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Patchwork

Hello my dear @deducingcircumference  I was your @dcmksecretsanta​ this year! I decided to go for your idea about the Mori family, I really hope you’ll like it! I had fun writing it, even though it was a lot harder than I thought. I’m sorry that I wasn´t able give it to my beta before, I’ll repost it once it’s corrected. Still, I hope you’ll like it! Have am merry, healthy and nice Christmas and a happy new year!

~ Shelling

Patchwork

 He should have known better.

These past day’s the doorbell had only caused him trouble and pain.

Why had he even believed that it would be different this time?

Megure however, couldn’t care less for Kogoro’s grumpy face.  

“His parents are still dealing with the FBI and the Professor has his own little problem right now. He can´t stay in the police department any longer, it would only raise further suspicions.” Megure swallowed, that was something he really didn´t want to deal with, on top of everything right now. However, he wasn´t sure if this really had been the best idea.

His former college looked at him like he’d gone crazy.

“So, you dump him here of all places?” Mori growled, didn´t care about his tone, while he spoke with his former boss. Megure sighed, looking behind his shoulder where the “boy” had only filched beneath Kogoro’s  voice. The officer rolled his eyes, he’d been through this question before, even though it had been the asked in a much higher voice.

The officer took a deep breath and shook his head.

“He’s in no condition to help right now, and neither are you.”

“I have to go back to the hospital! I need to-“  

“You have to wait until visiting hours tomorrow.” Megure interrupted Kogoro’s argument.

He sighed, placing a hand on the man’s shoulder.

“I know you’re worried Mori-kun, but there’s nothing you can do for her right now, but you can take care of one another.” Megure swallowed, finally taking a step aside to reveal the grad schooler who’d been hiding behind his legs.

Kogoro took a sharp breath and despite his anger he could feel something inside him stirring at the sight of the “boy”.  However, the detective desperately tried to ignore it, it couldn´t be more than the rising bile in his throat, looking at the lying freeloader.

Conan- or rather Shinichi Kudo didn´t dare to look up. At least the kid seemed to have a little bit of a conscience left. Kogoro knew what happed and why, after his kids – kid- his lovely Ran had gone missing, the truth had slowly come to light. And now Co- Kudo was standing here, asking him to take him in for the night, while his little baby girl was still in the hospital. Alright, she wasn´t frighting for her life- at least not when he believed in the doctor’s words, but she still wasn´t waking up, since a heavy blow to the head, while  tried to help…him. 

The one who had lied to them for over a year, who used them and ignored her tears, being here and safe and fine, while she was still in medical care.

Well fine might have been a little exaggerate.

Actually, he looked more like death warmed over, after he destroyed a whole criminal organization. Even through the brat didn´t dare to look him in the eyes he could see that they where bloodshot, with dark circles beneath them, seeming even deeper due his pale complexion. His hand’s where bandaged, his glasses where broken and a little voice inside Kogoro wondered why no one had told him to put them down. Damn! Couldn´t they see that it was dangerous, the boy could easily lose an eye when the glass- ah but why should he care, he didn´t that’s for sure.

Mori bit his lips and shook his head while his gaze traveled down the boy’s legs, one being places in a walking cast to stabilize it, but even if he tried to hide it, Kogoro could still see that the kid was in pain, clearly favoring his left leg.

“Alright…” Megure’s tone ripped him from his analysis.

“I’ll leave the two of you alone now…” The officer tired to catch the boy’s eyes, but the shrunken detective who’d surprised them all didn´t dare to rise his galnce. So Megure briefly placed a hand on the kid’s shoulder. He was about to leave when he stopped close enough to Kogoro, to make one last request in a low voice.

“… and Mori-kun,… he’s already broken, so please try not to hurt him further.” Kogoro took a sharp breath, ready to protest when his eyes shifted back to the silent child in front of him.

‘Damn right he is.’ A voice inside him seemed to scream, while he watched Megure disappear at the end of the stairs. He couldn´t believe what the man was asking of him, after everything. He grumbled, but when his eyes reached the bruised body of the kid again, he couldn´t help but frown at the slight tremble in the little clenched fists.

Kogoro could feel the emotions inside him shift, putting pressure on his chest. He desperately wanted to believe that it was just anger he felt, but he knew that there was something else hiding in it’s mist. It couldn’t be guilt or worry- even through the boy had lived with them for so long, it wasn´t his job to protect him, he wasn´t his father aft all.

