Chapter 36 - Halo (Acoustic): STARSET

CW/TW! This chapter contains scenes of nightmares and many scenes of sexual content. Reader discretion IS STRONGLY advised. This chapter is rated E for EXPLICIT, not E for EVERYONE!

Day: ? - 0000

Naru

"Doc…Doctor Da…. Doctor Davis! Wake up!" a voice called out.

He opened his eyes a little bit and then bolted upright when he realized where he was. He was on the floor of the bathroom where he had first passed out after their first failed test. He looked and saw Dr. Hiroa staring at him sadly. Is it his mind reminding him of this event for some reason? Why this moment? Why now?

"Where's Mai?" He asked instinctively.

This time however Dr. Hiroa shook his head. "I'm sorry, Dr. Davis, I did all I could. The burns were just too severe," he said.

His heart started pounding fast and hard. This was a dream. It had to be a dream. This wasn't really happening. This can't be happening.

"No, no you're wrong. You didn't say that. You said that there was something wrong and that she had a golden glow around her. She's alive! We've escaped and made it home!" He objected angrily and frantically.

"I'm sorry, but while she was under, she went into another cardiac arrest," he explained. "The burns on her heart were so severe she just couldn't take it. What you saw was just a dream, I'm afraid."

His eyes widened and his breathing increased. "No!" He yelled, standing up. "She's alive, we escaped after 10 days, and you sacrificed yourself to save us! You're dead! You're with your daughter because those monsters killed her!"

"No. Again, what you experienced was a dream. I'm sorry for your loss. I'll give you two a moment to grieve as I go report to Leaders Alaina and Akio. Please excuse me," he said as he turned around out the door and vanished.

"Mai!" He yelled rushing to the bedside.

He saw her body lying motionless and lifeless. The blood drained from her face and arms, a closed mouth expression of pain and discomfort in her final moments, and her skin was pale and beginning to turn gray.

"No…" he whimpered out. "No, no, NO, NO!" His PK flared in anger, frustration, and grief. "MAI! WAKE UP! YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP! PLEASE! YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME HERE! DON'T GO!" He surged his PK through her, his vision blurring from the tears that fell in abundance. Her body jerked as it was wracked with electricity and power, but she didn't move. His power dimmed down as he felt his body grow weak. "No! Mai, please wake up god damn it! You promised, YOU PROMISED! We escaped, our family found us, we were going to get married! Please! Why can't I wake up?! Wake me up, please Mai! Help me!"

"Ah, damn, you fuckin' killed yer' girlfriend Oliver!" Alaina's cynical voice called out from behind. He clutched onto Mai's body tight as he whipped around and glared. Alaina strode up to him and smirked. "Too bad. I had hoped she would have proven useful. Guess your assessment of her was off doctor. Just let go of her and we'll get you a new buffer. As for a new girlfriend though…" She chuckled and winked at him.

"NO! NEVER! MAI! WAKE UP! I NEED YOU TO WAKE UP! I NEED YOU TO WAKE ME UP!" He sobbed. Mai's body on the table vanished leaving just him and Alaina. He fell to his knees in heartbreak.

Alaina grabbed him by his throat and lifted him off the ground. She squeezed hard; he struggled in her grasp, but nothing would free him. He couldn't breathe! He continued to struggle and grasp at the hands holding him. "You're mine now Oliver," she sneered.

The sound of footsteps behind Alaina caught his attention. He looked up and saw Mai walking towards the two of them. She had a look of fury written on her face. He gasped out, "Mai."

"I thought I told you, you can't have him," she said darkly. She walked towards Alaina. "Not now, not ever. You won't have him."

"Mai, you're-" he choked.

She smiled at him. "It's ok Naru, I'll take care of this."

She closed her eyes and her hands began to glow gold. She held her hand out to Alaina's head and pulsed her PK energy outwards. Alaina disappeared along with the surrounding area of the horrid place and morphed into their garden. He fell to the ground and started coughing and heaving. He began to fall forward but was caught in beautiful golden wings. He looked up and saw his angel holding him; having caught him on the way down.

"Mai," he wheezed.

"I'm here, love. I'm alive. I'm with you now," she soothed. "Wake up with me Naru."

-o-

Recovery Day 3: 02:47

Naru

He awoke with a loud gasp. Mai was leaning over him and looked worried. Upon him opening his eyes she smiled radiantly. Something was off though…

"Why is the ceiling so close?" He asked.

They were floating. The bed was floating! His PK caused a bunch of things in his room to levitate including the bed they were both in! Her smile fell and her eyes widened and then flashed gold. Just as they were about to fall and crash to the ground with the bed, she used her own PK to keep them steady and levitating in the air. Such quick reactions couldn't be said for the other things that came crashing to the ground, some things breaking, others just falling over in a loud thud!

