CA 1sentence File 3
So...the Muses of Random Thought hate me. What else is new?
(To find the answer to the above rhetorical question, go stalk my FF.net profile)
Edit: Have replaced this post with the final version, and will be posting at the comm and FF.net in a short while. Made a few revisions, but kept it mostly the same - the only major change was that I rewrote "End" since I really didn't care for how that one had come out.
(A/N) Some of you wanted fifty more. Some of you wanted a total of seventy-five, one hundred, and beyond. Some of you wanted me to keep writing.
Well, I thank all of you for saying so…and your wishes have been granted.
By the way, I assume most of you have read the first two sets already, and so I’ve included references to some of them. For those of you who find these not-quite-hidden ‘Easter eggs’...Well, there’s no reward except that of being able to smile knowingly, but happy hunting anyway.
Fandom: Detective Conan/Case Closed
Pairing: Kudo Shinichi/Edogawa Conan x Miyano Shiho/Haibara Ai (/Sherry)
Theme Set: Delta
Rating: K+
Dedication: to everyone who reviewed, and especially to SN, FS, Claude, June, Dagron, and Tsu (in no particular order).
Note: In case some of you are wondering, for the most part I use the characters’ child names if they haven’t found the antidote, and their real names if they’re in their own form for whatever reason. Most of you have probably figured this out, but I thought I’d better mention it. Also, it’s fair to say that a timeskip has occurred if they’re in their real bodies - in short, keep an open mind.
Disclaimer: see File 1
#01 - Air
“Now then, class, who can remember from the last lesson what air is?” asked the teacher; and as they scratched their heads trying to remember the percentage of gases, Haibara (who was thoroughly sick of high school intrigue and poorly written letters by now) muttered from somewhere in the back, “Something so essential to life that it’s second only to love, it seems.”
#02 - Apples
She liked red, he liked green, they compromised, bought yellow, and hated them; so the next time they went to the store, he bought red, and she bought green.
#03 - Beginning
“In the beginning,” he intoned, “there was nothing,” the curtains were thrown wide, “and then Kudo said, ‘Let there be light!’”; but all his theatrics came to nothing: she muttered something that sounded suspiciously like, “I didn’t say anything; go away,” and went back to hard-earned sleep.
#04 - Bugs
Haibara swore for the first time since any of them had known her; and as the four of them stared, she glanced up from the laptop and explained briefly, “A bug,” at which Conan nodded understandingly, one of the other three tensed considerably and looked scared, and the last two stepped in front of her to valiantly defend her from the cockroach…which didn’t exist.
#05 - Coffee
Conan stared, an eyebrow twitching, and tried to decide whether to be amused, horrified, or afraid for his life - eventually he settled for a combination of all three, thinking as he ran, That is the last time I let Haibara drink three cups in a row…
#06 - Dark
Despite the hour, there was plenty of light from the headlights - enough to discern the situation, his expression, and…actually, that was as far as she got before instinct took over.
#07 - Despair
It wasn’t possible, it couldn’t happen, and she knew it, knew it like her own three names, and yet...it was: Ran was marrying Conan.
#08 - Doors
“I’m going to bust it down if you don’t,” he said through the thin wood, completely serious; but she responded in much the same tone, “You will do no such thing, because I locked it, and you respect that,” and even as the argument continued he marveled absently that she knew him so well.
#09 - Drink
Someone up there has a severely twisted sense of humor, thought Kudo, as his bachelor-party guests grinned, egged him on, and unanimously agreed that the dare to down an entire glass of sherry was pure genius.
#10 - Duty
It was his duty to protect the innocent, to save the weak, to avenge the dead, and everything else the average hero did, all of which Haibara knew well was ridiculously naïve, but somehow it had become her duty to make sure he would live through his escapades - and all those duties were self-imposed.
#11 - Earth
She stared at him as he grinned back, his face smudged with dirt and sweat from digging the hole he was currently standing beside, and he explained, “Getting down to earth,” at which she rolled her eyes - but she left him a glass of ice water and covered for him back at the house.
