thank you all so much. I guess we are our own worst critics. I've been trying to do something really special with this story and write the love story I'd love to be in. I really wish the original story had gotten these two together. Oh well, they will forever be together here in fanfictions I suppose. Don't kill me when you reach the end. I promise it'll be worth it. Also I'll be fixing the errors in my free form poetry peice hopefully tonight or tomorrow, take a look at it if you haven't please.

Also I own none of this.))

For the sixth time in the past hour Mai's voice mail picked up Ayako tried to call her. Growling in frustration she paced her room and picked up the landline to try. When she'd gotten off the phone with her doctor father she'd immediately tried to call her young friend and so did her new husband. Both phone calls went straight to voice mail. Both had left terse messages that were full of worry.

Ayako slammed the handset down on the receiver. She noticed the monk watching her and she closed her eyes.

"I know this is our honeymoon and we're supposed to be having fun, but I couldn't bear it if something happened to her."

She felt the calming presence of her husband as he sank next to her on the bed. His arms pulled her close and her head was on his shoulder. She breathed in his scent. "I'm sure Mai's fine. She's probably just in a zone without coverage or she forgot to charge her mobile. We'll call Lin and Naru and I'm sure one of them will know what's going on. If they don't Masako, or Yasu will for sure."

"And what if they don't? What if Naru's dragged her into some case God Knows where and she's been hurt, or she in the hospital or worse, the morgue!"

"Stop getting ahead of yourself. If they don't know where Mai is than we'll be on the first flight home and if Naru is behind this he'll be paying for our honeymoon. Now relax and hand me my phone. I'll call Yasu you call Masako."

The Miko sighed and handed him his phone. They both began scrolling through their contact lists when the Monk's phone rang. The sound of strange gongs came from the tiny speakers. She frowned knowing who's ring tone that was. Snatching the phone out of his hand before he could answer she accepted the call and practically yelled into the handset.

"WHERE'S MAI LIN?! What has he gotten her involved with now!"

She saw her husband just smile and shake his head. She didn't know what was so funny about her agitation. Lin and Naru were lucky that she wasn't in the same country as they were or heads would be rolling. She shot the monk a death glare while she waited for the Chinese man to answer.

"She's on a case! Lin Mai's not the same person she was three years ago. She's got another job to worry about and...I see. I'll be in touch and YOU had better answer when I do." She disconnected the call and turned to Takigawa who had his brows raised in curiosity. "She's on a case. There's a family with two young girls being haunted by a poltergeist. Mai dreamed about the little girl. It's all starting again. She's going to be sucked back in. That bastard is going to use her talents for himself again!"

"Do you want to go home?"

"No."

"Are we going home?" When she sighed and wouldn't meet his eyes he stood up and began to gather his things out of the dresser and repack them in his suitcase. Check the airline see when we can catch a flight home."

She stood and threw her arms around his neck, pressing a fierce kiss to his lips that left him breathless. "I love you so much. Thank you so much for understanding."

He smiled at her, "Don't think I'm ok with this, I'm just going to take it out on Naru and Lin. Couldn't they have at least waited till we'd been here a week before getting into trouble.

Oliver was reading about poltergeist on his tablet and listening as Mai recounted Jackie Hine's concerns. Lin had called saying the van had overheated and that he was stuck in town waiting for a repair. He'd most likely be gone for the evening leaving Mai and himself on their own. Not that it mattered the activity seemed to be calm without David Hines anyway. Oliver had his suspicions about the cause of the family's troubles but he kept them to himself, not wanting to upset Mai. Plus he was happy that he'd have Mai to himself for the evening. He was feeling a bit possessive over her and didn't want to share her attention. He was amazed he'd left her alone the majority of the day.

Mai; to her credit, had spent the afternoon and early evening hours with the Hines children so that Mrs. Hines could recover from her shock. He'd kept a careful eye on the monitors wherever they'd gone. Thankfully nothing else happened. It was nice to see Mai so relaxed given the amount of information she'd had to cope with over the past few days. She really was an amazing woman. He caught himself smirking at the thought.

The boy he'd been four years ago at seventeen would have rolled his eyes at the man he was now. It wasn't as if he could help it though. The past few years hadn't changed his arrogance or altered his drive. They had however given him some perspective. When he first had hired Mai he told himself i was empathy; one orphan helping out another. He spent six months denying his physical attraction to her. He wasn't the type to believe in any of that nonsense about opposites attract and falling in love but when he landing in London with his brother's remains he knew that he was very much in love with her. He'd then spent the better part of the next year trying to tell himself it was because of the trauma of Gene's death. That she was indeed attracted to his older twin.

The thought had caused him a great deal of pain and finally one day Lin had confronted him about it. He remembered how Lin and laughed at him when he tried to convince his friend; and himself, that it wasn't love. It was merely physical attraction caused by his teenage hormones. Lin had smirked at him.

"If that's the case then why not spend some time in the company of one of Madoka's new students. I should think that Miss Shauna would love to help you with your problem."

"Shauna is a slut. She's a shameless whore she's slept her way this far. I wouldn't sully the Davis name by being seen with her, let alone engaging in any type of physical relations with her. Can you imagine? Not to mention the diseases she's likely teeming with. She would not make a suitable companion at all."

"What about Miss Avery, " Lin named a very blond, very attractive daughter of one of Luella's friends. For years Luella and hoped the either he or Eugene would make a romantic overture at the young woman. He frowned. "She's very pretty."

"It's not just about pretty. I haven't been able to find anyone I find stimulating intellectually."

Lin was smirking even more now. He rolled his eyes and began looking through the briefs on his desk. "What about Miss Trisha? She's the top Psychiatry fellow this year. She's got perfect marks. She's got excellent manners and she's been around the world."

