FIC: Conjour's Masquerade (3/?)
Story Information:
Title: Conjour's Masquerade
Authour: Saitaina
Rating: R (chapter)/NC-17 (full story)
Characters/Pairings: Kuroba Kaito/Hakuba Saguru, Edogowa Conan/Koizumi Akako, Kuroba Mika (Kaito's mother)/Jii, Nakamori Aoko/Male OC, Nakamori Ginzo/Female OC (Maria), Kuroba Rose (Kaito's little sister), Bohdana, Saguru/Eden, Kaito/Kaitou Kid, Eden/Ask, Eva/Pan, Lily
Summary: It's been seven years, since the death of Kaitou Kid, but there is still one thing out there, Kaito and Kiden left un-finished.
WARNINGS: Sex, death, illness, MAGIC, slight religious content later.
Chapter Information:
Title: Genesis Larceny
Summary: Eden deals with the aftermath of the Kid heist and the Genesis Larceny gang comes to the forefront, while Saguru finds something he didn't expect at the hospital.
Notes: Lots of OC's, but also a glimpse of what Eden's up to...so it trades off.
Genesis Larceny
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” - Tom Stoppard
Bohadona ignored the lock on Kidoko's door, using her master key to enter the room, closing and locking it behind her. She turned, passing the bed to enter the small room off to the side, which the girls normally used to dress for work (or hide from patrons). She pushed some costumes out of the way to find Eden hunched over the make-up table, his top hat next to him, face buried in gloved hands.
"What have you done, Eden?" She asked, staring at the young man in full heist gear, something she hadn't seen since the night he first came to her, looking for a place to live and a job. She pushed a stack of pantyhose off a chair taking a seat and hitting him lightly in the leg with her cane.
"I fucked up," Eden whispered, raising his head, eyes red-rimmed and haunted.
"I'd say. I thought we agreed Kid was dead, you killed him."
"I...they were there and..."
"You wanted them to know you were alive." Bohadona sighed, muttering something in Russian before patting at her hair sprayed hair, unable to run her hands through it in frustration. "Does Eva know?"
Eden shook his head, leaning back in his chair, staring at his reflection. "I didn't tell her, or Pan."
"Eden...you know you can't do things without them. You agreed when Ana died, no more stunts, no more one man act. This is bigger then your ambitions, bigger then Anesidora. If you want your brother and twin to survive, you need to play nice with the others."
"I know..I wasn't...I didn't think, I'm sorry."
"Well, it's too late for sorry now, you've made your move. I guess we can move things along, even though we're no where near ready for this." She tapped him with the tip of her cane again. "I'll talk to Eva and Pan, see where they are. Lily was already looking for targets, I can get a list from her, but you get to explain things to Ask, and he won't be pleased."
Eden made a face, thinking of the young teenager who handled the technological aspects of their group. A volatile teen with a far beyond explosive temper, Eden had a feeling he'd be lucky to survive the conversation with all limbs in-tact. "I have to meet him tonight at the club anyway."
"You come home coked out of your head again and you're sleeping with Kumu and Honua upstairs."
Eden made a face. "Couldn't you have predicted more attractive bedmates?" he teased, ducking as Bohadona swung her cane at him, grabbing his breasts and masking tape to dress as Kidoko again.
--
Eden sighed, laying across the flat rooftop of the building across the street from the Tokyo Metropolitan police headquarters (Ekoda Koban), scratching at the hair on the back of his neck that kept tickling from the breeze, before raising his binoculars back to his face.
Spotting his target through the glass coming from the lift, he grinned and hopped down onto the fire escape, skipping steps as he hurried to the ground floor, hoping to make it before Saguru met his ride out front. He gave up on the stairs and started to just jump from level to level, wincing as he missed a protruding pipe that sliced at his arm. Landing in a crouch on the street, he glanced at his arm, pouting at the tear in his shirt before shifting his shoulders to hide it, straightening and crossing the street, getting honked at by a taxi who didn't appreciate him darting out in front of it.
He fell into step behind Saguru who had been caught up taking to a co-worker, deftly sliding his fingers into Saguru's jacket as he pushed past him, slipping the wallet out as he moved past the blond, keeping his body angled so that Kaito, who was in the waiting car wouldn't see the movement.
The target was in his hand and in his pant pocket as he turned to apologize, smiling at Saguru. "Ah, Inspector Hakuba, sorry!"
