Was he actually serious?
There was no way in hell that she was wearing a stupid red and green, frilly and puffy dress like that, it was just utterly hideous thing and was the most horrible thing she had ever seen as it would just like a cup cake frosting on top.
"I am not wearing that it is hideous" said Shinichi.
"But you are my Elf Princess Assistant and you are going to wear it whenever you like it for not Christie this is your outfit and you will be wearing it, so stop acting like a spoiled child or you will be spending Christmas in the Lab with your Uncle. Unless that is what you want, after all, I hear he is going to be playing with acid this weekend and he just loves the smell of burning flesh" said Rum.
Just the sound of it made her skin flesh like it was burn and itching, giving her Goosebumps as she rubbed the side of her arm as she shivered and it went down her spine as she thought about the last test that they ran on her.
"Right come then on with the show" he said happily.
PUFF
And with a much more dramatic puff and flash her clothes were changed and she was wearing the hideous outfit that she did not want to wear at all.
"Now remember my dear your job is to keep the children still and that way they will be perfectly saved from any harm. You keep them busy and out of the way, the job will be done easily and go off without a hitch, everyone will be save and not a single soul will be harmed. And is just what you want isn't it!To protect everyone from harm and that is what your job is to do my little assistant" said Rum.
And then he took her hand and made her walk the street with him as it was a bright and sunny Christmas and it was like a hundred degrees outside and she was sweating while she was wearing the horrible outfit.
And she was forced to spend Christmas 'playing' with the kids and making a lot of noise so that they could not be heard as they drilled through the floor of the bank wall and into the safe to take the money that they so much wanted.
She was brought to Switzerland, so she could to her first job and helps them rob not one bank but several of them when they went to parties disguised as a single father dropping off his daughter to a kids party for Christmas. While the single parents partied upstairs, the children would be downstairs partying for the holidays. The adults would get drunk. And they made sure that the parents got drunk by spiking the punch bowl with alcohol that could not be tasted or smelt in any form and would get you drunk with one swig of it.
The parties were for the lonely miserable and very rich and elite and very powerful people in the world. And to them they were all suckers and but very smart people but very miserable and vulnerable and the best time to get what they wanted and needed was always around the holidays. Christmas especially because that is when suicide is at the highest and when people need the money the most. So a lot of people could be blamed for something like this because people were desperate for money especially around this time of the year.
He patted her on the head and just smiled at her.
"My little Angel isn't she just the cutest" he said boasting.
And the plan went off without a hitch.
The bank would not know that they were robbed until they opened and what was worse the rich people at the party they would not know that their companies and their secrets would be hacked and found out until much later or maybe never.
The companies would be dried of their money, and they would never know why and some of the people that attended the party would end up in jail being set up for it or being blackmailed into doing dirty work. And the children that she met would be left without a parent in the world and would be orphaned and would need a friend, someone they could talk to and depend on and they were hoping that would be her.
She was on the wrong side and there was nothing that she could do about other than hope what she was doing would keep people alive because that was all she could do right now. Keep them alive but in the future they would trust her and they would have them all in their pocket making more money.
"Merry Christmas" she muttered to herself.
This was officially her worst Christmas yet and just maybe the next one would be much worse than this because she really hated this one and did not really much like the one from last year.
And now she was being forced to go to another with Gin pretending to be her father as it was supposed to be their way of 'bonding' together and 'making up for the past mistakes' and they would start anew.
But she could tell that Gin had hated her to the core and would pretty much do anything to so that one day that he would be able to kill her with his own bare hands. He wanted to strangle her to death if anything that was her guess because he always saw him rubbing his hands and looking at her neck almost every moment he saw her.
"Detective" said Gin.
