Chapter 1: A letter from an old foe

This story contains self made charas (Lilly aka Alice and Kita). I own Lilly/Alice and kitameguire owns Kita! If you don't know them yet, please read my story "The beginning". Flames will be deleted / ignored! Please remember it was hard work to create those charas and they're no Mary Sues, but useful critic is allowed as always :3

And yesh I know it's short ^^; gomen I wrote it in 2 day just to be in time for Valentines Day

T for cursing and implied nudity ;D Yup just for Valentines Day I'm naughty.

[Conan]

When the Capricorn meets the Taurus I will visit 'The Lakeside-Inn' and get what's mine. Love, Kid Conan read this letter for the millionth time today, but he still couldn't get rid of this weird feeling. 'When the Capricorn meets the Taurus' that was obviously a reverence to the zodiac signs of Capricorn and Taurus. Conan had figured out that Kid wanted to tell them that he'll visit the hostel called 'The Lakeside-Inn' at the weekend from 20th till 21th March, when those two signs switch. But still it was odd. Usually Kid had never given them such an easy riddle and this time he had even told the where he'll appear… besides there was nothing worth to steal in this hostel and then 'get what's mine' that was a lot more possessive than usual , so Conan still wasn't sure what to think about this letter.

"Achoo!" a loud sneeze brought Conan back to reality and he glared up to the co-driver's seat where a little english-looking girl was burying her red nose in a hanky; Conan smiled. Lilly, now calling herself Alice, had caught a cold. Last week they were running after a murderer and this little duffer had fallen into the river, though she had managed it to climb out again the cold march weather had done its best to punish her for this mistake.

Ran, on who's lap Alice was sitting, patted her head benignly and asked her something Conan couldn't hear; most likely if she was alright. Conan leaned back in his seat and rubbed his head. Ran had demanded that Alice should stay home together with her, but Alice told Conan she wouldn't allow Kid to come near Kita that easily and so they were now in this car, Ran and Alice on the co-driver's seat, Kita and Conan on the backseats and Kogoro driving the car, grumbling about taking them all with him.

Usually he and Alice had sit on the co-driver's seat and Ran had shared the backseats with Kita, but since Kita and he wanted to keep reading the letter Ran had quickly grabbed Alice and placed her on her lap, "not that I would care at all, I wasn't looking forward to sit beneath Alice or something" Conan though crossing his arms in front of his chest.

"Hey, don't crease the letter!" Kita said sharply and she pulled the letter out of his hand "it's an evidence at least" she said still sounding sharp, but then she smoothed the letter nearly fondly. "Right, it's an evidence, not a love letter." Conan teased her and smirking he recognized her cheeks becoming a little pink. "Shut up, mini-tantei." She replied leaning down and clouted him. "Who do you call mini? You…"

"Oh drop it, both of you." Alice's throaty voice sounded from the co-driver's seat and interrupted Conan before he could continue this fight. He gave Kita an angry look and she poked out her tongue at him, then both turned their heads away from each other and started to glare out the window and Conan could have sworn he had seen Alice smile. Even though Shinichi and Lilly had shrunk and Kita didn't know about it their relationship had nearly staid the same. Conan and Kita were still fighting and Alice was still stopping this. "And she's still interrupting our fights whenever Kita had have the last word" Conan thought, half pissed, half smiling.

[Kita]

When they'd reached the hostel after spending 3 hours in this old hire car Kita was very glad to get out of it and smell some fresh air again. Happily she took a deep breath which got interrupted by a strange voice saying "Welcome to the The Lakeside-Inn, please let me take care of your luggage."

Kita opened her eyes and saw a young man standing in front of her. He had a little overbite and his blond hair was tight together in a pony tail. Kita blinked, this man was really not her type but he gave her a kind smile which she replied happily. "Sure, thanks a lot" she answered and stepped aside to clear the way for him, which made him smile even wider. "Maybe it's true, those silly handsome guy think they can afford to be rude, only people who aren't satisfied with their appearance are really polite" she thought watching the man how he kneeled down to Alice and asked her if she's alright and then he even gave her some candy. Alice gave him a smile and started eating it, though it wasn't the smile of a little girl who had just gotten some candy, it was more the smile Kita had gave him if he had offered her candy, a mixture of gratitude and charity.

"He seems to get along well with kids." Kita mumbled more to herself, but then Conan's voice answered from her left side "yeah, it looks like that." Kita glared down to him and saw Conan throwing a riled glare at him like he wanted to say "keep your hands off of her." Which made Kita smirk, but she decided not to say anything and so they all walked over to the hostel, meanwhile Kita glared back to the young man ever now and then.