The blond blinked at him for a moment, trying to place the red-head before smiling and nodding. He gave a wave, memories of their time at the club clearly in his head as he climbed into the car with his boyfriend.
Eden watched them go before flipping open the wallet, snickering as he moved past Saguru's badge and ID, humming and walking down the street as he filched a business card from the small stack hidden under the badge, whistling in application at the picture of Akako.
He paused on the street, studying a picture of the family he had left behind, a small tug at his heart as he pulled the print free of it's plastic casing, a finger tracing over his brother's face before flipping the picture over, smiling at Kaito's neat characters listing the group's name from his to Charcoal the cat's, along with the date the picture was taken.
He pulled his own wallet from his leg pocket, flipping it open and flipping through a few pictures, before slipping the purloined picture in an empty sleeve opposite a picture of a scowling blond teenager, smiling.
Putting his own wallet away, he leaned over the shoulder of a twenty-something women next to him, staring at the flyer she was passing out. "Garage Sale?" he asked in English, curious.
"American thing, gets rid of junk." The woman said, looking up at him through heavily made eyes, before snorting. "Your roots are showing, Eden." Lily said, offering him a flyer. "Proceeds go to the Ekoda Orphanage."
"But, if I bring more junk home Bohdie will string me up as a pinata." Eden said, pouting before holding out the brown leather wallet he stole from Saguru. "Return this to the police station for me?"
"Only if you buy something at the sale." Lily said, accepting the wallet and stuffing it between her breasts as she had no where else to put it, except in her garter where he own wallet was.
"Alright, Alright. Ooh yeah, meeting tonight, Jerard's." with that, Eden vanished into the crowd with a wave, still looking over the flier.
Lily blinked, a pout forming on her lips. "Meeting or party?" she muttered before grabbing the arm of a businessman passing her. "Yo, go here, buy something." she ordered before releasing him.
--
"I saw you," a voice called as Eden slipped into the room, causing Eden to trip over a cord he hadn't noticed.
"Of course you saw me, you're watching the street feeds." Eden muttered, un-tangling himself of the demon cord and venturing into the maze of electronics and computers, finding his prey at a bank of monitor's, watching the city below them through the police camera's.
"I meant at Jerard's." The small blond teenager turned, glancing at Eden out of the corner of his eye before turning back to the monitor's, changing the view of one of the camera's as he focused in on a building, making a note on his chart before the camera's view was turned back by the police officer across town who had no idea someone was hacking his equipment.
Eden froze for a moment, wondering if it would be better for his health to leave now, before deciding he had to face this anyway, the same he did having to explain his actions at the heist. He glanced at the monitors, noting that none of their targets were on the screen and everything seemed peaceful before turning Ask's chair, straddling the blond's lap. "And what of it?" He purred, smiling down at the younger man. "You've never had a problem with me having fun before."
Ask's brown eyes narrowed, looking up at Eden, his hands rising against his will to rest on the thief's hips. "You've never fucked your ex before." the teen whispered, his voice a low growl that didn't sound at all threatening considering his age.
"Ah, so that's what it is. You're not pissed off what I did, but who." Eden wrapped his arms around Ask's neck, sinking forward slightly so that his lips brushed over the teen's as he spoke. "Jealousy looks good on you," Eden spoke, licking at Ask's lips.
"Eden," Ask growled out, his hands sliding up to grip at the red strands of hair, pulling Eden's head back. "I don't like being toyed with."
"Relax," Eden said in a sing song, teasing voice. "They didn't even know it was me and to them, it was a one off in the back hall of a club, there's nothing between Saguru and me anymore."
"Promise?" Ask said, an his age was revealed in the hopefulness of the question. For all Ask tried to be a tough, nothing could touch adult, he really was just a naive teenager, playing at being a grown-up.
"Promise," Eden said easily, smiling down at his lover before leaning in, kissing the boy deeply, intending to have a bit of fun before having to explain his actions with the Kid debacle. Unfortunately, as he was coaxing Ask's lips open, the door to the loft slid open, a man clearing his throat. Eden pouted, turning his head to look at the man behind him, snickering at the wisps of shaving cream on the top of his head, left over from shaving what little hair he had left off. "Eden, Honua wants to see you downstairs."
