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Botan stared down at the paper and a smile broke out onto her face. She looked up and shook her head slowly. Hiei let out a breath he didn't know he had been holding. Koenma smiled for the joy of his ferry girl. But then he poked the paper so that she would keep reading. There was more on how she died.
Death at Institution: Patient, after a disappearance, lay in bed, refusing to take meds and refusing to eat. Had neurotic episodes for three days. Flailing randomly, shrieking that the "demon" named "Iyashii" was coming for her. Would hold her stomach on occasions, gently, and then would begin to tear at it wildly. Patient would calm down when told we would perform shock treatment on her. Seven days later, patient only ate three meals, each on separate days. She was put to bed and staff found her dead, with a lack of oxygen the next morning. Suspicions that Abigail suffocated her with a pillow. Abigail found dead as well. Suicide Pact is assumed.
"Why did Abigail kill herself?" Botan asked, re-reading everything on that small paragraph.
"When we looked at it, we found that Abigail had been impregnated with Daniel's baby. When you were alive, both of you showed the same symptoms. Iyashii had impregnated you as well. Abigail had killed you because she knew your suffering, then she ripped a piece of cloth form her nightgown and tied it around her neck, so she would suffocate as well." Koenma sadly explained.
"But why did we have those symptoms?" Botan hadn't ever learned about what would happen to a human if it held a demon's baby inside of them.
"The medicines they were giving you were killing the baby. Its immune systems weren't close to being built and so it started to fight back, kicking at your insides, and breaking your bones sometimes. But then the babies started to send demonic energy to kill off the medicines and it started to reach your brain, which demonic energy on a human shouldn't do. So both Abigail and you decided that the only way things would work was if you died." Koenma looked away as he was explaining. He didn't want to explain to Botan what had happened Abigail but he knew she would ask in a moment.
"Where's Abigail now?" Botan had a very bad feeling with Koenma looking away from her. Her boss looked back but didn't meet her eyes.
"Botan…she committed suicide. Where do all of our suicides go?" His voice was mournful and depressed for his friend. Koenma assumed that Botan would begin to cry, accept it, or just ignore it, but she didn't.
"Then get her out of Hell! Why would you send her to Hell? I want her out now!" Botan shot up out of her chair while screaming. Her papers went flying but no one bothered to pick them up. Koenma's eyes were wide, Hiei's were cold, and Botan's were wild.
"She helped me out of hell and you dare send her to it when she suffered just as much as I." Botan's voice lowered and she stared down at her boss with cold dark eyes. Her voice was deadly and sharp. "I want you to get her out now and so help, Koenma, if you don't do it now, then I will go find Enma and demand it myself."
Koenma nodded his head, his eyes shocked because she had never addressed him by just his name before. He stood and waited for the two of them. Botan collected up the papers, put them in the folder, and started toward the door, folder in hand. Her boss quickly followed her but didn't unlock the door.
"Botan, those files need to stay in here. I'm not allowed to let you take them out. Technically, I was allowed to show you them, but still, that's not the point." Koenma said his voice strict. Botan's eyes were cold and uncaring.
"Then you either add me to the people who are allowed into this room or you give me my folder." Koenma knew he couldn't let her into the people allowed in so he sighed and opened the door as they started out of the room. Botan let herself have one last glance at the beautiful room and then watched as the doors shut behind her.
"There's more in that folder that I don't want you to read but I suppose you have every right to read it. Just don't change because of what you read. That was your past and this is you now." Koenma said. But then Botan remembered something that she had yet to mention.
"Koenma-sama, what's inside me?" Her voice was collected and careful but she had to be sure and had to know that what she had was the truth. She listened as her boss sighed and rubbed his temples as another door opened and let them out.
"We placed the power of Makai in you because the ferry girl with the darkest past but the purest soul would be the only one who could take such care of a great evil." Koenma heard his top ferry girl gasp and looked to see she was glaring at him.
"Makai is not an evil place. It helped create some of the greatest demons we know. Never disgrace their birthplace." Botan just about growled at her boss and hurried through the last door. Her stance was strong and commanding as she waited for the two behind her. Hiei was being his usual quiet self but was listening to every word. The fire demon was quite surprised that Botan had defended a place full of demons, one of which she had being raped in.
"I'll be back Botan. Both you and Hiei go to my office, I'll meet you there." Koenma called and then stepped through an odd looking portal. In silence the duo headed to her boss's office and sat down in his chairs.
"I never knew that I had such a bad past. I wonder where my parents went to after they dropped me off." Botan was just talking out loud to herself. Hiei wasn't much paying attention to her, which she didn't expect. After a moment, they heard a weird pop noise and then Koenma's office doors opened. He walked in with what looked to be a ghost.
"Are you Abigail?" Botan asked after a moment. The ghost woman, no older than Botan was, nodded her head but looked confused.
"Who are you?" To Hiei, the woman's voice was air, almost wispy, but to Botan it was clear as day. For a second, all was still as the two stared at each other. Then, Botan's eyes rolled back in her head and she fainted onto the ground. Koenma quickly ran over to her, knowing what had happened. After a moment, her eyes opened again.
"Abigail?" Botan called out, her voice slightly hoarse, as if she had been yelling and shrieking. The ferry girl looked up to see Abigail's ghost and she shook her head slightly.
"Renee?" The ghost woman called back to her.
Alright, I'm going to end it there. Sorry guys, I'll get to the romance soon enough.