Mai clutched him tight to her as she flexed her newfound PK-LT abilities to lower them both back down to the bed gently. She panted for a few seconds while things settled, and then pulled back and looked at him smiling. "Thank goodness, you're awake."

"My angel…" he whispered. He reached up and touched her face with his hands. She felt real enough, but then again, that other Mai also felt real. "My golden light…"

She leaned forward and gently kissed him. "I'm here Naru. I'm alive. You were in a bad nightmare," she explained, "Your aura reached out to me, and that's what woke me up. Then you were crying. When I tried to wake you up, you started screaming and your PK started making everything in the room shake. That's when I projected myself into your dream. I needed to reach deep into your subconscious to find you."

"I see. I'm sorry about that. I…It was a pretty horrific dream," he said, still shaking.

"Do you want to tell me more? I think I'm well versed in dealing with horrific dreams," she said smiling sympathetically.

He nodded and caressed her arms. "You…you were dead. I…I had killed you! After the first experiment, you had gone into another cardiac arrest, and all of this was a long and lucid dream. I felt it. I tried to get your aura to respond to my PK like I did before, but it didn't work," he said, feeling the tears still rolling out of his eyes.

"Naru…"

"Mai…it…still feels like I'm dreaming," he whispered. "It was all so real." He held onto her and she pulled his head into her chest. "You were dead in my arms. I couldn't feel you anymore. You looked to be in so much pain in the moments of your death!" He choked on his words and tried to will himself to forget it.

"You were screaming for me to 'wake up' and to 'wake you up' as well. It broke my heart. I'm not leaving your side. Never again. You're my Protector," she said so kindly. "It's ok now. I'm here. I'm alive." She soothed, gently caressing his hair. "What will best help you right now?" She asked lovingly.

"Help me see that this is real, please Mai," he practically begged through their bond.

She pulled back slightly and kissed him deeply. He reached up and caressed her face and brought his hand to the back of her head. Soon, though, she climbed on top of him and began touching him. She moved her hands around his head and face and he sighed in familiarity. Her hands trailed down and began unbuttoning his nightshirt. As soon as it was completely unbuttoned she rubbed her hands up his chest, leaned down, and kissed him softly. Her lips were so warm and full of life, and he traced them once more with his tongue. She gave a slight breathy moan as she allowed him entry into her mouth. Everything about her was sweet and intoxicating, and he would take in as much as he could.

She broke the kiss on his lips and began kissing his jaw and neck. He moaned in pleasure and clutched at the back of her nightshirt. She kissed and nipped up and around his jaw and throat before moving to his clavicle. Now he groaned louder and his body started moving underneath her to try and create friction.

"Mai," he panted, "Yes, that feels amazing."

"Hmmm I'm glad," she whispered.

She continued to kiss and caress down his chest. Her short brown hair lightly brushing up on him sent his mind spinning. He reached underneath her shirt to start feeling and touching her back. Any way to touch her at this point. She kept moving herself further down on him until she was kissing his stomach and hips. His breathing was quick and ragged at this point as he looked down at his fiancé lovingly kissing all over him. Her hands glowing gold with PK at the tips sending small jolts of pleasure throughout his body as she touched. Her fingers were slightly warm from the electricity from her PK generating heat. They glow as she traces her fingers across his stomach, up to his chest and shoulders, down his arms, and interlock their hands as he moves them off her back.

"Oh god, Mai…so good…you feel so good," he groaned, writhing harder underneath her ministrations. He squeezed his eyes shut as pleasure and warmth consumed him.

"I'm here with you, Naru. I'm not leaving you. Never again. I promised," she softly soothed him through their bond.

"Yes, you're here. You're here with me," he panted hard.

"May I? Please?" She asked.

He opened his eyes and saw her at the hem of his night pants. She looked at him imploringly with gorgeous golden eyes and a single finger hooked just barely underneath the band. His breathing increased and his eyes widened. 'She-she wants to…on me?! She's going to be the death of me, but what a way to go…' He thought.

She giggled and smiled radiantly at him. "Again, I'd really much prefer if you didn't die on me. But yes, I very much want to touch you. All of you."

He swallowed hard and nodded. "Only if you want to. I never want to push you into something you're uncomfortable with," he said sincerely.

He felt her love pulse around him through their bond. "You never have," she whispered.

She pulled his pants down just enough to reveal himself. He was pulsing hard just from everything she was doing to him. She wrapped her hand gently around him and he gripped the sheets to the side hard. He gasped hard trying to get air to enter his lungs as he realized he had stopped breathing in anticipation. She began moving her hand up and down tentatively and with a novice hesitation, but he gasped and moaned hard.

