"I need a doctor!" The voice is scared, urgent, sounding incongruously in the otherwise stillness of the lobby. "Please, my friend is dying
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There's a clatter on the stairs, and suddenly Ran-kun's next to them, looking worried and serious as he takes in the scene. Months of working with Shinichi on cases works in his favour: he takes in at a glance that Shinichi's in a lot of pain, that Ran-chan's dragging him towards the infirmary -- and the ease with which she's carrying him tells him which version of himself and his friend this is.
"What happened to him?!" the karateka demands, hurrying ahead to hold the infirmary door open for them. He can see blood spots, but not where they're coming from. "Where's he hurt?"
Ran-kun! Ran can't say how grateful she is to see him. "Head -- he was bleeding but still conscious when I got there." She swallowed, remembering the scene in the study, the ladder on its side, the scattered books -- all carefully set up to look like an accident. If it hadn't been for those three letters scrawled on the floor and Ran-kun's warning-- "He was poisoned! I tried to make him throw up, but I was too late, he was already--" dying "--convulsing and I thought the hospital--"
Shinichi makes another choked cry and Ran can barely hold back one of her own, really scared as she sets him down on the infirmary bed. He doesn't even sound like Shinichi, he's that hurt, and his skin feels almost like burning--
Ran-kun drops next to the bed and reaches out to help hold Shinichi down, forgetting that this Ran-chan doesn't really need the help, and almost snatches his hand back at the overwhelming heat radiating through the other boy's clothes.
It's a sickeningly familiar sensation, and one he recognizes right away, having already dealt with it twice.
"It's the Apotoxin," he grits out, trying frantically to think of what to do. He'd been too late to do anything to prevent his Shinichi being poisoned, but this--
He jumps to his feet.
"Stay here!" The command is hurried and over his shoulder as he runs for the door. "Keep his head still! I'm going to see if I can find some baijiu!"
A faint hope, but one worth trying. If the alcohol works for a temporary cure, maybe it can also work as an immediate antidote. But he'll have to be fast, and he knows it.
"The Apotox--" Ran's question trails off at Ran-kun's shouted command, immediately moving to obey the order, cradling Shinichi's head carefully.
She feels twice as alone and scared without Ran-kun there, the relief that he seems to have a plan almost immediately overshadowed as Shinichi twists in her arms. "Just hold on, Shinichi. Ran-kun's got a plan--"
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"What happened to him?!" the karateka demands, hurrying ahead to hold the infirmary door open for them. He can see blood spots, but not where they're coming from. "Where's he hurt?"
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Shinichi makes another choked cry and Ran can barely hold back one of her own, really scared as she sets him down on the infirmary bed. He doesn't even sound like Shinichi, he's that hurt, and his skin feels almost like burning--
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It's a sickeningly familiar sensation, and one he recognizes right away, having already dealt with it twice.
"It's the Apotoxin," he grits out, trying frantically to think of what to do. He'd been too late to do anything to prevent his Shinichi being poisoned, but this--
He jumps to his feet.
"Stay here!" The command is hurried and over his shoulder as he runs for the door. "Keep his head still! I'm going to see if I can find some baijiu!"
A faint hope, but one worth trying. If the alcohol works for a temporary cure, maybe it can also work as an immediate antidote. But he'll have to be fast, and he knows it.
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She feels twice as alone and scared without Ran-kun there, the relief that he seems to have a plan almost immediately overshadowed as Shinichi twists in her arms. "Just hold on, Shinichi. Ran-kun's got a plan--"
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