She just stared at him in a glance and then looked away, it was all that he would call her and it was all that he would ever say to her when he would ever speak to her it was all he would need to say. And he grabbed her by the collar forcing her along until they were outside where people would be watching and he has to be forced to act civilized but he refused point blank that he would hold her hand. And like she wanted to hold his hand n the first place because she did not even want to be near him never the less let him touch her or her touch. He made her skin crawl and sick to her stomach whenever he was close by she could always feel him in the pit of her stomach that made her sick.
"What a pretty little girl you have there" said someone.
Gin just glared at this person and then forcibly pulled her along as he grabbed her hand because 'these people' were starting to get in the way.
"I do not like strangers anywhere near her so get the hell out of my way" said Gin.
With one look he was able to terrify everyone in his path, and that was including her as he felt cold to the touch just like a dead body would, even though his hand was warm all she felt from him was coldness because of that look he was giving her.
The job was soon completed and went off easily without anyone messing up or making any mistakes at all.
And next one to take her was Bourbon where she would be alone with him for at least ten minutes in the day and she would get her chance to talk to someone that was a good person. And was not truly one of them and he could actually help her and they could help each other before the truth about him was found out.
"Bourbon" said Shinichi.
"Mystery Girl" said Tooru Amuro.
He was going by that name here as part of the test of trust as they were going through test because they knew that there was a 'rat' in the Organisation. He was not really under suspicion and neither was Kir but because of Vermouth she could never tell what would happened and she had not seen her either since her capture.
"You are Kudo Shinichi?" he said shocked.
"Yes" said Shinichi sadly but confirming it.
"But how?" said Tooru Amuro.
"There is not enough time for explanations, but I need to know one thing will you be able to help me or not?" said Shinichi.
"Right now no one knows that you are alive but that I did tell my contacts that there is a hostage in the syndicate that is in desperate need of rescuing I cannot risk anyone finding out you are alive because if they do then they, will know and find out about me" said Tooru Amuro.
"I understand the risks perfectly, and I cannot ask you to take anymore than you already have" said Shinichi.
"But the good is they will want you as a witness so they will be a mission to rescue you but it is going to take some time to put together" said Tooru Amuro.
"They just want me to gather as much information as I can before I am useless to them and know too much, making me useless but not to anyone else that needs to take them down" said Shinichi.
"Sorry" said Tooru Amuro.
"Not your fault" said Shinichi.
She saw that he wanted to try and comfort her by saying something that would be useful to even make her feel better, but there was no point and it would just be wasting time. Time that she could spend coming up with a plan or gathering information that could help her or something that she needed.
"And Vermouth?" said Shinichi.
"She has disappeared into thin air and is being investigated as a traitor, Gin is going to shot her as soon as he sees her on sight" said Tooru Amuro.
Shinichi gave him a suspicious look.
"But she did ask me to keep an eye on you if anything was to happen to get you out of here and get far away from here as possible" said Tooru Amuro.
She just nodded.
"Now let's get this over and do the best that we can to help everyone" said Tooru Amuro.
She just nodded in agreement.
And another one went off without a hitch.
And at the end of the day he told her about her friends and her family and even shown some pictures and stories, which was comforting to her. And she was happy that she had finally had a friend here and that there was someone good here that she could trust and someone that she could depend on.
It was the only light that she had in this darkness that she was now forced to live in and he was her only friend that she had right now. And he was the only one that knew the real her and the only one that knew that she was really alive and knew everything that he needed to know.
At least there was potential for an escape and there was someone on her side.
But the real question was just how long would she be stuck there and just how long until they were able to make her talk and they would find out everything that she knew. And everything that she knew would change the game and would put a whole lot of people in danger, something that she could not handle.
So many secrets she was able to keep for so long and she could just feel it in her gut that the secrets that she knew would be soon found out in no time. And what was worse she had the distinct feeling that someone was going to pay the price for this and someone was going to die all because of what she was able to do.
People that were thought to be dead would be found out to be alive and in danger, all their loved ones would be in danger and would likely be killed in no time at all as they would be used a sacrificial bait.
Just how long did they all have before everything came to light and just how long did she really have left to live?