#12 - End
“So…” Kudo trailed off, an unfamiliar look in his eyes which was quickly wiped away as she spoke: “If the next words out of your mouth are, ‘It’s been fun,’ I will hurt you.”
#13 - Fall
Haibara was always taking the fall for him, and she thought it was about time he got his just desserts - a thought she voiced aloud, ignoring the curious gazes of three children who couldn’t understand why she looked so amused at the antics of two vaguely familiar teenagers.
#14 - Fire
She shot, he died, and Shiho woke gasping again; but from beside her a sleepy voice said calmly enough, “We burned the Organization down, Ai, and that gun used flowers.”
#15 - Flexible
She was Haibara, then Ai, then Miyano, then Shiho, and never Sherry, but he was accomodating even if he’d rather stick to one name…until the day he discovered that she didn’t mind him calling her “Ai” even though the antidote had worked, so long as he never mentioned which meaning he used.
#16 - Flying
They thought that he wasn’t touched by the cases he handled, that he distanced himself in much the same way his idol had; but during one midnight talk he revealed to Haibara that he had become…wary…of flying, since too many ‘accidents’ happened on planes.
#17 - Food
For Ran, Shinichi had learned to make something that wouldn’t hospitalize; for himself, Conan had learned to make something that tasted decent; but with the help of Haibara, Kudo had learned it was possible to have fun while doing so (even if she did laugh at him when he set off the sprinklers with burned cookies and managed to make the flour explode).
#18 - Foot
“Yes, your feet’s too big,” Conan sang playfully at her for days after Agasa made Haibara her own version of the super-sneakers, not stopping until she threw one of them at his head; and even then only because what followed that was a long and ridiculous argument regarding his singing ability (abysmal at best), her throwing arm (way too strong “for a girl”), and about thirty other irrelevant subjects.
#19 - Grave
“You have made a grave mistake,” he said, as Haibara sketched a quick tombstone during a group game of Pictionary, and she gave him the same look she’d given him the night he’d cracked a similar joke.
#20 - Green
“Are you sure it’s edible?” he asked, looking green; but Shiho merely rolled her eyes at him and replied, “Of course it is. Now go take a shower before you drip paint onto the eggs.”
#21 - Head
“It’s empty,” she said firmly over his protestations to the contrary - but she helped him bandage it anyway.
#22 - Hollow
There was a small hole in a brick wall just off the main street they took to school, a hole that could be covered by inserting a brick at just the right spot, a hole that could be uncovered only with the dexterity of tiny fingers, and therefore a hole that could be used to hide ‘treasures’ as little kids often did - notes, trinkets, gum, APTX-4869, and eventually an andidote.
#23 - Honor
He thought she was practical but somewhat cowardly, and he knew that she tended to look out for ‘number one,’ so it never occurred to him that she had a sense of honor as fully-developed as his - he didn’t find out until she took the bullet for him.
#24 - Hope
Even in the depths of her heart she held no secret hope, and she thought it was better that way, because you can’t lose something you never had - and it hurt more to lose something than it did to be alive instead of living.
#25 - Light
Her eyes were adjusted for bright, whitewashed light, and the complete darkness which can only be found in the human heart; his were trained to see the details, and the differences between shades of grey that were so often the best clues - and between the two of them, they were blind.
(Notes)
- Yes, number six is based on episode 345, also known as volume 42, or for those of you who aren’t very good with numbers, the ‘Halloween Showdown’.
- About 19: I highly doubt the Japanese play Pictionary, but it’s concievable that the ever curious Detective Boys could hear of it and press-gang our two favorite ‘partners in anti-crime’ (my phrase; steal it and I feed you to Gin, piece by piece) into trying it with them.
Anyway, that's the first twenty-five. How fast the next set comes out depends on coffee, sleep (or lack thereof), the MRT, and (most importantly) reviews/comments.