Eden groaned, burring his head in Ask's neck before slipping off the teenager, giving him an apologetic look as he headed for the door. As he passed Kumu, he jumped as the man smacked his ass, pouting and rubbing the offended object. Kumu just smirked, heading downstairs, whistling merrily. Eden shook his head, smiling as he headed for the kitchen to talk with Honua and hopefully steal some of the master chef's cooking.
--
Saguru un-clasped the strip of leather that held his gun in his holster, pulling the weapon out and removing the clip, setting both on the desk, before his hand moved to the other side of his pants, removing his badge and placing it just so, next to his gun.
The man across from him looked up, a sadness in his eyes as he reached out, accepting the badge, placing it into his own pocket. "I'm sorry to see you go, Saguru."
"You're a bad liar, Edward." Saguru said, crossing his arms over his chest. "Good think you're a cop, you'd suck as a criminal."
"You didn't have to quit, you could have come home, back to London."
Saguru shook his head, flicking his bangs from in front of his eyes. "I've told you time and again, Edward, my home is here now."
"You're giving up a brilliant career for a lover? That's not like you, Saguru. You would have done anything to get where you are when we went to Eton."
"Fuck you, Edward. The boy you knew then died years ago, my family is more important to me then anything Scotland Yard could offer, and you should have realized that."
"You owe us, Saguru."
"I owe you nothing, Edward! I never asked for your father to use his name to get me hired, nor did I need you to use your name to keep me hired. I loved my job, yes, but I didn't need it, Edward. I'm fine on my own, I'm a big boy now.
"Saguru..."
"You're only here, because Sir Paul can't stand the idea that his star detective refuses to return to gather more press clippings to hang on his wall."
"Saguru, you're a Chief Inspector with the London Metropolitan Police, you are on the fast track to getting promoted all the way to Chief Superintendent, like your father, you are not only a lord of your family, but popular in your own right, you have everything waiting for you, why..."
"Because I'd rather give up everything, to stay with Kaito, then to have it all and live without him."
Edward opened his mouth again to speak, but the only sound that came out of his mouth was that of a dog barking. Saguru's eyes snapped open and he looked up at Kaito, Conan and Moriarty who were staring at him. Moriarty barked again before laying down at Conan's feet.
Kaito blinked, looking down at his lover who was wrapped almost as tight as a mummy in cords, wondering how the blond had managed that. "Are you...alright?"
"I'm quite fine, I was just day dreaming." Saguru said, coughing embarrassedly.
"I meant the cords attempting you to murder you," Kaito said with a smile, bending down to help untangle his lover. "What were you doing?"
"The phone company said that this building was too old to be wired for phone and Internet, I was..."
"Determined to prove them wrong," Kaito interrupted, laughing. "Come on, let's get you out of this and figure out what happened."
"Thank you."
--
Kiden placed his left hand on the palm reader, pressing down enough that the machine could accurately read his stress response while he stabbed his finger, allowing a drop of blood to slide into the tube. The tube was swallowed by the machine, and a moment later the door behind him slid open, allowing the thief into the 'inner sanctum' where the group met.
"Hail the conquering hero." Eva called, tossing a newspaper at Eden as he entered, the door sliding shut behind him.
Eden blinked, glancing at the newspaper before snorting as he saw his own picture, tossing the paper on the table, taking a seat next to Bohdie. "They could have at least took a picture of my better side." Eden said, accepting the beer Lily passed him from the mini-fridge.
"Or they could have taken a picture of empty sky as you weren't supposed to be there." Ask said, accepting his own beer before dis-connecting himself from the bank of computers and wheeling himself closer to the table. He engaged the breaks of his wheelchair, before opening the beer, glaring at Kiden across the table.
"Leave him alone, Ask. We agreed we would bring Kid back soon, Eden just...jumped the gun."
"Enough, all of you." Bohdie said, tapping her cane against the ground, getting the group's attention. She looked at the group around the table, studying in face in turn. Only one of them was related to her by blood, but each were her children in a sense. This moment was a crossroads, a time when she may lose one of them at any moment, due to their actions. "Eden has made the decision for us, which is his right," She emphasized as Ask opened his mouth. "It is his face, his name. We are just his compatriots, trying to help him as best we can."
"Agreed." Lily said, raising her beer, smiling at Eden who bowed his head to her.
Bohdie shook her head in fondness, before pressing a button on the small keypad next to her seat. An image of a collage aged man came on the large computer screens behind the group, replacing Ask's work. "Who was on Lif this week?"