But yet-

“I’m sorry..” the soft voice froze him on the spot, but it where his next word’s or rather the name the boy used that finally brought him back to reality.

“I’m truly sorry Mori-san.”

Right.

Conan = Kudo

Not foster son, but little lying bastard.

He had to remember that.

The boy swallowed, finally finding the courage to look up, but Kogoro had already turned his back to him, climbing the stairs. Shinichi bit his lips, trying again, but Mori stopped him before he could finish his sentence.

“I-“

“Don´t, I don´t want to hear it.”

Mori hissed, taking the last steps to their- to his home and closed the door behind him.

XXX

The beer tasted foul.

It was his first that day- alright his third, but the first one since Megure had dumped the little freeloader at his doorstep. Being kicked out from the hospital, had left him with the urge to drink, to fill his mind with cotton so that the reality would drift far away. But he denied himself to be numbed by alcohol, he had to remain sharp if the hospital called, so he instead called his wife to update her. However, it seemed Eri had already known and of course this woman believed in the nurse words, that she would be alright, that there was no actual damage to her brain and that she simply was exhausted. Exhausted, his Ran, strong and brave, exhausted to the bone. He couldn't believe it, he wished he could, but the fear of losing her filled his mind with cruel pictures.

And it was all his fault.

"Damn brat..." he growled, taking another sip from his stale beer. Days ago he'd been worried when the boy had suddenly disappeared, he couldn't deny it... Since the not-child had been living with them for little over a year now. Of course, he wasn't found of him, he didn't care... why would he? Conan wasn't his son, nope, no way he dared to think of him as his own flesh and blood.

But he couldn´t help to admit that he’d been worried about the boy, before the constructure of lies slowly crumbled around him, he’d struggled to believe it in the beginning, the brat being that high school detective, hiding under their roof all those times.

“And I didn´t even notice, the great detective Mori… pff…”

Kogoro sighed, his eyes wandered from his beer to the clock, before they moved to the front door, which he might have left slightly ajar, by pure accident of course. It nearly been three hours since Megure had dropped Kudo here and he couldn´t help but wonder what the boy might be up to.  But why should he care anyway? It’s not like the great “Shinichi Kudo” wasn’t able to take care of himself, he could be lucky that he hadn´t thrown him out. However….

The sleeping detective chewed on his mustache, they way the kid had looked it would only be responsible to make sure he’s fine, besides so he could make sure that the boy wasn´t messing with his case files- Yes! That was it! He had to make sure that everything was still in place and the kid wasn´t messing up his work.  With that thought Kogoro nodded to himself, rising from his seat before he headed for the stairs.  

The office was dark, but the door was closed now and he was sure he left it open when he’d turned his back to Kudo. Could it be- that he’d left?

With a frown on his face the detective stepped into his agency, still no sigh of live, or of the boy, everything seemed to be like he left it. Kogoro was on his way to his desk, when he finally spotted the little boy on one of the two sofa’s he normally used to talk to his clients.

Conan – no Kudo was asleep, but it didn´t seemed to be a peaceful rest. Mori swallowed, he knew that sigh, the kid was having a nightmare. Not the first he was about to whiteness, but now that he knew that he wasn´t a mere child, shouting his, or most of the time Ran’s name at night he couldn´t help but wonder.

Kogoro barely knew Shinichi, especially since his separation with Eri they hadn´t met the Kudo’s quite so often, before they left Japan. What he knew was, that the boy had a bad influence on his daughter, not to mention that he’d hurt her, disappearing just like that, leaving her in the dark, lying to her while he was right beside her all this time. So maybe it was the kid’s own conscience hunting him at night. But the way the boy tossed and turned in his sleep told him that there was more to it.

The detective made a face when the child suddenly yelped in his sleep, twisting his bruised body around without much care. Kudo was facing him now, even though he was still asleep. Kogoro’s hand twitched, in the attempt to rip the broken glasses from his face, before it could hurt him any further.

With a sigh he took a step towards the boy, slowly shaking his shoulder, even if his voice wasn´t as soft as it normally was, when he tried to wake the brat from one of his nightmares.

“Oi! Co- Kudo-kun! Wake up!” But like so many times before the touch on his shoulder only seemed to stress the little one even more. Conan twisted and turned in his sleep, not caring for his obvious bruised body. Kogoro’s throat grew tight, it was hard not to pick the child up to carry him into his bed, while muttering some calming thoughts into his ears.