"Yes, yes, that feels so good. Keep going, you're doing good," he encouraged. He was panting so hard now.

"Like this? I've obviously never done this before," she asked shyly.

He reached down to help her adjust her grip lower. "More down here-yes! Oh fuck, fuck, fuck! Mai!" He came before he could stop himself. His release caused his mind to go hazy for a few moments and his vision to black out.

When he recovered he looked down at Mai who was smiling at him kindly. Her golden eyes are dazzlingly bright and shining like golden stardust. "That was amazing, Oliver. Now, can you tolerate more or are you done? Both are okay answers," she asked, repeating his words back to him.

He chuckled, "The day I ever say 'I'm done' is the day you should commit me to an asylum for insanity."

She laughed, and he knew that he was awake. There was no way his mind could ever recreate the sound of an angel's perfect laugh. "In that case," she continued, as she reached over to the side table. She opened the drawer and pulled out a package. She opened it and rolled it on him herself. He decided to try something just for her. He reached forward and pulled her close to him before flipping them around and laying her down on the bed. He finished taking off his nightwear before gazing upon his fiancé with adoration.

He reached through their bond and connected to her aura. His spirit briefly left him and went for her shirt. He used his PK to begin lifting her shirt off of her slowly. She moaned as he took control of her and undressed her without physical touch. His spirit left little silver tendrils of electrical charges across her skin as they shared this power.

She moaned loudly and closed her eyes. Her mouth hung open slightly as she gasped in pleasure. "Oh, oh yes please, Oliver, don't stop!"

"Lift your hips, Mai," he whispered.

She did and he continued to use his PK to gently grab her underwear to slide them off of her. She moaned and squirmed under him as his spirit continued to caress her and touch her in ways he never imagined doing before. He wondered about the extent to which his own spirit could manipulate her or the things around her. If he could channel part of her PK-LT into giving her pleasure.

"It's worth a shot," she moaned. "I'm consenting to an impromptu experiment for my scientist fiancé. So long as the data collected stays between us of course."

He blinked rapidly and then smiled down at her. "Alright then, let's test this, shall we? Tell me about what you feel when you want to manipulate a living being. What goes on in that beautiful mind of yours?" He asked.

"It starts with intention," she moaned. "What do I want this person to do? Where do I want them to be? Those kinds of things."

He reached through their bond and reached for her aura. 'I want to carefully spread her legs. Out to either side of me. Not too far, about 60°,' he thought. Then he sent his PK out to her.

She gasped as her legs began moving on their own. His spirit reached out and caressed her breasts. He felt the taste of them in his lips as he licked and massaged her nipples with his mouth. All of this with PK was an extent of his spiritual energy he never imagined doing before. His spirit's hands were keeping her legs spread as he continued his work with her breasts. She was squirming with pleasure, moaning obscenities, breathing heavily, and flushed pink and red from head to toe. His spirit's fingers began to go inside of her as he gave another thought through their PK bond.

'I want a constant light pressure on her pelvis. Right where I know she likes it. Move slowly.'

"Fuck, Oliver, pleeeease!" She moaned through the bond. "Don't stop, don't stop!"

"Wasn't planning to. I am still testing. You're an excellent test subject," he replied.

"Only for you. What's-nnn! What's your hypothesis?" She asked cheekily.

He slowly pumped his fingers mentally into her. "Hmm…I theorize that I can get you to come for me…three times before I physically touch you."

"Oh god, Oliver! Yes!" She screamed. She arched off the bed and cried out in pleasure. He kept moving on and in her, as he kept up the pressure on her pelvis. "Yes, yes! Yes! Oh fuck!" She kept cresting over her peak again and again for him as he manipulated her body.

He couldn't take it anymore and needed to feel her for himself now. Pulling his spirit back in on himself he breathed deeply as he aligned himself and pushed in all the way. She screamed as she came again on him but wrapped her legs around his hips keeping him in her. He kissed her deeply as he moved himself in her. She was so tight around him, so warm, so perfect. He felt his own aura reach out to the parts of his aura already blended with hers, as they bonded and melded perfectly.

"Oliver, I feel you! You're everywhere! This is so much-!" She cried out.

"I can feel you," he moaned. "All of you! You're here, you're with me." He kissed her deeply and growled through their bond. "You're mine! I'm yours! No one else's!"

"Yes! I'm yours! My protector, my soul binder!" She replied in ecstasy.

"My angel, my golden light! So beautiful, so brilliant," he sent through the bond. "One more time love; give me one more!"