A blond man next to Eva raised his hand, shaking his hair over his shoulder before turning to look at the image, pressing a button to replace the man with Tokyo University. "Lif went to school for most of the week, returning home to his parents every evening. No detours, no meetings. The only incident was on Wednesday, while Lif was at work. A homeless papering man approached Lif and had a brief conversation with him. Unfortunately, we did not have a chance to alter Lif's uniforms by then, so I was unable to hear what they discussed. This error has been rectified as Eden altered the uniform on Thursday when it was picked up with the laundry."
Bohdie looked to Eden to confirm this and Eden nodded, a small bug appearing between his fingers. "I added it to the collar, so we should be able to hear everything clearly without just getting fabric rustle."
"Alright, thank you Eden, Pan. Lily, I want you on him next week, you share some classes with him so it should be easier then Pan skipping work."
Lily nodded, making a note on the pad next to her. "What about the smelly men?"
"The BO has not made a move on either the Anesidora front or closer to Lif," Ask said, leaning back a bit in his wheelchair. I think right now, they're in a holding pattern since Kid re-appeared. They want to make sure it IS Eden and not another look-alike, especially after that incident just after Kid first died."
Lily shuddered, remembering the death of that poor teenager who thought it would be a great prank to pretend to be Kid on the first anniversary of Kid's 'death'. The images still gave her nightmares from time to time.
"What of the next heist?" Eva asked, looking at Eden who sighed, running a hand through his hair, toying with the bug in his hand.
"I don't know yet. The first one went well, but another...if I host another things will start getting very serious, very quickly. There's only so long we can count on both sides thinking I'm an imposter."
"Whatever you decide, Eden, we're behind you." Bohdie said. "We want this over as much as you do, and seven years is quite a while to wait."
Eden smiled weakly, the chaos in his mind evident by the ever twisting bug between his fingers.
--
Saguru sighed, as he signed another paper, handing it off to the nurse before running his fingers through the short brown strands of Conan's hair, smiling down at the teenager who gave a small, pained smile, holding his arm close to his body. "Next time, try not to grab someone falling off a building, alright?"
Conan wrinkled his nose, wincing at a sharp wave of pain. "Had to, death was too good for him." Conan muttered.
"Yes, but we HAD something there to catch him."
"And I didn't know that," Conan pointed out before wincing yet again. "How much longer until I get some damn morphine?"
"Shouldn't be much longer, I just signed the consent." Saguru said, brushing back Conan's sweaty bangs before standing. "I'm going to go see about your IV and some coffee, what do you want?"
"Enough alcohol to numb the pain?" Conan tried, before laughing at Saguru's expression. "Coffee's fine. Have you called Akako?"
Saguru nodded, fishing his wallet out of his over-coat. "She's with Kaito right now at the OB/GYN, but they should be here when they're done."
"Alright," Conan said, just as the nurse came in carrying an IV bag and a syringe filled with the pain reliever Conan had been asking for every few minutes.
Saguru smiled at the look of relief on Conan's face before slipping out of the room to give them privacy, shoving his hands into his pockets as he headed down the hall, taking the long way to the coffee machine.
"The ID says her name's Kidoko, no other identification, she was found bleeding out on a street near the koban. It looks as if she fell, but where we can't tell, the only thing around there is the koban or that tall building across from it. We gave her fluids and typed her, but that's it. Her vitals are normal."
"Put her in room 3."
Saguru stared, watching, wide-eyed as a blond girl was wheeled past him, face slack, but far too familiar.
--
Ask groaned, reaching down to fist his hand into the red hair below, thrusting eagerly up into the hot, warm mouth around him. He moaned, licking his lips before pushing himself up on his elbows, looking down eagerly at the head bent over him, hissing as his lover looked up, a wicked grin on Eden's lips as the thief pulled off of Ask, moving up to kiss the teenager hungrily as he started to stroke the boy.
"GET UP!"
Ask yelped as something hit the side of his bed and he fell onto the floor, groaning. He pushed himself up as best he could, glaring at Pan. "What?!" He hissed, dragging himself to the wheelchair next to the bed, slapping at Pan as the older man tried to help him into the chair. Ask made sure the breaks were locked before using his arms to pull himself into the chair, twisting around until he was sitting, still glaring at the Italian. "Well?"
"Kidoko's in the hospital." Pan said flatly, before un-locking the wheelchair and wheeling Ask towards the elevator as Ask's brain tried to catch up with the information.