(To find the answer to the above rhetorical question, go stalk my FF.net profile)
Edit: Have replaced this post with the final version, and will be posting at the comm and FF.net in a short while. Made a few revisions, but kept it mostly the same - the only major change was that I rewrote "End" since I really didn't care for how that one had come out.
(A/N) Some of you wanted fifty more. Some of you wanted a total of seventy-five, one hundred, and beyond. Some of you wanted me to keep writing.
Well, I thank all of you for saying so…and your wishes have been granted.
By the way, I assume most of you have read the first two sets already, and so I’ve included references to some of them. For those of you who find these not-quite-hidden ‘Easter eggs’...Well, there’s no reward except that of being able to smile knowingly, but happy hunting anyway.
Fandom: Detective Conan/Case Closed
Pairing: Kudo Shinichi/Edogawa Conan x Miyano Shiho/Haibara Ai (/Sherry)
Theme Set: Delta
Rating: K+
Dedication: to everyone who reviewed, and especially to SN, FS, Claude, June, Dagron, and Tsu (in no particular order).
Note: In case some of you are wondering, for the most part I use the characters’ child names if they haven’t found the antidote, and their real names if they’re in their own form for whatever reason. Most of you have probably figured this out, but I thought I’d better mention it. Also, it’s fair to say that a timeskip has occurred if they’re in their real bodies - in short, keep an open mind.
Disclaimer: see File 1
#01 - Air
“Now then, class, who can remember from the last lesson what air is?” asked the teacher; and as they scratched their heads trying to remember the percentage of gases, Haibara (who was thoroughly sick of high school intrigue and poorly written letters by now) muttered from somewhere in the back, “Something so essential to life that it’s second only to love, it seems.”
#02 - Apples
She liked red, he liked green, they compromised, bought yellow, and hated them; so the next time they went to the store, he bought red, and she bought green.
#03 - Beginning
“In the beginning,” he intoned, “there was nothing,” the curtains were thrown wide, “and then Kudo said, ‘Let there be light!’”; but all his theatrics came to nothing: she muttered something that sounded suspiciously like, “I didn’t say anything; go away,” and went back to hard-earned sleep.
#04 - Bugs
Haibara swore for the first time since any of them had known her; and as the four of them stared, she glanced up from the laptop and explained briefly, “A bug,” at which Conan nodded understandingly, one of the other three tensed considerably and looked scared, and the last two stepped in front of her to valiantly defend her from the cockroach…which didn’t exist.
#05 - Coffee
Conan stared, an eyebrow twitching, and tried to decide whether to be amused, horrified, or afraid for his life - eventually he settled for a combination of all three, thinking as he ran, That is the last time I let Haibara drink three cups in a row…
#06 - Dark
Despite the hour, there was plenty of light from the headlights - enough to discern the situation, his expression, and…actually, that was as far as she got before instinct took over.
#07 - Despair
It wasn’t possible, it couldn’t happen, and she knew it, knew it like her own three names, and yet...it was: Ran was marrying Conan.
#08 - Doors
“I’m going to bust it down if you don’t,” he said through the thin wood, completely serious; but she responded in much the same tone, “You will do no such thing, because I locked it, and you respect that,” and even as the argument continued he marveled absently that she knew him so well.
#09 - Drink
Someone up there has a severely twisted sense of humor, thought Kudo, as his bachelor-party guests grinned, egged him on, and unanimously agreed that the dare to down an entire glass of sherry was pure genius.
#10 - Duty
It was his duty to protect the innocent, to save the weak, to avenge the dead, and everything else the average hero did, all of which Haibara knew well was ridiculously naïve, but somehow it had become her duty to make sure he would live through his escapades - and all those duties were self-imposed.
#11 - Earth
She stared at him as he grinned back, his face smudged with dirt and sweat from digging the hole he was currently standing beside, and he explained, “Getting down to earth,” at which she rolled her eyes - but she left him a glass of ice water and covered for him back at the house.
