2016, 28th of January

Hello folks!

I'm new to this fandom (at least it's the first fanfic I finished and upload) so hey there! I'm Kat and I write Fanfic for until now mostly Percy Jackson, some Supernatural and Merlin. I've been into Detective Conan for quite some time now but only recently watched everything (important) again and started catching up with the Manga. I'm not a native English speaker (I'm German) so my language may be faulty in some parts. But on with the story:

So this is the first finished DC fanfic! I think it solves several unnecessary problems that Shinichi puts on his plate at the very beginning of the series and I hope at the end of the Fic you'll agree with me. I know conflict is needed for it to be entertaining to viewers but trust me, there were several ways for this to work and the canon one wasn't the only one. So here's my fantasy version~

This is going to be a two shot so look out for a next chapter coming soon.

Hope you like it, please tell me if you do! (or don't)

Curiosity killed the Cat

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Chapter 01

Sometimes, Ran was really convinced that Shinichi was wrong about the supernatural. He may insist time and time again that none of it was real but sometimes, Ran still wondered. She wasn't dumb, of course she knew that Shinichi had reasons for his believe, but so did she!

One of these times that her believe was most firm was on their date at Tropical Land. Well, to be precise, after the date. She just felt that something was going to go wrong. It was this pressure in her chest, like something was suffocating her when Shinichi was turning his back and running away. Of course she chided herself to stop being stupid and just go home like he said. That murder had shaken her up big time and she really didn't want to end up thinking about severed heads all evening (or all week. Or month). But this feeling didn't leave her alone and that her shoelace decided to end its time on earth really wasn't helping her case at all.

So she stood there, frozen, with her hand stretched out for him in a gesture to wait, feeling stupid after two seconds of that pose. Then suddenly, determination filled her. Fine! If he wanted to run off on his own and look for another mystery, let him be! He didn't care about her anyway. Not the way she wanted him to. Back on that rollercoaster she might have been able to mask it as a joke but deep inside she had hoped for any reaction at all. Seriously, was he so dense to not realize what he meant to her?

Ran stopped in her steps, staring ahead. That feeling she just had still wasn't gone. She was just a few steps shy of the exit to the outside world. A few more strides and she was leaving Tropical Land for today. This…something in her chest stopped her, though. It got more intense the further she got away and finally, her instincts gave in and she decided to act on them. It had served her well in the past and other than Shinichi's cold reasoning behaviour, Ran often acted from the heart and it was something her friend might mock her for but secretly they both knew he admired her for it as well.

Her heels took a sharp turn, ignoring the startled visitors behind her, and she broke out into a run, suddenly feeling dread seep into her even more intensely. Something was wrong. There was definitely something amiss here, she just knew it.

Shinichi…what have you gotten yourself into now?

Panting, she finally reached the spot where she last decided to leave him be. Thinking back on the way he ran off to, she just followed his footsteps as best she could, ending up behind a couple of food stands and following a deserted path off area that really gave her the creeps if she was honest. Sure, she was able to defend herself but an unlit part of the amusement park all alone still made the little girl deep inside her want to hide somewhere until the sun made it out again. Quickly swallowing that panic, she balled her fists and pressed her lips together. Her instincts told her to shut up while her heart wanted to shout out Shinichi's name. But what if it was nothing and she creeped about calling out to him? And what if it was something and it gave him away? As a daughter of a detective, Ran decided to keep her noises to a minimum and instead listen to her surroundings. Somehow she felt tension in the air and it still didn't sit right with her. Also, she was terrible with directions so she needed to remember where she was going, too. Why was being Shinichi's friend so complicated?

Suddenly, she heard footsteps. Hasty but heavy feet, running her way. Blue eyes wide, she just managed to duck behind a container to avoid them. Her stare followed them, eyes still open and heart racing. It was dark but she just passed a lonely neon lamp and was able to hide in the shadows of it so she was able to roughly make out their features. Those were the two men in black from the rollercoaster! The broad one with the sunglasses and the tall one with the ridiculously long bright hair. What were they doing back here and why were they in such a hurry? The pounding of her heart just increased tenfold. Something was wrong, so wrong.

"Aniki, what if we get in trouble for killing someone that famous?" the shorter one with the sunglasses asked. Their voices were quiet but Ran was able to hear as they were walking close by. She held her breath so she wouldn't alert them, crouching between two trash cans like that.

"Don't worry, Sherry's poison is effective, they won't find out it was us." The blond one answered. Ran felt her eyes widen and her breath quicken. Killed? Who was killed? Somebody famous? The only famous person in the proximity was...no. No that couldn't be!

Carefully, she left her hiding place. Whatever happened here couldn't have happened that far away after all and maybe those two had an accomplice hiding somewhere. Her steps were quiet and her fists still ready to strike while she tried to ignore the sound of her heartbeat and listen to her surroundings, throat dry and eyebrows drawn together. The panic was rising in her like bile and she really, really needed to find Shinichi right now.

However, all her caution was thrown to the wind when a groan disturbed the silence. It wasn't just any groan that would shake her iron clad concentration like that. No, it was a groan uttered in pain.

And it was most certainly Shinichi's voice.

Suddenly, she was running. The direction had been clear and another groan coming confirmed it, this time it was even louder than before, nearing a scream even. Panic filled her head and this time, she couldn't stop her lips from acting out of plan.

"Shinichi?! Shinichi, where are you? What happened? W- Oh God, Shinichi!"

The sight before her left Ran breathless. In the grass before her, cowering like he was in intense pain, was Shinichi. He was bleeding, marks of blood clearly on his head and even the ground below him and he was holding his chest, eyes tightly squinted together in pain.

