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-Let there be midnight
DO NOT OWN DETECTIVE CONAN
The Darkness of the Heart
Kogoro shuffled uneasily in his seat as he glance at the ever so quiet Conan who just stared blankly at his lap, his hand once again lazily holding his bandaged forearm.
Heiji had left a while ago, saying he was going down to the police station to see if he could find any more information about what had happened to the little detective, leaving Kogoro alone in the room with him.
The clock on the wall ticked away, silently filling the room with its silent ticking. Kogoro glanced at the clock, wondering when his daughter will be here for the hope of getting Conan out of this blank state that drove him to the brink of insanity.
"So… Uh, Conan…" he started hesitantly, scratching the back of his head as he looked away from the child. When he got no answer, he glanced back to see that Conan gave no real signs that he had heard him. He sighed; resting his hands in his lap as he leaned forward again, silence cascading the hospital room once more.
Come on Ran! Kogoro shouted in his mind as his fingers twitched with discomfort. Get out of school! Come to the hospital! Make Conan talk! Please! He pleaded, whimpering silently to himself, knowing that Conan didn't have the ears at the moment to hear him at all. As if his prayers have been heard, the door opened silently, before closing to reveal Ran in her school uniform with her bag slung lazily over her shoulder.
"Conan-kun," Ran said quiet joyfully as she placed her bag down at the foot of his bed and took the chair on the other side of him. Conan didn't give her any indication that he was paying attention, but she went on anyways. "I talked to your friends today," she paused, hoping to get some sort of reaction out of him. When she didn't, she went on. "they said they would come visit you after school. They should be on their way right now." Ran smiled a little, only to frown in disappointment as he showed no signs he had heard her. "Conan-kun?" she asked, trying to get a reaction out of the boy. "Nee, Conan-kun, did you hear me?" Conan looked at her slightly from the corner of his eyes, only to look at his lap once again.
"Yes," he muttered quietly, loud enough to have Ran hear him. Ran huffed, crossing her arms over her chest at the short muttered reply she had gotten.
"Conan-kun at least look happy." she pleaded with him, but to no avail for the child was once again lost deep in his thoughts, making Ran sigh heavily in defeat.
After a few moments of complete silence, the door slammed open with three kids stumbling in and another walking in with her arms cross and scowling.
"I said you all can't fit through the door." Ai scolded, closing the door behind her. Ayumi stood up with a flustered look on her face.
"But they pushed me in!" she defended, making the others flustered as they also stood up.
"Nu-huh! It was all Genta'a fault! He pushed me into you making me push you through the door!" Mitsuhiko waved his arms in the air, pointing at Genta who suddenly went a deathly pale.
"I did not!" He would've continued if it wasn't for Ran who sent the children a deathly glare, making them quiet down and notice Conan on the bed, who was still lost somewhere in his head.
"Conan-kun?" Ayumi asked, stepping closer to the bed. Conan again didn't answer with even the slightest twitch of a finger, making the children worried. "Ran-oneesan, why isn't Conan-kun answering?" she asked her, looking up at Ran with big worried eyes. Ran shrugged, eyes never leaving Conan.
"I don't know. He's been like this ever since I walked in." she replied with a slight shrug. Kogoro grunted in his seat, catching everyone but Conan's attention.
"I'm not surprised he's acting like this." he said a bit softly as he leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes for a few moments before he opened them once more. "He's been acting this way ever since he has woken up, well, not this bad. He only started to act like this ever since I left him with Heiji to get the kid water." He cracked open an eye to look at Conan with worry. The others nodded as the children went toward the bed and stared at the seemingly unblinking Conan.
After long moments that seemed like years to everyone, Conan blinked, only for his eyes to widen in horror and panic, head snapping up while hyperventilating. He clenched his bandaged arm, making him whine in pain as he backed up against the back of the hospital bed, head snapping everywhere as if to expect someone to jump out from anywhere. Everyone's eyes widened in shock as their hearts skipped a beat in panic.
"Conan!" Kogoro shouted, trying to catch the child's attention. He jumped up from his chair along with Ran.
"Get away! Get away! No!" Conan shouted in fear, the grip on his arm leaving as he used it to shield his face from whatever he saw, shutting his eyes tightly as he whimpered. "G-get away… please…" he pleaded weakly as he shook in fear.
"Conan, it's okay! It's only us! Conan! Listen to me!" Kogoro pleaded trying to put his hand on his shoulder, but finding that he was too afraid to touch the child. Nurses rushed in hearing the screaming. Conan started to kick and punch the air around him, all the while with his eyes closed and tears streaming down his face.
"Get away! Get away!" he screeched as the nurses rushed over to him in panic. One of the nurses ran off to find a doctor.
"Stay back!" One nurse ordered as she and another tried to pin Conan to the bed so he wouldn't open his wound. Conan only struggled harder in their grip, shouting louder with tears running down his face.
"Conan-kun!" Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta screamed in worry only for the nurse to send them a glare to silence them. The doctor rushed in with the nurse on his heel. Once he saw the struggling Conan, his eyes narrowed as he went to one of the counters and started to search for something.
"Hold him still!" he ordered as he came over with a syringe in his grasp. The nurses instantly pinned him down as best they could as the doctor gave him the sedative.
Conan's flailing arms and legs instantly slowed down as he began to get drowsy. He opened his eyes only to see blurry images, making fear grip him once more as he tried to fight against the sedate. Soon, the flailing came to a stop as his eyes started to get too heavy for him to fight against.
"Please…" he whimpered out, voice barely above a whisper. "Stay a-…. away…" With that, Conan fell unconscious, making the doctor and nurses sigh in relief. The nurses released their grasp on Conan as they left the room, leaving the doctor in there to talk to the rest.
The doctor sighed heavily as he leaned against the counter behind him.
"Why was Conan-kun acting like that?" Ayumi cried, whipping her tears away. The doctor weakly smiled at her in pity as his gaze shifted to the unconscious child on the bed. He noted how Conan's eyebrows were creased slightly in his sleep.
"Conan-kun probably reacted like that because he went over the events that happened last night. Whatever had happened has obviously traumatized him into fear. He could've thought that he was back to when he was being attacked, so he tried to defend himself." The doctor paused to take a breath before he continued on. "When he starts acting like this, please get me." And with that, he left the room with a heavy feeling in the air.
Ran and Kogoro sat back down sullenly while the Detective Boy's stayed standing at the foot of Conan's bed. Ayumi cried softly while Mitsuhiko and Genta tried to comfort her. Ai just stared at Conan with furrowed eyebrows deep in thought.
"Conan-kun…" Ran whispered to herself, looking down at her lap while silent tears trailed down her face. "What happened to you?"
~Conan's mind~
Conan sat in the corner of a small white empty room. His legs were curled up to his chest as he dug his head into his knees, his arms limply lying at his side. At the farthest corner of the room, an ominous shadow loomed, deep red eyes peering out of them and looking a Conan with a glint that cannot be described.
One of Conan's fingers twitched at his side as he dug his head deeper into his knees as if to hide from the shadow that loomed near him.
"Go away…" he whimpered his voice barely audible to pick up. His legs moved closer to his chest as he silently shook in fear.
"Please… Go away…"