“It’s just a dream.” He told him instead, trying to reach for the boy again, but when Kogoro’s fingers touched him, the boy flinched away from his touch, jerking backwards so that his already bruised shoulder hit the back of the couch.  Mori gasped when new blood seemed to break through the bandages and his shirt, all caution forgotten he bent down to the kid, cradling his upper body in his arms, while Conan still struggled in his touch.

“Hey don´t, you’ll just hurt yourself further!” The detective hissed, before he pulled the boy closer to himself, brushing some grime from his forehead.

“It’s alright… easy, Conan-kun.” His voice was gentle now and finally his breath grew even and he stopped to struggled in his arms.

“Come on now, wake up, everything’s alright.”  Kogoro assured the child, who finally stirred one hand searching for the man’s sleeves. He blinked with eyes still heavy from sleep and the nightmare, before he murmured something that made Mori’s chest grew warm and tight at the same time. “O-Othosan…”

Kogoro took a sharp breath, it wasn´t the first time the brat called him that by accident, but while he usually tried to ignore his fluttering heart as well as the words, when he put the kid back to sleep he couldn´t help but feel like he’d been frozen to the spot, unsure what to do. The boy suddenly looked not only broken but also even more tiny and vulnerable in his hands. Luckily the shrunken detective came to his senses before Kogoro had to decide what to do.

Conan blinked, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, but hissed when he moved his shoulder. Kogroro could actually see how he finally caught up with the situation, struggling out of his arms, with the hint of a red on his cheeks.

“Ojisan… huh- ah um Mori-kun.”

There back to normal.

Kogoro took a breath in relive, before he eyed the boy, who still looked up at him. The detective rose and eyebrow, taking a step away from the child both of them ignoring what just happed. He cleared his throat, looking down at the brat.

“What do you think you’re doing here?”  He grumbled, but the boy blushed again, blinking in surprise before he seemed to search the answer on the floor.

“Uh- sleeping?” Mori raised an eyebrow, crossing his arms in front of his chest.

“Well boya, but not in my office.” Conan flinched, but Kogoro already took a step towards the door.

“Come on, get up.” The grad schooler obeyed, but Shinichi wasn´t sure if he was supposed to leave or just supposed to follow. But his doubt should soon be answered by Kogoro’s annoyed voice.

“What you’re waiting for?” The older detective asked, opening the door before he nodded upstairs.

“I-uhm, I’m coming.” 

Conan hurried up the stairs as best as he could and he could sense that it took Mori some strength not to hurry or maybe even carry him. But when he finally entered the place he’d called home for so long he took a deep breath, only now getting aware that he’d in fact missed it. But Kogoro cleared his throat pointing to their small dining table.

“Here sit down, I’ll see If I can prepare you something to eat.”  

“But you don`t have to!” Shinichi assured, while Mori just rolled his eyes, disappearing in the kitchen, almost shouting from the other room to answer the ridiculous request of the boy.

“Apparently I do since your folks still dealing with this secret organization and Megure decided to dump you here.” The grad schooler winced but the detective was too busy in the kitchen to notice.

“Besides, when was the last time you’ve eaten something?” Kogoro questioned, when he entered the living room again. He looked at the bruised boy, who looked more dead than alive on his feet.  

“I- uh-“ But the growl of his stomach answered for him.

Conan – Shinichi – the brat, jeez he still had trouble with that, just blushed when his stomach growled in protest of the lie that he was about to tell him.

“I see.”

Conan finally sat down at the table, staring holes into it, it just didn´t feel right, Mori should be fuming in anger at him, not trying to take care of him. However, the boy didn´t notice that Kogoro had moved behind him, before he took the broken glasses form his face. Honestly if he had to see the shade of glass nearly piercing the boy’s eyes any longer he would go crazy.  

“I’ll take these for a while- since you apparently don´t need them.” Mori told him, but when he finally looked down at the kid without the simplest of all disguises, he couldn´t help but wonder what a fool he’d been. How could he not have notice how much the brat looked like the annoying high school detective.

Kudo seemed to notice the eyes on the sleeping detective on his skin and took a shivering breath.  

“Oji- I mean Mori-kun, I’m-“ But Kogoro cut in between his sentence with a sigh and the shake of his head, before he could continue.

