A/N: This WAS supposed to be posted on New Years Eve, or yesterday, but I kind of forgot...I got into Case Closed again, and wanted to do a holiday fic for it! Oh, and I got the idea for this in a roleplay I was doing with Conan and Rachel.

Summary: Conan, Rachel and Richard are all going to a New Years party. When helping him getting ready however, Rahcel notices something odd about Conan's bowtie...

Pairings: Jimmy / Rachel

Time-line: I suppose before episode 44 when Conan gets 'kidnapped'. Nowhere near the time in which Haibara appears.

Disclaimer: Case Closed does not belong to me.

Mystery of the Bowtie

Chapter 1: Jimmy's Voice

Being the famous private detective that he was, Richard Moore was invited to a party, that was going to be held New Years Eve. Which was today, of course. As usual, Conan and Rachel were going to be tagging along. Conan had nowhere else to be, and Rachel was supposed to be looking after him, right?

Rachel was busy getting ready, but Conan was having some trouble with his suit, and he definitely wasn't asking the old man for some help. He heard footsteps coming towards his door a few minutes later, though, followed by a knock.

"Conan? Are you ready? We're leaving soon," came Rachel's voice from the other side.

"Uh...I-I'm having a bit of trouble, Rachel." He admitted with a small blush.

"Can I come in?"

"Y-Yeah, sure..."

Rachel giggled when she saw him trying so hard to get the zipper up. It looked too cute. "Here, let me help." She said softly, before getting on her knees.

After a few moments, Conan's face was as red as it could possibly get, and he could feel it getting warmer. Then Rachel looked up at him and smiled, before noticing that his red bowtie was slightly out of place.

"Here...oh, what's this?" Conan's face paled and the blush disappeared from his face. She discovered the buttons on the back of the bowtie!

"Ahhh..." Conan paused... what could he say?

"Is this another toy that Agasa made for you, huh?" Rachel looked up at him with a smile. Relief was clear on the boy's face as he quickly nodded.

"Yeah, it's really fun," Conan said as Rachel went to press a button, just out of curiosity.

"What does it do?"

"Well, t-that one changes my-my-"

"J....Jimmy?"

Conan's eyes widened. Her fiddling with the bowtie voice changer had set his voice to Jimmy's! Now he was sounding like...

"....Okay, Conan, this is no ordinary bowtie," Rachel's eyes narrowed at him as she stood up. He looked nervous-- a mad Rachel was NOT a good thing. "Have you been using this the whole time to call me as Jimmy so I wouldn't worry?! Maybe Jimmy told you to, or maybe he-"

''Stop!" Conan exclaimed, making her eyes widen, especially since he still sounded like Jimmy. Holding the bowtie up to his lips, his gaze went towards the ground.

'I... I can't do this anymore... I hate seeing her cry when she misses me...I hate that I can't do anything in this tiny body! I-'

"C-Conan?"

Conan blinked, startled from his thought. "Are you...are you..." she tried to speak, but found that no other words would form on her tongue.

He sighed. 'Here goes....something.'

"Rachel," Conan said quietly, using one hand to hold the bowtie, and the other to start removing his glasses. "I'm sorry...the truth is that I've been lying to you this whole time. My real name is..."

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A/N: Okay, this is going to be a two-shot. I've left it at an evil cliffhanger, but if it barely gets any reviews, I'll delete it. I prefer English over Japanese w/ english subs, and I've barely read the manga...^^ So, english names, even though I know its Shinichi and Ran (or Ran nee-chan with Conan, of course). Sorry for the shortness, also...I'm well known for short chapters....^^

Enough of my rambling, Happy New Year!