DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN DETECTIVE CONAN.

Date Uploaded: September 22, 2017- Friday.

Note: Advanced apologies for the OOCs.

This is a short arc in between the Event Series. So before the part 2 of A Different Turn of Events, we'll have to go through here. Although you can skip it if you want since I'll be narrating stuff in the sequel.

This is a Mitsuhiko x Haibara arc. I don't ship them but let's give recognition to this ship.

So I'll make it really short. Okay?

Read on!

CHAPTER TWO: WAKE UP

When Shiho opened her eyes, she sees Mitsuhiko staring at her, a spark of relief lighting up in his eyes when he saw that she finally regained consciousness. She couldn't see much, it was a blur but she knew at once it was him. She closed her eyes again for a moment before trying to adjust to the light that's blinding her.

"Haibara-san, everything is alright." Mitsuhiko's gentle voice assured her.

She fixated her eyes on him this time, seeing that his eyes were keeping something. "Where are we?" she asked. Whether or not he will lie, she'll know.

He hesitated to say anything but he figured that Haibara would know. "I don't know the exact location but.. we're in Amuro-kun's hideout I suppose." he replied, resulting for Shiho to sit up, tensed. "H- Haibara-san, please you need to rest. Your wounds-"

"Where are they?" she asked, ignoring the fact that he was worried of her condition.

"Outside." Mitsuhiko replied and held her hand. "Please don't go."

"We have to get out of here." she says and tried to get out of bed. "No. I have to get you out of here." she corrects herself. But Mitsuhiko didn't let her hand go. "Tsuburaya-kun!"

"They asked me where they want to drop me off..." he was hesitant to tell her but she deserves to know that he was there on his own will. "I told them I want to stay by your side." ...not because he was dragged along with Shiho.

"What?!" however her reaction wasn't pleased with what he did. "Do you have any idea what you're getting yourself into?!"

"Of course I know that!" Mitsuhiko had his mind set though. He knew Haibara would be against his decision and that she'd treat him like a child, well he was one for starters, but he's seen enough to know that this isn't some childish matter anymore. And he knows that not even Haibara can handle this, even if he had discovered that she's not actually a child.

"Then how could you think of staying?!"

"Isn't that what friends are for?!" the boy threw at her. And she was quiet. "I know Conan is your knight and shining armor and I've had suspicions that he is not a normal boy as well! I want you to know that you can rely on me too!"

Shiho can see his determination to be of service to her but does he understand where it'll lead him? What'll happen to him? "What can you do to help? You can't carry me out of here! You can't shoot! You can't kill anyone!" she tried to reason with him, but Mitsuhiko was not to be underestimated. Not in this kind of situation.

"You can use me as bait again. Distraction if you want." he tells her, as if selling himself to be used by her. "I don't have the capabilities to kick a soccer ball and knock someone out or have incredible gadgets at my disposal, but there is something I can do and you know it!"

Mitsuhiko thought he'd win this debate. He didn't expect a hand flying towards his cheek, making contact with his face and he was cut speechless by the pain and with shock.

"Don't ever think that you're a bait I'd use to save myself." she reproached him, her voice not shouting but stern and calm. "I'd never use you for something so selfish, Tsuburaya-kun. You're a smart boy, you deserve a bright future..." she tells him as her hand gently touched his cheek that she slapped. She pulled the boy close to her, her forehead slowly leaned to touch his forehead. Her face looking down. "I don't want you to end up like me." she added, almost a whisper now.

"Haibara-san..." Mitsuhiko felt her warm forehead touched his, his eyes locked on the floor.

The tension slowly faded, silence began to fill the room.

Then they heard someone clapping by the door.

"An interesting turn of events. A fruit of forbidden love!" Vermouth teased as she applauded, acting as if she watched a soap opera that amused her until the end. "I have to say Sherry, he is an interesting boy indeed, no wonder you chose him to join you in perdition."

"Vermouth..." Shiho mumbled, her hand pulling Mitsuhiko to hide behind her.

"Ah right, I came by to tell you lunch is served. You need to eat after all." she says.

"You served me lunch? Did he feed you a pill that forced you to do this?" Shiho tried to get under her skin, but Vermouth played along.

"Funny you'd say that when you're the one he forced to swallow a pill to kill the little detective." the blonde woman says. "Well, that is until somehow the effects of the pill no longer had any effect on you when Silver Bullet broke the spell."

"Sorry to say no pill is powerful enough to control someone's will."

Mitsuhiko listened to the adults have their banter. It was somehow similar to how he and the Detective Boys talk but this time it wasn't about a playful joke about anything. This is about trying to intimidate the other get the upperhand.

When Vermouth was quiet, Shiho smirked for a moment.

"I guess I should be telling you the truth now." Vermouth said, giving in to the 'warm up' and now going to the real deal. "He wants you back. Without any pills to control you this time."

"Gin tried to kill me. I'd die before I get to see him." however Shiho wasn't serious yet. Vermouth knew she had to stir the young scientist.

"Which is why Bourbon and I saved your sorry ass. We were tasked to escort you to him." it's almost as if Vermouth ate what she said, she didn't want to say it but she had to. Mitsuhiko noticed the names they were mentioning were all liquors. Including the name they called Haibara.

"And the Tsuburaya-kun? What will you do to him?" she asked.

"Killed." Vermouth said simply, making Mitsuhiko tremble behind Shiho. "If not then raised as one of our own. There's a potential in him anyways." she added the last part to somehow light a small hope that they won't kill the boy.

The two stared at each other for a moment, a long intensed staredown before suddenly the two are on each other's throats.

Mitsuhiko couldn't follow what happened but now he can see Shiho holding Vermouth's knife on her own throat while Vermouth had a gun pointed at Mitsuhiko. "Which one of us is faster, Sherry?" the blonde challenged. "My finger or your injured hand?"

"You don't touch him." Shiho tells Vermouth coldly.

The two stared each other some more and only broke the staredown when Rei opened the door, seeing the girls in such position.

"Uhm if I came at a bad time I can come again later. I just got worried no one ate yet." he tells them. He waited for them to move and when he saw they dropped their weapons, he left.

Vermouth takes the knife from Shiho and kept her gun away from them.

"We'll send your lunch here. Enjoy your stay." Vermouth says and slammed the door closed before locking it.

Shiho fell back on the bed, her hand that held the knife trembling. Mitsuhiko noticed her hand shaking. He wasn't sure what to do or what had just happened, but he reached for that hand that was shaking and he looked up at her, where the two locked eyes

"Don't be afraid. I'll be by your side." he says.