Title: Conjour's Masquerade
Authour: Saitaina
Rating: R (chapter)/NC-17 (full story)
Characters/Pairings: Kuroba Kaito/Hakuba Saguru, Edogowa Conan/Koizumi Akako, Kuroba Mika (Kaito's mother)/Jii, Nakamori Aoko/Male OC, Nakamori Ginzo/Female OC (Maria), Kuroba Rose (Kaito's little sister), Bohdana, Saguru/Eden, Kaito/Kaitou Kid, Eden/Ask, Eva/Pan, Lily
Summary: It's been seven years, since the death of Kaitou Kid, but there is still one thing out there, Kaito and Kiden left un-finished.
WARNINGS: Sex, death, illness, MAGIC, slight religious content later.
Chapter Information:
Title: Genesis Larceny
Summary: Eden deals with the aftermath of the Kid heist and the Genesis Larceny gang comes to the forefront, while Saguru finds something he didn't expect at the hospital.
Notes: Lots of OC's, but also a glimpse of what Eden's up to...so it trades off.
Genesis Larceny
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” - Tom Stoppard
Bohadona ignored the lock on Kidoko's door, using her master key to enter the room, closing and locking it behind her. She turned, passing the bed to enter the small room off to the side, which the girls normally used to dress for work (or hide from patrons). She pushed some costumes out of the way to find Eden hunched over the make-up table, his top hat next to him, face buried in gloved hands.
"What have you done, Eden?" She asked, staring at the young man in full heist gear, something she hadn't seen since the night he first came to her, looking for a place to live and a job. She pushed a stack of pantyhose off a chair taking a seat and hitting him lightly in the leg with her cane.
"I fucked up," Eden whispered, raising his head, eyes red-rimmed and haunted.
"I'd say. I thought we agreed Kid was dead, you killed him."
"I...they were there and..."
"You wanted them to know you were alive." Bohadona sighed, muttering something in Russian before patting at her hair sprayed hair, unable to run her hands through it in frustration. "Does Eva know?"
Eden shook his head, leaning back in his chair, staring at his reflection. "I didn't tell her, or Pan."
"Eden...you know you can't do things without them. You agreed when Ana died, no more stunts, no more one man act. This is bigger then your ambitions, bigger then Anesidora. If you want your brother and twin to survive, you need to play nice with the others."
"I know..I wasn't...I didn't think, I'm sorry."
"Well, it's too late for sorry now, you've made your move. I guess we can move things along, even though we're no where near ready for this." She tapped him with the tip of her cane again. "I'll talk to Eva and Pan, see where they are. Lily was already looking for targets, I can get a list from her, but you get to explain things to Ask, and he won't be pleased."
Eden made a face, thinking of the young teenager who handled the technological aspects of their group. A volatile teen with a far beyond explosive temper, Eden had a feeling he'd be lucky to survive the conversation with all limbs in-tact. "I have to meet him tonight at the club anyway."
"You come home coked out of your head again and you're sleeping with Kumu and Honua upstairs."
Eden made a face. "Couldn't you have predicted more attractive bedmates?" he teased, ducking as Bohadona swung her cane at him, grabbing his breasts and masking tape to dress as Kidoko again.
--
Eden sighed, laying across the flat rooftop of the building across the street from the Tokyo Metropolitan police headquarters (Ekoda Koban), scratching at the hair on the back of his neck that kept tickling from the breeze, before raising his binoculars back to his face.
Spotting his target through the glass coming from the lift, he grinned and hopped down onto the fire escape, skipping steps as he hurried to the ground floor, hoping to make it before Saguru met his ride out front. He gave up on the stairs and started to just jump from level to level, wincing as he missed a protruding pipe that sliced at his arm. Landing in a crouch on the street, he glanced at his arm, pouting at the tear in his shirt before shifting his shoulders to hide it, straightening and crossing the street, getting honked at by a taxi who didn't appreciate him darting out in front of it.
He fell into step behind Saguru who had been caught up taking to a co-worker, deftly sliding his fingers into Saguru's jacket as he pushed past him, slipping the wallet out as he moved past the blond, keeping his body angled so that Kaito, who was in the waiting car wouldn't see the movement.
The target was in his hand and in his pant pocket as he turned to apologize, smiling at Saguru. "Ah, Inspector Hakuba, sorry!"
