The Davis' have always been a type of myth amongst us low level workers. While we know that they certainly exist (they do own the company), none of us have ever seen them in person.

That is, until I started showing signs of paranormal abilites. Being able to know the answer to something that I have never been taught is certainly weird, but being able to astral project and talk to the dead is completely freakish. I wasn't even the first to notice all of these, Madoka Koujio was. So she reported it to her husband, who in turn informed the Davis'. In which they sent one of their own down to come interview me.

"Miss Avril Lincoln?" Doctor Oliver Davis sits in front of me on the office couch. I sit opposite him on the couch with Yasu, our section leader. He's from Japan and used to be apart of the Japanese branch of the company. About four years ago (around the time I was hired on at the company as a reseacher) he was transferred here as the section leader. He's ridiculously nice and extremely intelligent. I'm ashamed to say that I've had a huge crush on him the entire time. I mean, who could blame me? On top of his professional traits, he's also conviently handsome.

"Y-yes." I stutter. The doctor is intimidating, to say the least. I've only ever seen pictures of him and he doesn't smile in any of them. Not one.

"All of the tests have come back positive. You are a latent psychic, Miss Lincoln." He pulls the file away form his face to peer at me through his black glasses, "Are you aware of what that means?"

Yasu had explained to me exactly what that was before we'd even shown up at the office this morning. So I knew what he was talking about. I nod mutely and he leans forward, placing the now closed file on the coffee table and picking up his tea cup. Yasu clears his throat, "Avril, if you would have been born any earlier, we wouldn't have the resources to be able to help you learn to control your powers." He smiles down at me and I blush, "However, we have the perfect teacher for you."

"Yes," The doctor's voice is... lighter somehow as he sips his tea, "She will be landing in London tomorrow morning. Tomorrow afternoon, the two of you will meet and then you will begin your lessons on latent psychicism."

"Wait..." my voice is quiet as my mind works. The only latent psychic in the entire company, branches or otherwise, is... "Do you mean Mai Taniyama?"

"We do." The doctor confirms, placing his tea cup back down.

Mai Taniyama is the head of the Japanese branch. She's written numerous books on her adventures with ghost hunting. They aren't considered scientific books but they're excilently written and are highly amusing. Her manner of speaking and the things that she does on the cases she writes about are down right comical. She's one of my favorite authors and I've always wanted to meet her.

I know I have a star struck look on my face because Yasu laughs, "Mai's going to be happy to meet a fan." I blush and he laughs good naturedly.

"Be here for noon." The doctor tells me. As I stand to leave he clears his throat, "If you bring her novels, she'll sign them for you." I turn back to him and smile in thanks.

I can't wait for tomorrow.

The next morning, I wake up too early, so I leave too early. All of Miss Taniyama's books are jammed in to the only box I could get my hands on and I shoved them in to my backseat.

As I'm walking in to the office building, I realize that everyone is surprisingly quiet. The women are all smiling happily and most of the men look dazzeled.

A female yelling in Japanese catches my attention as soon as I walk in to the doctor's office. The doctor himself is propped up on his desk, drinking a cup of tea. His eyes follow the small and loud female in front of him. I have no idea what she's saying but I can tell that she's angry. Her short brown hair sways around her neck and she'd dressed in a pair of snug jeans, a pink sweater and a white scarf. She can't be any taller than five feet at the most. I realize suddenly who this lady is as the doctor notices that I'm standing in the door way.

"Mai." The doctor cuts off her ranting with her name. She immediately stops and spins around to see me with my arms full of a box with her books nearly falling out of it.

"Oh my gosh, let me help you with that!" The Japanese head shoots forward and grabs the box from me with surprising ease. She sets the box down on the coffee table and picks one up, "These are my books!" She turns and smiles at me, "Thank you for reading them!"

Surprisingly, I don't get tongue tied in front of her. Instead I smile and reply softly, "Thank you for writing them. You're my favorite author."

She giggles, blushing, "You must be Avrilm Lincoln. It's nice to meet you. I'm Mai Taniyama. You can just call me Mai, though." She sticks out her hand and I shake it gently, "This is the first time I've ever been tasked with teaching another latent psyhcic, so I hope I can help. If there is anything that you need to know that I haven't told you about, just ask, okay?" She says it with a smile.

