Wow, I'm back, it took me longer than a year! I'm sorry for that, I forget to write, but also because I didn't have any inspiration at all. But now that have changed. I hope you all enjoy the new chapter.

The months Ai was pregnant were not easy for Conan. If he thought Ai was scary when she was 'just angry', he never saw her angry while she was a few months along. However, the result of Conan's patience seems have paid of, because a few months later, Ai gave birth to a healthy young girl, which they named Jessie, like they discussed before.

Jessie looked quite like a mixed Conan and Ai, she had black hair, like him. But she totally had the face of her mother, which scared Conan quite a bit, he thought he now had two women who could set up evil smirks across their faces. Many of their friends, like Heji and professor Agasa, told them that their child could be incredibly smart, that only because her parents were both almost equally smart on their own aspects. We continue 2 months after Jessie's birth.

Ai let herself fall down on her bedside, next to her husband, both were….tired.

"I. Can. Not. Take. It. Any. More." Ai screamed tiredly. "All she's doing is crying, then she eats."

"It's a baby who's barely two months old, dear." Conan softly replied to her. "It's quite normal that she only eats and sleeps."

"If I didn't know better, I would almost say she's you." Ai pointed out, glaring at him. "The only thing you aren't doing is spitting the food at me when you don't like it."

"Oi, oi!" Conan said annoyed to her. "Anyway, wanna watch some TV, I can't remember the last time we did that?"

"I think it was last Christmas." Ai added sarcastically. "But yeah, turn it on, I haven't seen the news in ages."

Conan's stretched his arm out to get the remote control, he was way too tired to get up. He got the remote control and pressed on the 'on' button.

What both Conan and Ai got to hear was something what they never expected to happen.

"Back to the big catastrophe, that happened yesterday evening." The broadcaster announced. "The extremely dangerous criminal, who's name will not ring any bells, but his codename surely does. His codename is Gin."

"Tell me this is a very bad joke!" Ai almost screeched! She hugged Conan tightly who was still shocked from the words he heard.

"It's currently unknown how the criminal has escaped, but it is almost certain that he had a henchman." The broadcaster continued. "There are no traces of an outbreak, so most likely he just walked out of the front door."

Conan turned off the television, and just looked at his wife, who had buried her face in his chest. The only thing he could do was stroking her hair.

While Ai was checking on the baby, Conan called up Heji Hattori, one of his best friends, asking him if he could come to their house.

Before Conan knew, Heji was there, Professor Agasa also had arrived when he got Ai completely upset on the phone.

"What's the matter, Kudo?" Heji asked the young man. "What's the rush?"

"First off, it's Conan now, not Kudo." Conan answered irritated. "And secondly, we have a very big problem."

"It can't be too bad, Conan." The professor told the boy who was shaking very much. "I have no official children, but raising them can't be that hard."

"That's not the problem!" Conan shouted out of fear.

Silently Ai came down and stood sobbing in the doorway.

"He- He-…" Ai sobbed, after that she broke down crying. Conan hurried down to comfort her. Finally when Ai released herself from Conan's hug, she said sobbing: "H-He's B-Back…"

"What are you talking about?" Heji asked confused.

The professor rubbed at his chin, then his eyes widened and he said: "Don't tell me…"

"Indeed." Conan replied softly. "Last night, Gin escaped from prison."

"Daaaamn." Heji shouted very hard.

"Can you be a little more quiet?" Ai said, still sobbing. "The baby is sleeping!"

"Oops. Sorry." Heji said quickly. "But how's that possible?"

"Did you all life under a stone or something?" Ai snapped at both Heji and at her adoptive father. "It was all over the news a moment ago."

"My apologies, Ai-kun." The professor said with an regrettable face. "I was working at one of my newest inventions. I didn't have the time to watch TV."

"I didn't get to watch the news either." Heji added to the professor. "I mean, the last few days, Kazuha and me were…busy. Let's call it that."

"It doesn't matter." Conan answered him while he was going to the main point. "There is a big chance that he'll go after us!"

"That chance is very big indeed." The professor agreed.

At that moment the phone began ringing and Conan answered the phone.

"Hello?" He answered the phone, with a little fear in his voice.

"Hello Conan." Conan recognized the voice immediately. "You're speaking with Chris Vineyard."

