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[modernholmes]

[When Conan had woken up that morning, it had been to a small stack of mystery novels and a pill case by his bed.  A very familiar pill case.

He'd scrambled out of bed and inspected all the items to the best of his ability.  The novels were simple enough.  Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and his father.  But the pills.... They looked like nothing more than cold pills, but this box was the one Haibara had been using to hide the prototype temporary cure for the poison that had turned him into this.  His hands shake slightly as he inspects them, but he knew that he had no method of testing them for himself.

At last he reaches for the communicator and makes a post.  As always, he locks it against Gin to the highest level he was capable of.]

Neh, has anyone else found anything interesting this morning?  I just found lots of mystery novels from home!





[Locked 60%  to Washu, Adam, Ran, and anyone else who knows the truth about 'Conan'.]

Check your rooms.  Something strange just happened.  

Is there any equipment around that can be used to test the chemical composition of drugs?

[/Locked

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[waytoopatient]

[She shivers a little, remembering. Not only Conan, but Kazuha, too.

...She misses her, and Heiji, too-- but she's glad they're safe at home, relatively speaking. She'll listen to Conan as she thinks back, though a part of her still thinks this is so...surreal.

She sounds a bit worried.]

That's dangerous. Especially now.

[As much as she wants her best friend back in his own body, she does not want it happening while You Know Who is around.

She's surprised she's managed a confrontation so far.]

[modernholmes]

...I know. [He'd seen what Gin was capable of. The possibilities of what could have happened in their last meeting still kept him up sometimes at night. But it seems like he'd made it through. Somehow.]

Ah, but it is unlikely that it will happen in that way again. The stress... My body adapts to it. It only works once.

[waytoopatient]

...Of course.

[She never thought she'd live to see the day she'd think his inability to change back as a good thing. But nevertheless, she finds herself nodding to acknowledge it, looking almost a bit relieved.

At least, as relieved as she can be, while simultaneously being annoyed at the situation.

She'll supress it for now, though; and after that, she turns her attention back to the cold pills, sighing.]

So what should we do? Has anyone responded?

[To being able to test it, that is?

Resources are limited, but she also knows that there are quite a few resourceful people here...]

[modernholmes]

No. It looks like I might need to think of another way.

[Do you recognize that expression Ran? It's the one that shows right before he does something stupidly dangerous.

[waytoopatient]

[Not if she has anything to say about it. She looks suspicious, but of course she'll always listen to what he has to say first.]

"Another way" meaning...?

[modernholmes]

There is only one possible test subject.

[waytoopatient]

...You?!

[She sounds a bit alarmed now. Even if the idea of seeing Shinichi again excites her, she hadn't imagined it like this.

Calming down slightly--]

Are you sure that's a good idea?

[modernholmes]

[It was a terrible idea. He knew that. Even apart from the question of hiding this from Gin and the very high risk of death every time he took an antidote, there was the problem of his growing immunity to the temporary cure.]

There might not be another option.

[waytoopatient]

...Yes, there is.

[Just like he'd always had the option to tell her about these things, he has the option not to take it.

To keep it safe.

To keep himself safe. Even if it means remaining like...this for a while longer.]

What if it works? Then what'll you do?

[modernholmes]

Then I'll know that I have it as an option.

[waytoopatient]

...

[An option. But if what he says it's true, it wouldn't remain one for long. And it's not much of an option in the first place...]

Just be careful, okay? I want to see you back in your own body just as much as you do, but not if it's going to get you killed.

[It'd be harder to lay low as Shinichi...]