“I know… that’s not what you planned to happen.” The detective muttered, while he moved into the kitchen where a very familiar chirm told him, that the brat’s food was ready. He returned with the food and put it on the table with a little bit more force than necessary.  

“Yet I can´t believe that you thought that Ran, that we would be safe with you living under our very roof.” He growled, while Shinichi just seemed to be sinking deeper into his seat.

“Sorry.”

“Stop apologizing kid, I know why you did it and…” He remembered the nightmare, as well as the others before, Conan seemed to read his thoughts since he moved his gaze away from him.

“I know it might have not been easy at times, but I’m still angry at you, and my poor Ran-“

The name alone however, was enough to move Conan’s eyes back to the older detective.

“Any news? About Ran I mean.” The detective swallowed at the despair in the kid’s voice.

“She’ll been fine, she’s just exhausted and needs some rest.”

“What? R-Really?” Conan’s voice was high pitched, he looked at the detective in disbelieve.  Kogoro suppressed a chuckle, and the urge to ruffle the kid’s hair who suddenly looked like the child he was supposed to be, with big shining eyes.

“ Yeah and now don´t worry and eat.”

Conan took a breath in relive before he turned his attention to the “meal” Kogoro had prepared for him- or rather microwaved. A cup of ramen, something he hoped to be rice and he wasn´t sure if the last of the three dishes was a hot chocolate or some kind of sauce.

Apparently Kogoro noticed the kid’s stare, raising an eyebrow at the obvious hesitation.

“What?” Conan flinched, but after a short hesitation Shinichi decided to answer.

“Ah- nothing, nothing… I just- sometimes wonder how you and Kisaki-san survived before Ran took up to cooking.” Shinichi teases with the hint of a smirk on his face.

“Wh- you ungrateful little brat!” Kogoro grumbled.

“Besides, you can be thankful that it was me who put in the Microwave instead of Eri.” The detective added in a lecturing tone.  

“True, otherwise you’d serve me coal.” The older detective smirked, before he remembered that he was supposed to be angry with the brat, so he turned the kid’s head back to the food.

“Pff… now eat- we’re going to the hospital early tomorrow and I need to check that shoulder of yours.”

“It’s fine.” Conan muttered between a spoon full of ramen, but Mori just snorted.

“After everything that happened to you, I Wonder If you even understand the meaning of this word.”

“Oi!” But after a brief glare Shinichi did like he was told, while Kogoro searched his medical cabinet for some new bandages and pain medicine for the size of the boy.

 XXX

 Kogoro took a long shaky breath, he leaned against the cold metal back of the elevator, as he watched how the floor numbers slowly counted higher.  He’d already called early this morning, nothing new, Ran was still sleeping but they expected her to wake any moment now… was that what he was supposed to hear for the rest of his life? Mori felt panic rising in his throat, sure the Doctors told him that she would be find, but he couldn´t help but worry.

The detective bit his lips, his fingers were itching for a cigarette and one glance at the little boy (who still looked kind of creepy without the familiar glasses) told him that Co- Kudo was nervous as well. Even through, he tried to hide it, Kogoro could tell from the tension in his body and his stern gaze to the floor that the kid was freaking out inside. To be honest, even without the bangs beneath his eyes the boy looked pale since they arrived her, with his bandaged hands and the cast he looked more like he should have his own bed in this establishment. After he changed the bandages on his shoulder yesterday, Kogoro had felt sick to the bone when he saw how many scratches and bruises littered the child’s tiny frame.  

 The elevator chirmed suddenly, ripping Mori from his thoughts, when they finally reached the right floor. However, when the door finally opened the detective was met by a familiar face.

“Mori-kun!” A young nurse offered him a welcoming smile.

“Miruna-san, good morning.” Kogoro tried for a smile as well, even though it was a little embarrassed, after his behavior yesterday. But she seemed to ignore the fact that he’d cried, shouted and wept some more in her presence, while she’d reassured him over and over that his daughter was going to be fine. Instead, she focused her attention on the little boy beside him.

“Nice to meet you again! And this must be your son you’d been so worried about yesterday?” She leaned down to the child, offering her hand and a charming smile.

“You must be Conan-kun, right? You shoudln´t disappear like that, your dad was rather worried about you.”

“Uh- he was?”  He looked up to the old man, who deliberately turned his attention away from him, but the redness on his cheeks revealed her words to be true. Shinichi blinked in surprise, still staring up at Kogoro, who cleared his throat awkwardly.

“Well- we should go now.”