"I'm almost sure why you're calling me." Conan said to the phone, which made Ai wonder who it was.

"I see you watched the news." she continued her story. "I called you as soon as I knew."

"Isn't It a little weird that we both heard it from the TV?" Conan asked her with a questioning voice.

"Indeed." Chris continued with her story. "Very strange, it is. I immediately contacted my sources and they told me that the FBI is trying to corner him, but he's smart."

"Could have told you that." Conan replied back to her. "I mean he was almost the boss, wasn't he?"

"You could say he was." she continued. "Anyway, there are not enough people of us to watch you, but I asked my chief if I was allowed to do it. So if you are interested, I'll try to protect you with my life."

"Please do." Conan smiled and continued his story. "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be here anymore."

Ai looked up to her husband, she was confused because she could not remember that he almost died. 'When did that happen?' she thought.

"Yeah, I remember that…"

FLASHBACK

"Are you ready to die, little boy?" The question came from a women with tousled hair. "There's no one who can save you now."

"Wow, you really have cornered the little boy." A certain voice said, coming from behind the woman who had her gun pointed at Conan. "I'm impressed, Chianti."

"I do not need your praise, Vermouth." She snapped at the blonde woman who stood right behind her. "I'm about done! And when Gin kills that bloody traitor, then we're done!"

Conan closed his eyes, thinking that death was calling for him. He heard a shot, but surprisingly, he didn't feel hurt at all.

He opened one eye and saw that Vermouth had shot Chianti. The woman looked furious at the blonde woman. The only thing she could say was "Traitor." and then was put to sleep, forever.

Vermouth untied the ropes that tied Conan to the chair he was sitting at.

"But why?" Asked Conan with a confused voice. "Why did you save me?"

"A secret makes a woman, woman." she replied simply.

"Indeed." Conan replied back to her. "You are indeed a women surrounded by secrets."

"Let's just say that I made sure that nobody would kill our Silver Bullet." she answered him. "The destruction of the Organization is near. Now go save Sherry, before it's too late.

END FLASHBACK

"All right." Chris said before hanging up. "I will be at your home within an hour."

"Okay." Conan replied. "See you then."

Ai who was following the conversation, was totally confused.

"Who was that?" Ai asked her husband with a questioning look. "Who's coming in an hour?"

"Chris Vineyard." Conan replied quick.

"What?" Ai screamed out! "Why the heck is she coming?"

"Chris Vineyard?" Heji interrupted the conversation between the couple. "The same Chris Vineyard who is also the member known as Vermouth and her alias Sharon Vineyard?"

"The one and only." Conan said to his best friend.

"Hello!" Ai screamed at her husband. "I asked you something! Why the heck is she coming?"

"She's coming to protect us." Conan told her calmly.

"She's coming to protect us." Ai repeated the sentence Conan used. "May I say on my turn that I'm not feeling save with her in my house!"

"I'm absolutely sure she can protect us!" Conan answered her with a tone of confident in his voice. "She saved me numerous times before."

Ai got a questioning look on her face and asked him: "And when did she exactly save you?"

"Well…" Conan began explaining when Vermouth had actually saved him. "She spared my life by not killing me when she kidnapped me and she never gave our identities to Gin or any other member. And when Gin tried to shoot me and the old man Kogoro, she somehow restrained him to kill us. And lastly she saved me from death right before I saved you."

Ai sighed deed and told Conan: "All right, if you have so much trust in her, then I guess I do too. I'm going to check on Jessie."

"Well, Sherry and the little detective-brat got their kid, huh!" Gin looked up on a picture and saw the picture of a little baby on the picture. "Jessie Edogawa, nice name."

"I thank you for my rescue, my dear." Gin smiled at a shadow in the corner. "When we kill that traitor Sherry and her detective-husband, you'll be heavily rewarded."

"Watch out Sherry!" Gin broke his glass he was drinking from. "I'm going to put you and that little detective of yours trough a hell you never will forget, till the day you die at my hands!"

He laughed and was going to put his masterplan into production.

So I was trying to put up a little cliffhanger, I don't know if I'm any good at that, but this is my attempt. I hope to add a new chapter soon. But I assume you that you don't have to wait another year!

~See ya!