Ran immediately was at his side, dropping to her knees and not even paying any attention to the surrounding area anymore. Nothing mattered except that Shinichi was obviously in intense pain and that he had a head wound that really didn't look good and was still bleeding. And the words of those men, something about poison….no, oh god no.

"Shinichi, can you hear me? You have to tell me what happened! W-were you shot? Let me see..." those guys back there certainly looked like they may own a gun. But when she managed to get his hand free of his chest, there was no blood there to indicate a bullet. So was the poison causing the pain? She felt helpless, desperately trying to get his attention while his consciousness seemed to be fleeting.

"Ran…" he muttered between heavy breaths. Oh dear lord, he was burning up! Her hands had flown all over him, checking out his health in every way she could to determine what was wrong.

"I told you to go home…" he further muttered, trying to comprehend why she was here. His head was still felt with pain, he could barely think.

"Stupid freak, since when do I listen to you?" she tried to joke but this was really not the time. Her panic spiked further when he cried out once more, his right hand desperately grasping his chest while the other was suddenly in hers somehow, she didn't even know if she was the one grasping it or the other way around. Still, despite the situation, a breathy laugh escaped his lips. It was gone just as quick though, when he had to battle another intense cramp of his stupid muscles.

"What did they give you? I really need to call an ambulance.." she inquired, fumbling in her jacket for her phone, fingers shaking while Shinichi tried to answer.

"Those guys from the rollercoaster" he whispered and Ran had to lean in to hear him properly. "They were making a deal here. I followed them." He paused, taking a deep breath and trying to concentrate on Ran's angelic but worried face. "One of them snuck up on me, I got hit." He closed his eyes and took another breath before reopening them. "They poisoned me."

"God damnit! So that really was them…" Ran's panic was reawakened. She had thought maybe it was really just the head wound and the fever he obviously had was just due to concussion or something. Her hand immediately dialled the buttons in a haste, she had paused to listen to him, big mistake.

"I'm calling an ambulance." She said aloud as if to reassure herself and causing her hands to shake less while dialling. But his hand stopped her, grasping her wrist weakly.

"No, you can't. They said it was untraceable and if they find out you were here…"

"Then what? I don't care! You're not going to die because of those idiots saying something, I'm going to call somebody that can help you!" she felt the tears coming and didn't know how to stop. Her hands were shaking, she was feeling weak and useless while he was suffering in her arms, clearly getting worse by the second.

"Ran…they're dangerous. If you're connected to me being here in any way-"

"You idiot, I'm already connected to you in every way! How could you ask of me to just let you die here?" the tears were finally falling, the phone was still in her hand while the other grasped his shirt in a desperate plea to hold on and not leave her. He couldn't. She wouldn't let him. He couldn't…

The weak but content smile on his lips wasn't really helping. Shinichi's hand slowly grabbed the phone from her hand and shut it, placing it on the other side of himself, then encircled his fingers with hers, his gaze unusually soft. It was creeping her out and making the tears fall even faster. No, this wasn't happening…

"Ran, I…I actually…" he paused, swallowing and trying to mask the oncoming wave of pain. "I wanted to tell you something today if we hadn't been interrupted." He grinned weakly at his own joke. Never mind the roller coaster murder, this was certainly the cake of interruptions he pulled off, considering he did run off by himself. Ran glanced to where her phone was lying. As soon as he stopped talking she would dive for it and dial, he could pull of his speech but she wouldn't let him die here if she could help it. That was for sure. He was already weak, he couldn't hinder her anyway. That thought made her want to hit herself so she just tried to concentrate on what he said.

"For a long time now, I think you know what I'm talking about, I feel like we're more than just friends and for me at least I felt that way for a while and I just wanted to tell you that I-", another wave of pain seemed to cut him off and he sunk together, trying to make the feeling easier by assuming the fetal position but it didn't help, it was just too strong to hold onto consciousness and most of all Ran's hand. So he screamed his lungs out, hoping for release, when it finally, finally came in the form of blissful unconsciousness.

"Shinichi? SHINICHI?!" she desperately clapped his cheek with her hands, then lowered them to his neck to feel for a pulse. Still there, good. He was also still breathing, if not flat and painfully. With a relieved sigh she fished for her phone and flapped it open. Now she could dial the ambulance. She had wanted to hear his words desperately as they had been what she had wanted to hear for so long but right now she could not think of that when he was still in danger of dying from some strange poison. Please don't die, please be okay…

"Hello, this is 119, what's your emergency?"

"This is Mouri Ran, I'm at Tropical Land and my friend has been knocked unconscious and poisoned, you have to come and help him." She babbled out, now holding Shinichi's hand again while he was still convulsing and burning up. Suddenly, she felt and saw something strange. Too strange to be real and she felt her heartbeat speed up to try and compensate what was happening:

His hand in hers was slowly getting smaller.

yaaaay shrinking. Oh better, oh shit? I love the idea of Ran actually seeing the shrinking, if it is at this point or even at some other point of the story as the reveal. I also like the idea of her actually knowing that Shinichi was almost killed. I think even if Shinichi ever confessed to being Conan, he'd kind of try to gloss over that to make her feel better or to make it less of a big deal and I just think Ran can handle a lot more things than Shinichi thinks and she just deserves the truth. But whatever, what do you think?

Side Note: I didn't make a typo, 119 is the Japanese emergency number. And I just assumed this is how they answer, I have no idea though.

Please tell me, it'd motivate me to write more :3