AN: Here's Martin. This is the last chapter!
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Martin Davis was sitting at his desk at the British SPR, looking over some papers.
He sighed. This was boring. But the job had to be done!
Otherwise, his secretary would chew him out for ignoring work.
Not that Martin did that often. It was just one of those days.
He missed field work. Going to the haunted places, solving the cases, and exorcising the ghosties (he normally didn't say 'ghostie', but as he mentioned, it was just one of those days). But now he was old, and his knees would start complaining if he ran around trying to catch a ghostie, like he did in his younger days.
Now, he was content in watching his son chasing the paranormal.
Speaking of his son, he wondered how Noll and Mai were doing.
He looked at the photos kept on his desk. One was of Luella, him, Noll and Gene when the twins were 10 years old. The other was of Luella and Noll, which was taken when Luella had gone to Japan after Noll's confession (Martin had watched the video, and had felt proud of his son, though a little sorry for him too after Luella had decided to go visit their son). Luella had her arms around Noll, while the boy just stood there, glaring at the camera. Martin smiled. He could understand Noll's feelings, Luella could be overbearing (he hoped his wife would never find out what he thought, or he wouldn't hear the end of it).
The third picture was of Mai and Noll, sitting at a park bench, talking. They were holding hands, and Noll had a smile on his face. Mai was laughing at something.
The photo was secretly taken by Yasuhara (Martin had personally thanked the young employee by e-mail, this was his favourite picture of the couple). It was a good thing Noll did not know about the existence of the photo, or poor Yasuhara would have hell to pay. Though Martin believed it would not affect the bespectacled boy, rather it would encourage him to increase his torment of the young couple.
Martin chuckled. Everyone at the Japan branch of SPR were interesting in their own way.
He was brought out of his thoughts when his phone rang. He checked the caller id (out of habit, he usually ignored the calls if it was someone from the press or the police).
It was Noll.
He picked up after the third ring.
"Hello Noll."
"Hello father." Noll greeted at the other end. Martin thought he sounded a little nervous, like last time when he had called to get ideas on what to get Mai for her birthday. So, Martin knew this phone call would also have to do something with the girl.
"How are you son? And how's our Mai?"
"We are both fine, father. " Noll said quietly. Then there was silence at the other end.
Martin waited patiently. He knew Noll needed to say something, and that he was nervous to say it. So he let him take his time.
"Father," Noll started hesitantly after a moment, "I have some news."
"Go ahead." Martin said calmly, but he was excited. He had been waiting for something important to happen between the couple, and if Noll had called him, it meant it was pretty important.
"I am going to propose to Mai."
Martin smiled. Finally!
"That is good news, my boy. Congratulations."
"Not yet father. She might say no."
Martin understood one of the reasons as to why now Noll had called him. He had fears, and what better person to get rid of them than his father.
"She will not say no. Hasn't she proved to you again and again how much she loves you? I know the girl, and I know that she has been hoping for a lifetime with you since the day she fell in love with you. Do not underestimate her feelings for you in such a way. She has the utmost confidence in you. So you should show her respect by having confidence in yourself." Martin said, his voice calm. He had repeated the words his father had told him, when he was going to propose to Luella. And Martin was sure they would help his son in the same way they had helped him.
"You are right father. Thank you." Noll said after a moment, and Martin could hear that his words were sincere.
"Father, could I have Grandmother's ring for the occasion?"
Martin felt truly happy in this moment. His son was asking for the family ring, so that the tradition may live on. He felt proud of his son.
"Of course Noll. Luella and I will be extremely happy if you give Mai our family ring. I will have it sent over immediately."
"Thank you father." He sounded relieved, and happy.
With that, they ended their conversation.
Martin sat back in his chair, feeling happy and content. Now Noll would be starting his own family. And soon (he hoped), he would be a grandfather.
He decided he would go home immediately to give the news to Luella and get the ring ready.
Work can come later. This was more important.
He was a little wary of Luella's reaction (his ears had hurt a lot last time), but he supposed his wife would be right in getting excited about this.
After all, their only son was getting married.
Martin smiled as he gathered his things.
It was such a wonderful day.
The End!
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And as you might think, I am going to make a sequel to this, about how Naru proposed to Mai.
But it might be some time before I write it. I go back to college from tomorrow, so I will be able to write only on weekends.
But I will try to post soon!
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