Case: 018

[1_truth]

{{ →!Action | 915 Bilko Boulevard | Evening - Early, EARLY morning }}

[ Since returning to Mayfield Conan has locked himself in his room with any mystery books he could find. If he figured out the trick and murderer before he finished his book he'd toss it in a pile of books that couldn't hold his attention for long. If he is kept guessing until the end then he sets it aside on his night stand to read through it again and find the key details that point to the murderer. So far he has not come across such a mystery. Normally, he'd finish reading the book despite figuring out the trick-but this is different. He's only reading to keep his mind focused and off Ran. ]

[ He's been having difficulty concentrating on anything lately because he's been constantly worried about his childhood friend. He closes the last of the mystery books he'd managed to find and tosses into the pile with all the others before sinking down into his pillows. Ran would be okay... wouldn't she? ]

[ He takes a calming breath and tucks his hands behind his head, staring fixedly at the ceiling... ]

[ ... ]

[ ..... ]

[ ... ]

RAAAAAN!

[ He wakes up in a cold sweat, immediately sitting up and breathing hard. What a Nightmare. ]

{{ →!Action | 915 Bilko Boulevard's front yard | Morning }}

[ Conan's not in a good mood today. He's stille feeling jittery and shaky so to calm himself down as best as possible he's got soccer ball out and kicking it at the side of the house-when it bounces off he rushes to meet it and kick it again. ]

[ It helps. But he's obviously bothered by something as he keeps missing the small 'x' he drew on the side of the house with a piece of chalk. ]


((ooc: If you're curious about Conan's dream I've left a link to it as I wrote it out in a separate journal entry. Warning. It involves violence. ))

Comments

[1_truth]

No. I'm having nightmares because I don't know why Bourbon is still hanging around Occhan, when as far as I thought, I tricked him into thinking he accomplished his mission.

He should be done with the agency.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

wouldn't they just give him... another mission?

[Sherlock doesn't understand why this person should be done with the agency just because he accomplished his mission.]

I should never tag with my phone. Auto-correct is a jerk. >:

[1_truth]

Of course they would! He was only hanging around the agency to try and find information on their missing traitor Miyano Shiho. Which is why I asked Kid to disguise as her and fake her death.

Now that they think she's dead there's no reason for him to continue hanging around the agency-after all, The Organization wouldn't want to risk getting too close to a famous detective-not when there's a chance they'd end up exposed. If they're not done with the agency that can only mean there's something else in Beika they want investigated.

Hence why I've disabled it on mine :/

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Clearly. Who's Ran?

[And back to the nightmare.]

...I should do that.

[1_truth]

Ah-um.. [ He's a little thrown off by that question and looks away. ]

Sh-she's just my childhood friend.. She cries to easily and worries about everything. She also lives at the agency as it's her dad that I made famous.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

To cry for her like that... she must be more than a friend....

[1_truth]

....while I'm stuck like this.. that's something I can't have. She worries about me enough with us just being childhood friends-if it were anything more then she'd just worry and want to see me even more.

I can't put her through that.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[Sherlock sighs.]

Why does everyone automatically resort to the assumption of thinking of a romantic entanglement when someone says a pair must be more than friends? I simply meant that the way you called for her signifies something that runs deeper. Romance doesn't have to enter into it.

[1_truth]

Th-that's not-!

[ ... ]

Erm-!

.......Oh.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[Sherlock just raises an eyebrow and waits.]

[1_truth]

I've known her since I was little. And someone like her it's-well...

...


Sh-she's-well-to me, she's the most important person.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

...She's known you the longest next to your parents and since they've left you...

[Sherlock pauses.]

It's not sentiment. It's shared experience. I understand that.

[1_truth]

Oi. My parents didn't leave me, I didn't want to move to LA because they're immature and would drive me crazy if I still lived with them.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[Sherlock rolls his eyes.]

Semantics. And you're focused on the wrong thing. We were talking about Ran, not you.

[1_truth]

I don't want you thinking I have abandonment issues. If you met my parents you'd know why I don't want to live with them. [ No really. You don't want to meet his parents. ]

...Anyway. What do you want to know about Ran?

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

She was in your nightmare. You screamed for her.

[Statements. Explain, Conan.]

[1_truth]

[ He was doing okay until Sherlock pointed that out. Immediately he clams back up because that is really something he doesn't like thinking about. ]

...They killed her.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[Sherlock nods once.]

Did that happen in real life?

[1_truth]

No. Just in the dream.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

But you fear it might happen in real life, which is why the dream bothers you so much.

[Sherlock gets it, even if he won't admit it.]

[1_truth]

It's more than that. If they were to find out the truth-if they found out I'm really the missing detective it would happen.

Not just Ran, but Occhan, Agasa-hakasei, and Hattori. Along with everyone else associated with me.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Then you would understand why I threw myself off a building...

[1_truth]

Mm.. Of course.

...How did you fake that one, anyway? My guess is that you landed on mattress or something that was set up before you jumped and then had someone throw a fake over so that still have the sound of someone landing fron a fall like that.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

[Sherlock smirks.]

A magician never tells his secret. [He grimaces.] I was taken before I landed, so I don't actually know if it did work or not...

[It doesn't matter that Conan told him he succeeded. Sherlock didn't experience it, so he doesn't know.]

[1_truth]

Well, if correlates with the Final Problem, it probably did.

[ With that he just kind of shrugs and goes to bounce the soccer ball on his knee. ]