The blond blinked at him for a moment, trying to place the red-head before smiling and nodding. He gave a wave, memories of their time at the club clearly in his head as he climbed into the car with his boyfriend.
Eden watched them go before flipping open the wallet, snickering as he moved past Saguru's badge and ID, humming and walking down the street as he filched a business card from the small stack hidden under the badge, whistling in application at the picture of Akako.
He paused on the street, studying a picture of the family he had left behind, a small tug at his heart as he pulled the print free of it's plastic casing, a finger tracing over his brother's face before flipping the picture over, smiling at Kaito's neat characters listing the group's name from his to Charcoal the cat's, along with the date the picture was taken.
He pulled his own wallet from his leg pocket, flipping it open and flipping through a few pictures, before slipping the purloined picture in an empty sleeve opposite a picture of a scowling blond teenager, smiling.
Putting his own wallet away, he leaned over the shoulder of a twenty-something women next to him, staring at the flyer she was passing out. "Garage Sale?" he asked in English, curious.
"American thing, gets rid of junk." The woman said, looking up at him through heavily made eyes, before snorting. "Your roots are showing, Eden." Lily said, offering him a flyer. "Proceeds go to the Ekoda Orphanage."
"But, if I bring more junk home Bohdie will string me up as a pinata." Eden said, pouting before holding out the brown leather wallet he stole from Saguru. "Return this to the police station for me?"
"Only if you buy something at the sale." Lily said, accepting the wallet and stuffing it between her breasts as she had no where else to put it, except in her garter where he own wallet was.
"Alright, Alright. Ooh yeah, meeting tonight, Jerard's." with that, Eden vanished into the crowd with a wave, still looking over the flier.
Lily blinked, a pout forming on her lips. "Meeting or party?" she muttered before grabbing the arm of a businessman passing her. "Yo, go here, buy something." she ordered before releasing him.
--
"I saw you," a voice called as Eden slipped into the room, causing Eden to trip over a cord he hadn't noticed.
"Of course you saw me, you're watching the street feeds." Eden muttered, un-tangling himself of the demon cord and venturing into the maze of electronics and computers, finding his prey at a bank of monitor's, watching the city below them through the police camera's.
"I meant at Jerard's." The small blond teenager turned, glancing at Eden out of the corner of his eye before turning back to the monitor's, changing the view of one of the camera's as he focused in on a building, making a note on his chart before the camera's view was turned back by the police officer across town who had no idea someone was hacking his equipment.
Eden froze for a moment, wondering if it would be better for his health to leave now, before deciding he had to face this anyway, the same he did having to explain his actions at the heist. He glanced at the monitors, noting that none of their targets were on the screen and everything seemed peaceful before turning Ask's chair, straddling the blond's lap. "And what of it?" He purred, smiling down at the younger man. "You've never had a problem with me having fun before."
Ask's brown eyes narrowed, looking up at Eden, his hands rising against his will to rest on the thief's hips. "You've never fucked your ex before." the teen whispered, his voice a low growl that didn't sound at all threatening considering his age.
"Ah, so that's what it is. You're not pissed off what I did, but who." Eden wrapped his arms around Ask's neck, sinking forward slightly so that his lips brushed over the teen's as he spoke. "Jealousy looks good on you," Eden spoke, licking at Ask's lips.
"Eden," Ask growled out, his hands sliding up to grip at the red strands of hair, pulling Eden's head back. "I don't like being toyed with."
"Relax," Eden said in a sing song, teasing voice. "They didn't even know it was me and to them, it was a one off in the back hall of a club, there's nothing between Saguru and me anymore."
"Promise?" Ask said, an his age was revealed in the hopefulness of the question. For all Ask tried to be a tough, nothing could touch adult, he really was just a naive teenager, playing at being a grown-up.
"Promise," Eden said easily, smiling down at his lover before leaning in, kissing the boy deeply, intending to have a bit of fun before having to explain his actions with the Kid debacle. Unfortunately, as he was coaxing Ask's lips open, the door to the loft slid open, a man clearing his throat. Eden pouted, turning his head to look at the man behind him, snickering at the wisps of shaving cream on the top of his head, left over from shaving what little hair he had left off. "Eden, Honua wants to see you downstairs."