“Oh sure, sure! You must be worried about your Neechan, right?” She ruffled his hair and Mori could see how the boy fell back to his old act, smiling brightly at her while Kogoro wondered how the arrogant brat he’d known, had learned to endure such a treatment. But the young nurse didn´t notice the frown on the detective’s face, when she turned back to him.

“She should wake every minute now, her heartrate is higher now, maybe you’ll be able to wake her.” Kogoro nodded.

“Thank you.” She smiled and took their place in the elevator.

“yYu’ll see everything will be alright!”

Mori took a deep breath moving forward to find Ran’s room before Conan’s voice stopped his movements.

“So, you’ve been searching for me?” The boy’s face showed a grin, but his eyes revealed his doubt.

“Don´t get the wrong idea, brat.” Kogoro huffed, rolling his eyes before moving forward.

“Come on, let’s go.”

Shinichi followed Kogoro through the hospital hallways, struggling to keeping up with him, with his short legs and the damn cast.

When Kogoro finally entered his girl’s room he took a relieved breath to see that Ran was indeed fine, even though still asleep. He moved to stand beside her, taking her hand in his own feeling her warm skin beneath his. It took him a few minutes to notice that the boy seemed to be frozen in the doorway, staring at Ran’s sleeping face and the beeping heart monitor beside her.

The detective swallowed, horror was written in the boy’s face and he remembered his first visit to the hospital after he’d shot Eri. He took a deep breath, moving over to the boy, who only noticed him, when he put a hand on the slim shoulder.

“Oi, what’s wrong.”

“I- I-“ The boy stuttered, his body tense beneath his grip.

“Come…” Kogoro assured him, pushing him slowly into the room.

“It’s going to be fine.”

Conan followed him beside the bad, but still keeping his distance, while the worried father slowly brushed a strand of hair from her forehead.

“Ran…”

Both of their hearts skipped when they saw how Ran twitched beneath Kogoro’s fingers, before her eyes slowly fluttered open.

“Oh- Othosan?” Her voice was weak, as she slowly tried to push herself a little more upright in the bad.

“Ran! You’re awake!” Kogoro exclaimed, almost shouting, before he put his arms around his daughter, holding her close before he moved away from her again, to take a closer look at the high schooler.

“How do you feel? Is everything alright? Should I get you a glass of water- or a doctor or-“ Ran chuckled. “I’m fine Othosan!” But her gaze moved from her father to the little boy beside the bad, who didn´t dare to look up at her.

“Shinichi… Conan-kun.” A sad smile moved to her lips, while the boy’s voice was barely more than a whisper, when he finally found the courage to look up.

“Ran… I-“

But Kogoro was not having any of that right now.

“Oh enough of that!” He cut through the suddenly awkward tension.

“You two can talk later and if you want to rip his head of Ran, I’d advise you do it later, since it wouldn’t make much of a difference right now.” He’d advice, earning protest form the boy beside him. “Oi!”

But Kogoro simply ignored him, grabbing the kid from the floor to pull both of his children in a thigh hug. “For now I’m glad the two of you are alright!”

“Othosan!”

“Ojisan!”

But Mori just grinned and the two started to laugh as well, as broken as they all might be, patched up and together, they made a strange but good family.

[deducingcircumference]

Rock, Burning Up in the Air

A @dcmksecretsanta 2020 main present for @speed-spark-time!

Relationships: Kogoro & Conan family dynamic Rating: T, for passing mention of domestic abuse and mild swearing Genre: Family Characters: Conan, Kogoro Content warning: Passing mention of domestic abuse Word count: 1100

This fic was beta’ed by Faith (TheWaterGoddess on AO3) and @mirrorfalls, and I am eternally grateful to them.

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“Ojisan, look. A shooting star.”

Kogoro grunted. He needed a drink. He needed a smoke. “I saw it. So what?” He felt in his pockets and fished out a crumpled box, but came up empty when he searched his other pocket for a lighter. He leaned back against the steps leading to the old mansion, unlit cigarette clenched between his teeth, chill air seeping through his clothes. It had been a bad case.

“Because if you make a wish, it’ll come true.” The runt was unusually solemn.

“That’s just a fairy tale, brat.”

Conan didn’t seem to hear him. “What would you wish for?”

“A lighter.”

“I’d wish…” The boy fell silent.

“So?” Kogoro said shortly, as the silence stretched. “What is it? Toys? Candy?”

