Well this is definitely not a typical 'happy ending' like Conan's been hoping for up until now, it's actually quite sad... either way someone 'important' dies. Not every story can have a happy ending, this just happens to have two really sad ones... a happy ending really wouldn't have suited all that foreshadowing at all.

I'll be working on making the epilogue a little bit less... depressing i guess would be the right word, they deserve at least something like a halfway happy ending after everything I've put them through...

I hope you enjoy it- er saying that makes me sound pretty evil... but I can't say I don't want you to enjoy the story... Well regardless of that please review

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(α Alpha)

If Shinichi-niichan probably won't return to his original body because he's gotten used to being like this... then it's alright for me to die, isn't it? Something needs to happen so that something can change...

More so than me, the world needs Shinichi-niichan.

If not him there's no one that can face that evil organization on even terms, I only came close because Shinichi-niichan is with me. On his own in his own body he could do much better than he can like this.

It's better, right? Ran-neechan and Shinichi-niichan can have their happy ending like this.

I probably could have avoided it if I tried, it would have only scraped me if I hadn't moved at all, I bet if he were awake Shinichi-niichan would have tried to stop me. I moved into the path of the bullet, Moonshine fired another shot, then another.

None of the shots on their own were fatal, but the wounds were all bleeding a lot, and it really hurt. That didn't really matter, I could endure the pain, it was for the sake of getting Shinichi-niichan back where he belongs.

It hurts... so bad... I'm really dying, aren't I?

I was wrong, I couldn't take it. I collapsed onto the ground, but so did Moonshine.

I'm sorry... Haibara...

Goodbye...

I woke on the hard ground of the empty warehouse where Conan and I had been fighting Moonshine. My body hurt all over. At first my eyesight was blurred, I could barely see anything, but slowly it began to clear.

Ran's crying... I could hear her. She was saying something too, I couldn't quite tell what it was though. Why is she...

"...n...an...onan...Conan. Conan!" She was shouting... for me, or rather Conan.

I tried moving a little bit. I felt fine... why is she so worried?

After a half-exhausted fumble I managed to stand up, that when I saw what she was shouting about. I immediately pieced together what had happened while I was asleep.

Conan let Moonshine shoot him so that I would be able to return to my body because of the near death experience... It worked, but at far to great a cost...

I just... killed my little brother...

Ran seemed to register that I had gotten off the ground and was looking at her, she quickly moved into a defensive position as if she intended to challenge me to get revenge. I lifted my hands in truce and approached her and Conan.

I checked Conan for a pulse. No good. He's already gone.

"Ran..." I said, it was difficult to speak, "...I can explain."

Her expression was still tense, but she seemed to be a bit curious.

How do I explain... there's no way I can leave out the most important information, I'll probably have to explain it to the police too. With Ran as a witness and the murder weapon in my hand... no tricks. Just the truth.

"I... I should have told you everything a long time ago... maybe it wouldn't have turned out this way if I had..." I trailed off, I was afraid to say what needed to be said.

This is no time to be choking on my own words! She needs to hear this!

"I am Shinichi," I said reluctantly, to be clear I added pointing at Conan, "Until just a moment ago... I was right there."

She didn't want to trust me, and for the moment I was sure sure she wouldn't believe me even if I told her everything, but despite that I told her the whole truth that I had been hiding from her up until now.

And the rest, well... it went as you would probably imagine.

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(β Beta)

Moonshine fell -barely still breathing- on me, but soon he stopped moving, then breathing. I already knew he'd died, and if not it would be impossible to get to a hospital in time to prevent an inevitable death. I moved myself out from under him and laid him down properly.

The gun had fallen out of Moonshine's hands when I'd kicked a soccer ball at him... was now in Ran's hands. A small trail of smoke rose from it and the gunshot sound still shook the air.

As a detective there was only one possible conclusion:

Ran shot Moonshine to protect me... no to protect Conan. She was the culprit.

In her defense she probably wasn't trying to kill him, she probably only intended to wound him so he wouldn't hurt 'me'. In such a situation I can't imagine her being able to accurately aim a gun, she probably aimed for the hand that he was holding his gun in.

She won't go to jail for doing something like this, though it may be difficult to prove that the five year old had actually been about to attack. Actually it would be very difficult explaining any of this to the police without telling them my and Conan's secret.

"Ran-neechan! You...You just...! But... that was... What have you...?" Conan was going into shock, I couldn't blame him, I was quite surprised myself. I was only able to keep acting calm because the situation had just gone so far beyond the realms of normalcy that I was having trouble processing all of the harsh details.

Ran killed 'Shinichi Kudo'. There's no chance I'll ever be able to return to my real body now... it's over...

It should be some consolation that the person she killed didn't have a soul at the time, it was more or less a living doll before even she shot. But there was no way I could tell her that, because that would mean having to tell her that the person she shot was 'Shinichi Kudo', and that he died because of the shot.

The worst thing I could ever do would be to tell her that she had killed the Shinichi she had been waiting for.

"Ran-neechan... it's okay, you weren't trying to..." I said, borrowing Conan's voice for a little bit, he didn't mind, and I didn't either.

Staying in this situation for just a little bit longer... if it'll make her feel better I don't mind.

So just for a little longer I'll be 'Conan'.