Eden groaned, burring his head in Ask's neck before slipping off the teenager, giving him an apologetic look as he headed for the door. As he passed Kumu, he jumped as the man smacked his ass, pouting and rubbing the offended object. Kumu just smirked, heading downstairs, whistling merrily. Eden shook his head, smiling as he headed for the kitchen to talk with Honua and hopefully steal some of the master chef's cooking.
--
Saguru un-clasped the strip of leather that held his gun in his holster, pulling the weapon out and removing the clip, setting both on the desk, before his hand moved to the other side of his pants, removing his badge and placing it just so, next to his gun.
The man across from him looked up, a sadness in his eyes as he reached out, accepting the badge, placing it into his own pocket. "I'm sorry to see you go, Saguru."
"You're a bad liar, Edward." Saguru said, crossing his arms over his chest. "Good think you're a cop, you'd suck as a criminal."
"You didn't have to quit, you could have come home, back to London."
Saguru shook his head, flicking his bangs from in front of his eyes. "I've told you time and again, Edward, my home is here now."
"You're giving up a brilliant career for a lover? That's not like you, Saguru. You would have done anything to get where you are when we went to Eton."
"Fuck you, Edward. The boy you knew then died years ago, my family is more important to me then anything Scotland Yard could offer, and you should have realized that."
"You owe us, Saguru."
"I owe you nothing, Edward! I never asked for your father to use his name to get me hired, nor did I need you to use your name to keep me hired. I loved my job, yes, but I didn't need it, Edward. I'm fine on my own, I'm a big boy now.
"Saguru..."
"You're only here, because Sir Paul can't stand the idea that his star detective refuses to return to gather more press clippings to hang on his wall."
"Saguru, you're a Chief Inspector with the London Metropolitan Police, you are on the fast track to getting promoted all the way to Chief Superintendent, like your father, you are not only a lord of your family, but popular in your own right, you have everything waiting for you, why..."
"Because I'd rather give up everything, to stay with Kaito, then to have it all and live without him."
Edward opened his mouth again to speak, but the only sound that came out of his mouth was that of a dog barking. Saguru's eyes snapped open and he looked up at Kaito, Conan and Moriarty who were staring at him. Moriarty barked again before laying down at Conan's feet.
Kaito blinked, looking down at his lover who was wrapped almost as tight as a mummy in cords, wondering how the blond had managed that. "Are you...alright?"
"I'm quite fine, I was just day dreaming." Saguru said, coughing embarrassedly.
"I meant the cords attempting you to murder you," Kaito said with a smile, bending down to help untangle his lover. "What were you doing?"
"The phone company said that this building was too old to be wired for phone and Internet, I was..."
"Determined to prove them wrong," Kaito interrupted, laughing. "Come on, let's get you out of this and figure out what happened."
"Thank you."
--
Kiden placed his left hand on the palm reader, pressing down enough that the machine could accurately read his stress response while he stabbed his finger, allowing a drop of blood to slide into the tube. The tube was swallowed by the machine, and a moment later the door behind him slid open, allowing the thief into the 'inner sanctum' where the group met.
"Hail the conquering hero." Eva called, tossing a newspaper at Eden as he entered, the door sliding shut behind him.
Eden blinked, glancing at the newspaper before snorting as he saw his own picture, tossing the paper on the table, taking a seat next to Bohdie. "They could have at least took a picture of my better side." Eden said, accepting the beer Lily passed him from the mini-fridge.
"Or they could have taken a picture of empty sky as you weren't supposed to be there." Ask said, accepting his own beer before dis-connecting himself from the bank of computers and wheeling himself closer to the table. He engaged the breaks of his wheelchair, before opening the beer, glaring at Kiden across the table.
"Leave him alone, Ask. We agreed we would bring Kid back soon, Eden just...jumped the gun."
"Enough, all of you." Bohdie said, tapping her cane against the ground, getting the group's attention. She looked at the group around the table, studying in face in turn. Only one of them was related to her by blood, but each were her children in a sense. This moment was a crossroads, a time when she may lose one of them at any moment, due to their actions. "Eden has made the decision for us, which is his right," She emphasized as Ask opened his mouth. "It is his face, his name. We are just his compatriots, trying to help him as best we can."
"Agreed." Lily said, raising her beer, smiling at Eden who bowed his head to her.
Bohdie shook her head in fondness, before pressing a button on the small keypad next to her seat. An image of a collage aged man came on the large computer screens behind the group, replacing Ask's work. "Who was on Lif this week?"