I can't help smiling at her, "Okay." She's everything I thought she'd be.

Three weeks later, Mai is my absoloutely favorite person in the world. I spend nearly six hours a day with her. We don't always do work. Sometimes, she'll take me out to a sight and do a 'walk through' with me. She'll ask me what I feel when I look at a building or how I feel touching certain things. She even brought some camping supplies one night and we spent the entire night in a 'haunted' hospital. I'd woken up in the middle of the night form a nightmare with Mai watching me. She explained to me that because of what I'm capable of, my dreams or nightmares aren't just dreams and nightmares. Somehow, she was even able to enter my astral plane and show me how to navagate myself around it.

On a rare day off from training with Mai, I'm back at the lower level offices with Yasu. He's glad to have me back and even asks how my lessons are going.

"Is she teaching you well?" Yasu asks, leaning against his desk, "Mai can be kind of an air head, sometimes. She probably forgets some things."

I smile, "She does sometimes but if I ask about anything that I don't understand, she explains it well."

Yasu grins, "I expected as much. The Big Boss taught Mai everything she knows about paranormal research."

That shocks me, "You're kidding."

He shakes his head, "Those two met when Mai was sixteen. Since the moment they met and even today, he teaches her about this field."

"Since she was sixteen?!" I was nearly shouting but that's shocking. That's an inredibly young age, "Mai is twenty-five. That's nearly ten years."

Yasu laughs, "Yeah. Those two have been around each other for nearly ten years. You wouldn't believe it but they're the best of friends."

I grin, "Really? I have no idea what they're always arguing about but they are always arguing."

Yasu rolls his eyes while laughing, "Mai has been in love with the doctor since she first met him."

"That's not hard to see." I giggle, "No matter how mad she says she is at him, she always makes him tea."

Yasu nods, "What you don't know is that the doctor is also in love with Mai." My jaw drops and he laughs at my expression, "Just watch them closely. It's difficult to see at first, but once you start noticing, you won't be able to stop."

The next day, I see it.

As usual, Mai is talking so fast that she isn't paying attention to what she's doing. She attempts to spin around but her feet get tangled and down she goes. The doctor leaps up from his office couch and catches her by the waist in just the lick of time. The ends of her short hair brush the ground as the two of them come nose to nose. Mai turns bright read, and the doctor glares at her, saying something in Japanese.

She glares back at him as he sets her on her feet. She says something angrily in Japanese before picking up the tea tray and walking in to the small kitchen. I smile as the doctor sits down with a smug look on his face. He notices and raises an eyebrow, "Can I help you, Miss Lincoln?"

I grin at him, "No, doctor. Not at all." His glare makes me turn to Mai as she comes back in with a fresh pot of tea.

Yasu was right. Once I started noticing, it was difficult not to notice.

The doctor is surprsingly gentle with Mai. When escorting her, he places his hand on the small of her back gently, as if afraid to hurt her. He opened doors for her and let her walk in front of him. He'd catch her when she would fall and always seem to have bandaids ready considering Mai always ended up with cuts on her hands for some reason. One time, she burnt herself making tea and the entire time he was yelling at her in Japanese, he was rubbing some goey green stuff on it that read 'Aloe' on the bottle and then wrapping it with some bandages.

Before I know it, it's Christmas and I'm completely convinced that their in love with each other. It's a wonder that they aren't together.

"You look gorgeous, Avril." Mai tells me, smiling. We're at the annual Christmas party. The company (aka the Davis') rent out a huge ball room and invite all the branches of BSPR. Mai had found me with some co-workers and the three of them had scurried off immediately. Who could blame them? Mai is gorgeous. In the black dress and bright red heels, she's like a friggin sucubus.

"So do you." I say truthfully, "Where's the doctor?"

I want to see his face when he catches sight of her.

Her eyebrows draw down, "I don't actually know. I know that Luella will force him to be here, but I have no idea where he is."

"You're on a first name basis with Mrs. Davis?" That's surprising.