He remembered thinking that Lin had lost his mind. "The American! Now I know you've lost your mind man."

Lin laughed and left his office, but not before his firing a final shot over his shoulder, "Just admit you want Mai. Swallow your pride and call one of the team for new number. You'll not be happy until you do." He scoffed. He didn't want Mai and she didn't want him, but his dead brother. He would admit to no one the fantasies that had plagued him since the first time he'd held her small body close to his. It made him feel dirty. He was trying to save her and had shielded her with his body, but the contact had felt so good. So right. He never forgot the way she felt in his arms or the scent of her hair in his nose. It didn't matter though..

Falling out of the memory to see searching his face he smirked at her. "Are you done playing dolls?" He loved to antagonize her. The faces she made were simply delightful.

She narrowed her eyes at him. "Did you listen to anything I just said Naru?"

"Every word. I think when this is over we should get Mrs. Hines in touch with a good psychiatrist to help her. I think she may be suffered from post traumatic stress." When Mai didn't interrupt him he pressed on. "Lin won't be returning home. There's a problem with the van so he's staying at a hotel in town. It's just you and me" He breathed the last part in her ear. She flushed a pleasant shade of pink just as he knew she would. "I was hoping that you and I could spend some time talking."

She gave him a look full of doubt and raised one brow to him. "Talking? What do you could you want to talk to me about?"

"I want to know about you life these last three years."

"You've never wanted to know about my life before" He smirked at her. When she gave him a searching look he moved his fingers across her cheek in a loving caress.

"Things change."

"So, where do you want me to start?" she was smiling at him and he knew that he'd won. He really did want to know about her life. When he'd first hired her he did so knowing she was an orphan who was supporting herself. He kept careful tabs on her through her employment with SPR. At the time he'd justified it was making sure she was safe; she was all alone, but truthfully he liked to know about her. He could only imagine what Luella would read into his actions if she knew. Then again, knowing Lin both Martin and Luella probably knew all about Mai and how Lin and Madoka's suspicions about his affections for her. He wondered if his adopted parent's would like her, he suspected that Luella would but Martin might be taken back by her bubbly nature. It was Christmas in a few months. Perhaps he could bring Mai home for the holiday. He smiled to himself. He didn't even know if she wanted a relationship. If she didn't it would make his job harder.

Harder, but not impossible. He was going to win her over. There wasn't any other option. Oliver Davis was very good at everything he set his mind to. Having a girlfriend would be no different. He pulled Mai to the couch and sat down. She gasped when he tugged her into his lap and rubbed is fingers down the back of his neck.

"How about the beginning. Tell me about School, and why you changed your number."

Mai tried her best to fill him in on all the events of the past few years. occasionally Naru would stop her and ask a question but she was surprised that he for the most part had listened quite intently. She found that really did enjoy being the center of his attention and she was afraid of how she'd feel when that ended. She had quickly gone through that she'd changed her number because her phone had been lost in the aftermath of the attack and she was afraid her rapist had found it. She'd quickly changed her number after she'd gotten a few late night calls to her house line where she could hear someone breathing.

She felt Naru's muscles go taut when she told him that and if she didn't know better she'd swear he was angry. He wore his neutral face so it was impossible to tell. When she got to the part of how she'd been awarded a full scholarship to University based on her paper on parapsychological research he had smiled. Not smirked but smiled. It had made her stomach flutter and her heart rate jump a few beats faster. They spent several hours talking and before she knew it the moon was high in the sky and it was dark.

"Oh MY! It's so late. We need to get to sleep if we're going to be any use tomorrow. I'll make you some tea then I'm going to bed." He turned to look at the clock which glowed 10:58pm and nodded to her. When she turned her back to him and started moving about to prepare his tea she heard him very softly.

"Sleep in my bed tonight. Please Mai? I promise not to do anything you don't want me to. I just..I just want to feel you close to me. I want to wake up with you again. Last night was so hard after having gotten to have you in my arms the night before."

She turned wide eyed to him and could see he was completely serious. His face was guarded but his eyes shined with hope. She didn't trust her voice to answer and was barely aware of herself nodding. He let out a breath in relief and she smiled now at him. She turned back to the tea.

"Do you still want tea?" She jumped when she felt his breath on the back of her neck and his arms went around her hips. His hands toyed with the lace at the bottom of her shirt.

"No." She straightened and turned in his arms.

"You won't do anything I don't want you to, you promised."

"I promised." With that answer he leaned down and kissed her on the lips and when she didn't object he parted her lips to deeped the kiss. She felt his arms tighten around her and one of his hand slip under her shirt to trace lines on the small of her back. The other hand came up to her face and he trailed his fingers over her cheek and jaw softly. When they seperated his fingers moved across her lips making them tremble in their wake. She closed her eyes and leaned against his shoulder, breathing him in. He removed his arms and took her hand in his own larger one. They laced their fingers together. He stopped before the monitors to key in the code to record all night and then led her toward the door. As they crossed the hall to her temporary room she felt her lower muscles tighten. She did know what would happen once they were in her bed, but she knew that no matter what happened she was very much in love with the man who now held her hand. When they reached the side of her bed he stopped and looked down at her.

"If I do anything you don't want tell me, and I'll stop" he whispered before he kissed her. Trusting him Mai closed her eyes and let her own fingers roam over his shoulder. She didn't know if there was anything that she didn't want him to do. The thought should scare her she dimly thought, but this was the man she'd loved for four years and he was here now wanting her; if the erection pressing into her stomach was any idication. She slowly began to unbutton his skirt as he pulled her own over her head. When he ran his fingers across her abdomen she giggled at the sensation. He smirked at her before moving his fingers to her back to the clasp of her bra.