Conan laughed, a bright, little-boy giggle. “Don’t you know, Ojisan, if you tell someone then it won’t come true!”

“Ah, whatever,” Kogoro snorted dismissively. “It’ll be a toy. One of those robot things.” He knew about the robot things from when Ran was that age.

“So what’s your wish?” Conan needled again.

“Piss off, twerp.”

“I’ll trade you this.” And the kid actually produced a real, honest-to-god Zippo lighter from one of his pockets.

“Where did you get that?” Kogoro demanded, reaching out to touch it, just to see if it was solid, but Conan pulled it away. Kogoro could easily reach over and pry open his tiny fingers — and it was important — but something something taking candy from a baby, and he held back.

“From the maid. We used it in the experiment, remember?”

Kogoro didn’t, but that didn’t matter right now. “Alright, fine, brat. I’ll trade you a wish for the light.”

The twerp handed it over, and Kogoro took his time kindling the cigarette, cupping his hands around the tiny flame.

He took a long, sweet inhale and let it out, watching the smoke spiral toward the stars. A second streak of light shot across the heavens.

What did he want? Tickets to Yoko-chan’s next concert. Another cigarette. Megure to stop condescending to him whenever he wasn’t on the verge of blacking out. To win an argument against his wife, for once. Free beer. To punch that Kudo brat for stringing his daughter along. A new air conditioner.

Daughter. He growled, “I want that detective punk to stop yanking Ran’s chain around.”

“Wh-what do you mean?” the kid stuttered.

“It’s pathetic,” Kogoro muttered around his cigarette, “how she gets when she talks to him. And he says he doesn’t know when he’ll be back, won’t even tell her where he is. Can’t even be bothered to call regularly.” He took a sharp, burning drag. “Christ, what an asshole.”

“Shinichi-niichan’s on a case—”

Kogoro flapped a hand. “So he needs to leave my daughter alone. Save her a load of grief if she forgets about him.”

“He cares about her!” The kid sounded as upset as Kogoro felt, when he bothered to think about it.

“So? Doesn’t make him any less of a dick. You think love conquers all?” He took a deep inhale of his cigarette. “You can love someone and still make them miserable.”

“But—”

“Take me and Eri,” Kogoro went on relentlessly, ignoring Conan’s little hiccup. “Knew each other all our lives, and when we got together it was Heaven. But the things that were important to me weren’t the things she wanted. And what she cared about, I didn’t want.”

He sounded bitter. He wasn’t bitter.

“Every other week she flew off the handle at something I did, the rest was me gritting my teeth at her choices…” Kogoro laughed, short and acrid. “And then one day she just left. Me, Ran, all of it. Jesus. Ran cried for a month.” It went without saying that he, Mouri Kogoro, hadn’t. Most of what he’d felt at that time was rage, when he wasn’t liquored into a stupor.

“Yeah,” the kid said solemnly. “She did.”

Kogoro paused, the cigarette dangling as he said, “Huh?”

“I… mean, that’s what she told me!”

Kogoro grunted. So Ran had talked about it with the kid. That was… something. “It’s better this way,” he muttered. He let out a lungful of smoke and wondered what it was. Eri being gone? Ran opening up to Conan? Kudo not coming home? Sitting here inhaling carcinogens in the freezing cold?

Then the kid said into the silence, “But I know Shinichi-niichan wants to come back and make things right,” and Kogoro’s blood pressure shot up again.

“What’s right, kid? Something you decide? Something your Niichan decides?”

“Right is right,” the kid said firmly.

“Bullshit. Weren’t you listening to the perp? Was she right to kill him?”

“No—”

“Sooner or later one of his lovetaps was gonna break her neck.”

“She lied to the police and obfuscated evidence,” the kid said weakly.

“So she was scared.” The cigarette was almost burnt down. Kogoro took one last drag and crushed it under his shoe. “Point is, Kudo’s version of ‘make things right’ won’t be mine, and that’s why that detective pain-in-the-ass won’t be coming near my daughter.” He slammed his fist into his palm like it was Kudo’s muzzle.

The kid flinched, as if it were him Kogoro was threatening, and not his uncle’s grandfather’s cousin’s niece’s whatever. “Maybe he’s scared too,” he squeaked.

“He should be,” Kogoro growled. He ground his knuckles against his palm for emphasis.