Mai laughs, "Well of course. Naru is my boyfriend."

I jerk back, "Huh?!"

Confusion lights her eyes before she smiles sadly, "Yeah, I know. It's surprising. Naru isn't really too big on PDA so most people don't even realize that we're dating until I tell them." She looks up, "I'll be right back. My father and mother are here." I know from Mai that they are her adopted parents and that she loves them very much, so I smile and nod.

"That was the most interesting conversation I've ever seen you two have." Yasu's voice makes me jump and let out a small sound of surprise, which he laughs at.

"You lied to me." I tell him, glaring and crossing my arms over my chest.

He smiles at me, "No I didn't. I never said that they weren't together. You made that assumption on your own. On this very same day two years ago, Mai plucked up the courage to kiss the Big Boss, who in turn kissed her back of course. From then till now, the two of them have been dating."

"It must be hard on them, being so far apart." I say, remembering Mai's said face a few minutes ago.

He nods, "Some times. I've had Mai call me at two in the morning, crying her eyes out because she missed him and he was on a case with no cell phone signal. On the flip side, Lin-san and I have had to force the doctor to eat something because he's worried out of his mind that Mai got hurt on a case again and he can't go to see her."

"That has to be the sweetest thing I've ever heard." I say, feeling warm.

The lights suddenly dim and Yasu chuckles, "If you think that's sweet, watch this."

The doctor himself walks on stage with the spot light following him. He's dressed handsomely in a black suit with no tie, and one of his hands are in his pocket. In his other hand, he holds a glass of red wine. The cheers from everyone slowly begin to quiet, the women's cheers lasting a bit longer. I spot Mai standing inbetween her adoptive parents with a smile on her face as she watches him.

With an impassive face, he says, "Merry Christmas." Every one calls back and he waits for us to quiet down before beginning again, "We at BPSR would like to thank everyone here tonight and everyone that couldn't make it. It's an honor to work along side all of you as we study the world unknown to us of the living. Let us hope to have another year of safe and productive research."

He raises his glass, as do the rest of us and we all drink.

He clears his throat while handing off his glass to Lin Koujio. He waits for everyone to quiet down once more and I watch as his face visibly softens. The women in the crowd share a collective gasp. His lips twitch in some semblance of a smile, "Now that the formalities are out of the way, I'd like to tell you all about my angel."

He grabs the microphone and begins to speak, "I first saw my angel in an old school building. Her and her ragtag group of odd friends were telling ghost stories after school. I'd scared them by speaking when they weren't expecting it. She was the first person to ever look past my looks. She didn't and still doesn't care that I'm good looking or rich. When she's mad at me, you better be sure that I am going to be told as much."

Everyone shares a laugh. He waits for us all to quiet down again before continuing, "As the years progressed, she learned everything there was to learn about me, and I the same for her. She became a ray of sunlight in my never ending world of darkness. She became my angel. When I finally realized that she'd been in love with me just as long as I'd been in love with her, I had no idea what to do. Which is why she was the one to finally curse me, grab my head and kiss me before calling me a moron." Another laugh from the crowd. About midway through his speech, he'd begun making his way off the stage and towards an awestruck and tearful Mai. He's nearly in front of her as he says, "Which is why I want to be the one to do this." He bends on one knee in front of her, fishes out a black box from his pant pocket and opens it to reveal the most gorgeous diamond ring I've ever seen. He looks up at her with an expression of love that I'd never expect from the impassive doctor, "Mai, will you marry me?"

The Japanese beauty nods, tears falling down her face like a freefalling waterfall. The good doctor stands and place the ring on her finger before laying one on her that has Mai's legs giving out.

A roar of applause errupts from the crowd and everyone moves forward to congradulate them.

I turn to Yasu, wiping ym own tears away, "You knew that he was going to propose?"

Yasu chuckles, "Gorgeous, I helped pick out the ring."

I smile before blushing to the roots of my hair, "What did you just call me?"

He laughs, and reaches for my hand, kissing the top of it, "In the spirit of getting the courage to do things, how about we run away to the cafe down the street?"

If possible, I blush even deeper, before nodding, "I'd like that."