"Yes, Naru, my love!" She screamed.

"Mai!"

They both came and panted hard. Their bond pulsed around them and fluctuated around the room. He cradled her in his arms and kissed her deeply. "I think that the test was successful," he said with a smirk.

"Yes, but I think we'll need to run some more tests. Just to make sure we get all of the data," she panted. "Make sure we can…recreate the same results." She smiled back up at him.

He kissed her deeply. "We'll make a scientist of you yet." He pulled out of her, cleaned himself a bit, throwing the remains in the small trash can nearby, and took her hand. "Come on, let's get cleaned up."

They got up and looked around, finally noticing the damage caused by his PK. His side table lamp was broken, the bed frame was cracked, papers and books were tossed everywhere, and drawers for a dresser were on the opposite side of the room. He groaned and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Is this going to be a common occurrence now?" He muttered to himself. "It was bad enough when I was a kid, but now I can actually do some serious damage!"

"What did you do before when this happened?" Mai asked.

"Stay awake all night reading case files and psychology books," he replied casually.

Mai stared at him with wide eyes. 'Oh, my poor workaholic fiancé. He uses work to ignore his own mental health needs,' he heard Mai think. "Well, we're not going to do that. Let's get cleaned up, pick up the glass shards, and we're going to go back to bed. We'll deal with everything else tomorrow," she said calmly.

"Back to bed, but not back to sleep?" He asked, wrapping his arms around her waist. He smirked at her in a way that he knows gets her flustered.

He was surprised when she smirked back and said, "Not so fast. I'm not going to let you use your handsome looks and seductive charm to get out of taking better care of yourself. Come on now."

She turned around, grabbed his hand, and took him to the bathroom. She started the shower and turned to look at him with her, 'No nonsense' look. A little off-put with her naked in front of him. Only a little though.

He got in first, but as soon as she stepped in and shut the curtain he pinned her to the bathroom wall and kissed her deeply. His tongue forcibly pushed past her lips, and his hands gripped her shoulders tightly. She cried out in pleasure and returned the kiss, practically melting in his arms.

"So, you think my looks are handsome and I have a seductive charm? I would have to agree with you there," he said through the bond. He moved to biting and kissing her neck.

"Ahh! Naru!" She cried out in pleasure. She gripped his back tightly. "Nngh!"

"You got me there, I am quite the narcissist. Though…someone else other than myself has caught more of my attention. You say I'm handsome and charming," He reached down with his right hand and began to finger her. She clenched hard around him and moaned. Her face was red and she couldn't decide whether to lean against the shower wall or forward and deeper onto his fingers. He inserted another. "Yet, I'm in the presence of someone ethereal. I couldn't hold a candle to the light of your divinity. Come for me, my angel."

"AHHH!" Mai screamed and clenched hard on him. He felt her pleasure through the bond and brought him to completion as well. He groaned loudly as he pushed his fingers hard into her.

They panted hard against each other as they just let the water fall around them. "You know what? You win. I'm not going to sleep after that. We'll stay up. But we're not reading case files. Or psychology books," Mai panted.

"Will you settle for some of the books I've written?" He asked, smirking. He was expecting another comment about him being a narcissist again.

"Depends; I've already read a couple of them," she said, pulling back to stabilize herself.

His eyes widened in shock and a light blush filled his features. "Wait, you've read my books?" He asked, feeling like a kid excited to show off his art.

She nodded and smiled at him. "After the haunted mansion case. I was getting pretty mad that everyone else on the team knew who Dr. Oliver Davis was except for me. So I asked Monk if he had any books that were translated into Japanese. He loaned me a couple, and I read them at my-" she paused. Her eyes widened in horror. "They were at my apartment! Oh no! She took those as well, and destroyed them!" She started to tear up and ramble again. "Monk paid a lot of money for those! I hadn't even finished the one on parapsychology yet! How am I going to replace them? They were special editions, too! How-"

He pulled her into a gentle and loving kiss and caressed her face. He pulled back and looked into her eyes and chuckled. "It is a scientific anomaly that you can be both equally brilliant and dim at the same time." He took her face into both of his hands and said plainly, "I am Dr. Oliver Davis, Mai. I'm the author. I had Madoka do the writing translation of those books years ago. I can give both of you new copies; I'll even sign Monk's copy if he wants. I'm sure that he would lose his mind over it, too."

Mai stared at him with wide eyes and a blush on her face as she let the words sink in. "I'm an idiot," she said, feeling embarrassed.

He kissed her again, "You are adorable," he said. "I'm honored that you have read my books to begin with. Come on, let's finish getting cleaned up, and then we can go over which of my books you've read. I'm interested to hear your thoughts on them."