They were all now hidden away in an abandoned cafe as they were all circled round a map, the same map that Kaito had procured from Hakuba and he did not want to think of that situation ever again because of what it led to.
He was still nursing a headache and a sore back that he had been given he was forcibly pushed inside after he stupidly started to complain and making demands. He was had acted like a child having a tantrum and was not going to move from his spot until he got what he wanted. Even if he had to make a scene in front of everyone not caring what he looked like or what they thought of him. But he had also had forgotten to take into the account of the bad guys and most of all that they were all being stealth like and trying to hide as they were about to rescue a princess or something like had completely forgotten all about the mission and what they were even doing in the heat of the moment. He was still trying to get used to the whole situation again because he had not done all this in over a year.
The cafe door had accidentally slammed right into his face going in the front door with the rest of the people while his hands were tied behind his back. It was as if his good luck and his loving charm were running low or was tapped out fully having no more in the back and he would have to be left with his wits. But he was able to untie his hands within seconds as soon as he was let to go and had those couple seconds to himself. But he was still gagged to make him shut up because apparently he talks more than anyone and he was called a parrot just repeating himself over and over again.
Hakuba had finally lost it.
But he could see that there was something off about Hakuba other than the usual, also the fact that he had a pulse and was alive and well from him to see not a burnt or smelling like burn bacon. He was not starting to hungry now almost imagining the bacon and the lovely smell and the sizzling sound that it makes when it is in the frying pan. Now it would just need some sausages and eggs and he was now officially hungry sitting in the abandoned cafe staring at the walls looking at a frying pan on the wall that was left behind.
But watching Hakuba again he had seen a lot difference in the man that was supposed to be dead and sometimes his friend. He looked more or rather fewer humans at the same time, he looked emotionally drained and if he did not know him for a couple of years them he swore this guy would be an imposter and not the real Hakuba. He was still finding it hard to believe that this guy was Hakuba at times, and the whole death thing was not real.
Hakuba looked guiltily as sin trying to hide it from the inside and he was betting this was all about Shinichi he was feeling guilty about her death. For so long he had blamed Hakuba for her death and everything that had happened to her and to him and to everyone else because he was a self-centred jerk. But Hakuba was now a shell of that guy and was really hot tempered and so easy that he could snap easier than Hattori could a lot easier.
The guilt was overwhelming in him he could see that and he was himself being rather feeling the same way. So for right now he was going to give Hakuba a pass just for now or just for this one time and they could have a little chat later about what happened in the past about everything. He wanted to forgive Hakuba he really did, and he knew he was putting most of his anger and blame on him because there was no one else he could blame.
Except for himself and Shinichi, but it was far too easy to forgive her for everything within seconds when he thought about her. It was almost like he could feel her right now, her kind warming nature and mystery strike that no one could ever solve. It was as if she was with him right now and he had never felt so close to her in a year that he was almost happy forgetting about everything as he was almost happy for the first time this year.
And he was still nursing a headache.
And took the gag off ready to talk as the others were.
Too bad he did not get a chance to get a word in.
"Kuroba you are the distraction and you have to take down as many of those sons of bitches that you possibly can" said Hakuba making the order.
He looked at the map where Hakuba was pointing to and just nodded.
"I myself will be staying here where I can take point" said Hakuba.
"Angel you, and I will make way to save my precious Silver Bullet" said Vermouth.
Ran looked down at the map.
"Umph is she...going to be ok? What if she does not" said Ran.
"Trust me, Angel, if there is anyone in the world that opens that door coming to her rescue you will be one of the only ones that she will be more than happy to see. And you will be the only one here that she will trust enough and believe that we are here to save her" said Vermouth seriously.
There was a bitter silence in the air as no one looked at each other.
"Can I get a name now please?" said Kaito.
He was almost starting to beg, and he had no idea why all he knew that he needed to know who this person was because he knew that it would change everything.
"Codename Silver Bullet" said Vermouth almost teasingly.
"Like someone that take them down in one shot as if they were a werewolf or some sort of monster!" said Kaito to himself.
This reminded Vermouth just for a second of the Cruise Ship Part of where the almost perfect murder was set up and her little Silver Bullet was able to solve it. And at the same time she had tricked her into believing that she was there not somewhere else. It was almost like she was in two places at once, almost.
It was a tie in the end, and she had come the closest to ever putting her behind bars and so was her other Silver Bullet that night that shot right at her. Hitting right at her several times that she would need medical help and that she had to call Gin and Vodka to come and collect her. That was the part she hated the most those two bastards having to come to her rescue as she bled out in a telephone box waiting for them to come. It was a weak most for her and yet a victory because her Silver Bullet had just shown what she was made of.
And she was hoping that she was going to be able to do all that again because she would now have all the information that she would need to take them all down. And she would have the back up that she would need and what was more she would now have in her. She would now have just the Little much needed darkness in her as the bright light that was in her was the thing made her what she was so great. But that bright light that was in her was also stopping her from going between black and white. She would need to go in between the lines and get a little darkness in her and become grey, get a little dirt on her if she needed to so that she could cross some lines if needed to.
So that she could finally pull that trigger if she needed to because if there was something stopping her before then there would not be a lot stopping her now. Not with everything that they would have done to her and made her go through. Things that they would have forced her to do and the things that she would have seen it would have all been a nightmare come true. All of it she and a train wreck knew that it was something the girl needed to go through so she could become what she needed to be and nothing would or could hold her back.
She knew that the girl, her Silver Bullet would be a different person now but what kind of person she would be now she did not know. But she could only hope that the girl held onto her sanity and her morals of being the good person and goals that she had before hand just with different ones in mind as well.
Rum on other hand was a person that she was not looking forward to seeing again but she knew that it was likely that she was going to see again. She had only seen him a couple of times of when he was being nursed back to health and unconscious after The Organisation had decided to let him live so that they could use him for their own goals. But he quickly resisted becoming one with Pandora and he became one of them and was now leading some of his own. Then before she knew it he had become second in charge in what seemed like a glimpse of an eye, taking over from the previous second in charge.
He had become pure evil, and it was all her fault.
He was no longer the man that she had once fallen in love with, without him ever knowing or would love back because he had only ever love in his eyes for the woman in his life and that was his wife. And this was the only thing that had continued from the dead man to this man and was the only reason that she and her son were still alive.
She had brought him into the fold without him really knowing what he was getting himself into and because of all that he had destroyed himself from the inside and out. She had to kill him and keep it all a secret all of it because she wanted to keep the memory of the good man that he once was alive and the memory of him now dead and buried.
She was going to have to kill him, and she was willing to go down with him.
Everything would be covered up by the authorities like it always had been and always would be. But she was just that this time that this would be the dead of this little fiasco that she had gotten herself into and it would just finally be over.
She had gotten tired over the many many years that she had been in this line of business and just plain bored and fed up with it all. Fed up with living that she was ready to die and rest in peace or rather go to hell take your pick she was ready for what she was to come. But most of all she just wanted of this rollercoaster of a life that she had been living that had seemed so long that she had lost count of how many lives that she had names that she had gone by and the personality of those people that they had that she had lost herself in them and she had no longer remembered who she was. She had lost count of how many years that she had lived for or how long she had been doing this and had lost all hope that someone would stop her.
But finally that was all coming to an end.
"So this is how it is all going to go down" said Hakuba.
And as he said this, he snapped everyone out of their thoughts and they were ready to begin what they were about to do.