#12 - End
“So…” Kudo trailed off, an unfamiliar look in his eyes which was quickly wiped away as she spoke: “If the next words out of your mouth are, ‘It’s been fun,’ I will hurt you.”
#13 - Fall
Haibara was always taking the fall for him, and she thought it was about time he got his just desserts - a thought she voiced aloud, ignoring the curious gazes of three children who couldn’t understand why she looked so amused at the antics of two vaguely familiar teenagers.
#14 - Fire
She shot, he died, and Shiho woke gasping again; but from beside her a sleepy voice said calmly enough, “We burned the Organization down, Ai, and that gun used flowers.”
#15 - Flexible
She was Haibara, then Ai, then Miyano, then Shiho, and never Sherry, but he was accomodating even if he’d rather stick to one name…until the day he discovered that she didn’t mind him calling her “Ai” even though the antidote had worked, so long as he never mentioned which meaning he used.
#16 - Flying
They thought that he wasn’t touched by the cases he handled, that he distanced himself in much the same way his idol had; but during one midnight talk he revealed to Haibara that he had become…wary…of flying, since too many ‘accidents’ happened on planes.
#17 - Food
For Ran, Shinichi had learned to make something that wouldn’t hospitalize; for himself, Conan had learned to make something that tasted decent; but with the help of Haibara, Kudo had learned it was possible to have fun while doing so (even if she did laugh at him when he set off the sprinklers with burned cookies and managed to make the flour explode).
#18 - Foot
“Yes, your feet’s too big,” Conan sang playfully at her for days after Agasa made Haibara her own version of the super-sneakers, not stopping until she threw one of them at his head; and even then only because what followed that was a long and ridiculous argument regarding his singing ability (abysmal at best), her throwing arm (way too strong “for a girl”), and about thirty other irrelevant subjects.
#19 - Grave
“You have made a grave mistake,” he said, as Haibara sketched a quick tombstone during a group game of Pictionary, and she gave him the same look she’d given him the night he’d cracked a similar joke.
#20 - Green
“Are you sure it’s edible?” he asked, looking green; but Shiho merely rolled her eyes at him and replied, “Of course it is. Now go take a shower before you drip paint onto the eggs.”
#21 - Head
“It’s empty,” she said firmly over his protestations to the contrary - but she helped him bandage it anyway.
#22 - Hollow
There was a small hole in a brick wall just off the main street they took to school, a hole that could be covered by inserting a brick at just the right spot, a hole that could be uncovered only with the dexterity of tiny fingers, and therefore a hole that could be used to hide ‘treasures’ as little kids often did - notes, trinkets, gum, APTX-4869, and eventually an andidote.
#23 - Honor
He thought she was practical but somewhat cowardly, and he knew that she tended to look out for ‘number one,’ so it never occurred to him that she had a sense of honor as fully-developed as his - he didn’t find out until she took the bullet for him.
#24 - Hope
Even in the depths of her heart she held no secret hope, and she thought it was better that way, because you can’t lose something you never had - and it hurt more to lose something than it did to be alive instead of living.
#25 - Light
Her eyes were adjusted for bright, whitewashed light, and the complete darkness which can only be found in the human heart; his were trained to see the details, and the differences between shades of grey that were so often the best clues - and between the two of them, they were blind.
(Notes)
- Yes, number six is based on episode 345, also known as volume 42, or for those of you who aren’t very good with numbers, the ‘Halloween Showdown’.
- About 19: I highly doubt the Japanese play Pictionary, but it’s concievable that the ever curious Detective Boys could hear of it and press-gang our two favorite ‘partners in anti-crime’ (my phrase; steal it and I feed you to Gin, piece by piece) into trying it with them.
Anyway, that's the first twenty-five. How fast the next set comes out depends on coffee, sleep (or lack thereof), the MRT, and (most importantly) reviews/comments.