A blond man next to Eva raised his hand, shaking his hair over his shoulder before turning to look at the image, pressing a button to replace the man with Tokyo University. "Lif went to school for most of the week, returning home to his parents every evening. No detours, no meetings. The only incident was on Wednesday, while Lif was at work. A homeless papering man approached Lif and had a brief conversation with him. Unfortunately, we did not have a chance to alter Lif's uniforms by then, so I was unable to hear what they discussed. This error has been rectified as Eden altered the uniform on Thursday when it was picked up with the laundry."
Bohdie looked to Eden to confirm this and Eden nodded, a small bug appearing between his fingers. "I added it to the collar, so we should be able to hear everything clearly without just getting fabric rustle."
"Alright, thank you Eden, Pan. Lily, I want you on him next week, you share some classes with him so it should be easier then Pan skipping work."
Lily nodded, making a note on the pad next to her. "What about the smelly men?"
"The BO has not made a move on either the Anesidora front or closer to Lif," Ask said, leaning back a bit in his wheelchair. I think right now, they're in a holding pattern since Kid re-appeared. They want to make sure it IS Eden and not another look-alike, especially after that incident just after Kid first died."
Lily shuddered, remembering the death of that poor teenager who thought it would be a great prank to pretend to be Kid on the first anniversary of Kid's 'death'. The images still gave her nightmares from time to time.
"What of the next heist?" Eva asked, looking at Eden who sighed, running a hand through his hair, toying with the bug in his hand.
"I don't know yet. The first one went well, but another...if I host another things will start getting very serious, very quickly. There's only so long we can count on both sides thinking I'm an imposter."
"Whatever you decide, Eden, we're behind you." Bohdie said. "We want this over as much as you do, and seven years is quite a while to wait."
Eden smiled weakly, the chaos in his mind evident by the ever twisting bug between his fingers.
--
Saguru sighed, as he signed another paper, handing it off to the nurse before running his fingers through the short brown strands of Conan's hair, smiling down at the teenager who gave a small, pained smile, holding his arm close to his body. "Next time, try not to grab someone falling off a building, alright?"
Conan wrinkled his nose, wincing at a sharp wave of pain. "Had to, death was too good for him." Conan muttered.
"Yes, but we HAD something there to catch him."
"And I didn't know that," Conan pointed out before wincing yet again. "How much longer until I get some damn morphine?"
"Shouldn't be much longer, I just signed the consent." Saguru said, brushing back Conan's sweaty bangs before standing. "I'm going to go see about your IV and some coffee, what do you want?"
"Enough alcohol to numb the pain?" Conan tried, before laughing at Saguru's expression. "Coffee's fine. Have you called Akako?"
Saguru nodded, fishing his wallet out of his over-coat. "She's with Kaito right now at the OB/GYN, but they should be here when they're done."
"Alright," Conan said, just as the nurse came in carrying an IV bag and a syringe filled with the pain reliever Conan had been asking for every few minutes.
Saguru smiled at the look of relief on Conan's face before slipping out of the room to give them privacy, shoving his hands into his pockets as he headed down the hall, taking the long way to the coffee machine.
"The ID says her name's Kidoko, no other identification, she was found bleeding out on a street near the koban. It looks as if she fell, but where we can't tell, the only thing around there is the koban or that tall building across from it. We gave her fluids and typed her, but that's it. Her vitals are normal."
"Put her in room 3."
Saguru stared, watching, wide-eyed as a blond girl was wheeled past him, face slack, but far too familiar.
--
Ask groaned, reaching down to fist his hand into the red hair below, thrusting eagerly up into the hot, warm mouth around him. He moaned, licking his lips before pushing himself up on his elbows, looking down eagerly at the head bent over him, hissing as his lover looked up, a wicked grin on Eden's lips as the thief pulled off of Ask, moving up to kiss the teenager hungrily as he started to stroke the boy.
"GET UP!"
Ask yelped as something hit the side of his bed and he fell onto the floor, groaning. He pushed himself up as best he could, glaring at Pan. "What?!" He hissed, dragging himself to the wheelchair next to the bed, slapping at Pan as the older man tried to help him into the chair. Ask made sure the breaks were locked before using his arms to pull himself into the chair, twisting around until he was sitting, still glaring at the Italian. "Well?"
"Kidoko's in the hospital." Pan said flatly, before un-locking the wheelchair and wheeling Ask towards the elevator as Ask's brain tried to catch up with the information.