Shadows sprouted briefly at their feet as the door behind them opened. A uniformed officer came out and informed them that the cleanup was done, that the inspector didn’t need anything more from them, waving away their thanks as he went back inside.

He didn’t know what made him do it, but as they got to their feet, Kogoro bopped his fist on Conan’s head.

“Ow.”

Kogoro snorted. “Don’t ‘ow’ me, I’ve seen your brat friends hit harder. Here’s some advice. When you get older, don’t go getting attached to anybody like me. Or Eri. Or Kudo. Or…” he added thoughtfully, “Ran. You’re not that good.” He started down the gravel drive.

“Sheesh,” the kid sighed, trotting to keep up. “And Ran-neechan just wanted to know what to get you for Christmas.”

“Well, she could stop nagging about those horse races,” Kogoro grumbled.

“I don’t think she will,” the kid said dubiously. “How about a scarf?”

“Shut your trap and get in the car.”

The kid was quiet as Kogoro pulled out of the driveway and onto the highway with a rumble of engine. Theirs was the only car on the road. Just the two of them and the fan of light from their headlights, and roadside signs that glowed briefly as they passed. No sound except the car itself and the faint sound of wind from outside. Kogoro looked over. Conan was slumped against the door, asleep.

Above, more stars fell, leaving fleeting white trails in the night sky. Meteors. Or meteorites, he could never keep them straight. Just hunks of rock, burning up in the air. Wishes. How stupid.

Eri. The rice fields raced by in the dark. And Ran. Tokyo was a shimmer of lights in the distance. Maybe even… the freeloader. The brat was almost bearable with his mouth shut.

Keep them with me.

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all day staring at the ceiling 

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A quick drawing of Shinichi in Winter weather (with a cold drink haha) for @chriswhitewolf

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Secret Santa just checking in. Hope you're doing well and know I'm working on it!

Hello my dear Santa! So nice to hear from you :) I wish you a nice week and thank you for your message!

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Hello my dear! Thank you for opening the Submissions for me ;) I don´t know if I manage a mini-present each time, but I’ll try. I’m having a nice day thank you- I hope you do too! As you might have suggested already I’m not a native speaker, I’ll try to run your present (which is already 1800 and something words long) through my beta- but I can´t promise anything). Anway have fun with the mini-present and make sure to tag my messages with dcmksecretsanta and event20 so our beloved event organizer can reblogg it! I wish you a nice day! See you next time :) 

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Her hands flew over the keys of her computer. The fingers, which were far too small, now mastered the keyboard effortlessly again.

Shiho had become accustomed to being Ai for a while now.

A quiet squeaking, however, brought the scientist’s movement to a standstill.

Her green eyes wandered to the mouse cage on the lab table, where two of the little grey animals bickered over the last slice of apple.

A cold feeling found its way to her fingertips, a glance to the window told her that it wouldn’t be long before dawn.

However, it wasn’t the thought of the night that made the chemist’s stomach twist.

But memories.

Shiho remembered the first time, the first time that her poison had not killed one of these little creatures but shrunk it.

Rejuvenated, up to point it barely survived without being nursed.

She remembered the adrenaline, the excitement which the scientific curiosity pumped through her veins when she was able to repeat her “mistake”.

Ai swallowed, felt how goosebumps appeared on her skin, while her hands tensed on the keyboard, formulas and databases long forgotten.

The thought of her past experiments left a bitter taste on her lips.

Some of the mice had managed to find their way back to a “normal” rhythm, while others…

Shiho sighed, turning her gaze away from the bustle in the cage.

It wasn’t just the physical suffering of the poison, some of her mice were simply overwhelmed with the new situation.

They were disoriented, stopped eating and became lethargic, so that the poison had served its purpose anyway.  But even the animals that at first had come to terms with their new situation, seemed to have sort of a breaking point and died, one after another.  

It was only a matter of time.

The chemist closed her eyes, noticed how the memory made her shiver, while a thought ghosted trough her mind.  

They couldn´t find their place in life anymore.

That is why her first reaction when she learned of Shinichi Kudo’s fate hadn´t been only pure curiosity, as she had tried to make him believe, but pure horror.

Until then, she hadn´t dare to imagine what this side effect could do with the human body, or the  psyche of a person.

Until then…

She swallowed, shook her head and forced her gaze back to her monitor.

That is why she had promised him an antidote.

Because without it, the APTX would fulfill its purpose one way or another.

It would kill him and that was something she couldn’t allow.

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